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    a Advantage: * Skydive Chicago is one of the United States’ premier skydiving resorts‚ serving skydivers ranging in skills from first time jumpers to internationally competitive freefly teams. * Jumpmasters video their student’s jumps. * Students use the feedback these videos provide to identify mistakes. * (student)They often copy their videos onto a personal tape for future reference. * Jumpmasters may also copy well-executed student skydives to the facility’s tape library

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    knowledge by observation and participation. I have enjoyed watching skydiving competitions on television and in the military. As a kid I can remember wanting to do that when I grew up. When I joined the Special Forces in 1989 I knew my chances were greatly increasing for me to participate in skydiving operations‚ but it wasn’t until 1995 when that final moment would arrive. I enjoy the excitement of participation in a skydiving operation that consists in small numbers of personnel to a mass group

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    generated by our imaginations for the purpose of entertainment. Another good type of fear is the fear generated by adventure sports such as skydiving. Those who enjoy skydiving realize that there is a certain amount of risk involved with the sport. If things don’t go right the skydiver could be seriously injured or killed. The participants involved in skydiving realize there is that chance‚ but the ultimate goal is to have

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    generated by our imaginations for the purpose of entertainment. Another good type of fear is the fear generated by adventure sports such as skydiving. Those who enjoy skydiving realize that there is a certain amount of risk involved with the sport. If things don’t go right the skydiver could be seriously injured or killed. The participants involved in skydiving realize there is that chance‚ but the ultimate goal is to have

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    that smoking should not be illegal because there are many things a person can do that are just as dangerous. For example‚ skydiving. While skydiving may dangerous‚ it is not the number one most preventable cause of death in America. Yes‚ an activity such as skydiving is taking a huge risk of danger but it is not guaranteed that you will get sick or die. Skydiving is regulated to make sure the health and wellbeing of a diver whether professional or non professional does not perish when

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    they seem.” 1. What did you do well? Elaborate on why you think you did well on these aspects of your speech. What I believe I did well on was link the proverb with the speech and told a story that relates to it. The story was about how I tried skydiving for my first time‚ and was nervous for it. But after doing it I ended up liking it. Also I believe I did well when it came to looking at my note cards. Only looking backs at it a couple of times and always tried to make eye contact with the audience

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    Free fall (physics)

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    In Newtonian physics‚ free fall is any motion of a body where its weight is the only force acting upon it. In the context of general relativity‚ where gravitation is reduced to a space-time curvature‚ a body in free fall has no force acting on it and it moves along a geodesic. The present article only concerns itself with free fall in the Newtonian domain. An object in the technical sense of free fall may not necessarily be falling down in the usual sense of the term. An object moving upwards

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    1st October 2012 HE 100 Health and Life My health has a lot to do with how I live my life. I exercise and eat healthy to keep in good shape and try my best not to eat too many fatty foods. IfI’m sick or ill‚ my daily routine is ruined and I cant get anything done because all of my energy is being used to get better‚ so I try to take good care of my immune system by consuming a lot of vitamin c. I cant just be physically

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    The Jump

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    The Jump People always ask me why skydiving? Maybe it’s the adrenalin of going one hundred plus miles per hour‚ or maybe it’s the fact that I’m doing something not many other people do. I’m not quite sure. But skydiving isn’t as easy as it looks there are different steps one has to take to be able to jump out of a plane and do it safely. You have to find a school‚ get ground training‚ and then you can jump. Finding a school you like won’t be as easy as you think. Don’t settle for the first or cheapest

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    the muscles in your arms and legs to pull yourself up a sheer rock face takes strength and control. Using your brain to place your hands and feet so that your muscles can do their job -- that’s finesse. Rock climbing is a little like skydiving. Both rock climbing and skydiving have an element of risk. But who doesn’t take a risk in life...i mean‚ you’ll never get anywhere without taking risks! So‚ what you waiting for? Rock climbing‚ is safe‚ yet risky‚ is extreme and awesome‚ unbelievably fun! You’ll

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