Re: [climbmaster5k] how many jumps should i have before i start base jumping
Warning: I'm pretty damn new so take this for what its worth...
Are you a skydiver yet? I'm guessing, no. But a lot of people dreamed of BASE before they made their first skydive (me included)
Its too early to really understand the answer to the "how many skydives" question imo. wait till you're skydiving and shit goes wrong. And when you get that oh shit feeling even though you have a minute to figure out how to best solve it. In BASE you often have less than a second with no time to think. Once you experience this oh shit feeling in freefall or under canopy then a few hundred skydives sure seems reasonable. Some people take a shorter route but almost no one would recommend this unless you had a very easy object to "practice" on regularly. And even then, most people still wouldn't recommend that track.
Its impossible to grasp really how dangerous this sport is just from reading and watching youtube videos. You really don't get it until you get that oh shit feeling. I've only had it once so far in BASE and was able to walk away with only cuts and bruises so I got lucky. But it at least gave me a perspective that I wasn't able to get from reading books, the internet, or even from listening to experienced jumpers.
Where are you from?
fill out your profile a little if you want people to take you seriously.
