Spent another 15 minutes in the wind tunnel tonight. Hell of a drive getting there, but well worth it!

For those of you counting, that’s the equivalent of 30 sky dives in a ‘learning’ environment.

As bad as I felt when I left the first time is how AWESOME I felt walking out of there tonight!  I had a fabulous coach! He said, “You’re going to do a 90 degree turn.”
I have mastered the 360, so why go back?
As soon as I did one, I realized how much more important it is to have that much control over your body during free fall. To be able to turn only a little bit, stop and return to where you started was freaking amazing!
During free fall you have the whole sky so you can actually be a little bit sloppy, but in that wind tunnel, you have very little room and when you’re sharing that space with another person, it limits how much room you have and how much more control you have to have over your body.

I am glowing I am so happy with myself right now.

Alyx was talking about Kara’s jump and I said, “it’s hard to explain the feeling Aly…it’s nothing like you’ll ever experience and it’s the greatest feeling in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD.” and she said, “Even better than having kids?”

There is a huge difference…I was provided with a pain blocker, a room full of doctors and nurses that would cut, suck and pull the baby out if I somehow failed at it.   Now maybe if I had my kids in a rice field after a long day of working, gnawed my way through the umbilical cord and strapped her to my boob and continued working would it make me feel the accomplishment I get when I pull the pilot chute and save my own life.  There is no epidural in sky diving.

I told her, “No Alyx, it’s not better than having kids.”  Because it’s those 3 girls that made me the strong woman that is brave enough to jump out of that plane in the first place.