Skydiving is a type of parachuting performed for recreational purposes, also called sport parachuting. It is a sport of jumping from enough height to deploy a fabric parachute and land safely. It is played as a competitive sport, and also used as for the deployment of military personnel, airborne forces and occasionally for forest firefighters.

The history of parachuting is believed to start with Andre-Jacques Garnerin who made successful parachute jumps from a hot-air balloon in the year 1797. The military also developed parachuting technology primarily as a way to save aircrews from emergencies aboard balloons and aircraft, and used later as a way of delivering soldiers to the battlefield. Early competitions on skydiving date back to the 1930s and it became an international sport in 1951.

Many first time skydivers make their first jump with an experienced and trained instructor. This type of skydive are usually in the form of a tandem skydive. During the tandem jump the jumpmaster or the lead is responsible for the stable exit, maintaining a proper stable freefall position, and activating and controlling the parachutes.

With training and experience, the fear of the first few jumps is gradually reduced by the tact of controlling fear so that one may come to experience the satisfaction of mastering aerial skills and performing increasingly complex formations in the sky with friends. Other training methods include IAD (Instructor Assisted Deployment), static line, and AFF (Accelerated Free fall) or the Progressive Free-Fall (PFF) in Canada.

Skydiving in New York is a popular sport. For beginners as well as experts, New York offers many extreme sports centers which have facilities like tandem jumps and accelerated free fall programs (AFF). The pure delight of over a minute of freefall followed by a smooth descent on square parachutes makes the skydiving experience a memorable one that you would like to repeat over and over again.

This extreme sports center is located East of New York City at Calverton A first tandem jump costs around $225 and it is cheaper on weekdays. The AFF program costs around $175 per jump. You may get a discount up to $15 per jumper if you join in a group of 10-14 jumpers. Get your jumps recorded on a tape or on a DVD and relive the jump and feel excitement again and again.

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