{"id":6178,"date":"2017-03-22T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T10:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T11:02:48","slug":"skydiving-why-we-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/skydiving-why-we-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Skydiving &#8211; why we love it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Synonymous with bucket lists, skydiving is one of the most adrenaline-filled activities imaginable. Incomparable to other so called &#8216;extreme&#8217; activities you&#8217;ll take the leap of faith out of a plane placed about 10,000 feet in the air, plummeting to the ground below at speeds of up to 120mph &#8211; covering 5,000ft in about 30 seconds! You&#8217;ll have to put on your best Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible expression to overcome the free fall before our qualified and experienced instructor opens up the parachute&#8230;hopefully!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6186 alignleft\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/yorkshire-skydive-tandem-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/yorkshire-skydive-tandem-5.jpg 600w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/yorkshire-skydive-tandem-5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Looking for excuses not to take part after reading that? Well as long as you&#8217;re over 18 and in good health you&#8217;re qualified jump &#8211; even people like Paris Hilton and our colleagues in the office have taken part, with our very own Marcus taking the plunge having previously never stepped in a plane before! You&#8217;ll be able to find our colleagues&#8217; thoughts on their life changing sky diving experience later on this week.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So, what happens when you turn up? Well when you arrive at the skydiving venue, you&#8217;ll be kitted out into the oh so fashionable skydiving safety equipment whilst being provided with a full safety briefing from the qualified instructors that will be diving with you in your tandem sky dive- then it&#8217;s time to squeeze yourself into the small planes as you make your way up into the clouds!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6184 alignleft\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tandem-skydive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tandem-skydive.jpg 990w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tandem-skydive-300x200.jpg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tandem-skydive-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and before you whip out the &#8220;I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s not a skydiving venue near me&#8221; excuse, we are actually the UK&#8217;s largest skydiving provider and have 28 fabulous skydiving venues located across the UK and Ireland, so there&#8217;s sure to be a skydiving venue near you! Don&#8217;t believe me? Check out the list <a href=\"http:\/\/jumpthis.co.uk\/en\/venues\">here<\/a> and take part in a truly unforgettable experience as you enjoy the truly picturesque views and exhilarating thrills that skydiving offers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synonymous with bucket lists, skydiving is one of the most adrenaline-filled activities imaginable. Incomparable to other so called &#8216;extreme&#8217; activities you&#8217;ll take the leap of faith out of a plane placed about 10,000 feet in the air, plummeting to the ground below at speeds of up to 120mph &#8211; covering 5,000ft in about 30 seconds! &hellip; <a href=\"\/blog\/skydiving-why-we-love-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skydiving &#8211; why we love it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[185,40],"class_list":["post-6178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky-diving","tag-adrenalin","tag-skydiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6178"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6178\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}