My parents have had hundreds of jumps but hang glide and para glide now. This is something else though...

I wont do it. I have seen too many people bounce. As a kid i remember the plane my parents jumped out of frequently being used as a racing tool against the divers in a vertical dive. I can handle all that but for some reason jumping out of the plane did not appeal to me.

There are some shocking video's on you tube about people and their sky diving accidents. Chutes not opening. People pulling reserves out of desperation when they have not cut away from mains. Collisions. Fun stuff to look at but not me.

These video's above are about the new suits that people have. It's like a flying squirrel suit and you can almost achieve horizontal flight for a short beriod of time. I read that one guy is considering, seriously considering, coming down in this fashion without pulling the chord and landing in water. It would be at close to 60mph but heck i have gone down on the bike at that speed adn that was on the pavement so water cant be all that bad.

http://www.bird-man.com/index.cgi?n=skydivers