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Summary: A necessity for any newbie, student or novice skydiver!
Review: After reading it and digesting alot of it I have come to quite a few conclusions. This book is an incredible source of knowledge and enlightenment on the fundamentals of skydiving. It is so well written that even the newest student can understand the technical aspects and physics of our sport. It is an awesome plethora of knowledge combined into one little 396 page book and well worth the $$ spent and the time committed to reading it. To all skydivers: A great tool for re-inforcement and reference.
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Summary: Everything the beginner needs to know about skydiving.
Review: Although this book is a little out of date, it still explains the different disciplines and activities associated with Skydiving. I found some sections especially helpfull. There is a section that gives common myths about skydiving (Ex: The inherent danger of sudden deceleration when meeting the ground). If you are interested in Skydiving, Dan Poynter is one of the pioneers, and his experience and techincal knowledge will help you decide whether you want to participate in this extremely rewarding sport.
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Summary: Parachuting/Skydiving is continuously growing & evolving.
Review: Dan Poynter and I have attempted to bring to you, the reader (novice or experienced), the latest information available which covers many aspects of the sport. It is our hope that this book will be used by you as a tool to increase your learning about the sport. We have addressed several training and controversial issues openly and honestly, attempting to give full merit to both (or more) viewpoints when more than one right answer is available. This book is a "living document" and will continue to change as the sport changes and grows. Each successive issue (from the very first one that I used to study the sport over 21 years ago) has been written with that philosophy in mind; one of continuous improvement. We hope you like the book, and if you can think of anything else to add, please feel free to contact one of us with your suggestions! Blue, Clear, and Calm Skies to y'all.
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Review: For more information on parachutes and skydiving, see our
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Summary: Good Place to Learn the Basics
Review: I bought this book prior to starting Accelerated Free Fall. It gave me a good working knowledge of what to expect. Now that I am into the sport, I use it frequently to look up reference items that will be used during my next skydiving session. I appreciate this book being availible.
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Summary: Good Place to Learn the Basics
Review: I bought this book prior to starting Accelerated Free Fall. It gave me a good working knowledge of what to expect. Now that I am into the sport, I use it frequently to look up reference items that will be used during my next skydiving session. I appreciate this book being availible.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: I have read this book cover to cover before I did my first tandem. Later I have gone through many books on parachuting but never came across such a complete and simple book that explains virtually everything you need to know about parachuting. This book is especially useful for beginners. Well... this book is simply the best I have seen on parachuting. Need I say more?
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Summary: Get this book.
Review: If you are even remotely courious about skydiving, read this book. If someone you love is taking up the sport and you are nervous about it, read the first few chapters. If you are concerned about safety, health requirements, equipment, procudures, you name it... get a hold of this book.
It is a good reference to review emergency procudures from time to time and it is a fantastic aid for skydiver like me that are just out of student status striving to find someone to jump with. It contains several pointers on exercizes to practice while in freefall and under canopy that are useful well after a skydivier is off student status. I read it cover to cover almost twice before getting my first lesson. Of course that did not prevent me from forgetting the little detail of deploying my canopy on my first jump (but I am alive and still skydiving, yes, skydiving is THAT safe).Student skydivers should always listen to their instructors.
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Summary: This is the how-to "Bible" of recreational skydiving.
Review: Now in a completed revised, updated and expanded eighth edition, The Skydiver's Handbook continues to be the "bible" of this dramatic and popular sport. Skydiving is much more than just jumping out of an airplane with a parachute. Skydiving today is as close as a human can come to unencumbered bird-like flight, and with proper aerobatic maneuvering, a skydiver can cover about 1.35 miles on a sixty-second skydive from 12,500 feet, providing 10,000 feet of freefall. Skydiving is aptly described as high-speed vertical aviation, and The Skydiver's Handbook is a reader-friendly, comprehensive, reliable, informative, and complete instruction manual and guide to a safe, exciting, skill-building skydiving experience.
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Summary: Good student training info. Lacks "real" skydiver info.
Review: Poynter's book describes what skydiver training is like. He uses illustrations which make the text clearer, but are somewhat dated. This is an excellent book for someone who is interested in learning to skydive. It has certainly set the standard in this niche.
What Poynter's book lacks, though, is an overview of what it is to be a skydiver. When initial training is complete what does the fledgling skydiver have to look forward to? What kinds of professions are there for skydivers? What do skydivers do when not skydiving? Yes, there is some mention of smoke jumping and military freefall, but I feel that less attention could have been paid to the micro mechanics of student training and more on a macro view of skydiving and skydivers.
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