Doubts about skydiving?
Overcome them and make your first jump
Last updated: 5 December 2025
Key takeaway:
Doubting whether to go skydiving is normal. In this blog you will read how the desire to jump is sometimes held back by doubt, and how the first real step, booking your jump, is often the biggest victory. You will discover why that choice does not only lead to a jump from an airplane, but also to a jump in self confidence.
- Doubts about skydiving are normal, but the biggest victory is often booking your first jump.
- Skydiving is about more than being brave: it is about choosing, growing and surprising yourself.
- That one decision can be the start of an experience you will remember for the rest of your life.
Skydiving: something you have wanted for years but still have not done
For many people it starts with a dream. An image. Sometimes from years ago. You once saw someone jump out of an airplane, felt something tingling inside and thought: “I want to do that one day.” And yet it often stays with that thought.
Skydiving ends up on a list in your head or somewhere on paper. A bucket list thing. Something big that fits you, but also something where you keep postponing the actual step.
The threshold between wanting and doing
What we often see is that the hardest step is not the jump itself, but the booking. That moment when you say: “I am really going to do this.”
Some people book on their own. Others hesitate until they find someone who will join them. Both are completely fine.
Skydiving is not an impulsive decision. You do not choose it lightly, like a dinner out or a day at the spa. You also do not just say at the coffee machine: “You know what, I will jump out of an airplane on Saturday.”
It is something you feel. Something that stays on your mind. The desire is there. The decision sometimes takes time and that is completely normal.
My first jump also started as a dream
As a child I was fascinated by the parachutists who landed near my house every year on Queen’s Day. That image of people who lifted away from the earth and floated down freely touched something in me.
In the summer of 1988 I decided: I am going to do this. I travelled to France and made my first jump on the fifteenth of August. I will never forget it. That moment changed my life. Not only because I jumped, but because I chose to do it.
Once you start, something changes
As soon as people arrive on location, you can feel it: there is something in the air. The atmosphere is open, genuine and filled with a good kind of tension. Whether you come for a single jump or a full course, you share something special.
People who have only just met feel connected within a day. Not because they are so similar, but because they are all overcoming something. A barrier. A doubt. A long held wish.
You take more than just a jump with you
It does not matter whether you jump once or keep coming back. What you feel when you start will stay with you. The tension. The silence before the jump. The energy of the others. The smile after landing.
And maybe the most important part is the trust in yourself. You did something that felt intense and you went for it. You take that trust with you on the ground and in the air.
Skydiving is not about being brave, it is about discovering.
Sometimes there is only one jump between dream and reality.
Whether you keep jumping or decide to leave it at that one experience: a single jump can already be a moment you will never forget. You do not have to prove anything. You only have to experience it.
And that might be the best part: one moment of curiosity can become an experience for life.
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