Extreme
Sports Cafe in Hawaii offers the finest program available to
teach skydiving at this time. Our Freefall School will teach
you the skills required to become a member of the skydiving
community. The Freefall School First Jump Course, "FSFJC",
is taught on Sunday mornings starting at 8:30 A.M. Arrangements
can be made for groups to take the FSFJC at other times. The
FSFJC consists of about 3-4 hours of ground school followed
by your first skydive, weather permitting. Extreme Sports Cafe
Hawaii uses videos for training aids and we will be glad to
let you view them.
The
Freefall School is an 8-level program. Levels 1, 2, & 3
are conducted in the tandem environment. These skydives concentrate
on teaching basic safety skills such as altitude awareness,
body position, canopy control, landing procedures, stability
during free fall and during the pull sequence, and most importantly
- successful ripcord pull. One tandem/jumpmaster will accompany
the student on each skydive to provide instruction in free fall
and assist the student with landing.
Tandem
jumps are used in the first three levels to avoid needless landing
injuries to the student. While the student steers and lands
the parachute, the jumpmaster is there to assist. Solo jumping
and canopy control builds from the "hands on" tandem
experience, transitioning at lowest risk to the student.
Levels
4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 requires one free fall Jumpmaster, and teaches
the student air skills such as turns, forward movement and docking
on other people, front loops, back loops, superman, exits from
the plane, etc. Before the level 4 jump, the student must attend
the Assisted Class, held every Saturday at 8:30am, which consists
of 3 - 4 hours of classroom and hands on training. In Levels
4 - 8, the student wears the parachute system. Each level is
designed to take one skydive, and requires about 45 minutes
of training, other than classroom time.
Successful
performance of the objectives of each level, moves the student
on to the next level. The student has up to 60 days to complete
the Freefall School. Levels that require the student to re-jump,
due to not meeting the targeted learning objectives, are charged
$125 per skydive. After graduating Level 8, the student enters
a coaching stage where they practice and hone their skills under
the supervision of their coach, until they obtain 20 skydives
and qualify for their "A" license. Obtaining the "A"
license takes the jumper off student status. Coaching jumps
are $89 per skydive and includes the parachute equipment, jump
costs, and coach. Once you own your own gear (student parachute
rental cost is $28), jumps will cost you $18.
Our
Freefall School graduates have advanced through the best program
available to Dillingham Airfield skydiving at this time. Students
must be over the age of eighteen and weigh less than 200 pounds.
Most students finish the course in two weekends to a month depending
on how much time the student puts into it and weather conditions.
The
Freefall School costs $1,400.00.
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Now
you are able to work on your body position, turns, and all the
learning activities on the wind tunnel. Check with your instructor
or coach and become more proficient before leaving the ground....