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For any of you that have ever been to Great America (it's an amusement park, complete with roller coasters and junk food and nauseating rides), I just wanted to share an experience I had today.
I went to Great America (in Santa Clara, CA), and I had the opportunity to go on the Xtreme Skyflier ride. It cost $20 extra, but I went on it just to see what it was like.
Here's the description:
"Experience the breathtaking thrill of hang gliding and skydiving. Youll be hoisted 153 feet above ground, and dive at speeds up to 60 miles per hour while free-falling 17 stories toward the Earth skimming just six feet above the ground."
Basically the ride is an arch that's 153 feet high, and you're in a harness by yourself or with 1 or 2 other people (I went with my friend from the dorm here at Stanford), and then one of you pulls the rip cord and you're let to fall, and then swing a few times like a pendulum.
If I was allowed to use profanity this once, I would be swearing my head off. It was a really awesome experience. Indescribable. When your free-falling like that, there's just no way you can describe it in words or in speech. It's nothing like drop zone where you have a seatbelt and thing that straps you down. On Drop Zone, you fall straight down, too. But on the Xtreme Skyflier, you are brought up and then let go to swing like a pendulum.
I have to say that was one of the most scariest moments of my life being hoisted up that high. You are hoisted up really high, and then you get hoisted up higher.
But once your flying, it's just this awesome, incredible feeling.
I just thought I'd share that.
I went to Great America (in Santa Clara, CA), and I had the opportunity to go on the Xtreme Skyflier ride. It cost $20 extra, but I went on it just to see what it was like.
Here's the description:
"Experience the breathtaking thrill of hang gliding and skydiving. Youll be hoisted 153 feet above ground, and dive at speeds up to 60 miles per hour while free-falling 17 stories toward the Earth skimming just six feet above the ground."
Basically the ride is an arch that's 153 feet high, and you're in a harness by yourself or with 1 or 2 other people (I went with my friend from the dorm here at Stanford), and then one of you pulls the rip cord and you're let to fall, and then swing a few times like a pendulum.
If I was allowed to use profanity this once, I would be swearing my head off. It was a really awesome experience. Indescribable. When your free-falling like that, there's just no way you can describe it in words or in speech. It's nothing like drop zone where you have a seatbelt and thing that straps you down. On Drop Zone, you fall straight down, too. But on the Xtreme Skyflier, you are brought up and then let go to swing like a pendulum.
I have to say that was one of the most scariest moments of my life being hoisted up that high. You are hoisted up really high, and then you get hoisted up higher.
But once your flying, it's just this awesome, incredible feeling.I just thought I'd share that.
