It was supposed to be over 100 people and many of the attempts we made were with 104 jumpers but we had to reduce the size to set the sitfly (heads-up) record at 84. It's the only type formation Skydiving that doesn't have a 100+ person record due to the difficulty of flying on your feet.
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Humans are special. That's sick man you got take part in a world record. I wish I had better nerves for stuff like that. How did you start to get into that?
I did a tandem skydive in 2016 for my birthday...when we were in the plane, there were guys jumping out before us with their own parachutes on and I asked what they were doing... The instructor said they were having fun... So when we landed he asked me if I wanted to go get my license and do it on my own...I was hooked after that. Spent all of my free time trying to progress until about 2021. That injury happened in 2020 but the doc didn't work on it until this year.
That's crazy it was like that for 3 years. How bad was the pain these years? Nice birthday gift back in 2016 got you down the rabbit hole.
So the initial injury was very bad pain, then after the wound healed, it was only painful after activity like running, hiking, tennis, snowboarding or something with a lot of knee bending. But it basically acted like a hangover for the knee... It has certainly limited my life these past few years but when the doc says there's nothing to operate on, it's tough to argue. I found a different doc and he did the surgery right away.
Skydiving a massive rabbit hole and it can suck people in... I've seen people quit great careers to go Skydive full time.