I'd like to do both.
Still haven't been skydiving, but i have bungee jumped a few times. It is a lot of fun. Just do it with professionals, obviously. Not the best thing to try and jury rig.
Scared of heights (particularly obvious ones - edges of balconies, rickety catwalks, etc).
There isn't enough NO in the world to reply to this.
I've done both and skydiving is more fun, imho..
See I used to be pretty scared of heights but when I was taking my ELF classes for firefighting we did a lot of ladder work on 30-50 foot ladders and I had to get over it awful quick. Even before that though I've always kinda wanted to go sky-diving, been inspired by a couple dreams where I was in a fighter plane pretty high up. It's just pretty up there.
Skydiving i was going to do, but cant now due to injury, its actually specified, bungee jumping ive never seen the sense in it, try Australian rappelling its alot more fun.
I hate the sensation of falling, so I wouldn't bungee jump. Skydiving probably wouldn't feel this way unless I jumped from a stationary vehicle (or maybe just for a moment), and there are no visual cues to tell how fast I'm descending, so I think it could be okay. Besides, at that altitude the distance doesn't feel real; in bungee jumping the earth is too close for my comfort. I'm not afraid of heights, but willingly jumping to my (possible) death is an entirely different situation.
Couldn't I just have a leisurely stroll instead?
I'd say skydiving, it would be incredible but I'd probably be crippled with fear and bungee jumping would be mundane in comparison and maybe even more dangerous?
I've been skydiving twice already. Fun as hell.
Base jumping on the other hand...now that is some [censored] I'll never try.
I never tried bungee jumping before, so I'd probably go with that.
I'd happily do both, but haven't. I think I'd be more afraid of the bungee jump; no reserve by my side.
My daughter is a bit of thrill-seeker and wants to go skydiving when she's a bit older - about 8+ years down the road. Can't wait
I have some static line jumps on the log, with only a few that would called fun. Best was a tailgate off a CH-53 at 2,500' AGL and no ruck. Took about 2 minutes to hit the ground.
The silence in the air after canopy deploment is great! Especially at night (most of the jumps) with a good moon. Unfortunately one usually had only about 15(?) seconds of this before hoping that your gear drops from you. Good times!
At jump school, the rumor was that it was harder to jump out of the 35' training towers since the ground was right there. Jumping from a plane, the ground is far enough away, and you're looking at the distant horizon, that one doesn't have the sensation of falling. At least doing static line jumps, it was never a sense of falling. More a sense of getting svcked out.
To those afraid of heights, keep you eyes closed I've blindfolded people on climbing walls and high ropes courses who were afraid of heights, and they then succeded. The only world that existed was that which they could touch - no sensation of height.
I'd be down for either, if you caught me in the right mood. I doubt I'd enjoy it much, but I'd definitely try either.
Too many stories of things going wrong while doing either one of those activities for me to take the risk.
If I had only a few days to live though, then I would try it out immediately.