Nude Skydiving

Nude Skydiving
Jumping in the nude is a rite of passage
Naked skydiving gives new meaning to "free-balling"
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"It's funny," one of the jumpers at Skydive Milwaukee told me. "None of these people are exhibitionists."
I looked at him, skin bare but for a pair of socks, a parachute strapped to his back, and a helmet. He was right, of course, but you wouldn't know that from his current appearance -- or that of the 10 other skydivers practicing their formations in the nude a few feet from us. You'd only realize it if you noticed how everyone carefully (and almost imperceptibly) covered up their bare bits before hopping into the plane.
Well, all except Bob. The older jumper was the first to strip and the most carefree about the nudity, countering calls of "You didn’t have to get naked yet, Bob!" with "I got nothing anybody hasn't seen before."
This wasn't the typical jump at Skydive Milwaukee -- I was there for an observation ride on a SANS jump, the Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving . Anyone who's made a nude jump can join -- $5 will get you a membership number, certificate, three stickers, a magnet, and an eccentric group of like-minded people. Jeff Dawson, the 61-year-old man who's made the most naked skydives on record (639 and rising), started the group in 2011. He makes at least one naked skydive every month, and has been doing so for 14 years.

"To make a naked skydive is a huge accomplishment," he said. "By nature, I'm not the type of person to show a lot of skin. But I enjoy being up there free. You get a lot of, 'Why would you do that, things are going to fall off,’ a lot of good-natured fun. But nobody objects to it, at least where I jump."
Traditionally, a naked jump is a rite of passage in the skydiving world. Once you hit 100 jumps, you celebrate by baring it all and letting the wind caress your skin on the way from airplane to ground; though Dawson says many people don't do it anymore because of the proliferation of GoPros and social media. What once was mostly private and impulsive now has an unregulated platform for broadcast.
Shortly before the jump that day, Dawson laid out the ground rules:
First , "if we touch each other, we'll be fine."
Second , be prepared to start slowing down about twice as far away as normal. Without the skydive suits, you fall a lot faster and it's harder to fly precisely.
Third , don't forget that nude skydiving is just as deadly as any other jump, and the same precautions need to be in place. Dawson shared the story of a woman who tried to do her first SANS jump, but forgot to unbuckle her seatbelt tether. She dangled outside the plane instead of free-falling and had to be pulled back in.
Fourth , Dawson gave perhaps the most important piece of advice: be aware of your body. "You can't cut away with a nut under,” he said, tugging at the parachute pack straps around his thighs.
One of the other skydivers, a teacher who asked to remain anonymous, also prepared himself for the after-effects. "My bits are going to flap around a little bit," he said. "It may be a little sore afterwards. Worse things have happened, I guess." This was his first SANS jump.
The plane pulled up and I climbed into the co-pilot's seat, followed by 11 naked bodies cramming into the small aircraft. It would have been 12, but as Dawson told everyone, the 12th guy cancelled -- he forgot he was having a vasectomy that day.
Excitement was high on the 15-minute flight to the jump zone. Everyone cheered as the plane took off and passed a fist bump throughout the group as the door opened at altitude. Unloading was quick and deliberate. As the plane broke away from the divers and careened toward the ground, the pilot -- Raven, who has also skydived nude -- looked at me, laughing. "That's disgusting," he said. We shared a grin and I thought back to what Dawson told me earlier.
"Just the physical feeling of being out there and being totally free, it's amazing," he said. "You feel the wind on your entire body. To be up there without any clothes with no one there to see it, there's a sense of freedom."
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Would you ever jump out of a “ perfectly good airplane “? Yes? Excellent answer! Okay. Now: Would you ever jump out of a “perfectly good airplane” without your “perfectly good clothes” on? Stumped ya? Riiiiight. Believe it or not, naked skydiving has been part (albeit a fringe part) of skydiving culture for as long as anyone can remember. Let’s talk a little about naked skydiving: what the huck, why the huck, how the huck, and more.
There are three major reasons why people skydive in the buff: to talk about it, to have the associated totally-gonzo skydiving photos and videos , and because they just particularly like how it feels. Let’s address each separately.
While naked skydiving isn’t allowed everywhere, lots of dropzones take part in this cheeky (tee hee!) tradition. Take Skydive Carolina , for example, where your 100th jump is a naked jump, and the entire plane full of people is expected to jump naked right alongside you. Skydive Orange , in Virginia, was voted “Best Naked Dropzone” by Blue Skies Magazine, based on a series of key points. At Skydive Sky Knights near Milwaukee, they even do winter naked jumps (to which we say nope thank you) and have a separate landing area specifically for nude skydivers (where they’re able to stash their clothes for a more dignified return to the hangar).
Skydiving is all about gear, and taking away the layers of fabric between your skin and the outside world necessarily adds a few variables. It’s cold up there at altitude, first of all. The parachute gear was made to sit against clothing, not delicate skin. Freefall speeds of 120 MPH and over subject your mortal coil to some seriously brutal flapping. And landings aren’t always — well — Tinkerbell-gentle. Check out this article about rigging for naked skydiving to get a more specific idea of what we mean.
At the end of the day, making a naked skydive offers entry into a very small brotherhood of other skydiving lunatics who cheerfully bear this idiosyncratic torch of skydiving’s wild-and-crazy early days. Make your first tandem skydive at LISC and get on your way to getting certified so you too can play along!

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