Brad Guy

This didn't feel like what was meant to happen.

My first initial emotion was guilt, even as I'm falling.

I fully accepted that I was going to die and that this was the end.

Because even though we're shaking, we're still falling very, very fast.

It felt like the speed you are in a car, except you're on the outside.

Just the wind thrashing you, the whistling, tandem instructor yelling.

but I didn't have any cool sort of talk to angels experience or life flash before your eyes moment, nothing like that.

All I really felt was guilt because I felt like I could see my family and they were watching me die.

Even though I'm sure it was only a few seconds, it kind of felt like forever.

It was elongated.

And it was a fall, but also the perspective kind of felt like the Earth was coming to hit me.

I was going to be smashed by a planet.

So it's extremely disorienting, just the thrashing of it all.

But before I could even really brace for it, we hit the ground.

It kind of felt like my spine was getting ripped out of my body from my lower half and couldn't catch my breath at the same time.

Extremely winded, gasping for air.

The lake was so cold that I couldn't feel the lower half of my body because it was basically on the virtual hypothermia.

I even had convinced myself in that moment that I was a paraplegic when I was coming to.

I couldn't really make sense.

I couldn't move my body, couldn't breathe, couldn't speak, started hysterically sobbing.