Gila- Scott Stilwell<\/p>\n
29 Years<\/p>\n
I jumped off everything. Houses, trees, bridges, rock cliffs. I jumped things with dirt bikes, skateboards, and bicycles. I was not scared of anything.<\/p>\n
I moved to a new town my senior year of HS, and a new friend’s parents were DZOs. I learned to pack parachutes as a job, and at the end of that summer, the DZO told me if I was going to work at the skydiving center I had to make a jump.
\nI paid for the class and jump by spreading mulch chips from a wheelbarrow, on all of the walkways around the DZ. Made my first jump on Oct 14th, 1994.<\/p>\n
I screamed with excitement and had such a positive feeling after the first parachute opened, before I landed I knew it was my thing. I wanted to learn how to control my body that way.<\/p>\n
Demo into Downtown Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. I made that jump 3 times and it was called for weather 2 others. The winds brought us in over the top of the 26-story 300ft Federal Court House Complex, FBI and IRS. Then above the Philadelphia Inquirer building, take a left down Ranstead St. just before you reach the Post Office. Flying Straight towards Independence Hall, directly overtop of the actual<\/em> Liberty Bell. Fear kills reason.<\/p>\n Knowledgable. Unyielding. Dedicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":0,"template":"","teammember-category":[16],"class_list":["post-2248","teammember","type-teammember","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/teammember"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2248\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"teammember-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember-category?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI posted up the 2,500sq ft US Flag in front of Liberty Hall and then a stand landing in the park.<\/p>\nIf you have one, what’s your personal motto\/philosophy as it relates to skydiving?<\/h5>\n
What three words would your colleagues\/students use to describe you as a skydiver?<\/h5>\n