{"id":2259,"date":"2023-12-04T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startskydiving.previewthe.site\/?post_type=teammember&#038;p=2259"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T17:23:20","slug":"johnny-cockrell","status":"publish","type":"teammember","link":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/team-member\/johnny-cockrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Cockrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Name<\/h5>\n<p>Johnny Cockrell<\/p>\n<h5>What are your PRIMARY roles at the DZ?<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>AFF Instructor<\/li>\n<li>Videographer<\/li>\n<li>Coach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>How many years in the sport\/industry?<\/h5>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<h5>When you were a kid, were there any early activities that might indicate you&#8217;d one day become a skydiver?<\/h5>\n<p>I would always get in trouble in P.E. class for going on top of the slides &amp; climbing poles and jumping off of them.<\/p>\n<h5>What was the circumstance that led you to make your very first skydive?<\/h5>\n<p>I had some extra cash and a Saturday off. So, one of my best friends and I pulled an all-nighter the Friday before, bought some \u201cSuperMan\u201d shirts from Walmart, and made our way to Skydive Quincy Florida to go on a tandem skydive.<\/p>\n<h5>What made you want to continue skydiving after your first jump?<\/h5>\n<p>The culture at the DZ was positively infectious and I felt like I fit right in. After landing from the tandem I just knew I would be doing it the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<h5>What&#8217;s the best\/most memorable skydive you&#8217;ve ever made, and what made it so remarkable?<\/h5>\n<p>The Ohio State 27-Way Vertical HD formation record we set at StartSkydiving in 2019. This was the biggest formation I had the pleasure of being a part of, not to mention my 8th jump after taking a 3-year break from the sport for personal reasons. This jump totally re-lit my passion for the sport and made me hungry to take my skills to the next level, while setting a good example and helping new skydivers achieve their goals!<\/p>\n<h5>If you have one, what&#8217;s your personal motto\/philosophy as it relates to skydiving?<\/h5>\n<p>Calm, cool, collected \u2026 don\u2019t be in your head, but be in the moment\u2026Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, come on boys \u2026 IT&#8217;S SKYDIVE TIME!!!<\/p>\n<h5>What three words would your colleagues\/students use to describe you as a skydiver?<\/h5>\n<p>Cheerful. Outgoing. Optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":0,"template":"","teammember-category":[16],"class_list":["post-2259","teammember","type-teammember","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2259","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember\/2259\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"teammember-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startskydiving.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teammember-category?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}