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Hey everybody, I'm new to this web site, and to base jumping. I've actually never done it. :( But it's my dream to and I was wondering what was the age some of you guys started base jumping at.

I was 9 months old . Was umbilical cord static Jump from the Womb to the floor & on the run ever since.
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Are you 18?

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soo you have two birthdays?

To the OP: I know that a russian guy started at 16..
He's a veery good proximity WS flyer now.

I started at 20

indirectly? i did my first bungee jump at 14, and knew that freefalling felt so right to me.

first skydive at 23. first BASE jump at 28

I did my first skydive at 18, First BASE at 20.

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The youngest age I have ever heard of was a DZ Cessna Pilot & his mother who was skydiver .
He was in her Womb for a couple skydives with her . So I guess he was doing Tandem Freefall a few months before he was squeezed-out .
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Sky-08'
BASE-11'
I'm 29

Skydive March 09 (25yrs)
BASE May 09 (25yrs)
28yrs old now

I started in 1989 at 17. Left the sport for many years, too many hobbies not enough cash and a wife that didn't like them! Now the wife is gone and I'm 40 I'm getting back into the sport. Age doesn't matter, you just need to learn everything and take a bit of a Beating!

Skydive 26
Base 26

Skydive - 21
BASE - 25

maybe you should make this a poll, then you would have some more clarity on the answers...

skydive i started at 23 in 2001
base i started at 33 in 2011

Skydive 18
BASE 19

Skydive 18

BASE 22

skydive - 18
BASE - 24

1st SKY Jump -Tandem
Carolina Sky Sports, NC
Saturday, June 22, 2002
29 years, 8 months, 30 days


3 years, 11 months, 10 days
and about 1500 jumps later


1st BASE Jump - PCA
Perrine Bridge, Idaho
Thursday, June 1, 2006
33 years, 8 months, 9 days

The OP hasn't logged on in over 2 weeks.
just FYI

hey I checked my logbook and I was there that weekend!

which is weird since at that time I was jumping at raeford and the skydiving place

Cool, small world, especially when you jump it

Did you mean "The Jumping Place" ??

They, um, well, ah, No Comment

I was most likly there as well... I wish we would have known then what we know now and stopped GreenM from getting into BASE!

DAmn im old.... first BASE jump at 37.....damn im old....