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Nicely said. I share quite the same story as the OP with a few zeroes different in the final sum. I quit my job 8 months ago and basically felt the same boredom and depression feeling. But after 2 months of doing almost nothing my brain simply rested enough and returned to regular activity.

Then I spend almost every day checking my wish list:

- Paragliding? Yeah, did the basic training in 2 weeks.

- Kite surfing? Why not! It took me 6 months but it's sooo much fun.

- Skydiving? HELL YEAH. Did the basic training and looking forward to start jumping in wingsuit next year,

- moving to Asia? Looking forward for January 2022 in Thailand!

In the mid time I'm just doing all from your list: gym every second day, meditate every day (hey, why not go to the Buddhist temple if all your "physical" dreads are gone?), meeting with therapist and just simply enjoying my life. Now when I'm reaching limits of joyfulness I wish to use my time to help others.

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> Did the basic training and looking forward to start jumping in wingsuit next year

Nice! Thought about paragliding too, but decided I like the action of flying in a wingsuit more. Booked my first tandem skydiving jump and will start the basic training in 2022. In Germany we're only allowed wingsuit jumps when we complete 200 normal jumps, do you know if there's a jurisdiction where this requirement is lower?

I would definitely recommend skydiving over paragliding and kitesurfing over skydiving. Paragliding is MUCH harder than skydiving (you need to feel/understand the wind really well).

Talking about the tandem jump - I don't know how it's in Germany but in Poland basic AFF training + one jump with 2 instructors cost the same price as the tandem jump thus making it a really foolish choice.

200 jumps requirement is shared across most of the world and to be honest it's not really that much. Skydiving in the details is really hard - you need to control and feel you body perfectly and also know how to move and behave in the air. You could probably try jumping in Ukraine - it's cheap like a bread and dangerous like a hell. I did my first jump in Ukraine and it cost me around 35$ (basic training was in ukrainian which I don't speak at all)

Thanks for the tip with Poland and Ukraine! Do you have a link for a good AFF training provider? I found this one [1] which looks good.

[1]: https://tandemy.pl/en/training-parachute-jump/

I would say that most of the AFF trainers are good (they just need to). The only issue here is that I'm not aware of any english curse. I'm jumping with PLStefa in Elbląg and Gliwice but their website is in polish only (however most of the trainers do speak english). Maybe it's a right choise to complete AFF training anywhere and then just start jumping wherever it's cheap.

PS. Flying in Spain is an good and cheap option too! https://www.skydiveatmosfera.com/

Why are you saying skydiving in Ukraine is dangerous? I jumped here and I only remember one vague story about someone injuring their leg because of technical mistake when landing. I don't think we had any skydiving deaths in at least 10-15 years.

Check out Paramotoring. It's self-powered Paragliding that opens up way more places to fly.

Nice! You sound like a good dude. I wish you good fortune.

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