Hmmm...good question. Or a bad one really; a better one would be Why NOT? This all started with a phone call from someone who had just booked a place on a weekend trip to France (summer 1991 - before most people knew anything about bungy jumping). Anyway, before I really had time to think about the idea of throwing myself from a 200ft viaduct in Normandie and ignoring it, I decided to try it for myself. I'd already seen various people jumping from the Clifton Suspension bridge on TV - including one unfortunate person (dressed as Santa Claus!) who'd used too much elastic and become stuck in mud up to his chest with a broken leg - so it wasn't a totally new idea. What was new was the thought that it was actually ME that could try it. Before my natural strong fear of heights had time to stop me, I had a mission; no money, but a mission. Being a resourceful student, I managed to get around the cash problem by getting someone else to pay - 27 other students in 2 minibuses actually. This turned out to be the first of many trips across the channel which have had varying levels of organisation... [The trip that got diverted to a pub in South London has to be a particular favourite!]
No, really what we're here for is to bring like-minded people together and provide the opportunity to try things which they may previously have thought they could never do. Small bungy jumps from cranes in pub car parks are now more common but we like to seek out the REAL bungy sites. Then of course there's parachuting, gliding and really anything that involves flying or falling through the air. If it also includes water, so much the better.
