Comments on: Photo(s) of the Day: T-Mobile Skydiving Stunt Drops Like A Bomb http://www.livesoma.com/2009/08/06/photos-of-the-day-t-mobile-skydiving-stunt-drops-like-a-bomb/ South of Market's Resource for All Things SOMA! Tue, 15 May 2012 16:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Live SoMa http://www.livesoma.com/2009/08/06/photos-of-the-day-t-mobile-skydiving-stunt-drops-like-a-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Live SoMa Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:32:24 +0000 http://livesoma.com/?p=2215#comment-9 Ron, Don't get me wrong. I wasn't underwhelmed by the skydiving. I respect what you do, and the whole process. My comment about being underwhelmed was in reference to the event as a whole. I don't know anything about skydiving, and safety, and I imagine there are a lot of restrictions involved in jumping over a major city. If I'd been walking down the street and all of a sudden came across the skydiving, it was fantastic. However, the hype of the event as portrayed by local media was blown out of proportion. I had people contacting me telling me they heard such and such a rumor. One reader wrote that they heard there were gonna be 350 skydivers, and that they were filming a commercial. I mean, with hype like that, which gets the city excited, when you show up and from your vantage point can see some 10 skydivers at a time, it's just not meeting the hype. Even the fly over was anticlimactic as far as fly-by's I've seen in my life. I love skydivers. They do something that I'm too chicken to do myself. Anyone who does that gets immediate respect in my book. But I was more disappointed by the media. The media, and the random sideshows such as the acrobats with street clothes. It felt like it was thrown together last minute. Ron, Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t underwhelmed by the skydiving. I respect what you do, and the whole process. My comment about being underwhelmed was in reference to the event as a whole.
I don’t know anything about skydiving, and safety, and I imagine there are a lot of restrictions involved in jumping over a major city. If I’d been walking down the street and all of a sudden came across the skydiving, it was fantastic. However, the hype of the event as portrayed by local media was blown out of proportion. I had people contacting me telling me they heard such and such a rumor.
One reader wrote that they heard there were gonna be 350 skydivers, and that they were filming a commercial. I mean, with hype like that, which gets the city excited, when you show up and from your vantage point can see some 10 skydivers at a time, it’s just not meeting the hype. Even the fly over was anticlimactic as far as fly-by’s I’ve seen in my life.
I love skydivers. They do something that I’m too chicken to do myself. Anyone who does that gets immediate respect in my book. But I was more disappointed by the media. The media, and the random sideshows such as the acrobats with street clothes. It felt like it was thrown together last minute.

]]> By: rondoman http://www.livesoma.com/2009/08/06/photos-of-the-day-t-mobile-skydiving-stunt-drops-like-a-bomb/comment-page-1/#comment-8 rondoman Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:16:52 +0000 http://livesoma.com/?p=2215#comment-8 I suspect that you were underwhelmed because you were not aware that we were putting 100 skydivers into four separate landing areas: Justin Herman Plaza, Pier 39, Moscone Recreation Center and Marina Green. While you may have seen only a "handful" of skydivers at your vantage point, there were 95 other ones in the air at that same time, entertaining thousands of other people. I hope you enjoyed the show. Ron Skydiving Innovations I suspect that you were underwhelmed because you were not aware that we were putting 100 skydivers into four separate landing areas: Justin Herman Plaza, Pier 39, Moscone Recreation Center and Marina Green. While you may have seen only a “handful” of skydivers at your vantage point, there were 95 other ones in the air at that same time, entertaining thousands of other people.

I hope you enjoyed the show.

Ron
Skydiving Innovations

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