First time
Nobody is calm the morning of their first Skydive Dubai jump, and nothing written here will change that. What it can do is remove the small unknowns — what to put on, what to eat, what to do with your hands in the door — so that the only thing left to be nervous about is the one that is actually worth it.
Quick answer
Wear trainers and something you can move in, eat something light about two hours before, and arrive twenty minutes early. Your entire job in the air is one body position, and your instructor will physically put you in it if you forget. The hard part lasts about four seconds and it happens in the door.
What to wear for Skydive Dubai, and what to leave behind
Nothing here is fussy; all of it is about things that move at two hundred kilometres an hour.
Not sandals, not slip-ons, not boots with hooks. Your feet come up for the landing and anything that can come off will.
Leggings or shorts and a t-shirt under the jumpsuit. Nothing that flaps, nothing with a hood.
Earrings, loose necklaces and rings that turn. They go in a locker with your phone.
You are given goggles, and they fit over prescription glasses. Sunglasses will not survive the exit.
A high bun sits exactly where the harness and the instructor’s chin need to be. Low and tight.
Everything loose becomes a projectile. Phones, keys and cards stay in the locker.
The three hours around the jump
Eat light, remember one position, and leave the rest of the morning empty.
Before. Eat something light about two hours ahead — toast, fruit, a sandwich. The advice to jump hungry is wrong and it is how people feel faint on the climb. Drink water. Skip the alcohol the night before: altitude and dehydration together are unpleasant.
During. Your only job is head back, hips forward, arms out when tapped. If you forget, your instructor will correct you physically. You do not need to remember anything else, and you cannot do anything wrong that they cannot fix.
After. Adrenaline leaves as fast as it arrives, and most people are quietly exhausted an hour later. Do not book anything demanding for the rest of the morning — sit by the water, look at the photographs, and let it land.
Six things nobody tells you about a Skydive Dubai morning
None of these are in any listing.
Almost universal. The video exists partly because of this.
Most people expect to enjoy the freefall most and come away talking about the quiet five minutes.
It is designed to fit while hanging. Standing up in it is meant to be uncomfortable.
Two hundred kilometres an hour of wind is unkind to cheeks. Everyone looks like that.
Adrenaline leaves as fast as it arrives. A Skydive Dubai morning is a whole morning.
The commonest sentence in the car afterwards, and the reason repeat jumps are a thing.
The most useful sentence anybody said to me before a first jump: you do not have to be brave in the aircraft, because the decision was made when you booked. All you have to do in the door is not actively stop it.
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Tickets and booking→Common questions
Trainers and something you can move in. No sandals, no skirts, no loose jewellery, nothing in your pockets.
Yes — something light about two hours before. Jumping on an empty stomach is the commonest piece of bad advice and it is how people feel faint on the climb.
Usually yes; the goggles fit over most frames. Contact lenses are fine too.
In freefall it is very loud and you will not hold a conversation. Under the canopy it is quiet enough to talk normally.
It is four seconds and your instructor is attached to you and rocking forward. In practice the decision has already been made for you.
Elated, then quietly exhausted about an hour later. Leave the rest of the morning empty.
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