and we had what's called a wrap.

And basically, we crashed parachutes to each other.

We were spinning.

So I had one of my buddies' parachutes was wrapped around my head,

and we were in a spinning mess of tangled canopies. You know, mess of tangled canopies. Thank you. This is the adventure sports podcast.

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Welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. Today is about skydiving with Pete Waldrup. Pete grew up in a small town in the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma. He did a lot of road biking, canoeing, hiking, and camping. But then when he turned 18, he found his true passion. He took up skydiving.

Since then, he's led an adventure-filled life as an entrepreneur, trying all sorts of adventure

sports, including sailing and wakeboarding, and of course, skydiving. Pete now has over

2,800 jumps, and is active in skydiving competitions, competing at the USPA, U.S. National Skydiving Championships for the last five years.

He's been awarded one bronze and six silver medals in various disciplines, including Canopy Relative Work Formations, and Four and Eight-Person Free Fall Formations.

Pete, welcome to the program.

Hey, good morning, Kurt. Thanks.

So, Pete, I know that

there are going to be a lot of listeners, are going to have a lot of curious questions about skydiving.

It's one of those sports that is pretty edgy and people just always want to know what does

that really like. So I'm glad you're here today to help our listeners understand more about the sport.

Will you take a few minutes to tell the listeners more about yourself and your connection and experience in skydiving? Sure. I'm happy to do it. Good morning, everyone. I started skydiving, like you said, when I was 18, and I actually saw the sport. The town that I grew up in amazingly held the world championships when I was four or five, and I saw the sport then. I just all those years thought about it. And my brother did the same thing. He was older. So when he turned 18, you had to be 18 in Oklahoma to skydive. And so our parents were not going to agree to sign for us when we were younger than 18. So we're 18. He went out and made his first jump. I was there. I watched him. And five years later, six years later, I went and made my first jump the same way. And I think it just hooked me for life. I made about 550 jumps between then and the time I got out of college or a little bit after college, I guess. And then I took a break for a few years from the sport like a lot of people do as life takes over and then I

got back into the sport several years ago and I'd always thought that I would and I wanted to and

I found that there were a lot of sciders who'd done the same thing life kind of took over and they

got busy and then they came back to that sport that they loved but I'll tell you when you're

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