As you're contemplating going skydiving, you will have to choose whether you will go for a solo jump or a tandem jump. Skydiving is not just a simple experience – jumping out of an airplane, free falling, and then drifting safely to ground takes some training, and so the experiences of solo or tandem jumping are very different from each other.

A solo jump is appealing in many ways. Jumping alone gives many people more of an adrenaline rush – which some people like. Also, you can brag to your friends that you did a solo jump. But most first time skydiving novices have a tandem jump first. Why would this be?

Tandem First? Why You Should Plan For That

First of all, you must work within the limits of the company you are jumping with. For many companies, they require your first skydiving jump to be tandem. After you've had a few of those, you can learn the added skills to be allowed to jump solo. Why do they have rules like this? Solo skydiving takes many additional skills and experience, and many companies protect themselves by enforcing this rule.

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Commercially made rock climbing harnesses can be a bit pricey – but there's a reason for it. In the case of mountain climbing equipment, you get what you pay for. Having reliable and sturdy rock climbing equipment has helped grow the numbers of those participating in climbing. If commercial equipment is readily available, then why would you bother to make a rock climbing harness?

Extreme Situations

How about if you get stranded in a rocky or mountainous territory and have to get out in order to survive? Perhaps your plane crashed and yet you survived. Perhaps you were kidnapped and are escaping the kidnappers. Perhaps part of a military exercise is to make a rock climbing harness. There are all kinds of scenarios where you just may have to make a rock climbing harness. But the one thing all of these situations have in common is that they are extreme examples.

Down To Basics

The basic ingredients to make a rock climbing harness are rope, metal clips (called carabiners in the climbing world) and something to make handholds. Remember all of those cartoons where mountain climbers used a pickaxe to get up a mountain? There you go. If you don't have carabiners, you could conceivably use more rope, but that's really dicey.

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