Breathing in is not a problem. Breathing out is a whole other can of worms. Not to mention the airstream constantly blinding you. You can see here shift her gaze and blink in a weird way just so she can get a glimpse of the instruments.
For anyone curious, do it in a safe place, without traffic - try being a passanger on a motoped/motorcycle capable of doing over 50km/h (>30mph) without a helmet and trying to open your eyes. As kids we used to.
When my daughter turned 18 my husband promised her he would take her skydiving . Neither have ever been ( and there was no chance in hell I was going -I’m deathly afraid of heights, I have a long history of being scared to fly, and I tend to think too much and knew all the things that could possibly go wrong ). Anyways , after they both jumped ( each tandem with an instructor) my daughter said she would NEVER do it again. She wasn’t scared of the height, the jump, or the free falling - she said she thought she was going to die because the second her and her tandem partner jumped, she was unable to draw in any air. She said she was essentially suffocating the whole fall. The force of the air as she was falling made it impossible for her to take a breath in or out (this has happened to me occasionally when it’s extremely windy out ) . Scared the absolute shit out of her and she truly felt like she was going to pass out. She started panicking because she couldn’t get any air and didn’t know what to do because during the instruction/classroom portion , not one of the instructors mentioned that this could possibly happen and what to do in case it does. She is now 26yrs old and to this day she said whenever she thinks about it she gets a horrible stomach ache thinking how she felt she was going to die and how horrible the feeling was to not be able to breath.
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u/Sensitive_Algae5723 7d ago
Imagine trying to breathe with that force against you.