Vadodara: As a student chasing the BBA and then MBA at the University M, the cost of his university was funded through scholarships and partly by both sisters were older.
His father died when he was only 18 years old.
But this didn’t stop it from giving wings to his dream.
And it’s too expensive! Meet Shweta Parmar, 28, the first civilian skydiver of Gujarat.
Until he joined the league, India only had three licensed women’s skydivers – Padma Shri Awardees Rachel Thomas, Shital Mahajan and Archana Sardana’s first lady base jumper.
Indian civilian skydivers are people who go to foreign countries to learn skydiving without the help of the Indian armed forces.
Shweta ‘flights’ with skydiving begins with a tandem leap in Mehsana which cost Rs 35,000 in 2016.
Tandem Jump is when you are attached to experienced skydiving instructors for your leap.
“I want to do it badly.
But thinking of getting permission and also money from my family gave me cringe,” Shweta remembered, which managed his first leap from a small plane with a pilot and an instructor.
But determined to be financially independent, Shweta lost his focus on the work and business he began with his younger brother until mid-2018 when he finally decided to learn to jump the umbrella in Spain.
“Flying with my own wings is a real dream.
A few days, every error is used to cost more than Rs 20,000 and remains motivated increasingly difficult too.
In other days, I used to be injured while making a safe landing.
I got the first small fracture I even before I finished my certification course, “Shweta said.
Sheh as finished eight level courses, 29 jumps in Spain and must appear for the written exam before getting a USPA license.
“Producing your USPA license like passing your driving test and get your SIM.
Now, I can jump with other skydivers anywhere in the world recognized by the United States Parachute Association (USPA),” Shweta said, who until now has jumped in Spain , Dubai and Russia.
USPA licenses end in a year.
“We need to do a flound every three months and update our license every year.
If you don’t jump, your license ends.
Traveling during a covid-19-induced pandemic is a new challenge.
I can’t jump between May 2019 and May 2021,” said Shweta, who finally got this license update Mont.
With 15 leaps in Russia.