Skydiving and parachuting is the art of hurling yourself from a height and safely floating to the ground using a canopy to slow your descent. The initial freefall before the parachute opens is quite exhilarating. Some people get a rush from the more extreme sport of base jumping, where you jump from a high cliff with a parachute and open the parachute at the latest possible moment. Although this is a serious adrenalin rush, there are significant risks of not only hitting the cliffs, but also misjudging when to open the parachute.Skydiving typically involves jumping out of an aircraft from a height of 4000 metres. If you are going to have a freefall experience, then you will be in control of when to pull the ripcord which will open your parachute. For beginners and those who have been given a skydiving gift, you will normally have a static line parachute jump. For a static line parachute jump, the ripcord of your parachute is attached to a line in the airplane. When you exit the aircraft, your parachute will automatically open for you.