Does skydiving tickle your stomach?
Matthew Alvarez
Published May 26, 2026
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Likewise, people ask, is skydiving the same feeling as a roller coaster?
That feeling in your stomach that you get as the roller coaster tips over a peak, for example, is pretty similar to the feeling you'll get as you fall out of the airplane. While a roller coaster is designed to push your body to its limits, skydiving is a much smoother, much freer experience.
Furthermore, do you feel butterflies when skydiving? The “butterfly feeling” that most people talk about is nervousness, anxiety. The feeling that many wuffos and newbs want to know about, regarding skydiving is usually that stomach-in-the-throat feeling when the bottom drops out from under you (like the cable in the elevator just broke…).
Likewise, people ask, what does it feel like when your skydiving?
You feel temperature change and pressure on your skin. Even on a hot day, it will be noticeably cooler at jump altitude. It's like opening the refrigerator door on a hot day, and having that wave of cool rush over you. The wind resistance from your freefall speed feels like pressure.
What does it feel like when the parachute opens?
It feels like God's hand was pulling you on your shoulders. As the main canopy inflates, you feel a strong deceleration as your descent speed decelerates into one tenth what it was on the free fall. You initially feel as you were pulled upwards, but it is actually deceleration (braking).
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