My late cousin was a sky diver and a friend who came over this weekend still does even though he busted himself up twice.
Errors are most often painful not fatal.
My late cousin wanted to be one who films skydiving but it is an expensive hobby.
After he died his brother had to get rid of thousands of dollars of gear for pennies on a dollar.
I had thought of doing it but as I said cost was very high plus by the time i considered gov. regs made learning the old fashioned daredevil way near impossible.
There was one dude still teaching , rules be damned, but after he put out a load of students, on round shoots, with a way to high wind and they were picked up, or called from farm houses in 25 mile radius, he got in trouble and he was the last of the old ways teachers.