[gfly]

I registered to answer this question, have a few thousand skydives anda few hundred basejumps. Would have said skip the tandem. Fully immersing yourself in the skydive community is a red pill all its own. I know guys that rolled up in luxury cars wearing suits that were living in a tent packing parachutes for jump money within a year. Some of them never go back to the world. Enjoy the ride.