Imagine receiving the call from your doctor: the test results are in, and it’s cancer. By comparison, jumping out of an airplane probably doesn’t sound all that frightening all of a sudden.
Last August, New York attorney and body builder Rick Collins “leaped from a perfectly good airplane at 13,500 feet above Long Island,” and in so doing, raised more than $15,000 in donations for cancer research.
Encouraged and exhilarated by the jump and the overwhelmingly supportive response to what turned into an event he calls Leap for Life, Collins is having a second go-around this year and he’s encouraging anyone and everyone to take part as well.
Leap for Life 2010 is set for the weekend of August 21-22, and while Collins is no doubt perfectly happy to receive your generous donation for his skydive, he hopes people everywhere will join him in “taking the fight against cancer to new heights” as he phrases it. Why not plan a skydive of your own, and join him by linking your leap to supporting the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s Livestrong.org?
Collins breaks it all down and makes it incredibly simple: first, visit the US Parachute Association website to find out about sky diving centers near you who can get you up in the air and back down to the ground in one piece. Then, join up with the Livestrong fundraising effort with your very own Leap for Life event by signing up here.
If you’ve never gone skydiving, it’s totally understandable if the very idea of jumping out of an airplane feels scary. But as Collins explains on his website, “the event was also an important opportunity to do something for a lot of people far braver than I am.”
Photo courtesy of Leap for Life.