Skydiving
Speech Title: SKYDIVING
Presented by: Nataly Soto
Specific purpose: To inform my audience on some tips before doing the first skydiving.
Thesis Statement: It’s not easy to figure out how to go about making your first skydiving jump.
Introduction:
I. Attention Material: Lets say that some people like to spice things up a bit and what a better way than doing it by jumping out of a plane! Maybe skydiving has been a dream to many of us. But we aren’t so sure about doing since there isn’t much knowledge about it
II. Relevance to the audience: Maybe skydiving has been a dream to many of you. But aren’t so sure about doing it since there isn’t much knowledge about it.
III. Credibility material: Two years ago, I was tired of always doing the same things on a weekend, so I decided that enough is enough, and I got interested in skydiving. I gather the information I needed. And next thing I knew, I was jumping out of an airplane. And let me tell you it’s fun!
IV. Thesis Statement: It’s not easy to figure out how to go about making your first skydiving jump.
V. Preview: I will explain three basics things which includes, being aware of the risks, some of the requirements of skydiving, how to go about looking for a drop zone.
[Transition: I’ll start by informing how safe is skydiving]
BODY:
1. 1st main point: According to Dropzone.com, Skydiving is not ten-pin bowling.
There are some very real risks involved but as with any other "extreme" sport out there.
A. Statistics can be manipulated to tell you whatever you want to hear. They can be manipulated to make skydiving look very safe or very dangerous.
1. The USPA (united states parachute association) over a 10 year period reports an average of about 35 skydiving fatalities per year in the USA. Now...
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