A 'FEARLESS' six-old-girl from Whitchurch 'cannot wait' to skydive again after dropping 12,000 feet on a skydiving trip in Denmark.
Lola-Jo Guildford-Bradshaw went to the skydiving centre, Dropzone Denmark with her father, Gary, who also enjoys sky diving and is an instructor in the Lake District.
The minimum age for sky-diving in the UK is 16, whereas the rules are less stringent in the Scandinavian country.
Gary said his daughter has seen him involved with skydiving and enjoyed the experience and would like to do it again.
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He added: "She has always been around skydiving with me.
"Lola-Jo loved it and cannot wait to do it again. She can't wait to go to school and tell all her friends.
"Because she has been around it so much, I feel like she doesn't know how amazing it is because it is normal for her."
Lola-Jo was attached to an instructor in the Danish centre, 'Magic Mike', and Gary took photographs while skydiving himself and he said she enjoyed flying the parachute.
He added: "Her favourite bit was flying the parachute when they were able to do loads of spins.
"She got to hold the steering toggles and she and the instructor were spinning the parachute.
"I went out with them, she was on the front of 'Magic Mike,' I took some of the pictures.
"As their parachute opened I still kept falling and it was at that point, it was the most nervous for me because I knew I could see her face smiling.
"I knew she was loving it but I could not see her anymore."
Gary was full of praise of the Danish instructors.
He explained: "The guys were absolutely great, they made it very clear.
"They treated her as the adult and asked her if she wanted to do it.
"I wasn't really in the equation. Magic Mike' said she was fearless and said they wouldn't have gone ahead if she said no.
"That is how strict they are on whether people want to do it because it isn't for everyone."
Gary said he thinks Lola-Jo will do more skydives and hopes to skydive with his daughter attached to the front of him.
He added; "Lola-Jo will certainly do more skydives, hopefully the next one she does might be on the front of me.
"I am not a tandem instructor but if I do that course we can go to Denmark and she can go on the front of me.
"When she is older, she certainly has got the opportunity to skydive as soon as she can.
"But if she chooses no to, that is entirely her choice."
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