85-year-old Michigan woman completes 698th skydiving jump ahead of World Skydiving Day

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An 85-year-old Michigan woman says she’s jumped from a plane nearly 700 times -- and her goal is to get to 1,000 by next year. Ahead of World Skydiving Day, WWJ's Darrylin Horne spoke with Kim Knor about why she loves skydiving so much.

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00:00Yeah, that was fantastic. It was wonderful. Daryl and horn with W. W. J.

00:07Here. We just witnessed an 85 year old woman jumped from a plane for the how

00:12many times? 698 times. A woman from Cadillac says she's 85 years old, but

00:20the secret to her staying young is jumping from planes. You know, I'm not

00:24in a wheelchair. I'm not in a rocking chair and they don't sit on the couch

00:28and I don't watch TV. So what do I do? Go out and jump out of airplanes. You

00:33know, Kim Norris says she's been jumping from planes since 1959. She

00:38took a 37 year hiatus to raise her Children and following the passing of

00:42her husband, she's decided to reach her goal of 1000 jumps by next summer. She

00:47says it's something everyone should try at least once. But I have to warn you

00:52that is very, very addictive. So it's worse than alcohol or drugs or anything

00:57like that. Once you do it and you get addicted to it, it's like when can I do

01:03it again?

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