If you want to enjoy Skyrush you need to be prepared to ride it properly. Make sure the lap bar goes all the way down as far as it can comfortably go so that it doesn't tighten on you during the ride. If you're tempted to leave room, don't, as this will just make the ride painful as the restraint crushes your legs. In addition, make sure the bar is resting on your hips snugly and not on top of your thighs. If you're in tight and snug and the bar feels like it's conforming to you're body, you're ready to let Skyrush fling you around like a ragdoll and enjoy it.

Though I didn't enjoy Skyrush as much as I'd hoped due to me being unprepared to ride it comfortably, I am going to give Skyrush 5 stars anyways out of pure respect to the coaster designers and this ride's fans. Skyrush is one of the most intense coasters I can think of, which is probably the reason Hershey built Candymonium 100 feet away: Skyrush isn't the crowdpleaser they probably hoped for, as it's just so aggressive and unhindered in its design.

The Airtime is absolutely insane. There's really only 5 or 6 moments, but it's more than enough. Skyrush is a very tall ride and almost the entire coaster is taken at low altitude and neat the water and banks of the creek. This means Skyrush is very fast paced. All of the Airtime is hugely powerful on the small, low altitude hills, and on the first two hills this ejector style airtime is sustained. It also has moments of aggressive twisting, such as the strengel dive and the twisted airtime hill. Plus it has plenty of strong positive g forces on the low to the ground (or water) turns that are all over the ride. This makes for a very intense ride with no dull moments, fast pacing, and a great sense of speed. It's also scenic, if you're able to pay attention, interacting with the terrain, the water, and the nearby Comet wooden coaster.

Skyrush is a perplexing ride created by circumstance. Hersheypark wanted its crowdpleasing hyper coaster before they had the land for it, and the small amount of land they did have made for a huge ride that doesn't have enough space to go high after the first drop, or have drawn out graceful elements, so what we're left with is the almost accidental most intense ride in the park, which was for sure no accident on the part of Intamin, who designed the ride.

This unexpected intensity is why I think Candymonium was built almost as soon as Hersheypark acquired enough land to the crowd pleasing hyper coaster they wanted in the first place, which leaves you with two hyper coasters in the same park. One for the average person or one who prefers less intense rides, and another for those who don't want their rides catered to a general audience and want to be flung around like a ragdoll.