Mar 26, 2008, 4:19 PM
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I contend that it's better to learn some lessons from others' experience - the universe teaches much, much, much harder lessons.
I agree 100%. I just dont see bashing someone over the head to teach them is any help at all. I dont see it at 400 jumps and I wont see at 4000 jumps.
The interesting thing about these forums (and skydiving in general, and hell, life in general) is that I've found that if you open yourself up to be taught, you will get much less bashing and a lot more teaching.
Just under two years ago, I screwed up pretty badly and lived to tell about it. And I did, in great detail, here on the forums. I outlined what I did wrong, what I did right, and what I learned, and where I knew I got incredibly lucky. I talked about what I was going to do to reinforce my education on what I should have done better.
That thread was remarkable in that there wasn't a lot of bashing. Sure, there was some, and it stung, and there were a couple of times where I had to step away from the keyboard before I responded.
The difference, I think? Humility. Willingness to admit mistakes. Willingness to listen to opinions other than the ones I started with when I first posted the thread. And a history of posting that way (at least in the topical forums ).
The people who whine the most about getting beat up are the ones who come out swinging and keep defending their opinions despite a lot of well-reasoned information that says maybe, just maybe, they ought to reconsider.
Mar 26, 2008, 4:40 PM
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The people who whine the most about getting beat up are the ones who come out swinging and keep defending their opinions despite a lot of well-reasoned information that says maybe, just maybe, they ought to reconsider. //////////////////////////////////////////////////
Mar 26, 2008, 5:35 PM
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If you have nothing constructive, or funny to say maybe keep it to yourselves/////////////////////////////////////// Just thought it needed to be said agian.
Sorry im a New Yorker I had to do it lol
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Mar 26, 2008, 5:43 PM
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If you have nothing constructive, or funny to say maybe keep it to yourselves
Just thought it needed to be said again.
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1.333 Wingloading with 160 jumps.... What do you guys think about that?
With a wide open question like that he is going to get about the widest variety of opinions there could possibly be - good and bad. He chose to air his own laundry here, so he gets to deal with the responses he receives - taking them as they come.
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>I'm so getting a skyhook . . .
If you get a skyhook to increase your safety margins, then good for you.
If you get a skyhook because you think it makes a cutaway at 300 feet OK, and makes the turns shown in that video safer - then it might just kill you.
Mar 26, 2008, 5:51 PM
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The people who whine the most about getting beat up are the ones who come out swinging and keep defending their opinions despite a lot of well-reasoned information that says maybe, just maybe, they ought to reconsider.
Mar 26, 2008, 5:58 PM
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Mar 26, 2008, 6:13 PM
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Slotperfect I have a serious question. In all your years you never had a student come up to you with a question like that. Or maybe you over heard a question like this being asked to someone else. Would you allow the person being asked the question to bash the student. I know I wouldn't. I would at least pull the student to the side and explain to them why or why not to the question.
I realize the kid opened himself for all this. I just don't agree with it thats all. I think there are better ways to educate someone then to publicly humiliate them. I read this whole Thread and there was some really good advice. I also saw that he had a answer to every post. I just feel that doesn't mean you give up on him and start bashing and if and when he gets hurt you say I told you so.
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Mar 26, 2008, 6:57 PM
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Magic guy, northwest flyer amongst others, my god.. you guys are sounding like you want people to die... is it so you can say "I told you so"???
Call it tough love, crash. The last thing I want is to see anyone get hurt, and I post the way I do in the hopes to inject some common sense into people who I consider are making bad decisions.
Marko is obviously making bad decisions - he induced spinning linetwists into his fully functioning canopy at a low altitude. That's only one thing he did wrong. Look at how long it takes him to get his hands into his toggles, not to mention he is steering his canopy with only 2 fingers in his toggles. Lose a toggle on landing and it would be bad news. He did a multitude of things wrong, and is seriously lucky that he is alive. That is NOT an understatement.
I've watched a close friend get fucked up and come within inches of death. I don't want to see it happen again, especially when it can be prevented beforehand. Call me an a-hole or whatever you want. When you see someone get fucked up or die, you will understand that it's the little things that do count in this sport.
Mar 27, 2008, 12:30 AM
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Well let me start by saying that all of you group PA removed by slotperfect who contributed to this thread with nothing good to say should be ashamed at yourselves. The kid asked a question that could have been ignored by all of you since you were all just going to bash him anyway. Have your mother and fathers not taught you any good qualities? This thread looks like it came from a bunch of high schoolers....pathetic..
Marko all im going to say is that you saved your life...the skyhook helped...but you now have done something that will stick out in your mind for the rest of your life...and you will hopefully tell other people how to avoid it more then others!
but personally to the others
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Mar 27, 2008, 1:46 AM
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Well let me start by saying that all of you Quoted PA removed by slotperfect who contributed to this thread with nothing good to say should be ashamed at yourselves. The kid asked a question that could have been ignored by all of you since you were all just going to bash him anyway. Have your mother and fathers not taught you any good qualities? This thread looks like it came from a bunch of high schoolers....pathetic..
Marko all im going to say is that you saved your life...the skyhook helped...but you now have done something that will stick out in your mind for the rest of your life...and you will hopefully tell other people how to avoid it more then others!
but personally to the others
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PA removed by slotperfect, buddy - if you want fluffy bunnies and rainbows, take up cross-stitching. Sometimes, blunt speaking is the only way to get the point across to someone.
Marko starting this thread asking for opinions, and got them - he (and others) then got defensive when he was told it was a bad idea. That's *HIS* problem (which is evidently solved, now - good), not the problem of the other posters.
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Mar 27, 2008, 4:02 AM
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In all your years you never had a student come up to you with a question like that.
I have never had a student ask me a question like that in front of 71,000 other people.
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That was my point. Apparently you got it.
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I just don't agree with it thats all.
And, like all of the others that replied with the "tough talk" that you don't like, you are free to post your opinion here. As long as the posts are within the forum rules, they stay.
Mar 27, 2008, 4:12 AM
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Well let me start by saying that all of you group PA removed by slotperfect who contributed to this thread with nothing good to say should be ashamed at yourselves. The kid asked a question that could have been ignored by all of you since you were all just going to bash him anyway. Have your mother and fathers not taught you any good qualities? This thread looks like it came from a bunch of high schoolers....pathetic..
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Mar 27, 2008, 4:27 AM
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The kid asked a question that could have been ignored by all of you since you were all just going to bash him anyway. Have your mother and fathers not taught you any good qualities? This thread looks like it came from a bunch of high schoolers....pathetic..
Marko all im going to say is that you saved your life...the skyhook helped...but you now have done something that will stick out in your mind for the rest of your life...and you will hopefully tell other people how to avoid it more then others!
My noob-sense is tingling......
3 things:
1. The "kid" began this thread asking for opinions. With your 13 long years in the sport and class F license, surely you must realize how dangerous it would be to limit responses to his question with only "happy happy joy joy everything's gonna be ok, so don't you worry...." The kid (your kid?) made some questionable choices.
2. The question he asked absolutely should not be ignored by anyone, especially those who would "bash" him. I think we can all agree a verbal bashing hurts a lot less than a terrestrial bashing.
3. Marko may be able to tell people how to avoid spinning yourself into a line twist, but only if he is alive to do so. Right now, he has no more business advising people about skydiving than I do.
Mar 27, 2008, 8:32 AM
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and its funny how all the guys talking bad to marko have 12-375 jumps...what do you all know.....not much
True dat. Which is why I've left the actual advice-giving to people with a lot more experience than I have (and looking through this thread there are many, many people with thousands of jumps who have put in their thoughts).
I've somehow been lumped in with the evil crowd that wants marko to die (quite to the contrary, I'd prefer it if no one died skydiving), but I haven't made a single comment on marko's choice of gear - I'll leave that to people with a lot more experience and skill than I have.
Mar 27, 2008, 8:36 AM
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and its funny how all the guys talking bad to marko have 12-375 jumps...what do you all know.....not much
True dat. Which is why I've left the actual advice-giving to people with a lot more experience than I have (and looking through this thread there are many, many people with thousands of jumps who have put in their thoughts).
I've somehow been lumped in with the evil crowd that wants marko to die (quite to the contrary, I'd prefer it if no one died skydiving), but I haven't made a single comment on marko's choice of gear - I'll leave that to people with a lot more experience and skill than I have.
i said its funny how all the GUYS.....not the girls ;) ....i know you didnt say anything bad about marko...sorry for the misunderstanding
Mar 27, 2008, 8:37 AM
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"Right now marko has alot more to teach other skydivers then you....what can 12 jumps teach you?"
That I don't know shit, as I've stated before. That no matter what level I achieve, there are folks here with thousands and thousands of skydives, and they generally know better how to stay alive. That listening to them will probably keep you out of the hospital, or the morgue.
Ask any one of them, and they'll tell you Marko is new to the sport. From what I gather, everybody is kind of new until they have 4 digits in their logbooks. As such, we are all students.
I never meant to offend anyone, skydriven, and if you really have been in the sport for 13 years as your profile states, then I apologize.
Edited to add: By the way, the "noob-sense" is about me, not you - buddy. I have noob-sense about me. I was making fun of myself, ok?
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