Faber 0 #51 August 18, 2004 mate.. did you pack your stuff?its time for you to go home now ill watch the video of the jumps through... Stay safe Stefan Faber Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SBCmac 0 #52 August 23, 2004 Hello :)… In my opinion I would track it as an “Other” type BASE jump… The reason why is because I’m more or less focused on what experience I’m gaining out of the jump than what object it is. For example, if someone were to invent an antigravity aircraft that could hover at 500 feet with no downwash I would rack it up as an “Other” type BASE jump, of course only if I was using a BASE rig and exiting into dead air. The reason I say this is because I look at this type of jumping the same way I look at wind tunnel skydiving, it all applies to the big picture as far as experience. I guess my main three supporting factors to my argument are gear, dead air, and technique. Granted, this would all change if I were to take the same antigravity aircraft and hovered at 13,000 ft and used a skydiving rig. Sure, I would exit into dead air but I would have the luxury of altitude and a reserve (Not to mention RSL and Cypress…). Again, it all comes back to what experience I’m gaining when I try to determine what log book to put my experience in. And if I decide to put it in my BASE log book and it doesn’t obviously fall into one of the four BASE letters, I would classify it as “Other”… Again this is just my opinion and how I do things for me. If someone were to look at my log book and tell me otherwise, I wouldn’t really care and I wouldn’t change how I do things for them. Bottom line is, just like everything in BASE we need to be doing things based on our own reasoning. Sure, we take the bare principles and apply them to what we are doing; but by no means should we loose sleep at night because we don’t want to log something incorrectly. A log book is simply a tool to help you in the future if need be, not something you live by. BASE is an individual sport and even when you learn from someone else, ultimately we are responsible for everything we do within the sport. So this carries the burden of being able to make decisions for ourselves. What happens when you are on your next BASE jump and something happens under canopy that you have never heard of, you make a decision and go with it… As long as the person who owns the log book knows why they put what they put in their log book, that’s all that matters. Again, I feel you should make your own decision and just go with it… :)… SBCmac (Michael) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outrager 6 #54 August 24, 2004 Yo ! There is also nothing wrong with logging jumps without actually making them. As long as you imagine a jump vividly, you can record it and boost up your numbers. This is called visualization and is practiced by most competitive athletes in the field. bsbd! Yuri. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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