67 Things to Do Before You Go In

[base695 0]

Idea stolen from surfer magazine:
http://surfermag.com/photos/images/67_things

Anyway, 67 things you must do as a basejumper before you die - and I am not saying I recommend them all:

1. Have a 180 and get away with it
2. Do Elcap
3. Break a bone
4. Get chased by the police after a jump
5. Take someone for their first jump
6. F*ck on top of an object then jump. Or land and f*ck.
7. Jump a building in a busy city at night onto the street
8. Make a pilgrimage to Kjerag
9. have a 180 and object strike
10. Do Trllspire
11. Do a European road trip
12. Do one of the events in Malaysia
13. Make your mates draw straws at the exit point. Laugh at the person who draws the short one. Then make them go first. Or last.
14. Find a new site.
15. Get your base number, or at least qualify for it.
16. Go to Bridge Day
17. Climb the outside of a pretty big tower or crane with your rig in a stash bag. No safety devices allowed.
18. Rock climb a wall...and then jump off it.
19. Do an expedition to Baffin
20. Make a tree landing
21. Take your wingsuit off one
22. Do a road trip in Russia
23. Jump a rig that has been packed for at least 12 months.
24. Jump a converted skydiving set up
25. The waterfall in venezuela
26. The cave in mexico
27. Do a Very Dangerous Jump with kneepads as your only protective equipment
28. Do a jump without being exactly sure wether you are packed slider up or slider down.
29. Jump the mushroom

Thats all I can think of for now....any others??

[inzite 0]

Did #17 on Monday morning. We climbed 16 floors of a construction site elevator support column, standing next to a building under construction. We perilously jumped from elevator support column to building every floor from the 7th up to the 16th, looking for a balcony that didn't have windows installed yet. Just when all seemed lost, we found our entrance on the 16th floor. Then we made it up to the 36th floor by stairwell.

And we did all this with awestruck construction workers and security looking up from below.

I think I did #29 when I was in Amsterdam 2 years ago, but I don't remember a whole lot of that.

[Mikki_ZH 0]

30. Climb down from an object in perfect conditions just because you don't feel jumping it...

Michi (#1068)
hsbc/gba/sba
www.swissbaseassociation.ch
www.michibase.ch

[tr027 0]

That is a good one Mikki, but that doesn't fit the pattern of the examples given, because it wouldn't qualify for the show "Jackass", like the examples do.

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. " -John Galt from Atlas Shrugged, 1957

[base695 0]

I suppose I best elaborate for those Deadly Serious Jumpers amongst us...

Some of the things are all time experiences that have to be done in ya life time.....some are silly (and in hindsight) funny stuff ups that happen if you are human and in the sport long enough....and some just occur when ya say to yourself f*ck it i'm going to try my luck with something stupid for the sheer hell of it.

[Ferry 0]

31 Meet Tom Aiello and try to find out which of all the stories are true
32 Hand your gear over to rangers after a jump
33 Get launched ()
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67 Try if tracking without rig is really better for aerodynamics

Ferry

[Mikki_ZH 0]

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That is a good one Mikki, but that doesn't fit the pattern of the examples given, because it wouldn't qualify for the show "Jackass", like the examples do.

I did 8 of the 29 listed things and and most of them (with exeption of 27 maybe) don't qualify for Jackass.
BASE sometimes is funny in a morbid way...

My wife once called me on my celphone and reminded me that I have to buy flowers for the party that we where invited that evening. I told her sure and ended the phonecall because I heard the helicopter coming that was about to pick me out of a wall after a 180 with cliff strike...
I can trade that for my before sugested Number 30

Michi (#1068)
hsbc/gba/sba
www.swissbaseassociation.ch
www.michibase.ch

[Lee846 0]

# .. organise a legal event on some cool object
# .. do some stupid s**t just because you feel like really wanna do something really crazy and stupid
# .. jump some object with no nice landing under it, hoping to land just somewhere
# .. try to get sponsored for a nice road trip and spam some big company with the base tales
# .. f**k another basejumper

Between two evils always pick theone never tried

[Lee846 0]

# .. spend a night on the top of the cliff waiting for the good weather. Canopy should be used as a sleepingbag

Between two evils always pick theone never tried

[TVPB 0]

02 - does HD & GP count? They are more fun for mine!!!!
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31 - in person would be nice for a change!!
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67 - I'll film it!!!

24/33 = Life is great. Looks like I have a few expeditions to plan though..

Stay Safe - Have Fun - Good Luck

The above could be crap, thought provoking, useful, or . . But not personal. You decide.

[980 0]

here's the updated list:

34. organise a legal event on some cool object
35. do some stupid s**t just because you feel like really wanna do something really crazy and stupid
36. jump some object with no nice landing under it, hoping to land just somewhere
37. try to get sponsored for a nice road trip and spam some big company with the base tales
38. f**k another basejumper
39. spend a night on the top of the cliff waiting for the good weather. Canopy should be used as a sleepingbag
40. Tell your wife you will remember the flowers and then end the phonecall because you hear the helicopter coming to pick you up off a wall after a 180 with a cliff strike...


here's what I think:

41. Teach someone to pack and jump their packjob
42. pack for your friends on the same load
43. do a solo jump and don't ever tell anybody about it
44. do a floater off something other than a bridge
45. jump while it's snowing
46. jump when it's so dark you cannot see the ground, just go into half brakes and prepare to PLF when you think you're close…

[Gabo 0]

I got a good one:

47: Convince a police car to give you the exit count with their loudspeaker while parked below the B you are jumping..... we did that once!!

Gabo

[dqpacker 7]

That has to be one of the coolest short stories I've heard about base jumping.

[tr027 0]

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i'm going to try my luck with something stupid for the sheer hell of it.

In that case:
** Make a high voltage power line landing.
** Land back on/in the Antenna you jumped from.
** Land back inside a building you jumped from
** Strike guy wires and get away with it.

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. " -John Galt from Atlas Shrugged, 1957

[Ferry 0]

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67 - I'll film it!!!

Cool, shouldn't get too long to finish the 66 others. Well, #40 is not fair because I don't have a wife. But.. I'm looking for one to complete #6

Ferry

[RiggerLee 61]

Jump into a canyon with no idea how you will get back out of it.

Lee

Lee
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www.velocitysportswear.com

[gweeks 1]

#1 thing you should do before you go in is pull

Here are some others:
-Jump above the clouds, land below them
-Naked BASE
-Have a drink with your friends at the top of an object
-Watch the sunrise from an object
-Pack when it's so dark you can't see
-BASE road trip
-Have a 180 with line twists

[magot 0]

1 jump in fog so thick u cant see the ground

2 do a tard over off all 4 objects

3 and ow yah jump really fucked up with a loaded pistol in your pants so if u crash u shoot your dick off

TOSS MY SALAD
I'm an invincible re-tarded ninja
derka derka bakala bakala muhammad jihad
1072

[Lee846 0]

# .. climb an AM antenna or any antenna with a lot of transmitters on it not being sure is it working or not and how excatly does it work.

Between two evils always pick theone never tried

[980 0]

I think you mean:

- become McFlonkey BASE # 1

might want to make that #66 on the list....

[Lee846 0]

# .. do a night jump from a high cliff

Between two evils always pick theone never tried

[outrager 6]

Yo!

Here's a pretty comprehensive list:

http://mozart.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse

Do not go in!
Yuri.

[base570 1]

my list is actually much longer but it has some of the same things you have listed. Some of the things you want to do are not really my idea of fun things though.
I'm slowly checking off my list!

In Reply To
1. Have a 180 and get away with it done
2. Do Elcap next year
3. Break a bone hopefully never
4. Get chased by the police after a jump yep
5. Take someone for their first jump done
6. F*ck on top of an object then jump. done
7. Jump a building in a busy city at night onto the street done
8. Make a pilgrimage to Kjerag done1999
9. have a 180 and object strike unfortunatly
10. Do Trllspire someday
11. Do a European road trip Yup 5weeks
12. Do one of the events in Malaysia In a month I'll be there
13. Make your mates draw straws at the exit point. Laugh at the person who draws the short one. Then make them go first. Or last. not into this one... I think this is Australian
14. Find a new site. yep about 40 so far
15. Get your base number, or at least qualify for it. done 570
16. Go to Bridge Day done many times
17. Climb the outside of a pretty big tower or crane with your rig in a stash bag. No safety devices allowed. don't understand this one
18. Rock climb a wall...and then jump off it. depends on your definition of rock climb
19. Do an expedition to Baffin someday I'll get there
20. Make a tree landing El Gigante
21. Take your wingsuit off one not yet
22. Do a road trip in Russia oneday
23. Jump a rig that has been packed for at least 12 months. done
24. Jump a converted skydiving set up 1st 5 jumps at Bridge Day Wonderhog/Pegasus 220
25. The waterfall in venezuela sweet jump
26. The cave in mexico as soon as that bitch opens back up!
27. Do a Very Dangerous Jump with kneepads as your only protective equipment not smart but did it
28. Do a jump without being exactly sure wether you are packed slider up or slider down. don't see why you would want to do this
29. Jump the mushroom maybe next time I'm in Switz.
30. Climb down from an object in perfect conditions just because you don't feel jumping it... more than once
31. Meet Tom Aiello and try to find out which of all the stories are true none of his stories are true BTW
32. Hand your gear over to rangers after a jump screw that
33. Get launched sounds interesting
34. organize a legal event on some cool object working on it
35. do some stupid s**t just because you feel like really wanna do something really crazy and stupid yep, know better now
36. jump some object with no nice landing under it, hoping to land just somewhere many jumps don’t have nice LZ’s
37. try to get sponsored for a nice road trip and spam some big company with the base tales don’t need this kind of ego boost
38. f**k another basejumper well, she had 1 jump. That counts right?
39. spend a night on the top of the cliff waiting for the good weather. Canopy should be used as a sleepingbag brrr cold!
40. Tell your wife you will remember the flowers and then end the phonecall because you hear the helicopter coming to pick you up off a wall after a 180 with a cliff strike... not going to try this one
41. Teach someone to pack and jump their packjob yep
42. pack for your friends on the same load done
43. do a solo jump and don't ever tell anybody about it done
44. do a floater off something other than a bridge not yet
45. jump while it's snowing awesome visuals
46. jump when it's so dark you cannot see the ground, just go into half brakes and prepare to PLF when you think you're close… no visuals!
47: Convince a police car to give you the exit count with their loudspeaker while parked below the B you are jumping..... don’t think this would fly around here
48. Make a high voltage power line landing. screw that one
49. Land back on/in the Antenna you jumped from. unfortunately..
50. Land back inside a building you jumped from I’ll pass, thank you
51. Strike guy wires and get away with it. same as above
52.Jump into a canyon with no idea how you will get back out of it. sort of…
53.Jump above the clouds, land below them a favorite
54.Naked BASE NAKED BASE #15
55.Have a drink/smoke with your friends at the top of an object one is enough
56.Watch the sunrise from an object always nice
57.Pack when it's so dark you can't see it’s called Braille packing
58.BASE road trip sure, lots of times
59.Have a 180 with line twists try not to!
60. jump in fog so thick u cant see the ground yep but one jumper out of the 10 died
61. do a tard over off all 4 objects only for idiots
62. and ow yah jump really fucked up with a loaded pistol in your pants so if u crash u shoot your dick off that’s an awefully tall order when you ain’t got no dick maggot!

my additions
63. Make an indoor jump made 2
64. jump from a National Monument check
65. jump from a moving vehicle car or train working on it
66. make a jump on every continent will be done
67. no rig jump...nope
68. retire from BASE with no injuries so far so good…


69.climb an AM antenna or any antenna with a lot of transmitters on it not being sure is it working or not and how excatly does it work. nope
70. do a night jump from a tall cliff yep

--edited to add ones from lika that were added before I was done!

OK so that's 43 out of 70 and some I hope to never do!!


nice one BTW YURI!!!!!

[Rambo 0]

nice list Yuri! I'll add ski base as my personal item

Party On!

[base283 0]

Why do I see only 29 choices? How can one answer this question when you left out the 38 others? this sux, but I have done more than 50% than the first 29.
whatup?
take care,
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