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mr_shaggles

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Restless, Excited, Obsessed ... I called and scheduled it on a Monday morning and the jump was for Friday. Couldn't sleep all week, couldn't stop reading and watching videos about skydiving.

Hmmm ... What has changed? :D

Serious relationships turn into work after a few weeks and I already got a fucking job :)
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H.A.F. = Hard As Fuck ... Goddamn Amateurs

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Shit.. I've thought about this and I really can't remember!!

I had a slightly odd introduction into the sport.. I was sort-of seeing a guy that had been in the sport for like 10 years. I remember being really impressed by his passion for the sport & I think that was sort-of contagious.. Overall, though, I was usually pretty bored by all the videos he used to show me.. Maybe it was more his attitude than the sport that attracted me??

I seriously couldn't say if I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about, or if I had a personal desire to try something different, and I don't know if I was scared even!!

Man!! How could I not know this??! I do know that on my 14th jump was the first time I looked down and I thought "FUCK!! I could FALL OUT OF THIS AIRCRAFT!!!" And that scared me shitless - until I realised that was sort of the point and I just got over it & jumped!!! :ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

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I'm about to jump on the w/e and am definitely leaning towards the scared side of emotions. Kind of like this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYWucxevYQ&feature=channel_page

does he remind you of yourselves?



NOPE!
"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

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Nah, hes way too fat to be like me.

On the serious note to the OP: Being scared is natural, just dont let it get the best of ya. Take a look around the aircraft and feed off the happiness and anticipation of others with the realisation that you're in the same boat. Its great fun.
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People aint made of nothin' but water and shit.

Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

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I'm about to jump on the w/e and am definitely leaning towards the scared side of emotions. Kind of like this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYWucxevYQ&feature=channel_page

does he remind you of yourselves?



My buddies wife made him triple his life insurance policy prior to her agreeing to let him jump for a perfectly good airplane. Smart lady.

I was pretty nervous, my legs kept shaking, had knots in my stomach like I never experienced before, and I must have been as pail as a ghost cause my instructors kept telling me to just relax. :P
- Knic

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Because its true and i still do it. :ph34r:



Ah ha ha!!! I *like* it!! Clean underwear is definitely the way to go!!:ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:
"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

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I sometimes do it before sex too, sometimes being the keyword. Usually by that time if they are ready to sleep with me i dont really give a crap about the runway marks in my pants.
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People aint made of nothin' but water and shit.

Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

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I'm about to jump on the w/e and am definitely leaning towards the scared side of emotions. Kind of like this guy:

[Url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYWucxevYQ&feature=channel_page[/url]

does he remind you of yourselves?



All the post replies and no one takes the time to clicky up!!:P
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Prior to my first jump, I didn't really know what to expect, I just knew it was something I wanted to do. I do however remember, as I was standing on the strut of a worn-out 182 with the jumpmaster holding my static line yelling 'Go!'... thinking to myself; "What the fuck am I doing hanging on the outside of this airplane at 3000' ????" :S. My Second jump however, scared the living shit out of me, because I had a much better idea of what to expect. I was very nervous, and for the first time in my life I manned up and faced my fear. I grew 3 whole sizes that day. B|

Randomly f'n thingies up since before I was born...

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I'm about to jump on the w/e and am definitely leaning towards the scared side of emotions. Kind of like this guy:

[Url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYWucxevYQ&feature=channel_page[/url]

does he remind you of yourselves?



All the post replies and no one takes the time to clicky up!!:P


I was trying not to steal your thunder.
Serious relationships turn into work after a few weeks and I already got a fucking job :)
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H.A.F. = Hard As Fuck ... Goddamn Amateurs

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Yep. I kept asking myself if I was insane or just stupid. After the third jump, BTW I was still on a static line jumping a T-10, it settled to just thinking I could really kill myself while on the ride up. It was jump #9 when I realized on the ride up that I wasn't thinking I could kill myself, but that I couldn't wait to get out & away from that dangerous airplane! By then I'd graduated to making 15 second delays, still with T-10's.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

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