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23. You catch yourself using the term "snoot" every once in a while.



What is "snoot"?
People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

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You know you're an old timer if...

32. You have "video" of yourself in Super 8.
33. You used to wear a Bell helmet.
34. You had two zippers to fail open.
35. You remember people actually looking up to watch a skydive in progress.
36. You had lots of black speckles on your left side from going front float.
37. You knew about Cardinal Puff.
38. You could spot exactly!
39. Getting out at 2500' doesn't make you nervous.
40. You belonged to a "club".
41. A disc was ten cents instead of five.
42. You've used double shots.
43. You tie-dyed a cheapo.
44. You gutted a cheapo.
45. You owned a cheapo.
46. You know B12, B4, etc aren't vitamins.
47. You know what pull, cover, pull means.
48. You bought whiskey for your rigger.

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You know you're an old timer if...

32. You have "video" of yourself in Super 8. Or film from a gun camera!
33. You used to wear a Bell helmet. A Bell RT
34. You had two zippers to fail open. A Pioneer.
35. You remember people actually looking up to watch a skydive in progress.
36. You had lots of black speckles on your left side from going front float.
37. You knew about Cardinal Puff. Heres to CP for the 3rd and final......
38. You could spot exactly! Still can.
39. Getting out at 2500' doesn't make you nervous.
40. You belonged to a "club".
41. A disc was ten cents instead of five. A small frisby on a string.
42. You've used double shots. Chink
43. You tie-dyed a cheapo.
44. You gutted a cheapo.
45. You owned a cheapo. A 7-TU
46. You know B12, B4, etc aren't vitamins.
47. You know what pull, cover, pull means.
48. You bought whiskey for your rigger. Still do.



Sparky
My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

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Come to Texas so you can experience a Texas SCR ceremony.:)



Aggie Dave brings up a good point on tradition ~ Last year at Spaceland we put together an all instructor + one student SCR jump for my student, Amanduh :)
Need I say more? B|



DAYUM, LOOK AT ME GO! HAHAHAHAHA That was the most amazing jump in the world!! I was so happy to look over and see you next to me smiling...LIKE ALWAYS! Come back and see me soon :P;):)
Edited to add: I had no clue what was going to happen to me after that jump. same thing happened..landed and I had a group of people come up to me and say "Now, go buy beer and get on your knees..."...uhhhh...Yeah...it was definately interesting..BURRRR BUT COLD!!! Damn white shirt! ;)

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38. You could spot exactly! Still can.



Yup, I love it when Sparky is near the door to check the spot.

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48. You bought whiskey for your rigger. Still do.



Wait a second, aren't you your rigger:ph34r:
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

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52) We don't need no steenkin' floater bars
53) Velcro is better than dot snaps.
54) Otters have doors?:o

Wendy W.
There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Also, you remember:
-- Why the Thunderbow was called a "Polish PC"
-- What the "Snyder Wrap" was and you know what it was used for
-- Griping about how much space in the USPA magazine was devoted to the Jose Cuervo Para-Ski competition every year
-- Aircraft altimeters that were mounted to the bungees on your chest reserve
-- Cotton twill reserves
-- "Wuffos"
-- $2 Hop'n'pops from 1800 to 2000
-- Papillons
-- Reading about something new called "The Flying Mattress"
-- Baton passes
-- HAGALO jumps
-- "Zapping"
-- Single-shot and shot-and-a-half releases (or a single-point release in the center of the chest)
-- Watching "Ripcord" on TV and wanting to be like them someday--and wondering if one of the guys used to be "Chester" on "Gunsmoke"
-- Thinking the guy with over 200 jumps was a Sky God.
-- Knowing that the DZ was about the only place in the country where crew-cut military and long-haired hippies were comfortable around each other
-- MA1 pilot chutes
-- Doing your first "exhibition jump" before you had 25 total jumps
-- Knowing the correct answer to why you jump out of "perfectly good airplanes"
-- Squares being the canopies that gave the HARD landings
-- Piglets, wonder hogs and warthogs
-- French "Waffle Stomper" boots

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-- Why the Thunderbow was called a "Polish PC"

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Hey!>:(

I AM Polish!!:)
I NEEDED that arrow!!:$




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-- Doing your first "exhibition jump" before you had 25 total jumps



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I had 22...on a Pap into a Stadium...wearing smoke!

AND LIVED! :ph34r:

I wouldn't do that TODAY..even for BIG $$ !!
:)












~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

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Hey now.. I have a Pap and I am planning on jumping it this summer...I cant believe how good the condition of this one is.. compared to my first one that had rip stop tape on top of rip stop tape.. all over the crown.

Aircraft altimeters that were mounted to the bungees on your chest reserve

I had 2 cutaways with that sucker there too..OUCH

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Hey now.. I have a Pap and I am planning on jumping it this summer...I cant believe how good the condition of this one is.. compared to my first one that had rip stop tape on top of rip stop tape.. all over the crown.

Aircraft altimeters that were mounted to the bungees on your chest reserve

I had 2 cutaways with that sucker there too..OUCH




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I still have mine too....
but common' ;)

Would you take it into a closed stadium tomorrow?

AIN'T GONNA BE NO PEAS THERE! :P












~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

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Come to Texas so you can experience a Texas SCR ceremony.:)



LOL

I had mine on hot summer evening and at the end of the ceremony I was freezing since the desperate attempt to cheat and warm the beer up before the pooring procedure did not work ...

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can i jump the pap? think i could stand it up?:P



Like PCs, they weren't really all that hard to stand up. Unless something unusual was going on (like really high winds, reserve ride on a flat/circ 24, or stretching for the disk) it was a matter of pride for non-students (off SL) to stand up rounds -- but the cumulative effects on the knees started to show up years later.

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