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Good Morning, Mike. One of the moderators pointed me to this thread. I am the founder of the Anvil Brothers Skydiving Team, but had turned it over to MaxxMadMaxxx at Skydive Houston. The original premise was to help skydivers over 200# to skydive better with their "little" friends, to help them find "Anvil-Friendly" dropzones to learn how to skydive and to bomb the World FreeFall Convention with nightly naked, no suit, no stress, sunset skydives to catch an eight way chunk and if you succeeded - you too; could get an Anvil Brothers Number. To your kid. At 300# - I hate to say it, but the chances are almost zero percent that it isn't going to happen for two reasons, 1) Is the "Highest" Technical Standard Order (TSO) by the FAA is 300# for AFF. That's the equipment (Rig, Main, Reserve, Altimeter, suit, shoes, + skydiver - everything) cannot exceed 300#, 2) Trying to find an Instructor to jump with someone will also be difficult. There is no worse feeling in the world than to "lose" a student in freefall and hope you remembered to triple check the AAD, but to pray in freefall they "pull first" to get the main out there. There are those that will tell you - "Oh AFF can can be done with a tandem rig." and it can, but the best of luck finding someone to reconfigure their tandem for AFF for a statistically one-time jump (by that I mean - the percentage of one-time jumpers is still very high). Tandem Jump - MAX TSO weight is #500 - that's Instructor, Student + ALL gear before getting on the plane. That would mean finding a TI that weighs about ~125# and who has the willingness to take someone your son's size on a tandem. And finally, the prospect of your son getting hurt. Just a fact, but the bigger, the more prone to injury on landing. RECOMMENDATION: 1. If your son is in a field (Football) where he needs to maintain that weight - ask him to focus on his priorities. Stay in what he's doing and let the dream of skydiving wait. We always say, "The sky will always be there." 2. If he can lose weight; he should get down to around 240# for his first dive with a height/weight that is proportional - should he continue, it's been my experience that after the first skydive and if they fall in love with it - they'll lose more weight and even faster. You are welcome to PM me with further questions. I'm always willing to help my fellow Anvil Brothers. Keith BIGUN

Sure, that's how cats are herded up all the time.

Ya sure. Maybe they can join a union or something. Or get together with all the clever DZOs who just say no to Groupon.

Hi Keith, I think that all of us who are opposed to the death penalty occasionally have these feelings. I know I do. But, I have not changed my mind yet. Jerry Baumchen

Gary Ronald Lanham of Hominy/Skiatook, Oklahoma October 19, 1952 - March 12, 2021 Gary Lanham, age 67, passed from this life on Friday, March 12, 2021. He was born October 19, 1952 to John and Rosella (Wibberding) Lanham in Kansas City, MO. He grew up in Kansas and California and was a 1970 graduate of Long Beach Poly High School in California. He entered the US Air Force in 1973 in which he served for over 29 years. He retired from the Oklahoma Air National Guard in 2004 as a Chief Master Sgt. (E-9). We lost Gary last month. While not a big name in skydiving, he was a big name in skydiving to the local community here in Oklahoma. Gary was one of those guys with a perpetual smile on his face, a kind word for and about everyone. He would go to the WFFC and local regional skydive boogies around Oklahoma. He put the "fun" in fun jumper. Every year; he hosted an accuracy jump at his property north of Skiatook, OK and would put out a big white "X" with a bottle of crown in the middle of it. Closest to the bottle won and then he would fire up the grill and there would be a feast. He did this in conjunction with a picnic for the local Air National Guard. Gary was all about community. When the local Skiatook Airport's entry aircraft became unsightly and dilapidated, he put together a committee to raise funds to renovate the aircraft. Gary was a Project Manager in Telecomm and his PMP skills carried over into everything he did for the community after he retired (although, he never really retired - he was always doing something). He will be missed by many of us here in Oklahoma and we will always cherish his friendship.

What is a guy going to feel like when he brings his bright orange gun to the range, when all the other guys have their dangerous looking black and camo pattern weapons? Emasculated, that's how he's going to feel! Effeminate even. Which is just what you liberals want.

Jolly Congrats on Seth for being 10000. OW6, Still a cool game.

Hi Steve, Another female member of a number of US Teams back in the 70's was Karen Roach: rumor was that she was also CIA. Jerry Baumchen

We will take our 10%, no problem. Take the rag away from your eyes, now ain’t the time for your tears.

Morning, Wendy. I know I cleaned my groceries during the early days of the pandemic and make no apologies for doing so. My little girl and I were in isolation together and I was going to listen to every recommendation a doctor made to protect her. At that time, there were reports of COVID remaining on paper bags for X days and on plastic for even longer. I followed this Dr.'s advice to the letter except; I cleaned everything on a clean stainless steel table in the garage (I have a fridge in the garage), so I staged the whole process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKx-F4AKteE Then, I disinfected my vehicle and myself before bringing the groceries inside. It was about an hour long process - but, having said all that; was MOPP 4 qualified in the military and had my HAZWOPER certification for disaster & emergency response, so it was real-world training for me. In the end; a friend of mine is the CMO for a large hospital here (former combat surgeon) and I sent him my process for review and he said he wished everyone did it. And, that was during a time when the ICU's were maxed out. The bottom line is: We didn't know and it was better to do too much and be wrong, than not enough and be wrong.

That's why this mRNA technology is so promising--vaccines could be tailor-made to the individual.

Unfortunately both our countries allow for loopholes, through child marriage. A practice I find despicable and one that should be changed immediately. In Canada, children between 16 and 18 can get married with parental consent. In many US states that limit either doesn't exist or is significantly lower, some as low as 13. Texas is trying to pass a bill that would label those parents helping their transgender children as child abusers, but does allow a 14 year young child to get married with parental consent. We really need to stop letting religious dogma dictate legislation.

To educate oneself more and try to understand the source of the issues better, to be a better informed consumer, before discussing it with the manufacturer? To piss off those who cry "Won't somebody think of the children?", I mean "Why didn't you contact the manufacturer first?" ?

But only one party claims the mantle of "family values" as its own, wraps itself in self-righteousness, holds prayer meetings in the Oval Office and Bible clutchings outside churches as photo-ops That adds the stink of hypocrisy to anything else the perp may have done.

It just doesn't matter if he was shit faced, having an epileptic seizure, an allergic reaction or was LATER found to have been snorting powdered Rhino Sphincter, the cops are supposed to be there to keep us alive. It's the job of the courts to kill us.

Setting up strawmen again. Of course I considered alternative possibilities, but I'll defer to the experts who already reported their conclusion. Unlike someone here who has no medical training whatsoever but thinks they know better. Now you're using Zoe's technique...unless you really don't know. Let me ask you, do you know what LD50 means?

We don't "feel" that way; it's guaranteed in writing. And, can we not do the name calling thing. You can make your point without getting inflammatory. I know; I've seen you do it.