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I'd go BASE jumping. If I couldn't do that, well then I guess it's time to get back into climbing mountains and rock and ice faces again. Ah heck I would also get current with my private pilot's certificate as well. Maybe take up some paragliding as well as some hangliding. I love skydiving, but there are also a lot of other fun activities to do. To quote Mel Gibson in Braveheart "Everyone dies. Not everyone lives". Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Ten Things You Don't Know About Women what there are only 10? I thought there were thousands of things which I didn't understand. I guess I'm not as off as originally I thought I was? 1. The whole metrosexual thing is not sexy. Agreed ... 2. Never wear sandals. I don't get it. As long as we're not talking about a really bad case of Athlete's Feet, and as long as the toe nails are trimmed, why can't we wear sandals? 3. That said, if you do feel the need to bare your feet, a pedicure is not a bad idea. I know someone mention that painted toe nails are sexy on a man, but most men will never do this. What colors would be appropriate and what colors are just wrong? And is a pedicure just a painting thing or is it more a case of just ensuring the toe nails are nicey trimmed? 4. If you suggest we go dutch on a date, we won't think you're modern, progressive, or respectful of our feelings. We'll think you're cheap. Because I can (at least currently) afford to pay. I have no problems paying for a date. But it's nice if the girl takes me out every once in a while as well isn't it? 5. Don't sleep with us on the first date. We won't respect you in the morning. I don't know if it's me or not, but I have yet to meet the type of women who are interested in me as only one night stands. All the women I have slept with (not that many) have been the result of a lot of hard work doing the so-called proper BF thing-a-ma-bob. And look where that got me. 6. Crotchless underwear does nothing but make us feel ridiculous. Don't fool yourself into thinking it's a gift for us. It's a gift for you and your libido. I can see where some/many women wouldn't get into this sort of thing. 7. When considering whether or not to ask out the girl you're afraid to talk to, keep this in mind: no matter who you are or what you look like, it's always flattering when you hit on us. Always. Hmmm ... maybe inside the girl is flattered, but they sure like to hand out the rejection slip. Of course it goes both ways here. Men are not always innocent themselves. 8. When we ask if that gorgeous woman passing by is attractive, the best response is always, "Who?" This is a nasty trick some (not all) women seem to like to play. We men are very simple creatures. Why do some women insist on messing with our minds? 9. You should show a mammoth appreciation for every square inch of our soft, hairless bodies. Waxing hurts. A lot. The female body can be a work of art and the guys need to really appreciate the effort their women make for them in order to look good. But I also like low maintenance girls who are comfortable not only dressing casually, but also occasionally hitting the town dressed to kill. 10. Dousing yourself in cologne is never sexy. Good .. I like it when a woman smells good (but not over powering), but funny smelling men are enough to make me gag. Of course a man with poor hygiene and no interest in masking their bodily odors is a pretty nasty as well. God there has to be more than just this list of ten things isn't there? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I also found a decent diagram of how to tape your thumb here. Just scroll down 1/2 through the page to see the diagram. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Reminds me of my amateur hockey career where I can't seem to get through a game without some sort of injury. This is my first real volleyball injury since I started playing again two years ago. What sucks though was that I was playing one of my best ever games just before the injury. Dang ... it always seems to work that way huh? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Hey I did a quick search on google and found this which talks of taping your thumb for injury prevention. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

As a former ski patroller, I can tell you that thumb injuries are the most common skiing injures. You just never hear about them because most people don't report them. But any sort of ligament injury does take time to heal. So you're likely just re-injuring your thumb time and time again. Instead of taping your thumb to your hand (not a good idea), how about taping your thumb in a preventive manner. It's so much easier to show someone in person as to how to do this (rather than trying to explain it), but once it's done and if done right, it will immobilize the joint and thus your much less likely to suffer any further ligament damage to an immobolized joint. PM me if you need details on how to tape your injured thumb. Who knows maybe there is a website out there which shows pictures of how to tape the thumb. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Last night while playing in a beech volleyball match, I came down off of a blocked spike, my right foot was planted one way in the sand and my body was moving another way. What was the result? I suffered some sort of ACL knee injury. I immediately iced it so there is no noticable swelling. But I am hurt. Not seriously, but hurt nonetheless. I can walk on the injury, and put weight on the knee without major pain, but it's still not okay. Time will tell, but jumping this weekend might not be in my future (as long as I can practice packing my BASE rig for my FJC next weekend, then not jumping this weekend isn't the end of the world as I really do need to practice my packing techniques). Being hurt sucks I tell you ... Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

If you're speaking of MHSD, things have changed a little in the last few months. They won't purposely set out to have a seperate jump run for trackers, but they have no problems at all with doing go-arounds. In fact during safety day, they (management) made a point to tell people that go-arounds are okay and that they'd rather see proper exit seperation between the different groups and if that means doing go-arounds for those left on the airplane, then that's what will happen. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Congrats dude ... wait until your first solo x-country flight. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Yes ... why? ... the funny thing is that the top skin is all fine and dandy (the way it's supposed to be), but the bottom skin is very very very white (the logo is white) and the logo takes up almost all 5 of 7 cells on the bottom skin. Once again, I knew I was getting a logo, but I didn't expect it to take up 70% of the bottom skin on the canopy. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

No it was free ... but it would cost a pretty penny to have it removed ... ... and it could make trying to resell the canopy harder ... WTF was I thinking ... Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

A certain BASE gear manufacturer (who will remain anonymous ... but if you put two and two together you know who I am talking about) was able to talk me into putting a huge logo on the bottom skin of my new BASE canopy (I wasn't expecting it to be so big). And now that I have the goods, I am looking at the end product wondering WTF was I thinking about? I'm a big boy, I have nobody to impress and honestly couldn't care if everyone hated me ... so I will survive and move forward with this new gear. But I see two issues with this logo. The 1st one is a temporary hassle, but something I will over come. But the 2nd issue is more important and the reason why I am starting this thread so that I know what to expect: 1) Having this huge logo on the bottom skin is distracting for the new BASE jumper packer. Now I was able to successfully complete a pack job last night (definitely a difference between packing my new 293 canopy compared to a 225 I was borrowing a while back to practice packing with). Anyway, knowing your line groups is the key to packing, instead of just keying in on cell colors. But nevertheless, this gear manufacturer should inform the newer jumper of the potential issues of this monstrous logo before they offer it to their clients. 2) I am a little worried that I will be somewhat ostracized by the BASE jumping community because of this logo. He didn't say it, but I could almost read it in his expression, an experienced BASE jumper I know from my DZ (who sometimes shows his mug here) looked at the canopy and said "what the #### is that?" and while he didn't say it, I could almost read "I'm not taking you to a local object with that thing". Now not doing local (illegal) objects at least initially in my BASE jumping career isn't the end of the world (I can see my first 100 or so jumps being done at the Perrine and Moab and both areas are legal to jump at). But I also don't want to be shunned by some of the local jumpers (some of whom will no doubt read this) as they don't want to be associated with that dude with the easily identifiable logo on his canopy. And I can also see someone with a grudge fingering me for burning a sight just because of this logo? So for all you local CO jumpers reading this, please know that I will not be showing up at YOUR local exit points without the proper escort and/or approval. At this point in my life, not-breaking the law and not-pissing off the locals, is what I am looking to do. Anyway, I am happy with the construction of my new canopy and container (so all is not lost). The gear is well made and the container fits and looks like a million bucks. But I'm just not so sure I was using my brain when I ordered the logo on this canopy. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Dang Jim ... wouldn't you rather be paying $22/jump? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Let's also not forget that it's still not too late for GWB to turn the Iraq war into WWIII (he seems to be headed in a long drawn out affair with no solution in sight). Like the previous WWs, #3 (if it does happen) will be like no other war mankind has ever seen. I better jump my ass off while I can, because who knows how long society as we know it, can survive the egos of the people in charge. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

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Wow ... that is the exact very same day that I got my mountain checkout on. Myself and this grizzly ole Air Force CFI setout from Jeffco in Broomfield Colorado flying over the continental divide (Rollins Pass) towards the Winter Park ski resort. From there we did some touch and go landings at the Granby and Kremmling airports and then a full stop landing at Eagle where we had to patiently wait for an intersection take off clearance while all of the holiday traffic buzzed the jet set skiers off to Vail and Aspen. From there, we flew past the ski resorts of Vail, Copper before landing at the nations highest airport Leadville (where I got my certificate and t-shirt). And finally we made our way back home flying over the ski resorts of Breckenridge, Keystone, A-Basin and over Loveland Pass all the way back to Jeffco. It was an expensive day (more than $500), but it was a day I will never forget and from that date forward, I was checked out to conduct solo flights here in Colorado's mountains (repeat trips did occur in the ensuing months and I even successfully landed at Colorado's 3rd hardest airport Glenwood Springs a box canyon where the airplanes come in one way and leave the opposite way). But in all this fun ... I'm sort of sad to report that I haven't flown as PIC in the last year as I've decided to dedicate my time and my $$$ towards my skydiving goals and I never did do my last bi-annual (plus my 3rd class medical is set to expire within the next five months). But Dec 26th, 2001 was a good day to remember for both yourself and myself huh? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

There is an ongoing issue here in society. The pursuit of the almighty dollar made the parents of Klebold and Harris worry more about their golf club membership and keeping up with the Jones to worry about what sort of activities their children were involved in. I think it's reprehensible that the parents of Dylan Klebold have publicly chosen to accept no responsibility for the worst school shooting (to date) in American history. This is one time when I will say that "guns weren't responsible for this tragedy" but that the parents of Klebold and Harris were responsible for caring too much about their financial stature in the community instead of caring about what their children were thinking and doing. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Don't worry so much right now in terms of maximizing the surf on your Tri. Instead try to work on your ability to accurately swoop an imaginary (or real) line using front riser 90s. Once you can consistently swoop the line, then you can progress to the next tasks and always try to work on BillVon's list of essential canopy control skills in the mean time. Good luck ... have fun ... be safe ... always have an out and be prepared to use it ... Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I'd like to put a spin on what's been said so far here. Instead of asking which is more dangerous? Which we already know, the original question was "if the incidents are much higher or equal to that of skydiving incidents". Isn't there more people per capita being injured/killed in skydiving than there is in BASE? If yes then ... I'd say that this is because skydivers are making poor decisions and/or have poor canopy control skills. Staying ahead of the curve flying modern high performance parachutes has gotten the better of the skill and knowledge levels out there and general gear knowledge is inferior in the skydiving community. BASE jumpers can also show poor judgement, but I'd be willing to bet that most regular BASE jumpers have good gear knowledge, have decent canopy control skills and have decent experience levels. Can the same be said of the general skydiving community? Both discplines are dangerous, but which one creates more incidents on a per capita basis? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I'd rather be a skydiving and/or BASE jumping bum. I have no business being in Iraq!!! Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

You are not the first person around here expressing the desire to jump somthing smaller and more high performance. And you have to realize that many of the CNs are just concerned that there is yet another person not listening to the message the CNs send day after day, week after week. Hopefully you understand why the CNs speak out all of the time. But one thing to remember is that we here on the internet have no idea as to how well or poorly you (and others) can fly your canopy. Only the people who see you jump week after week at your DZ know your abilities. So it is those people (your peers) who you really should listen to. The Spectre is a good canopy (I have a 150 loaded at about 1.4:1) which I use for wingsuit jumps and am able to shoot accuracy approaches as well as being able to perform 90s and 180 swoops with it (I've yet to try a 270 on this canopy as it's still kind of new to me and still have much to learn about it compared to my other canopy which flies differently). So you will like your Spectre and it will be a good canopy for you. I am not innocent in terms of downsizing as well (I'm now on my 5th main canopy, 6th of you count the Spectre, but I kind of upsized on that canopy compared to my Crossfire2 canopy). The important thing to remember is acknowledge that you are human, you are capable of making mistakes and mistakes on any canopy (let alone a smallish high performance canopy) can kill you. If swooping is something that interests you, find the reasons why you want to swoop and swoop for yourself and only for yourself. The minute you start trying to impress others is the minute you put your life in more danger than it could be in. Good luck with your canopy progression. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Yes being sick (or injured) does suck. And I hope you are feeling better for your trip tomorrow. But at least you will be on vacation right? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Hmmm ... must be from a different planet, or maybe you have TiVo as the Sharks and "Vancouver" Canucks did not play against each other last night. The Canucks were too busy chasing Todd Bertuzzi around the golf course to be worried about playing hockey. Now the Calgary Flames, that's a different storey. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I'm one of those people who has awaken to find myself with 600+ jumps and numerous interests in the sport (freeflying, tracking, wingsuit, swooping, CRW, some belly, etc, etc, etc ... and of course there's the real darkside ...). And have realized that, yes I still suck. I just don't suck as much as I used to. And I have had the time of my life. So baring illness, injury or poverty, jumping can only get better from here on out for me. A jump number is just that, a jump number. It shows experience, but it does not show talent (or lack thereof). Make skydiving interesting for yourself and it'll hopefully be something that you continue to do for a long time. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over