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I guess if you called it post yours too. I have seen horrible first jump videos heads down and fetal all the way to pull time. Spinning all the way. Instructors did not give up and studemt got A license in about a month. I'm with the poster on this one. If his ability was less than desirable but had the motivation and the instructors told him to find something else he had horrible instructors.

Don't give up Bry. YOU and only YOU know when something is wrong.

This is a tough one. There are tandem factories who claim they will progress you to aff but really don't want to be bothered with true student instruction. Did you meet any non tandem students on this dz? I don't believe you stated if your first jump was a tandem. If it was and you met no other non tandem students it most likely was a tandem factory and they don't want to do anything else.

Bry: Im not a Dr only talking from experience. Had testicular problems when younger and had to have one removed thru inguinal area. The pain radiates up so it doesn't seem as though it is coming from where it is actually coming from. I would see a urologist not just a general surgeon and specifically ask to have the testicles checked. Whay back when with me they did testicular scans and maybe there is something more advanced now.

Who do you want to bang from DZ.com?---Statistics help needed.

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Agreed about the lady. Also believe we shouldn't hide our incidents and fatalities. When one happens bring it in the open even for the general public. It is part of the sport. And statistics can be looked at many ways. Never believed that car ride to dz was more dangerous than jump. I can get a quote that there are only 1 fatality to every 150,000 jumps as opposed to 1 in every 2,000 auto crashes. But if we look at it in feet traveled per fatality who knows what the result would be? I've only known 1 person dead from car accident within past year and about 5 from skydiving. We do not gain by keeping things hidden.

With the internet and youtube an event like this was going to make it to the general public eventually. I'm sure initially there will be lost tandem's over this. Ultimately I think it looks worse to suppress something like this and if it had stayed just within the skydiving community it wouldn't have the PR problems. Now it looks worse that it took a year to become public. It almost appears we were hiding it. Honestly in the long run being truthful and open about it is best in my opinion. People who want to jump are still going to and the people that didn't want to jump will be just more sure that their decision was correct for them.

What makes a guy BAD in bed?---Falling out of the hole.

Wow, seriously? What a fucking twat. I mean absolutely seriously, Brother. I can't help but wonder if we all have to endure this pseudo-security silliness for the rest of our lives. Did you say anything in response? If it had been me in your shoes, and if I had a quick wit, I would have responded "wow, you've got quite a potty mouth there, and right in front of those kids." I'd have thought you would have said "What? Can you say that any louder?" Touche'! I might have added "I'm fucking deaf!" at the end of that if I was so inclined. That, and maybe a supervisor would have paid a bit of attention, and then something might have changed. Nope! that's a pipe dream Silly Me! Maybe she is a skydiver who had a momentary brain freeze and thought she was in the packing area on the dz.

Wow, seriously? What a fucking twat. I mean absolutely seriously, Brother. I can't help but wonder if we all have to endure this pseudo-security silliness for the rest of our lives. Did you say anything in response? If it had been me in your shoes, and if I had a quick wit, I would have responded "wow, you've got quite a potty mouth there, and right in front of those kids." I'd have thought you would have said "What? Can you say that any louder?" Touche'! I might have added "I'm fucking deaf!" at the end of that if I was so inclined. That, and maybe a supervisor would have paid a bit of attention, and then something might have changed. Nope! that's a pipe dream Silly Me!

No she isn't. She isn't even an unusually good singer. Have to disagree. Les Miserables is my favorite show which I saw 4 times with different casts. "I Dreamed a Dream" is an extremely difficult song and only the gifted can truly sing it with the emotion it was meant to evoke. In some of the productions I actually felt sorry for the girls playing Fantine because they didn't have the voice to carry the song. Only 3 people I've heard sing it have done it justice. Patti Lupone, the deceased (much too young) Laurie Beechman and Susan Boyle.

I would say mortician. They have to deal with families at the worst possible time while they get them to spend in the tens of thousand of dollars for things they don't need. They spend the rest of their time stiffing people one way or the other.

God Quade. What you say is so true and so sad.