JoeyH

How many jumpers who started WAY young are on DZ.com? Like me, I started at 6, Jarrett Martin at 9, I know of the Mullins kids and Missy Nelson, Is there anybody else?

NWFlyer

******Don't know if Jarrett Martin still posts here, but he had just turned 14 and had 105 jumps when I met him. So he was at least 13, maybe even 12 when he started.

I just read up on his accident. It sucks, what happened to him. Wonder if he still hangs around dropzones

He's representing the U.S. in accuracy at the Dubai International Parachuting Championship right now. Yeah, he still hangs around dropzones.

He's been sending some updates to Blue Skies Magazine. There's also a link there to a recent CBS report on him.
http://blueskiesmag.com/2013/11/29/jarrett-martin-dipc-updates/


WOW That's fucking awesome. I wanna meet him!

Elisha

Don't know if Jarrett Martin still posts here, but he had just turned 14 and had 105 jumps when I met him. So he was at least 13, maybe even 12 when he started.

I just read up on his accident. It sucks, what happened to him. Wonder if he still hangs around dropzones

Bertt

Persons too young to legally buy or consume alcoholic beverages are, by definition, non-drinkers in the context of the "Beer Rules".
Is this the first time you've lost an argument to Sparky?

It is. It is.

oldwomanc6

***Too furious?

Too fast.

Too soon

Squeak

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This attachment has no clause for the whole under age thing. If you arent old enough to buy beer, you cant owe the shit. Till im 21 you fuckers are getting rootbeer!!

Infringements do NOT have to be paid in alcohol.
Infringements DO have to be PAID.

"Non-drinkers may buy sodas
and buyers may make up any part or whole of their purchase in soda for the enjoyment of those
non-drinkers." Who said I was a non-drinker? Im tellinn ya, If you're underage, you can't owe. I will be nice and get a case of rootbeer.... But nowhere in your rules says I, as an underage jumper, has to owe beer.
Did you even read my post.
let me high light the important parts of the two lines of text.

Infringements do NOT have to be paid in alcohol.(beer being alcohol)
Infringements DO have to be PAID.


Pay the fines in anyway you see fit, cookies, cakes, Soda, Beer, Bottled water on a hot day.
However you see fit,
BUT PAY YOUR FINES.
Or do not participate in ANY Fines paid by others.

I understand that that is what your post said. All I am arguing is the fact that the rules posted as "proof" that underage jumpers can't get out of the beer fine, didn't actually prove the point trying to be made. I am happy to supply rootbeer, or even get someone to buy beer for me....***Did I just say that out loud? oops*** But my point is, the rules posted had no clause for underage people.

Squeak

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This attachment has no clause for the whole under age thing. If you arent old enough to buy beer, you cant owe the shit. Till im 21 you fuckers are getting rootbeer!!

Infringements do NOT have to be paid in alcohol.
Infringements DO have to be PAID.

"Non-drinkers may buy sodas
and buyers may make up any part or whole of their purchase in soda for the enjoyment of those
non-drinkers." Who said I was a non-drinker? Im tellinn ya, If you're underage, you can't owe. I will be nice and get a case of rootbeer.... But nowhere in your rules says I, as an underage jumper, has to owe beer.

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it gets you out of all the beer fines you will encounter

Not a chance, see attachment.

Sparky

This attachment has no clause for the whole under age thing. If you arent old enough to buy beer, you cant owe the shit. Till im 21 you fuckers are getting rootbeer!!

The driver was a former racecar driver. Seems like he should have known better

maybe trying to show off his "skills" from FATF? I hope he wouldnt be that stupid... But then again

ETA: Nevermind, He was the passenger

hmmm.... That jumpsuit and the landscape looks extremely familiar........ https://myspace.com/skydivinkid/video/my-level-1-jump-thanks-dad/34725397 My 12 year old self jumping out of the super 182.... :)

ryoder

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Most of the underage jumpers I know of were closely associated with the DZ. As in kids of the DZO or S&TA. Mike Mullens kids, Rook & Missy Nelson, that sort of thing.

Don't forget Bill Booth's daughter.

A parent isn't going to sue themselves over a mishap, so that reduces the potential pool of lawsuit defendants. Although I know the gear mfgrs still aren't happy about it.

It wasn't a huge problem when I did my tandem at 6 and started aff at 12. Everybody knew we weren't going to sue if I got hurt. Its about maturity of the jumper and the underage jumper's parent's mindset. If the kids parents are jumpers, Probably not going to have any issues.

ETA: The key as a dzo or even as far as a TI is to not risk anything with people you dont know. If you do this, You wont get sued. Make sure the jumper is mature enough to understand the saftey risks if they are going to be under their own canopy and make sure the TI on a tandem is either the parent or the parent is aware and accepts the risk. Ya know?

I didnt see this before I posted mine.... But still. Holy Shit

Wow... How will this go over in the Fast series? This really is a sad day. Rest in peace man.

jimmytavino

" What mean WE,,,, Kemosabe " ????

Obviously, I mean I am throwing YOU on a spaceship with three dudes you don't know for an 8 month long one-way trip and you're going to test skydiving on Mars for me :)

quade

Scam / never gonna happen by that date. At least that's how I'm calling it.

Anybody interested in a bet on this?

Ill throw in a jump ticket and a case of beer against ya

http://www.mars-one.com/en/about-mars-one/about-mars-one In 2023 we are sending the first immigrants to mars. Its a one way trip after 8 years of training.... hmmm

swisschris62

No harness of course

A harness for what? In case they fall?

Im now getting the Bezzera Strega. I tasted a shot out of that and man oh man....

Eh... The one i am getting is only $2000.... That's 2/3 of a rig.... Im off of the idea of getting a marzocco

ETA: You cant divide by " " so I thought Id throw that in there.

Heatmiser

Another nosy question, and this is one of a bit of envy...how the heck does an 18 year old student even consider purchasing a several thousand dollar coffee maker?!? At 18 I was lucky if I could afford anything!

2 full time jobs (Im a barista for 40 hrs a week, and Im a robotics programmer for 40 hrs a week) and another part time barista job. That leaves me no time to spend my money.... I currently have no life...... Still live with dad for the next year so I am doing nothing but saving.

LuckyMcSwervy

************Having lived in a motorhome for 10 years straight and spending another 15 years all summer in one: DON'T fix up a school bus. No one wants them in their camp ground, national forest, Walmart parking lot, national park. They ride like shit and get horrible gas milage. Get a class C motorhome and put a screen tent on the side or a trailer. If you don't intend on living in the rig full time, don't waste your time with solar. You will need a generator to power the stuff you list anyway. I only put 300 hors on my generator in 25 years, but I sweat in the summer and sleep under a fat lady and 3 dogs in winter. Solar powers the lights, radio, TV, water pump, but that's about it. Resistance stuff: frig, stove, coffee maker, hair dryer; eat a lot of juice. Continuous run electric motor eats a lot of juice like air conditioning.

While this may be true, EVERYBODY I have talked to agree that it would be a bad ass DZ home. It wouldnt be the ugliest thing at most dropzones either. I do plan on living in it full time for a long time. So powering the batteries with solar is a good idea. I plan on also having a generator and RV hookups installed.

Can I please be extremely nosey and ask how old you are now?

LOL yes. I'm 18. But I have also been on dropzones all my life so the importance of my age is beyond me.

I asked because I thought you had that youthful, don't take that "you can't do it" enthusiasm. Planning on living in a converted school bus for a long time now seems, at least to me, a lot more understandable since you're young. Maybe your outlook will change if you ever meet a nice young lady and want to settle down conventionally. For now, it seems like you want to take the world by the balls. Good for you. Good luck.

Ah okay

LuckyMcSwervy

******Having lived in a motorhome for 10 years straight and spending another 15 years all summer in one: DON'T fix up a school bus. No one wants them in their camp ground, national forest, Walmart parking lot, national park. They ride like shit and get horrible gas milage. Get a class C motorhome and put a screen tent on the side or a trailer. If you don't intend on living in the rig full time, don't waste your time with solar. You will need a generator to power the stuff you list anyway. I only put 300 hors on my generator in 25 years, but I sweat in the summer and sleep under a fat lady and 3 dogs in winter. Solar powers the lights, radio, TV, water pump, but that's about it. Resistance stuff: frig, stove, coffee maker, hair dryer; eat a lot of juice. Continuous run electric motor eats a lot of juice like air conditioning.

While this may be true, EVERYBODY I have talked to agree that it would be a bad ass DZ home. It wouldnt be the ugliest thing at most dropzones either. I do plan on living in it full time for a long time. So powering the batteries with solar is a good idea. I plan on also having a generator and RV hookups installed.

Can I please be extremely nosey and ask how old you are now?

LOL yes. I'm 18. But I have also been on dropzones all my life so the importance of my age is beyond me.

jackwallace

Having lived in a motorhome for 10 years straight and spending another 15 years all summer in one: DON'T fix up a school bus. No one wants them in their camp ground, national forest, Walmart parking lot, national park. They ride like shit and get horrible gas milage. Get a class C motorhome and put a screen tent on the side or a trailer. If you don't intend on living in the rig full time, don't waste your time with solar. You will need a generator to power the stuff you list anyway. I only put 300 hors on my generator in 25 years, but I sweat in the summer and sleep under a fat lady and 3 dogs in winter. Solar powers the lights, radio, TV, water pump, but that's about it. Resistance stuff: frig, stove, coffee maker, hair dryer; eat a lot of juice. Continuous run electric motor eats a lot of juice like air conditioning.

While this may be true, EVERYBODY I have talked to agree that it would be a bad ass DZ home. It wouldnt be the ugliest thing at most dropzones either. I do plan on living in it full time for a long time. So powering the batteries with solar is a good idea. I plan on also having a generator and RV hookups installed.

No nothing to do with the bus. As its not a "coffee bus" it's a bus that I will live in for quite some time that just happens to have amazing coffee inside of it.