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  1. Its a dz.commer innt it? Maybe the moderators would like to delete this thread if the person in the picture asks them. I have no objection. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  2. NSFAmericaW http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2974 .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  3. The prices you're seeing are retail prices - go through a local dealer if you can, and you'll find the prices referred-to. Most dealers (as I understand it) can get you somewhere between 20%-30% off the retail price, plus a local can make sure you get measured correctly. You absolutely do not have to spend 4 grand to get a great rig. A friend of mind found a used Javelin with everything (Hip & Chest rings, full stainless, main, reserve, and AAD) for about $3000. Deals are out there to be had, but you have to be vigilant and keep your eyes open. Hope you find a great deal! (Or a series of great deals!) That is about the sum of it. However I have to say that going to a local dealer for measurments is not that important as the manufacturers are very good at picking mistakes up and with a series of photos for the customer they do good. However, even as a online distributor-who has staff in a couple of countries, I have to say that going to your local DZ distributor is the first place you should go when considering the purchase of a rig. A local dealer has alot of overheads and they give good prices at the same time and are there on that dropzone so you can skydive. When you lose a hook knife, when you break rubberbands, when you need a patch or some new googles etc you go and see your local dealer at the dz shop, so also go and see them for your gear and dont be affraid to pay a bit extra. These guys have some hard times staying alive in the business and they count on rig sales to stay open and you count on them to stay open so you can buy all the small stuff at a moments notice so your day is not ruined. They are their providing people a service and most people never think about that. So i say always go to your local dealer on your local dropzone and support them so they stay open to keep supplying you with the small stuff. However, if you dont have a dz shop, then dont be affraid to buy online, we all sell the same thing and dont be affraid of your measurments. I am one of Aerodynes largest distributors by volume and never has a customer sent a rig back because of measurments. never. Also, online dealers usually give you instant attention and very fast response., even when they are not at the dz shop so to speak. For example all emails come to my iphone if im in bed and i find myself up at 3am every day helping someone out. So dont be affraid but if you have a dz shop i suggest you go there so they can stay alive when you need a hooke knife or you can jump after driving hours to the dropzone. Just my .79 cents. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  4. I own karnagekrew.com. MY price was not including AAD. An AAD is just under the $1450 mark with the euro the way it is at the moment. It was including options, hip ring, assembly and shipping in the USA though. My example was based on an Icon, pilot and smart. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  5. Cookie is away at the PIA so do not expect a reply from them to quickly. However you can contact Sally at [email protected] Sounds like you hava proposal for them, maybe you should head to the PIA where all the manufacturers are to sell your idea. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  6. Although you'd spend $1200 - $1500 more than if you put the same amount of money into a complete used rig and made 4-5 jumps a weekend some place that charged $25/jump for rental equipment There is alot of ways to look at mate as you know. I was just letting her know of another options the poster had. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  7. Check your PM's. You can buy a complete brand new rig for about that budget, or you could at least purchase a custom amde container, good second hand AAD, brand new reserve and second hand canopy. $4200 you could get a complete brand new rig, main and reserve with all the popular options and pay it off over three months while it is being built. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  8. Alays the same one too .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  9. there is always one.... .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  10. Im half way through the first episode and this is one hell of a mind fuck. No spoilers for me this season, im going to stay away from them and let this show completely fuck with me head. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  11. So the dead are alive? or are the alive dead? .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  12. Try it and let me know. Personally, im glad i got that ban. I was in a bad place back in those days. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  13. As I mentioned, My partner deals with this every day. She is the person who stands next to the patient when they wake up and realise they are a quad..... I asked her at 3 in the morning last night how my mate will deal with this and she says the same stuff as you more or less, she tells me that most say after the first couple of years they are no glad they are alive etc.... I asked her how my mates reaction will be when they wake him up and she said horrific. I asked her if there was a heavier word for it as i cant imagine it. times like this i realise what a heavy job my partner deals with. When the phone rings at 2am cause she has to go and explain to a family that their child has sustained traumatic injuries and i stay in bed dreaming of ice cream. Suprises me that she does not come home an angry stressed out person. IM glad she leaves all this at work but only now do i realise what she has to deal with. if anyone here has suffered trauma in sydney or any skydivers ever do then it will be my partner you would have or would be metting to help arrange everything for your treatment and family. In two years she is yet to have a skydiver come in-if you ever do find yourself at royal north shore in the ICU ward make sure you are kind to your social worker as she is one of us. This whole thing has hit home more to me than any skydiving accident i have seen or heard about has. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  14. Permission denied. Might have something to do with a life ban from the peacefuljeffrie days .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  15. why would it be in SC> IM talking about a movie. no names mentioned, no nothing. Just that if this movie has any truth to it then i think it is is hillarious. I feel for all you guys that were suckered into voting for this upstanding well educated bloke. Now its off to SC...... .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  16. My family's Catholic and believe that all life is sacred, so they wouldn't see it as a burden, and I wouldn't see taking care of one of them as a burden either. Then again, I also have a really big family, and we all chip in so no one person is left with anything that's too much. My grandparents currently need round the clock care, and we're each over there about once a week, and we're all chipping in a little bit to cover the nursing care. When everyone contributes, it doesn't seem like too much to do or too much to pay for. My partner and I also look after he Nana full time. We dont have the religon going for us though. I feel the same way as you do, I would not think of it as a burden if it was me looking after a loved one but the other way round i would have a hard time with. Each to their own i guess. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  17. Interesting movie. Seriously amazing actually but makes a lot of sense. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  18. Well if he wakes up he has two years to get over the depression before they will allow to stop treatment and let his body shut down etc. My partner is one of two intensive care social workers here in Sydney and she is communicating with her equal who's job it is to deal with his family in this horrible moment. The scary thing about all of this to me is that i know if anything ever happened to me like this that my partner would have to deal with it as a job as well as love. Never really thought too much about what she does for a living until now. She is the social worker in the ICU of NSW's biggest hospital, you know the person who has to tell all the good and bad news to the families and look after their well being etc. Not sure if you have really given it alot of thought nightngale about wanting to stay alive. you seem to have said that far to easy, what about all the therapy you would have to live through, your family would have to live through? What about the constant 24/7 care you would require. Not just your life that would be changed but it would be everyone who loves you having to change their lives as well to be able to keep you alive and from not catching diseases etc. Anyway, thats up to you I guess. I know that this guy would not want to wake up. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  19. My mate just became a quadriplegic today. Maybe that might put some perspective into how fucked your life is. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  20. So I am sure we have all had that talk before. The one where you say If i end up a vegetable , put me out of my misery etc. Well, My mate got caught in a rip in Perth, dumped by a wave, severed his spine and then had some guy come along and resuscitate him. Now in a coma. Wow. Heavy heavy shit. I hate to say it but I am glad this happened in Perth cause if it happened in Syndye my missus would be the Social worker as she is one of two social workers in sydney who deal with trauma patience family's, if it happened in sydney it would bring me so much more closer to him, seeing it has happened in Perth I can kind of remove myself from it a bit. Not a nice way to look at it but i dont know how to look at such a thing. I dont know what the right thing is to say here but I hope to hell he does not wake up. Fuck. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
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    Not sure if you guys have seen the third episode yet but 'deepsky' sure got a suprise. Glad to see them all back. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  22. NAh, not my boat mate. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  23. Never said I did. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  24. thx for the support, it is hard to help when the specific question was not asked, i've built custom boat seats but not couches - still can't see the connection AS I mentioned Bill, I Was looking for a person who builds furniture because I have a question I wanted to ask them about a boat seat. I understand you may not see the connection as I never asked the questions. YOu had not let me know or made it obvious that you had built furniture so i never asked the question. I had a couple of questions to ask of a person who was to let me know they built furniture. As for the comment, it was tongue in cheek reply to you pointing out the obvious. Nothing else was meant of it. Amazing how you can say all you want on this site if you add a smiley face but without a smiley face it is taken so seriously. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .
  25. It was a tounge in cheek comment. .Karnage Krew Gear Store .