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hey! first, its Bobby not Bobbie. second, i'm an American in Aussieland just messin with ya, no worries! third, im drunk

If so... i feel like a complete moron... [hangs head in shame]

Cleveland Parachute Center (Cleveland, OH) Ocean City Skydiving (Ocean City, MD) Parachutes are Fun (Salisbury, MD) Skydive Delmarva (Laurel, DE) CrossKeys (Williamstown, NJ) Skydive Orange (Orange, VA) Skydive Deland (Deland, FL) Skydive City (Zephyrhills, FL) Lake Wales (Lake Wales, FL) Skydive Williston (Williston, FL) Sydney Skydivers (Picton, NSW, Australia) Skydive Nagambie (Nagambie, VIC, Australia) ...and I'm still travelling around Australia and soon New Zealand to add more to the list

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Oh man! Ren Fest is so awesome, I really wish I could go this year. I can't help you out with where you should stay, but I can give some recommendations on what to see. Make sure you check out the Bloody Dramas. Last season they had 3 of them, but there might be more now. My drama teacher from high school (funniest guy I know) and his friends do the show, it's an improv comedy with lots of audience interaction. My favorite act at Ren Fest. Also, check out Johnny Fox the sword swallower. He's so dirty and rude but its f'in hilarious. Have fun!

Well after I f*cked up my S3 I flew a MTR-2 for the rest of the weekend... want any input on that?? Thanks Kevin. FBM Rocks!

My incident made it on to the front page of www.bird-man.com! I know I shouldn't be proud of my accident or anything (except for the fact that I'm still alive and I learned a valuable lesson), but this is my time being published anywhere!! Everyone down under head to Picton this weekend for the beer! Clicky for the article on bird-man.com!

Awesome! Congrats on getting into all the organic and healthy stuff! I can walk around health food stores for hours just amazed at everything they have... the only problem being I'm poor so currently can't afford to make my fridge and pantry filled with organics or free range meat. My sister runs an Organic Food Market in WV so that's what keeps my interests running. Now the next step is to start taking wheatgrass juice. I've been taking a shot or 2 of it a day for the last 2 or 3 years and I can't live without it! Mmmm... grasss

The first time I met Kuske was going to SM1's trailer when it was parked at Xkeys this past summer. I went to knock on the door and there's Kuske just sitting there and he says "he's doing the deed with his woman, you can go in if you want". I got a little more respect for SM1 than that, so we just chilled and I had an awesome time with him. He was so laid back and such a nice guy. He'll truly be missed. And I'm sure no one will forget the incident involving a pair of scissors, peanut butter, and Marley, the dz dog Vibessssss for ya bro.

One drunken night at the drop zone, as my stories normally start out, I got so drunk that I forgot most happenings of the night. Apparently I was trying to climb up a ladder onto this little porch over the freefly room, but succeeded miserably. Somehow or another I got beer poured all over me from someone up top. Next thing I know, I wake up at home. Oh yeah, I live 2.5 hours away!!!! My friend for some reason thought it was time to leave. Ah well, at least I didn't have to endure the long trip home

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here's a few of my favs: guys.jpg is just what it says (im in the middle, duh) ghetto.jpg is my friends looking their finest me.jpg is a pic of me that i like closeup.jpg is me messin around with my fisheye lens on a wind hold enjoy

YES YES YES YES Oh my god I can't wait to get back to my beloved American television programming. The 4 channels I have down here are making me want to shoot myself ...well, except for the Simpsons. At least you guys got that one right? Hey Lainey, you got cable tv over at your place? I'll make the 5 minute walk down the street for some cable

Once I get the video up this will be a bit clearer, but in the meantime I'll do my best. The spot on the suit that was hit was approximately 2" above the bottom of the wing, and the wing pretty much is flush with the bottom of my feet. In the video, when I strike, I am facing upright looking at the plane, so what must have happened is my right foot was slightly in front of my left, this causing the fabric to be closer to the plane than my foot. When it hit it flung me to my left, up, around, down, inside out, the normal flip-flop feeling you all have had on whatever type of jump you prefer. Point is, it swung me to my left keeping my foot from striking the plane and making me pretty much whip around past the end of the wing. The vertical tear is because after impact the hole expanded, and as can be seen in tailplane2.jpg it did tear horizontally, but only until it came to the seam. Vertically it tore almost the entire way up the wing. Hope that clears things up.

I'm unsure of how fast the plane was going when we exited. I think the uppers were doing around 60 knots so maybe that helps. When I hit, at first I thought I had lost my right boootie since I couldn't see my feet. It was only until when I came to undo my leg wing after deployment that I realized my S3 was ruined. (The profanity on the video at that point is priceless.) The funniest part of the whole dive is the fact that I was still able to keep up with the guy in the Classic2 that I was jumping with... pretty much entirely with my arm wings. It was a little wobbley, but like I said I thought I had lost a bootie so I was compensating by putting my legs back and in weird positions until I found something that worked best. I gained stability probably 4 or 5 seconds after I struck the plane. I had thought about using my LQRS when I first struck, but like I said those first few seconds I just got back on my belly since I had been flipped in every direction, got stable and found that I could fly the suit with minimal problems. I had no problems on deployment or anywhere else on the flight. Almost got close enough on him for a dock with my suit busted. As for getting it repaired, I'm working things out with Jari and I think I'll be shipping it out to Europe for the repairs. I'm prepared for the worst but hoping for the best. I know the repairs will take a lot of work due to the fact that not only is the wing damaged but also the bootie and the lower half of the right leg right along the seam of the wing. On another note with the PAC-750XL, if it had been another aircraft with a tail wing higher up, I would have struck higher up on my body than foot level, possibly hitting my back or my head which would probably have been fatal. I'll be getting the video of the exit up soon, but I have an exam I'm supposed to be studying for and a presentation to do, so I'm juggling a few things at the moment. Thanks for the concern

I specifically said my number of WS jumps to show that I was experienced enough to be flying an S3. By experienced pilot, Birdman is implying that the flyer be able to control the suit because of its twitchiness in the sky and larger wingspan for deployment complications. The first time I flew an S3 was per recommendation of Chuck Blue, Birdman Chief Instructor, on his personal S3, after 15 wingsuit jumps on a GTi. All was fine and I have never had a problem on a wingsuit until this little incident occured. I am sure that I am well-classified to be jumping an S3, but I'll let others who have jumped with me and seen me fly back me up on this one. Please do not try to discredit my abilities.

:10:-out-the-ass 10 kickass wingsuit jumps for our wonderful Wingsuit Weekend down here in Australia. 1st PAC-750XL jump, 1st jump on my new suit, first time driving on L side of the road, 1st airplane strike, 1st time at Nagambie, 1st wingsuit dock, 1st blown-up wingsuit... and the list goes on

Cross Keys, Cross Keys, and more Cross Keys... If you're going to be in Philly, Xkeys if by far the best that you got. It's a little more than a half hour drive. Hell, I drive to Xkeys from DC, and that's at least 2 hours.

There was 1 other group to leave after mine, so the plane wasn't in a dive. I did get tossed around pretty hard, so I am positive that I struck. I'll upload the video sometime within the next few days. Since it was only fabric that struck the plane, there weren't any marks left on it. There are marks on the suit where the impact was if you look closely.

This past Saturday, at the Wingsuit Weekend held at Skydive Nagambie in Victoria, Australia, I made my first 5 jumps on my brand new Skyflyer3 (just got it that Tuesday). On my 5th jump on the suit (26th wingsuit jump, 9th jump on an S3) I exited the PAC-750XL in the normal position (wings collapsed facing into the wind) and I proceeded to strike the tail of the aircraft. LUCKILY, only the leg wing of my suit struck, and neither the plane nor myself was damaged. After watching the video from my helmet in slow motion multiple times, myself, along with others have concluded that on exit I went up 2 or 3 feet and then on my descent down struck the wing. Apparently something caused this, and it is unknown whether I somehow jumped up on my exit or whether I opened my wings too early, causing the prop wash to carry me (if that is even possible, I'm unclear of that). So, I went up on exit, came down and my leg-wing hit the tail of the plane. Now I know I will get critiqued for my exit, but I will say that I was properly trained by a BMI and am well aware that wings should be collapsed on exit until the plane is cleared and you are stable. But apparently on this particular exit I did something wrong. We all make mistakes and I am thankful to God that I wasn't hurt and the plane wasn't damaged. I even mentioned the closed wings and clearance of the aircraft to a first-time wingsuiter before boarding this specific flight. With that being the case it's ironic that my wingsuit struck the aircraft. I guess I got a little too comfortable with my exits and needed a rude awakening to realize this. Again, I am so incredibly lucky that there was no real damage done. Out of me, the plane and my wingsuit... the wingsuit is the cheapest to fix. Any positive feedback is appreciated. I've attached some pics of the damage done to my suit, but for full-size pics I've uploaded them here. Despite the whole incident, I had a great weekend, met some awesome people, had tons of firsts (, it's all been drank, don't worry!), and learned tons. Even got to jump a MTR-2 suit for a couple jumps! All in all, I learned a valuable lesson, and hopefully others can learn from this as well so it isn't repeated. My new suit is gone, but hopefully I'll be able to work something out with either Birdman or my rigger into getting it repaired so I can get flocking again soon.

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In high school I took drama for 4 years, and in senior year we were given an assignment to write a stand-up routine. Everyone was thrilled about the excitement, but after about 2 weeks of writing their routines, we were all scared shitless because it was so much harder than we had originally thought. Even these 2 guys that were like comical prodigies (seriously, the 2 funniest people I had ever met, they were on a professional improv comedy team in high school) found it hard as hell. Point of the story: Standup is a hell of a lot harder than most people think. Even if you're funny in real life and you tell great jokes, there's a lot more to stand-up than that like timing, transitions, flow, not laughing at yourself. So in re: "can it be taught?" I think that for a truly funny person, yes you can teach them ways to make them presentable on stage, but you cant just take any random person and throw them up on stage. Even if you give them a hilarious bit on paper, they still won't be all that funny. This is why I have so much respect for stand up comedians. Some of my favs: Mitch Hedberg, Dave Chappelle, Brian Regan, Robin Williams

i used to have the simpsons quote from when Homer gets too fat and tries to make a phonecall, the operator says: "The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand please mash the keypad with your palm... now." When I got voicemail it was a recording of Special Ed from Comedy Central's Crank-Yankers saying: "I've got mail! Yayyyyy! I've got mail!!! YAyYYYYYY!!!!!" I always got the strangest looks from people for some reason...

Ok ok, so I typed without thinking, they do have lots of colors. My mistake my mistake. I just remember when it came time to decide on my color scheme all I looked for was white and blue, so I guess all of those "other" colors just passed right by me. I think my next suit will be raspberry, silver, orange, and neon green! YEAH!!!!! (umm... no offense if anyone has that combo of colors) *edited for typo