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Haha O-Yea! I love that Smoke Stack. I can't believe I jumped a 265 footer! FREAKIN LOW! (for me at least ) You GUYS Rock! Can't wait to come out again!

Hey, Tell Rich Coco said "Hey! Stay safe and see you in a year!" D

NP, Yea when I saw that I knew why so many people have told me they go for risers and not toggles first. I was also told that you should always go to risers first, building muscle memory, regardless of heading because that one time you have a 180 and you go to toggles and miss or you take too long to make a decision you will have a strike. To each his own but I know when I get up on a tower or other objects, I’ll be on my risers first.

Here ya go. http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=2145

My thoughts exactly!

PM'ed you.

I’m a newbie looking for some experienced jumpers in the NC area to mentor me. Talked to Tree and found that the DC/Maryland crew is a little far to go on a regular basis and I have no experienced jumpers in my local area. My location is in my profile. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! David

congrats!

Wow! 86 dollars, that’s awesome. Reminds me of my grandpa telling me how something used to cost a nickel. It would be funny to hear a BASE old timer tell a story and say “I remember when BASE fines used to be a dollar a floor. Those were the good old days” lol

Very well said! I totally agree!

Next Showings: Saturday, July 16, 2005 2:00PM - 2:30PM Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:30AM - 12:00PM

Awesome! Wonder who got who into the sport with those two pairs. My dad used to skydive back in the 70's. Got about 100 round jumps and then stopped for some reason. I got him back into it when I turned 18 and now I've got him wanting to base jump. It’s pretty sweet. Hoping to do a two way at BD with my pops! How cool would that be?!

I'm in! 2246 - Top 10 ! And my pops is 2304. Hey Jason, I'm sure there are tons of fathers and sons that skydive together; know if there been any other father's and sons BASE jumping together? D

I'll let you know when UPS brings my toys. But yea it does look that way from the picture.

HAHA Nice! Well I was going to go with the Warlock but they took it out of production. I rented gear for my first 2 jumps at Bridge Day 04 and I liked it a lot (mostly comparing Pin to Velcro aspect for my decision). I don't know a whole lot about the differences between all the pin containers but I went with the DP because Karen and Todd recommended it so I figured it was a good choice.

Hey Jaap, I've got a picture of the container they sent me to show me what my new gear will look like. I'll post it when I get home from work. Then I'll post my personal rig picture when I get it tomorrow. D

Haha what up Wednesday, I did call you, 4 times! Amazing what answering would have done! And I'll be up there with ya soon! See ya at the DZ. Peace!

Found it! http://www.blincmagazine.com/cms/uploads/aerials_in_base.pdf

For those of you who do Aerial Maneuvers, what kind of training do you have?

1. Haha yea for real. What was I thinking! 2. Yea I will. They are small but its not worth the risk. 3. Yea If he would have had his cell I would have told him to jump. I still wonder why the cop didn't wait for us if he saw my buddy on the tower.

Yea, That’s a good point. The stickers are small though so it would be hard to see with the cars backed in like we had them. It was just a guess cause we can't really think of any other reason why the cop would just leave like that without knowing why our cars were there… Well what we have been trying to do for night jumps is climb as the sun is going down "gloomy light" and then jump when the light is just barely there that way it’s not completely dark. Most of the time we do morning jumps. Climb in the dark and right as there is a crack of light jump so it’s not completely black. We should probably stick to morning jumps, ey? Note: I personally haven’t jumped yet other than B-day because I don't have my gear yet.

Hey everyone, The other day my buddy and I went to a tower in our area. Unfortunately I had to be his ground crew because I am still waiting to receive my new gear. He started climbing as the sun began to go down and reached the platform at 540 about 20 minutes later. My buddy was on the platform for a while and because he forgot his cell phone I had no way to contact him. He began to climb down, which was strange because the winds seemed fine. He reached the ground and said, “I’m getting arrested.” Turns out someone saw him climbing and called the police. He saw the cop drive into a few of the access roads for other towers near the one we were at so he figured he would just climb down. We started walking back through the woods to get our cars and about 150 yards off we saw a bright light come over our cars. It was the cop with his spotlight. We were like “S**T.” Surprisingly we got back to the cars and he was gone. I told my buddy to throw his gear in his trunk while I looked down the road for the cop. He wasn’t there!! We hopped in our cars and drove off. I called him as we were driving off and was like “WOW THAT WAS LUCKY!” We talked it over with a few of our other base friends and we are thinking that the call probably came out as something other than someone was going to base jump off the tower. We are thinking that when the cop finally found the right tower where we were at and he saw a few of the stickers my buddy and I have on ours cars for skydiving and knew what we were doing and didn’t care, so he left. If that is the case that is one awesome cop!!

Thanks for your two cents!

Cool thanks. I’ll probably give a few of the college athletic departments in my area a call and see if they can give me some direction. I don’t know of any facilities or squads in the area so I will probably have to travel, but like you said, “the results are clearly visible.” Yea I’ll be straightforward with them. I went to one of the many gymnastics gyms in my area and told them what I needed and what I was planning to do and although they didn’t have the tools they gave me a few places that might. The staff there would have had no issues with helping me but they did say I was crazy! Ha