Bessie

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  4. DJL

    Honestly, when visiting the most despotic country in the world DON'T ACT LIKE A FUCKING FRAT-BOY. They've done this before - made a big scene and then commuted the sentence. The dude is eating better than the majority of their population right now and they're having a good time scaring the shit our of him and using him as a bargaining chip in their latest charade.



    Bingo! It's political. They start out acting tough, and then in exchange from some concession later on, they'll pretend to be generous and let him go. It's all about getting that concession.

    Same thing with all their threats to nuke the world. It's worked before for them. Because we're suckers and we let it.

  5. wolfriverjoe

    ***...but I am actually interested if you also have the feeling that the amount of people believing in such stuff is higher amongst skydivers than amongst the "normal" population.



    Not really.

    The thing I've found is that skydivers are more open with each other about everything.

    So people who wouldn't talk about this sort of stuff with their neighbors, co-workers, the people in line at the grocery, ect are willing to talk about it at the bonfire after jumping, sitting around during a weather hold, or any other down time at the DZ.

    Bingo!

  8. websean

    Last weekend I returned to AFF after several months off (I'm a busy university student) and had an awesomely surprising experience during my level 4 jump. Before the hiatus, I really struggled to relax in freefall and felt tense all over...



    There are still plenty of ways to feel stress in freefall. Self-induced. For example, if you get into belly flying and doing big ways. A lot of team mates will be depending upon you to be in the right place at the right time, and if you screw it up, you ruin the dive for everyone. So that's a lot of performance anxiety you put on yourself to do well in the sky.

    Enjoy the simple pleasures while you can. And come back to them every now and then.

  10. oldwomanc6

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    I'm simply saying that people appear to be taking more risks because of that little red handle.


    Yes, this is what I was trying, but not very articulately to say.

    That it would be viewed and used as a crutch, and used more often than absolutely necessary, instead of proper procedures, especially for those who have substandard training, or personalities which "pull silver" at the first hint of problems.

    Not much different than the argument about how AAD's might make jumper's less diligent about monitoring their altitude. Or depending upon audible altitude alerts instead of using a visual altimeter. Why bother will all that altimeter-looking which makes your video jerky? We've got gizmos that will let us know when it's time to pull, and even pull for us!