freakydiver

I saw a great quote from one of the more experienced basers in the world earlier this year - he basically stated that with the continuous influx and increase per year of new jumpers, base was going to have an extremely tough time of staying safe and unregulated. I personally agree. I've seen alot of people get involved with the sport very early on in their jumping carrers - more and more over the recent years that can barely handle a canopy landing in a huge open field. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

I understand the rule about personal attacks, but - playing devils advocate here - would you perfer that regulation of BASE make those personal attacks - or would it be better if the self-policing that base is extremely well known for be allowed to live online? Perhaps another thread... -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

Congrats C - utah rox the house. Period. Endless exitpoints for you AND yo mama! -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

Yah but with your canopy in the 70s fast openings were the norm. So where low pulls. If you are below your harddeck, go for reserve, its not worth a packjob price over a life. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

Used to get all hyped up about DZ politics - now I'm just flat out happy to jump. Started pondering the meaning of it - just jump for the JUMP not for what it looks like to people. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

fVck yah man -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

I started out as the poor kid barely scraping by in the sport a decade ago. Since then I've gotten married, acquired a house, almost have my first child and drive a relatively nice car. Trust me - I still fuckin jones when the sky is blue and dig seeing my friends huckin and doing the airplane thing. I am no different than I was when I lived in the rusty camper at the DZ. Just because I look young and have a nicer newer rig shouldn't make you think otherwise of me. I'll still jump with anyone both on my belly or "freeflying" or whatever the fuk you wanna call it (its all freeflying in my book). Just because I have a house and a car and a newer rig (first one in ten years) doesn't mean I don't search for the meaning of it all, it doesn't mean I don't care. Take care not to judge based on the outside of someone - you may miss that chance to get their take on the sport or maybe just life in general. Also - I would tend to disagree with you to some degree that it is the base jumpers that are most passionate anymore. While in my book, the most passionate jumpers I know are indeed base jumpers as well, more and more skydivers that are becoming base jumpers really have no clue what they are doing and do it for the "cool" factor. Most of them will never do more than a handful of jumps, most of them will never really understand how dangerous what they are doing is, they will never see the malfucntions that someone whose been basing for 100s or 1000s of jumps are. I think a great deal of the basers today are just hopping on board with the newest thing, similar to the freefly push we saw in skydiving the past few years... I think to really get the jist of a jumper sky or fixed, you have to sit with them and digest their belief system. You have to see if they are kind with their knowledge. You have to see if they introduce themselves off the bat and make the effort for a new person on a DZ, now THOSE are the real patriots of this sport and that is what I miss. Just my one cent... -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

ditto here - ive rolled and not rolled - not rolled worked just as well if not better... -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

I know it dives faster. I still don't consider 350 feet low though. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

So how do I get a job with AirZone -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

Yah I agree - why attempt to help someone out in need -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

I initiate my 180s under my Sabre 135 loaded at 1.7 at approx 350 feet - that is not low. Oh yah - and get coaching. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

yah i know what yer sayin - i was just jokin around, but heck, even on a bigger way, filming on the outside still should put you around what, 30 -40 feet from center? if someone can't track that far, they got probs. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

Man they gotta be real weak to slide under you if you are in the middle -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

It is EXTREMELY useful to learn from gymnastics. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

"but the parallels between alpinism and BASE are similar when it comes to making assessments and decisions." There is no better analogy, period. Even the most trained avalanche condition reader WILL get bit in the ass occasionally as the odds are not always "stackable" completely in one's corner. I've seen it happen to the best of them. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

I ride by those antennas 3-4 times a week on my way to my mtn bike downhilling fun - one of them looks interesting if you could really fly a canopy and land it in a tight space hah... -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

Go take a first responder course, get backcountry response training if you are really serious about dealing with the real potential injuries you may see in base. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

You suck - HAVE FUN FOR ME!!!! -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

You wanna talk about demos and adrenaline - my last demo was into my own wedding with my tux on - man o man I didn't want to mess that one up !!! -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

Don't forget the notorious lost prarie low cloud cypress fires - those have been happening for years -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

I know of at least 5 in my 10 years in the sport that I highly doubt were sent in... -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

Good question - I do meet quite a few programmer's through the DZ... I am a programmer as well... I'm bored at work also so here's to being bored at work!! -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

That's funny as hell quite frankly - I would never let anyone pca me if they were using a methodology where their thumbs or hands could be ripped off. PCAing is nothing to sneeze at. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --

I started the day I turned 18. -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --