arachnoid

There's a bunch of guys jailed for looking arabic over here and they're not even allowed to have a trial or know what they're charged with. You gotta love the kinda democracy the 'free world' enforces with its jackboots. Sorry to go OT, but it's chilling how close to the mark some one off comments really are. Russ

thanks tom, was 300 full time jumping? I'd better start organising things, next year doesn't seem very far away anymore. i wasn't sure if there was a time in sport consideration as well as a jump number, some things just seem to take time to sink in and i don't want this to become a literal crash course. I'm sure i'll be stopping by twin falls for quite a while after the FJC. Thanks everyone for both public and private responses. arachnoid

i did up to my first freefall via the static line route about 10 years ago, so enough experience to know that i enjoyed skydiving, but that's where it ends. I've wanted to fly for many years, and over the last 15 years i've tried fixed / rotary, sailplane hangliding and paragliding, but none of them seemed like real flight. when i say tried, i have solod each of the above and spent a summer tug flying for a glider club. I saw a film a couple of years ago with some vid of (i think adrian nicholas) doing w/s from that famous cliff in southern Norway and knew instantly that this was something that i had to try. 2 years from then and the desire hasn't gone away, it's time to get out there and prepare. Timeframe wise i'm thinking of next year and i reckon 6 months pretty much dedicated to the project. MH, w/s plan duly dropped, was a kinda half hearted addition to the initial plan anyway.

Hi all, I've been wanting to get into base for a while now and have been lurking here and blinc for some time. Given that the UK has such great weather i'm thinking of doing all the preparation skydives in the US and then going straight to a base FJC. I've started trampolining and diving in preparation, not for aerials but just to improve my spacial awareness / gymnastic ability in dead air. If i went to the states and did say 400 skydives including packing / crw / accuracy / wingsuit, and then an FJC, would this be a sensible way into base, or is time needed for the critical skills to soak in? thanks for any comments arachnoid

The Type of Jump is a McConkey. www.blincmagazine.com is probably a good place to start for info. Crazy is probably a good description, listen to the guy talking about potential problems before launch, during the video. I'm guessing Tom did a cutaway because he isn't used to landing with a packed chute on his person.

I'm pretty sure the site is in flash, you're not missing a great deal unless you want to learn about the "502 generation" being born