KevinMcGuire

[rep If you fill in your profile with how many skydives and base jumps you have , what your name is and where you are from you will notice people will get a lot friendlier. The post above proves this. Also, I am a Dutch cheese monkey who likes to write long essays and wear panties. At the moment various groups are trying to open certain sites. If we say online we prefer illegal jumps then that doesn't help. Is that about right Jaap? Damn check out the big brain on Screamer

We'd love to have some of that here. Send it over

Hoi Tenshi, Als je ff in je profile zegt hoeveel skydives en base jumps je hebt, wat je naam is en waar je vandaan komt, dan zal je merken dat de reacties hier een stuk gezelliger worden. En de post hierboven maakt een goed argument. Er zijn op dit moment verschillende groepen bezig om bepaalde sites legaal te maken. Als we daarna online in een forum allemaal gaan roepen dat we voornamelijk illegale sprongen het leukst vinden, dan helpt dat niet echt. Woon je in Nederland by the way? Cheers, Jaap Yeah right easy for you to say

Too late. the bastards been living there for years. I can't seem to evict him. Fuckers always throwing parties and leaving the mess for me to clean up and, to make maters worse, he's always wearing my underwear. Not only does he stretch out my underwear, but he leaves racing stripes in them as well. Filthy bastard. But seriously, There has been a lot talk lately about gaining access to national parks and those wishing to deny us regularly visit this sight. It is not too far fetched to imagine that one of them might try to collect info that displays us in a not so wonderful light and there by further strengthen their position. P.S. I looked at you profile and guess what. No name entered. It's hard to tell anything about you other than you don't want to share your info

WAY TO GO DUDE!!!!! Phil I second that. That training is no joke. Cruising through medic school is not possible. It takes a shit load of commitment not to mention brains. Congrats. Good luck. Try not to kill anybody.

I smell a troll. Who are you? Why do you ask? Who do you work for? How will the stats that you collect be used?

Sup pete, Try Sun Path. I know they had one they were playing with

I can believe that. You'd be surprised how many small little pieces of support tape and the like are in a rig. many of them cannot be seen from the out side and unless you have taken a rig totally apart, or build one from scratch, you'd never know they were there

Thats the thing about fame. Cut a fart and everyone in the whole world sticks their noses up your ass to find out what you've been eating. Never met the guy but I like most of his movies. Whether or not he still jumps matters less than if he had never had jumped. He's just a guy trying to make a living like anyone else except, unlike most of us, he is extraordinarily successful and he get to bang super hot chicks.

Define part. What I mean by that is if a flap is comprised of 1000dn courdura, 420duck, 40mil nylitron, a 0SS grommet and foam in between it all, then does that count as 1 peice or 5. Define that and I'll get right to the precise number.

Come on people. Lets hear your stories. Give it up

I sure do remember that cliff and I remember that Antena. That jump always stick out in my mind. What a great view I had up on top of that antena. Good one Spence for opening up that cliff.

Think of it this way. What are the chances that your going to have another mal any time soon. 1 in a gazillion or something like that. I'd say your good to go. The gods of the odds have defintely been appeased but, just to be on the safe side, maybe you should get a new packer

Yes it did fall and unfortunately took three men with it

It is important to remember that the straight stitches of a bar tack are there only to hold the material untill the zig zag pattern begins. The straight stitches (AKA stay stitches) have little to no elasticity and therefor need to be kept to a minumim. A bartack with too many stay stitches will fail prematurely if the stitch is loaded along it's long axis. As to the number of stiches in each pattern, that is specific to the type of loading the stitch will be subjected to. I have seen patters @26 42 60 72. I could go on but Idon't feel like typing that long. PM me with you number and I'll call wth more detail Kevin

Here's a story of a jump that almost got me. Before anybody chimes in with what I should or should not have done, I already know the error of my ways. Enjoy Summer 1995, I had the coolest job a skydiver/BASE jumper could ever want. I worked for Performance designs, the world’s largest and most respected sport parachute manufacture, and I was in charge of the west cost demo tour. Basically my duties were to drive around the country in a motor home, visit skydiving centers in almost every state west of the Mississippi, and allow jumpers at each drop zone to try our parachutes, free of charge, all in the hopes of wining their businesses. As one might expect, the tour became my means of scouring the US in search of new BASE sights. When I could not find the sights on my own or they were too sensitive, I would call around to the various BASE manufactures and get numbers and names of locals to hook up with. This strategy worked and worked well but keeping my activities concealed from PD was paramount. After all, I didn’t want to up set the apple cart. One Sunday afternoon, my partner Seth and I were finishing up a weekend at a DZ in Colorado and we decided to start our search for the object we would be jumping that week. We opened our newly acquired aircraft sectional that showed a nice 2000’ antenna tucked neatly away in an isolated corner of Nebraska. As luck would have it, it was on our way to our next stop. After a few hours of driving, we found our selves at the base of the tower. Fifteen minuets later, the elevator was running. Wasting no time, we both made two quick jumps that night before falling asleep in the van at the base of the tower waiting for sun to come up. When the sun came up, we got busy. It was when we landed from our second jumps that we came up with what can only be described as a hair brained idea of spectacular proportions. Instead of wasting time packing our BASE rigs and going again, why not jump some of the skydiving rigs we had in the van? After all, the tower was 2000’ was it not? Hell, that’s almost a skydive. What could possible go wrong? I love hind sight. Things went fine for a while. We’d take a leisurely elevator ride to the top of the tower and away we’d go. Once on the ground, we’d toss the recently opened rigs into a pile and grab another from the van. We made sure the rigs we choose all had large canopies in them. This we reasoned would be the safest. On the fifth jump I found out just how wrong we were. It was our fifth jump of the day and Seth went first. As he fell away, he quickly became a tiny dot, barely visible against the ground below until his brightly colored saber 210 opened right on heading. He landed on the freshly plowed dirt below, and now it was my turn. Sporting a fancy new Javelin J-5, complete with a PD210 main and a PD218R reserve, I launched. As I free fell, I caught sight of Seth standing below. I decided that it would be cool to track right at him and take it nice and low in order to give him the best visual if the jump. As I tracked straight for him, he grew larger and larger when suddenly I noticed that I could see he was laughing. I figured that was probably a good time to pull. Everything up to this point was going smoothly but that was about to change. I reached for and pulled the pilot chute from its pouch and pitched it into the air. That was the precise moment that absolutely nothing happened. Wouldn’t you know it? I looked over my shoulder and saw that the pilot chute was not inflated. Of all the rotten luck… Any way, realizing that I had no time to mess around, I went straight for the reserve rip cord handle. I pulled, and felt the familiar pop as the reserve pilot chute launched of my back. A split second later I was open. I looked up expecting to see my reserve canopy but instead I saw that my main parachute had finally decided to get in the game, but there was a catch. The canopy had severe line twists below the slider and, to make matters worse, it was flying straight towards the tower. There was no way I’d be able to kick out of the line twists before I spanked the steel. Just then, I felt something tugging on my right foot. I looked and saw that the bridle of the reserve pilot chute had some how become entangled with my foot and out of the corner of my eye I could see the free bag falling away. I grabbed the bridle and attempted to pull it in before the canopy came out of the D-bag but I was not fast enough. The canopy came out of the D-bag and began to inflate. It was about this time that I noticed that I was getting very close to the tower and my line twists were not getting any better. With only one option left (and not a very good one at that), I quickly pulled the cutaway handle, taking the chance that the now inflating reserve might do a better job of saving my life than my main had been doing. I dropped away from the main and under the inflating reserve and wouldn’t you know it, the damn thing also had major line twists below the slider, but this time, thankfully, it was flying away from the tower (finally some good luck). I had no time to kick out of the line twits before landing and landing was rough. Were it not for the freshly plowed dirt surrounding the base of the tower, I’m sure that I would have been injured. I lay there for a moment stunned and took a quick mental inventory. Realizing I had survived, finally stood up began knocking the dirt out of my ears and hair when Seth came running up to me laughing hysterically. It took him a good two or three minuets to calm down just enough to say, “Well Kev, I gotta say, there’s never a dull moment when jumping with you” Kevin BASE 390

My thing is to do it again

sounds like he needs more oil then

QuoteMy rant is directly aimed at scaredy cats of rigging. Hi Kev! You should come visit me so I can call you a scairdycat to your face I would but I'm too afraid.

Com on tell the truth. Is this so you can where it while you fly in your transparent jet like wonder woman?

Edit to add that I nailed ya and no one who is in this no where place will respond. take care, space Ummmmm..........What?

QuoteTry the 1000 dollar a week diet. More fun...lol[/repl Would that be the Deland diet plan???

Actually peanut butter and bacon is very good. Just put it on a piece of toast and away you go

I thought you were the three hole punch

Any idea yet as to what killed him?