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Base Jumping ??? If you go to http://ifilm.com/adrenaline , there are several videos, the adrenaline one is base. SCR-21

Very nice video, I really enjoyed seeing what's going on with other jumpers. Especially good for your experience level. Only suggestion is show longer clips of the really good jumps instead of all the really short clips. I especially liked seeing all the head up jumps. Keep up the good work. Aloha, Tim SCR-21

Very nice video of base jumping, good job. SCR-21

The site looks great, thanks alot for all the hard work, it really looks good, and it's amazing that they just did the first 400 way, we've come along way. Aloha SCR-21

PULL LOWER UNTIL IT'S NOT BORING ANYMORE! SCR-21

Does anyone know when the first 10 way star was accomplished, I know the first 8 way was in the 60's, but when was the first 10 way star made, and who was on it. Thanks SCR-21

far out, she had alot of imagination. did you know that Alan Greenspan was a Ayn Rand devotee, he use to hang out with her at her house when he was going to school-true. SCR-21

Is freeflying free of the obligation to perform an agreed upon task, or is it predominately improvization. I've been wondering since i find myself making hurdreds and hurdreds of jumps with the same general group of people, and as a group, not improving very much over the last 5 years. In rw we knew what we wanted to accomplish on a two way, three way, four way, and we practised and analysed the same dive until we got it. I love freeflying, but i wonder if merely horesing around in freefall is as fullfilling as acomplishing a goal. SCR-21

That is so cool. That is me on the cover of Parachutist "July 68", a renounded jumper of his day, King May, took the photo. I was taking a photo class at school, and solarized the print, sent it in, and made the cover, I'm the guy on my belly, holding the other guy, who's on his back. Have not seen that photo for almost 40 years, thanks alot. Aloha, Tim SCR-21

I jumped a 28' round with a tu mod from 63 thru 70, we didn't hang on to our rear risers, but pulled on them hard the instant before landing to decrease our verticle speed, doing stand ups in moccasins most of the time, it kind of cushioned your landing. SCR-21

Beautiful shot!, by the way, my friends and I, here in Hawaii, loved "Keen and Able", keep up the good work Jimmy, we are proud of you. Aloha, Tim SCR-21

Max was one of the kindest, most considerate people I've ever met in the sport, he was a real inspiration to all of us in Hawaii, even at 69 his enthusiasm and love for the sport never dimmed, he was especially warm and nice to new jumpers, always encouraging and positive, he will be greatly missed by all that knew him, so long Max, what an example, what a life, we all loved ya buddy. Tim SCR-21

This is really a very good video, nice job, terrific editing and music, I can't believe you have less than 500 jumps. I'm just curious, how long to you estimate it took you to make the year end video? I would like to make one, but find watching and editing video from a whole year takes an enormous amount of time. Thanks again, Tim SCR-21

suppose you hava a dvd video, you really like the music track, is it possible to extract just the audio track and save it to use on other videos? Thanks, Tim SCR-21

Tom, what you say is so true and I emplathize with you, when one of my best jump buddies died years ago, I cried for weeks, yes it does hurt bad. But a funny thought comes to mind, when I started in the 60's with rounds, many people rountinely pulled low, and on the sunset load, instead of swooping, the real show offs pulled extra low, opening in the low hundreds, none of them to my knowledge were ever hurt opening well below a grand hundreds of times, I think because they were super aware of how dangerous it was, and real attentive. Today, there are so many injuries and fatalities under an open canopy doing silly things, because I believe we become complacent and underestimate the danger present under an open canopy, just my two cents. SCR-21

I read in an interview with Jack Jeffries, the champion jumper, when asked what was the most important thing about jumping he had learned with all of his experience and years in the sport, he replied, "it is all play, all of it", I think it is crucial that we remember that we do this for fun. Like kids in a sand box, some kids will always kick sand at other kids, generally because, for whatever reason, they are very unhappy individuals, don't let it spoil your day. At out DZ we have some malcontents, that always bad mouth others all the time, they are booring, unimagitive, and generally ignored. It has been said over and over, if you stay in this sport for along time, it is the unique collection of people you meet that keeps you coming back. Skydivers are a different breed and some of the most interesting people I've ever met. Aloha, Tim SCR-21

Yes, that is the one. SCR-21

I just watched the video by Babylon called Trace for the 5th time. Eventhough I've been freeflying for years, I learned alot. I recommend that all beginning and intermediate freeflyers who really want to learn obtain this video. It shows the correct form for upright and head down better than anyother video I've seen, including how to correctly exit into the relative wind. On exit, we should be able to stay as close together as we are in the door, we shouldn't have to wait 10 seconds for everyone to regroup. We must all exit with our feet or heads into the relative wind, this is the mistake I most often see in groups of aspiring freeflyers, whether it is a two way or a 6 way, we need to exit together, and stay together on exit. It is really a valuable video. SCR-21

what if every experienced diver who showed up on the weekend had to watch a fatality video, less than 60 seconds, before completing manifest, a different topic each week, swoops, collisions, no pulls, do you think it would radically cut down on accidents? This is assuming that the majority would continue to jump, Personally, if it saved alot of lives and injuries, I wouldn't mind. Complacency is so common in this sport. SCR-21

Hey moth, next time you are making a joke, you should announce it as a joke, instead of provoking serious, thoughtful responces, then undermining them by making a joke of your serious question. SCR-21

If you feel you have a slow fall rate, jump in a tee shirt and shorts, or something tight. When you begin back tracking the secret is all in the position of your head, neck and shoulders. You will never go into a dive if you bend your head slightly toward your stomack, experiment with another jumper on his belly. As for your arms, you can fly easily without your arms, try placing them with your palms down over your waist infront of you, you don't need them for stability, then bring them gradually to your sides, it's very delicate, all in fine tuning. Remember a back track is the same as a belly track in reverse. If you are on your belly tracking, and you bend your head up, and bring your shoulders back, you will never dive. When you get that on your back experitment to go faster forward to find the sweet spot. you will feel it and hear it when you have it. Play and have fun, and a lould audible is mandatory, you can check your altimeter on your back, it will read a little higher than you actually are. Tim SCR-21

A big difference I see, is that under a round the skydive and intence fun was over when you opened, it was gental afterplay following an intence freefall. I was rarely worried under a round, nobody was likely to hit you. Now opening is more intence, and the canopy ride is more fun, with what you can do under a modern canopy, but you have to be so vigilant and on the lookout. Nowadays most injuries and fatalities are under canopy. It never was that way under rounds. People got hurt because you screwed up in freefall back then, for the most part. And for that reason, with all of the lack of regulation, wildness, and daredivilry of the 60's, I think there is something to be said, that for a jumper that got past there first 50 jumps, it was safer back then. Because most people never experienced a high speed malfunction, and people would often walk away when they had a line over, the most common malfuction back then. Now a new jumper can't wait to get a mini wing over head, so they can thrill-scare the cround with their daring do. Besides, today, you have hot proficient canopy pilots with thousands of jumps that would just as likely do a hop and pop, instead of skydiving. The emplasis has shifted lately from freefall skills to canopy skills, something unfathomable in the 60's. Just my 2 cents. SCR-21

Congratulations. 17 jumps WOW-good joy. Tim SCR-21 SCR-21

I think hookit gave good advice, but to ad, try to insure your torso is straight, perpendicular to the earth, and not leaning forward, cupping air, with your arms stuck behing you, cupping air, try to fly with your arms out to the the sides, and not behind you. There are many positions between a sit and a stand, all different kinds of sit stands, experitment. I'm 225 lb. out the door and 6'2", and jump with a lot of lighter people. We are trying to stay between 150 and 155 protrac speed, and several people are struggling to go that fast comfortably, including some with thosands of jumps. There is this talented light lady, who is very light and long limbed, I asker her to try standing with me, asking her to let her arms come a bit to deal with the speed, she took off and I strained to keep with her, afterward her protrac showed an average speed of 195, very fast for me standing and trying to do anything except staying relative, I asked her why she was going so fast, she said that it took to much effort to push down with her arms. The lesson is, you can stand, but the easiest way to go faster, is to simply let your arms relax up as required, you can dock when your arms are at 45 degrees, and that shlould get you going very fast. Keep up the good work, I'd love to jump with you. By the way, it's really tough for me to go 145, 143-no way, unless on my back. SCR-21

to be trueful, out of the maybe 15 freeflyers I get to jump with, several with over 1,000 ff jumps, I have to say that probably an honest 3 way head up dock was the best I've been on, and that was rare. Much easier head down, but we're working on it with passing objects, we made 7 passes, and trying to clap hands and fly hands on shoulders. It all helps, we have to get out of this sit fly, and stand fly thinking, and into fluid upright flying, which is challenging and big fun. SCR-21