littlestranger

I don't go head down, the cartwheel puts me at about a 45 degree angle facing 180 degrees in the other direction from the starting point...if that makes sense. Read the other post again, I was having a hard time visualizing it myself. I tried to upload video of the transition, but the company I work for, in it's infinite wisdom, has blocked skydivingmovies.com.

...and I would like to thank the Academy.

Before I break off I make sure I know where everyone is, granted I'm still jumping with relatively small groups.

I had the same questions when I first started freeflying and got some excellent feedback on cartwheeling into a track. Here is a link to the original post: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1306955;#1306955

apply for his job

Wow, I didn't know you could "get them". Thought you had to grow them or something...

I'd like to be copied on those e-mails.

nice story, you write very well.

I do my best.

You might want to go back and re-read this entire post.

Yeah I just like throwing shit out there to piss you off.

The RULE? Did I miss something?

The NFL can do whatever the hell they want.

MEOW you keep bringing it up in this forum, why don't you follow your own advice and GET OVER IT.

MEOW

Be careful what you wish for.

How many pages does my essay have to be? When is it due? Do you accept late work? Will I get extra credit if I turn it in early?

Ya think?

I call bullshit. You're a licensed skydiver, you are responsible for learning everything you need to know to keep yourself alive. Sorry you got hurt, sorry I'm not more sympathetic.

you are a wise man. i'd like to hear this story sometime.

Call me cynical, but this guy doesn't BASE, and I'm starting to think he may not even skydive...sounds like a marketing guy conducting market research. Anyone can fill out a profile. Skyglider...why avoid the question? I haven't done my first BASE jump yet, but I've never felt any less a part of this group because of it...really it's OK.

I understand this, I guess what I was trying to say (apparently not very successfully

Ok, I'm trying to understand this idealized marketing dream you have for BASE and I have to ask myself why. Why market BASE? When you have so few BASE Jumpers in the world and fewer people interested in what many consider a suicidal mission. The bottom line is...there is NO MARKET for BASE. If some guy can't make money off it, he's not going to invest in it. The world is just not ready for it. The best way to get BASE out in the mainstream is through documentaries like Adrenaline Rush. You have to have a viable market to target before you start marketing to it. BASE is too small, it's not financially smart to throw money at it on a big scale. The day I can walk into a sporting goods store and buy a pilot chute for my skydiving rig will be the day the mainstream is ready to be exposed to BASE on a bigger scale. You don't my any chance work in marketing?

Hey, I'd do it...instead of supersize, they could upsize me, haha. ok that was bad, hahahaha

Nick, would anyone dare jump an E with a round today? That's some scary shit.