brittany, i hope you and amanda will sign my dance card...i'll be there in the wee hours of the morning saturday ready to jump! this is soooo gonna rock!
nick, even if the BASE fatality list becomes your legacy, it's a worthy one. i read it frequently and it's the first reading i recommend to anyone that tells me they want to BASE. for me i'll remember the sweet guy that sent me issue #2 of the "Fixed Object Journal", just so i could read your story The Ride. then your patience as i stalked you at bd 2005 to get you to sign it for russel. nick, you are one of those special people that God put on this earth to make us think it's all worthwhile.
I would like to know, and i mean no offense by this. if there is ANYTHING that is not easier in this life for a GIRL to do when it comes to getting help from a man.
i just wanted to thank todd fey, robert smith and skydive san marcos for the free coach jumps this past weekend. ya'll rock.
learning the technique for sideways movement in a sitfly has given me something new to work on...seems i'm gonna be working on it for awhile, not as easy as i thought it would be.
i have 14 jumps on a dagger 222 non-vented canopy and i have a Black Jack 240 on order. i'll keep the dagger for terminal jumps cause i like a softer opening. but i also want to jump lower objects (<230), i'm playing off a faster opening with a higher wing loading hoping to balance things out. (this is theoretical at best)
I agree with the no tools. Learned from CR's old mojo packing videos.
i pack with alot of tools. but i was taught to count them before i start and count them again when i'm done.
tree, you referenced a previous fatality documented on the list, could you be more specific (#). i read the list everytime we loose a fellow jumper, but i can't reconcile this incident with previous ones.
i'm sorry as hell that paul is gone but even sorrier that the specifics of this fatality were not made known to the BASE community sooner. some of us will learn from them.
I need to convince my wife that I really should jump off stuff not just out of stuff. Could some of you link me to good BASE sites on the web so she can research (she researches everything)
she's not the one who should be researching, you should be. ultimately BASE is a very personal decision.
I am not going to get into this anymore and give Canopy Technique advice like I have to others that Did Not know how to handle off headings because I am just getting really fucking Tired of it.
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When in fact he should have been yarding down on both Rear Risers then letting-up on his Right Riser to Turn Left.
Basic physics. Boyles Law I think. The reduced atmospheric pressure outside the container (our bodies) allows the gas inside to expand.
right on. if you've ever done a raft dive you know not to inflate it to capacity because the air inside expands the higher you go. friend of mine really put things in perspective when he said, 'this is what your colon does on the way to altitude.'
it cracks me up when my little girl poots because she just laughs and laughs!
Im going to assume that its better to piss you guys off by asking questions than to assume that the S in my back yard is something I can talk about because its in my back yard.
LOL! welcome to the BASE forum...i swear it's scarier than "incidents"...
I'd say the intolerant ones are the minority. same is true with Protestants. or Muslims...or atheists....etc etc...
right on. i think that the idea that your personal religion is right and everyone elses is wrong is the nature of religion itself. in order to have religion you have to have faith. faith that what you believe in is right. this makes it very difficult to accept that someone else could also be right.
Hey ...IM not catholic and I pose a Question to you all. WHY ARE CATHOLICS SOO CLOSE MINDED....why do they hate on people...I am dating a catholic girl...and her FAMILY HATES ME becuase I am not CATHOLIC. How come this supposivly Nice religion is soo cruel and Mean. CANT WE ALL JUST ACCEPT THAT WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENCES....this also goes to the Catholics against GAYS....REDICULOUS!
read what you just wrote...you're making the same kind of generalization against catholics that you accuse them of making against you.
the religion is complex as many are and one belief they have is that if you are not married in the church you are not married in the eyes of God. since any boyfriend is a potential future son-in-law i can see you're not being catholic as a problem to them. they're not going to get any nicer til you convert, haha, but i don't recommend it.
oh and i've heard they sacrifice babies at black mass.
omg thats exactly what i thought! i remember cutting my sons hair once before a family reunioun...it was so horrible i borrowed my sisters dog clippers to fix it...that didn't work, so i ended up taking him to a barber. thank god the kid had alot of hair.
I am still waiting for one valid reason to be posted by the base community that supports and vindicates ones action for leaving a fellow jumper that is either dead, dying, or injured. Sorry, if you think the reasons given out thus far are valid, I just dont seem to think so.
your problem is that you are judging the BASE community on the actions of one individual. i don't recall reading a single post by a BASE jumper that indicated that he would leave...only those saying that they would want their partners on the load to leave them. little different.
Tom, congratulations on a little girl! they are so sweet, they get to wear the really cute clothes and play with the coolest toys...the two of you are going to share many wonderful hours together playing barbie... Cherie, sleep at every opportunity.
Tailgate
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congratulations
Twin Falls - Need a ride
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Re: Nick's list
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nick, you are one of those special people that God put on this earth to make us think it's all worthwhile.
Cute chicks have it easier getting into base?
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yes, that would be laundry...
edited to add, "DO NOT touch by fucking clothes!"
free freefly coaching
in Freeflying
learning the technique for sideways movement in a sitfly has given me something new to work on...seems i'm gonna be working on it for awhile, not as easy as i thought it would be.
t.
Little bit of Tom
in Archive
...i think of him often myself.
Reasons for a non-vented canopy
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Fatality in the UK
in Archive
no i did not. i referenced his last post which was days prior to the incident.
Fatality in the UK
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i pack with alot of tools. but i was taught to count them before i start and count them again when i'm done.
tree, you referenced a previous fatality documented on the list, could you be more specific (#). i read the list everytime we loose a fellow jumper, but i can't reconcile this incident with previous ones.
i'm sorry as hell that paul is gone but even sorrier that the specifics of this fatality were not made known to the BASE community sooner. some of us will learn from them.
Surviving JaapSuter
in Archive
Need Help
in Archive
she's not the one who should be researching, you should be. ultimately BASE is a very personal decision.
Wire strike
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glad you changed your mind.
NickDG
in Archive
thanks for asking the question...
nick, your usually so prolific. hope all is kopacetic in your world.
Farting in plane....
in The Bonfire
right on. if you've ever done a raft dive you know not to inflate it to capacity because the air inside expands the higher you go. friend of mine really put things in perspective when he said, 'this is what your colon does on the way to altitude.'
it cracks me up when my little girl poots because she just laughs and laughs!
admit nothing. deny everything.
Naming Base sites
in Archive
LOL! welcome to the BASE forum...i swear it's scarier than "incidents"...
CATHOLICS BAD OR GOOD
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right on. i think that the idea that your personal religion is right and everyone elses is wrong is the nature of religion itself. in order to have religion you have to have faith. faith that what you believe in is right. this makes it very difficult to accept that someone else could also be right.
and that is my deep thought for the day...
carry on.
CATHOLICS BAD OR GOOD
in Speakers Corner
read what you just wrote...you're making the same kind of generalization against catholics that you accuse them of making against you.
the religion is complex as many are and one belief they have is that if you are not married in the church you are not married in the eyes of God. since any boyfriend is a potential future son-in-law i can see you're not being catholic as a problem to them. they're not going to get any nicer til you convert, haha, but i don't recommend it.
oh and i've heard they sacrifice babies at black mass.
What is your Squirrel name?
in The Bonfire
u may be president but i'm the queen...
her royal highness, queen nutkins, haha
look what i did to my kid!
in The Bonfire
omg thats exactly what i thought! i remember cutting my sons hair once before a family reunioun...it was so horrible i borrowed my sisters dog clippers to fix it...that didn't work, so i ended up taking him to a barber. thank god the kid had alot of hair.
i have no illusions about becoming a hairdresser.
Fatalities, leaving a jumper behind, and the Pact.
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your problem is that you are judging the BASE community on the actions of one individual. i don't recall reading a single post by a BASE jumper that indicated that he would leave...only those saying that they would want their partners on the load to leave them. little different.
Important e-mail on COMMENT SUBMISSION - Draft 2006 NPS Management Policies
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the aclu scares me. don't know if thats the kinda publicity we want but i am curious to know if any one has approached them in the past...
Important e-mail on COMMENT SUBMISSION - Draft 2006 NPS Management Policies
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i got the same e-mail, would you like me to forward it to you.
clip from discovery channel of bridge day 2005
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Friday the 13th Jumps
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got my A!
thanks for the freefall!
Congratulations Tom Aiello!
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Cherie, sleep at every opportunity.