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  1. toni

    Austria

    Welcome to the club ;-)
  2. Also keep in mind, the jumps there are advanced jumps...
  3. toni

    "Bad Ideas" list

    Jumping with Track-Stuff too early thinking it is safer that way...
  4. toni

    Fatality: Swiss Valley

    A big thank you Csaber to clarify. You and his family have my condolescences (I was in the valley that day, we all decided to stop jumping that day to think about him). Also thanks to the fellow jumpers staying in the valley that they didn't talk to any media. We (Swiss comunity) had the worst written article in the history of LB in the Swiss Press (BLICK, stating that the thing behind base is to pull as low as possible to get as much adrenalin as possible and more bullshit) and luckly for us, no baser was talking to them to make things worse. As was already the case in multiple accidents at LM, not depending on the level of experience (the wall doesn't change its shape with your experience level), one might think twice before doing multi-ways, arials, etc. at any spot... Stay safe! /t.
  5. And once again, don't call air glacier to ask which ones are legal or tolerated! People were jumping it this summer saying that Air Glaicier didn't say anything that it wasnt legal... Air Glacier do just control air traffic, that's all They don't: - give weather information - give wind condition - say which exit you shouldn't jump - say which field you should land on All you have to do is to jump with respect and a thing we call "menschenverstand" (michi, can you translate??), not all base tourists does have this Stay safe See ya soon, michi
  6. Treelines is possible from LM. Just with Trackjeanz ;-))
  7. toni

    Eiger conditions

    Please, don't ask Air Glacier for any BASE relevat infos (conditions for eiger included), it's not their job.... They have already enough work to. For conditions, ask people who where there or who lives there. Check weather web sites, etc.... The best thing is: go have a look by yourself... all the best /t.
  8. Hello Everyone, Discussions are going and we are sure, they are for the good of all. The rules of the valley are well known and spread all over. These remain the same. One thing we would like to add since the sad easter weekend: when anything bad happens, DON'T TALK TO THE MEDIA, DON'T TALK TO THE MEDIA. DON'T TALK TO THE MEDIA!!! It is the rule of the police to inform the news agencies, not the one of the jumpers. I did multiple times the experience, that it is best not to speak to any of them. They will gather the news agencies reports and this will finish by a objective small report, which is best in those cases. The article printed in the BLICK (Swiss German sensation newspaper) is again reflecting us as sucidal crazy badass guys. take care /toni
  9. toni

    valley weather

    Waterfall is closed. Period! (just to double 1007). Furthermore, please DO NOT CALL Air Glacier for BASE Jumping and condition information!!! CALL Air Glacier just before jumping. They have plenty other work to do, and are not responsible for ourselves. You can try to send emails or private messages to any of us "locals". We try to give our best to provide useful information. Thanks for your understanding, all the best /t.
  10. He James I worked there this weekend and next week. There is still a lot of snow at the exits. Currently it's very warm, so watch the snow-avalanches. For more, PM. seeya /toni
  11. Only one way to know: Jump it! Just open within the red circle. If you still doubt, jump again, until you're sure it'll pass or not. This is been done on several objects, the most I heard was up to 40 jumps prior to pass the underhanging parts. The least I did was 1 jump to know that it doesn't pass, it was obvious after the jump...
  12. Everyone is free to do what they want. Agree on this. So the paying course even take the ones noone is willing to show the activity.... Every paying customer... This is what I don't like. I do teach people for free, yes, but I don't take anyone with me I don't want. My "courses" take weeks and weeks (up to one year even) so I decide I want to be with this particular person (I never take more than one at a time!!). This is my opinion. I hope there will be never any BASE courses in my country at "our" spots! It will endager the spirit I (and many other here) see in it. Commercializing (and federalizing) doesn't make part of the my point of view of this game. All the best, toni
  13. Hello Clair, What would bother me in your place is, after read Jimmys responses about his motivation, you seem to be just a "proof of concept" (crashing dummy or just a mouse somewhere in a laboratory) that "IT" is doable. I wouldn't like to be that. I personally have nothing against jumping off stuff without skydiving (where I think it is a bad idea). Fact is, there is nothing better to learn to fly your body than skydiving. So in BASE you will not progress that fast, and you have to be reallyreally patient before doing the bigger jumps, means evolving in this sport. (And finding yourself beside a big cliff, it is really hard no say no, cause you can't fly your body there is the where the risky part lies..) Third, to say someone succeed doing BASE is a bit big... I think noone of us can say we succeeded doing it (except those who stopped jumping alive). all the best t.
  14. Yes, it's been done a dozen of times by P. He doesn't like Computers neither he likes spotlight... There are other things on his account. Have fun, don't get underdosed ;-) /t.
  15. Hello Tom, You mentioned in the Thread about "Beginners in Europe" (I don't know how to URL this thing) that TrackSuits are good to go. I can only disagree in this context (Beginners). What Douggs says: "...the tracking suit will take over your jump and the suit will fly you..." means for me, unless your track skills are not bomb proof, don't do it. I do know only the non-tracking suit side, since I never dared to put one of these funny looking suits (unless maybe for a Hip-Hop Party) and I have done over 100 (sub)terminal track jumps. Maybe I'm just an old fart, loving my old track-jeans (but stay interested to try this once I know how to track and am open for it). One Tip I can give is (I did some lows cause of this mistake) for exits you jump often: Don't take the distance as a reference for pulling (like Moritz mentions), always know where you are vertically! thanks for this good reading t. "On ne vie pas de saut pres..."