Calvin19

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  1. This is why on every NP jump along with my survival kit, I carry a taser and A large, long range bottle of a particularly Horrible strain of Mace that will probably deter any of the USAs best NP crimefighting squads. They cant use their gun when they have 100,000 volts in them, and they cant shoot if they cant see. Dont laugh like im kidding, and dont tell me im backsliding. lethal weapon this. Edited to add- ....wait... are they really reading this?
  2. depends on the Exit point. 210 to impact is lowest 240 to impact at west exit 260ish to the bottem of the landing (creek)
  3. Oh Yeah! we need to share the best quotes of the week, my memories... "MATT! what are you doing?"-jesse "I dono man, just film it"-Matt "heres to smokin' it low..."- sparky "I kinda wish i hadn't done a gainer..."- After a Jumpline wrap between the legs. ouch. "The wind is coming in waves, it will be gone in 2 minutes!"- sparky
  4. Calvin19

    *death and fear

    "...I was sitting on the couch and I realised that I was gonna die (everyone eventually does) and I fucking panicked bad." I think that this has a lot to do with the couch, i never get sad thinking i am going to die on a jump. only when i am sitting on a couch do i get that feeling. cheers...
  5. Calvin19

    *death and fear

    Hey, thanks for that pic man, we rarely get action shots of all of us together, its priceless. Those are my boys! commited to the Core! And thanks for your posts, everybody. dream immortal
  6. Hey Guys! Here is the new official FRASCA II.3 at Walshmens Walk Collum. I will post some more things, but i just wanted to get as many (Full Resolution!) pictures as i can. Anything from the Rope jump i want, B-role stuff and all. Please Email full res shots to me, if there is more than a few, maybe send me a CD if it is not too much trouble? My Email: [email protected] If you are sending a CD, My Address will be: Matt Hecker SINE Innovations 115 S. 34th st. Boulder, Co 80305 and of course, any footy that i was not able to firewire, especialy the good stuff, i would love. I know it would be a pain, but a tape or a AVI file on cd will work great. I am throwing together a video of the week, all the stuff at the walk, and a few highlights elsewhere. Please do this with Haste, i am already getting ancy to start editing and i need all the footy. PM me if you are sending, so i know how long to wait. Also, I need a list of all the People who jumped our system, first names are fine but full is better. I just want it all in the credits. Alex and I just finished the De-rig (untangling ropes at home) started at 9am today. (ugg, i didnt sleep much last night sigh...), 5 hours of rope stuffing, untieing, cleaning, and organising. we looked over all the system, the stress points we usualy find damage. All looked well. the only thing we noticed was a core shot on the reserve line at the knot on the jumpers side from somebody forgeting to clear the reserve fully before rapping, we noticed it onsite, cut it, and retied it. Other than that the system had no squaks. We measured the lines, (we do this to catalog the stretch over time and usage) the jumplines were normal, about 3 percent longer than before they were ever weighted. The tyroleans had no noticable change after we let them recover on the long ride home. FRASCA II.3 took 8 hours of pre-rigging(Alex and I) it took 5.5hours to rig onsight (Alex, Nic, me, kevin, Nicholas, Kevin2) The system was up for 2 half days and 2 full days of jumping. it took 119 jumps in that time. it took 10 people less than an hour to tear down and stuff in the car (special thanks to the Last load and teardown crew, the Canadians.) As for everyone who jumped, Im glad it all went well. Only 1 jump mishap, a jumpline wrap that cleared itself violently (they tend to do that on rope jumps) I really want footy of that if anyone has it. Sadly, I think that was our last system at Walshmens Walk. We have outgrown that sight. We have gone much bigger, but not with such a reliable, repeateble system. We will return, as usual, with bigger dreams and longer falls. We need a new sight, over 130 meters at least. I was impressed with the level of maturity (did -I- just say that out loud?) that the people who jumped our system approached it with. everybody who jumped understood that it was not a amusment park ride, and every bit as dangerouse as a BASE jump with different risks. In NO way do we guarentee our system, but we obviously fealt comfortable enough letting 33 first time "deathcampers" huck it. One thing i noticed was the difference between BASE jumpers and Climbers, about equal amounts of the two tried the jump, and the climbers were obviously much more technicaly prepared for the system, but they also took the Hit (the rope catch) much better, they knew what rope falls were like and carried that over. While BASE jumpers had better Exit performance and free fall position, they were surprised by the way the rope suspended them. this is to be expected, naturaly. It was strange to see, how relaxed a BASE jumper is with GOING IN ground rush, And as usual, PLEASE, dont try this at home. Better men than me and my crew have died screwing this stuff up. IT IS NOT SIMPLE. It took us 5 years to get comfortable enough to build this system and let our brothers and sisters try it on. If you really want to start this, come along on a full system. Scouting to measuring, designing to prerigging, the first onsight tests, and finaly a jumpable system. You will probably change your mind. Start with bridge jumps, have us or somebody who knows what they are doing take you. (you guys know who you are) Tyrolean Systems are by far the most dangerous and complex. anyway, hope everybody is well, glad MOAB was MOAB, because it always is. I included some of my favorite pictures, enjoy! Cheers! and I love you all. *sigh...
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    *death and fear

    So, i never post like this, but this one hit really close to home. After i got back from a grand week of rope hucking in moab, I had a voicemail from a freinds parents telling me she was dead. A high school freind, the ones you make great memories with and then slowly lose touch with for the 2 years after graduation. Turns out she was flying with her Boyfreind and his child, a 3 year old, and they hit an tower in Towerland, USA. I had known about the crash for a day and a half, being a pilot myself i follow these things Through the NTSB. I had no idea it was her until after i got home. The tower came down, another loss, though shadowed to me. (she would laugh at me saying this, i promise) I dont even know why i am posting this, i guess, even after a half day spent with all her other fellow freinds, and a few hours drinking beer alone at the end of runway 26 at my airport, i still feel really dead to it. Alone, of course, but dead. less than a year ago, another freind died in a plane crash in denver. I got the call boarding our plane for a midnight bandit load over my house. She lost an engine on rotation and VMC rolled a Cessna 421 into the runway. cartwheel explode. She was 20 years old. I walked through the wreckage on that one the next day. I cried. I cant cry now. Am i getting used to this? Now i have had 4 freinds die on me, and im only 21. I am a BASE jumper, Right? do i have to get used to it? It is becoming aparent to me that i have chosen a path in life where i will need to learn to accept a, um, high amount of loss. My 3 BEST freinds, since 1st grade, 8th grade, and 6th grade, my neighbors for over a decade, have recently started BASE. I have been in BASE for 2 years, and i feel proud and scared to see them learning and fearing and figuring out what i did. We have looked eachother in the eye, and understood that in the next 10 years, at least one of us will probably know a whole lot more about the great beyond than the rest. But these freinds are not the ones dieing. I Thought after Nadia died a year ago, i could relax. i hoped maybe that was the loss for this era, my one complex to tell people about over campfires, far away from crouds, a place where god and other tyrants cannot overhear. I know this is talked about a lot, and i know i am rambling. I know that the tower collapse has been posted, and maybe this will just get deleted or linked to that, but i dont care. I just wanted to get it out. I am sorry for anybody who is reading this thinking it was some deep and meaningful, then liberating post. i am sorry for wasting your time. Its just a scared little kid, barely able to drink legaly, Afraid of anyone but himself dieing, haunted by his own motivation to live every second, and spead the beautiful lifestyle of actualy living to everybody else. Im hopeing that you all call your freinds and tell them you love them. Anyway, here is to Heather. Hell, here is to the Angels. (anybody who watched the credits of my Moab Chronicles will understand the dedication) For The Angels: Bobby M, Car wreck Adam E, Car wreck 2000 Nadia B, Cessna 421, 2004 Heather B, PA-28/1000' tower, 2005 This is not what i was so anxious to post when i got home from an amazing moab trip, but some things just fall in your lap. as i say before every jump, every light twin takeoff, every single engine over the mountains flight, every low pull, every corona arch fly-through, every motercycle drive by, every paraglider wingover... dream immortal Goodnight.
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    Site Nicknames

    I personaly enjoy "G-spot" (you all know where that is) and an E I opened up in Mnnesota, called "z-man" from a spray painted tree at the Exit point. -SPACE-
  9. Ok... sooo... we are wheels up in 40 minutes, i think we will call somebody when we get there? peter? and how can i pick up that rig?
  10. "I'd love to jump with ya but I think it would be a little hard to stay relative in freefall if you were under canopy" and dude, ill give you my wingsuit, we will be fine.
  11. any word on the weather for tonight and tommorow?
  12. this is a text i sent to heather, a pilot freind of mine on a night when our entire group of pilots, jumpers, and aircraft were assembled at the same airport. "Heather, we have an 8 place Jump plane, An aerobatic chase plane, A helicopter, 2 Ultralights, 4 Wingsuits, 5 Skydiving rigs, 4 Base rigs, 12 cameras, an abandond airport and the rest of this beautiful full moon night. What would you like to do?" Heather was just learning to Skydive, previously she had been our designated jump pilot, (it sucks she and scoot started jumping, now we have to alternate) needless to say, we had a great night. On one load, All craft and rigs were airborn individualy at the same time (except the ultralights) I really wish CCDs could work better in low light.
  13. -----"Goddess" Cheers...
  14. I always thought it was funny how the media is very proud of themselves for knowing what the acronym B.A.S.E. stands for, they never miss a chance to explain it.
  15. NICE... i will call the airport for the car, it was not there last time i was there...
  16. Alex and i, and the Brush crew are flying out from boulder Co wheels up at 19:00MST and will arive at 23:00MST---ISH, at the airport north of town, any possibility of a ride that late? tonight as in saturday the 19th... and i have not been able to get a rig to pack and bring for alex, so tom if i could use that Mojo, that would be awsome!!!!
  17. From the stories i have heard of PCITs, and one i have seen, they have either been from PC hesitations (a non inflation for a few seconds) or something other than Pins, IE- one i saw was from multi point bridal stowing problems. While a great idea, i also dont think somebody would have time to realise its actualy a pin problem, and pull the handle, on a 5 second cliff. it also complicates some things... but keep them coming.
  18. When i posted that i assumed that the reason for the depression was from the lack of a center vent, I didnt think it could be anything else. I lack an extreme amount of knoledge in the exact physics of parachute openings. I guess i should have asked first?... I also do not own a vented Canopy, only daggers. so my firsthand experiance to these is limited also. i do have a Blackjack coming soon, however
  19. Hello!!!! yeah, grossly underloaded, but a good pic. tard over, Rock Dragon 303. im 140lbs
  20. the wingsuit jump is not me... but oscar packs pretty solid... actualy i might have packed that one for him... i do not use primary stow on slider off jumps unless i know my delay will be more than 2sec. otherwise i use it. plus, its the bridge, what could possibly go wrong? PS-every high speed photo i have ever seen of this stage slider down opening looks scary, agreed? edited cause im illiterate. even after my edits
  21. I only have 5 skydive crew jumps, and have taken 2 docks after base jumps on long canopy rides, but i have 400 skydives and a lot of spirit, i would love to practice with you guys, dont know if i have the skills or money to compete... no gear either, but if anybody has a lightning 126... ill buy it. i jump out of our own planes, i really hate my home DZ, but i'm in for what i can do. Based in Boulder, Co...
  22. is moab chronicles cool enough?
  23. "bulshit foreward motion" hence the sarcasm. i think he was in freefall for 40' he barely got his wings inflated. sorry it wasnt so obvious i was jokeing.