Calvin19

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  1. Actualy, (not to ruin this thread with a serious post, sorry guys) my sketchiest moments have been in skydiving. BASE is either sketchy, really sketchy, SUPER sketchy, or a fatality.
  2. thank you for the compiment, but to clarify... I am a fairly new BASE jumper, only around 230 jumps, 80 objects, 4 openings. so, pretty far down compared to a lot of you guys out there. I know VERY little about BASE and skydiving, and how it works. no more than any other jumper. However, i have been coming up with new things and getting hurt doing them since i was very little. and when i can skydive, and BASE jump, and Climb, and fly Airplanes, combining them in different ways is what i am good at. Implausible? maybe... maybe im making it all up. but for sake of argument, lets say i am. where did i get all the video and pics? you have a good point on these forums, participating and being a sketchball on purpose (or not on purpose?) is probably bad for the sport, at least flaunting it online. but i have a different view of this sport. I thinks it is hopeless, not in the cool hopeless that i live for (i know some of you know what i mean!) but the bad hopeless, like in my spoof thread about whats going to happen. I really dont think there is a chance for this sport to ever be as beautiful as it was back then. On a different note... we are BASE jumpers. as much as any of us want to trick ourselves into believing, we are all sketchballs. all of us, when compared to the rest of the human race, we are sketchballs. even you old timers out there. when you tel someone you BASE jump, you will never ever get a neutral reacion. either the person who finds out you huck your meat tells you its sweet and he or she 'wants to try that someday' OR, they polightly excuse themselves from talking about it, because they think you are a sketchball.
  3. Calvin19

    20/20 and jeb

    That is actualy the best retort i have gotten yet. i dont disagree on any particular point. well said. I agree. however, what if i had no idea it was on? i wouldnt mind watching it once online.
  4. so why do you participate? are you trying to elevate the forum and make it worthwhile? or do you like wallowing in the fecal matter? its fun. none of it matters, save the occasional local jumpers search, and info on new gear and ideas. pissing people off online is kinda fun. i got banned from a few other forums for that, but not yet this one. maybe cause im nice here. i wouldnt say im a pot churner with 75 jumps, but i do my part. this is a cute funny argument though, it just goes to show how much these forums have gone to shit. Im sure they were great back in the day, (as in 15 years ago) when there were only a few people participating. there were no cool flips off of underhung rocks, or empire state building arrests to throw poop at, or anything else for the Real BASE jumpers to bitch to us fake BASE jumpers about ones about. how is this not fun? granted, there are a few of you out there that take the Dorkzone,com BASE forum as if it was your life and happiness, and im sorry to all of those who had their entire lives destroyed by people NOT taking the interslut so seriously that if it crashed or they got banned they would go all suicidal. these forums give me something to do between classes, or on sewing breaks. holy shite i have written a lot. (see my sig line) -SPACE-
  5. Calvin19

    20/20 and jeb

    please DO NOT. why not?
  6. no offense... but i seriously doubt camo ever did any of you hosers or this sport any good at all.
  7. Im sure it has been brought up before... and maybe not. I dont think pc swings are caused by 'air spilling out one side', granted, that is what is happening to some extent, but i think the PC is acting like a foil itself, and actualy 'gliding' in the circle above the jumper, much like a wing on a kite. but, i dont know. just a thought.
  8. I have flown my V1 out of a Casa and gained easily 20 meters, I asked pilot for 150, he said in level flight, he can only give me 130. it worked.
  9. Hi. Ship some of them to VKB, and we will test them during summer. i thnk i will do that. what sizes do you want? I see no need to improve on 44, and 46. I have made super-vented36 and 41/42 PS- i think you need a human body in your tunnel, to make the simulated wake of a jumper (retard word being burble)
  10. totaly agreed, and i think im just no good at anything, besides maybe thinking new fun things up. boredom is dangerous
  11. why does the rider/pilot have to ride the bike straddled? im no biker, and i have ridden sport bikes side saddle, or he could lay on the bike, its not like he needs to shift that fast. he could accelerat in exit gear from very low speeds.
  12. i have to test the final PCs i have been making, and so far, the PCs i have made seem to COMPLETELY get rid of oscilation, then i will start to ship a few to some super experienced, well educated jumper to see what they think. then, if they sign it off, i will offer them for sale. i would post pics, but that would not be very competitive, would it?
  13. oh, and im putting my old dagger mesh slider on my saber2.
  14. this is fun... i would never compete in CRW, or any other skydive things. I think competition is, well, backwards for skydiving. IMHO but, i see how competition brings money into the sport, but, from all the people i have been around, and experience i have in cool sports (read not human fetch.-IE football), the coolest people competing in free skiing, etc think the comp is just a way to get money. but, I would go do a World Record CRW formation, big way. that would be sweet. we are working on doing paraglider CRW from 18,000' right now. imagine, instead of a 10 minute crw jump, you could be doing crw for 3 or 4 hours. already have the wings set up. cool pics though. i like. i want to hear more about the mr. frank (rope abseil/rappel mr bill)
  15. Badenhop, very well said. i must say. edit to add- dont get me wrong, it would fun as hell. "dont kill the messenger"-i dont really agree with that quote, i understand its imprtance, but it does not always make sense. the messenger in this being the law enforcement. messengers usualy are the most informed, and well educated on the subject they are delivering. it makes me mad when they dont think for themselves. to me, a messneger should agree with what they are delivering. but thats just me.
  16. hey man, i got yo ass beat for creativity skydiving. ever heard of a DR bill? a mr. frank? ever done a downplane with a 70' rope between jumpers? ever had 3 people under one canopy? IMHO, swooping is sketchy. more so than BASE or ROPE jumping. it is super dangerous. i swooped for about 50 jumps on a stilletto 120, and it scared me. maybe i was just no good at it. but, i like doing bandit loads into crazy tiny LZs in the mountains i live in, and rappelling from a Mr Bill, and geting swung around, thrown up above the canopy. swooping is sketchy. people go in swooping. what is the breakdown? 90% fatalities are swooping. the other 10 percent being the other stuff? i dont know the break down, so i made that up.
  17. yeah, usualy in BASE our openings for a 2 way, slider down or up are very well staggered and reliable (NO weird snivvle) but, these skydive canopies we were un-current on dont do that. i wasnt really looking at the canopy for opening, i was looking at horizon, and i was last out, so i couldnt watch anyone. i had about a 90' left, hands were down to harness the second i saw him, he was only in view for about a half second. still scary to have that close of a call without a wrap. we did have another near-wrap later in the same jump. but, just normal fun stuff. lesson learned though. after 400ish jumps, the only fun i can have anymore is wingsuit or crew!
  18. Might want the course you drag the senator to go by something besides, 'deathcamp' just a thought. i mean, i would deathcamp him if he wanted too, but i doubt offering ti would be good for the sport.
  19. not that your serious, but the snow close to your back in the container will melt, and coulr re-freeze, but i would jump it as well.
  20. I was being fecetious. but, i bet it is very possible. I can pack and jump 11 times in one day skydiving, barely. I know i can pack 11 times in one day easy, done it at potato. half climb outs, half boat outs. so, a faster slider up pack job, and a heli ride each time. if it hasnt been done, it will.