Tyrod212

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  1. Tyrod212

    Retired

    Hey Mike, good Luck in whatever you choose to do next! I'll never forget jumping with you guys off that freestander in WV. Your one of the best jumpers i ever stood on an object with. Good Luck again!!
  2. Tyrod212

    Quitting?

    Never even questioned myself.....because really I thought they were both packed slider down. Realize that if i can make a mistake like this, what else could i do if distracted or something.
  3. Tyrod212

    Quitting?

    Very simple: Grabbing the slider up rig instead of the slider down which led to poor body position (wondering what was taking so long) which led to a whole freaking bunch of line twists which trapped the slider about 3/4 the way up. This ensued into alot of kicking and flailing and just plain sheer luck.
  4. Tyrod212

    Quitting?

    I quit and was only 40 jumps into my career. It's hard to give up the friends you make and the good people you get to meet and especially all the good times on the base trips. The hardest part also was thinking that I wasted my mentor's time (who by the way did excellent training and is a very good jumper), but it was a decision i had to make. I made 1 minor mistake on a 250' foot SL jump (and was lucky enough to walk away with only a sore back and knee), but only by sheer luck!! It was a very simple and very stupid oversight on my part. It was amazing the millions of thoughts that ran through my head in the milli-seconds in took for me to decide that I was going in. Just by sheer luck and probably a higher power, my chute opened about 6 feet from the ground. But after the fact, laying in the grass, the only thing going through my mind were those thoughts and i simply decided it was not worth it to me anymore......I was not ready to go out that way. Wouldn't take back any part of my short lived jumping career, but i'm not ready to start it again either......and don't regret my decision either.
  5. Tyrod212

    Powerline???

    The insulators are always sized for the voltage that is on the line....(larger and longer the insulator, the more voltage is there). So to maintain a safe distance, at least stay the length of the insulator away from the wire......good luck!