JTHolmesJR

Hi clif..

...man this sure is a great time

see you later

jt

Whats a matter Tom Aiello?

cant even post a simple guess in the sake of fun?

I noticed that you didnt even show your face or any help in Miles' world record...

you tout yourself as being an involved leader type but you didnt even participate in Twin Falls' most notable base jumping session in history, not a pack job or a hike out or an interview.

UMM... yeah i will take 562. a hell of a year and about a hundy more than he did this year.

Clif... you are copying jimmy H, by giving away gear for a contest, except your item is worth much less than a fox tarp, maybe a more suitable dorkzone name for you would be clifhuckenstien.





miles has a life time pass to my bridge (a site named the IB perrine memorial bridge in Twin falls idaho AKA "jt's bridge") he is truly keen and able STOP HATING!!

Miles did flips every single jump for 57 jumps... mostly doubles, a few singles and a ton of triples... almost entirely slider down.

his rotations completed would have been way more than 100... there was a guy recording all that info on all the jumps... can we get this info posted? Tal? Clif?

I'd like to read all the stats on Gary and Miles world record sessions.
the details were recorded of all of miles' jumps and even openings and there was only one jump where he earned himself a couple line twists after a triple gainer, other than that he just threw out on headers all day.

that one guy is totally right...nobody can Wooooo hooo like miles Daisher.

nobody can jump off of my bridge 57 times in a row doing slider down technical arials the whole time... he was doing Kiss Ass Blasters (twisting triple) after like 45 jumps. that is just unmatchable.

I am guessing that in 120 jumps this Gary guy is gonna have some pretty interesting stats as well.

any charities involved with this one?

no dip shit.


it is APOOPA just like the man said. Americans Parachuting From Off Of Objects With Skis And Parachutes And during the Daytime with cameras and Stuff

I am getting a bunch of PM's about this and I dont know anything more than what is posted... but it sounds like we are gonna bemore than your whopping 10.

as of now it sounds like:

VID666
CLIFHUCKSTABLE
JT HOLMESJR
MARCIA
RODEOBASE420
AARONHUGE
FALLLINESKIER
HugheJRection
[email protected]
JorgenAFallwell
LARSLyngenberg
[email protected]
FREELANDER
RJGILL
RONYANKLE
BLUESKIESANDRAINBOWS (let's hope he doesnt show!!)
and
then i guess
miles D
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please re direct PM's to one of these other guys

my question:

is there gonna be NO FALL zones like in extreme skiing contests?

or maybe, NO IMPACT zones like you know the wall, or trees and stuff.

no fall zones were cool because it made it so that if you were a reckless skier that was lucky to make it down the run alive, then you had no chance of winning.

with a no impact zone... even if you had the fastest time and the most flips and the best style, but your run resulted in a wall strike, then you have no chance of winning, even if it was pretty damn cool what you did.

the AAPOOPA is likely no joke at all... Shane McConkey once started a sanctioning body called the IFSA... stood for something like...Is Freebasing Seriously Addictive, or maybe it was something else...whatever who cares...

what up

there is a guy named jesse hall lives in gunnison i think. are you guys related? lemme know if you have trouble finding him, he is my homey and I know his contact info.

there is gonna be an AAPUPA ski base contest this year in south lake tahoe califonia.

you should come on out for it.

jt

assuming the wall is sheer here are my guesses for running and having a really good tracking pant jump

How far could he get away from the mountain (remembering he is doing a running launch) at
100ft 40ft away
200ft 65ft away
300ft 75ft
400ft 85ft
500ft 100ft
600ft 150ft
700ft 200ft
800ft 250ft
900ft
1000ft
1100ft
1200ft
1300ft
1400ft
1500ft
1600t 700ft
1700ft
1800ft 1000ft

total guesses.. but fun to think about.

I know that airwalk poster. My friend mark has it hanging in his room. he got it at a shoe store back in 92... at the very earliest 1990.



i dunno where to buy base posters but mark I think Mark has his priced at $1000.

didnt see that..looked like a last week thing to me and that you were venting because that tower thingy ended up on the news.

oh well, stil worth stating some facts to show JR´s side of things, as I have been on the opposite side of internet lashings and it isnt the best feeling in the world and usually the facts are all way offf.

but i guess 2 years ago his canopies might have been cleaner

packing posts...whats wrong with them?

why am I an ex ski baser?

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This past week, we were jumping a large TV tower (2000'), with an elevator.

Anyway, we had four jumpers on the elevator, and were all set to get to altitude, and put the elevator to bed before the sun rose, then wait for the light and make a dawn load.

As the elevator reached 1000' or so, two canopies opened pretty much right in front of it--at around 800'.

They were pretty logo canopies, apparently sponsored by a major snowboarding company (I don't snowboard, but I think that's what "Burton" makes).

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BALONEY... JR´s parachutes are faded and old and the logos never popped even when they were new. THe logos are on faded white that is more like brown grey after the 300 jumps have been rallied on that gear

The first jumper fought the wind a bit, and pretty much floated straight down, landing just in front of the guy wires.

The second jumper had a 90 degree off-heading, and as he struggled to turn his canopy, he was blown between the guy wires of the tower.

what do you mean? dont we always jump between the wires on antennas? did the guy go through the wires and into the other side or not?

if so, did he land over there or did he come back through again and land in the same side as he had jumped from?

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It was pure, dumb luck that he survived. I was amazed that he hadn't struck the wires, and gotten to ride them 700' to the ground, thereby injuring (truthfully, probably killing) himself, and likely putting our lovely little elevator off limits for quite some time.

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SO, you were 700 feet away and it was dark.

"para historians beware two jumpers can witness the same thing, yet disagree on what they saw."

From my vantage point (on the ground, bedding down the elevator), I saw the openings, and the resultant wind-driven canopy flights.

A bit of our dialogue:

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ME: Um, well, you really ought to jump into the downwind sector of the tower. That way the wind pushes you away from it.

WHat the hell is a"sector"? if you speak in code tom, many perfect strangers will not understand you.
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ME: And most people try to pull a bit lower--that way the wind is weaker, and doesn't effect your opening that much.

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WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO TELL A PERFECT STRANGER TO OPEN HIS PARACHUTE LOWER ON A BASE JUMP?

you are not familiar with his gear or his skill

ME: Hey, do you guys want to go and grab some breakfast with us? Maybe talk about this a bit?

So, I get home, make a few phone calls and figure out who the jumpers were. I am informed, quite curtly, that they were perfectly safe, and I ought to mind my own business.

Oh, well. I guess I'll go quietly mind my business, then.

tattle tailing to all your computer oriented friends is not minding your own business.

my 2 cents:
as a jumper in the area at the time, I know that the winds were cold, gusty and shifty. THere was even another jumper the same week that actually had a wire strike that may have been as a result of these unusual wind conditions.
a mistake may have been made in which side to jump, but as a forgiving object will tend to, it forgave.

it could have been an honest mistake, the winds may have been different at exit alt. than opening alt. misleading the beginner jumpers

Here are the facts:

two beginner jumpers were jumping a beginner object at night.

the winds may have been an issue, but both managed to land safely.


no harm no foul.

but, 10 minutes?

really, only ten from un packed in a stuff sack to packed and PC stowed?

$20 gets your rig packed where I come from.

200 Kroner will get you one in Norway thats about $30

both are perfect ram air oriented pack jobs that rarely take much less than 30 min... but who is counting

I have never seen a 10 minute base pack job that isn´t foolishly rushed

I have paid for about 25 base pack jobs, I have been paid to pack before too. In general paying others to pack you up is rare, but jumping other peoples pack jobs is common among people who know what they are doing

even at $20 per pack job, you would not bother to pay that to someone that you do not trust

skydiving is great, I mean how can you pass on a $5 pack job? that just seems like a steal to me.

jt

Hey Jaap

the general style in ski base these days is to ski off of a cliff that is at least around 200 feet tall and either open yer chute imediately, or do a flip or two and then toss yer chute.

we have been waiting for a snowboarder(s) to come and play with us and have fun off of our local 350 footer, but no one ever shows up.

that is where CLIFHUCKSTABLE has been doing quad flips and kiss ass blasters (twisting triples)

seems to me that the snowboard would be just as fun and safe, but I do not know how to hit jumps on a board very consistently at all yet.

why not just go for it our style?

this will save the pain in the ass and the money to get a new binding set up, one that you will be lucky to ever retrieve after you go ski off of a huge cliff, and let yer whole set up fall to impact.

if you are worried about it, just put a big PC in yer hand and go fast and throw quick and with all that forward speed yer canopy is gonna open so fast that it will be hard for you to manage to get your feet and board tangled up in it.

skiers do it

mono boarders have done it

when are some of you snowboarders gonna give it a go?

....were waiting...

edit for site name ~TA

The tard stands for totally awesome rapid deployment, but at the same time it also has the connotation of being ya know retarded and nota smart or calculated way to jump.

you are doing very meticulously prepared manual deployments... not tards.

tards have to be more careless young man and much less prep.

You might as wellpack.

here is the deal with the tard:

stow and go

s fold the lines (2 or 3 or 4 or 5 grabs each at least a couple feet long) into one of yer hands and throw the wholoe deal above yer head as you step off.

as for McConkeys:

stow and go

dangle and dive.

McConkeys retardeds:

stow and go

S fold

dive over and leggo

NO FLAKING ALLOWED

thats about it.

and oh yeah... dont forget rule #1

no idea

The best most dialed in helmet camera set up that I have ever seen is being put out by a company called Go Big innovations. I use one and I am very pleased. THey will be selling cams on their sight shortly, but not til the fall. I think you can still buy em though. You can check them at www.igobig.com or email them at [email protected] They rock the lipstick cam, but they have eliminated the excess wires and made use very easy when in conjunction with a small backpack worn on the chest (easy to find)... you can see the helmet cams at www.igobig.com their prices are good. Remember, if you are gonna choose lipstick cam over direct mount, the quality is only as good as the lipstick lens, so you might as well choose a cheap video cam because it is really just yer recording unit.

Tree;

Didn't I tell you to stay off of my bridge?

jt

Hi all;

Just wanted to post to let you know that due to popular demand, permission slips to jump my bridge (the IB perrine Memorial bridge in Twin Falls, Id, ie. "JT's bridge") will be granted to all jumpers free of charge for the memorial day weekend.

I think it is going to be really fun and the more the merrier, right? , so come on out to Twin find me (JT Holmes) and request a permission slip and then jump and have fun. If you want a permission slip in advance, just post your address here and your name and I will send you one.

Thanks for checking in.
jt

stay off my bridge

Hey Treejumps (mark Kissner)

KILL YOURSELF

jt holmes

has anyone else had mostly good results with Flik except for just once or twice?

I jump Fox & Flik, and cant tell much difference. I think i like vents but I am not sure. I land softer under my Fox. It is hard to tell the difference between vented and non-vented canopy openings accept that you gotta slow the vents down terminal. I can't decide which to get for my next canopy and I need suggestions from heavy users.

I got a heinous opening with my Flik once... a corked surging line twist 180 on a normal slider up cliff deployment. That is the reason I dont try another Flik immediately.

has anyone had any strange openings with the Flik?

We parachute geeks are just thinking too much and just need to jump any seven cell base tested parachute. It has got to be just luck of the draw and skill.

I think lots of jumpers graduate from Fox to Flik or Mojo to Ace and think the new parachute is better but really they just have learned to base jump better and flare better and their parachute is new instead of old and flies true and their body position is better so openings are more on heading

sORRY FOR WRITING A nOVEL
JT