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just a quick note to all before the weekend, if you paid for pictures, they are in the mail as of yesterday... if they are distributed in any form whatsoever, please contact me first, no worries, i just want credit. thanks to all, it was obvious everyone had a great time... 'till next year.. -b

the boosters is on motherfuckers...

drinkbeersmokeweedjumpbase.... any questions?

im in for the poker match. and the zoomie comp. and accuracy. and the hog flop, and the moonshine, and the freefly, and the wingsuit, and the rdub, and the beer drinking, and the fourtwenty, and the rocket van, and the cara-van, and the slackline, and the hop skotch and the patty-cake and the abc's so go ahead and put me on all thos\e lists too...

now aint that the goddamn truth.

i think i made a zoomie once..

agreed, however, there ARE benefits and transferable skills... especially for low-time skydivers.. the pros are already concious of thier bodyposition.. thats why they are pros.. 1980's technology tunnel isnt going to be anywhere near the same as a 2006 super-tech skyventre..that should be obvious.. but to say its worthless.. is wrong.. and fwiw, i have seen "world class" fliers who can freefly svnh at 150+ totally unable to get off the net at 85...

i disagree. brett, if you can learn to fly the aerodium, or any other propdriven "pusher" airstream, you will be able to fly anything. skydivers say "this or that tunnel sucks, because it wasnt fast enough" or "the air wasnt smooth enough" but the real reason they dont have fun is because they are incapable. you have to forget the "arch hard, relax" buisness.. "stable" on prop wash wont actuallly be stable at all, you will have to constantly make small adjustments based on where the air "is" at any given time.. watch some experienced fliers in that style tunnel, you will see what i mean..arms and legs constantly in motion.. you sais it yourself in the beginning " i felt like i had to push on the air collum to stay up" i have a good friend who can fly 75mph in a normal suit.. that, my friend, is called creating lift. it will make you learn to maximize usable surface area, and more concious of body position.. naturally this will make you a better all around bodyflier, both in the sky and in the collum. good luck, have fun.. ps. the funnest tunnel i have flown so far was a 6foot wide collum, driven by a dc-3 prop connected to a diesel motor on the back of a semi truck.. a real hack-job. if you can fly that, you can fly anything. fwiw ive flown sv orlando, sv newhampshire, l1, flyaway lasvegas, and that semi truck rig..

pop his reserve, and steal his cutaway, punch him in the nose. maybe hel figure it out then, on the hike back down.

why is it? why did i jump a vector? why didnt i go hand held? why am i on my back, looking at the steel? that im stuck in this fucking tree? that my legs are broken? that i just frapped in? why am i dead? and why is it so goddammned hot? i mean, i've done a hundred skydives, what could possibly go wrong..

is this a miscommunication of some sort? for the record im am not ready to die period. but then again, very few truly are.

have you flown a gs1? what did you think of that?

come to palatka. we can do night jumps whenever you want, and you can fly your wingsuit from star to star with no worries. check out the hog flop in two weeks.. come on.

that is fucking classic. goddamn

park two vehicles in the lz with headlights making a big "X" into the wind, land the same direction as the lights are facing... easy if you realy want to get flashy, get a few rope lights and make a circle...

voice of experience? that is some hardcore oldschool shit. tons of respect. never give up

for my own personal knowledge as opposed for employment... packing my own reserves and making modifications correctly.. where do i start?

well if were all such badass swoopers then we shouldnt have any problem hitting the tuffet right? i mean, it dosent matter how fast you can go through the gates if you cant shut'er down before you hit the building.. accuracy comp. im organizing, as of now. so someone make an alphabetical, properly organized gramatticaly correct list, that also takes up 4 pages of posts.. we can do it saturday morning, ill even buy the first ticket..

hey guys this thread really sucks. any news about the boogie or the party? hows about an accuracy comp. everyone pays an extra ticket, to be divided amongst the top 3.

id have to say that almost every registered poster in this forum are "friends of base" even the assholes. even the banned. base at its very core, is about breaking the rules.

have you ever actually made a base jump? honest question im going to go out on a limb and say no... based mostly on the "i dont care..experienced" bit.. that is so anti-base its obscene.

oh wow thats fantastic thank you for sharing that

well you did have to look to the internet for acceptance/reassurance first anyway, so maybe its not for you... the point i was attempting to make is that the prodigy is a simple suit to fly and shut down, but youre thinking way to much about it.. just do it, if it dosent work out, RELAX.if it still dosent work out,go to box, fall straight down, deploy if i add another zero to my jumps profile, would that change your mind? food for thought.

do it, it will be fine. if you get sketched out/unstable whatever, let go of the grippers, collapse leg wing fall in box and deploy normally. piece of cake. no need for in air practice touches, just let go of grippers, collapse leg wing, fall in box and deploy normally. see a pattern here?