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jehova, jehova, jehova .... (i think sean connery once told me jehova starts w/ an i..)

theres a florida dz, right down the street (17N) from deland and rhonda, that is run by "old farts who have no use for "progress""... it starts with a "p" and ends with "alatka".... cool family style dz with an emphasis on knowing your shit... and no fatalities ever... give a shout if anyones ever in the are... -b

this adds nothing to the discussion whatsoever.. but in hockey you play the man, not the puck.. so i guess you canucks out there can flame away..

id imagine if you decrease the size of everything proportionatley equal you could get pretty close.. wingloading would be an issue as well, figure out the square footage of your wing and weigh your "guy" about the same to start, there will probably be a considerable amount of trail an error tho.. steering lines will probably be a pain as well.. you could maybe use a parafoil kite if somehow you could use a servo to move a small weight from left to right under the wing loading one side or the other more...(a two line kite anyway...)

eyebrow 3years frenulum 3and counting.. (edit for spelling)

The tower gremlins break them and the tower Gnomes fix them. ...thats a good one. how would one start a career in the tower biz? if one were so inclined... pm me

can anyone who attended post an update?...

im a fl local in durango colorado in need of some excitement..base, a dropzone, 420, wtf ever... maybe just some drunken debauchery..? helped sister drive car from jax fl and now have nothing to do.... any locals anywhere close? call me cause this sucks.... 904.449.8081 -b edit to add my flight leaves alberqurque on july 3rd..

heres a similar one... a cose frioend of mine..adopted, no knowledge of his bioparents until later, is frontman of many different mildly successful bands learned recently that his real father was the exact same person as him.. i wonder if maybe somehow before conception certain activities or "favorites" become so much a part of you that it somehow becomes ingrained in your dna... the human body is fkin fascinating.... with its thinking and regeneration and such...

taken from the australian base association... World Ideologies (Referencing Cows) Feudalism You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. Pure Socialism You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need. Bureaucratic Socialism Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need. Fascism You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. Pure Communism You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk. Real World Communism You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation. Russian Communism You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market. Perestroika You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market. Cambodian Communism You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. Militarianism You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you. Totalitarianism You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned. Pure Democracy You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk. Representative Democracy You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk. British Democracy You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything. Bureaucracy You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows. Pure Anarchy You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you. Pure Capitalism You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Capitalism You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral. Enviromentalism You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them. Political Correctness You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender. Surrealism You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

antbody know the span height?

not really a wingsuit..but a wing nonetheless.... http://www.skywings.fi

and anyone with balls enough to pack a rig, commit suicide, and subvert that fate with an inflatable wing shortly thereafter, is pretty "sick-ass" in my opinion...ymmv

Two questions: 1) Is BASE really a quest to pull off the most "sick-ass shit"? 2) What is your basis for comparison, that has led you to conclude that any particular group of jumpers is "sicker" than any other? How many different groups have you jumped with and/or observed before making this conclusion? 1) absolutley not, and i dont belive i implied that either.... 2) opinions are like assholes in the vein that everyone has one, and belives that only thiers is the one that does not stink... -b

well as much as everyone loves to rip mr.d lets not forget he and crew are pulling off some pretty sick-ass shit... sicker than most.. maybe the equivilent of the whuffo writing off basers as "suicidal maniacs" even tho deep down he wishes he was the maniac in question...

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im pretty sure i dont agree with this... one of the greatest appeals to me in base is the fact that it ISNT mainstream..( yet... atleast not to the same degree as skydiving or the skateboarding boom..) im so sick and fkin tired of seeing and hearing how "extreme" this is or that is yeah dude spike your hair its cool to be punk rok now... look at me im so extreme... put me on tv... masybe i can get chicks now... corprate america says "x"product is cool, and extreme, and made for young cool exterem people just like me so buy buy buy... no thanx nokia or nike or coca cola keep that shit elsewhere. if this is why anyone is into base, have fun "being cool" because the corporation says you are.. but i think there are way more people in the sport for deeper reasons than that..maybe it helps you cope with the stresses of your daily life, maybe that exit point is your little trap door into your own "perfect" realm of existence .. those precious few seconds where nothing else matteres.. not your ecodestroy suv or your new nokia cell phone not your job, your debt, your bitchy girl/boyfriend, your amazing girl/boyfriend (unless the happen to be in freefall right next to you..) not the cameras on the ground and definiatley not corprate america... all that exisits in these particular moments of your rapidly ending life is your conciousness and that lttle parachute tied to that bigger parachute... and where the fuck am i gonna land? keep it real. pura vida ladies and gentlemen

not me.but my "co-defendant".. im driving home from a friends bands concert..plenty smashed, 2:30 am open beers and blunts a blazing.. (not the brightest idea, but niether is almost-suicide for pleasure..ie. skydiving/base) anyway..the cop is a real dick/asshole type we happen to get pulled over right into the parking lot of my buddies complex .. the usual scenario sobriety test (ending with handcuffs) and a vehicle search.. (w/ one more pair of handcuffs..) now were in the back of the same car whrere the cop takes us into town to show us off to his other cop buddies... hes sitting in front doing some paperwork and has parkinsons or something..maybe mmore like tremors.. any way my accomplice asks him out of NOwhere.."whats a matter officer shakes alot? why you shaking yo goddamn faggot? fuck you. fuck you you stupid faggot" no bullshit.... repeatedly until the cop removes him from the backseat takes him to the concrete and blackens his eye.. :( fucking pigs... on a happier note however the cop became so engrossed with this little development my dui turned into a pos. less than 20 grams...or a 200 dollar fine..

those things look dangerous as hell.... is threre video anywhere? it looks almost more like a floaty oversized camera suit than a "wing" suit in the conventional sense... what was the performance like on something like that?

go to eurail.com.. get a tren pass and roknroll... also.. dont fuck around with exchange rates and the like..put your fundage in your american bank, and use your visa card to wthdraw at an atm (bankomat) inside each particular country.. you get the best possible rate, and dont have to carry 2k in your pocket..

this is essentially what i was getting at... where is the all-knowing dietey lawrocket when you need him?..

heard mention of this in another thread, but forgot where.... November 8, 2001 A couple visiting Yosemite National Park this past Saturday made an urgent cell-phone call to park rangers to report that a BASE jumper had launched off the face off El Capitan and slammed into the 3, 400-foot wall twice before disappearing into trees near the East Buttress. The call, made at about 3:30 on Saturday afternoon, sparked an immediate investigation by rangers, who discovered the jumper just before nightfall: a red climbing haul bag that was stuck on a ledge some 500 feet above the base of the wall. Rangers then approached two climbers that had finished a descent of El Capitan and asked then about the bag. The climbers, an American and an Italian national, initially denied any knowledge of the bag but later confessed to throwing it from the top of the East ledges, the standard descent route down the wall. They had fashioned a parachute for the bag from a portaledge rainfly. Rangers climbed up El Capitan the following day to seize bag for use as evidence in court The Italian climber, Giovanni Groaz, pleaded guilty this week to illegal air delivery and had to pay a fine of $100 plus the cost of park rescue efforts. He was also given 12 months of probation. The American climber's name was not released as the case against him is still pending. -rockclimbing.com my point is 100$ fine? is this standard? or does it vary? maybe someone w/firsthand elcap/bust experience could fill us in...

the elph lens dosent extend.. and as far as a remote shutter release its different for each model/manufacturer but canon's pretty good about having hookupd already installed....

hey matt...you may or may not remember me from the hogflop... digitalbase/gta while "roughing it" in the tent.... anyway my .02... a) w/no cam jumps... getting started will take a while... jump just a video camera for 50/100 jumps or so.. (and be comfortable with it before add your wingsuit... thats alot of variables there trying to kill you..) as far as other skills... primarily fundamental belly stuff... matching fallrates, moving where you want to be and so on.. (freefly cam is a whole different animal...) w/300+ jumps you should have this down anyway..

me and a friend made a game out of finding the lowest objects... too bad you cant go handheld..