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  4. While we are talking about hypoxic let me add that they ROCK!!!! I was at the DZ this weekend to find that a dog had chewed off my indicator light, well one call to them and they are shipping me out a new light free of charge!!!! How many companies you know of do this? This company definitely takes care of their customers!!!

  5. hey

    thanks, i was assumming it would be under all their category's, most website have contact information in their listings...and yeah i didnt really notice the tiny print at the very bottom thanks for pointing that out!!

  6. hey

    i was checking out hypoxic website (maker of the hypeye) and they dont have any contact information. does anyone know how to get in touch with them??

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    It seems i have talked this talk with alot of my non skydiving friends, trying to talk them into jumping.



    There's the problem right there.

    When you challenge them on it, of course they're going to say that they would like to do it, because otherwise they figure you'll think they're a wimp.

    So quit trying to talk people into it. If the subject comes up, answer questions, describe how much you love it, whatever. But don't be pushy about trying to convince other people to join you.



    well while i do push towards the "everyone should try it once" theory, i also usually state that you should NOT do it if you do not have the want to, i mean lets face it i know some people do not see the fun and amazing side to this and i would tell those people they shouldent try it then. But for those that want to but are hesitant on the unknown, those are the ones i usually try and talk into coming out to the DZ if nothing more than to just check it out.

  8. when you attend a party or get together with your non skydiving friends, everyone wants to jump or "would do it" but no one ever actually does do it?

    Do all the guys want to look tough and talk a big game in the moment? It seems i have talked this talk with alot of my non skydiving friends, trying to talk them into jumping. You would think that someone who always says yeah lets jump would eventually make it out after so many years of saying it but No.

    this is what brings us skydivers close, sharing a sport with each other that you cant convince anyone into trying, they have to want it for themselves and at the minimal risk of your life. so thanks all who share this sport with me, it would be boring doing only solo's

  9. When i did my first tandem i knew it is something i wanted to do. Well then i started coming on here, to which a month after my first jump, i read on the incidents about the instructor i jumped with died. This happened a month into this sport. We all know the risk before that first jump, this is a big boy sport and if you cant handle it get out!

  10. How do you beat your competitors?? well its easy if you are your own competitor!! i was looking up places to jump around my area, funny how many different companies numbers go to the same people. i called these different places and ended up on the phone with the same guy, Even though its Skydive Macon , their isnt a skydive macon and he wants to send me to this one place in cedartown.....interesting.

    So is this a scam or a marketing genius??? Why just advertise for your dropzone when you could make up a Skydive for this area then when you call we will send you 2 hours to here instead!!

    www.skydivingmacon.com

    www.soaringsports.net

    www.1800skyride.com

    www.skydiving.thrillplanet.com

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    http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=search_results&search_forum=all&search_string=bandit+jumps&search_type=AND&search_fields=sb&search_time=&search_user_username=&sb=score&mh=25



    Not the same thing. A USPA dropzone is a dropzone that has chosen to pay the fee to join the USPA Group Member program. A non-USPA dropzone is a dropzone that has chosen not to pay the fee to join the USPA Group member program. Jumping at a non-USPA dropzone does not mean it's a bandit jump.



    exzactly, so i guess the question is...... if you had a non uspa dropzone, what would they still need to be a legal dropzone?

  12. So whats the difference in uspa dropzones and non-uspa dropzones? What does a dropzone need to have to legally run and take jumpers, including tandems? Could a private airport take jumpers with no more than a notam and permission of owner, to land?

  13. hey all


    while i have never loved a sport so much in my life there are a few things about the sport that i dont like. I remember someone's interview in parachutist, and the question came up, what dont you like about the sport? The answer was.....The Egos. I found this to be a very spot on answer. I notice the smaller the canopies get the bigger the Egos and attitudes. Now for what i dont like about skydiving... the number one thing that drives me crazy. I really really hate it when someone talks about my skills (always someone with a lil more jumps than me, of course) and says oh yeah blah blah dont jump with him he cant fly. But the biggest kicker is they have never made one jump with me???? I can only contribute it to an ego problem? I fly just fine with a ball and other skilled people, how can someone really judge people that they have never not once seen skydive? well this is just one of my pet peeves.

    So what is it out of this fantatstic sport that you do not like?

  14. Yes it happened on one of my first jumps, it was a tandem. The harness was to tight especially where it comes over your shoulders in the front. This is more then likely the same that happened to you, The bright side is this will not happen in your own rig, they are more comfortable

  15. hello


    this past weekend i packed my first malfunction. i estimate it somehwere around 2300 pack jobs, and it was on a tandem. i am kicking myself in the ass over it though i know shit happens.

    so the discussion is about the mal, it was a brake toggle that i swore i stowed just like all the rest, but apparently the loop holding the toggle slide down past the gromet and on opening locked up where the toggle is soft preventing the line from unstowing. i know the TM did the right thing cutting it away because he is just fine. A few people have told me this has happened before, has anyone experienced something similiar?

  20. So this week i had an extremely painful shoulder dislocation. I had to go to the ER and get it put back in place. I read that it can take anywhere from 10 to 16 weeks to fully heal (this is my whole summer skydiving season). it is my left shoulder which is my reserve arm. I also read it will never be back to what is was after this injury. I am just wanting to hear from anyone who has maybe been through this. How has it affected you??? Did it put any limitations on your skydiving even after you have healed? i really hope this dosent affect my skydiving career

  22. hey


    you always see a cypres for sale in the classifieds. On alot of the adds they say never fired. I was wondering.....does this make a difference on the price?? Would you think twice about buying a cypres from someone if they had said it has fired one time?? would it depreciate the value more than one with the same time left that wasent fired?

  24. hey


    i was actually thinking of posting a related question so i will put it here.

    If someone did mess with your rig, and it was found out. Would the police consider that something along the lines of attempted murder???? seeing as you screwed with a life saving device. just curious.

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    Yeah I notice that "marijuana saved George Bush" stuff is out on the web.

    But since this is History & Trivia, do we actually have evidence that hemp was used in his parachute harness?

    Hemp had been used in parachute harnesses and lines very early on, and the US military did use cotton, linen (flax), nylon, and hemp, sometimes with two types woven together, at different times before the end of WWII. Poynter's tends not to mention all the variations, but I saw a technical document from Wright Field in 1954 that goes over some of the changing standards. But I haven't seen anything technical that specifically gets into the use of hemp in parachute systems by the US in WWII.



    This information is in the book written by Jack Herer, The Emperor wears no clothes.