Andy_Copland

So, you're asking if a freepacked BASE canopy can be taken to terminal? Uh, yeah, I think that's been done once or twice... Don't bullshit the man, everyone knows its a sure way to make gear and vertebrae explode. The secret to terminal openings is making sure its done on a hot day with low air pressure, this causes a softer opening due to the air being thinner, combine with a really good track and its even better. A good tracker slows down his vertical descent to the 90's. So hot day, track hard and its a 100% garuntee'd soft opening, simply physics. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Man up and take a few spankers, you'll figure it out eventually. Ditch the sail slider though as it's rarely ever used in any BASE, in fact im yet to see one. All about the packjob. Roll the shit out of the 3 cells either side of the centre cell, get that slider nice and tight and get the primary stow on. Good to go. People always say "i wanna do slider up because I don't want hard openings associated with slider down jumps" but let me tell ya, a good slider up opening has rocked my world way more than ANY slider off I done. Woo. Box out, pitch and get ready for linestretch and open canopy. Also use a small PC. I used a 42 on a roughly 8 second delay. Positive opening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK_-_op2TUU Andy Copland, S&TA of the entire world 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

What if its a big docile canopy? Slowriding? Slowriding sounds way more gangster 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Brilliance! 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Yea, and the really fucked up thing is you can run a paraglider off of El Cap and be legal but if you jump you're a criminal. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Thats the weirdest fucking thing, i had french toast this morning without even reading this thread 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Before i opened this thread i had low expectations, i mean have you seen skydiving shirts? "most sports take one ball, mine take both" "my sport eats your sport for breakfast" fucking cringe. Nice shirts, keep those designs coming. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Because you spend a lot of time looking for them in British news sources? I don't go looking for them. They just pop up in regular American news sources. It would seem that the British government is the source of much of world's lunatic nanny-state ideas. You're from the great state of Texas and we're all just jealous, you must be right.. and if you're not right...well you have a gun and that makes you a big man and right anyway. You're like the closet homosexual who goes out screaming "faggots must die!" as you struggle with your own identity. It's ok to admit you want to be British, chin up buttercup. I think going back to a thread on geneology a couple years ago.. that both John and I can take great solace that our ancestors managed to escape from there a couple hundred or so years ago. The royals in those days had a bad habit of murdering quite a few of their own relatives...and some of them managed to get away from them Apparently our father, the Lord God, has been smiting his family for years; but Americans can't get enough of him 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Because you spend a lot of time looking for them in British news sources? I don't go looking for them. They just pop up in regular American news sources. It would seem that the British government is the source of much of world's lunatic nanny-state ideas. You're from the great state of Texas and we're all just jealous, you must be right.. and if you're not right...well you have a gun and that makes you a big man and right anyway. You're like the closet homosexual who goes out screaming "faggots must die!" as you struggle with your own identity. It's ok to admit you want to be British, chin up buttercup. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Best football movie i have seen as it focuses on a true legend, Brian Clough. Who's name I grew up hearing down the pubs when i'd listen to my old man and his friends get drunker and drunker. When the drunken debates started one man was always agree'd on as one of the greatest managers of all time, and that was Clough. Which was a big deal for my old man to say being a Scotsman. Wasted thread on heathen Americans most likely, but well worth a watch http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/damned_united/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_QiKT-6hlo 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

I wouldn't say that, seems he has taken into vaccount all his know variables and made a calculated choice. Much like a lot of skydiving and BASE in general. Kickarse i say

Its time we start thinking about the reputation of the sport. Personally I think this whole thing of picking up trash and helping old ladies is a bunch of crap. So is the wingsuitcompetitions and so is the whole smiling to the camera that a lot of people do these days. We need to be portrayed like total badasses. If your friend die, we must be on page ONE in the newspaper. They might ask, WHAT happened? At this point in time you must stay focused and make a bunch of good jokes, ---I think he must have lost his head----.....or ----My god this happened last year to a guy here, we think its some kind of pandemic thats spreads through our parachutes.*** Courtesy of DZH 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

I just started my riggers course in Ohio. I cut a deal to avoid initial costs of training but tools you're looking at $200ish, then i think the written exam is around $90 and practical $200. Books another few $. This one is 6 weekends 9am-5pm. Thats what this course charges are anyway. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

My favourite paragraph is the closing http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article7007065.ece 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

More people overdose and die from prescription drugs than any other form of "illegal" drug. Its the fastest growing form of drug abuse. You can spin anything good or bad, the guy made a tongue in cheek post and you blow it out the water with your usual rhetoric. Who gives a fuck what people think of skydivers, if they thought we were all a bunch of line dancing, good family cooking, in bed by 9pm saying our prayers before giving all out money to charity do gooders....they wouldn't come skydiving would they? Same as when there is a fatality business goes up. People like to have fun, they go skydiving to have fun as its widely known as an "extreme sport." 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Its harder than you'd think to mount a camera on a dog! 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Adore my puppy 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

What precautions? Trying to hold your tears and pretend they dont scare you while hiding behind me? "I'm gonna throw this can at them to make them fly away" Ah good times. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Puppy cam! No you cant have your 2-3 minutes back. Oh and JTNesbitt is shit scared of pigeons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LGbp12FH0I 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Not really the point is it? You said the OP was making an analogy between skydiving and illegal drugs. As usual you tried to be pedantic and shot yourself in the foot. Fail. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

That sounds like great fun. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

What analogy to illegal drugs? 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

I always laugh at psychopacks, just watching your first one can throw you off guard like "what the fuck is he/she doing?!" Theres a real comedy to watching a canopy get rolled up like a sleeping bag. Just goes to show how well shit works. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

I truly want you to be successful in this business endeavor, and for that i think pictures will be of top priority. Now, being the good soul i am, i am willing to be the lighting guy for the photo shoots. Also.... For extra funk im also willing to rub her cotton undies into the old ham wallet of hers. 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

Thats great, lick of pait and you wouldn't even notice I always liked this one too http://www.dorkzonehero.net/2008/11/can-ductape-fix-everything.html 1338 People aint made of nothin' but water and shit. Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.