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  2. Anyone that plays video games on here needs to go buy Just Cause 2. This game is pretty much all about skydiving, base jumping and blowing things up!:o



  3. how old is too old for a container? I'm getting back into the sport and want to buy a used rig. The rigs in my price range show containers with a DOM of around 1993. Is that too old?



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    In my dream i have to cutaway and pull the reserve but i have no strength at all to do it... i grab the handles and try to pull but i cant!

    By then i use to realize its a dream, i always weak up before I bounce :P. I have that dream every now and then.

    edit: grammar



    I have similar dreams but I'm in a fight and have no strength to punch.



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    Here are the goods you asked for



    Got a little news for you: they all look great when they're smiling.



    I need to live where you do then. Where is that exactly? Paradise City?



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    Damn...finally.

    All these "cut tha bitch loose holmes...bachelor for life YO B|" responses come from people who either haven't found the right woman yet, or really don't want to.

    It's really kind of early in the relationship, so any advice is probably presumptious. If she's the one, you should probably be able to solve this one by discussing the matter in a rational (women>and if she's only worried about the bounce part instead of wanting to control every aspect of your life, abandoning skydiving might not be such a bad choice.

    Now then, show us the goods.



    Here are the goods you asked forB|





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    Listen to her. Tell her how you really feel. Be honest about what you really want. When you come up against "A lifetime with the woman of my dreams vs. Skydiving" and skydiving wins - you're not worth being with anyway.

    I've lost fewer GF's to this sport than I've had cutaways, but for the right woman, I'd sell my gear and read the Sunday papers over coffee in a heartbeat. 22 years in the sport and 5000 dives are nothing compared to true love.

    t



    What I can't have my cake and eat it too?? B|

    I see a guy at mile hi every once in a while and he has a wife and two kids there with him. What do you think about that?



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    WARNING: NEWBIE RESPONSE



    You've been in the sport for 11 jumps and your girlfriend has seen a couple of cutaways???

    Wow...that would be 'cause for concern, for me anyway.

    I've got 160 some jumps and have only seen 2 cutaways (not including my accident reserve handle pull on jump #6 two out incident). Granted we are a little 182 dz, but that seems like a lot to me.



    Not my own cutaways. luckily I'm still on zero personally B|





  • My only suggestion if you've decided to keep her is to watch for signs that you are being manoeuvred out of jumping. Like when you plan to go jumping on a Saturday and then she has other plans that need you.

    Thats what happened to me, over time I was jumping less and less, until it was just gone.

    Not saying that your woman is like like that, just that my wife was.




    I could see her trying to do that eventually




  • so what happened between your level 7 (her tandem) and now? Did someone biff a landing, or has she been reading about accidents? Someone hit on her at the DZ?

    You can't beat an irrational fear, but if it's based on some event, you have a chance.



    All she has seen is a couple of cutaways, and heard stories of course.



  • I started dating this girl and it's been about 5 months now. she came down with me to do my level 6 & 7. On my level 7 she did a tandem and was fine about the whole thing. Now that I'm about to order my rig and going every weekend to earn my A all I hear from her is that she doesnt want me to skydive anymore. She still comes to the dropzone every time with me but last time she was crying as I was getting on the plane. Should I tell her to stop coming to the drop zone? What have others done in this situation??