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Breaking news on Losers News Network. The old lady had a heart attack but will be ok. As for the cat...
Damn BASE jumpers!!

Not all bad

Very cool, in so many ways that's an awesome picture!
Thanks.

I also apologize, didn't get what was going on.

My sincere condolences, this sucks!

poc

What?

Is it the radiation?
I jump E's mostly and wear boxer shorts rather than underpants.
It's worked, I've got one kid so far and it's probably safer than jumping A's and wearing underpants.

Look, I have great respect for Nick, but I have to agree with Calvin on this one.
I think DG is blowing this thing way out of proportion and at the same time being pretty insulting, which is, as someone pointed out, not like him.

What have you guys been smoking up there?

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anything positive on the news short of the fireturck people got the little old ladies cat out of the tree?

Maybe some BASE jumpers could get an old ladies cat off an antennae. You could stage the thing, call the media and stuff..... Just make sure the cat doesn't fry though; wouldn't look to good in front of the cameras...

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I'm still sad that wasn't jumpable.

How come?

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No, I see myself lacking on a currency aspect..... flying a canopy every weekend is better than not flying a canopy... it really is better to fly than not to keep up some consistancy, no matter what canopy you fly each and every weekend....
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You're right and I'm sorry, didn't mean to come across that way.

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Seeing someone buy a top of the line wingsuit, and come down from a 13K jump with 70 seconds of freefall and a distance covered that any AFF student could cover on his first ever tracking is just laughable (and a waste of money on a good wingsuit)

For sure but starting off with a top of the line wingsuit seems unreasonable even for a skydiver don't you think?

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freefall skills are freefall skills...and not everyone seems to be getting his/hers from the few terminal basejumps a year they make..

I think it would be possible for someone to get into wingsuiting purely through BASE. Track with normal clothing, track with tracking gear, entry level ws, etc... I wouldn't follow that path but it's possible and I have come to believe that it's not entirely unreasonable. Atle Dahl in Norway (correct me if I'm wrong) burnt some cigarrette holes in fishing pants, some packing tape around the feet and started hucking off the cliffs. Now in terms of what is reasonable in the skydiving world, that would be considered suicide yet he was tracking like a demon (Keep in mind that some info may be corrupt. this is only hearsay and viewing of video footage on my part).
I don't know, I suppose I'm just playing devil's advocate here...

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I have a great plan to get rid of all the Iraqis...


Make them all French Citizens....then they will surrender in droves.



That is all.

Too late, they're already being made American.

Soon they will all be voting for the village idiot. He will be elected and his administration will make him realize that they probably don't have enough oil to keep up with their decadent lifestyles for the next 20 years or so. He will then invade Alaska under the pretence (maybe not) that the US is harbouring terrorists and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction in Alaska.
They will also have their toilet seats manufactured in China.
And on and on...
This thread is pointless.

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I stopped skydiving when I took up BASE not really from a choosing, but because I sold all my skydiving gear to help finance my BASE FJC trip and gear.

Quite a commitment to say the least.

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The only thing I do feel I am missing from not skydiving is doing a lot of jumps to keep up my canopy currency which would only benefit in BASE. When I have not jumped for a month or two then there are some jumps I dont feel current enough to do which I would not should I have kept skydiving regular and flying canopies.

Do you feel you are lacking on a technical aspect?
They are two different sports but when I was current packing at the dz, things would occur much faster. For example (and I am bringing it up again), somebody saying that the rings on your reverse risers drag along the ground when packing, I had to be in the situation to realize that they don't. Also I was much faster being packing fit.

Hey Faber

If it wasn't for 980 being here at the moment and offering to help with the wingsuiting, I would definitely be considering quitting skydiving. Also, at this point, and it's kind of strange, I feel that I am a safer BASE jumper than skydiver.
I have thought of selling my skydiving gear to make ends meet but that thought never even crossed my mind when it came to my BASE gear.
At this level of experience and knowledge I think I could stop skydiving but yet remain a safe BASE jumper. I am not trying to sound arrogant or anything, just for example suggesting that there are enough outsiders coming through here with new knowledge, keeping me from developing inbred pre concepts. That's just one of the things.
We have a bridge here that is pretty safe in BASE terms. 2 or 3 recurrency jumps and your awareness is back at where you left it had you gone uncurrent.
I don't dislike skydiving, I love it. I am just arguing that all these elements considered, one could stop skydiving without it having a negative effect on their BASE jumping. This is pretty much what Faber is doing.
Now there was the argument about people starting BASE without skydiving experience. I think what I am asking for is opinions on people stopping skydiving but continuing BASE.

I still enjoy it but havn't been in ages.

I have lost my jump masters rating and only recently did I give my reserves to 980 to pack because I want to get into wingsuiting.

The thing is, it's become very expensive here, I am in a lot of debt and my wife works on week-ends so I just can't leave for the dz any more. Also I was sent to Namibia last year on a job and had a lot of disposable money on top of my salary. I could just go to the dz on my day off and not worry about how much I needed to pack to make a jump. Coming back to South Africa, the price of a jump had gone up but not the price of a pack, so much so that I now needed to pack 7 rigs to make 1 jump, without counting the beer and food and petrol. I am also not at a level of experience where I could make my skydiving pay for itself.

I am wondering how many of you have stopped skydiving completely but yet still BASE jump hard. Or even, who still skydives hard and feels it's essential to their BASE jumping to a point where should they stop skydiving, they would stop BASE as well...

Yes, it's the same old debate in disguise but maybe there's something new.

Cool disguise; Jeb should have thought of that.

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PS: In all honesty, what do you expect from a country where more people pay attention to American Idol than American Politics?

Aren't they the same thing?

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Fortunately those particular dopes don't consider themselves the world's policemen, entitled to invade any nation that they don't like.

"ok private XXX, spell Iraq..."
"Where is it on the map?" (attached)

It's a bit harder than ADAC... uhm... ACDC

I'm starting to talk rubish now, time for bed I suppose.

guys like this

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Unfortunately when all those Australian dopes see this highly edited footage of the worst people the camera crew could find on the street they actually feel superior, especially the REALLY dopey drongos who are too stupid to work out what is actually going on.

hehehe
you're back from Cuba.

Maybe you should change your diet, eat healthier, drink less soda and stuff and then perhaps you will have less wind.

Lemons are illegal in Denmark

You beat me to it!
Thanks though.
The pic is attached.

Edited to add that I hope she is recovering well.

Are you two having an 'Oprah' moment?