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I usualy begin the morning, not feeling like breakfast...so I just grab some chips and a sip of coke (cola...!)... JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I believe Henny Wiggers (www.parashoot.nl) had a broken leg (in a cast) during the birdmanjump from Ameland tot Den Helder (crossing a big channel/peice of sea) Aside from the tricky landing on 1 leg, he seemed to be pretty okay in freefall..:) JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I think skydiving is a bit like the matix....once morpheus offers you the red pill...and you take it(make your first jump) then you can never go back and be a whuffo again.... When not jumping wou'll pretend that life is okay...but deep inside you'll know that your not realy alive JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

1, make sure you have almost no money whatso-ever. 2, which in turns means you can't jump for two of three weeks (not too bad..I know:) 3, offer to edit the video of your DZ's skydiving holiday, so you have to spend every night of the week watching (and editing) cool skydives from people you know, and from the plane(s) you love...:) It's a damn cool thing to do...edit skydiving video's but MAAAAANNNNNNN does it get the adrenaline pumping....I wanna jump...NOWWW JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Felix was on Dutch TV 2 days ago. His name is now......."Red Bull Mystical Felix" He base-jumped from a helicopter at about a 1000 ft above a (over a thousand people) crowd, and pulled at a couple of hundred feet (300?) and landed in between the audience i a small clearing.. Looked verry cool, but also dangerous (especialy for the crowd below him)... I'll try and put the video online later this month.. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

A couple of weeks ago in Holland a guy caught a burgler in his house. He started beating the shit out of the burglar, and the guy got so scared shitless that he ran outside and jumped over the balcony (2 stories high:) End of story, the burglar gets caught (shattered ankles, multimple fractures in his lower legs and a broken perlvis.... And here's the fun part.....the guy that beat him up is going to court and might even get a (short) prison scentence....for use of excessive violence....how fucked up is that....? JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

You probably don't want to hear this, but my cat Yoda is real easy when it comes to pills. I can just put one on his mouth and he'll just swallow....(what is it that sounds funny about this one??) JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Found this online at a christian site, in the FAQ (while looking for something on skydiving) Disclaimer (Just in case:) This is not about mocking someones beliefs (I was raised as a catholic myself), but the comparison just sounded funny, read it for yourself..think the guy who wrote it has a passion for skydiving? Are you saying that Christians are better than non-Christians?" The Christian is no better than a non-Christian, but he is infinitely better off. It is like two men on a plane. One is wearing a parachute and the other is not. One is not better than the other, but the man with the parachute on is certainly better off than the man who is not wearing a parachute. The difference will be seen when they jump. Jesus warned that if we "jump" into death without Him, we would perish. Our great problem is a law that is even harsher than the law of gravity. If your in for some fun...read this> http://www.raycomfort.com/various/articles/questions.html The parachute thing keeps coming back... Of all the things that you should be sure of, it's your eternal destiny. To say, "I hope I'm a Christian," is like standing at the open door of a plane, 25,000 feet in the air and answering, "Have you got your parachute on?" with, "I hope so." You want to know so-and you can, simply by obeying the Gospel. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Holland is soo bad...in kindergarden they already tell you stories about a boy who put his finger in a dyke.. But seriously, the only thing that realy sucks here is the weather and the work (3D animation aint that big in Holland:( I would love to see the US and skydive there. Maybe sometime around april next year I'll try and go there (if I can find a good Dutch or Belgian skydiving buddy who wants to go along:) JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Just remember to always be carefull when you ask someone in Holland where you can find the Dykes.. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Silly question....but how the hell are you going to brake through as an erotic-star when you go on TV with your cheeks folded over your eyes, your lower lip flapping over your nose and your tits inverted like a couple of teacups and the skin on your legs pulled back like a sack of potato's...?? JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Great...this means I can safely visit the US...wouldn't want to feel out of place.. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Don't worry...I wasn't offended, just verry amused..I'll get back to my watering my tullips on my clogs(klompen) now..

Only 4 more hours untill I leave work and head for the DZ...can't wait... Found this online...laughed my ass off on a few of these: These are from real college level tests, answered by real undergraduate college students: The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irriation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked "Am I my brother's son?". God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother's birthmark. Jacob was a partiarch who brought up his twelve sons to be partiarchs but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites. Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Philatelists, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines. Without the Greeks, we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns: Corinthian, Doric and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. Once myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the Homer. Homer also wrote the "Oddity", in which Penelope was the last harship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the bicuits, and threw the Java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athen was democratic because the peole took the law into their own hands. There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn't climb over to see what their neighbors were doing. When they fought the Parisians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men. Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March killed him because they thought he was going to be made king. Nero was a cruel tyrany who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them. Then came them middle Ages. King Alfred conquered the Dames, King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery, King Harlod mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings, Joan of Arc was cannonized by George Bernard Shaw, and the victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. Finally, the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense. In midevil times most of the people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the time was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verse and also wrote literature. Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head. The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello's interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenburg invented the Bible. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper. The government of England was a limited mockery. Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen". As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted "hurrah". Then her navy went out an defeated the Spanish Armadillo. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespear. Shakespear never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived in Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, commedies and errors. In one of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. In another, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Writing at the same time as Shakespear was Miquel Cervantes. He wrote "Donkey Hote". The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost". Then his wife dies and he wrote "Paradise Regained". During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Fe. Later the Pilgrims crossed the Ocean, and that was called the Pilgrim's Progress. When they landed at Plymouth Rock, they were greeted by Indians, who came down the hill rolling their war hoops before them. The Indian squabs carried porposies on their back. Many of the Indian heroes were killed, along with their cabooses, which proved very fatal to them. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all of this. One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. During the war, Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls. The dogs were barking and the peacocks crowing. Finally, the colonists won the war and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared "a horse divided against itself cannot stand". Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. George Washington married Matha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. Then, the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. He said, "in onion there is strength". Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also signed the Emasulation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a suposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called "Candy". Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn, when the apples are faaling off the trees. Bach was the most famous compser in the world, and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for hm. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this. Fance was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish gorrilas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks. Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she coulnd't bear him any children. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. Her reclining years and finally the end of her life were exemplatory of a great personality. Her death was the final event which ended her reign. The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick Raper, which did the work of a hundered men. Samuel Morse invented a code for telepathy. Louis Pastuer discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the "Organ of the Species". Madman Curie discovered radium. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.The first world war caused by the assignation of the Arch Duck by a surf ushered in a new error in the anals of human history. Many dead animals of the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil. All animals were here before mankind. The animals lived peacefully until mankind came along and made roads, houses, hotels, and condoms. Marie Curie did her research at the Sore Buns Institute in France. Men are mammals and women are femammals. Proteins are composed of a mean old acid. Involuntary muscles are not as willing as voluntary ones. Cadavers are dead bodies that have donated themselves to science. This procedure is called gross anatomy. The earth makes a resolution every 24 hours. A circle is a figure with no corners and only one side. Genetics explains why you look like your father and if you don't, why you should. Water is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water. When oxygen combines with anything, heat is given off. This is known as constipation. The hookworm larva enters the body through the soul. Some people say we condescended from apes. If conditions are not favorable, bacteria go into a period of adolescence. When you breath, you inspire. When you do not breath, you expire. H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars. Blood flows down one leg and up the other.. Respiration is composed of two acts, first inspiration, and then expectoration. The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader. Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the cow instead of the bull. Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire. A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold. Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas. The body consists of three parts- the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowls, of which there are five - a, e, i, o, and u. The pistol of a flower is its only protections against insects. The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana. The skeleton is what is left after the insides have been taken out and the outsides have been taken off. The purpose of the skeleton is something to hitch meat to. A permanent set of teeth consists of eight canines, eight cuspids, two molars, and eight cuspidors. The tides are a fight between the Earth and moon. All water tends towards the moon, because there is no water in the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum.I forget where the sun joins in this fight. A fossil is an extinct animal. The older it is, the more extinct it is. Equator: A managerie lion running around the Earth through Africa. Germinate: To become a naturalized German. Liter: A nest of young puppies. Magnet: Something you find crawling all over a dead cat. Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away. Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky. Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot. Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives. Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood is affirmative or negative. To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose. For a nosebleed: Put the nose much lower then the body until the heart stops. For drowning: Climb on top of the person and move up and down to make artificial perspiration. For fainting: Rub the person's chest or, if a lady, rub her arm above the hand instead. Or put the head between the knees of the nearest medical doctor. For asphyxiation: Apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead. For head cold: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Why is it that everyone always thinks we all walk around as a couple of dope-addict-cross-dressing-same-sex-loving-drunk-bunch-of-french-fries-with-mayonaise-dipping-idiots here in Holland ?? JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

When your daughter shows you a drawing made on her etch-a-sketch you presume it's pro-track data JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

DUDE!!! This is wierd...My mom came home yesterday, and gues what she witnessed. The story is actualy even better then the newsarticle.. The guard was coming out of a store, and he was looking around franticly to see if nobody wanted to steal his metal suitcase with money. He was o bussy looking around that he accidently took a turn onto a bridge about 1 meter early, and just walked into the canal like an idiot. He got out, got his money box and went to his collegue (in the car). My mother was witnessing all this..including him walking into the water :) A few seconds after entering the van there was a loud bang, and orange smoke came out of the car, en the guard came out, screaming like a little girl. Covered in paint What the article also fails to mention is that the store-owner that borrowed him clothing was the owner of a WOMANS clothing store...and he got a nice pair of girly clothes, in which he probably had to go to his boss to explain what happened.... The article also sayd this happened in Rotterdam, but it actualy happened in my hometown Maassluis, a small town about 15 km from Rotterdam. But then again....it's near Rotterdam, and we're alreadt lucky if people know Holland...Let alone Rotterdam...and nobody in his right mind would know about Maassluis.... So anyways..my mom couln't stop laughing, and has told the story about 20 times already...(the story gets better every time she tells it) and she also sayd that she had the most fun because of a few ladies on the street that paniced when the 'explosion' (acording to my mom it sounded like someone hit a baseballbat against a container, not much of a real explosion) and they started running around, screaming and then lay down on the street (afraid the whole van was gonna blow) JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Sorry, I can't find it either....don't remember where I initialy found it.. It was a movie by 'Coldsteel' and was named "BASE Take it to the Streets", the filename being something like base_titts.avi or something. I'm trying to find it for you online... JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

If you look at the BASE Take It Too The Streets film at the skydivingmovies ftp, you'll see a birdman jumping from the tower(s). His speed doesn't differ that much in the beginning, but he does have way more clearing from the tower straight from the start. His forward motion is much more efficient (or at least the video makes it look that way) JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I didn't do AFF, I started on the StaticLine...the poor mans route :) JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Don't worry at all...the only thing in your mind should be 'this is gonna be SOOOOO f*cking awesome...!!!!' and no worries about other silly stuff.. Even if you get sick...it will go away after a few minutes, but the experience will last a lifetime... p.s. Just uploaded some stuff, no flashy edited video this time :) I'm up into my neck in editing now...working on my DZ's holiday video...got to edit 3 hours of footedge into a 45 minute enjoyable video..quite a bit of work...but fun to do..:) ooh..the video's :) My Ass ftp://ftp.skydivingmovies.com/UPLOADS/exit_mccordia_ass.avi and a misc. exit from an instructional jump...nothing fancy...but fun (for me:) ftp://ftp.skydivingmovies.com/UPLOADS/exit_mccordia_rw_instruction.avi JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

She's still scared, but walking around the DZ (and hearing me preach for 2 years about safety) did help in feeling a bit better about it. She knows what I get out of it, and wants me to keep on jumping (although she does wants me to jump less:) So she's verry supportive, but still...there's this fear that she can't get rid off... But she made me an real cool RW jumpsuit (a few guys from my DZ wanted to order one with her directly) Grips and everything...incredible quality... She used to be a seemstress...now she's using her talents to make me happy :) But the fear is something you can't realy take away...she's also afraid of flying (terrified) so any chances of getting her on a plane, let alone tandemjump are almost zero... What does help is that my father loves skydiving and did a tandem (he signed up for a S/L cource 20 years ago, only the weekend before he went his brother broke his back in a skydiving accident, so he never started the cource..mainly for my mom and his own mother..he still regrets it..) and my sister also did a tandem, and my younger brother Kenny and my Nephew also jump (since last year)....so my mom sorta has to deal with skydiving if she likes it or not....and I must congratulate her on how incredible she's doing it....even though she's scared shitless..:) JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Being without transport (motorcycle is still trashed:( I managed to convince my mother to come to the DZ with me yesterday. The weather was pretty bad, and I thought I'd be going there just to hang around (and maybe show my overly worried mom how it all works, safetlywise) The winds where verry high, but still within limits and I was told I could jump...YEAA!!! One of the instructors came to me and asked if I wanted to do another RW instructional jump at around one o clock. I'm not sure if it's the same in the US, but in holland, after you've learnt all your turns/backloops and so on (via S/L or AFF, doesn't matter) you need to take part in a 10 level trainingprogram (I gues kinda like skydive-u?) to learn the (safety) basics of RW, and only then you can start jumping with other people... It was to be my fifth instructional jump (Level 7, I managed to do level 1/2 and level 3/4 both in one jump:), which would mean the last thing I had to do for my A licence next to the written exam (you need 5 instructional RW jumps for your A in holland) First I did a jump from 4.000 ft, just to kill the time and to practice a bit...it always makes me feel better to do one solo jump before an instructional jump, to sort of practice..when I was done packing I got instructions for the jump and we went up. I had to learn how to side-slip in freefall (something I havn't done before). We jumped from 9.000 ft. We went out linked (she did a floating exit, I dived) and then I had to let go, and put my hands on top of her hands. I was soo focussed on hangin on to her during exit that I forgot to let go, so she grinned at me and sorta janked my hands from her grips. I realized what I did, smiled and let go :) Then I had to slide left, and place my right hand on here right hand. Then slide over to the right and do the same thing (left hand on left hand) then in front of her and both hand on top of each other, and then over to the left again...an so on..It all went great...I slid a small but to the back one or two times, but corrected it by giving a bit more legs.. The thing I was most worried about (staying level) was not to big a problem luckely...:) It was oooo great...I still get a realy bad case of perma-grin by just seeing someone with me in freefall. It's SOOO incredible....and I was already amped by just doing solo's...to suddenly see someone in freefall just a few centimeters in front of your face is soo wierd, cool, fun and amazing..all at the same time... At 4.000 ft came breakoff, and I waved off and turned around and tracked away....it was soooo incredible..my chute opened perfectly and then I realized...this was the last thing I had to do for my A licence...!! The whole jump went so smooth....it realy made my day... I'm gonna study hard and take the written exam in a few weeks...and then I'll be a fully licenced skydiver....:) Fun thingy: Next to me and my instructor, there where 2 tandems going up in our cramped cessna. One girl (17 or 18 years old, she was realy sweet) was sooo scared, but at the same time loving it soo much. When she landed she smiled, sayd yohoo...and then she had to throw up...she got a bit sick from the parachute ride..it was a bit sad to see...she loved what she had done, but it got her soo sick..:) This wednesday I'm gonna go to SkyDive Rotterdam after work and do one jump (both solo:) with a friend of mine who I've been talking to over the internet for more then 1,5 years...we both met through ICQ, just a few months after we both jumped for the first time, so we basicly did the same thing every weekend..."Hey..I did my first backloop" "Coool...I did my first backloop too this weekend". We tried meeting a few times (we jump at different DZ's), but there was always one of us that couldn't go... But now he's moving to canada, leaving holland forever, and this wednesday will be the last chance to ever jump from the same plane together...:) Hope it's gonna work out..:) The next weekend I'm also gonna go skydiving saterday and sunday.......this whole being without a girlfriend thing is starting to have advantages when related to skydiving...:) JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

This is an old thread, but I was curious as to Crosswinds availability on DVD(pal). I recently joined the masses and got a DVD player, and I would love have Crosswind in my collection. Is it out on DVD already..???? JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Someone posted this on the Dutch parachute.nl forum. I had a good laugh.. http://www.kicken.com/funnyfiles/www.kicken.com-belgacommercial.mpg The translation for the text in the commercial is Belgacom ADSL. You're just not used to waiting any more p.s. maybe someone could upload it to the skydivingmovies ftp..? JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?