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dude you totally forgot to mention that the front pocket on the hoody is the perfect place to keep your T-STAKE !!! dmcoco84 - I've seen a few jumps by people wearing hoodies, but they were all psycho...

nice jumping with you in the Twin and at the turkey boogie base trips rock! cya sam

hell no in fact, it's 6.75 times longer than you need to complete the word and you even wasted the time to do 200 and something skydives first... I don't know what's up with all this holding back people are doing these days? Haven't they realized yet that it's all about instant gratification? congratulations and don't take so damn long next time!

yeah, I like Calvin and Hobbes too and that is definitely my inspiration. I might try and build the whole series this winter...

so I shovelled the drive today and needed to put all that snow somewhere...

Hi there sam here, I'm switching to this username and retiring 'whatever' please send your PM to this username instead thanks for the offer! the 27th may be a bit early, I'm having serious trouble trying to convince my parents I need to spend 5 days of my 20 day stay skydiving in Mafikeng instead of hanging out in Somerset West... cya sam

Completely serious. here's the tie-breaker: 'can you eat a still warm doughnut from the stand while under canopy ?'

Yes. We do. dude - you are fast becoming the next leroydb... try to stop that, please, one is WAY more than enough velen danke

sweet! did you get some topographic data on the big-pile-o-mud and that prompted this purchase??

OK, I've fixed my post, as apparently even for the brits it was hard to see the irony directed at Mac's 3:1 ratio attitude. dude, I'm there with both my rigs, wouldn't have it any other way like I said, I fixed my post, I wasn't slagging off the UK jumpers, just taking the piss out of Mac's blighty supremacist posts... awesome, an invite to my UK B, thanks dude! looking forward to it! never been at the perrine for labour day no jump higher than 876ft never rode an elevator up any object it did take me some effort to learn to communicate clearly in the US, especially after being warped by living in Essex for 3 years... I'll try, shouldn't be too hard, as I'm a South African living in Canada, I'm hoping that might help give me a wider perspective... PS - I'm not claiming to be experienced here. I just like jumping most objects more than 3 times... well, I best go start putting more clothes on so I can go jump, because that's what we soft Americans do in the winter, go to Canada to jump in an effort to harden up...

are you sure? I refer to this bit: he doesn't mean someone with the same jump numbers but different numbers of objects, he means a person with less jumps, but a lower jump:object ratio also, I am not American and I certainly don't think all European jumpers are 'hard'... I also don't think American jumpers in general are as 'soft' as seen by some people from across the pond.

cunt (since you insist)... [ironic tone directed strictly at Mac]you UK basejumpers are so HARD, I can only hope that I will man up someday and be as HARD[/ironic tone directed strictly at Mac] seriously guy, there is logic to your reasoning, but you are taking it to an extreme where it does not apply if I only ever did a maximum of 3 jumps from an object, I would likely still only have 29 objects, only I'd have just 87 jumps would that make me more experienced than I am now, with 286 jumps off those 29 objects? no, it would not and if you make the opportunity to do a large number of jumps from an easy object, you can learn a lot of things much faster, as you are not holding back as much to keep a comparable margin of safety, like you would on objects you do not know well, or on more advanced objects... I'd be interested to know incident/injury statistics as related to jumps:objects ratio.

yeah, no kidding C-tower is the BOMB!!! especially if you climbed to get up it... I'd love to do pile-of-dirt, but I'll need to get better jugging skills first. thanks again to Jimmy, Marta, Wayne, Tom D, Gabe, Dude, Lee and everyone else who made my first Turkey Boogie a great one!

hey Kris first, I think you're a nice enough dude and I enjoy flying wingsuits with you, but: number one: 200 skydives are not very many, no-one really knows much at that point yet, although almost everyone thought they knew a lot... number two: currency - 200 jumps in more than 18 months is generally not current enough to be on your game, especially if that's ALL the jumps you have number three: safe progression for the massses vs. what YOU think is right for YOU - I'd like to point out your involvement in a wingsuit collision, and a load of pissed off basejumpers due to how and where you did your first wingsuit basejump, to show you where I am coming from when I say: your idea of a safe and reasonable progression is faster than the one held by more experienced jumpers. no preaching here, brother, just pointing out the facts and hoping you will take a step back and think about this skydiving is dangerous enough as it is wingsuit skydiving just adds a load of complication wingsuit base even more so let's be careful out there I hate to see my brothers and sisters get hurt, so take it easy and if you're in the general London area from 16-19 Dec, we should brave the British winter and go do a jump or three together! cya sam

I voted 901-1000, even though I do not have 100 objects yet, I have 286 jumps off 29 objects, so just under 10 : 1, which extrapolates to 901-1000 for 100 objects if I keep the current ratio. This is likely an overestimation of the number of jumps it will take me, as I have recently done a LOT of jumps from one object on a single trip and I will probably travel a bit next year and spread the love around.

yup. I had a Suunto X6 HRM for the last 16 months and did around 350 skydives and 270 basejumps while wearing it. displays in 3 ft steps, pretty accurate when checked against other altis (neptune, protrack, alti2), rangefinders and other info (known heights etc.). yes yes, I didn't think it's too huge (the metal frame makes it less bulky than a plastic frame Suunto), but it's bigger than a normal watch. It does wear quite comfortably, though. ridiculous looking? not the metal version, I think it looks quite nice. the X6 / X6HR / X6HRM might be what you are looking for, they also have a Hiking mode and a Weather mode, which I rarely used, but I did use the Chrono mode a lot, as it allowed me to store alti data in 2 second intervals, which I found real useful to log wingsuit jumps (over 2 minutes, so protracks time out), general skydives and also basejumps, you can download the info to PC and see how low you were open. the only thing I didn't like about my X6HRM was seeing it freefalling away from me while I was climbing a big rock...

hey hey! just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who made my trip to Twin Falls (and the Moab extension afterward) so memorable PM your email if I haven't gotten it out of you yet I met so many cool people and just didn't stay on top of getting contact details... (two people specifically I have no idea how to get hold of: Chris & Bethany from LA) I guess I was pretty focused on the jumping... I enjoyed meeting so many new people and seeing a few previous buddies too! thanks guys sam PS - I almost forgot: 'Shut up and eat your burger!'

it taint what you think it is....

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thanks for posting the details I'm sorry for mistakenly referring to it as a deathcamp, I only posted the little info I had heard. thanks for sharing some of your experience with unpacked jumps

you should be able to find a bicycle shop in any large US city that will carry 661 products look for the leading mountainbike shops in the area, especially those with a focus on downhill mountainbiking they may have some pads and body armour that would interest you too

Hi I have heard accounts of a new kind of malfunction, which almost resulted in a fatality on a recent deathcamp. I would love to hear from the people involved, first hand accounts of what happened, as my understanding from what I have heard is that this happened on an assisted TARD type deployment and basically resulted in a total mal of sorts, made surviveable only by a water landing, 150ft exit altitude and some luck. I don't want to rehash the whole 'putting the death in deathcamp' debate or sling blame here. I want awareness of this possibility out in the base community, especially as unpacked jumps are on the increase and practiced by people with lower levels of experience everyday. let's share knowledge here to help keep all our brothers and sisters out there safe!! also, a speedy recovery to the deathcamper involved thanks sam

I did a FJC at the Perrine bridge, although the one I took is no longer available. it was definately worth it better? I'm not sure, as I only did this one, so I cannot really compare them, neither can any poster above who only did one. there are many other courses, off the top of my head: Apex BASE Asylum Designs Johnny Utah Kevin McGuire (maybe not anymore?) Miles Daisher Morpheus Technologies (maybe not anymore?) Tom Aiello the most experienced (1000+ basejumps) local jumper in my area it was a good course with 2 days worth of theory and several levels of progression here's my thoughts on how to decide which FJCs do take: - find the local jumpers in your area, specifically the experienced ones (250+ basejumps and at least 5 years in the sport), talk to them to find a mentor and consult with them and your mentor as to what equipment they are using and have experience with and what they would reccomend you to get. - phone up the manufacturer of the equipment you have been reccomended and talk to them about your experience level, local objects, local jumpers and if they offer a FJC, if they do not, which one do they reccomend? - phone up all the other base equipment manufacturers and ask them the same questions. - find out about as many FJCs as you can and phone up all the people running them that you have not contacted yet through the manufacturers and speak to them about equipment, experience, local objects, local jumpers etc. too this should leave you either a very short list or one FJC that you want to take, find out the costs, time and possible dates for this course and commit the resources plan to stay a week or more after completion of your FJC to do 'consolidation' jumps, try to have your mentor at the bridge for this now that you have alloted time and money to your FJC, phone up Tom Aiello and get on one of his long ( full week to 10 day) FJCs that will run just before or just after the FJC you are paying for if you can't get on one of Tom A's courses, you should probably reconsider if you are ready to start basejumping doing it this way will increase the cost of your trip by 20-30% if you do it smartly, but you will get a much wider perspective, more experience and more contacts in the base community if you did it right, you will leave the Perrine bridge with good knowledge and familiarity of your equipment, a solid theoretical base to start building on, the basic survival skills training, some practice of all these, a relatively high level of currency and some contacts in the base community that's my long-winded 2-cents worth... if anyone disagrees with this, I would love for them to post specifically why and why their reccomendation would be better cya sam PS - do yourself a favour and show up for your FJC with a thourough knowledge of your equipment and a significant number of skydives on your base canopy concentrated on base specific skills

Ray I don't know what Marty said after the strike, the statement that Marta referred to was made a day or so before his cliff strike and if I understood it correctly he had practiced heading corrections with the risers, but due to not getting a satisfactory response from his canopy, he had decided to use toggles for heading corrections in all situations. I would really like to hear it from Marty's point of view too, as the video from the exit just looks so wrong: a fairly innocuous looking left 70-80 turns into a wallstrike. wishing a speedy recovery to Marty, Maggot and Clint

dude, that's what I wrote! can anyone confirm if it is correct now?