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You've got issues dude! I really wouldn't let a couple of morons hold me back especially on something as childish. If I saw someone kitted up like you I'd ask if they want to do a Mr Bill They dont hold me back, I just really dont like being at a DZ, I was just making an observation on how skydivers judge you by the way you look.... Seriously, I had someone take the piss outta me to his friends when I was waiting for the plane wearing hired gear and my hanwangs as I was getting back in the air to get my licence updated.... I ignored it, but when he then heard I was not the numpty he thought I was he suddenly changed his attitude toward me.... BASE jumpers dont seem to judge others by the way they look, but it seems skydivers do....... I heard a story of a guy jumping at a DZ where the landing area in front of manifest was a 1000 jump limit, he came in on his mojo he skydives with, dressed in outdoor clothing and a guy with 200 jumps complained to the manifest that how dare such an in experienced person land where he could not. The 200 jump wonder got told that the person he reported was someone with over 3000 jumps and he jumps such a canopy as he has been BASE jumping for over 10 years and prefers to jump that sort of canopy..... skydivers do judge you by your look at the "catwalk" of canopy sports.... PS) Can you keep to the subject of the post, if you have any other comments then PM me.....

For those people who dont fly tracking suits and have a body frame that does not get described as "great tracking potential", I have a question or two about terminal jumps you may do. After looking at videos, posts and talking to people there seems to be uncertainty about "general" positions. The wide track postition some will say is the best all round, others will say that this is only for tracking suits and "tracking body types", for the rest of us "fall like a brick" types, a typical skydive track (arms in legs almost closed) with your shoulders rolled is apparently better. I also have heard that some prefer to look at the horizon to push the track more horizontal, with others saying to put your chin to your chest and look to your feet to help with the shoulder and upper body position (and better visuals). Obviously there is lots of conflicting information from people about what is best to get the most efficient track, as whats good for one does not mean its good for another, and until I get back into that weird DZ environment and get onto the plane with my accuracy rig, hanwags, outdoor clothing, and frightened look as I dont like being on a plane with 15 other people cramed in (oh how the skydivers laugh and snear whislt they wear their pretty coloured suits and matching rigs) I dont know where to start to help save me spending money I dont want to at a Dropzone. So I would appreciate either your thoughts of tracking with a frame that naturally does not fly or naturally arches like hell, or various things to try whilst practicing in a skydive to help find my most efficient position.... Thanks in advance for any thoughts Michael

From what I have seen from Clairs site, she has done some terminal cliffs and from it she seems have done quite well in exit and landing (although one shot, I dont know if its her or not seems very dodgy on exit and choice of jump)..... although I am really against her entrance to the sport... the above seems to be proved wrong by Clairs example? Just making a point here........... even if I think that Clairs entrance to the sport makes me sick.....It does not make me as sick as your recent condescending views that you seem to have recently taken on board with your new found personality of a BASE jumper... Remember where you came from!

Dont you think that this would have been better to send as a PM? Nice work........

I used to find in my early jumps that actually looking at a point around 45 degrees upward from the horizon helped to maintain a decent launch position moreso than looking at the horizon, as this can sometimes make you still dive out horizontally leading with your head, whereas looking up to the 45 degree point helps encourage keeping your head up and the lead with your chest toward the horizon. Just a thought, as I found this quite an effective way to help with my exits.

Now thats funny PS) Thanks Ivan ironic...isn't it? exactly PS) Thanks Ivan

Thanks Ray Losli (great pic btw)

Now thats funny PS) Thanks Ivan

Bummer PS) Thanks Ivan

Turn off the computer, back away slow, call Ivan, roll a cigarette, turn on some Dire Straits, and slam down a beer. I've made my fair share of "lookat me" and "thanks to X" posts (SabreDave, Crwper, Base 736, Chad and Katie, Cornishe, Tom Aeillo, lifewithoutanet, pBaseToBe and Tom Dancs all come to mind), but you've never torn me a second asshole. This is BASE brotherhood man. It's no technical post, but it beats the hell out of the hookers and blow drivel. I for one think Tom Dancs is a great guy, and he can leave his bacon at my house any day!

Yes the brotherhood is good, and I am still amazed by it and the help I get from people I hardly know.... being taken into homes and treated like a brother still makes me feel warm...... but hell, every time it happens I dont need to post and tell everyone about it..... if we all did the board would be flooded with posts about "Thanks" that you can actually do on a cell phone and be personal about it.... if you are that thankful, buy a gift for them.... Yeah like thats possible when a title of a thread does not actually say "personal message about something no one but the people involved care about"

Why bother? Cant you just send an SMS or phone him? Why do you think the world really needed to see and hear about this? I hope the post is an underhand way to take the mick about the way the BASE zone at Dropzone dot com has become.... but I doubt it... This is absolutely pathetic, I did not post “Hey Thanks Gus for driving today” or “Thanks Ivan for meeting up with us today”, because no one but us gives a shit about what we did today… so again I ask, why bother posting this inane crap? No one but you cares….

BASE rigs (single canopy rigs) are alot safer than dual parachute rigs (skydiving rigs).... And I would love to hear your arguements against that...

Ah! look Calvin19, someone else understands what I am getting at, just because he is also a UKer, does not mean you cant also understand.... Please, this all must be a joke.........

My God! you still dont get it! Seriously, you must be taking the piss here? I really hope you are showing some real sarcastic greatness here..... OR...... Do you really not understand my posts at all? You are not simple because of your jump, you are simple because you dont understand my really obvious and blatent posts.... XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Edit: XXXX for something not appropriate...

Are you simple?.... Do you not comprehend the real meaning of the previous posts at all? You don’t seem to grasp anything said other than “uh huh he climbed down”… NO ONE IS DISRESPECTING SOMEONE FOR CLIMBING DOWN

In a nutshell.........

Again you misunderstand me Faber.... I think climbing down is very sensible when you dont feel right. But posting about your friend on the internet climbing down last night so you can your buddies can blow each other online in front of us all rather than just talk to each other on a fucking telephone...... well thats just plain old sad...... If we went out jumping one night and I decided not to jump / or you decided not to jump, dont you think it would be rather odd to come online and tell the world that?... who cares about that stuff? only the people involved and there are PMS / Telephones / Email to talk to your hearts content about it....

I believe BR used to do this on their FJC.... I may of course have dreamed that and be speaking total rubbish

Do you think that apart from your friends (who incidentally you can call on that invention called a telephone) the rest of us really care?

my boss has just bought a Lamborghini Murcielago, and you are correct, its all about image......... thats exactly why he bought one to add to his car colllection.... his DB9 and DB7 and porsche does not scream "look at me" as much as his yellow Murcielago.... Anyone that needs a car like that needs something in their lives.........

Well done Miles! Very nice work!

just out of interest... who did get you your B and E

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how very dare they..