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making it almost useless for a water impact.

I guess Jason's back protector was useless too having seen he impacted water.

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I was wearing HanWags. one month old ones. and i will limp for the rest of my life. I had such an injury that had i NOT been wearing hanwags, i would have had a much less life-altering leg injury. The boots kept the bones inside my skin. thats it.

That I have a hard time to believe.

Care to give us more details?

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The bridge is one of the very few legal sites available (even if only for 24 hours).

Not true, only "legal" for just 6 hours.

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The currency/experience requirements seem low

Are the 100-150 jumps required to enroll in one of the FJCs really that high?

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Why is goddamn skydiving gear still allowed at BD?

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong using PROPERLY rigged SD gear off that object.

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Not sure if this is relevant to this incident

No it is not. He was jumping a "safe" base rig, FYI.

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How many inst out there will chose a Racer if they have choice between that and a Sigma for their next tandem jump!!!

I'd chose a Racer any time.

I don't like pullouts hence I don't like the Sigma release system.

Also on other systems the two main releases are fully independent while on the Sigma they are not.

A harder than usual pull on the Sigma means firing the reserve into the drouge like it happened in Japan and killed two people.

I like the skyhook thought. I dislike immensely the cheap construction of the container and the hardware used on their student harnesses.

As for the main is a good canopy but the toggle pressure is on the hard side and it's a bitch to pack.

Great reserve.

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the voice of conscience has shined through, great contribution, good to know, we all benifited from your sharing

Hey, we got a PD500 at the DZ with few few jumps on it, PM if interesed or is that still too small for ya?

If they will ever make a x-braced 280 Tandem main I'd buy it in a heart beat.

Now I'd buy a firebolt 298 or a HOP 330.

Ditto Tony.

If I was there with them I'd have just said "guys, I have been in the sport # of years, I have # of jumps, and it's my 0.02 that what you are about to do is very, very dumb, however I do not own your lives or this site but it would be a shame for you, your families, and the BASE community if you went in due to a very preventable cause"

If they still wanted to go there is nothing PHYSICALLY I would have done. It's a free world...actually the ITW is on a more free part of the world than the US.

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If you have infinite trust in zippers not breaking

Good point.

However there have been major advances in "zipping" technology...

Here is a good source:

http://www.riri.com/Flash.htm

I for one among many experienced fliers do not believe that cutting away the wings is the correct response for a flat-spin.

I would like to hear the opinions from EXPERT WS fliers about the wing cutaway system.

Here is my 0.02.

The wing cutaway was originally implemented in the very first “modern” WS as well as the first production WS for two purposes: Hook up the suit and to offer a way to release the wings given the still novel “environment” of WS.

Over a decade has passed since those early times and IMO the cutaway system the way I see it is now primarily used as a hook-up system only. Many experienced BASE jumpers report that is faster to unzip than to release the cables.

As for the leg cutaway system, with the newer trend of wider leg stance it’s very possible to land the canopy with the legs still fully hook-up.

So here is the question: Do you really think a arm wing cutaway system is really necessary (other than hook-up)?

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u say u want jump tommorrow all day i will be day blazing in honor of that dumb ginny wohp thAT FOUND THIS ROCK so u newbies its your chnch to take turns careing by beer and rig up the ladder winds are light and variable and theres n o wind to night u morroms u should be jumpping im staring ouit my window ath the 440 aA im going for right now

It ain’t that hard guys.

Here is what he was trying to convey:

Having seen that many of you always seem very eager to jump in the city, tomorrow I’ll be day-blazing all day in the honor of Christopher Columbus who discovered according to him India but turned out to be this country. All of you inexperienced jumpers it’s your turn to carry the rigs and beer on top of many city’s objects. The winds will be light and variable and they call for no winds during the night so conditions are perfect for all of the newbie morons. My first jump will be off my window and then I’ll be heading to a nice 440 A.

You seem like a mind reader

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what's wrong with a 32V

Absolutely nothing.

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PS - which wolf is winning in the BASE community? (not the BASE Zone)

Hopefully not the one who self-proclaimed himself/herself a BASE god/goddess and does what he/she does not for the good of the community but to feed his/her ego.

It's my experience that the real-BASE world is much better than the virtual one with just few exceptions...

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...this place feels like a dictatorship...

I notice that you first registered on Sep 25, 2006 at 6:31 AM. That's what, a week ago? If you don't like this place, why did you do that?

You're right Tom, I should get the fuck out of here but the fun of reading of boneheads trying to figure out a jump by asking an online dork forum is fucking priceless.

Having you as co-moderation will definitely help but won't bring back great jumpers like Johnny or Shane to name a few who are forever banned.

The only option is a third and new BASE site because this place feels like a dictatorship and Blinc is a dead anarchy.

A B is a serious object read solid. If you got to come here to ask how to jump it then you need more training as simple as that.

Said that, someone told me about the three-break-setting set up (PM if you want to know who).

The factory shallow for slider up.

The factory deep for very short delay slider down (CR canopies).

A third calibrated DBS to give you the least amount of forward speed for longer slider down (2-3.5).

This is his rationale: The factory deep are usually in the ball park but they are not super deep. When you jump S/L, PCA, or a super fast go and throw the vertical airspeed the canopy uses to convert into the two vectors is very low so not too deep break settings are preferred (usually factory deep are good for this). However when you pitch at the 3 second mark by the time the canopy is opening there is quite a bit of airspeed and the factory deep might be too shallow leading the canopy flying with too much forward speed.

The argument made a lot of sense to me and the three BSs have been working great so far.

So off that B he’s talking about I’d use the factory deep. But then again I’d roll it over…

If you got to ask here then please go back to the that legal span and make a few more jumps.

I just hope you are either very bored or just trolling.

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Maggotism, N, coined in 2006 to describe the general collapse of the sport of BASE jumping. A once proud endeavor infiltrated by too many people who just didn't give a fuck.

It seems to me that you are the prime example of that with your "stunt" last memorial wee-end.

So in light of that I re-coin it DiGiovannism.

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Doing a "go and throw" will present your pilot chute sooner, and require more time and distance for the entire process of extraction and inflation to occur. This creates an increased risk of something going wrong durring extraction/inflation such as environmental conditions like wind giving you line twists.

waiting a second, then pitching at a higher velocity will result in a more abreviated extraction and inflation, minimizing environmental factors impact on your opening.

With a "go and throw" or better yet a simultaneous go and throw you are virtually positioning the PC in zero-air speed with absolutely no burble. At 1 sec of free fall your air-speed is roughly 22 MPH. A 48" PC generates about 15 LBS of force at that speed. Hence, theoretically speaking you should have the container open (fully or partially) by one second. Also if you use the throw-up technique the container should start opening almost as the PC passes the launch point.

On the other hand if you wait one second before pitching it is true that the airspeed is greater but the PC has to inflate first hence burning-up more altitude.

I believe your advice is wrong especially when one tries to FF very low objects. I consider anything below 200’ very low for FF.

All things being equal, if you open at the same altitude with a go and throw than you do with one sec delay, your go and throw technique needs some refinements.

Just my 0.02

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This is very bad advice.

Hey Tom,

What's wrong with a little touch, the kind we did in movie theaters sitting next to a chick when we were 11 years old?

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Make your mentor go down there and cut them himself.

Their mentor hires a 17 year-old soon to be BASE jumper to do the dirty jobs.

No wind: whatever

Medium headwind: tard-overs

Strong headwind: I-rocks

Medium tailwind: tards or roll-overs, the latter with a very-strong-geniuine launch trying to touch the canopy in FF.

Strong tailwind: kite-unders

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Longevity of the canopy and preformance degrade issues.

May I see the empirical data?