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I did my first five jumps in '96 and then didn't get my AFF and license completed till '98 due to a car accident and money issues. I like you was never on the fence. But, it was just luck that I happened to drive by a dropzone and saw that there was any such thing as sport skydiving. I think there are a lot of people out there that have no idea what skydiving is all about that would be well suited to skydiving. We need to attract those people. This post card may not be the best idea, but it is an effort. I do think it is the business of the USPA to increase our membership. With greater membership we will be able to exert more influence on the FAA. We don't want more Gov regulations.

How do you propose the USPA should work to increase their membership with out promoting dropzones? Your reasoning doesn't really make sense. There isn't any way to promote skydiving or bring in new members with out benefiting dropzones.

Sounds more like a training issue rather than the number of new skydivers. I can't really speak to any training issues. I have no ratings at all and don't want any. I skydive for fun and don't want to make it my work. That may change one day, but not right away. When I can I jump with new freefliers so that I can help them with their skills. The last couple of years I have spent most of my time training for and competing at Nationals. I would like to make the podium one day.

Come on! Do you have a blind fold on??! This is of interest to both Skydivers and DZO. This is something that the USPA should be looking at. We need more USPA members. We need more Skydivers and DZO's want more customers! Pull your head out of the sand! I have donated my time and hard work to helping out my dropzone not for the DZO, but to see more skydivers or potential skydivers at my dropzone. Yes this does help the DZO, but we have a shared interest in this. I want to see more people at the dropzone so they can run the big planes and I can get lots of jumps in and have people to jump with. I want to see the USPA reaching out to more people. This is a good thing for all skydivers.

Ya think it will be a Union plant? I think the UAW is a big part of why the big 3 are in the mess they currently are in.

I think BillVon's answer makes much more sense then your conspiricy theory bull shit. You seem to think the BOD and USPA is full of power hungry people. If they really were that power hungry I submit that there are much better bigger Associations to be a part of that would offer more for their efforts.

I looks like a much more honest version of Skyride. I typed in my zip code and got Salado as being their nearest participating DZ and it also listed all the nearest DZ's available in this area that did not participate. Their list isn't 100% accurate. It still listed Granbury, that is now Skydive 35 and isn't in Granbury anymore. But they are all valid DZ's or at least were. They even had a map display of where Salado is located and displayed how far each of the other DZ's were that don't participate in their gift certificate.

While I do see the irony in this, I personally don't think it really detracts from him as a professional. Anyone can be kidnapped. He was probably targeted because of his chosen profession. The kidnappers probably had help from the police. I think I would not plan any trips to Mexico.

They could have just gotten a shipment in today?

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I don't really remember how long it took to get my landings consistent. My first canopy was F1-11 PD 9cell 150. I had that for my first 100 jumps and then went to a Sabre 2 150. It was much harder to land the PD 9cell then it was for the Sabre 2. The flares were much different. I was pretty consistent on my PD 9cell by the time I bought the Sabre 2. Then it took at least 50 jumps to figure out the Sabre 2 landings. So about 150 jumps or so to have fairly consistent landings. By consistent I don't mean perfect landings, just landing on my feet.

Thanks, I love it when people try to predict the future. It's pretty entertaining. I wonder what the next version will be when these prove incorrect.

Isn't the end of the US or was it the world supposed to happen before he gets out of office? Where is chuteless when you need the answers?!

...er what? he hates it when I call atheism a religion - but it's just an opinion Edit: but actually, it was a pretty good analysis on his part, and nicely delivered...considering It maybe your opinion but it's a misuse of words. Try using a dictionary. Atheism is the opposite of religion.

There is no evidence of any god anywhere yet you claim there is. You seem to think there is a massive conspiricy surrounding the evidence for black holes, an expanding universe etc. That is why your statments are bullshit.

I would say that BillVon did a very nice job of shooting down your metaphysical bullshit reasoning.

Seeing how there is not one bit of evidence of a metaphysical anything I think your "metaphysical stone age" is just bullshit.

I guess I can vouch for Bowen. I paid him for a new cutaway for my helmet and it's at the post office waiting for me to pick it up this afternoon. So I guess he is legit or I wouldn't have paid him!

--Now that is rubbish ... Which part? ... All of it.

Evolution is the best explaination to date. Just saying god did it just doesn't cut if for me.

You shouldn't ASS U ME. There is much more evidence of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great then there is of the Biblical Jesus. I don't dispute that there ever was a Biblical Jesus, because I think that the bible was based on some historical fact. I don't believe the supernatural bullshit that is in the Bible. I consider that to be myth. There is no evidence of any god. The Bible is just another book.

You must be confused. Neither of your choices are valid. There is no evidence of any kind of god at all. Look at the evidence then draw a conclusion. Evolution is based on the evidence. There is no god involved, because there is no evidence of one. You seem to be stuck on this god thing. You seem to think there must be a god of some form. There is no way possible to have evidence of something not existing and saying that is reason to believe it could exist is just as good a reason to believe in the tooth fairy or the boogeyman and when you do that then you put your God at their level. So the Christian God is equally as likely to exist as the boogeyman.

With 418 jumps over 11 years it's going to be hard to have consistent landings with out you being more current. It will be much easier if you could do more jumps. I know it's expensive but you will have trouble finding that right flare with out doing more jumps.

That is still the silliest excuse used to defend the possible existence of gods. It's about as illogical as one can get.

Where will the record attempts be held at and when?