MariusTer

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  1. Have you ever noticed when your girlfriend/fiance wore low necks and high skirts you didn't want to beat up every guy in the mall who looked at her.She could smile at everyone who glanced in her direction

    Now you try and smile at a pretty girl.

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    I'm not the biggest rugby fan, but I'll be watching all the world cup matches I can, and hopefully South Africa can set the record for the most times a single country has lifted the cup. Though currently that's looking very unlikely.:ph34r:


    Thanks for the confidence but after Sundays performance:$ I have to agree with you.

  4. One of the more experienced jumpers at my home DZ [25+years] have a saying.I still feel the butterflies before each jump but I have taught them to fly in formation.He goes further by saying that the day he does not feel them anymore he will stop jumping because then he has become complacent.

  5. I am not sure if this is the right place to post this.


    This has been a black weekend for skydiving and I am sad for the loss, for deep down we are all bonded in the love of skydiving.

    I attended an seremonie tonight and had the honour of ringing the bell and it hit close to home.

    Blue skies.

  6. I am a diabetic and always these advertisements of food that I can't eat pop up next to the diabetes forum after a lot of discussion on the forum the answer was tailor made advertisements as well.This answer came from one of the guys in the IT game and he had proof.

    If you google anything food related a lot it will search the internet and the next thing you see is not a salad or low carb meal it is bloody torture.B|

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  8. My wife is gonna kill me but here it goes.

    Whe finished the s/l coarse the Saturday morning and did our first jump around 12 that afternoon.Her landing was smooth.Walking back towards the clubhouse she steps into a Suricate[family of the mongoose] hole and sprains her ankle.To this day the CI will steer the first jumpers past her and then loudly announces please watch out for the suricate holes as they head to the plane.:D

  10. there is one more person on dz.com described similar scenario happend on a tandem jump whereby fast release of the brakes solved line over...



    I must have read that article that is why I releasd the brakes fast because there is no way I could have figured that one out on my own

  • Arrived at the DZ Sunday morning for the last DRCP and first 3 sec. First jump was uneventfull and I was rearing to go for my 3 sec delay.

    Climb to altitude was uneventfull,climb out was straight forward and then it started going wrong. De arched and went unstable the moment I let go of the strut and missed the rip cord.Got that sorted and pulled albeit a bit late :$.

    Instead of a nice 235 orange canopy I had a line over right hand side on the last 2 cells which put me in a backward spiral.somewhere in the back of my mind I remembered the safety article I read about this.I unstowed the brakes I remember looking at the right hand brake and it is pulled up hard against the retaining ring.flared once nothing flared twice nothing, last one I said to myself as I started my the third flare I am mentaly going through my reserve drills I release the brakes fast and the 2 cells pop open.

    2 days later I am still stiff and sore and I am replaying the events in my mind.What was maybe 15 seconds felt really long and I cant believe how rationale and clear my thinking was nor the amount of info that was taken in and processed.

    Had to buy beer for the jumpmasters afterwardsB|.