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Wow, I just did a search for Sangi, read a load of posts and watched a couple of videos. Thats pretty damn sobering. I cant imagine what his emotions must be. Getting hurt in this sport, because of an accident is one thing, but ending up a paraplegic because of a silly decision you made must be pretty hard to deal with. His crash video is pretty harsh, 10 seconds from decision to cripple. F*%K! That is what guys like me are fighting against. Trying to break through those attitudes to prevent this from happening again. If you make it in this sport for very long you'll see this exact same scenario play out more than a few times. Sometimes it is injury, sometimes it is death, never does it end well. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."
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Wow, I just did a search for Sangi, read a load of posts and watched a couple of videos. Thats pretty damn sobering. I cant imagine what his emotions must be. Getting hurt in this sport, because of an accident is one thing, but ending up a paraplegic because of a silly decision you made must be pretty hard to deal with. His crash video is pretty harsh, 10 seconds from decision to cripple. F*%K!
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What have I done that was a rush? What do I need to slow down? Really? Your comment about "experience" and so many jump numbers speaks volumes man. Listen just like DocPop stated I was you. He was you. Hell I bet even AggieDave was like you at one time. Anyone that swoops by definition is a push the envelope kind of person man. You aren't any different or special......YET. If you want to be, I have already told you what to do. Print out Dave's reply on accuracy in the pattern. Do exactly what he said. Count on doing just that for the next 100-200 jumps before ever thinking about swooping. Build your foundation. You have NO idea how valuable that information he gave you is. People pay for it. At your experience level you don't know what you don't know man. Read Brian Germain's book the parachute and it's pilot. Get a coach that it is an experienced competetive canopy pilot. Even if you do all of these things you WILL find yourself in the corner one day. Every canopy pilot does. Will you even recognize it in time? Will you freeze? I did. So did Sangi. There are a ton of guys like Ian, Dave, and so on that will preach wringing the shit out of the large parachutes first. Trust them when they say it will make you a better canopy pilot in the long run. Those guys really do thrive off of competetion. No one will try to hold you back. They actually want to see you succeed. Your current attitude however just shows another statistic in the making. I am an asshole, but I am honest
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It is the truth that apparently both of us have learned ourselves from lucky ass bounces. I have video of mine I would post if I thought it would do any good for the OP. Mine doesn't sound as bad as yours as I went nowhere near 100 feet but it still was a wake up call that I needed to slow down and learn the foundations properly. AggieDave sent me a PM awhile back with all the information he just gave this guy. Top notch stuff for FREE. If the poster is serious about being the worlds best one day he will slow down and take the time to learn that "boring" foundation work. If not he will be another Sangi. Constructive or not the truth is the truth. I doubt even Aggie's advice was "constructive" to the OP because from his displayed attitude it seems to most likely fall on deaf ears. It wasn't what he wanted to hear. I am an asshole, but I am honest
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The swooping book I'd read! Heck that's how I ended up in this thread, I was reading in the latest Sangi thread in the swooping forum. Anyway, for a GREAT flash, check out these Yongnuo YN-560 II. They are very affordable, but great quality for what you get. I have and love Nik software. Photomatix is good too though. I like the selective color you have on your site. Here is my own personal fav selective color shot. http://500px.com/photo/2106424
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The top swoopers want you to out swoop them. Look at Greg Windmiller, he was an accomplished jumper with the Golden Knights when the GKs decided to have a swoop team. Greg and his teammate Chris were sent to coaching with Ian, Tagle and Nick (among a couple of others) and they were all proud of Greg when he got his pro-card and then started earning medals. They were proud of their student and they were proud to have a new friend to compete against, someone to help drive them to refine their skills even further. However, this sport is littered with the broken remains of young jumpers (in experience, not always age) who wouldn't head advice and wouldn't take any help. The same excuse you said above was given by those same jumpers. The last really obvious example on DZ.com was Sangi, he refused to listen because he had "mad skills" and had the same attitude you have displayed. He's lucky he isn't dead, but he is crippled for life now. Try the advice in this thread, both kinds of advice that has been given: skills training and attitude training. Accomplishing both of those will take you very far along the path to your skydiving goals. I want to see you have a long jumping career and be a top swooper, but right now it looks like you're headed down the same path Sangi did. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."
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Awesome post Dave!!! To the OP some on here are going to give you shit because of your lack of experience. Some are doing it, because they have seen the blood and guts first hand. They have seen friends die or end up crippled. Swooping is dangerous. And some are just assholes and take every oppurtunity to display it online.... As DocPop stated Dave and Ian are some of the few that take to heart helping younger guys do it right. The key is RIGHT. I am not qualified to give you specific advice in swooping. What I will say is take it slow and get coaching. Coaching really is worth its weight in gold so to speak. Just makes sure your "coaching" is from a qualified sorce, like a proven competive canopy pilot, not just some guy from your dz. Dave is spot on when he tells you it will take thousands of jumps. If it is something you want to pursue one thing I know is you will pursue it anyway. Just make sure you pursue your goals the right way. Get coaching and take it SLOW. I would highly recommend you search for Sangi in the incidents forum. Watch the links to his videos. After that, drill in to your head that if I take it too fast this WILL happen to me! You COULD have the skill within you to be the best. I don't know you and have no idea. In fact, with your level of experience no one knows yet. Nick Batsh came from my area. When he was starting off everyone thought he was nuts and going to kill himself. Now look at him. Unarguably one of the best, in my opinion he is the best, but I am a "homer" lol. You will never find out if you can dethrone the best if you break yourself before your time. The skills Dave described for the pattern are essential before ever getting to turns. You can't build a skyscraper without a strong foundation. It will just come crashing down, like Sangi. Seriously go watch, and yes it CAN happen to you. Be sure to read the descriptions too. http://youtu.be/tF578oSkrKk http://youtu.be/9YZHpdtQVMw I am an asshole, but I am honest
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next sangi it is!
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best troll ever or the next sangi?
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Unnecessary cutaway. Very Dangerous and stupid
elias123 replied to pj_jumper's topic in Safety and Training
Might you be referring to Sangi? "In a mad world, only the mad are sane" -
'swoop' a tiny canopy into the ground at a low experience level of 100 jumps, and you kill or injure just yourself. The ground wont care. Swoop a wingsuit into a canopy and you kill another person (or two), plus get wingsuit flying and tandemjumping put on hold due to FAA investigation. Costing not just lives, but also millions of dolars for affected DZs. I indeed suggest you have some actual experience at doing something (2 to 3 hours of flying experience is very little) before doing dangerous to even stupid things in an activity that should be seen as a planned stunt for trained/experienced skydivers vs fun thing to 'try' Your attitude in the few posts you have shows the exact reason why we will see more and more DZs creating rules against wingsuit flying. Get some skills before you try showing of....every jump is fun, and can learn you a ton of new things. Take it slow and gradually work towards certain goals, instead of starting with the goals without the skills to execute them properly. Talk to Sangi and listen to his lesson on what rushing into thing prematurely can lead to. And he is far from the only example. Whats the rush dude? Take it easy... JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?
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futuristic wingsuit swoop - video (not mine!)
mccordia replied to 5.samadhi's topic in Wing Suit Flying
Sangi had a swooping accident half a year ago, and is on a long road to recovery from a broken back and being paralized from the waist down. He still reads dz.com every once in a while and knows he sadly learnt lessons in life the hard way. He was much more better at the trolling thing than this guy though JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete? -
futuristic wingsuit swoop - video (not mine!)
uberchris replied to 5.samadhi's topic in Wing Suit Flying
my lord what happened to sangi? i figured he had disregarded everything on the basefucker forum and gone in on a BASE jump by now gravity brings me down......... -
futuristic wingsuit swoop - video (not mine!)
mccordia replied to 5.samadhi's topic in Wing Suit Flying
With Sangi now actually turned into a more sensible person, somebody had to fill the gap JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete? -
katana 120 VS crossfire 2 119 ??
Scrumpot replied to hhhyyrt's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
So, May 1, you say: (Ref: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4311937;page=unread#unread Now, just 2 short weekend's later, THIS? You really are a "piece of work", aren't you? - Seriously. ...And you get offended when ANYONE really says ANYTHING at all (or even really tries) to you. Your "game" on here, whatever it is - is truly, tiresome. Honestly not looking forward to seeing your "Sangi-esque" scheme unfold. But whatever. You're an adult right? Please just don't either take out, or hurt anyone else with your endeavors is all. coitus non circum - Moab Stone -
Skydiving bullies. Put up your hand.
popsjumper replied to obelixtim's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I know very few mentors who would act like that on the first run. Yes, there are some. None in DZ.com that I know of. Type A) Damn! I must have screwed up good! Let me learn from this ass-chewing, or Type B) Fuck you asshole I'm not gonna listen to a word you say. It's a matter of level of maturity. Simple as that. I dunno. I'm type A.Well, I have to qualify that and say that there were two that set me off. Apparently, there are a helluva lot of Type Bs there and that's sad. Yes, most prefer the soft touch and that's fine. Most of the Type Bs aren't going to listen to rhyme or reason anyway no matter how you put it....we see it all too often. This thread was about one of those. Sangi was another. +1 and well said! My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 -
This guy insisted he was ok to jump a Velo
obelixtim replied to chuckakers's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Not my words. An early report on our friend Sangi. I'm sure the titan that saved his life while he lay smashed on the DZ was able to usefully draw on his monstrous ego to keep Sangi alive till the meatwagon arrived... You want more? Go to the swooping forum, and read the thread entitled "Post your hot swoop X Rays". It is a quite graphic read of the consequences of screwing up a HP landing, in the words of the individuals involved. If you can handle it. Then come back on here and tell us titans with massive egos that we are out of line. Lets see....wolves, skygods, egocentric titans, delusional bullies.... Who would have thought we really are such nasty, horrible, people.... Yet to see any really constructive/useful comments about alternative ways to solve the problem of senseless death and injury on the DZ's all of us use. How about it?. My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing.... -
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This guy insisted he was ok to jump a Velo
billvon replied to chuckakers's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
>That is pure supposition. We should really try to deal in facts. It may > have saved lives but we can never know. It almost certainly saved Sangi's. And yes, we can never know 100%, We can never know if the FJC saves any lives. People might just survive just fine if you strap a rig on them and kick them out the door at 12,500 feet with no instruction. But the smart money is on the "saves lives" square. >It is still bullying and in my opinion that is always wrong. Really? A DZO who tells a jumper who is jumping a Velocity at 100 jumps is foolish, and they can't jump it there, is wrong? >This sort of brow-beating makes people shut down and not want to >come back to dz.com. And the browbeating they get from the DZO may cause them to not come back to the DZ. Which is good. This isn't bowling. You can die doing this. -
This guy insisted he was ok to jump a Velo
obelixtim replied to chuckakers's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Hmmmm. I smell something fishy...and it ain't fish. As you say, who takes down their jump numbers, and why?. After his last post I speculated that he might have sold everyone a dummy, with his claim of putting his velo on the shelf. Now I strongly suspect he did post that in an attempt to take a bit of the heat off. If that is the case he is still a DGIT. I notice he also removed the post about how safe and careful he really is. Too bad it was already quoted... His Utube videos have disappeared as well. Ultimately, he is only fooling himself.... I hope no one accords him sympathy after his inevitable impact with the planet.... Sangi Mk 2...... My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing.... -
I'm sure Sangi will have one available....maybe two. Doubt if he'll have any use for them ever again. My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing....
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This guy insisted he was ok to jump a Velo
Squeak replied to chuckakers's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Thank you, Chad. That's the best move you could have made. I appreciate your candor and I'm sure everyone else does too. We are all about helping people progress, and sometimes that includes the need to say some things that people don't want to hear. Learn, take logical steps, and most importantly build a solid skill set for high performance canopy flight and you will be surprised how quickly you can be safe under a cross-braced canopy. Thanks for butching up. Some direct him to the Sangi thread for some 1st hand advice on why most of us think its a bad idea. You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? -
This guy insisted he was ok to jump a Velo
obelixtim replied to chuckakers's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Good thinking. Well done. You might have avoided the fate of a well known guy called Sangi, who used to post here....he's been pretty quiet for a while now...multiple smashed bones have slowed him down quite a lot.!. My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing.... -
Downsizing, but when? Also I am an under-aged jumper...
popsjumper replied to FlyKid's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Has anyone mentioned Sangi yet? My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 -
Did you start BASE Jumping, high lining, or rock climbing on your own, or did you ask for "face to face" instruction ? You are so defensive and in such denial (of what you don't know you don't know). What are you, a 19 yr old ? Be a man and step up and demonstrate to a pro swooper your technique, then quietly let him or her explain what you are doing right and wrong. Stop being so damn defensive.....sorry dude, I'm on for sometime this Summer.......June 1 to August 17, 2012.....Sangi, would you write that date in for me please....thanks Life is short ... jump often.
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well fair enough beowulf, thats cool if you dont want to talk about landing a parachute. i wanted to talk about it, you know, in the swooping forum, but i'll just reserve talking about it for when im on the dropzone i guess and to the ones with proclamations of death. yes im very much like sangi, with my 90 degree front riser turn initiated extremely high and double fronts to land. its just a roll of the dice each jump when im gonna go in doing that isnt it!!! now lets make another thread about removeable sliders to make the forum even more interesting.
