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[Jockeyshifter63 0]

Hello all. A 48 year old guy new to the sport and wondering why I didn't do this sooner. My wife and I just started and she is flat kicking butt. She is a much better athlete. I just passed my AFF-7, cleared for solo and was going to do one the same day but the winds came up. No worries, lots of time to review, learn and socialize. Wonderful DZ at Mile-Hi and the Instructors really make it great. Lots of real positive energy, and no BS reviews of the jumps! Love to read the forums but I always check things out with my coaches. Still, the discussions make the old brain start working again.
Take care and thanks to the pioneers for paving the way for us new to the sport.

[skymama 37]

Welcome to the forums!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[popsjumper 2]

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.... thanks to the pioneers for paving the way for us new to the sport.

Awesome how you recognize that and so many others already in the sport don't.

Welcome to the big blue skies!

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[Jockeyshifter63 0]

Thanks for the welcome. Hope I didn't sound like my wife and I are in competition. I gave up, keeping up, with her years ago. I love the fact she is so Bada**. We are having a blast. I haven't seen her this jazzed in 24 years of marriage. Pretty neat.

[Jockeyshifter63 0]

Pops, I have been fortunate enough to participate in several sports and extracurriculars thru my life. In all of them we have to recognize the ones before us. I can't tell you how many times, climbing, that we would be on a very remote crag only to find a peice of gear that was left to rappell off of by someone before us. Pretty humbling.