Ever heard of this guy??

[Nataly 38]

Eric Fradet.

Please don't google before you answer - just say yes or no.

Then you can google and see who it is. Please no spoilers. And forgive me, but I had no clue... So my vote was no...

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

[normiss 871]

Nope.
Googling didn't help.
Still no clue.

[piisfish 140]

seriously ? Yes
he even posts here on the forum (seriously!)

edited to erase the spoilers I posted because Nataly showed me her boobies

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[NWFlyer 2]

What's the point? Did this person act offended because you didn't know who he was? Did he pull a "Do you know who I am?" on you (without irony)?

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[Nataly 38]

piisfish

seriously ?
he even posts here on the forum (seriously!)
ever seen the movie Crosswind by Patrick Passe ? a great classic in skydiving. He jumps there doing some relative work from a cliff with young Loic Jean-Albert and others

I'm embarassed as hell - it was my boyfriend who brought it up... Said this climber he met was friends with this skydiving world champion who had like 27000 jumps and was winning all the x-games and was into base jumping and was the French Federation of Skydiving president... And I'm like "what??? Whatever... Never heard of the guy..." (note: I am paraphrasing from a whuffo who got some of the details wrong but overall wasn't too far off)

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

[piisfish 140]

he never was the president of the Federation, but he was something like "directeur technique national" in charge for all the gear issues, never had they seen so many recalls and service bulletins etc under his "reign".

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[piisfish 140]

NWFlyer

What's the point? Did this person act offended because you didn't know who he was? Did he pull a "Do you know who I am?" on you (without irony)?

he wouldn't pull that card on anybody I guess. More some kind of pretty reserved person.

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[piisfish 140]

Nataly

Eric Fradet.

clicky Eric Fradet

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[Nataly 38]

piisfish

***Eric Fradet.

clicky Eric Fradet

That clicky is just a blank page for me... Found this short clip, though: http://youtu.be/79pDKjacdCk

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

[oldwomanc6 60]

piisfish

***Eric Fradet.

clicky Eric Fradet

Linky no worky.

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[piisfish 140]

oldwomanc6

******Eric Fradet.

clicky Eric Fradet

Linky no worky. edited, now worky again

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[Squeak 17]

Yes.

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?

[HighJB 0]

Yes

ça passe ou ça frotte

[LouDiamond 1]

Nataly

Eric Fradet.

Please don't google before you answer - just say yes or no.

Then you can google and see who it is. Please no spoilers. And forgive me, but I had no clue... So my vote was no...

Seriously, what are you, new?

"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required"
Some people dream about flying, I live my dream
SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING

[piisfish 140]

LouDiamond

Seriously, what are you, new?

even Normiss is newer than Nataly

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[MikeJD 0]

I voted yes, because I remember him from his skysurfing exploits in the mid nineties - I think I first came across him in one of Patrick Passe's Travelling videos.

However he's been off my radar for a good ten or fifteen years, so it doesn't surprise me that you wouldn't have heard of him.

[shropshire 0]

Nope and I'm sure he's not heard of me either

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[skymama 37]

Yes, even saw him with his board in Titusville once.

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

[aphid 0]

Mes oui. Shared a few Otter rides with him some years back.

[diablopilot 2]

That's because too many of you think you discovered this sport. It's full of egos that can't see past themselves.

----------------------------------------------
You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[Remster 30]

[shakes head in dismay]

And to think I call you a friend. You never showed _me_ your boobies!

Remster

[JohnMitchell 16]

Yep, French jumper.

[Nataly 38]

diablopilot

That's because too many of you think you discovered this sport. It's full of egos that can't see past themselves.

I can't speak for everyone, but there are lots of fantastic skydivers (past and present) that I have never heard of. It's not that I'm ego-centric but I have a lot of interests and I can't/don't know everything there is to know about every single one of these...

"There is no problem so bad you can't make it worse."
- Chris Hadfield
« Sors le martinet et flagelle toi indigne contrôleuse de gestion. »
- my boss

[Southern_Man 0]

yes

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

[piisfish 140]

Nataly, try to get hold of a copy of Crosswind so you can see the man, and a couple others which are not too shabby. A classic

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM