I just realiSed

[Squeak 17]

I just completed 5 years since my AFF1and i haven't killed me or anyone else so far

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?

[shropshire 0]

And that's a good thing (?)

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

[Andy_Copland 0]

No but i bet you pissed a lot of people off

Congrats

1338

People aint made of nothin' but water and shit.

Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

[Squeak 17]

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No but i bet you pissed a lot of people off

Congrats

thanks, but i'm not sure you're supossed to congrat me for pissing people off

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?

[Zep 0]

Thats fair dinkum ya mongrel

Gone fishing

[jenfly00 0]

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I just completed 5 years since my AFF1and i haven't killed me or anyone else so far

...and you have your very own club.

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"O brave new world that has such people in it".

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I just completed 5 years since my AFF1and i haven't killed me or anyone else so far

...and you have your very own club.

don't go giving him a big head now.

I miss Lee.
And JP.
And Chris. And...

[Jewels 0]

Excellent! So, there's hope for all of us! (Interpret that any way you like.

TPM Sister #102

[JENNR8R 0]

Congratulations!
How has the experience of skydiving changed for you over the past five years? Is the rush now as good as it was in the beginning?

What do you call a beautiful, sunny day that comes after two cloudy, rainy
ones? -- Monday.

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I just completed 5 years since my AFF1and i haven't killed me or anyone else so far

...and you have your very own club.

don't go giving him a big head now.

Or any head come to think of it

http://www.skydivethefarm.com

do you realize that when you critisize people you dont know over the internet, you become part of a growing society of twats? ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?

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Congratulations!
How has the experience of skydiving changed for you over the past five years? Is the rush now as good as it was in the beginning?

Good question Jenn. I never actually got that big YAHOO that you so often see in first jumpers.
I didnt do a tandem just AFF, but I'm a task driven person, and all my focus was on performing the skydive corectly. I'm also a geek so I looked into accident rates, and gear fairlure for students so I was pretty cool an calm about the jump. (althoguh I did near shit myself when the 182 door opened) When i got down after jump 1 i said to the instructor, man that was a lot of money for that.
He siad he had a similar experience when he started, and to have a couple more jumps if financesd allow.
well i had the money so i did a few more jumps. all the way to AFF6 and still no YAHOO.

So my instructor told me to save some money and go do a few solos, to see if that changed anything.
IT DID
no drills to do no assessements to meet, just out the door and check out the view, it was on my 7th jump I actually took REAL focus on the ground, and watched the big X on LZ get bigger and bigger and bigger.
I landed on the X and as i touched down about 20 feet from my instructor i let out a BIG YAHOO.


I get a little peaked if i havent jumped in a while, like now (6 weeks off) but I do it for the challenge of trying to get better.
I've been trying for over a year to get my head down happening and it sucks arse. so thats my challenge at present.

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?

[kbordson 8]

Congratulations.
But your comment makes me wonder: Why do some people get the rush and others don't? Is it all chemical? Is it that you might have experienced more or had a "higher" stimulus previously (not chemical, but activities that could have sensitized the area)?

I don't get the rush every time... but I do get an amazing relaxation with letting go of the strut and a complete focus during the one minute of freefall that is quite nice (no other random thoughts intruding)

But anyway, congratulations on the realization!

[warpedskydiver 0]

I know what you mean, I do not feel a rush, but a relaxing feeling does happen, but I need to relax even more, alot more.

Congrats Squeak, don't ever be the one that takes out someone else.

[Squeak 17]

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Congratulations.
But your comment makes me wonder: Why do some people get the rush and others don't? Is it all chemical? Is it that you might have experienced more or had a "higher" stimulus previously (not chemical, but activities that could have sensitized the area)?

Well probably both, I was an active drug addict for 12 years, and from a lot of the stupid shit i did in my teens and 20's I'm lucky to have made it though. So I have had a lot of diffeent fear based stimuli.
But i dont think that's it for me. I honestly beleive it's both focussing on the task to the occlusion of the surrounding envronment, and having faith in the equipment and instructors.
Losing students is bad juju for the company and the instructors, so I never had that "I'm Gunna die" thing

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?

[Keith 0]

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and i haven't killed me or anyone else so far

Not for a lack of trying to be sure

Keith

Don't Fuck with me Keith - J. Mandeville

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Losing students is bad juju for the company and the instructors, so I never had that "I'm Gunna die" thing

If you look at the stats, there's never been a safer time to be a student in our sport. Students used to be half the fatalities in our sport. "Time is sport: one day, Cause of death: impact" used to be a constant refrain in Parachutist's Magazine's fatality reports. Now the U.S. often goes an entire year without a single student fatality. That's the way it should be.
Now, if we can just keep our experienced friends from getting killed, I'll be really happy.

[Mikhail 0]

At 70 jumps right now, I find myself oddly calm psychologically. I know I am nervous on the ride up because my body goes haywire (stomach feels like a cement mixer). Mentally though, it seems that I know that I've done it before and that I've done my best to prepare for the jump. I should mention, however, that the last few jumps I've made have been purely fun jumps.

I find that I get a real kick out of a successful dive that I've worked hard to achieve. That, and of course, events that push your comfort level, like no-wind landings (at first I used to get scared shitless by the horizontal speed, but after figuring out the cause I've started to enjoy it more).

... my 2 cents worth of random babbling...

[selbbub78 0]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!


i think that you should celebrate, by making a jump in Alaska

CReW Skies,
bubbles

"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone
"The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote)
"The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!


i think that you should celebrate, by making a jump in Alaska

CReW Skies,
bubbles

Ok NP since you earn the BIG BUCKS spring for a ticket
Are you still going to be there at the end of next year?

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?

[bob.dino 1]

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I just completed 5 years since my AFF1and i haven't killed me or anyone else so far

Nicely done. Keep it up.

[ACMESkydiver 0]

Hooray then!

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[Peej 0]

Congrats brother-man!

My fifth sky birthday will be on Dec 14th this year

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No but i bet you pissed a lot of people off

Congrats

thanks, but i'm not sure you're supossed to congrat me for pissing people off

But you do such a good job of it ! lol
Congrats lil mouse and ill see you sometime on the 25th at the DZ and ya had better be there or ill be really pissed off lol

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No but i bet you pissed a lot of people off

Congrats

thanks, but i'm not sure you're supossed to congrat me for pissing people off

But you do such a good job of it ! lol
Congrats lil mouse and ill see you sometime on the 25th at the DZ and ya had better be there or ill be really pissed off lol

Chris I'll be there, evenif i have to borrow a rig

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?

[cocheese 0]

20 years this month since my first static line jump at the dz which is my current home dz. Judy put me in the peas (by radio) on a military round and i stood it up.