bertusgeert 1 #1 December 15, 2004 THis probably has been covered a thousand times but.... I am a college student that cannot afford his renewal fee, money is very tough right now and I'm barely staying current. I plan on studying hard and finishin quick, then get out, get a good job and jump on money in the bank, not money my dad thinks i'm spending on food! So....My membership Expired in October 2004... i plan on doing a jump every now and then, it hasn't been so tough thart I cannot stay current, and my local (yes, they are USPA) DZO's are helping me out with rentals and letting me pack. SHOULD I RENEW? OR can I drop it if I know I will only just stay current, making maybe an average of 2 or 3 jumps every 3 months. Also - it seems dangerous to stay current, but only just. 1 jump a month will be fun, but you will quickly forget all the dangers. I have been asking the people around me to just keep an eye out for me, and I go solo jumps, or with an experienced jumper. Thanks for your all's advice.... Bertus G --------------------------------------------- As jy dom is moet jy bloei! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
upndownshop 0 #2 December 15, 2004 Not to be harsh as this may sound but: Uncurrent skydivers are dead skydivers. No this is not to say that you will die, but you certainly put yourself at a higher risk. The membership is only once a year, but your currency is monthly. Maybe your timing isn't right for jumping now. Don't think I am trying to talk you out of jumping, that goes against everything I do in regards to this sport, but I would rather you and others stay safe. To put something off for now and being able to go all out later and be safe is probably worth the wait. My first jump was in 1984, I averaged 10 jumps a year, scared to death each time, I took things for granted (especially being born into the sport) and always questioned myself as to why I was doing it. It wasn't till 2001 that I got back into it and made 900 jumps in two years, finally I feel like a skydiver and very safe and confident. maybe keep your membership current so you can stay informed through Parachutist, and a monthly reminder of your goals. Please be careful in your decision, lives depend on it. I wish you well, and hope it works out for you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bertusgeert 1 #3 December 15, 2004 Thanks, I haven't been told that, and that was my worries exactly. Just one experienced person thinking that is enough to change my mind. I think the best thing to do in my situation is to quit jumping for a few college years all together. I thought about this, but it is a sad thought and no one wants to do it. Well, thats probably the way its gotta go... It sucks to have the love and the enthusiasm, the knowledge and the skills to do something but you cannot for other reasons. like governator once said - I'll be bak... Cheers --------------------------------------------- As jy dom is moet jy bloei! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slug 1 #4 December 15, 2004 Listen to your inner voice. It's not just one person telling you that you got to stay current to stay safe. You've already got three votes You know what you need to do. R.I.P. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #5 December 15, 2004 You are making the right decision. But keep your USPA membership current.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #6 December 15, 2004 How about this for a situation... On one of your currency jumps you happen to lose a shoe, that shoe happens to fall into someones car, house, anything and causes a few hundred in damages. If you were a USPA member your liability insurance will cover that with you not having to worry about anything. Otherwise you now have to be responcible for the damages. We had a jumper fly into a temp power line and broke it this fall. He would to had to pay the emergency call to the power company to dispatch a crew and repair the line on a Sat if he was'nt a USPA member. As it is all he had to do was the paperwork.Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmytavino 16 #7 December 16, 2004 But now,, 3 decades later,, it's a bit easier.. hard work, thriftiness, sensible spending etc.. has made that so.. I will happily send you a check to cover your renewal, I'll make it out to USPA.....PM me with details on your postal address... Merry Christmas... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites upndownshop 0 #8 December 16, 2004 Quote But now,, 3 decades later,, it's a bit easier.. hard work, thriftiness, sensible spending etc.. has made that so.. I will happily send you a check to cover your renewal, I'll make it out to USPA.....PM me with details on your postal address... Merry Christmas... You da man! Happy Holidays to you and yours!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 7 #9 December 16, 2004 Quote I will happily send you a check to cover your renewal, I'll make it out to USPA.....,, and i will feel good about it..... You SHOULD maintain your membership,, even if your jumping can't be as frequent as you would like... Quote ...And THAT'S why I love this sport!! Bert... Take Jimmy up on his offer, you can pay him back with jump tickets after you get your degree. Don't sweat it.. a lot of us have been there too. I fortunately had several hundred jumps when I went to college, and paid for my jumping by training students and doing demos... But because of $ didn't get my D license until I graduated... 5 years after I qualified for it... You do what you have to, to get the degree, then the jumping's gravy... We'll wait for ya!! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bertusgeert 1 #10 December 17, 2004 Quote But now,, 3 decades later,, it's a bit easier.. hard work, thriftiness, sensible spending etc.. has made that so.. I will happily send you a check to cover your renewal, I'll make it out to USPA.....PM me with details on your postal address... Merry Christmas... I just want to publically thank Jimmy. Thats incredible. This will be the christmas present that made my christmas! THANKS JIMMY!!!! As for the rest of you, I will definitely return...just you wait --------------------------------------------- As jy dom is moet jy bloei! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jimmytavino 16 #11 December 17, 2004 .....I received your address.. It'll hit the mailbox today... send it in with your renewal form... Hey... that reminds me!!!!!! I gotta send in my own renewal !!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites sunshine 2 #12 December 17, 2004 Very cool of you jimmy. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bertusgeert 1 #13 December 25, 2004 Quote .....I received your address.. It'll hit the mailbox today... send it in with your renewal form... Hey... that reminds me!!!!!! I gotta send in my own renewal !!! Wooohaa! So I got to my parentals house and what do I find in the mailbox??! a Check, (and a cool christmas card!) for 49.00 made out to USPA! YEAH JIMMY!!! I wont tell my fam this, but Jimmy's present was by far the best christmas present I have received this christmas! How else can I say it? THANKS Jimmy! --------------------------------------------- As jy dom is moet jy bloei! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 7 #14 December 25, 2004 QuoteI wont tell my fam this, but Jimmy's present was by far the best christmas present I have received this christmas! Quote Hey! We're ALL family! Merry Christmas to BOTH you guys! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bch7773 0 #15 December 25, 2004 Quote On one of your currency jumps you happen to lose a shoe, that shoe happens to fall into someones car, house, anything and causes a few hundred in damages. If you were a USPA member your liability insurance will cover that with you not having to worry about anything. Otherwise you now have to be responcible for the damages. ummm out of pure curiousity, what about if some jumpers did a pumpkin jump and it crashed down and damaged property? would USPA insurance cover that? MB 3528, RB 1182 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 7 #16 December 25, 2004 Quote if some jumpers did a pumpkin jump and it crashed down and damaged property? would USPA insurance cover that? Quote Probably not... That would be in violation of several BSR's & Law's... ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jumperconway 0 #17 December 25, 2004 Thank Jimmy and know that if you want something bad enough you will find a way to work hard enough to be able to do it! If you can't then take a break. this isn't golf! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bertusgeert 1 #18 December 28, 2004 QuoteThank Jimmy and know that if you want something bad enough you will find a way to work hard enough to be able to do it! If you can't then take a break. this isn't golf! I agree that this isn't golf (which is already expensive) and I do want it really bad but... There are also other things in life which is important, like providing for my family and being able to fulfill all my other dreams besides skydiving my ass off. So it is a matter of choosing between different things now so that later I can enjoy all of the activities I wish to engage in fully, not half assed and at the expense of other things such as college funds for my kid. This all off course is self explanatory. Here is a little graph to visualize what I plan. --------------------------------------------- As jy dom is moet jy bloei! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites heidihagen 0 #19 December 28, 2004 QuoteQuote if some jumpers did a pumpkin jump and it crashed down and damaged property? would USPA insurance cover that? Quote Probably not... That would be in violation of several BSR's & Law's... I think he was kidding! See: Trick or Treat? - skydivers drop pumpkin guy who just renewed, try selling stuff on ebay-- you'd be amazed the stuff people buy! 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upndownshop 0 #8 December 16, 2004 Quote But now,, 3 decades later,, it's a bit easier.. hard work, thriftiness, sensible spending etc.. has made that so.. I will happily send you a check to cover your renewal, I'll make it out to USPA.....PM me with details on your postal address... Merry Christmas... You da man! Happy Holidays to you and yours!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #9 December 16, 2004 Quote I will happily send you a check to cover your renewal, I'll make it out to USPA.....,, and i will feel good about it..... You SHOULD maintain your membership,, even if your jumping can't be as frequent as you would like... Quote ...And THAT'S why I love this sport!! Bert... Take Jimmy up on his offer, you can pay him back with jump tickets after you get your degree. Don't sweat it.. a lot of us have been there too. I fortunately had several hundred jumps when I went to college, and paid for my jumping by training students and doing demos... But because of $ didn't get my D license until I graduated... 5 years after I qualified for it... You do what you have to, to get the degree, then the jumping's gravy... We'll wait for ya!! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bertusgeert 1 #10 December 17, 2004 Quote But now,, 3 decades later,, it's a bit easier.. hard work, thriftiness, sensible spending etc.. has made that so.. I will happily send you a check to cover your renewal, I'll make it out to USPA.....PM me with details on your postal address... Merry Christmas... I just want to publically thank Jimmy. Thats incredible. This will be the christmas present that made my christmas! THANKS JIMMY!!!! As for the rest of you, I will definitely return...just you wait --------------------------------------------- As jy dom is moet jy bloei! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmytavino 16 #11 December 17, 2004 .....I received your address.. It'll hit the mailbox today... send it in with your renewal form... Hey... that reminds me!!!!!! I gotta send in my own renewal !!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #12 December 17, 2004 Very cool of you jimmy. ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bertusgeert 1 #13 December 25, 2004 Quote .....I received your address.. It'll hit the mailbox today... send it in with your renewal form... Hey... that reminds me!!!!!! I gotta send in my own renewal !!! Wooohaa! So I got to my parentals house and what do I find in the mailbox??! a Check, (and a cool christmas card!) for 49.00 made out to USPA! YEAH JIMMY!!! I wont tell my fam this, but Jimmy's present was by far the best christmas present I have received this christmas! How else can I say it? THANKS Jimmy! --------------------------------------------- As jy dom is moet jy bloei! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #14 December 25, 2004 QuoteI wont tell my fam this, but Jimmy's present was by far the best christmas present I have received this christmas! Quote Hey! We're ALL family! Merry Christmas to BOTH you guys! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bch7773 0 #15 December 25, 2004 Quote On one of your currency jumps you happen to lose a shoe, that shoe happens to fall into someones car, house, anything and causes a few hundred in damages. If you were a USPA member your liability insurance will cover that with you not having to worry about anything. Otherwise you now have to be responcible for the damages. ummm out of pure curiousity, what about if some jumpers did a pumpkin jump and it crashed down and damaged property? would USPA insurance cover that? MB 3528, RB 1182 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #16 December 25, 2004 Quote if some jumpers did a pumpkin jump and it crashed down and damaged property? would USPA insurance cover that? Quote Probably not... That would be in violation of several BSR's & Law's... ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumperconway 0 #17 December 25, 2004 Thank Jimmy and know that if you want something bad enough you will find a way to work hard enough to be able to do it! If you can't then take a break. this isn't golf! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bertusgeert 1 #18 December 28, 2004 QuoteThank Jimmy and know that if you want something bad enough you will find a way to work hard enough to be able to do it! If you can't then take a break. this isn't golf! I agree that this isn't golf (which is already expensive) and I do want it really bad but... There are also other things in life which is important, like providing for my family and being able to fulfill all my other dreams besides skydiving my ass off. So it is a matter of choosing between different things now so that later I can enjoy all of the activities I wish to engage in fully, not half assed and at the expense of other things such as college funds for my kid. This all off course is self explanatory. Here is a little graph to visualize what I plan. --------------------------------------------- As jy dom is moet jy bloei! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
heidihagen 0 #19 December 28, 2004 QuoteQuote if some jumpers did a pumpkin jump and it crashed down and damaged property? would USPA insurance cover that? Quote Probably not... That would be in violation of several BSR's & Law's... I think he was kidding! See: Trick or Treat? - skydivers drop pumpkin guy who just renewed, try selling stuff on ebay-- you'd be amazed the stuff people buy! That's what I've been doing anyway edit: clickyi didn't lose my mind, i sold it on ebay. .:need a container to fit 5'4", 110 lb. cypres ready & able to fit a 170 main (or slightly smaller):.[/ce Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
