Superstition

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I always carried a hook knife on every jump......probably not from any superstitious inclinations but more to keep the CRW people away(get away from me with that canopy,I have a hook knife and will not hesitate to use it)

Marc SCR 6046 SCS 3004

[base311 0]

On every jump I carry the ashes of two dead friends and a tiny stuffed puppy that my oldest daughter gave me for good luck.

Gardner

[goose491 0]

It's a good thing this was moved to the Bonfire.

To All,

Last night I had a dream. A solo sit jump which seemed to be entirely in slow-mo. It was an uneventful freefall. I didn't really do anything but fall down the pipe in a sit. Felt rocket fast and slug slow all at the same time.

I could see from mine own eyes and I could see myself in flight simultaneously.

Not once did I check the alti. The ditter never went. But to my belly I go. We both knew it was pull time and slowly my hand reaches back and closes over the hackey. "Was that a lazy pull or is it just the slow-mo?"... "What slow-mo? We're going rocket fast still"!

WhaBam!! It definitely was slow-mo because it's fast now. Spinning mal and I'm on my back. Spinning so hard that I feel the blood in my toes... I can't lift my hands from my sides... I feel the blood in my fingers too! How am I going to cut away and go Silver?

"I should have listened to that fortune cookie!" I think to myself. "Idiot! Seconds left and you're thinking of the Chinese! F*ckin' save yourself!" I answer.

And with that, Slow-mo returns. I look up and see my canopy for the first time. It's a ball of crap. I look down to find my handles and miraculously, my hands are already on them. Actually, the cutaway is already being punched. I am thrown horizontally and flipped onto my belly. The ground is CLOSE!

I pull silver.

Ahhhhhh, pretty white Parachute. This is the first moment I am experiencing things in real time. There is no time for toggles, no time for flare, the ground is here... but it's a soft landing just the same... I am laying on my back looking through my reserve straight at the sun. What's that little dark dot? The canopy falls gently behind me and reveals a tiny little strip of paper drifting down behind it. My fortune!!! From my reserve flap!!! It lands right between my legs. I hear laughter... mine. I hear others laugh too. "Won't be hard to find the freebag!" I turn around and a friend is standing but 40 feet away with it draped over his head.

"That was no thing!" Dreams are funny things.



The hibegeebees are a gone. I'm looking forward to first load Saturday morning.

My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

[grue 1]

Hockey:

My goalie pads must always go on in the same order. If I can't remember, I take 'em off and start oever.

I will not skate over the red line. I step over it.

Soccer:

Same undershirt under my keeper jersey, every game.

Dangerous sports (cliff diving, SCUBA, and now skydiving):

I never check my mail the day before, or the day of, participation. I don't know where I got this one, I just started doing it.

cavete terrae.

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One ritual I do consistently is blowing kisses. This, to me, signifies affection and/or respect.
With regard to skydiving, right after opening, after I've unstowed brakes and done a control check, I blow a kiss to each of my bare feet (my landing gear and a symbolic sense of my freedom in the sky), to the sky itself, and to my canopy. I don't know why I first did it, during AFP, (perhaps because I was glad to have a canopy inflated overhead and knew I was gonna live!) but it's stuck with me ever since.

You got any more of that shit you want to seel? It must be killer stuff.
Sparky

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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I didn't find a poll answer to suit me.

I don't consider myself superstitious, really, but I do get sort of "ritualistic" at some things...

With regard to skydiving, right after opening, after I've unstowed brakes and done a control check, I blow a kiss to each of my bare feet (my landing gear and a symbolic sense of my freedom in the sky), to the sky itself, and to my canopy.

I think your vote would then be: Superstition does not apply to my life *except* for in the sport.

You may not think something specific will go wrong if you don't blow those kisses... but I'd bet you feel strange if you forget to?

Well, I still think of it more as a "ritual," and I would not be surprised if some day I come to realize that I have been not doing it for a long while. Besides, I do it after I have a good canopy! Unless you're talking about landing problems, or problems on the next jump...

If I forgot to, I'd probably just mentally do it on the ground, and will that to "make up for it."

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-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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One ritual I do consistently is blowing kisses. This, to me, signifies affection and/or respect.
With regard to skydiving, right after opening, after I've unstowed brakes and done a control check, I blow a kiss to each of my bare feet (my landing gear and a symbolic sense of my freedom in the sky), to the sky itself, and to my canopy. I don't know why I first did it, during AFP, (perhaps because I was glad to have a canopy inflated overhead and knew I was gonna live!) but it's stuck with me ever since.

You got any more of that shit you want to sell? It must be killer stuff.
Sparky

Actually, (amazingly?) I have never done drugs and don't do them now.

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-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[goose491 0]

Okay folks, how's this for creepy?

I had my pre-second cutaway on Sunday morning... Lineover.

My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

[goose491 0]

Bump!

So.... Fess up... Anybody not jumping tomorow strictly because of the date?

The girlfriend suggested-half-requested that I not jump tomorow. I shrugged it off then remembered this thread

So, anyone frightened out of the air on this "Friday the 13th"?

My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

[PLFXpert 0]

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“In this sport, you can do everything right and still die.”

First, that is true with anything in life. I can follow all the driver's ed rules and still die in a car accident. It's all about the silly "but, what if" game. I don't ever worry about the "what if's" unless there's a valid reason to.

I wouldn't say I am either, or. It's Friday the 13th, today, so of course if something bad happens, I will joke it was b/c it's Friday the 13th. I still knock on wood, all the time, even though I really dont' think it makes a difference. But, black cats are still cute as hell to me, and I've broken several mirrors in my time. If there's bad luck involved, it wasn't all that bad. Karma, is a bit of a superstition, yet I still say, "what goes around, comes around" even though I think I get jipped in that arena.

Again, I must say, if it can't hurt, why not? Knock on wood all you want. I will. Why not?

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[PLFXpert 0]

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I won't jump without my closing pin necklace around my neck.

I won't go to work without my coffee! It's VERY bad luck

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[linny 1]

Hey Goose,

The story of your extremely vivid dream and subsequent cutaway is proof of what I always talk about.
I think our minds are capable of manifesting actions, especially when we least expect them too.

My friend AND I had similiar circumstances minus the vivid dream. When I first started I was obsessed with mal's and incidents......... had to know everything about them, read every death report. Then the day after I spent a few hours on the BASE fatality board I had my first cut away (at jump 16). A few weeks later my friend said "lets go CUTAWAY!" as we walked out of Square One...... the very next jump was her first cut away (her jump #26).

Weird coincidences.?? nah. Our minds are more powerful than we could ever imagine. Am I superstitious? no. But I'm sure as shit mindful and careful of my thoughts and words when it comes to skydiving now though!!!

[ACMESkydiver 0]

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Bump!

So.... Fess up... Anybody not jumping tomorow strictly because of the date?

The girlfriend suggested-half-requested that I not jump tomorow. I shrugged it off then remembered this thread

So, anyone frightened out of the air on this "Friday the 13th"?

I would jump if I had my rig, but the reserve just got repacked and it's still at my rigger's house. No big deal, I wasn't just dieing to jump today anyhoo, regardless of the date I'm just freaking exhausted...

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

[tspillers 0]

Hard to be superstitious when you birthday is Friday the 13th.

Todd

I am not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.

[tspillers 0]

I will be jumpind this afternoon.

Todd

I am not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.

[goose491 0]

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I will be jumpind this afternoon.

Todd

Yeah, me too. That is if the weather clears up. Sh*tty clouds and rain! Just my Luck! lol


And uh, Happy Birthday!!!!!!

My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

[goose491 0]

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The story of your extremely vivid dream and subsequent cutaway is proof of what I always talk about. I think our minds are capable of manifesting actions, especially when we least expect them too.

You Crazy-Calli-Hippy-gurl!

hehee, j/k. Cool of you to post this. I truly believe it too. I think we suppress rather than embrace these things more and more these days though and it makes me sad. Refreshing to find someone else that believes.

... is that you in your avatar Lidsay?

My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

[linny 1]

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... is that you in your avatar Lidsay?

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it sure is Jesus...

i think i might be updating it to a newer one very soon.

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[Luv2Fall 0]

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Hey Goose,

The story of your extremely vivid dream and subsequent cutaway is proof of what I always talk about.
I think our minds are capable of manifesting actions, especially when we least expect them too.

My friend AND I had similiar circumstances minus the vivid dream. When I first started I was obsessed with mal's and incidents......... had to know everything about them, read every death report. Then the day after I spent a few hours on the BASE fatality board I had my first cut away (at jump 16). A few weeks later my friend said "lets go CUTAWAY!" as we walked out of Square One...... the very next jump was her first cut away (her jump #26).

Weird coincidences.?? nah. Our minds are more powerful than we could ever imagine. Am I superstitious? no. But I'm sure as shit mindful and careful of my thoughts and words when it comes to skydiving now though!!!

How right you are!

[tspillers 0]

Thanks for the b-day wishes. Hope you were able to jump. I got in 5 on Friday.

Todd

I am not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.

[Squeak 17]

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Woa Biggy!

Thank you so much!... I guess I'm having a real hard time expressing myself properly because this is all very strange to me.

I meant it like in the movie sense. "cutaway"

You a kiwi? You may know it as a "walkabout" ?

hahaha Kiwis don't go on walkabouts
It's a white mans slang word for Aboriginals that go off into the desert
Kiwis would fall off their little Island is they went walking about

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?

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I have one little thing that I just realised I won't say, and I thought about writing it, but decided it would be ok, as long as I dont actually say it! I'll never say "I'm dying to jump!". Seems like testing fate.

However, my mum went away today for the next week. It's my birthday on wednesday and I'm taking the day off work to jump. She said to me "please be careful on wednesday!" my reply was "it's my birthday! People dont go in on their birthday!" She was horrified I even said it, now I'm second guessing it too! But, I know what to do in a malfunction, I'll be fine if something goes awry. *tries to convince herself*

www.TerminalSports.com.auAustralia's largest skydive gear store

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Thanks for the b-day wishes. Hope you were able to jump. I got in 5 on Friday.

I didn't. The weather was pretty crap Friday. But the rest of the weekend was real nice. Big "Poofy" clouds both days. Great weekend for high hop and pops.

My Karma ran over my Dogma!!!

[tspillers 0]

Sweet.

I did many fun jumps this weekend. No clouds though.

We also generated 2 new licensed jumpers. That is except that my hand is cramped and I still need to sign their cards. I think cases of Newcastle should help it though.

Todd

I am not totally useless, I can be used as a bad example.