Primary Reason you go to a boogie.

[jlmiracle 7]

I'm not giving multiple choices here because I want to know your primary intentions when you go to a skydiving boogie. Do you go with intent to do more skydiving or partying? Just curious. I personally go to skydive. That is my primary reason to travel great distances. I can drink anywhere.

Judy

Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

[Unutsch 0]

hm, it would be better if you'd put both as an option... i mean, i skydive during the day and party the whole night through

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[jlmiracle 7]

My point is are you willing to let the partying interfer with your skydiving.

example: staying up until 4:00 drinking and running around with bull horn and unable to get up to jump by noon or party til midnight or 1:00 a.m and get up and jump by 10:00.

Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

[pds 0]

in the paraphrased words of the late great miles davis....

'it's all about the bitches'

namaste, motherfucker.

[skymama 37]

If it's just between partying and skydiving, I go to skydive. I don't like to ruin a perfectly good day to get some altitude because I feel lousy from too much partying. But, I also like to go to jump with new people, try different things and make new friends. I did my first raft jump and hybrid at The American Boogie. Those were way more fun than consuming too much alcohol could ever be.

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

[turtlespeed 226]

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I'm not giving multiple choices here because I want to know your primary intentions when you go to a skydiving boogie. Do you go with intent to do more skydiving or partying? Just curious. I personally go to skydive. That is my primary reason to travel great distances. I can drink anywhere.

Judy

Lmao...intentions are one thing....Partying is another...

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[PhreeZone 20]

I do both... WFFC is great since I'll get totally wasted and only do 2 or 3 jumps a few days then stay sober and do 8 the next day

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[livendive 8]

I go primarily to see friends...both in the air and around the campfire. I have gone to a boogie at which I couldn't skydive due to injury, and I doubt I'd go to a boogie at which no partying would take place, so among your options, partying sounds closer. But really, it's just to see friends. I can do the partying and skydiving at home.

Blues,
Dave

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(drink Mountain Dew)

[Casie 0]

I'm feelin sooo left out! I haven't attended a BOOGIE yet!

That will soon change when I attend AOTMB!

~Porn Kitty
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[jlmiracle 7]

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Lmao...intentions are one thing....Partying is another...

Yes, I understand things change during the course an event and intentions are not always met, but some people go to boogies more to party and the skydiving is there if they feel up to it.

I just fear that these boogies could end up going away because the people that supply the planes are not going to want to sit there and wait for people to get up if the majority of the people are there for the parties.

Judy

Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

[steve1 5]

I don't party that much any more. I mostly go to skydive. I enjoy the comradery and adventure that every jump brings. I'm usually on the first load in the morning. If it's cold out I might catch the 2nd or 3rd load. Partying is fun, but it can ruin the next day if done to excess.....Steve1

[sunshine 2]

I go to socialize and meet people. If i make a few jumps, thats an added bonus.

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[Amazon 7]

Since I started jumping again in March.. I am at a C-182 DZ.. and I get dizzy turning points doing 4 way... I like doing BIG WAYS.... so being where there are lots of people and big airplanes ROCKS..... but after hours... its time to party.. but I am there for the Almost Sober first loads of the day...woo hoo

Amazon

[Remster 30]

I go to jump. I'll choose the boogie that gives me the opportunity to meet old / new friends, but I still go there primarely to jump.

Remster

[RevJim 0]

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I'm not giving multiple choices here because I want to know your primary intentions when you go to a skydiving boogie. Do you go with intent to do more skydiving or partying? Just curious. I personally go to skydive. That is my primary reason to travel great distances. I can drink anywhere.

Judy

Well, I have to disagree. I go to meet (or meet again) people from a long ways away. This goes hand in hand with partying. I can jump at home. I can't hang around and bs with people over a beer from multiple states (or countries) here.

Smaller boogies, well, sure, I go to jump. An example would be the last weekend of September, when Mike Mullins is up here. That's a jumping boogie. WFFC, that's a party boogie.

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[beowulf 1]

I go for the specialty planes and to meet different people

[jmpnkramer 0]

What about meeting new people?

That is why I go to a boogie. To jump in a different place with new people.

My main objective everytime I goto the DZ is to Jump. One of the reasons I have probably never had a Skydiving G/F. I am not three to find a G/F.
I guess I have to put Skydive but I really think it should be an option to meet new people.

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[skybytch 273]

For me it's all about seeing my friends and making new ones. In the process I like to do a few jumps and drink a lot of alcohol. So I guess it's more about the party than the skydiving, but it wouldn't be nearly as much fun without one or the other.

That might be different if I still jumped at a Cessna dz. Having turbines at my home dz makes me less likely to "need" to jump a lot at a boogie.

Since I'm a boozehag, I do have a "need" to drink a lot at a boogie.

[freeflyz 0]

I can party all night....till 4 or 5 in the morning and still make it on the first load!!! Look at my sig!!!!

[sunshine 2]

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Since I'm a boozehag, I do have a "need" to drink a lot at a boogie.

Yep. I also have a need to ride around aimlessly on a golfcart looking for hotties.

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[turtlespeed 226]

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I go to socialize and meet people. If i make a few jumps, thats an added bonus.

Isn't that the rough definition of a party?
Partying isn't necc. getting shit faced and running around yelling "Joseeaeaeaeaeae" lol...great night that was....but more of a consolidation of people with an interest that is found few and far between the so called "normal" factions of how people live their lives. Not everyone will go to get shit faced, most will stay for the party though.

The question might be better askes as: Would you still go to Boogies if there weren't a party afterwards.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[EricaH 0]

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Well, I have to disagree. I go to meet (or meet again) people from a long ways away. This goes hand in hand with partying. I can jump at home. I can't hang around and bs with people over a beer from multiple states (or countries) here.

Smaller boogies, well, sure, I go to jump. An example would be the last weekend of September, when Mike Mullins is up here. That's a jumping boogie. WFFC, that's a party boogie.

[skycutie 0]

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I can jump a Super Otter almost any day of the week

I can jump a Super Otter at my home DZ only one time during the year and that's during our annual Freefall Festival (in Feb) BUAAAA!

But you're right: boogies are mostly about partying with fellow skydivers. I think that skydivers are the coolest people in the world.... Aren't we?

During our 2002 Boogie I got stuck at the manifest and I didn't care (much). I jumped only one or two times, but hanging out with people from all over the world made my week.

I can jump our beautiful C-182 every weekend Right?

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[flyangel2 2]

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I did feel bad for the Super Otter organizers @ WFFC though... it's such a common plane now, no one seemed overly excited to get on a load. They almost sounded like auctioneers trying to get people on their planes.

Oh don't feel too bad for them. They got plenty of loads up. The reason they sound like auctioneers, is because they want the jumpers to come to their plane. What ends up happening is jumpers walk over to the loading tents and find out what plane is on the fastest call.

I go to boogies to skydive. Since I'm not a big drinker, the party stuff doesn't go on too late for me. Most times I'm in bed by 10:00 p.m. That could be cause I try to make the first load of the day. Doing that is why most times I leave a boogie with tons of jumps in my log book.

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[txblondie 0]

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I'm feelin sooo left out! I haven't attended a BOOGIE yet!

That will soon change when I attend AOTMB!

Me, either, unless you count the one we had at SDD, but I STILL didn't participate...I was still a student.

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Blondes do have more fun!