Pammi 0 #1 January 4, 2002 Okay, a few drinks later this is my thoughts:We are all children. We beg to get away from our parents (JM's) only to then be lost saying "what do we do now" and "will you play with me"What other such thoughts have you had?Oh btw, off the subject but to not start another thread..what about things you remember hearing and believing as a whuffo or new jumper? I remember when I first inquired about jumping before I met Merrick, I asked "Can you jump in winter?" The answer? "Oh yes! That's when we all prefer to jump. It's so cool, crisp and beautiful then!" ROFLMAO! Okay, whatever!Closing pin jewelry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scottbre 0 #2 January 4, 2002 Hey, I was just private messaging someone about this. Waddya know. This isn't really ironic per se, but before I started jumping I thought that you deployed your chute by reaching across your body and pulling the ripcord. Doesn't make any sense to me now, but I am inside the fold now."Can't keep my mind from the circling sky. Tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #3 January 4, 2002 Oh yes...I've had a couple of really 'icky' incidents I have a scar from pulling the pilot chute in front of me on my first pull on my own after practice pulls in IAD. Our very own HH, along with many other old timers on this forum, helped me stick to it after scaring myself to death. A few jumps later...pulled at around 1300 or so. Actually last looked at alti at 1500'. Oh my gawd. Enuf said. Closing pin jewelry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scottbre 0 #4 January 4, 2002 The worst I managed to do as far as dumb mistakes was I deployed on my back the first time I jumped my new rig. It was the first time I had used a BOC and I was nervous. Needless to say it was a hard opening. I scared my DZO to death, but I was to ignorant of what exactly I had done to be scared while it was happening. It retrospect, let's just say it was a good learning experience, after I was told what could have happened. "Can't keep my mind from the circling sky. Tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #5 January 4, 2002 Exactly. Good to know, better to have learned and the best to move forward with the knowledge :)Closing pin jewelry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PalmettoTiger 1 #6 January 4, 2002 My biggest mistake so far, other than jumping an undersized reserve 10 times, came when I packed my pilot chute and wound up with a little extra bridle. Rather than redoing the S-folds, I just stuffed the bridle as far down the BOC pouch as it would go. Result: a really hard pull, so hard that I was going to hit silver if I hadn't made it on the last try. Luckily I didn't have to find out the hard way how bad a choice the reserve really was.I look back and I'm in awe of how fucking careless I was in a sport this dangerous. I wonder what else I may be neglecting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #7 January 4, 2002 Exactly PT. But the way I see it is at least we CARE to consider that and try our damndest. It's those who don't think about it and stop respecting it that I am scared of getting bitch slapped in a major way.Closing pin jewelry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #8 January 4, 2002 Okay, here's irony at its finest:About three weeks ago I'm teaching an IAD student the mechanics for his first clear & pull. I threw him on the creepers and wrapped the PC around his arms & legs, taught the two-try rule, covered horse-shoe malfunctions & other scenarios, and how vitally important it is to give a good, strong throw of the PC to get it clear of your burble while maintaining stability.Sure enough, I go up to JM a couple of students, follow the last one out, smoke it down to 2400 & throw out. Waiting....Waiting....Waiting (gulp)...Before I even think about it, both hands are on my handles as I take a look over my shoulder to see what is going on. That was all it took. The PC took off from my burble around 1900 and my Stiletto was open at 1400.I guess I had better work on that whole "Do as I say, not as I act" thing when it comes to throwing the PC...Kris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyhawk 2 #9 January 4, 2002 thats how i do mine all the time :-) ive got a base jumpen size pilot chute though one of my mates reakons i could prob land it loldumest thing wasnt looken enough and almost collided with another jumper while he was under canopy (i was in freefall) i still dont really understnad how though cause i was still a student and pulled at like 3 500 so he must of pulled about 4- 4500 Click Me Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ducky 0 #10 January 4, 2002 Hehee,The day I took my FJC was also my first trip to a DZ. The clss started at like 7am so no one was jumping. We were in a room with no windows... So we get out for break and I walk to the car for a smoke. I hear some flapping/popping noise and I look up. Just above me and to my right Is some guy face to earth with chute open, what appears to be 50ft from the treetops beside the landing area. I scream "oh F&%K he's gonna die!!!!!". The other students turn in time to see the guy nearly take the paint off the roof of a neighboring car with his toes.. they give a complimentary "oh Sh#@t!!!!!!!!!!!!". The guys swoops what seems like a mile and touches down what seems like the most graceful landing I have ever seen. The next 11 guys all land nice n smooth. We were all like..."did he mean to do that or was it a nice recovery?" Ironically, the same guy ends up being my AFF instructor a few hours later. So I ask him about it. He says "oh yeah man it was an amazing thing that i recovered, i though i was a goner". I bit of course and am thinking ok wait this guy is gonna jump with me and get me back safely???? Luckily when we were back outside someone explained it to me.kwak Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #11 January 4, 2002 Oh, the things that whuffos will believe...Once you're gone, you can't come backWhen you're out of the blueAnd into the black-NeilYoung Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #12 January 4, 2002 Good to hear your angels were with you again Kris :)Closing pin jewelry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #13 January 4, 2002 Oh you mean the static dischargers in case of lightning located on the arms and legs of RW suits............Thats totaly true......... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ADRNALN 0 #14 January 4, 2002 Here a bit of newbie irony. On the ride to alt on my second tandem, my JM starts talking to this young guy next to us. This young guy tells him he's taking this student up for an AFP jump. I remember thinking "Gosh, I hope I don't get that kid as an instructor. He does not look like he is old enough to that many jumps." Well, I go back to the DZ a week or two later to do my first AFP jump and who is my instructor, you guess it the same young kid. Turned out to the best thing that could have happen to me. He was an awesome instructor, he made me feel super comfortable with the jump and I felt very prepared. So I get home after jumping and decide to do a little research because I was so wrong about jumping with this "kid" (ya right, I think I was the kid up there). The Irony now, the instructor was none other than Rook Nelson. I felt like such a moron.Lessons learned: 1. Don't judge a book by its cover. (Something I have always said and tried to live by, oops)2. Experience counts more than age. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikefarmer 0 #15 January 4, 2002 Did you use the jumper cables or the bounce sheets? We always liked the "Bounce" sheets, well, because they said bounce. We did this to a guy from public TV making a first jump for his show. Hook, line, and static discharge sinker!!! Rolled on the floor. Anybody remember when that "Ushuia", or whatever, show on Discovery Channel put the line about breathing by osmosis on the screen? That one damn near killed me!!!Mike Sky World Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freaksister 0 #16 January 4, 2002 There's always the classic about landing on a cloud...and using a trash bag to make another jump...SisI feel so alive,for the very first time-and I think I can fly! - P.O.D. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #17 January 4, 2002 Did yuo ever hear about students chopping thier main cause the slider wouldn't go back up.........I've heard about it, never seen it.In response to *Landing on clouds*I'e told people you bounce of them and thats it's very very cool.I'm so thirsty for some air and some brew............... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n2skdvn 0 #18 January 4, 2002 my favroite "how far do you get pulled back up in the air when you pull your chute" i always tell them bout 69 feet!!!!!have chute. will fall. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarkM 0 #19 January 4, 2002 Don't forget students to hold on tight when they open the plane door so you don't get sucked out! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #20 January 4, 2002 One thing I was told long ago and I still don't know if it's true, but here we go........DZO told me that yuo don't need to breath in freefall cause your going so fast that the oxygen penetrates your skin alowing you to breath through your skin....Is the day over yet? I need some air and some brew pronto....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #21 January 4, 2002 Every word the Gosphel!!!"I got some beers....Let's Drink em!!!"Clay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnischalke 0 #22 January 4, 2002 That's why some jumpers suffocate the first time they wear a wetsuit.mikeBlack then white are all I see, in my infancy... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stacy 0 #23 January 4, 2002 you've heard of it, I saw it. Guy was ecstatic because he survived a dual mal- teh slider on his reserve came down too... he thought he shoulda died... =c)Stacyhttp://users.snip.net/~stacy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyhawk 2 #24 January 5, 2002 i feel so sorry for that guy did he ever come back ??? i wouldnt :-) Click Me Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnischalke 0 #25 January 5, 2002 Where did I hear about the guy who cut away a perfect main because the slider was making noise only to get further freaked out by the reserve slider making noise?mikeBlack then white are all I see, in my infancy... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
