BASE JUMP (without a chute)

[jez 0]

Sleepwalking can hurt...
Came home to London after jumping in Phoenix (Skydive Az). Was told by those I was with over there that I was sleep walking most of the evenings. I never sleep walk normally. Could be to do with the adrenaline...who knows.
Anyway - came home on the Monday. Went to work on the Tuesday (getting a bit Craig David here...).
My girlfriend told me I phoned her around 12 am and the next memory I have is waking up in intensive care a week later.
This is the story:
It turns out that during the night I got out of bed, still asleep. I then went to the bedroom window which is one of those big sash jobs. It opens very much like the door of an Otter. Then I must have opened the window fully and threw myself out. This would have been cool if I lived in a bungalow but my room is on the 3rd floor!!! (oucharoony). I hit the patio pretty much head first but my shoulder took a lot of the impact. I managed to break pretty much every bone in my back apart from my spine (which is nice) and cracked my skull etc. Many operations later I'm doing fine now and my face has started to move again (it was paralysed - like a facial palsy).
So I guess this is a message to all of you. We love this sport for reasons only we can understand but I'd recommend having some time off if you're jumping in a foreign country and don't go straight back to work. Jet lag is a dangerous thing!!!
Is that the lowest Base jump yet???
Jez "Back to jumping in Spring" Davies

[skreamer 1]

Hi Jez
Look, I've heard of people going to extremes to pull sickies, but don't you think you went a bit far with the intensive care bit?
Jokes aside, glad to hear you are going to be able to (and want to) jump again. Your profile doesn't say where you jump in the UK or how many jumps you have, but you should come join us at Hinton (crazy shit happens all the time there, we even have our own ultra-low base jumping chick - '3-eyebrows Jo').
See you on the DZ soon, dude!
Will
/s
(responsible for toothpaste up wingi's nose at first euro dz.com boogie)

[E150 0]

Woooow - sounds like your lucky to be alive.
Here is to a speedy recovery.

[Zennie 0]

Did you wake up the neighbors when you yelled "DOOOOR!!!"?
Seriously, glad you're OK. Hope you have a speedy recovery. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

[NathanL100 0]

Ouch, that must of hurt. Its great that you are so upbeat about the whole thing. Hope you get well soon.
Blue Ones,
Nathan
A# 39553

[AggieDave 6]

Wow! I'm glad to hear that you're going to recover and get back in the air soon. I guess this kind of tops the joke about setting off a pager in a sleeping buddy's ear (time-out type beeping, get it?).
AggieDave '02
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Blue Skies and Gig'em Ags!
BTHO t.u.

[jez 0]

Cheers y'all,
Yeah, would not recommend it personally but it certainly gives you a whole new take on life. Bit concerned I was going to get all religious at one point but thankfully that didn't happen ;)
And I really shouldn't be here typing this now. They say your life flashes before your eyes...well, the garden furniture flashed before my eyes and that's about as near as I came...
Life is a truly wonderful thing that needs to be lived. And lived fully. I'm no longer troubled by the little things in life as before. If the bus is late - then the bus is late. If I'm late - sue me! :p
Face everything with a smile and before long the smile will never leave you :)
Jez
(actually, that was a bit religious...shit)

[Strynx 0]

Funny that you're saying this cause i received this via email this morning It's Cheesy but it's true " Most smile are started by another smile" Funny coincidence.Maybe someone is trying to tell me to smile more?
"Skydiving puts a permanent smile on my face"

[Slappie 9]

Let me start off as another "broken" skydiver to another. I can feel your pain. I'm so glad your ok and are going to make a full recorvery!! But I need to add lay off the Peyote before bedtime. It will drasticly reduce your chances of trying to fly from a 3rd story window in the middle of the night... Just my .02 *** Definition for peyote ...
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*** 2: the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in
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[R00tj00se 0]

Well I hope you bought beer as it was:
(i) Your first base jump
(ii) The first time you'd gone in.
Glad you're ok though.

[Brokeneagle 0]

So, tell me, if you go traveling again, are you going to handcuff yerself to the bed? Brokeneagle.
I'm really very gentle, no matter what my kung-fu teacher says...

[freeflir29 0]

"I hit the patio pretty much head first but my shoulder took a lot of the impact."
Head First? Well....at least you were Free Flying!
"Shut up Dummy!"- Fred G Sanford

[lazerq3 0]

Ok so heres one person that could benofit from those building rescue chutes!!!!. But really glad to here your ok. at least you didnt come outa your sleep half way down. That would of been a hell of a way to wake up!!
jason