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FallinWoman

DZ Traditions

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After reading these forums for a few months it has come to my attention that my DZ seems to have different "rules"than some others. I am interested in hearing about some of your rules and traditions.
Here are some of ours:
1. If you have more than one first on the same jump, you only owe one case. However, you can have many dives with firsts on one day and therefore owe many cases of beer,
2. We pie for jump # 1000 only.
3. Jumps ending in "00" mean you owe beer.
4. Jump number 1000 you owe a keg of beer and then don't owe for anything after that.
There are two exceptions to rule #4:
you still owe a bottle to your rigger for a reserve save
if you land on the tarmac it is beer, regardless of the number of jumps you have.
Is this similar to your DZ??
Blue skies!
Anne

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Pie for #100
if you go past the fence were the families watch from you owe beer (Its called the beer line)
If you get more than one first in a day you only owe one case (this saved me some $$$ b/c i did my first solo right after my grad jump)
A good way to make friends is to go to MCdonalds and buy like 20 cheese burgers (i do this on sunday b/c its 39 cent cheese burger day and everybody know me :)then there is the usual botle for the rigger
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Well I guess it counts as a Dropzone rule, it's sort of an underlying thing, JUST at Elsinore though...if I go to other dz's it's way way different.
sort of the rules for any given jumping day for me
1. Every 10 jumps I must go naked
-excemptions...automatic naked jumps are like when there's a team or a friend visiting, or someone's monumental jump #
-NO NUDITY WHEN FAMILY IS PRESENT
-includes children & my family members
2. Each day I jump there has to be some sort of nudity
- flash the pilot for alt
- topless jump
3. monumental jumps...
-69- mandatory loop jump...can also do it naked
- 100 MUST jump naked
any big jump after that...like 200 must be outdone by the previous, cant just be naked...like naked with a...surprise lol
Many people say...why do you jump naked...simple...because I laugh my ass off everytime
The cool thing is that you get veto-ed from getting pied and being thrown into the swoop pond...sick!
**BLUE ONES**
BITE ME.... :P

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At the small dz I "grew up" at --
1) Jumps 100, 500, 1k and every thousand thereafter were pie-able offenses. Pieing was only allowed after the intended receipient had removed all of their gear.
2) Beer was required if you got caught doing a first anything. We called it a case, but were happy if you brought a 12 pack. We were happiest when you brought beer in colored bottles. Those under 21 and those who didn't drink were allowed to bring soft drinks instead. And we did "charge" for multiple firsts on the same jump.
pull and flare,
lisa
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At both my home DZ (Raeford) and at my dad's place in Alabama:
-Pie for # 100, 1000, then every 1000 after that.
-Bottle of premium liquor to the rigger that packed the reserve you just rode (his choice of brand).
-Case of beer for every significant "first", regardless of whether or not you did it on one jump. We try not to break our new, penniless jumpers, but we definitely don't let them get away. Failure to pay beer will get you banned from group events and the club bar.
At Raeford we have a beer line. It is clearly visible from the air and everyone is briefed on it's location prior to jumping there. Landing inside that line gets you a "case of beer" fine. This definitely keeps incidents of spectator/packer strikes to a minimum. It also keeps you out of "the Raeford Dragon", which is a vortice of wind that comes off the tall pine trees on the fringes of the landing area.
Chuck

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Some notes from around the world:
In Australia, beer is owed
- for Every malfunction
- for every license earned (they have A-F)
- for anything really stupid that you do (of course this would never fly in America or beer would be owed on practically every jump)
- for your first 4,5,6,7,8,9,10-way
- but oddly, not for every "00" jump.
- you are expected to put on a keg for 1000
- they call it a "carton" not a "case" and there are 30 cans or "stubbies" (bottles) in a carton.
In Scandinavia beer is bought "viking style"
Someone will typically run through the DZ, case in hand and scream "CASE!" wherupon the entire DZ will pile on the case like it's a rugby ball. Actually coming out of this fracas, beer in hand is quite a challenge. They claim this ritual is the leading cause of injury in the sport.
In Asia if you tell people they owe beer for something they look at you and smile and think to themselves about what a crazy westerner you are. Then the matter is promptly forgotten. If you go ahead and buy them beer, they'll sit with one all night maybe taking polite sips from it if they respect you. If you have enough people to put proper pressure on them, they will drink out of social obligation and puke later.

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at my dz all the first jump students get bent over a chair and spanked by all the experianced jumpers nd then we sing/chant somthing in german that translates to "good luck" and then grill out.....
p.s. my dz is in germany so the beer flows from the best sources......

"if dreams are like movies, then memories are like films about ghosts"-counting crows

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all the first jump students get bent over a chair and spanked by all the experianced jumpers

Hey wingnut, let us know next time a few fine women are doing their first jump ;).
But to be honnest, isn't that a bit sick ?
Over here, we used to have to bucket for #100 but they stopped. Even the flies wouldn't go near what was in the bucket :)We also have the freefall bottle. Because of the weather, we use the static line system. First free fall = Bottle of any spirit that everybody has to sign... If you get 5 or 6 students on freefall the same day the night is usually unforgetable B|.
I like the loop dive for #69 (especially if nekid).
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