Do you have Safety Deficit Disorder?

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Do you have "Safety Deficit Disorder"?
SDD is more common than you may think, afflicting many jumpers.
Most common in the 50-300 jump range, it can extend into the 1000+ jumpers.

Watch for these warning sings;
1.) The disire to jump canopies too advanced with the promise "But I'll be really careful"
2.) The unexplained pressance of crutches on the DZ
3.) The desire to do Mr Bills
4.) The desire to do crew with various loaded elliptical and microlined canopies.
5.) researching crossbraced ellipticals at <100 jumps
6.) Looking for someting to tie yourself too on windy days
7.) Having a personalized landing pattern
8.) The presence of duct taped cameas on your helmet
9.) Severe leg pain
10.) For some reason people are telling you "don't move man, they're on their way"
11.) Real TV veiwers know you by name
12.) Canopy collisions are the norm

If you are expieriencing any of these symptoms, please...


...Take up golf

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

[cvfd1399 0]

Pertaining to number 6 do you mean a round and a creeper on the ground on a windy day? or the desire to go jump even when the winds are 20knots?

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More along the lines of tying you and your gear to a fixed object and flying like a kite.

Although anything involving ropes at a DZ tends to be scary.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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Do you have "Safety Deficit Disorder"?
SDD is more common than you may think, afflicting many jumpers.
Most common in the 50-300 jump range, it can extend into the 1000+ jumpers.

Watch for these warning sings;
1.) The disire to jump canopies too advanced with the promise "But I'll be really careful"

---Absolutely. In fact I own one and jump it on occasion.

2.) The unexplained pressance of crutches on the DZ
That doesn't make sense.

3.) The desire to do Mr Bills

Yes. And have and will again

4.) The desire to do crew with various loaded elliptical and microlined canopies.

---Umm... not so much anymore

5.) researching crossbraced ellipticals at <100 jumps
--- Not applicable

6.) Looking for someting to tie yourself too on windy days

--- I jump at a very windy DZ. It's common place.

7.) Having a personalized landing pattern

I don't follow the standard (at the dz I frequent) otherwise I'd run into people. We have a large landing zone and the swoopers tend to get along just fine with the rest of the group.

8.) The presence of duct taped cameas on your helmet

So?

9.) Severe leg pain

14 years, one broken fib, and it wasn't from smashing into the ground from a too low of hookturn either

10.) For some reason people are telling you "don't move man, they're on their way"

--Nope
11.) Real TV veiwers know you by name

Whatever.. and no.
12.) Canopy collisions are the norm

Do you even know anyone where that scenario is the norm?

If you are expieriencing any of these symptoms, please...


...Take up golf

Golf is fun. I'm doing that anyway.

Weird thread...

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Do you even know anyone where that scenario is the norm?

This was a public service tongue in cheek anouncement.

it was more a commentary on what we as skydivers do as common place. It was to point out that little piece of insanity that we all possess and show that when you look back, some of the stuff we have done wasn't the brightest.

The unexplained pressence of crutches was to spoof medical ads which talk about the unexplained appearance of warts (or other such malody)

Some of us have exhibited at least some of these signs, some of us have had most of them.

It was a spoof.
It was poking fun at all of us who have found ourselves screwing up in a pattern, getting a dumb idea that could hurt us or just plain have screwed up and banged ourselves up

I hope you didn't think it was a real medical condition!

By the way, next time repel from a Mr Bill! It's a hoot ... um ... I mean a dumb idea.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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It was a spoof.

I'm aware of that



I was just answering your post in a literal fashion for the heck of it. And now, I'm looking up a nice rapelling device for my next Mr Bill.

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Aww screw the device, tie a rope to the harness and a big chunk of wood at the end of it! you won't fall off.

... but wear a cup.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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It was a spoof.

I'm aware of that



I was just answering your post in a literal fashion for the heck of it. And now, I'm looking up a nice rapelling device for my next Mr Bill.

Neat a new way to land a Mr. Bill

~D
Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me.
Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka

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Nothing like a teathered landing!

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.