Updating Jump Numbers

[phoenixlpr 0]

I have a pro-track. I usually log my jumps after I packed.
I just lost counting my jumps if I jump more than 4 times a day.

[RossDagley 0]

I think you've got it Tom - the lower jump number guys (like me!) want you to know every jump much like a kid boasts he is "six and a half years old" not just "six"

When you get older, that differentiation doesn't matter so much I guess. I suppose once I pass 150 or something jumps I'll start rounding, but for the time being, every jump counts!

For the record, I still write an essay about every jump - I've a two-per-page logbook and I try to get as much detail as I can in - whats a few minutes now when I might want to look back in years to come.

[HeatherB 0]

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Now, Now Heather, you sound like a cynic.

lol. Not cynical, just baffled that people will lie about their jump numbers.

If anything, I'd lie and say I have 50 jumps! Let people think I'm pretty good for a newbie!

[jumpjunkie2004 0]

It never occurred to me to overstate my number of jumps. If anyone could use some inflation, I sure could.

Seriously though, it never occurred to me that people would do that. Now, I'm going to be curious which profiles are bogus and which are real...

800 jumps Heather...hmmm...do you really have that many?

Just kidding

Jump, Land, Pack, Repeat...

[windcatcher 0]

I'll admit, I'm a dork, I log each jump in my logbook after each jump. I get out my protrack and write down exit altitude, freefall secs, and altitude which I deployed by; then, I think back what kind of jump I did, with whom, and what we did.

I like to write about all my jumps, because I am nostalgic and love looking back at the fun memories I made on each jump. Also, jumping at a smaller dz, every jump I make is a "treasure", so I immediately log them and update them here, not that anyone cares.
At this point, logging jumps is a big deal to me, to help me see what I did right/wrong on each jump, and what to learn from it.

Mother to the cutest little thing in the world...

[NWFlyer 2]

I log usually at the end of the day, maybe at some point during the day. I tend to write a LOT less now than I did in my first 100 jumps, but I still write down stuff I want to work on if I identify something durin a jump. I like logging who I jumped with and getting signatures. Some of those may be very precious to me someday.

I update on here pretty regularly... every jump day or when I remember.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[mjosparky 4]

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I'll admit, I'm a dork, I log each jump in my logbook after each jump. I get out my protrack and write down exit altitude, freefall secs, and altitude which I deployed by; then, I think back what kind of jump I did, with whom, and what we did.

I like to write about all my jumps, because I am nostalgic and love looking back at the fun memories I made on each jump. Also, jumping at a smaller dz, every jump I make is a "treasure", so I immediately log them and update them here, not that anyone cares.
At this point, logging jumps is a big deal to me, to help me see what I did right/wrong on each jump, and what to learn from it.

You are right, no one cares......except you. Your log books are for you and you will never regret keeping them up. Lie in you log books and you just lie to yourself. I have never heard anyone say "I wish I had not written so much information about that jump 15 years ago."

Sparky

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