what were you lot all doing pre-1995?

[Newbie 0]

as in what type of flying? Im fairly new to the sport (so someone please correct me if im wrong) but im going on the basis that free flying only properly emerged as a style in its own right circa 1995?
Cheers!

"Skydiving is a door"
Happythoughts

[SkyMissy 0]

Beer. Lots of beer.

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Mike

[rapper4mpi 0]

I recently saw vintage footage from 1982 od Roger Nelson and his 10-way speed star team doing sit-flying, very cool!
-Rap

[skybytch 273]

I think the majority of people posting here weren't jumping pre-1995. Personally, I was doing RW, freestyle, CRW and instructing.

[wlie 0]

I was freeloading

My other ride is the relative wind.

[hobbes4star 0]

i was getting ready to graduate and smoking a lot of pot. oh wait wrong thread

if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right?

[Shotgun 1]

Since I didn't like doing RW (let me rephrase that - since I had so much trouble doing RW that it just wasn't fun for me) I did a lot of solo jumps or 2-ways that involved trying all kinds of crazy positions - definitely tried the sit, stand, and headdown positions even though we had never heard of freeflying. Did some rodeo jumps and double cannonball exits and attempted Mr.Bill jumps - this was all back in 1991-92 - but basically if you weren't into RW back then there weren't too many people to jump with, so I eventually got bored (and ran out of money cause I was a broke kid) and quit jumping. Just started again a couple of years ago and was very happy to see that lots of people are freeflying now.

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[FreeflyGoat 0]

I was flunking Algebra and skateboarding.

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derka jerka bukkake jihad

[freeflir29 0]

I didn't make my first jump until May 1996. So, I was in the Air Force doing all sorts of other "Cool" stuff. None of it was as good as skydiving. Some was close.....

[outlawphx 1]

I was doing RW and some sit flying. I was at Eloy from 92-96. I remember Olav and Omar trying to do a two way vertical accordian in 94-95, and they made tons of jumps trying to pull that one off. I quit skydiving in 96, because I got bored of RW. I'm just now looking at getting back into it. I was amazed to see how good everyone has gotten at freeflying, because when I quit people we just happy to fly head down or standing near one another. Now there's a freakin USPA freefly award for things no one could do back then... Now I can't wait to get back to jumping, so I'm planning a recertification jump this month. Geez... I feel like an old timer. I started jumping when I was 15 in 91.
Dave
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[VivaHeadDown 0]

I've mostly blocked it all out. Something to do with troubled teen years, I think.

[AggieDave 6]

I was doing junior high/beginning high school, worring about acne and picking up girls. If I had thought of it, I'm sure I would have been trying to get some sweet freeflying in...

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[trigger 0]

I was slingling myself around the isle of man on a v.fast motorcycle ,drinking hard,and doing my upmost to get laid just in case my luck ran out...

.CHOP WOOD COLLECT WATER.

[michaeljanzen 0]

in 95 i turned 15 and started
my first job at mcdonalds
six years before finding total freedom

"the sweet just aint as sweet without the bitter "

[quatorze 1]

'95 praying that they would let me graduate and I could get the hell out of my parents house... amazing we spend all of our childhodd trying to get away from home and the rest of our lives trying to get back???? Just a thought

I'm not afriad of dying, I'm afraid of never really living- Erin Engle