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You got my 20 bucks. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

You know I was just ing around -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

More like stumble into it in a drunken stupor, from what I hear -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Just ignore him, people. Getting yourselves riled up is what he wants. I bet the plan was to get a bunch of skydivers to respond so he can make fun of them on the air. Vermin like this Rome character feed on the garbage that decent people throw away. Let him rot in his trash can. Hopefully the stink of the crap that he's eating will suffocate him. There seems to be a lot of focus on the (arguably)bad things Roger did, like his drug conviction, as well as simple misreading of statistics. I wonder how bad we can make Jim Rome sound with enough research. As a math enthusiast and student, I just have to go off on a small rant here. The "8 times the national average" line is such a load of illiterate bullshit it makes my head swim. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. The NATIONAL average is taken over the entire NATION, hence it includes many different things, like small Cessna DZs. SDC is not your average dropzone. The major bigways were at SDC. Big teams train at SDC. The fact is that there is a ton of hazards at SDC that are simply not present at other dropzones. We all heard how many jumps a year happen there, now tell me, what KIND of jumps are they? How many >10 ways happen a week? How many freefly big ways? How many freefly coaching jumps? How many visitors come to SDC? Could it be that the increased fatality rate at SDC is simply because it's the dropzone of an innovator? Because of the people that jump there? Because the jumps that happen there are INHERENTLY more risky, and not because of somebodys negligence?! -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

In that case, someone who heard the show should inform SDC. Let the lawyers do the rest. Fight fire with fire. Isn't that why the legal system exists? To answer Quade's inevitable comments, no, I don't think this is a good idea, but I think that trying to get a very public media company to actively portray skydiving in a good light is a lost cause. The most we will get is a "Skydivers mourn the loss of a friend" on the back page. All in all, it's a shitty situation. In my opinion, our best hope are public and successful demo jumps, like the one over the olympics. Maybe we can finally make RW (or FS as it's now known) to become an olympic sport once enough countries get teams? Until then, all that is required of Rome is to keep the waterspout on low. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I haven't heard the program, but this is my take on the situation. Jim Rome sounds like one of those talk show hosts with way more attitude than they earned. He simply represents the average attitude of the "normal" world towards our favourite passtime. They don't want to know how safe it is and how wonderful it is. They want to know that it's a horribly dangerous stunt that only an idiot would attempt. They want to hear that if they did go out and try it they would probably be killed. They want an excuse not to push their envelopes. Occasionally I take the effort to correct misperceptions in particular people. However, this represents the average outlook of the faceless masses, and is a hopeless situation. Oh, the irony. This Rome person sounds like he's all concerned with "the clones", when all he represents is the weighed average of their attitudes. Let that be consolation enough to everyone. I never knew Roger Nelson, but I'm going to keep his legacy alive by doing another jump ASAP. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

6 jumps. There were a few really cool things that I did, but all the different crap that happened this weekend makes the net effect -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I'm never going to live that down, will I? Pillage, then burn. Look, then jump. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I did lots of hop and pops lately because I'm downsizing and noone gave me any crap about it. In fact, some very cool people actually took some time off whatever they were doing to watch and critique my approaches and landings (thanks again Peter). Don't let anyone give you that kind of shit. Being courteous is one thing, but this is rediculous. If 4 champion freeflyers going to 12,5 in a C182 didn't complain when I jumped on their load from 4 grand (in fact, they encouraged me to do what I want), those skygods in an Otter can STFU. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

What's happening this year? Condolences to everyone involved. I was just thinking how great it would be to visit SDC -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I also have the new Mindwarp, and it does a really good job muffling the engine on the ride up. Every time I take it off to put my goggles on before exit I can hear the difference. How important is it really to wear earplugs in freefall? Sure, it's loud, but I've stood next to speakers in raves and they're louder. Plus, the freefall only lasts maybe a minute at a time. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Or, it might not Be safe, have fun, it's worth it. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Hey I resent that. I would never wear a white bra with pink stripes! -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Ok, more teasing is just gonna kill the joke. But damn, that was fun! wipes off tears -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Don't take it so seriously man. Besides, what difference does it make anyway? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Oh shit... -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Ok, I'm beginning to feel bad for you folks, so yeah, it's not her real boobies, sorry -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Hey Lou! I'll do that as soon as I get it from Nick You need to put up your ram-air Ford, that thing is sweet -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

What's with the spelling mistakes? Which hand are you typing with? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Hey, bring your own! Then we can have a 4 way -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

No, but she's got a brother -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

It's in FLAMES! Bwahahaha! EDITED TO ADD: Ah, the power of boobies -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Hey, what kinky chicka? No such posts currently exist! (thanks Skymama) -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I'm just waiting for Clay to chime in. Then again, maybe he won't, she's not a sheep -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

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