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dave, i think what you meant to say was sheeple. Sheeple (SHEE.pul) n. People who are meek, easily persuaded, and tend to follow the crowd (sheep + people). but its ok, you ARE from texas after all.

uhm, they stuffed a frog down the barrel of a potato gun? wouldnt that be kinda messy?

that was the first thing mary at square 3 told me when i was getting gear. she has been watching my landings and giving me advice and she suggested that i try the safire and it IS definetaly faster, on my first landing i got about 5 feet of turf surf then i went to go to run it out and i was STILL going too fast, i did my best roadrunner impersonation but i wasnt quite fast enough! but hey, at least i had great accuracy

Shibby!!!!

it wasnt a reverse turn, but i did bury the toggle VERY quickly, and the result was the same on the safire 189 i was demoing yesterday i was much more smooth with my toggle inputs and didnt immediatly bury the toggle.

yup, i got to it just at about line stretch

definetly go, im always at the DZ when its shitty out, it gives me an exuse to not do something productive!

i feel your pain brother its been like 20 hours since my last jump, im in need of a fix as well

already bought, just have to give it to him next time hes around

i didnt think i could either! thats why when i got under my reserve i was like wtf was that shit all about? i guess im just very talented! oh and by the way, this is a perfect exampe of karma, because not 20 mintues before it happened i was giving Daless (jdfreefly) shit about him having a cutaway the week before!

ok so sunday it finally happened, had my first cutaway. was doing a 2-way tracking dive, ended up messing up the exit, so we didnt get very far, broke at 6 because i was demoing a smaller canopy (sabre 190) waveoff and dump at 5. opens perfect. im flying around following behind the girl who i jumped with. did two spirals to catch up to her level, then when i went to overtake her i checked to make sure i was clear all around, then buried the right toggle, about 3/4 of the way into the turn my canopy bucks then stops moving while i keep moving, as soon as i felt myself go weightless for that second or two i knew i was screwed. so i look up and see about 5 line twists about halfway down the risers. then i feel myself start to pickup speed and see the leading edge of the canopy spinning in line with the horizon and me on my back at this point i was at about 2grand, all i thought was, dont waste your fucking time, so i chopped, my rsl fired the reserve, felt the freebag come off my back before i even had my hand on the reserve handle. beatiful reserve opening (pd176) alti check 1500ft looked around saw my main and freebag, setup for my landing, plf'd it freebag was in the middle of the field near the peas, main landed in a tree near the swoop pond. upon landing the first thing i did was let out a loud PHUUUUUCK, cause i just realized that was ANOTHER case, and i had just bought one and a half the day before. AND i had dropped the cutaway handle (those greedy bastids had my name up on the board for owing a case before i even got back to the hangar! im kinda glad i had the cutaway when i did though, because its better that i had it now, so that i know im capable of dealing with it and i wont have to wonder forever.

yup, i loooove this time of year, not too hot, but still warm enough to jump in shorts and a tshirt. yesterday got on a 9-way sunset tracking dive. i cant wait till the season opener!

shweeet! i was thinking of getting those two colors on my container except the red and black in the opposite configuration

About a month ago at our DZ a guy demoing a 260 accidentally picked up a 190 and jumped it, they were the standard javelin rentals that Sq3 has. the guy took it almost to the far edge of the field and hit really hard, but was ok though

OMG, i sat in the terminal area thingy in the right side of that pic for like 9 hours last october when i was going to moab, i wanted to KILL someone! dammit, all these bad memories, i need a beer

pull stable

yeah, that avatar is seriously f'ed up. it looks like you need some more fiber in your diet or somethin, be careful man, you dont wanna blow an o-ring

This is truly a heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little girl and some construction workers. This makes you want to believe in the goodness of people and that there is hope for the human race. A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot. The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking with the workers. She hung around and eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important. At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay envelope containing a dollar. The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and suggested that they take the dollar pay she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account. When they got to the bank the teller was equally impressed with the story and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I worked all last week with a crew building a house." "My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week, too?" The little girl replied, "I will if those useless sons-a-bitches at Home Depot ever bring us any lumber that's worth a shit!"

shaweeet, thats just the convincing i needed, tommorow morning im gonna start putting em back the only reason i even asked is cause i was telling my friend about it and she said it was "trashy" to start drinking that early, hah, damn whuffo, shell never learn!

congrats dude, i just got around to getting my card stamped last weekend too. then one of the instructors thought it would be funny to stamp my shaved head too! and now my $3 white longsleeve tshirt has blue ink shit all over the sleeve.

ok, so i got home from work this morning, and i REALLY wanted a beer, but it was only like 8a.m. is that too early to start drinking? i mean i had been up since like 4am so its not like i just woke up! i probably wouldve had one if i hadnt fallen asleep like 5 minutes later but since ill probably feel like i need one tommorow, what do you guys think? is that too early to start drinking?

if you really wanted to be irresponsible you could buy me a new pro-track!

woah, i dunno buddy, 3 people is a bit much to pray for good weather for, i mean think about all the poor starving people in the world, shouldnt they get some prayers too???? ok, now back to praying for me and wingnut!!!

while your praying for wingnut, pray for good weather for me this weekend! its been like 3 days since my last jump, and i just cant take it anymore!!!!

RAAGHHHHHHH MY EYES, AGHHHH!!!!!