ZigZagMarquis

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  1. Los Angles International (aka LAX)... most likely. Depends where you're coming from? Ya can't hear the banjos playing in her post? West Virginia??
  2. Los Angles International (aka LAX)... most likely. Depends where you're coming from?
  3. Lets get her exits down first, then we can work on bigger projects...
  4. Found this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b95t2y-oxGU ... on YouTube. I remember when they did this gag out at Cal City back in 96. The camera fliers almost went in, if I remember correctly.
  5. At work the other day... we were wondering what would happen if the Sea Sheppard hippies decided to try to go after the Deadliest Catch guys to try to stop crabbing in the gulf of Alaska? I suppose that's not very high on their list as crabs aren't nearly as cuddly as whales! Anyway, we thought too that if they were to bring back Celebrity Death Match that a triple threat tag team match of Paul Watson & his "cabin boy" vs. Sig & Edgar Hansen and John & Andy Hillstrand would be a riot!
  6. You'd have more if you showed your boobies!
  7. Well... at least he did use any of the "old school" techniques of getting a "frozen student off the step"...
  8. Post address and I'm sure y'all will get lots of interesting stuff to wear!
  9. Holy SHIT that's funny!!! Yeah... right... 99% of the male instructors out there do that at one time or another... bad form or not!
  10. Well, maybe a shoe camera, a GPS and some sort of telemetry device would be in order... seeing as how you have a propensity to loose shoes.
  11. So... did anyone tell the candidate instructor its "Bad Form" to call a real student an "asshole"?
  12. No worries. A friendly neighborhood moderator will likely take care of it. Cheers.
  13. Naro container. Turbo Z main. Old 5-cell Swift with the fly-away brake lines.
  14. Uh oh... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3913029;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread Where's the "cross post police"!!??
  15. Good boy! Now for future reference, its a very good thing in skydiving to ask questions and learn about your gear, even if you have 100s or 1000s of jumps, but concentrate on asking questions of your local rigger or contacting your gear mfgr and not so much on taking advice from folks on the Internet... except of course, for the entertainment factor on dropzone.com.
  16. Yes, that will work... but somewhere around here Bill Both posted about the difference in cut-away forces when using... Large Rings w/ standard ringed risers... Large Rings w/ mini risers... and Mini Rings w/ mini risers... just something you may want to know.
  17. Yeah, but someone is going to show up and start the pissing contest about whether that's a "Master Rigger's Job" or if a "Senior Rigger" can do it. To the OP, its not wholly necessary, but you may be better off contacting the mfgr of your container and getting a new set of risers with an RSL attachment ring.
  18. Oh don't worry about it! You've got Obama-Care now!! Us folks who work for a living and have real insurance... not mommy insurance... will pay for you if you hurt yourself skydiving!!! Go for it!!!
  19. Seems to me having a leather rig was somewhat of "the thing" to have amongst a niche "back in the day"... of course... I also remember the arguments over repack cycle... Oh, and before someone flames me, I'm not saying they were correct arguments, just arguments... Anyway, my "old gear" collection is much more contemporary as compared to what most folks have posted about here. I've got several ragged out kill-line pilot chutes, a Vector 2 freebag and pilot chute and a blown-up Manta 288... it was the canopy I did my first static line jump on. I know that because it was all white with a Matilda Bay logo on it. Years after I did my first SL jump on it, it was still in use, but had finally blown up and the DZO / Rigger didn't want to bother fixing it, so it was on its way to the junk heap in the back of the loft there until I asked the DZO if I could have it; figured it would be cool to have. I'm sure there's others out there, but not many that have the canopy they did their first jump on.
  20. Awh, come-on, he got one and a-half swings AND missed the fire-ball AND after ejecting not wings level, close to the ground and coming out of the sky... he's lucky... real lucky, but as they say, rather be lucky than good any day.
  21. Evidently they were out of fuel or really low on fuel because they "forgot" to refuel they spiffy speed boat after finding the Japanese whaling fleet.
  22. You do realise commercial whaling is against the law in these waters? Where did I say I agree with what the Japanese are doing? I just think its fucking hilarious to watch the hippies nut-up when the Japanese deal back with them in kind. What are they smoking and how much of it to not think that after years of throwing stuff at the Japanese whaling vessels, launching stuff from sling-shots & potato cannons at the Japanese vessels, using water cannons of their own on the Japanese, trying to prop fowl the Japanese vessels and ramming the Japanese vessels to not think that one day the Japanese were going to turn the tables on them? How stupid are these guys to think there wasn't a bunch of pay-back coming their way? Not saying that's right, but it is to be expected... and then they whine about their lives being endangered... get real! Not to mention the seeming ineptitude of some of the hippy crew when it comes to seamanship. I'm surprised the Japanese haven't had to come to their rescue when some one's bong got knocked over and set fire to their ship. I'd have more respect for the hippies if it was their leaders that were trying to board the Japanese vessels in protest rather then asking for "volunteers" from their crew to go do their dirty work. Anyway, if New Zealand and Australia feel so strongly about this, then y'all gotta have some military vessels around somewhere? Joist hoist their sails and head out. I'm sure you can take care of a half dozen or so Japanese whaling ships. We're kinda busy right now.