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I'd be up for seeing this too. How could you spend so much time on big walls and not get the urge to jump? edit: by request of original poster

wow, that's pretty bad for those guys to be laughing while they watch this.

man, I always wanted to go to spacecamp.... sux... Well, guess I'm making up for it now!

That reminds me, a couple of guys at my DZ took a weighted Action Man out of the plane. What else has been used as a skyball?

I think the suggestion of throwing this guy from an actual airplane with a drogue is irresponsible and dangerous. He will be grossly underloading it. I would recommend using a 36" pilot chute instead.

smothered hope -Ministry Under Saturn's Shadow -Tiger Army I want to conquer the world -Bad Religion

check out this site. It's just plain wrong.... oh yeah, NSFW!!! www.steakandcheese.com

such a cool DZ! Tell her "congrats on the dive and welcome to the family!"

*sleeping in *having a chick scratch my back *the cold side of the pillow *dawn loads (BASE) *chicks with tongue rings... heh

Hey Tom, maybe you can make a "Forum rules" post and sticky it to the top of this forum stating that site naming is frowned upon. Or perhaps it could be included in the forum rules section?

I thought you said they were hot chicks! I only see one naked girl and something with a green head... hmmm...

Hurry up dude...

I believe the opposite to be true. KISS= Keep It Simple Stupid. (not calling you stupid, it's just how the acronym goes) One reliable pilot chute that will not tangle with anything is battle proven. Two would be adding an unnecessary tangle hazard. Also, one is easier to concentrate on. Imagine going stowed and only getting one PC out. Do you know what happens now?

Do you pull the tailgate tight around the lines and wrap the rubberband at the base? Or do you put the rubberband close to the ends of the Dacron? Somewhere in the middle? Would it make any difference in controlling the lines? I just ponder small details of my packjobs and analyze how each component affects the doployment. Hope you can understand what I'm asking. I can't really articulate my thoughts that well... need sleep...

No, I'm originally from Northern California, and have been living in Washington state for a while now. Actually right now I'm not even in the US (Iraqi Freedom stuff). Stay safe out there! ---Dex

ooohhhh... Scary. One works just fine. Where did you see this video?

I can hold mine indefinitely. I can breathe through my ears... ladies... heh heh...

Actually, I have found that nothing is "Marine Proof" In my five years as a Hospital Corpsman with various Marine units, I have seen everything broken. Stuff you thought could never break, busted to pieces. It's an indication of the conditions Marines have to survive in. Semper Fi! ---HM3

Well where I come from, in the woods you could encounter creatures such as bears, cougars, and even drunk rednecks in large pickups. Two people are hardly, if any, better off than one person alone. ---Dex

I would like to add, before someone else does, that this is an extremely dangerous way to think for BASE. Which is why I would like to know more about it. *Is this type of thinking prevalent on easier sites? *What about more advanced sites? *How can we make people more aware of this principle? *How much does this affect each of us in our jumping? (negative or positive) *Is this even occuring? Just food for thought. ---Dex

I think the theory I am referring to is more directly related to percieved risk. For example; A single person is faced with the prospect of walking alone on a path through a dark forest. He is afraid of what the dark may conceal so he chooses not to go. The same person finds one friend and the level of fear is less. The pair are more likely to accept the risks, although the actual danger has not changed These two chaps find ten more friends and the level of percieved risk decreases because of the "power in numbers" principle. When really, the actual level of danger has not changed. Another example; A group of friends are at the river. One of them suggests jumping from a rock into a small pool. An error in trajectory will result in serious injury. Alone, none of them would attempt such a stunt. However, feeding off peer pressure, one decides to display his courage and jumps. Seeing one person safely do it lowers the percieved danger within the group as a whole. More members of the group are likely to repeat the jump. All the while, the actual level of danger has not changed. How does the size of the group affect the amount of risk the group, as a whole, is willing to accept?

Sometimes, Europe seems so much more enlightened than the U.S...*** You must mean, "Most times"

That's what I suspected because most mains don't carry a TSO.

Does anyone know the name of the theory that, "the amount of risk a group is willing to accept is directly related to the size of the group?" Or something close to that. I read an article on it a few years ago and wanted to do a little research on it. Thanx ---Dex

As far as I know, there aren't any BASE canopies that are TSO'd. It's a pretty expensive process that's hard to justify. Especially here in the US where even our skydiving mains don't have to carry a TSO. We can pretty much stuff anything in a main container and jump it as long as the reserve is good to go. To clarify, to jump a main in Denmark it has to have a TSO? ---Dex