dgskydive

Good boy! Dom

Sure it does. First of all... If you can't pack your own main then you shouldn't be jumping! How a person has over 200 jumps and doesn't know how to pack is beyond me. Last time I checked it was a licsence requirment. That is a big problem with jumpers. Gotta have a packer.. how am I going to jump if I don't have a packer. Pack the damn thing yourself! I use a packer whenever I can.......but I do know how to pack and can do it quickly. Using "the packer did it" is a lame excuse. I have had a packer hook my rig up wrong. I didn't pay him for the hook up. I got a free pack job out of it since he offered to repack it. Good service he did it wrong and I wouldn't let him just reattache the rings. I wanted it redone from the start. If I had jumped that pack job and didn't check my gear and had a mal, I would have been pissed at the packer for sure, but it would have been my fault for not checking his work. Dom

I am sorry but this person OMHO is responsible for whatever they agreed to in the waiver. If it says you will replace the gear then replace it! If the waiver says she can replace it with "like gear" then go out and buy stuff that compares. If it says new gear then they have to replace it with new gear. If you borrow my rig and lose something, you are going to get me new stuff to replace it! Plan and simple. I would do the same if I lost somebodies stuff! I can't believe that they don't want to replace what they lost! Doens't matter who packed it. They jumped it. They are responsible. You rent one of our rigs you sign a waiver that says if you get it dirty you pay, if you lose it you pay, if you break it you pay! We will take your credit card number and charge it right away if you don't take care of it. If you go out and rent a car and lose it, do you think the rental comp[any is going to let you buy them a POS car to replace it? No you are going to get them a new one. to think that the Gear store or School that rented this should not try and get there money back is insane. You people think that dealers get things at huge discounts are WRONG!!!!!! There is no money in selling canopies. I would rather sell T-shirts all day long. Even a big gear store like Square 1 pays a lot of money for demo canopies. I don't know what DZ this happened at. They are losing revenue because of the lost parts. How do they make that money up? Everyday that rig is down is lost money to them. Should they make this person buy gear that is really cheap and charge her for the money they have lost on not being able to rent it to others? Give it up, pay them there money. You used it, you didn't follow it down. You didn't want to pack it. Nobody made this person rent gear. Nobody said you had to jump the pack job they gave you. Don't be lazy, pack your own shit! I mean hell they give her the pack job for free anyway. Most places won't even do that for you! You rent one of our rigs, you will get it not hooked up. you either pay a rigger 3.00 for the hook up and 6.00 for the pack job or do it yourself! IT's not hard to do and if you have 200 jumps and don't know how to do that you have issues anyway! Dom

I like the scheme. I will tell you that you should change the bottom closiong flap to a darker color. That is gonna get so dirty so fast you will be mad! When we looked at the different schemes you sent in. My choice would have been the scheme you have but with Charcole instead of the white. At least change the bottom flap. White looks so good when it is new but it picks up every piece of dirt and dust in the world. Dom

I didn't know you had a cousin in the military. Tell him I said to keep his f---ing head down and come home safe. M U A H!!!!!! Dom

Ain't that the truth. I can remember as a kid when my Dad was in the Army, having to go stand in line to get free Christmas presents! If not for the careing of others he wouldn't have been able to buy us presents! That is pretty sad when you think about it. He was in the Army (for the second time no less) served in Vietnam and had to not only get us free gifts but we where on food stamps as well! It still blows my mind. Thank God things where a bit better when I served. But it is still pretty pathetic. Dom

And those kids that used to be Firemen! I remeber those guys saved a bunch of lives a few years back and lost of few of there own along the way. Thanks to you and yours as well. True unsung heros! Dom

The pics add a bit to it don't they? Dom

A lot of debates in the last few weeks about the military and soldiers. How they should act, what is funny and what is just wrong. This may help some to understand a US Soldier. It even helped to remind me of a few things I had forgotten. The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either. He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm howizzitor. He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark. He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must. He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional. He can march until he is told to stop or stop until he is told to march. He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry. He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts. If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low. He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life - or take it, because that is his job. He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay and still find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death then he should have in his short lifetime. He has stood atop mountains of dead bodies, and helped to create them. He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed. He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away' those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful. Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years. He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding. Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with his blood. And now we even have woman over there in danger, doing their part in this tradition of going to War when our nation calls us to do so. As you go to bed tonight, remember this shot.. A short lull, a little shade and a picture of loved ones in their helmets. Prayer wheel for our military... please don't break it. Please send this on after a short prayer. Prayer Wheel "Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen." Prayer : When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our ground troops in Afghanistan, sailors on ships, and airmen in the air, and for those in Iraq. There is nothing attached.... This can be very powerful....... Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Coastguardsman, Marine or Airman, prayer is the very best one. It brings a tear to my eye when I read it. Memories! Dom

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There is more to look forward to then just me cahsing you around! Dom

Your are right about that. The thing to also remeber is not to use lotion that is scented. The scented stuff really pulls the color out of your tat. USE ONLY UNSCENTED LOTION! It does make a difference. Dom

If all goes right I will be Lo'ing tomorrow. Look for the big ugly guy chasing Conundrum around! Dom

Yes these did and probable still do exist. Dom

Ok I'll save the personal attack for the PM that will be coming. Fact. You don't know anything that you say you do. Fact. You like to piss people off. Fact. You have a bad attitude. Fact. I will never jump with you. Fact. I don't like you. Dom

Thanks Bro but Billvon squared me away already. I am never leaving CA. Love it here. Jump all da time! Dom Dom

I got a picture I want to put in my personal Gallery that is to big can somebody help a brother out?

That wasn't a skygod statment and JP isn't a 2000 jump wnoder. He is very knowledgable about gear and jumps the system himself. In fact you are wrong Scott! You can get a Pull out in to the wind just as far as you can a B.O.C. A pull out is not an out of sequence opening! I have a bunch of jumps on a Rip Cord set up. The pin is pulled before the PC ever hits the wind! It is just fine that way. Get rid of your 100 jump wonder attitude and listen to what people tha know are saying. Quite giving "FACTS" that aren't! Do you ever wonder why you catch so much shit in these forums? IT is because you are always putting you foot in your mouth. This is not ment as a personal attack this is once again an attempt to help you see why you catch so much flak. You have said before that you don't take this stuff seriously, well most of us do. So keep that in mind and you may make more friends around here. This is for some of us what we do for a living and the sport is our lives. Respect that and you may get some respect back! Dom

[note to self] no more discounts for The Drop Shop. Dom

Check the reply that wasn't ment for you silly! Good try though! Dom

UMMMM..... Sorry Lisa it's already been filled! Besides we don't want to meet you! Dom

Ha Ha! Very funny there sweet cheeks! I don't want to meet you either! Cause I already did! I liked it a bunch to! Dom

Time to find a new job fucker!!!!!!! WE already met! Dom

shameless bump Dom

That is one of the reasons I like the Inifinty so much. They have so many different combinations of main and reserve trays. You won't have a hard time getting a match of a bigger reserve and smaller main. Dom