wildcard451

My XF2 169 at 1.45 opens just fine. I would have no problems taking it out of a plane at 2k.

Getting drunk. All other details will work themselves out on their own.

..a constructive post in another forum. I didn't purposely insult anyone. I don't think I gave anyone a reason to call me an asshole either. I feel weird.

I love a good discussion like this in here, and not just bullshit flying left and right trying to one up each other. I really hope everyone, young and old, new and experienced, reads dave's posts above, especially this thought: "if you cannot lay beside the base in a tracking dive and roll in place, then your barrel roll is losing speed/changing angle" Try it sometime. By god I love tracking and it is NOT as easy as people seem to think it is. I can understand the divide between belly jumpers and FF on the whole barrel roll issue. On RW jumps, more than likely everyone is gonna be on the same hosizontal plane at breakoff, and the odds of someone being well above you in vertical levels is low enough that your efforts are best spend tracking your ass off as you have been taught to do. On a FF dive, and even more so on larger tracking dives (15-20+) there is a much higher change of there being a vertical level issue where someone is tracking right over you. Either way, it is our responsibility to ourselves and the other jumpers in the air to only perform those skills we are comfortable with on jumps (i.e., your first 30-way is not a good time to practice a new tracking style at breakoff) which includes not going on jumps that you don't have the skillset for. Also, another good point here is to plan the dive and dive the plan. Doing "your own thing" during a jump when there has been an organized dive with contingency plans only complicates an already dangerous sport, adds confusion to everyone else, and in general is just poor form. That's just my take on things. Granted I don't have 30 years or 10,00 jumps, but hey, if someone thinks I am wrong and would like to teach me a thing or two, let's hear it.

I've saved us all some time and cut out the only part of your rant that matters. You are getting a "wide variety" of opinions from many jumpers. Just because you may not like the answers you are hearing doesn't mean they are wrong or "pompous". You want a wide variety of opinions, by god you are going to get them here. You want fluffy opinions that will always make you feel good? Go to www.basejumper.com and they will cuddle with you all day. My opinion? You need a thicker skin. Hope that adds something to your variety.

I'm tired and it made me laugh

This is mine. Enjoy.

2 guard and a razor

AFF1 Nov 28th 1999 AFF1 #2 Jan 25th 2003. Skydive Orange for both. Been downhill since.

A bunch. Why not? We're still friends.

It's rather complicated. I would misbehave. I mean I would get closer to my family..... But in the other times.....I would misbehave.

So I was throwing this little get together the other day, and all these poor fuckers on my street keep staring at my house. Like you've never seen a few horses before...

Well, we've had the ladies posting up, and I can't compare to our hotties, but here are a few... - Halloween party - Me and my darker brother from another mother - Boogie photo, complete with hair to match - Just because it's a hot photo.

I ate her.

Priceless.

Better than a glass jar...

Admission price: $2.50 /too much //nah ///sexy ////////////////////SLASHIES!

Share my drugs? Please? I just used my last $250. I need some drugs.

Are you high? Please share.

Yet the "Which anal beads" thread remains. Not much logic there now is there? But, it has a great line in there about removing them like pull-starting a lawnmower, and that alone is worth the thread.

Priceless.

Why are you responding to me asking if simonbones is still here? Because he felt like it. What is that supposed to mean? It happens to be directly related to the topic that you are whining about.

Why are you responding to me asking if simonbones is still here? Because he felt like it.

You don't have to give examples to me Dave. 5 years behind the wheel and in the back of an ambulance and enough time in a trauma bay to know what happens to everyone without proper training and respect for what they are doing. And then, even the people that actually have a clue are unlucky sometimes and physics is just as unforgiving.

But, but...I've got MAD SKILLZ.