sum1sneaky

yeah hookit, i probably wasn't even born when you started - but then I bet you weren't using your lack of money as an excuse for not putting in effort to learn things either. I never understood that college degree requirement either... WTF? most people with college degrees don't need to wack off for cash. It's all a popularity contest in their little book of contestants. Personally, I think I'm glad I didn't fit their requirements... don't know if it would be weird to have a mini-me running around somewhere. sneak

I always get all worked up when I hear people complain about being poor and don't enumerate on what they've been doing to change their status... it should just encourage resourcefulness! Here are a few tips learned from experience: #1 You eat a lot more money than you think! If you really want something, then it's time to act like it! Buck up and buy a 30 lb. bag of beans and eat them for every meal. Get creative and have em over rice or generic ramen. If you're spending more than $10/week on food - you're needlessly spending valuable money that would last longer in the form of your first rig. Rig's last longer than expensive tastes - millions of people eat cheaply - you can too. #2 Look into wackin off for cash - I know in my area they pay $375/week. You'll have to have 3 generations of medical history, often times be taller than 6ft., have a college degree, and have swimmers that wake up after the deep freeze. Even if they reject your little boys, it's worth a try and some embarrassment if you get selected! #3 Find a plasma center that will pay you for "donating" your blood plasma. I made 178 plasma donations before I saved enough for my first rig - but I did it. And I didn't go around whining about how I'd really like to start if I only had some money #4 Sell stuff you don't use... I'm sure you've got something worth sum bucks that is less important than BASE - get rid of it! #5 Move out of your house and into your car - it will help when you're out ground-crewing for people at 4am that you can park and crash where ever you want. #6 Loose the girlfriend if she's not paying all your bills - she's too expensive and there's always at least some pleasure in #2! #7 Get another job! If you're not working more than 14 hours per day, you're wasting time you could be earning money! If you can't take such long hours, try altering your sleep cycle. If you sleep twice or three times a day you'll need less total sleep... If you can sleep once every 4 hours for 40 minutes you'll need the least and feel great! I made 38,000 in 3 months once doing just this! If you can't fall asleep fast enough, learn self-hypnosis - it will help with your composure at the exit point as well! Tip: This works well with #5! Not everyone cries when they don't have money, start learning to be one of them, and you'll probably find a mentor. Okay, enough flaming... really all I'm saying is that if you want to get into base, show some dedication and all us assholes will nicen up - maybe. sum1

DVD, don't have a TV

My suggestion: Take a first jump course. It won't be any where close to all you'll ever need, but it will definately get you off on a better foot than the one you're on. Vertigo runs a good one: http://www.vertigobase.com/html/Page.asp?F=course.htm

Where ever it is, I bet its still advertising its owner's website. Hey come on guys, mail it back to him, it's not like mountain dew or something - blinc is a little guy gig. How many liters of blood is that thing worth anyhow?

will you take me up so I can test the gear configuration first? I am in your area sum1

when you find yourself all alone, in camouflage, sleepless, nervous, all snuggled up in some butt-ass-cold gravel or all wadded up in your car while waiting for an inkling of light so that you can go climb up some damn frozen piece of metal so you can get some really shaky sewing machine legs because you aren't really convinced you'll be making it past this morning and then still go and then climb faster to stay warm and then get so quiet that you can only hear your heart and then slow it down - slowing time breathing easy, relaxing. watch the dawn's colors and FEEL the beauty the silence and soft cold breeze peace in the moment you let go and push freedom in the moment the wind blows on your face pure joy when your rigging works and peace again when you're walking across that same frozen gravel, this time looking up knowing where you've been, how it felt, and the sun is coming up on the drive to work despite no sleep. packing that night, after too much work and coffee everything all over again.

still looking to share a ride... if I need to rent a car, I'd like to share the expense. Thanks.

Anyone leaving from Charleston for Fayetteville late Thursday 16th? My flight gets into Yeager airport @ 10:10pm and I'm looking to get to Bridge Day by Friday morning. Anyhelp is appreciated... Thx.

i want to meet the person who gets #911

This was discussed not too long ago: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=459869

I feel that it's mpossible to make a "safe" jump. If it was "safe", it would be a lot different and many of us wouldn't be doing it (already been discussed). However, I also feel that it's possible to be dangerous and stupid. I think I'd be stupid to: - Jump something without a good plan. I think this is the most essential factor to my survival. Before every jump I dirtdive the plan in my head which includes all the plan "B"s, "C"s, & "D"s that you think will never happen to you... it'll happen, so I plan on it and visualize myself correcting the issue and landing safely in my alternate areas. If I can stand at the exit point and visualize this and still not increase my heart rate, I feel I'm ready to cope with what Black Death may toss my way. I think it's stupid to jump without a plan and without due consideration and visualization of the consequences. - Jump without the proper gear/rigging. There's a set of right tools for every object - these have been discovered by the people who've gone before me, I make sure I use the right combination and I ask the pros when in doubt. - Jump without all the necessary skills for that jump. If I haven't done a gainer into a pool, why would I want to try one off of a bridge? I make certain I'm ready in every aspect before I jump something - if my survival depended on accuracy of within 15 feet after a malfunction, I'd make certain I could land within 5 feet every time out of an airplane without a toggle or both. I refuse to push my limits in the BASE enviro, instead I urge them along by staying current and taking on just one new thing per jump off of familiar objects with larger safety margins. The stupid and dangerous will not know themselves to be so, and everyone can judge everyone else however they like. I am the only person who ever really knows if I am taking an obscene risk or demonstrating mastery of a cerain element, and this is why I love base jumping. Base is personal, only for one person, the only person who I can trust, the only person who I can control, the only person I should ever judge as being stupid or dangerous. Know your limits, jump with a plan, use the best gear and configuration. Value all the other stuff in your life.

I don't think there are any SAFE jumps, no matter how many beers were drank. Faber, wasn't it a slider down jump where you fixed your leg?

i sold mine to a company called ZLB Plasma Services... most college towns have some equivilent company. You just have to search your area. Cheers to track marks! sum1

I sold my plasma twice a week for 78 weeks. sometimes I would not be able to drink enough to rehydrate and so I stole IV's from my work and put a liter into my leg before donating. I paid for my first rig and a FJC with that money. All it takes is dedication - and now I can say I bought my gear with blood.

oh spiderbaby, no need for such jealousy, you're invited too the body of a spider, the mind of a baby eh?

is this to say that as long as it's not a virgin object it's okay to talk all about it in public forums? if you start talking about the object i'm working on, i'll be pissed, and it's been jumped before. the less the name is out there in the context of jumping the better unless it's legal. are they legalizing the bridge launch as well? seems like it'd be even safer. hey huck, i think you're the coolest - maybe even cooler than the guy with the rake, or that cat litter boy - so you wanna come jump the UN-NAMED object in question sometime, ask me about the get-away plan

Does anyone know what will happen to me if the tower I'm climbing is struck by lightning? Does it depend on the tower? I've noticed some have what looks to be an independent grounding system while others do not. Perhaps these systems are just for the objects attached to the tower? I'm not out seeking this situation by any means, just curious really. thanks, sum1

Although I've never used one, I've been an archery hunter for as long as I can remember and helped a few fellow hunters put up their tree stands... an archery tree stand is very stable and easy to install and remove. understand I'm not a proponent of treestand hunting (I far prefer the sneak) - I'm a proponent of it's other uses

from: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ also, there was a big tree in australia:

ooooo... very nice

from that webpage - it doesn't look too base friendly

slappity slap! oh, i've never jumped anything illegal. but i'm not certain that trend will last for long. i'm not as worried as it may seem - i see the man as a capable foe - an added challenge to an object - particularly a few particular E's that the man proabably sillently wishes i'll jump so he can chase me, arrest me, and be really mean and angry and look really cool to all his other manly friends. he'll probably want to video the chase and sell the footage if he catches my so called sorry criminal ass. maybe i'll take my shirt off so it will fit in with all the other bad boys footage! that'll be the proverbial day - i'm too fun-loving to have grand enemies of hatred, too mellow to put up a big show of F words and spit in a gravel wrestling, baton beating arrest - and most of all i'm too sneaky for him to realize any of his power tripping bad boy arresting dreams.

from SL hardware : do you think it has/does/will (ever) come to this? if so, I'm wearing a hair net, my surgical suit, and gloves whenever i touch it - that way the lady who sold it to me did it! is it free for the man to use his labs to analyze our breakcord? is the man motivated by his inner angers and suppressed violent urges as a child? what motivates this man to go to such lengths? we are not rapists, pedophiles, or similar murderous scum (i haven't met any aussies yet - but i imagine they're not all still all exiled prisoners). most of us never hurt anyone except for the man's ego. is he just giving us bridge day so he can form a data base of jumpers and their addresses etc...? at the same time make the community some money and gain publicity. they want a social sec. #? that seems odd! why not a driver's licence or state id? who else asks for that number? banks loaning large sums of money - why? - it's all they need to track you down should you fail to repay. unless you work just for cash - they'll find you at your next job. so are they tracking bridgedayer's down at a later date? maybe the object near their job was getting jumped? maybe its just the game he likes to play - has anyone ever intentionally played with the man, like jumping a jail or sheriffs office, just to get to his underlying primal rage? maybe calling them after they've been jumped to let them know they missed their chance to beat your face and take your freedoms? i know a man who likes wielding power over people who are having fun living their lives. he says it's harmful for my health and public safety for me to have fun. he has many resources in his power to make sure he wins when he wants to. this man sucks. moral to the sucky man thoughts? be stealthy, don't talk, use a proxy & be unseen, the man stays sleeping and misses his prey.

The thought I had - which I didn't really explain - is now absolved by your latest drawing, at least during the breaking of the break cord stage, by the lack of the pulley effect - in the older version, the stiffness of the gemini cord would help it to experience a lower coefficient of friction when coming around the object, at least less than a spectra sling. the spectra is so supple, that it likes to create sharper angles than something that cannot be bent upon itself as easily. It also has more small pile like fibers that will interact with small irregularities of the object causing higher friction coefficient as well. gemini cord has edge cut resistance far superior to spectra - so that was one more thought on how it has less friction around the point. however, i agree about the knot being super snaggy... that would certainly suck to be left hanging there! Maybe the know could be minimized to a water knot and hid inside the bridle attachment point... but this would be only for the first drawing. For the second drawing, it would be much more difficult to construct gemini cord... and I think this latest drawing looks like a much better system. In the modified drawing, the friction factor doesn't need to be considered until after the break cord has broken - at which point you just have to worry about the bar tacks snagging the object attachment point - or, I guess, rig it in a loop to avoid the blocky bar tack. Another option might be to use dacron or some sort of kelvar kite line that can be fingertrapped and sewn closed - much like toggle settings etc... - this might help create more snag-proof loops like you'll need for the latest design. Good thoughts dexter, Cheers!