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Damn these are good, I can't stop eatin' them ! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Aside from the completely natural fear of stepping out and falling, it's also natural to find the moment of seperation from the plane disconcerting. One moment you've got your feet on the deck, holding onto something solid, the next moment you feel like a leaf on the wind. You just need to do it more and build your confidence in your ability to relax and be stable. Keep at it and before long you'll really enjoy it. I think most skydivers will agree that the exit is the peak rush of the entire jump - it is for me anyway. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Can't say one way or the other about the Evo, but I like my Mindwarp a lot. I've got a XL size head and it fits just great, though I've never tried to bake it. Nice and quiet and I have no problem fitting an audible in one of the pockets in the padding. Mine isn't the latest model, I think the new ones look a little more stylin', but I think mine is the best helmet I've ever worn. If I decide to get a full face visor type, Bonehead's going to get my first look in that department as well. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Make a hop & pop. That way you can be all out of your gear and into some "pie-able" clothes when everyone else gets down. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

So does my 17 year old. I'm wondering, does this guy know you're an adult ? I mean obviously you can deal with this and treat it like a joke, but I doubt you're the only girl he's sending this to. My Space has had so many complaints from parents that they finally just created a Security dude to look after this stuff (is that weird or what, that at this late date they're just getting around to security, with so many kids logged on ??). I'd think about some of the other people hearing from this lovely guy and consider a complaint to the webmeister. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

And please don't forget to re-set your kill line. And check your kill line at least twice, once right when you set it, then again before you close your bag into the container. I won't go into how to set it, you should have a packer or instructor show you personally. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Enjoy the $3 gas while it lasts. Very soon, these will be "the good old days". Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I think embedding a microchip in either the forehead or wrist would be best. It could also be used for a cashless society, just record all transactions on people's chips and don't allow anyone to buy or sell who doesn't have one. Makes perfectly logical sense. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Isn't either. If we're to believe Jesus died at age 33, it would've been in something like 26 - 33 AD, they can't seem to nail it down any closer than that (oh my god, did I say "nail" ?). A lot of people thought the world would end in AD 1000, and again in AD 2000. All this means is that somebody can afford a billboard campaign. Probably just some preacher who needs more donations to pay the diesel bill for his boat. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I'm a So Cal local and Perris and Elsinore are my two favorite dropzones. There will be NO rain in July/August. But be warned, the temps can often go above 100 degrees and we can get some pretty fierce wind devils. Add in higher field elevations of 1400 or so ft MSL and summertime jumping could challenge your canopy landing skills. But the locals keep at it all summer. Those are just some conditions you should be aware of, but by all means come on out and have some big fun ! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

My adult daughter made the mistake of giving those people her address and the mail never stops coming. I just throw it out on sight, I won't allow it in my home. It's interesting stuff though. Interesting because it never tells you a thing, except that you can buy the secrets of the universe on the installment plan. Lots of big words. BIG prices. And all you get is CDs, DVDs, and diplomas. It's all about a science fiction writer who's been dead for the last 30 years. He got tired of writing second rate sci-fi and actually said the real money is in starting your own religion. Case closed. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I believe in God and pray to Him. I just don't want the government interfering and telling me what kind of a God to believe in. The government just fucks up everything it touches anyway, God's too important for that. The Founding Fathers understood that too when they seperated church and state. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Saw it in the theater about two years ago. It was on cable last night, watched a bit with Pilate and Herod, then they took Jesus down to the whipping academy and I changed channels. With some films, once is enough. I feel the same way about Saving Private Ryan. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

AADs have changed the face of the sport. Thirty years ago the available models were considered unreliable by experienced jumpers and we never used them. Deaths due to low pulls or no pull at all were the leading cause of death in the sport. The Cypres was the first of the reliable AADs to come on the market around 1991. Now there are competing brands, notably the Vigil and others. Deaths by low or no pull have been way drastically reduced. The leading cause of death in the sport now is how you handle the perfectly open and functioning canopy you're under at or below 150 ft. One hard tug on a toggle can send you spiraling into the ground at speeds exceeding 50 mph. Unlike the old days, death isn't usually instantanoues either, you might linger in the ICU for a couple days until the doctors convince your family that your brain is gone and it's time to turn off the machinery and say goodbye. You would do much better to be concerned about the REAL things like canopy control (and to take a course in canopy control as soon as possible after AFF or your A license). Simply put, you're worrying about the wrong things. You won't have a hot enough canopy or the know-how to accidently fire your AAD, even if you tried, not for a long time. And once you've been given some advice, have the grace to accept it. If you really want to fixate on AADs and be really argumentive about it, maybe this sport isn't for you - it ain't for everybody (thank God). There's not an instructor or a dropzone on this earth that's under any kind of obligation to take you up and let you jump. Keep it up and give them a bad enough feeling and most dropzones I know will give your money back and tell you to get off their property. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Nice thought, hold onto it for twenty years or so. There were negotiations about 10-15 years ago, with an agreement signed. But the Palestinians never controlled the bombers, while the Israeils went on building new settlements AND assasinating the Prime Minister who negotiated & signed the deal. But suicide bombings in crowded markets have got sooo old, so very "last year". This is the Hamas crowd running the Palestinian Authority now. They don't give a shit and have said so. How would you like it if some Hamas asshole blew up your favorite supermarket - or dropzone. The only answer to the Hamas crowd is to level and exterminate all human life in a selected township under Hamas control, each and every time they set off one of their asshole bombs. Pick a town, kill them all - the men, women, children, young and old. Use napalm, then pound the debris into dust. Fuck 'em. It's the kind of shit they can relate to on their level. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Where's the nucular missile ? Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Don't change ANYTHING about your normal packjob, assuming you're doing the packing. You're not going to "wear your rig out" doing a few extra hop & pops. If your rig is showing signs of wear, get it fixed. We are responsible for our own gear maintenance and we pay pay the price for ignoring it. I routinely do short hop & pops with a Javelin with riser tabs. I throw my p/c as soon as I'm clear of the plane and on the hill, with no problem at all. It's fun having your main deploy straight out behind you and then swinging back under it as it shakes itself out. Your pilot chute has more than enough punch to lift those tabs out, even if you do baglock. The physical forces involved in the mass, velocity, and momentum of a human body in ANY skydiving situation are huge. Have you parcticed a cutaway from a suspended harness lately ? You hit like a sack of cement after just a 2 ft. drop, didn't you ? And you didn't even fall the first 32 or more feet of even the fstest possible hop & pop. If you can't lift your rig up by the risers and shake the tabs out, get it fixed. If gear is that fragile or balky, why would you want to jump it at all ? Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

So enough already, when do we get to the porn ?! Any aspiring pornographers out there ? Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Sounds like you've named several good suggestions. Friends, counseling, and proper use of meds can all be helpful. Dealing with things alone isn't a good idea, though having to face things yourself is unavoidable. I once knew an older guy at work who was a teenager in wartime Athens, under Nazi occupation. I asked him how he dealt with it. He told me there are some things you don't get to think about, you just deal. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Regardless of my personal feelings on the death penalty, in Moussaoui's case, I'd recommend life, because he WANTS to die. If you want something, and society gives it to you, that's not a punishment. We make him a martyr and potentially set ourselves up for more attacks. If we throw him in a jail cell away from reporters and cameras, he'll simply be forgotten, which seems to be his greatest fear. It would be really pointless to make a martyr of the guy. If we did that, Al-Qaeda would finally consider him useful for something. A 9/11 widow who's been observing the trial said that executing Moussaoui wouldn't do a thing to improve the FBI or CIA. She'd rather see the NY Police and Fire Depts get radios they can use in an emergency. One of the great frustrations of 9/11 is that the 19 perpetrators all died that day, so we've been scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for someone to punish for it. We can forget bin Laden, he's obviously under one of our "allies" protection, probably Pakistan's. Trotting Moussaoui out for a vivd rehash of the pain and suffering of 9/11 practically amounts to a show trial. The guy needs to be quietly locked up for the rest of his life and probably a good dose of medication for his delusional condition. We supposedly stopped executing mental cases back in the 19th century. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Maybe in another 5, 10, or 20 years. Maybe never. My little sister lost two friends in one of the planes that hit the Towers. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

My wife made one static line jump back in 1980, which is how I met her. That summer she came along on our Yosemite expedition to jump El Capitan (we had permits). Since then she has never made another jump. I try now & then to interest her in making a tandem, just so she can experience freefall, but she has no interest in it. But she's very supportive of my jumping & says she's always know she was marrying a skydiver. She was even okay with my breaking a leg two years ago. So I'm really very lucky to have her and in lots of other ways besides. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I have serious doubts about the guy's sanity. If he is schizophrenic, and there may very well be convincing evidence of that presented, then the things he's saying have to be taken as the ravings of crazy person. By no means pleasant, and most certainly offensive. Ever since he was arrested, the guy's behavior and everything he's said have been wildly erratic. He sounds to me like one of these people you see on a street corner having a heated argument with themselves. I'm not apologizing for him or defending him. I just think his cheese done slipped off his cracker. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

And as you well know, there was a fatality right at Perris recently that was caused by a steering line problem. Cutaways are a personal decision and you did what was right for you, no matter what anybody else coulda/shoulda/mighta done. But I'm even more interested in your Skyhook experience. Like a lot of people, I use a standard RSL on my rig (a Javelin). I'm not sure how you could really gauge a distance like 50 ft. in midair, but you're obviously impressed with a VERY quick opening. Did you guess at 50 ft because you could see your cutaway main really close ? More story on the Skyhook, please. And good work. Ain't it great to be alive ?! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I should thing that walking up and down a flight of stairs with a small enough lady would be just dangerous enough to triple the fun. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !