BASE813

grits............. just bad with anything.......... I think: banana sandwiches are wrong pasta and fish is not great mashed potatoe sandwiches are not terrific Ready Brek (for the USAers out there - sort of a gay porridge) and bread is a little wrong

just if your interested and/or have started using it:

respect thats hardcore!

sod that, i am keeping my 15 screws and pins and plate in................. who wants to go through surgery again! just curious, as my surgeon said its fine to continue jumping with my hardware - why are you guys having the hardware removed? were you advised to?

just incase you have fat sausage fingers and may have done a typo on loading google.....

about 11 years ago, I caught my GF of 3 years cheating on me. It fucking sucked. as I was only in my early 20's I did not handle it very well and went on a bit of a bender for about 5 years. I drank heavily took hard drugs and went and picked up girls and treated them like shit. I was not a particularly nice person to women during this time - the way I saw it I wanted to treat them like shit before they treated me like shit. Looking back, I realise that escaping through drink and drugs just prolonged the problems, the best thing is to try and think and deal with it with a straight head. Look at things logically and try and move yourself into new things that dont remind you of the person. Move house, change jobs, find new places to go and new people to hang out with - I found this worked well with 1 other horrible break up I have had. I feel for you dude, and I hope you end up with what makes you smile - whatever it is. I just wanted to write to let you know you aint alone and some of us have been through similar shit - and we still end up happy in the end............... its just a shitty time until the smiles come back............ be strong bro................ Remember, Im a phone call away anytime............ You dirty lazy pink hat wearing danish mincer!

I know someone has said in the past, "i give myself 50:50" each jump, and I also give myself 50:50 each jump for injury or death - this way I stay switched on and I enjoy it so much more (it also means I walk down alot though!) Although I scare the shit out of myself more so than normal each jump due to this attitude, I find that it keeps the reality of what I am doing................... I suffer horribly from vertigo, and BASE in general scares me alot, I always expect something horrible to happen to me EVERY jump - but this is the way I like it and it gives me a fucking big smile after.............. M

surely landing skills are something you should have before you start BASE?

yep just ask faber about landing on rear risers with out practicing it!

legal? whats that?

from a real accountancy anal view, you mean BR, as they are a seperate entity! hehehehe

A slider down or off deployment is more prone to a line over malfunction. So the control lines are routed outside the slider and keeper rings to allow the LRM (letting go of the offending control line to clear the line over). People think the tailgate is there to stop "lineovers" for slider down / off deployments, when in fact it is to stop tail inversions, which in itself is also a cause of lineover malfunctions. If any of my thread is incorrect, please correct me............ as this is how I see it......

Can you please PM me. Thanks Michael

fuck thats old! Nioce wun Faber vas gud to shar sum of de jumpz wid yu!

nice one!! thanks to all that helped........ appreciate it...............

last skydive approx May/June 2002, what made me stop? Well after 500+ jumps, I sold all my skydiving gear to pay towards BASE gear and FJC.

nice one, cant think why i did not think of that!........ In my "other" hobby I find some interesting stuff "google searching"! Thanks Zoter for your PM, PM sent back.........

May 13th 2004, shattered my fib badly and bust my tib badly and had a major dislocation of my ankle. I had a bone graft and 3 large pins and a "long and thick" plate with 12 screws put in over 3 surgeries. I have recently returned to jumping (BASE) after 11 months out. (my god it was great!) My surgeon advises me that its not worth taking the hardware out for jumping (but then again he advised me not to jump for ANOTHER year), and I have many many friends all jumping with hardware in various parts of their body (most common is the tib and fib of course). Although I limp and ache alot after jumping (I actually limp and ache most of the time anyway), I am happy jumping with this hardware inside me. I have got some long term problems with my ankle due to the major dislocation, but as long as you are sensible, I dont see any reason why you cant continue with jumping with such problems (there are people out there with more severe metal work and bodily damage jumping all the time - respect) Now back to jumping, I strap my ankle and leg up really well (maybe too well) and PLF when I feel I am coming into land a bit faster than I feel comfortable with - it dont look cool but makes me feel a lot better! - coming home covered in mud though makes my GF think i had a bad landing when in fact I had a good one!!!

I know its bad form, but could anyone send me this?

I once and only once did not listen to my "inner voice" telling me to walk, I ignored it for the first time after walking down many many times before - unfortunatly I smashed my leg up on that jump......... I wont be ignoring that voice again............

I am actually in one of the most mundane and boring professions - I am an accountant. Sadly (or gladly), I dont meet that many other accountants that share my passion for certain things........... well, except a certain Italian fellow that has grown from spawn...............

go gargoyle............ www.baserigs.com

its funny, as I only have now bought up my first lot of body armour and decent pads since my injury. When I was looking at also buying some of the snow board pants for the padding they gave, my GF (a non jumper) said "dont you think you are going into overkill on protective wear" even she thought that the amount of body armour I was buying was too much, and also some of my jumping buddies think I am buying too much ( this month I have bought hanwags, ankle brace, body armour, knee and shin pads and I am still looking for more!) so I guess I think its cool that people are "thinking of the crash and not the jump" I spent the last few years jumping in Vans and no helmet or pads - I only just started wearing a decent pair of boots and 5 months later they stopped my tib breaking out the bottom of my dislocated foot - so now I am of the thinking "protection is best" its cool these guys are thinking like this....... BTW: the pads and body armour I bought is cheap as hell and brand new - PM me if you want the link............

all the best dude............

I recently received a message from BASE#812 who told me that "I got in the way" of him and his jumping buddie on getting numbers together. I then sent a reply to him saying infact he actually got in the way of me and my jumping buddie getting numbers together...... we all had a day apart in getting our numbers....... My friend - BASE#811 him - BASE#812 Me - BASE#813 his friend - BASE#814 I found this quite interesting, and the fact that sections of numbers have some story about them, even when we dont know each other! I know that people have sections of numbers that show friends jumping together and achieving the "WORD" at the same time, so I would be interested in hearing stories on how you guys gained this special word together to end up with close numbers............ I actually find it cool that I have found the 2 people "either side" of me and my friend... It was nice to hear.............. Nice work 812 and 814!