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You were one of the Good Guys.......... Fly Free brother......... You will be missed.

crabs?

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=957062004 http://www.dropzoneuk.com/

I will love to see your face!

The park pylons, well maybe I can accept those jumps, just without the delays I used to take from them. The gastower, well I aint ever jumping that again - I had done that a few times and always knew that one day it may bite me in the arse.... and "low" and behold it did.... As for moving limits, this is very true. When I started BASE I decided not to freefall below 300ft, this changed with time and experience and confidence. The injury has made me reassess the limits, as my last jump I had left myself with zero room for error in the delay i took, and of course like murphy normally does, throws up a small issue at the wrong time to fuck you about! - my reassesment comes from the fact that I want more room for error - the types of jumps I do will change from what I usually was comfortable. This is just because of where i am at the moment. Who knows where i will be in times to come. One of the things i like about this sport is that one mans fun is another mans madness. I hear of people doing things that I just think - whoa! fuck that........ This raises two questions for me: 1) Does currency give people a "false" sense of ability? Just because you may have done 20 jumps in the past week does that really increase your skills to the levels that are percieved? or does it just raise your confidence more? 2) Does over confidence bring a mindset that means a "bullet proof" mentality and lack of respect seeps into the jumper? Does this mean that the jumper is less likely to react as well to a situation then someone "expecting murphy to fuck ya up"? - Do you have to keep reminding yourself not to get carried away? Iam not saying this is so, or not so, or relates to everyone - I would be interested in the discussion thats all - as I know that my injury came about from jumping with an over confidence of myself and my gear in taking a big delay from a low object....... .......and Faber, not sure about the trip as I cant say when I will be back on my feet again, or if i will have a job, or any money, - getting injured aint just about broken bones I have found!

after my injury, in which i am still recovering, I had thought about my acceptable limits alot. I broke myself on a 210ft freefall that was caused by (a) over delay (b) equipment issue - both together bringing me a bit of a problem. After some thought I think that I would now be happy freefalling around the 250ft mark (dependant on object of course) - and that is well within my comfort zone. Previously I would be happy to freefall down to 200ft - but this injury has indeed made me reconsider my acceptable levels. I know a certain Dane with a bad grasp of English spelling that broke himself in the days where he was freefalling 400ft........ on his return from injury he now freefalls sub200..... so I guess you can never really tell until you are back in the field! Lets just all be fucking safe out there........ - certain types of phone call suck!

621 has chased up some people and it seems that the UKBB will be down for around another 10 days due to technical problems.

and this.............. http://www.digitalxpression.co.uk/dwheel.swf ah takes me back to my teenage years!

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/extreme_20banisters_20(experimental_20phase)

dont be too pleased..... If I can become Master then its got to be easy!

Will do mate........... fingers crossed hey!

for sure............ dont we bitch about simple things hey! for those that disagree with the decision to chop his friend away....... i think that most would not have a clue how they would react.......... until you are in that situation then you cant say whether its a good choice or not......... he had a burning desire to live and did what he needed to do.......... dont judge until you have walked in his shoes........ (or something like that!!!) they were hardcore and had hardcore decisions to take........... end of..... what ever you decide.......... it was right at that time!

i never saw that............... JESUS! that aint a woman I would be proud to take and meet my mother! ................ WHOA!

and here is the real deal................ http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2482/4/5 Pics are bottom left if you really want to see them!

thanks mate.............. I did not think to search and dont visit here enough to notice!

I use a Bushnell Yardage Pro. the only bitch I would say I have of it is that it does not have a back light to read the display in bad light / night time. Also some objects due to the colour of the point I am zapping or the type of material wont register. I have a mate who has an infra-red version that he is very happy with.............. not sure of the specs or disadv's etc on that. Also there is a Scandinavian comany that does a laser that means you dont have to fuck around with Pythagoras as it uses multiple lasers and calculates the height you are pointing at for you.......... someone posted a link sometime ago, but I cant remember on which board..... I will try and have a search for it. HTH Michael

just being curious, but has there been any application / committee blah blah to get skydiving into the olympics in the past? are there any reasons that its not in it? any reasons no one has tried? or why one may have failed? As someone has said on another thread, swooping could be a cool spectator sport and I cant see why something like that cant be in the event, 4 way etc I can kinda see why its not in that its not exactly a spectator sport and to the average non-skydiver, its all the same and just shapes in the sky...... Any history to this at all? - I cant be bothered to search through all the hits when I searched for this on the net!

http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22178

which is why some BASE jumpers wear these........ Cant beat a good ol' fashioned Protec!

Fucking cool movie, that guy is a star........... After watching the movie, I started to go to the shops (40mins) each day on my crutches as it made me feel quite silly for thinking that journey was too much of a pain in the arse for me! Apparently in the book, where the film ends, he actually still had a major trek out afterwards.......... The drive to live hey! Wasnt there also a story about a guy in Moab I think who broke and cut off his own arm after getting it trapped? Now these are hardcore bastards!

what the fuck are you blabbering on about....... edit: ah! I get it..... sorry I aint too quick at 6am!

the first time I read this when you posted it sometime ago, I thought you were joking........... you really did sell your soul for it hey!

Go on "Mr Tree"........... get over youself and stop trying to show off................. Towerrat, if you had any idea................ again I will say "fucks sake".................. dont ignore the other responses tha offend you TR, they can be helpful too!

GO ON TOWER RAT - RESPOND WITH THE SAME SHIT TO TREE AS YOU RESPONDED TO ME - SAME THOUGHTS DIFFERENT WAY - You said it to me now say it to him............. apparently he needs to stop trying to look cool to his online friends and he needs to get over himself!

in the end, people compare the cost with skydiving, well seeing as its nothing like skydiving why bother comparing the cost................ I want to hang glide, but would I say "it costs the same as an AFF course so I dont know if I want to do it?" no........... i pay the money and take the course and find out if its for me!! again I will say (offending people of course) - FOR FUCKS SAKE!