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why not ask the person taking you on your "course"??

I think he wrote it with a torch 200ft below the ground!!

See this is my problem. No object belongs to anyone. I hate that idea of "its my object" - what I do like is that a polite attitude is shown to people that jump it more than others. Call the local! This "ownership" is almost a policing mentallity and this is almost skydiving! I have recently posted about a problem on a UK object and I am not saying " I own this object and dont jump it without my permission" I am saying "please be aware there are issues and I can help you" Being too agressive and stating ownership may get some people to say "fuck you" In general i think most jumpers are very good in their approach - but there are some that also require guidence, and some others that also require something else - but these are few and far between.

Title: The Ace of BASE Loaded could die in the next five seconds. We are stood with our man Brendan on the edge of a 600ft cliff, high up in the Australian blue mountains, and we are about to leap off into the rocky abyss below. Loaded is about to join a club of absolute loonies called BASE jumpers (buildings Antenna Spans (bridges) and Earth (cliffs) – the four different areas jumpers leap from). It is regarded as the most stupid form of skydiving because the altitudes are so low. The only thing separating the BASE jumper from the Grim Reaper making a premature visit is a parachute – but if he doesn’t open it in those 5 seconds, the paramedics will be scraping his body of the jagged rocks below, and he would not be the first, more than 80 jumpers have died in the past 20 years. Loaded is currently teetering on a rocky outcrop known as Dxxxx’x Exxx, 100 miles xxxx of xxxxxx. Couldn’t we have started small? “In Australia we've got the hardest places to jump in the world” boasts veteran BASE jumper Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, whos helping us with our first leap. “We’ve got to land in much harder places and the drops are so much shallower” Despite the high death toll, Xxxx reckons there’s more broken bones missing fingers and grazed limbs than fatalities. Make the slightest miscalculation and you’ll smash into the massive sandstone cliff face or plunge full tilt into the eucalyptus forest far below, Get your altitude wrong before opening the chute and you’re just as fucked. Not that Xxxx’s worried. An Aussie BASE jumping legend and veteran of over 300 jumps he been leaping off skyscrapers bridges and antennas (often illegally) since 1986. He’s even jumped off Malaysia’s twin petronas towers in KL the worlds second highest building 16 times! “For me it’s about perfection” he says “the harder the jump is the more perfect you have to be and the better it is after” Xxxx’s mate Xxxx also knows all about the downsides. His left ankle’s still swollen after surgery after it was smashed to pieces two months ago. He also saw a close friend killed during a leap from Norways famous troll wall. Xxxx meanwhile is full of sensible last minute advice for the first timer: “just leg it and hurl yourself off the edge” Following this advice Brendan takes a small run up and leaps, hurtling into the valley. The silence as you wait for his chute to open is pin droppingly deathly. Im sure the mad buggers going to peg it. Seconds later the cracking sound of his canopy opening ricochets like a gunshot around the cliffs faces. He makes an impressive landing far below. Loaded snapper Ian nearly falls off the cliff capturing it on film. Xxxx leaves next. With chute clutched tightly he takes a huge run off and launches himself with awesome force. Plummeting in an arc over the valley below, he leaves it as long as he dares before finally triggering his main chute and falls gracefully, sailing down and making the most elegant of landings. Then it’s me. I run for dear life, jump, count to 8 and pull. It feels like the end of the world. But there’s no time for fear. I crash through the forest like Rambo, but for one big difference :big john didn’t do a mid air plop plop. mmmmm...............

Dude this problem is world wide!!

A UK / Italian Guy got 880 after completing on 25/01/04 thats 25th Jan for our American Friends and not the 1st of Pigruary

Anyone seen the article in Loaded this month about BASE?? Is it me or are the writers truely trying to fool the readers that they also made the jumps? Taken from a report in Austrailia with a known jumper they are kinda reporting that they also got thrown off the 600ft cliff - or am I being completly stupid and its tongue in cheek?? "Then it was my turn, I run for dear life, jump, count to 8......" (which is nice as that takes you to 800ft) "..... and pull, it feels like the end of the world, but there is no time for fear" "it is regarded as the most stupid form of skydiving because of the low altitudes" I may post the full article tomo and you tell me................. I wonder if the Aussie jumper got to proof read this crock of shite............

Well ok then……………….. Thanks for that, I will make sure I call the locksmith next time. Do locksmiths come out at all hours? Can we request that the locksmith wears all black and only whispers whilst talking to me? I am very shy and don’t like to be noticed by my neighbours. I prefer that the lock is opened without anyone noticing at all – I am embarrassed should the “neighbours” see that I have lost my keys yet again…………

............or he would see if he could chance his arm and see if he could get accepted............ you know what the legal age to drink is - but did you not try and get into a bar whislt underage? - does that make you stupid? and i agree the "are whuffos really that stupid" does suggest he is stupid coz he is a whuffo.............. we are all whuffos in one way or another - just some have more open minds.

...........& we were all newbies once...... dont forget where we all came from - "whuffoLand"

Date Location Category Age # Jumps AAD?/RSL? 3/27/99 Cark, England MAL? 51 168 ?/? Description: The deceased made an uneventful free fall descent, but at some stage after his main parachute had developed, a number of cells on the left hand side deflated and at approximately 500 ft, whilst his parachute was in a left turn, the left side of the parachute collapsed causing the parachute to spiral to the ground. No cause for the problems has been established. One serious possibility was that upon deploying his main parachute the pilot chute and bridle line may have dropped over the front of the parachute, causing the initial 'bowing' of the parachute. (Note: the parachute was seen to initially 'bow' on deployment, by the DZ controller, and then to clear). At some stage during the parachute descent the pilot chute could have caught around some of the left hand side rigging lines, causing the cells to close, (Note: one witness felt that during the descent the bridle line appeared to be short and off to one side of the parachute), and during the left turn, at approximately 500 ft, the restriction may have been responsible for the collapsing of the left side of the parachute." The parachute was fully inspected and found to be in good order and to within manufacturers tolerance. Lessons:There just isn't enough information to definitively explain what happened in this situation. All I can advise is to be sure to check your canopy thoroughly up high... mild problems have a way of getting worse as time goes on.

Spring loaded PC's with a velcro tab where the bridle attches to the base of the PC allow you to switch betwwen S/L and Freefall withotu having to reconfigure the rig. -Blind Can you explain? are you saying the SLPC is left on?? Also "velcro tab" are you suggesting that the PC attachment to the bridle is velcro?????????????? That sounds wrong.

If I remember correctly there has been one fatality caused by this. Someone may be able to confirm / correct me on this.

Just because you dont know the ins and outs of something does not make you stupid. It just means you are not familiar or lacking the knowledge. Are some skydivers really that small minded, or is it just me?? Whuffos are not stupid - they just chose not to learn about skydiving. Does that make you stupid coz you dont have knowledge about a certain thing? I think not.

I prefer "stupid" boy.......... I was lucky in the fact that I never killed myself............. After I got over my period of stupity I saw others starting to enter this phase and it was scarey. Some even asked me for advice!! how fucked is that! I was very lucky not to be life banned. If any of you are going down this same path then dont. Think of your friends and all the people that will have to watch you mash yourself up or mop up your insides. Skydiving is not a sport to fuck with. ....... oops - I will get off my high horse now - I never liked horses........

In one year I was banned approx 12 times - each of these ranging from 1 day to 2 weeks. My last grounding was for 3 months. its certainly not big and never clever........

jive one im jiving to the jive doctor if this jiving jive monkey heel dont jive and heal get my jive?

Nah! We aint American! A few days on the sofa drinking beer relaxing should sort out any injury!

I agree................. I mean I did apologise and explain my "meanness" - no harm done!!

and this is a general skydiving discussion??? .....what about if the guy has lice or crabs??? should he then tell you that too??

Last October I flicked a 220ft Span and due to the fact it was in a foreign country with quick exit needed and my own stupid non assessment of the surrounding area I was dumped in hard on landing... I hurt my heel. This went after returning home and having time off not jumping due to bad weather. But recently I got dumped in again after a sub100ft opening on my canopy and basically have it "jelly fish" until landing. I now have the pain in my heel again and although I am taking off a month from jumping to rest it, it still gives me pain and discomfort when I walk. I dont have any bruising or swelling, but the discomfort I have is slightly worrying. Just interested in anyone else having problems with heel injuries - as I have heard that heels take a long time to "heel" !!

nice one! thanks for your time and effort!! appreciated!

OK - yep I know not a subject I normally post on but hey! I am trying to find my dog a bed that I can only explain as "dog igloo" - I have looked everywhere and get no where! Cats are spoilt as each igloo is for them! I have a terrier type dog which ideally I would like to get one for - (about spaniel size) and a bonus would also be able to get my rottweiler (sp?) one - but hey I dont think you would get one that size! Any help (UK preferable - but WWW also helpful!) ............ and yeah Ivan, Skreamer, Faber, et al ............ fuck off!!! I know!!! Michael Dog owner AND BASE JUMPER!!!!

http://www.basejumper.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=4036642239faffff;act=ST;f=1;t=269 I have now spoken to the neighbours at pylon park. She has proposed the following: 1) I dont pass her number to anyone 2) I call her 1 or 2 days in advance if people are jumping there 3) If she is not at home over the period of jumping so she is unable to make arrangements for the horse - we will not jump. She is happy with us jumping there, but she wants to have notice so she can make specific arrangements with her horse so she is happy that we are not effecting the well being of it. If she finds people there without a phone call from me she will approach you and tell you to leave or she will call the authorities. She will then also call me and let me know that people have been there - this is a small community and it wont take much to find out who has done this. She is being very accepting of what we do here, but her number 1 priorty is her horse. You can understand that we need to do things by her rules here. She has also mentioned that whilst talking to a friend in a pub about the problems her horse has had with the parachuting activity someone leant over from another table and started asking about the "legality" of us jumping there. In her words "I would not go there for a few months and just let the nosey bastard forget about it" - she was infact quite apologetic that she had brought the attention to an unknown person and both her and her husband were quite upset that this had happened. Even they seem to have some cool BASE ethics! This is what is proposed to start with, I guess this will evolve as time goes on. Its not about policing this object, far from it. It helps us all in the long term to be courteous, thoughtful and progressive with both the locals and the jumping community. If there are any issues or concerns with this then please call my mobile or send me an email. I will be more than happy to talk to anyone about the issue at this site.

Ok that is a fair point, the humour in this particular post has a serious point and is worthwhile, but saying this, it is still common for other threads to have the “witty” one liners from people – but it seems that some people are policed more so than others. To me it does look as if there is some preference over some people. There was a time when I was PM’d several times about this and my posts deleted but other more “well known” people were able to continue their banter. I felt this to be a little inconsistent. I am not having a dig at you as such Tom – you do a great job on the whole – you use a lot of your spare time up on these boards. I just dislike clique mentallity (although probably guilty of it myself at times) and If people feel this way then maybe they wont visit or post to the boards as much as they like to. Just an observation that’s all……. Take it easy M