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As well as the outrageous cost of membership - do you members think that the attitude in the UK stinks?? too many rules / regulations?? Not trying to say that the rules should not be there - as some clearly do to stop the masses getting injured and killed - but I am interested to find out if you are actually happy in the way the BPA control and govern the sport you love so much.......... Thanks fo input M

Whuffo!

Nope I drive a diesel so its cheap as fuck to drive all over the place!!

.............never doubted it!

I beleive there are some salaried members - who also get brand new big fat cars paid for too!!! or maybe I am wrong?!?! Just what i heard from a bitter BPAMember!! If you dont like it - dont do it!!

every year this happens - people bitching about the cost of BPA membership and that they are giving up BPA and going abroad............ I wonder how many of you bitchin' are actually NOT going to renew??? Anyone got the figures on what the BPA spend their money on?? Hey I dont give a toss - i aint a member!!

At 150 skydives I wanted "to get into it ASAP" and it did not scare me. At 250 skydives I wanted to get into it "at some point" - and the thought was starting to scare me. At 350 skydives I did not really fancy doing it all as it scared the shit outta me. At 500 skydives I deceided that I would take a FJC and determine whether it was for me - and i was scared shitless

Let the whuffos read it and enjoy it!! Who cares what they think........... We know the truth and thats all that matters...............

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The skydive fatality site has figures from 1995 onward........ Does anyone have information on the figures attached to fatalities pre-dating this?? Or if not an idea on an idea of fatality numbers per year pre-dating this?? Thanks Michael

HA! Only if he gets a taxi there! He aint got time to visit a DZ with what I have planned for him!! Get ready to rock and roll mate! We are off to rape the low and lonely of the UK!! only 3 weeks to go mate!! Hold on to your hat! its gonna get low and dirty!!!

The terminal jumps I have done I used a large hole mesh slider and a 38" AV PC - this with a dagger266 packed no differently to the way I pack slider down. The opening was "brisk" but certainly not what I would term a "Ball Schwacker"! I like to feel the mutha open!!

Myself and a friend were recently having a discussion the pros and cons of a multi. (the dirty danish mincer likes to have one!!) I just wondered if many of you are using them and why you feel the need for them. Most people I know dont use them and I dont beleive I have a use for them.............. just my inexperienced reasons! So please let me know the Whys and whynots! "The Multi" - Please discuss! Thanks!

QuoteNo skydiving helmets offer really good head protection, so the field of comparison is pretty limited. That said, the Gath helmet offers the least amount of protection of any. /reply] I saw a guy have a flat fly collison whislt wearing a full face apparent "decent" skydiving helmet - it may have stopped him being killed but it still knocked him out (cypress save) and mashed his face up good and proper. So yes, all skydiving helmets are shit for collision............... with the forces and speeds involved you are gonna get hurt what ever.....most helmets will protect only the odd knock and scrape - thats all........ saying that a Gath is much like wearing your grandmothers dutch cap..............

addtional postings on the UK board....... http://www.basejumper.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=4001870b08b4ffff;act=ST;f=1;t=232

Check out the book "Understanding the sky" by Dennis Pagen. http://www.ap-store.com/cb900.html

http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=7&topic_id=15907&mesg_id=15907&page= If you want BASE info then go to BLiNC - not here!!

So there are no landing incidents with the first timers at all??? My point was why take off a free stowed fury 220 in a racer when you could take off something "nicer"?!?! yeah there is nothing wrong with skydiving configd right - but why bother when there is the gear to do it right is out there......??? lets go back to the 80's! - nick kershaw will save ya but he aint the right choice!

To me its like if I play hockey I also play football coz we use a circular ball! True we are all parachutists, sometimes it would be nice that skydivers actually understood this concept, but deep down we are doing completly different things and the two can never be attached - I am sorry but I think its only skydivers that think they are similar, and to me this is so incorrect.......... or maybe thats just me!?!?!

how exactly is it as safe as a single parachute system? I beg to differ.............. but please tell me I am wrong

I think Bridge Day is Bridge Day, and BASE jumping is BASE jumping, and while there are some similarities, and some overlap, they aren't really the same thing. Bridge Day has it's own history, and it's own spirit, which is quite distinct from BASE as a whole. Good reply! - it aint BASE but I guess that some people once they do BD suddenly become "BASE jumpers"???? I understand the attraction (Im not into big boogie jumps at all) and that it opens the doors for some people - but in the end BD aint what BASE is about..........

to me this kind of relates to the "BASE and skydiving associations" post that we have been bitching about on the UK Board - if you start setting rules then where do these rules stop?? How can you allow people to go off the span with some shitty gear (skydiving gear) or even as one vid I watched someone going tard with a VX - but then turn around and say "best you wear a helmet" - to me that is both against what BASE means in the freedom it gives you and hypocritical in the fact that "anything goes" but please wear a protective hat!!! If you are looking to make BD safer then basically stop the skydivers looking for a fareground ride jump just so they can say "I am a BASE jumper" from jumping! - there are more issues attached to BD then whether head protection is needed.......... just my two broken bones needing pinning coz i thought a really high bridge would be easy and almost a skydive!! as you may have guessed I still have issues on the whole BD thing.............. We all spend time telling people - you must have the right gear, you must have the right experience, blah blah blah but then come BD and to me it seems that all the rules go out of the window and skydivers can lob of a fixed object without the ethics that so many of us try to drum into people.............. I think BD is hypocritical............ open for discussion.........

I think it should be a choice - I sometimes wear a helmet - I sometimes dont - I depends on how I assess the chances of me hitting my head on something that will bloody hurt! To be honest it should be a personal choice - and if it goes against you then you know you made the wrong choice. If your stupid enough not to wear protective gear on certain jumps then thats your fault - so the first timer going off then fucking up the landing and crashing through trees and pounding into a rocky area should have had respect for what they were about to do - and if they did not then maybe they should not have been doing it in the first place?!?! Just my two pieces of skull fractured and splintered!!!

jesus Faber your English is getting worse!! - have you had a stroke?? saying that my Danish aint up to much!! Later Michael

http://www.basejumper.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3ffded4d6e72ffff;act=ST;f=1;t=228 Some discussion on the UK board - what do you other guys think about having a (skydiving) regulating body control the sport??? just interested.........