bendywendy

Just how tall is a tall guy?

Well, I'll tell you what - lets get together and jump off some stuff and afterwards (if we walk away from that) just follow me and I'm sure we'll have some mishap that will involve vital organ crushing or near decapitation (oh, I forgot about that one - I fell asleep driving and if I hadn't woken up when the car hit the curb, the sign that came through my window and cut the B pillar in the car would have taken my head off - ewww! that one was actually quite scary - it kept me awake until I got home!) - see - something will happen if you hang out with me long enough. I like to think that I'm lucky - that my luck and skills get me out of trouble but some say that I'm unlucky as hell - kind of like Kenny in southpark - I had to move to Florida so I wouldn't wear the orange parka anymore.

Hey isn't that pic of Jaws from the James Bond movies?? - just kidding you don't look anything like him.

you are referring to something other than a plane, a rig and beach, i presume? I know, I know - no I haven't the official word yet - be patient, grasshopper...

Good idea. We are still on really stinky nasty florida well water, although as you drive down the road you will see all the pipes laid out for the city line that is coming our way. Unfortunately, it wont be in time for this event.

Hey, Angela, If you have a regular doctor you've been seeing and trust - not someone who wants to sell a procedure - talk to them. They will sit you down and tell you whether you are a good candidate or not. I was very nearsighted?? I always get that screwed up - could only see close up - they over corrected on purpose and eight years later I still have better than perfect vision (except at night but it always sucked and is still miles ahead of where it once was). I actually went to Canada to have it done back then because the US didn't fix astigmatisms and we were using machines and proceedures that they had already retired. It was the best money I ever spent! At the time I was preskydiving and had a career and benefits and all that stuff. I paid for it through a tax free flex plan. I walked around for years - sometimes still do with a grin on my face when I see things like leaves on trees instead of just a shape up ahead and the numbers on the clock late at night - truly amazing!

They aren't packing anything too outrageous but it's a nice surprise. I had my canopy on backwards - was having so much fun learning to fly it that way that I almost forgot to chop!

Had it done about eight years ago. I've jumped without goggles, had goggles ripped off, etc., etc. No problems. Once it's reattached, it's good to go. I mean don't go out and jump without your goggles right away but once you are healed you are fine. Don't worry about it. It isn't going to flap open on you.

I'm oh so very sorry, I'm sure you have a very, very, very nice ass worthy of its own personal thread!

crazy stuff - I thought it said it was based on a real experiment but I thought it was in another country. Figures that it was right here.

you could have just added it into the other fifty threads about people and their great asses.

They said before they were going to bring one out again. If they do, try it out. I tried it a few weeks ago with a PD 106 reserve. It was a lot of fun especially since I had never had a cut away before.

Now wait a second - your list was getting pretty darn long there too! I like the way they are often from leaping onto or off of something and yet - you kept doing it anyways - that's the spirit!

It's an excellent movie - if you like freaky stuff like that - which I apparently do.

heck no, the more near death in one day, the luckier and more alive you feel that day! oh yeah, i forgot to add almost being accidently shot by the police while horseback riding and almost being shot by a bow hunter again while riding. And I was reminded by someone of the time I slipped on ice while leading a horse (ok, the horse actually kind of pushed me and I think he was laughing), slid down the hill under another horses belly that was in the process of walking on very slippery ice. The horses hoof came down alongside my face and he stopped - successfully pinning my head to the ground since he was standing with his hoof against my ear and on my hair - mind you this was on ice with one of the dumbest and clutziest horses I've ever had the pleasure of being around - I had to lie still and wait for someone to find me since I was afraid the horse would slip and fall crushing me or that it would step on my skull - maybe I should stay the hell away from horses - bad luck magnets! Skydiving is so much safer.

You can leave message after message with the DZ. Don't just leave a have John call me message - he just chucks those. Tell him why you are hunting him down and he will return your call. I have his numbers but I can't give them out - he'd skin me alive - if it's really important I can call him for you and give him your info. PM me if you want me to do that.

ok, that's better! First load, no sweat!

Sorry, I was working at CrossKeys if you don't think they were helping fight to get the dz open - you are mistaken.

Ah, you'd hate me. I never have a problem sleeping. All I have to do is lay down and shut my eyes. On the other hand, though, I don't need a lot of sleep so I keep funky hours whenever I'm alone. Take the Nyquil earlier??? The only couple of times I did have trouble sleeping I found that all I had to do was concentrate on my breathing for a few minutes. I went out as soon as I did that.

A lot of people don't see what the USPA does, nor do they ever hear about it. The USPA worked to get DZ's open quickly after 9/11 especially those DZ's in the airspace that was shut down indefinately like CrossKeys because it was in Philly/DC airspace. The USPA has worked very hard for us at Sebastian with ongoing troubles with the town, the FAA and with problems we've had with offsite events we do and local governments. They do a lot of behind the scenes stuff that you never, ever hear about. They help keep our dropzones open and if you don't think that is a good enough benefit, I don't know what is.

If nine is all they are giving us then I am way into borrowed time. I've got serious car wrecks, several emergency surgeries, a husband who wanted to cremate me for insurance money - never be worth more dead than alive, horseback riding mishaps with fences and horses falling down and landing on you or should I say me., blood poisoning, food poisoning - oh, you mean when you can't stop vomiting for days on end or when your leg gets really hard, hot and red you should go see a doctor???, almost run down by cars several times, almost drowning several times - not just oh, my god, I almost drowned - we're talking the hideous vomiting water and having that horrible uncontrollable sound as your lungs try to reinflate, almost having my head run over by the snowmobile following me when we wrecked - missed by inches, a serious sledding accident that left me unconscious for awhile in the snowbank with only jeans, sneakers and a sweatshirt - good thing I came to, almost struck by lightening while horseback riding then almost hit by the tree that did get struck as it came down on top of us, chased by a psycho through the woods who was walking along some railroad tracks and saw me walking alone - unarmed like an idiot, oh yeah almost hit by someone still in freefall while I was flying my canopy (miss by about 4 feet - just missed my end cell), oh yeah that time I just had to find out what too low in a hook turn was all about - phew - picking rocks out of my thigh and ass was really fun but better than dead! Those are just the few I can think of right now. My friends keep telling me that I have to stop thinking that the laws of physics and gravity do not apply to me and that I am not invincible. Oh well, I break easy but I'm a great healer!!

Ewww, maybe wwe should have a forum special for parents to share these stories. Potty, ewww... yuck diapers....

I was a rockclimbing, spelunking, whitewater rafting, kayacking fool before I took up skydiving. The rock gear is sitting sad in the closet (not many rocks in FL or NJ), the white water raft has holes from the mice that nested in it this past winter, the kayack has a family of squirrels living in it and I've only been back to the caves in VT a couple of times since moving away. Skydiving just kind of sneaks in and takes control of your life.

Yeah, sunrise jumps are fine and all but it I'm dead set against it at this event and I doubt the pilot is going to be into it either. I know from past experience that what usually happens when everyone starts whining and saying they want to do it and we give in - guess what??? 3 people show up because everyone realizes they are still too screwed up to jump. If they didn't realize it on their own we'd probably have to ground them if they did show up. So if two or three of you want to see sunrise. The beach is 5 miles from my house or 8 from the DZ by road. We'll draw you a nice map and then you can hook up with everyone for breakfast. I'll put you on that nice sunset load.

I just wanted to add one more thing to this thread that I was thinking about. Last year I was working at a very busy eastern DZ. A jumper showed up to jump while his girlfriend was doing a tandem. I was working manifest. He usually jumped at another DZ on the east coast although sometimes he jumped with us and I also knew him from jumping at Sebastian in the winter. What was unknown to me was that he had purchased a new parachute. He was asked not to jump it at his home DZ so decided to drive to us to try it out. None of us had any way of knowing that he was doing that until after he hooked it into the landing area. He was revived by two other skydivers and lived. His paperwork was current and up to date, he had jumped with us the month before. There was no way for us to know he was jumping something he had no right to be on and since he wasn't from our dz unless we asked him jump numbers and questions like that everytime he showed up we wouldn't have a clue. When I see the threads talking about the more lax dropzones and people being angry about that, you've got to understand - we can't go chasing every skydiver around and policing their gear. I was very upset calling 911 for him - he'd been in a huge rush to get on the load. To the point where he was such so pushy I had told him to just chillout or he wouldn't be getting on it at all. I thought he was just all keyed up about jumping with his girlfriend. When we were later told that his home DZ wouldn't let him jump his canopy it felt terrible. If you've got someone this reckless jumping at your DZ and you ground them from their gear a courtesy call to other DZ's in your area would be welcomed. I've called other DZ's about jumpers like that - some are receptive and some give you the whatever - hey, if they're current and got their license that's their business. i don't like calling 911! I wish people would stop making me do it for unneccessary reasons. It's bad enough that you can be doing everything right and some crazy little thing takes you out .