bendywendy

I just visited there a few weeks ago. I'd go in a heartbeat and I was always one of those who made the jokes about lovely Nevada beach would be. Although it looks like cost of living is high what is with over $2.00 a gallon for gas? Do you ship it in on pack mule or what?

WHOA, WHOA, WHOA - I am partying Saturday night and I am not dragging my butt up any earlier so a few people can go do a sunrise jump - I draw the line there.

Oh, please don't start one of these. I could post all day and night. There are just way too many almost incidents in my lifetime. Keeps you on your toes, though.

how'd that post twice??

I don't think you'll get much of a choice. We'll probably kidnap you. You know someone else will check the spot - all of a sudden you'll look down at breakoff and do a double take. Just follow the first ones down. It'll be fun!

Since when do you have to buy beer for moving even? I'm going to have to take up beer drinking, this is ridiculous.

I'm not the most sensitive person in the world but I don't see anything particularly wrong with that terminology. You haven't said what is/was wrong with the person, perhaps they have cancer or whatever. I watched my grandmother "actively die" at home, she watched her husband before that and my mother was just diagnosed with an incurable lukemia. When it comes to the point that she is dying I don't want someone pussyfooting around and mincing words. They do that and I probably wont see her because I'll be thinking "oh, one more jump before I book a flight home wont hurt anything..." If you don't know the nurse, the family, the dying person and how they speak and interact with each other it isn't really for you to say if she is behaving inappropriately. She may have spoken loudly enough for you to hear but you only heard one side of it and it wasn't intended for you. Medical personnel are always coining new catch phrases too. Where she works that may be the term that they are asked to use. Let it go. Everyone dies eventually. I would guess that actively dying means that it is becoming imminent - so make your plans accordingly you are just about out of time.

Why, thankyou, MaccaDoo - you were at the skinny dipping parties weren't you???

hurry up and get it in then already!! I'm 99% sure we'll say a C is ok.

Hmmm... we've always said a D - I hadn't really thought about the change in she SIMS since it didn't have anything to do with me - is that selfish or what? Unofficially, I will say that a C would now be sufficient. I'll get the official word on it asap....

Ok, well Sebastina is in Florida so yes, we are warmer. In March we jump an Otter and usually have a SkyVan for special events and we have a bar. So that is a positive on all three of those points. We also have great views from altitude and we are close enough to enough other DZ's that you can spend some time here take a trip to Deland, Lake Wales or Z-Hills and check them all out. So come up with a cool name and we will put together a party for you!

Am I admitting to being very uncool if I don't know who this author is or what the book is about?? Give us a little background info here.

Interest, a D license, flotation device and the DZ needs to file a NOTAM. If we file one and weather is good - we need to do one. The FAA gets pissed off when we file and don't do it. They are so cranky... So who is interested? We will also need a few people (depending on how many jumpers) with vehicles to pick us up and play ground crew. Maybe some of you who don't have D licenses but want to come see the fun would volunteer. You can have a drink at the bar while waiting for us to land. (Us as if I will be able to get away from manifest)

I'd like to see the skydiver's themselves using common sense. I would hate to see a list of jump numbers to canopy size/wingloading come out. You can't say that Joe Schmo will be ready for this size canopy when he hits jump number 500 and are you going to hold back someone with awesome natural ability and who has maybe used every jump as a learning jump with canopy skills because maybe he/she has progressed so much faster than their peers. Now suddenly they can't jump that other canopy because well, sorry you can't do that until you have another 500 jumps under your belt. And what about the jumper who has a thousand jumps but they are spread out over a 15 year period - is he a better pilot than the guy with 400 jumps all done this year? So what kind of rules? What kind of numbers would we use? And once the canopy gets really small it isn't just wingloading anymore wingsize becomes a large factor. I'm a small female. My wingloading is very light although my canopy is under 100sqft. and I'm pretty agressive. I'm about to downsize again. If you just look at my wingloading it's no big deal at all but I had to think long and hard about if I was ready for the new canopy since it's getting to the ridiculous little handkerchief size. I demoed it and loved it but have still thought long and hard about it because I am agressive. I do swoop and it only takes one misjudgement to ruin your day or life. I don't have the answers but I don't understand why these jumpers who don't have the skill, who are told they don't have it either just go do what they want anyway or find someone who will tell them what they want to hear. Listen to everyone! Half of them are talking shit - filter it out. If there are people telling you that they don't believe you are ready - listen to them. Don't just ask until you hear what you want to hear. If someone selling a canopy is telling you that you are ready for it and everyone on your dz has said you aren't - duh, they want to sell a canopy and they see you want to buy that hot little number. Don't fall for the - "I'm not just saying this because I'm trying to sell this thing." line - they are just trying to sell the thing and they are betting on the odds that you are smart enough not to break yourself up. That even if it is too much for you, you will just slow down and take it easy and grow into the canopy once you scare yourself silly.

Well, let's see. What kind of event do you want? There doesn't have to be one already planned. We DZ.comers have the ability to just make an event appear from nowhere - like the Bytche Boogie. It just kind of escalated into a full on event. So what kind of event you want - and we'll hook you up!

There is a Boogie that weekend as well - It's the Keys Boogie. Some of the people from the Bytche Boogie will be heading there as well.

It's not really stealing the thunder. Lisa's party will be saturday night. Hopefully a few people will get up and do a few jumps Sunday but it's only 90 minutes to Lake Wales from Sebastian. You can make it for a Sunset jump - are they doing Sunset though - it's usually a Sunrise thing.

You went to Vic's, I think. At least that was where everyone said they were going when I snuck away from the DZ to go do a nice long rollerblade run (which I fell and took a chunk out of my knee, by the way. Even worse I tore my brand new expensive pants AND got blood on them). Then I took a hot shower and sat here laughing at your drunken postings and PM's. I knew that you would not be getting on first load! But I must say you seemed quite fine this afternoon. Oh yeah, almost forgot what the thread was about - I was only able to sneak out of the office for three - no, four this weekend BUT I did have one of my nicest swoops ever that resulted in many compliments and constructive (for once) criticism. So I was happy with the quality if not the quantity.

Congratulations and I hope you bought your beer!

I have no pockets.

It' not a confidence issue. I know I have a great butt but (he, he - butt but) I don't really think that it is all that appropriate to splash it all over the internet. I think more than enough people in our community have seen it. Naked dancing on the runways, walking the numbers, lots and lots of skinnydipping and hottubs. If someone wants to see it they can come on out to the DZ and check it out in person. Photo's just tend to pop up in the most unexpected and unwanted places if you don't use a little restraint.

oooh, I could be wrong, I think it's the skyvan that is going to Atlanta.

I'm fairly bendy but I'm not pretzel girl. I'm bendy enough and it rhymes with wendy so all it took was a couple of people using it at the dz one day about five years ago to stick. It might have had something to do with the backbends and headstands too...maybe...

I've really got to work on getting myself a new nickname. Bendy is going to haunt me forever and ever and ever.

Very true although I personally always manage to get hurt on the bad weather days and rarely in the air but it is a good idea not to forget that it is a very unforgiving sport. Yeah, I'm the one who someone always says "hey, why don't you go climb that" or "jump off that roof and we'll catch you" - yup, I'm getting better though. I break fewer and fewer bones every year. I've actually learned to sneak away sometimes when it looks like things are going to turn really stupid so I wont be tempted to participate.