drewboo

Ahhh...the thread wasn't meant to be a pro or con low-pull issue...but is there a COMPARISON between the old pulling low rush...versus...screaming at the ground horizontal with your canopy......same thing....different.. safer...more deadly?...opinions anyone? drew

WOW! i gotta go with turtlespeed on that one! make that two boobie flavored!

Wendy.. ya remember ten people that would on occasion pull low hell..in 1968 10 people at a dz was a boogie!! LOL Thanks for ya post, Y'all

Wendy.. my sympathy to you.. im renovaqting this old shack i purchased to live in...ordered two windows from a local lumber yard...planning to install them on my next vacation from work...MADE them promise to call me when they arrived...they said at the time it would be a week...two weeks later i called nope not in...said it would be the following wenesday...stopped by...nope not in...two weeks later ...stopped by..someone found them sitting in a corner...to bad my vacation time was already past...they'ed been sitting there about three weeks...Thank you very much dirt-ball! good luck

I posted this morning o0n a thread called "have you ever pulled low". On my way to work i thought of this comparison. I started in the late sixties...it was a different sport than...round parachutes, belly mounts etc..etc.. ...everyone seemed to pull low once in awhile..people would do it for fun or for the thrill..perhaps every 40 or 50 jumps ya would smoke one down..to get a thrill....once was in a two way passing through 1100' knew it..wasn't worried...saw a friend do an intentional backloop below a grand once...this was with round parachutes which weren't as reliable as squares are today. On the post this morning people were writing..i paraphrase here.."Yeah once..i was stupid." I did it a bunch..did i feel stupid? not at the time..a reality check says i was..but i didn't feel stupid at the time...it was what was. Ill still get out of a plane today at 1500 if they would let me...am i still stupid? perhaps. The comparison i thought of is...perhaps fifteen or twenty years from now..there will be a post on here.. "DID YOU EVER HOOK TURN!" .... people may post YEAH..i did it once i was stupid. Why do you do it..for the fun.im sure...for the thrill im sure...same reason i would pull low. I dont have anything against hook turns..have a blast! its what is. But in thirty five years of jumping out of planes..i have heard of more people dying from hook turns in the last decade..than i have ever heard of from pulling low. Just a comparison..i mean no insult or disrespect to anyone..keep on having fun. ! never track faster than you can see

Started jumping in 1968...have witnessed 7 so far. never track faster than you can see..

Not exactly sure..a few times below a 1000'..back in the old wild days exited an airplane at 1100'...try and stay about 2000' for the lowest these days

How do they get the little M&M on each little M&M?