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Sorry to hear, some people really suck. Maybe we should invert some sort of Lojack for gear, although it is really sad that we should have to. Hope it shows up. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

I remember seeing a post where someone put up a pic of their rig. It was red, black and white and some of the fabric was checkerboard (I think white and black) It was a very striking design. I looked for it for a long time this morning, as I decided on those colors for my rig and would like to do something similar (I won't copy it exactly, I promise, unless of course the person lives in Australia or some other faraway place where the chances of running into them are remote) If anyone remembers or if the owner sees this, could they post a link or even better a pic? Also if there are others with this color scheme, could they post their pics as well? Thanks in advance, Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

That's cool, you should post a picture of it. It's all good that you don't know how to yet, the painting can be something for you to aspire to.

Sorry, I meant industrial haze Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

A new patient of mine is an artist, he does paintings. I am going to have him do a painting for me, something skydiving related, of course. His first suggestion was to paint me under canopy coming through a cloud with my little boy on the ground looking up at me. I do like this idea a lot, but wanted to see if anyone else could come up with some other ideas? Thanks, Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

After you watch 50 First Dates, come back and tell us what you thought of it. When I watched it the first time, it instantly became my favorite movie (replacing Top Gun

Around 38 jumps, lost altitude awareness (swore I would never do that) was sitting in at 1800 ft. Was actually very angry with myself and took a little time after to think about it and make sure it does not happen again. Now I pull at 3,500, can't really see much of a reason to pull any lower. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Hey little sis, that's what you get for not asking me to jump with you guys Sat!!! Just kidding... You handled this incident a lot better than you have past incidents, very proud of you! Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

It is all good, just trying to post more to get the numbers up. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Hey maybe you and I could start a thread, just keep talking back and forth until we get the number of posts we need...lol Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

As long as they are not drunk PM's...or does the rules only apply to phone calls? Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Is there any part of skydiving that I do not a certain "number of" to do something?? I need 100 jumps before I freefly, 200 jumps before I can jump without a helmet, 100 jumps before I do a birdman rodeo, and now this....I need 500 posts before I can call or be called from a drunk skydiver. Oh well, your loss, I am a really fun drunk!! ...and did I mention cute and single? Maybe next year! Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

That is awesome!!! Congrats, I know it is not an easy task. Keep up the good work. You should post some before and after pics

I took his course last weekend, and it was great. Although I must say that 4 of those landings were the worse I have had yet (of course they would be as he was video taping them). The one landing I had that was good and actually landed on my feet, he did not get on video, go figure . I would recommend this course to anyone and what made it really nice is that Scott is such a nice, down to earth guy. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Sorry, I think I will stick to hurling myself out of planes Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

That's just freaky! I saw this on an episode of CSI, but the person being kipnapped ended up getting killed. No thanks, I think I will stick to jumping out of planes for excitement...seems safer. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

A cappucino martini with a little white chocolate liquor, yes it is as good as it sounds. yummmmmm! Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Thanks for all the replies and PM's, I really appreciate it and has given me a lot to think about. Like I said I swore I would never BASE jump, and although I do feel some desire, I should just stick to jumping from planes (for now anyway ). I guess I was looking for the safest way to do something that is just too dangerous for me right now. One more question, what is the safest way to try your first BASE jump? I have been watching a lot of Bridge Day video's over the past few weeks and it seems like jumping over water would be the safest. If you had a malfunction, it seems that landing in the water would be more survivable than the ground, assuming you could steer into the water. Anyway, just curious about different scenarios. I am sure I have a couple of years and a lot more skydives before trying this. Just the though of it makes my heart start racing. Thanks Again Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Hey Ian, Did you read the date on my original post? Of course I asked BG to fix it, this message was posted after I had a call into him, was waiting to hear back and was just curious what others had to say. I had also called the guy whose gear it was and he said "just put some rip-stop tape on it" and did not seemed too concerned, which I found a little strange. Give me a little credit. Anyway, it was really good to see you and Katie over Memorial Day weekend, hope to see you guys again, soon. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

yes no rocky whith loads of stones arround in the size of cars and bigger i think you rather considder to move it back to "not to do" list 1.Its a BASE jump,for BASE jumps we use BASEgear(like you wouldnt use a paraglider on a skydive correct??) 2.If you shouse a rig whith a Reserve,you still have max 11secs to impact if you just jump and dont track,your sure you wanted to use your reserve then?(well im not much into reserves in BASE,so.. he he),besides cant you pack a canopy?if you dont trust your pack job you shouldnt even skydive... 3.are you good at landing at the area you want to?if not you could get wet or even hurt yourself... 4. Reasson you will be flamed here is that loads of skydivers see such a huge cliff as a safe jump(only looking at the alti from exit to lz).That aint the way to BASE jump,the cliff dont go straight down all the time... hope you see why you should not add it to your do list hell im not even sure if i dare to jump the place... it involves a sliderunless you want to be under canopy for a looooooooooooonge ride... The question may have been a little premature. I was just curious about what I saw on the film. The site looked absolutely beautiful and seemed alot safer than some of the BASE jumps I had seen before. I am fully aware that if I ever seriously decided to do something like this I would have to do a lot of training and preparation. I have read all of the things you all suggested and then some. Now I know that there is no BASE site that would be similar to a skydive. It may have sounded like a naive question, but I sincerely did not know. Thanks for the replies, sorry for wasting your time. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

I cannot understand why I would be flamed for asking questions about something I know very little about. Isn't that how people learn about things? If no-one feels like responding to me, that's fine, but I certainly would not expect people to be rude because they feel as though my questions are stupid. I understand that sites are not named in the BASE forum but this site was named specifically in a movie which has been shown nation wide, I just forgot the name. Sorry for asking a couple of questions, I guess I will have to just go see the movie again to find out where this place is, which I had planned on doing anyway, no big deal. Thanks Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Hey everyone I am a first timer to this thread. I have a quick question. I just saw "Adrenaline Rush" today at an IMAX theater and must admit it was awesome and gave me my first desire to BASE jump. I think what you all do is amazing but swore I would never do it (risk is just not worth the benefit to me) Anyway, in the movie they show a 4,000 foot cliff in Norway, does anyone know where exactly? Next question, is can you jump off this cliff with a skydiving rig, pull after about 10 seconds and still have time to use your reserve? I know the time is there but what about the terrain below the cliff's edge? I have said that I would never BASE jump unless I could from an object at least 4,000 feet and after seeing this movie, I may have to add this one to my "To Do" list. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

I think about this kind of stuff often. I thought of a big inflated air bag like in the movie "The Game" where he jumps off the building thinking he is killing himself but lands in a big air bag. Never did I think of foam though, sounds interesting. I have actually wondered if we could have an air bag on the front of our rigs that opens just before impact. Not sure of how the timing would work on that though. You would either have to activate it yourself, kind of hard to time that just right or have some sort of sensor in the air bag. I do not think it is foolish to think of this stuff, never put down someone's ideas or listen to someone who puts yours down. A lot of great inventions that we use today were once laughed at and not taken seriously. Just trying to make this sport a little safer, maybe something like this will be commonplace in the future. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

LOL, too funny, but very good idea, I think I might try that one every so often. My advice would be to take a day off. It sounds like you have enough time to do that. Take one whole day and do nothing related to school, go do things that you enjoy and relax. It may sound like a simple thing, but it used to help me a lot when I was going through school. One more thing..... $350,000???? I thought I owed a lot of money when I graduated!!!! That is just insane. Is that all from school or does that include other things? Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Well, the average healing time after surgical repair of a fracture is 18-20 weeks, obviously some people heal quicker and some take much longer. It has only been 6 1/2 weeks. There are things taking place in your body right now to make that ankle stronger and the more time you give it, before putting added stress on it, the better off you will be. I know it must be frustrating not to be able to jump, but I would really give it at least a few more weeks. Think of what could possibly happen, re-injure it and possibly require surgery again, then you would be missing out on jumping for most, if not all of the summer. That would suck. It is just my opinion, but I would give it another month, just to be safe. Melissa "May the best of your past be the worst of your future"