Bolas

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  1. That was funny. I guess people want to be first because it's something new and different. The same thing happened in Alaska when they opened the first Dairy Queen there. Besides, Orlando is such a boring, nothing to do town. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  2. Afterlife skydiving isn't nearly as exciting. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  3. Drug test? What for coach? Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  4. One of these days you'll run out of excuses to not meet me. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  5. That's horrible and disgusting!!! Yuck, raw fish. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  6. Maybe, the reason I took so long to stow my lines was the top band broke. It had a little tiny opening so it was hard to get the old band off and the new one on. I had to thread it with a pullup cord. Since I packed it myself I can choose between bad pack job, body position, or both. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  7. 899. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  8. Too much pressure and you're better off on a 2 minute roller coaster? Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  9. Reminder below: Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  10. Huh? I even did a 6 month search thinking this may just be then next AN-72 comment. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  11. Skymama loves lamp. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  12. Amazingly, when I called a friend afterwards and told her the story her reaction was, "That so makes me want to start jumping again!!!" She was not being sarcastic. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  13. I was 75% of the malfunctions? Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  14. Try wingsuiting in the rain. I thought the pointy end was painful, the sides are even tougher. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  15. It was a fairly new canopy and my standard packing method (put the fabric over the top of the center versus underneath) didn't work getting it into the bag so had to go back to standard propack roll under. I had also just done alot of freefly transitions including some front and back flips so the rig might have shifted some. I'll have to admit I was super aware that day and may have normally been able to fix it, probably even more likely on my own gear. Those are all possibilities. Had the first event not occurred, I probably wouldn't have had the next two, but no telling. One the first jump I never heard my audible. I have it set to constant beep at 2500 and flatline at 2000. I know it worked because according to it, I wasn't under canopy until 223 feet. I know that is way off, I'm sure I chopped my main long before that. I was fairly well rested. I lost "Jaegermeister awareness" the night before and "cutaway" all the alcohol and food in my system. Was in bed shortly after midnight. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  16. Is this an acceptable topic when I meet your wife? Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  17. I much prefer my usual way of doing it. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  18. So is my "No Shit There I Was" story from last weekend acceptable conversation? Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  19. Plus they're will be enough people there telling Beezy stories you'll feel like you knew him in no time.
  20. You didn't drink enough beer. There was a band?!? Maybe I drank TOO MUCH beer. You mean walking around with a Heineken keg was overkill? I will say that was definitely a memorable weekend. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  21. I'm an idiot. An extremely lucky idiot. I'm also a longwinded idiot. What a weekend. Background I had been doing lots of wingsuit flying, mostly flocks, but some acrobatics in a Tony Suit Super Mach One I was demoing. When jumping my wingsuit, I deployed around 3000 feet or higher because I needed to give time to unzip and deal with mals. Whenever I did a non wingsuit jump, my deployment altitude was about 2500ish or lower "because I had full arm and leg motion." Somehow I got it in my head that my landing accuracy was better because rather than have to burn off altitude under canopy I'd pretty much fly straight to my 1000 foot point after loosening the chest strap, stowing the slider, popping the brakes. I also had had 0 cutaways except for a skyhook demo rig. My worst mal was line twists where the canopy stayed flying level. I was down at Palatka for the Hog Flop Boogie. All that week I had been in Florida and was doing a few freefly solos or wingsuit flocks. A bunch of my friends had been practicing their back flips for the Hog Flop.* * The Hog Flop is a random draw 4-way RW team of different levels of experience, you are videoed and timed from when you break the round, each person does a backflip at the same time, and you come back together. It's a lot of silly fun and a good time.
  22. I can beat that... Seen a guy with around 300ish jumps on a sub 100 crossbraced. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  23. Due to stupidity and a lack of altitude awareness, I had a Cypres 2 fire last weekend right after my main deployed. Details Is it possible to get the height it armed itself and it's actual firing height information without sending it back to SSK/Airtec? More of a curiosity than anything. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.
  24. Are you only coming in the evening because you are afraid that no one will want to jump with you after last weekend? That, and I have relative work. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.