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  1. cesslon

    Dwaine Weston.

    http://www.news.com.au/ has him on the front page and 3 articles in total this is the latest ================================= Wayward stunt kills thrill seeker October 6, 2003 AFTER filming his friend's accidental death a year ago, skydiver Dwain Weston knew how he wanted to die. Weston / AP Dwain Weston preparing to do a jump just days ago at the Royal Gorge Go Fast games / AP Photo. The Australian had told friends he didn't want to wither away from old age or illness but wanted to lose his life doing the extreme sport he loved so much. Tragically, that was the way it happened. The 30-year-old Boeing computer systems consultant died yesterday in a skydiving mishap in the US. The former Sydney man and another parachutist had jumped from an aircraft over Colorado's 316m-high Royal Gorge Bridge and were to free fall either side of the bridge before pulling their chutes. But the extreme sports star and world BASE jumping record holder accidentally miscalculated the distance from the bridge and hit a railing at 160km/h. He fell on to a rock surface 90m above the bottom of the gorge. Weston was wearing a "wing suit" with fabric extending below the arms to the body and also between the legs to allow a skydiver to catch the air and travel more horizontally. But the Royal Gorge is narrow and winds are tricky, an event organiser said. Within hours, the internet was flooded with sympathy messages from shocked BASE jumpers around the world. "I really couldn't believe it," jump sponsor Go Fast Sports & Beverage Company vice president Heather Hill said. "All I ever heard was he was the best in the world and he had skill to do it. "Of course he always understood the risk and consequences of what he did. He was somewhat of a showman in his sport." Weston had been living in Portland, Oregon, for a few years before moving to a beach near Los Angeles to be with his skydiving girlfriend and take up a lucrative IT job with Boeing Corporation. He grew up in Sydney and was an avid surfer before getting into BASE jumping - in which participants jump off buildings, antennas (such as cranes), spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs) - and skydiving. Weston set many records and won a recent contest for parachuting off the world's tallest office building - the 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Friends yesterday paid tribute to a man they described as a daredevil. "Last year he was in Switzerland with his good friend and roommate and was filming him when he hit a cliff and died," one friend who asked not to be named said. "Earlier he tried to revive someone who was injured in a jump and who later died. So he well knew the dangers. "He said for him he felt they had died the way he would prefer and, instead of getting old and dying of illness, Dwain's approach was that would be the way to go if it was to happen. "That's how he rationalised the dangers." Weston, who had skydived 700 times and BASE-jumped 1100 times in 10 countries, said in a recent interview he needed to stay scared to stay alert. "If you become a little too relaxed, something could go wrong. You need to stay scared, you need to stay respectful of the sport," he said. There were about 200 people on the bridge at the time of the accident yesterday. Weston's family in Sydney were too distraught to comment yesterday. The Daily Telegraph ==================================
  2. best of luck man im starting my AFF course this coming saterday october 11th (which is a friday in the usa) and i havnt did a tandam before i havnt even been in a plane before hahaha so lets hope i dont get nervous when im up in the plane before i jump
  3. dam ive downloaded a lot of .WMV's latly that dont work im running win Xp pro does any1 know if i need any extra codec for this file to run ?
  4. "whuffo you jump from dem perfectly good cliffs?" hahahhaha
  5. thanx man people like me really love to see clips of stuff and im downloading this for my hard drive when its finished ill make sure to watch it and add it to my collection of movies
  6. does that mean to hire gear and jump i pay 60$ + 25$ or does the 60$ include the gear and the jump ?
  7. cesslon

    airball

    what makes them move at 80mph ? the wind coming up would only really keep them up off the ground
  8. i should be qualified by end of october is this a good time for a less experienced diver ? also what are they useally per jump ? and also what will it cost me for gear hire
  9. is ya "A" license what ya get after ya complete your 9 levels of your AFF course or something else ?
  10. skymamma forgive me for my current lack of knowledge but what is that thing in your avitart the big cirle doughnut looking thing
  11. that guy on http://www.performancedesigns.com/pdzone/video2.asp?team=loic&category=ff&videoID=60 is only probably 15 feet off the ground if he had strong clothing on like a motobike racer and a smoothe chest he could land like a human bobsled only prob is finding a mountain long enough and steep enough if 1 could get perfectly horizontal they could have a very strong carbob fibre shell under them that archs up at the front like a bobsled and land on a flat lake but a lake is low and horizontal and you would only get 1 shot at landing
  12. October 11th is when i start my AFF course and my goal the 1 thing i have wanted to do since i was a little kid is exactly what you described above so hopefully within a few years i will have been fortunate enough to have done that
  13. ahhaha , looks like ya's could probably do that 1 on the edge of ya lounge chair (no clothes of cos)
  14. WA ? is that western australia ? by the way i cant help ya sorry as im only new im your age also and am starting my course october 11th
  15. Hi , another question Once i finish my course how much on average will the gear id be looking at (in this stage of my skydiving level) cost me for good safe quality second hand gear i been looking around at diff rigs and stuff on the next to trying to get a rough idea rig's are a few K$ and im thinking i still need a cypress and main and reserve canopy on top of that or do the rigs useally contain a reserve ? this could be rather costly sport lol
  16. a mate of mine was a green keeper at a golf course that was right next to a DZ and 1 day i was around his house and in the shed was a helmet on the wall and i said "wahst that " and he said "thats a skydiving helmet that landed in front of me 1 day at work on the 18th hole " lol lucky it didnt hit him
  17. funny stuff by the way nice avitar skymamma (are the images under the names called "Avitars" on this forum or somthing else)
  18. im very new to this skydiving long time fan bout to become a jumper im booked in for october 11th to start my aff course , anyway whats wrong with his idea ? apart from you would probably have to be very experienced and could run into a plane lol ?
  19. I just hope if i translated your talk to english it would translate to be humor
  20. congrats on quiting the cancer sticks man you probably added 10 more years to ya life
  21. most of my speeling mistakes are actually typo's and if my questions arnt wanted then i wont ask any
  22. ok here is another question lol if 1 jumps off say a 4,000 foot cliff whats say the average hieght they will pull there shoot at ?
  23. Transformers!!! , more then meets your eyes!!!!!!!