Calvin19

agreed. I cut my corners on my warlock. i did NOT add the corners as most dynamic corners have. i left it open. in some ways it makes it easier to pack. i also think that the folding corners can cause snags. im not sure though. i dont see the folds as necessary. the rig is designed for the corner seems to be cut.

has anyone ever died on a BASE jump and NOT made a mistake? i guess ill never make a mistake BASE or any other sport for that matter.

ok... good... i agree. but BASE park? more than one person seems to know about it.

i seriously doubt anyone has ever said that.

or its called NOT united states.

hmmm... i want to say i dont buy it for a second. but i need more info. please elaborate?

I love the idea of a BASEpark, and i would go to one if they existed. but they dont. yet. My family and other jumpers together have looked at BASE 'parks in the US. and come to two seperate investors for the idea and investment. we were not quite laughed out, but we were laughed at. would you invest in a park? we assume a US park, as thats what we looked into. As are cheap considering the monuments they are. Bs are nearly out of the question, Es are event only, and Ss are as well. so a BASE park would have to be a modified A. 1,000,000 for a 1700' A. thats easy. but i dont want to go skydiving anymore. its to expensive. but imagine the noobs that would get into it if it cost as much as the big swing at six flags? no go man. BASE to me is "A sport of Kings"... 'lost kings'. -me and a deceased jumper. and i think it always will be. we are not elitist's, we are the the few, stupid and motivated enough to find that one little place in our psyche, to be absolytly at peace for a few seconds. and have that lightweight feeling in our whole bodies for the next few infinities. cat and mouse... I dont like to think of it that way, but it kinda fits. We are a band of brothers. the kind that finds pleasure in defeating gravity and defying the law. not out of a detest for law, but a small pleasurful arguement of validity. What you said about the "80s jumpers/brothers" and us new ones, you were right. they will never let us in and it will never be as good as it was back then. but they will never have that feeling of light after their first E again. they have something we do not, and weneed to respect them for that. but we deserve rspect for being here now. the '80s jumpers' want us to treat it like it was the80s, but we cant be in their club. there is a lot of truth to that. but its not totaly there. we all learned from them. if not directly, they paved the way. we are in their club, but no their click. the way you think of it jimmy, it seems to me at least, the list if continued will just perpetuate what was already learned. and will do little good for education. there could be validity to that. but to a point. skydiving gear has changed little in the last 20 years. so has the procedures. as much as BASE has in the last 10. but everyone dies now from being morons and doing the one thing that was screwed into their heads on the first jump, dont turn to low. everyone knows that. everyone thinks about it. but people just keep going in. hopeless... BASE is the same way. people justify learning with jump numbers and canopy progression and experience in both feilds, but people go in who are good and educated and current in BASE and Swoop. hopeless... new canopy flight classes and FJCs do a lot of good, but they also make it OK to be accelerated into the sports. ...and one day, jimmy, us as well, will grow old. jumper population will rise, gear will keep getting better, people will keep going in. and we, now the '2000s' jumpers will bitch about the next generation of jumpers. and how they are throwing away the brotherhood we had.

agreed

I am iffy about black humor. I would want people to laugh and make fun of me, but it scares me to talk in a jokeing way about my departed freinds.

how do you think the participators in such forums should me controled or picked? the USBA? no really, i htink its a viable idea.

A lot of people will. The way these families cope with a thing like a child dieing is so insanely wrong. they will try to find anything. anything at all to get back. it is never for money, never. it is for revenge. some even say that it is 'teaching a lesson, so this kind of thing wont happen again' but thats not it IT IS REVENGE. please, for the love of god, write a letter. EVERYONE should write a letter, not even BASE jumpers. a letter stateing that you do not want any legal or civil action to be taken in any way should the event of a death or living will thing happen. would YOU sue someone? if not, write a letter saying you dont want it to happen.

im still scared of crotch crickets. no group BASE jumper orgy sex for me. ill stick with college girls.

classic

I do not. have not tested that at all.

the attatchment in my other post was satirical, just to show how the two plagerised calvins is a wrong thing to do, and it does notmake any sense. one fo those things that rednecks and whoever use to puton their trucks. the morons.

easy there killer, i have no problem with peoples personal views of reliegion of anything. -I- was, sarcasticly annoyed that the plagerised calvin charecter had been used in something. this has nothing to do with Jimmy H, I like him. even if i disagree with his opnions sometimes. Calvin being portrayed as a kid who piss on anything like that is just wrong. its EVEN WORSE for him to be thought of as praying. its just wrong. I ama huge fan Of C+H, and Bill Waterson. and there is a reason he does not sell the rights to Calvin or Hobbes.

if you do have a weak link on the jumper, be sure it is on both ends of the cutaway rig, i fnot, it wont release. its obvious, but just making sure.

call morpheus. they will explain the best. by far the most knoledgable.

the "Xtian prayong calvin" is horrible. Calvin is to smart to be conned into that kind of moronic nature. i would know. this is off topic, im done.

whoa man, i have a big problem with those plagerised Calvin pissing things. the freaking xtian cross praying ones are even worse.

hahaha... ok i worded it wrong. IF YOU GO IN,,, do you want your name, etc,etc.. but i am just curious. I want to know the breakdown. I hope no one hates me more than they already do for this...

has this been done? i looked for it, maybe i looked the wrong way. WBFL-World BASE Fatality List.

i was up there scouting some Es near that one huge mountain, and i also looked at some Ice jumps, obviosly land in the drink. the salty drink. nothing really big enough, it is over water, but there were icechunks/burgs directly below the exits.

Calvin, you can become a billionaire selling your rope jumping systems to these idiots. i could, maybe. but never. no way.

hmmm, i disagree there. even with the fire below, from a 800' B, exiting from a 600' window, with fire at 3 or 400'. the fire normaly does not escape the B in a horriblystrong fashion. the 911 pics and video dont look terrible. also, these reserve canopies are impressive, they not by design, but by accident keep away from building assuming it does not get hung up. these reerves dont need to be flared, and have a super slow forward speed. so, i think that not doing anything after opening you will walk away from it.