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>>You should have seen them at the Wacken festival in Germany. 30,000 people, and they played for hours. Good Stuff!

>>Is it true you started making break-cord to keep MM from SL'ing stuff with peices of string he pull-tested?

>>Faber! You should just make it your Avatar!

>>Yow! I'm jealous! Congrats to the both of you too cool

>>BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

>>I completely agree with you. My buddy's still alive, but has a long road of recovery. But recover he shall, and if anything his positive attitude about what happened is insipring to me; he's so completely optimistic about taking his life in a new direction I'm taken aback. His friends and family are more depressed about it than he is! BASE-jumpers are remarkable people. For me, there is no way but forward.

>>Well, okay. It was watching a friend hit the concrete at 90mph. But a more positive one was coming over the bridge and seeing the towers for the first time and realizing "I'm going to jump off those", and getting that sick tingle up my neck and back

>>Ah fuck it Jason C Age: 27 Height and weight: 6’2", 190 lbs Birthplace: Arcata, CA Marital status: Unmarried but not single Occupation: Control Systems Hobbies: BASE jumping, Skydiving, Archery, Military History Harness and container: Varies, borrowed Parachute: Varies, borrowed Home dropzone: BAS Records or awards: Certificate of Congressional Recognition Pet peeves: Having a great big 'ol bowl of dumbass in the morning What is your favorite quote? When your snout is in the trough, it's rim becomes your horizon What is your philosophy on life? Being alive is great What is something most people don’t know about you? I really love Snarf on the ThunderCats. And smurfette. She's hot. Who has inspired you in BASE jumping? Every BASE jumper inspires me their own way. JA Heal Brother What is your most memorable BASE jumping moment? You don't want to know Describe yourself in five words or less: Blood Tears Toil Sweat I BASE jump because… I witnessed it once as a child and it never left me.

>>Yesterday I did a solo H&P from 3k where I exited, deployed, and flew my main completely within a cloud, unitl I came out of it at about 1,200ft. I caught a brief glimpse of the landing area so I knew the spot was okay. What struck me was how quiet it was in free-fall...I couldn't hear the wind like normal, it felt more like I was just floating in a white void. It was also odd having a static frame of reference against which to judge my movement; I could see the could going by slower and slower as my main inflated, until it till it all came to a stop. I looked up to check my canopy, but all I saw were my lines coming down out of the white mist. I knew there was no one else in the sky and my canopy was controllable, so I did S-turns to stay in relatively the right area until I came out of the bottom. I'll never forget the sensation of flying my canopy in the total quiet, surrounded by the white void, feeling for all the world like you were just floating alone in and endless expanse of white nothingness. Then I finally came out of the bottom, and landed a normal pattern. It was so strange to go through an entire jump all the way to canopy flight without ever seeing the earth or the sky. Not quite sure how I feel about it.

>>A BASE jumper was critically injured on a jump in LV over the Halloween weekend I would advise against jumping there in the near future.

>>But did you get video?

>>Wow. That was like a what, 1.5 sec canopy ride?

>>Yow! Russel you never cease to amaze me...better be careful or you'll wind up a BASE legend! You're living proof that the limits of possibility are only self-imposed. Good Luck!

>>Ha ha Faber you'd probably climb down the wall to find a lower exit-point!

>>The one I've seen was a 2-pin rig, made by Northwind Rigging

>>That's my favorite too. That's some serious testicular fortitude to take a short delay sldr up where a 90 left or 90 right is all bad, or if you caught a toe on that gate. Fumio was someone I had hoped to meet. Thanks for posting that email Ray

>>I dunno man. I know a couple well respected, long time BASE jumpers who take first-timer's off non-guyed A's in the right wind. To me it depends what object you're talking about...on some A's with the right wind it's about impossible to hit the object and the landing area is bigger than most DZ's

You know, this is an excellent observation and something which is probably overlooked an awful lot but is very important. >>So much so I want to harp on it some more. The other night I was packing and thought I had fixed all my step-thru's so no need to stack it on it's side and double-check. Well as I went to set my tail-gate I noticed a single line above the cascade on each side routed thru my control lines...it was a killpack. So I pulled it all apart (d'oh), side stacked it and did a four-line check and low and behold somehow I flipped the rig thu a set of lines on each riser. So now I check every time I don't care how it looks because as someone once told me: Sweat Saves Blood

>>Just ask around at Perris...tell them you want to go to church on Sunday

>>I know a jumper who got busted but was allowed to pay a $1000 fine to get his gear back. I think it's just the NPS that plays for keeps.

>>I propose the creation of the BASE Gear Liberation Front! Who's sole duty it is to rally the masses in firm and vigilant resolution to free this unjustly and historically signifigant confiscated gear!

>>Some rigs have a pocket sewn into the bottom of the tray so you can stuff the stash bag in there and jump with it.

>>Words to live by.

>>Haven't you heard? There's going to be a huge ticker-tape parade in Ney York where we celebrate VT day and the end of terrorism for all time!

>>For some people I suppose. For others, it raises their awareness of what you're actually doing and each successive jump becomes more of a knee-knocker