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>>Absolutely right. Unless you signed a moral terpitude agreement what you do on your own time is none of the company's business. I think the way they'll try and get you is not being able to perform your duties due a non-work related injury. Unless you're protected by short or long term disablility insurance they have ammunition. Use you lawyer!

>>Anyone who would drive across three states just to pass out keys is tip-top in my book, not to mention all the help and advice. Tom you Rock!

>>4 a day...just like vitamins! -I can't remember

>>I suppose in my own crude and inarticulate way I was just trying to say that the consequences of participating in BASE are severe and that coddling new BASEr's can lead to a very traumatic "awakening"

>>Wow I can see you've been a part of this community for a long time. >>Especially without a rig how profound. My point is simply that in this sport all you can do is stack the deck in your favor. Doesn't mean that card isn't still in there.

>>I don't understand the softness of everyones attitude about BASE in this forum. I would think that for most, the seriousness of the activity in which you are about to undertake is driven home standing on the edge. Yes you can die. Do it long enough, and will probably watch someone die. Do it long enough and you will certainly be seriously injured. Is this confusing? What one should ask is: "Is what I get from this worth the costs?" whether you have a 10 jumps or 10,000

>>Now you've done it! Welcome to the dream world

>>Public urination is just wrong. Except during the riots when protestors burned down our porta-potties and I used my stream of justice to put out the hate.

>>Here I'll post a joke in the hopes it'll amuse you: An elderly couple, Mike (ahem) and Bessie, are vacationing in the Western US. Mike always wanted a pair of authentic cowboy boots. Seeing some on sale one day, he buys them, wears them home, walking proudly. He walks into their room and says to his wife, "Notice anything different about me?" Bessie looks him over, "Nope." Mike says excitedly, "Come on Bessie, take a good look. Notice anything different about me?" Bessie looks again, "Nope." Frustrated Mike storms off into the bathroom, undresses, and walks back into the room completely naked except for his boots. Again he asks, a little louder this time, "Notice anything DIFFERENT NOW?" Bessie looks up and says, "Mike, what's different? It's hanging down today, it was hanging down yesterday, it'll be hanging down again tomorrow." Furious, Mike yells: "AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IT IS HANGING DOWN, BESSIE? IT'S HANGING DOWN BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT MY NEW BOOTS!!!" To which Bessie replies, "Shoulda bought a hat, Mike. Shoulda bought a hat." >>Get well soon friend

>>Thanks for the info Tim! I tried one inch and it was too much, 1/2" worked better for me as well. Have you ever tried taking a bite of the brake-lines as well when using direct control as 460 suggested?

>>You're not kidding. It's easy to give yourself a coronary watching your canopy snivel snivel snivel while you go "oh god oh god oh god!" Makes for a soft opening tho', but I've learned to start small with it and work up till you find a bite that works for your system >>Never heard of this, how big of a bite do you take for your particular setup? Ever used both methods of direct w/ indirect at the same time?

>>Yes you're absolutely right about that...he's a bit, how shall we say...abraisive. But I'm working on him! I don't like hopping fences at the PT's either. >>And climb we shall, my friend

>>Cowboy blazes day because PS called him out in front of everyone and embarassed him. I'm not defending him for threatening at all but that situation was handled badly...praise in public and criticize in private. Now he's got a F you all attitude and instead of bringing him into BASE as a brother he's been pushed out to the fringes. But it's over now in fact on Sunday they were polite to each other. And it wasn't him who packed in the headlights, that was the Venezualian.

>>One should take into consideration the aircraft as well when making this decision. In my experience doing a poised exit from 2800ft from a beech w/ no cut is a bad idea because of the possibility of a tail-strike (seeing it whiz by your head is not fun), so a diving exit w/feet on your butt is a better option in that case (I feel).

>>Don't tell me you've jumped a certain electrical wire support apparatus blindfolded! By the way good thing you decided not to tag along the other day there was nothing over a 100' plus I saw a mountain lion...I would have sooooooo tripped your ass ha ha!

>>Hey are you going to let Jimmy take a Stilleto 89 off the bridge again or is he forever banned?

>>It was good to see you out at Lodi for the boogie big man even though we didn't get a chance to jump together. In fact I don't think we've jumped since the PC incident...

>>I was taught that taking more than 3 wraps could potentially cause a tailgate hang-up on short delay/low air-speed deployments like the ones Faber enjoys. I've never experienced a tailgate hangup so I can't say for sure.

>>Do your C's & D's have burns on them too? If the C line that the tailgate is attached to is outside the group of 12 it can cause problems, as well as taking too many wraps with the rubber band

>>Tom I had no idea you were such a shotgun toting BASE jumping warrior! I'll have to be nicer to you...

>>You're not kidding. Already happened to me

>>If you use direct slider control it can soften your openings alot

>>Ummmm...DiHydrogen Monoxide = H2O = Water Someone put way to much thought and effort into that...

>>Nice one Faber. You captured that sense of quiet awe and respect you feel standing at the top of an object. And that whirlwind of thoughts and emotions can be quite a headfuck can't it? Glad to hear you revised your custom dacron break-cord setup ha ha!