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Right on Space. Keepin it real. I bet a lot of people hold stuff like that back.

I was just watching Mission Impossible 3 with my uncle and noticed that the rig Tom cruise uses for a BASE jump is real. It's a two pin, single parachute container with a big orange warning label inside the pack tray. I couldn't get a good enough angle of it to tell what make, and was wondering if anyone knows? It looked like a Perigee Pro, but I couldn't see it that well. It was solid black, so I was also thinking maybe they borrowed it from Jeb?

Congradulations avenfoto I planned on static lining a 200ft cliff today inbetween visiting family, but I slept in and my brother (who's in town from training to be a medic for the army) is all sick and slept in also. Visited family but didn't end up jumping I got winded out on Haloween and Thanksgiving, but there's still new years.

I wonder who voted Tom Aiello, looks like Abbie to me.

I'm definitely not one of the experts, but I'd say either one could be a good decision depending on the circumstances. My BASE canopy will fly backwards on rears if I want it to. Also, something you might not be considerring is that typically a BASE canopy that is rigged for a solid object, that you don't have time to track away from, will have its breaks set deep enough that you don't have much forward motion on opening, but not so deep that it stalls on a rear riser turn. Edit to add: Oh yah, and you should have used the search feature and posted this question in a related thread. I made the same mistake asking about breakcord. I figure it's the kind of thing that you would want the most up to date info on, but you should still use an existing thread and atleast ask if the information is still what people think.

Thanks. I think I might have already qualified for it. Does a cliff at sundown count? Edit to add: It was pretty dark.

I did my first B last Sunday night. Static line 200ft. I don't think it had anything to do with thermals, but I got way more canopy time then I expected. 13 seconds. I use a blackjack, and I figure the cold dense air might have played a small part in it. I had full presure at about 140-150ft, canopy at about 160-170.

As I stated "I'm very new to the sport". And I have the experience of my lifetime, which you know nothing about, so why comment? It normally takes a lot more to get me riled up, especially on the internet.

What makes me seem like that? I think you just like tearing people down. Eat a dick.

Yah, but it takes a lot less force to pull the bridle out of a bungee than it does to get you to line stretch. cpoxon must not have read the whole thread, but I was going to write the bungee idea until I read that he had coverred it.

I don't mean to seem cocky, or like I'm not afraid of death, and my views will obviously evolve since I'm very new to the sport, but I truly believe that I "understand" and face/keep-an-eye-on the risk.

I've seen a bunch of people say that they thought they understood the risks but they didn't until a bunch of bad stuff happened. I think there is a difference between "understanding the risks" and facing the risk and keeping a careful eye on it. It sounds like that is the issue some of you have. Every time I've jumped a solid object, when I pitch, I'm thinking in the back of my mind "ok, be ready for a 180". I'm not thinking "ok, I might have a total mal", but I still know it's a possibility.

You could skydive it with your body armor on too.

I just got some great advise from "real experienced base jumpers" right here on "the I". Isn't that one of the greatest points of this forum?

Probably because the jerk force increases due to the greater distance of the drop before tension.

I like the surgeon's knot. Thanks Michael. I just realized that since it's a double loop the force applied to it is divided between the two strands. And the knot reduces the stength a bit. Anyone know the average percentage of strength lost on a surgeon's knot? Has anyone ever used anything other than 80lbs break tape?

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Anyone every use break cord other than the 80 lbs tape that paragear sells? I recently cut a piece off and tied it around something to show a freind (that doesn't trust static lines) that it doesn't break easy, but that it breaks, and I couldn't get it to break. I was giving it atleast 100 lbs of force and it wasn't breaking. I ended up tying another peice around a table and sitting down bracing the table with my foot and then pulling on it. I'd say it broke around 150 lbs. I'm also wondering what type of knot most people use to secure it. Regular overhand or figure eight or what? P.S. I did some weight tests on cotton twine right after this, and a single strand could hold 20lbs in the air, but if you jerked it around it would break. Two strands held 50 lbs and broke when I jerked it around. I'm considerring instead of using a big loop little loop 80 lbs break cord, maybe testing 5 ascending loops of double strand cotton twine at TF on video to see what happens.

Oh, my bad. BASE Zone is the only part of this forum I read unless there is a link to a thread in another area.

I thought this was hilarious, so I'm sharing. I tried to type it exactly as it was, so some words will have a - in them because that was where the line ended. "The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook" How to Survive If Your Parachute Fails to Open Source: Joe Jennings, skydiving cinematographer and skydiving coordination specialist. He has designed, coordinated, and filmed skydiving stunts for numerous television commercials, including Mountain Dew, Pepsi, MTV Sports, Coca Cola, and ESPN. 1. As soon as you realize that your chute is bad, signal to a jumping companion whose chute has not yet opened that you are having a malfunction. Wave your arms and point to your chute. 2. When your companion (and new best friend) gets to you, hook arms. 3. Once you are hooked together, the two of you will still be falling at terminal velocity, or about 130 miles per hour. When your friend opens his chute, there will be no way either of you will be able hold on to one another normally, because the G-forces will triple or quadru-ple your body weight. To prepare for this problem, hook your arms into his chest strap, or through the two sides of the front of his harness, all the way up to your elbows, and grab hold of your own strap. 4. Open the chute. The chute opening shock will be severe, probably enough to dislocate or break your arms. Steer the canopy. Your friend must now hold on to you with one arm while steering his canopy (the part of the chute that controls direction and speed). If your friend's canopy is slow and big, you may hit the grass or dirt slowly enough to break only a leg and your chances of survival are high. If his canopy is a fast one, however, your friend will have to steer to avoid hitting the ground too fast. You must also avoid power lines and other obstruc-tions at all costs.

Yah. As far as I know it was the first thread ever in the BASE forum. I checked the bottom of the forum pages about a month ago and it was at the very bottom. Not sure why it got revived.

The footage I saw was color. It was an olive drab round. Not close enough to tell what type of container, but he had two canopies.

Why is that? Stunt people are just like us, calculated risk. This guy was a daredevil fool, not a stuntman.

I just saw that golden gate bridge incident on a special called "when stunts go wrong". I couldn't stop calling him a fucking idiot for about 5 minutes. He jumped a round, in a head wind, from the top of a beam. Opened great and he floated backwards right into the beam. Like you said, he got stuck and deployed his reserve which worked out alright. Lucky bastard.

Nice hair Nick. Business in the front....party in the back.