d_goldsmith
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Wow. I can't believe so many people are getting offended by comments on the internet. Try to step back and look at other posibilities. Like he is just fucking around, and like he said in another thread, he's doing this so that people won't be sad when he dies. Kind of like a dog that loves his master will leave home when he is about to die.
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how about very few very
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I picked this up at safeway.
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Me too.
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Blow is uncut....not likely. I sure would love to know what ever you know about activating "vators" though
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Stalls above 3 grand aren't black death. You just pop the toggles noob. Your sarcasm blows. Obviously you didn't notice he was talking about setting his DBS (for BASE) on a skydive. Pretty hard to set them for slider down if your control lines are routed through the slider.
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Got winded/fogged out But I had a good dinner
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I'm thankful that I can go make my first Thanksgiving BASE jump this morning
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Keep in mind that a good slider down DBS (that doesn't stall with a rear riser turn and keeps your forward speed as low as possible) will stall slider up. So you can't really set your DBS on skydives. Also, don't think your toggles are going to be set very well either if you plan on switching to slider down jumps. This is assuming you use the line mod for slider down.
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I hope the casing is very strong, and that the button is covered with something also very strong. Edit to add: Also wondering about battery life?
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22 yoa First jump in May 2006 (so 0.5 years), first ground crew December 2005.
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COP!
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I think it's a sentance or peice of information that you decide is worth holding on to.
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I noticed that too. I also thought it was funny that a few people called him cop when he first posted, and he didn't get a valid response until the 11th post. projkt2501
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3 out of 5, I'd say that's good odds.
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How old are you, I think I'm in love.
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Do you have more info than the rest of us? I think you just implied that the Swiss fatality that Mac posted about was due to a pull up cord?
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That's the one, thanks. I found this one while looking. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” ~Leonardo Da Vinci
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Can someone post the awesome Da Vinci qoute about experiencing flight and looking at the sky forever dreaming to return. I can't find it anywhere.
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Did you use a pulley when you rigged it up for us or is that a new addition? Good idea either way.
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Maybe it wasn't a BASE jumper. Hopefully
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I'm not sure if that was sarcastic, like you think everyone knows how to belay, or if you are saying you don't know how to belay? Or maybe you don't think belaying has anything to do with a pendulator?
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For the design I know you need a dynamic climbing rope, 2 or more slings (more if they're not big enough to wrap around the tree and be binered), 3 carabiners, a belay device, 2 harnesses and a chest harness, and a couple trees that are close enough and tall enough. If you have all of that and already know how to belay, you should be able to figure it out. This is the kind of thing that could be designed a million different ways. Be creative and make sure you figure out safe ways to test it if you're not sure it's built right. Edit to add: I left out a few things from the tools for the top idea. You also need stuff to secure the chest harness to the regular harness, biners or slings and biners. And I suggest you weight the harness first to make sure everything is going to be comfortable.
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Found a typo: Where you say "Unvented Slider Up:" you go on to explain Vented slider down. Nicely written. At first I had trouble understanding " The canopy "perceives" this wind (in combination with the inflation forces) as "slowing" the rate at which the wind blows into the nose" Then I thought of it picturing the canopy from the side with the nose facing left, and imagining the wind moving left, so the air that would be going into the nose is actually moving away from the nose. Do you think there's more to it than that?