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Canadians.... "Don't die until you're dead"

LMAO Nice!!!!

Clay Fowler??? As in 'Look at the Clay Fowlers on THAT!!!'

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John, I know!!! People were calling me when I got home just so they could keep laughing... Oh well, nice to know I already have the Muppet of the year title sewn up in April already.... "Don't die until you're dead"

Yes, but I'm crying on the inside..... "Don't die until you're dead"

John I will kick you in the NUTS!!!!! Aaaah what the hell, as long as everybody is laughing AT me and not WITH me, its OK I guess....

Yes, lets share my story with the Whole Wide World so everybody can have a laugh at my expense.... Wanna know what makes it even better? I was wearing my Rasta beanie with dredlocks(sp?) (it fits perfectly over my Bonehead), which (as I am told) adds to the comic effect.... Oh joy, its good to be me..... Will [frantically calling Steve Park and trying desperately to bribe him to delete said footage....] "Don't die until you're dead"

Uh, which one is Clay again..... "Don't die until you're dead"

Zennie, I have 197 jumps and choose to jump with an RSL. I choose this not because I doubt my ability to pull both handles, but because (due to local weather) I do a lot of hop n pops (exit altitudes from '2 000 feet and up). In other words I want my reserve out as quickly as is safely possible. Whether or not you feel an RSL does this safely is of course up to you. Me, personally, I read the incident reports and made up my own mind. For every person killed by an RSL I think there were probably quite a few who died with silver in their hands and the reserve not fully deployed, not at line-stretch etc. Could an RSL have saved them by getting the reserve out quicker? maybe, maybe not, but I do know from my friends who have cutaway with RSLs, that by the time they pulled silver the reserve was already opening above them. I get very worried when I read people with even less jumps than me saying "I'll cut away, wait until I am stable and then pull silver...". They might just spend the rest of their lives waiting to get stable.... For the record I will be jumping camera soon, will disconnect the RSL (obviously) but I will keep it on my rig (Hornet loaded at 1.2:1). Will "Don't die until you're dead"

Her, yeah sure, her, ummm, OK...... "Don't die until you're dead"

LMFAO You guys crack me up (ass-holes....) Seriously though, I did find it quite hard to swoop with my freefly pants around my ankles. Maybe I should ask Chuck or Clay for some canopy control advice on swooping into sheep pastures with your pants around your ankles.... "Don't die until you're dead"

I only missed the DZ by about 4 miles..... AND all the vidiots from the DZ are now lining up to get copies of the footage to include in the DZ's annual video (if you are not me, it is actually quite funny to watch....) "Don't die until you're dead"

I don't think you are going to get too many objective replies to this one - I don't think there are many people out there who have made lots of jumps on custom rigs made by every manufacturer. Define 'best' - what canopies are you going to be putting in this container? By best do you mean safest or most attractive? If by best you mean value for money, I'd recommend my Wings because I like it. But then again I've never jumped anything else (apart from a Vector 1) so how would I know what's best? You're probably going to get a lot of opinions, but I don't know how anybody is going to qualify what is the 'best' freefly container... Will "Don't die until you're dead"

Not anymore I'm not.... Say, Mikey, do you think I'm being "pushed away from the sport" too? Or do you think maybe they just grounded me because I did something very stupid and nobody wants to see me get hurt? Seeing as Mikey wants this posted on the internet, I'll oblige : Sunday afternoon last load (low lob from the Cessna, just for a change). The jump master (Steve Park) and I were going to do a rodeo from about '5 000. We spent a bit of quality time in the plane (detour over the M40 and then haze). We start coming in on jump run, I move out into the door and am sitting poised (as in a student SL exit, hand holding eitherside of the door). The agreed signal for the rodeo was that Steve would shake my container when he was ready. Here's where I made my screw up : Steve saw me poised in the door and thought I was going to jump, so he grabbed the top of my container and pulled - I then thought this was the signal to go and went WITHOUT first looking down..... It was classic 'WTF???' stuff, looked down and saw a village, looked back up at the plane and saw some rather bewildered faces (I was really MILES short of the DZ...). I then pulled straight away and spent some very very lonely time under canopy thinking about what would be waiting for me on the ground..... The out was easy because there is a lot of farmland around there. One of the DZ owners picked me up and had a small chat on the drive back. Then when I got back the DZ controller and CCI had another *chat* with me - they were under the impression that I had just dived out of the plane pretty much for the fun of it... Anyway, long story short : I got grounded for the rest of the weekend and next weekend. *Luckily* the JM had his camera turned on, so the CCI told me later that they understood that it was an honest miscommunication between us and that I hadn't done it wilfully (sheesh as if I'd wish that kind of humiliation on myself...). Another bummer was that the JM (who is a good friend) got grounded too.... Oh well, I'm still 14 groundings and a cypres fire behind you, Mikey.... (but at least I've got just as many BASE jumps as you!!

What, you think YOU phuqed the easter bunny..... (amateur...) /s PS thanks to Merrick for first posting this pic on the forums... PPS a special thanks to Ben for giving Merrick this pic to first post on the forums... PPPS lemme know if you want some *special* sauce with your pie.... "Don't die until you're dead"

shark, you are arguing from a skill point of view, I would argue for a higher jump number requirement purely from a safety/experience point of view. Just because someone has their driver's license doesn't make them an *expert* driver, I think 200 jumps should be noted as *experienced* and 500 or 1 000 jumps should be the benchmark to be considered an *expert* skydiver... IMHO of course... Will "Don't die until you're dead"

Yeah, whatever, bi-plane boy!!! Yep, I'm hoping to clock my 200 this weekend - pity I've only got like 1 hour of freefall time after all those low lobs though.... "Don't die until you're dead"

Dude, if you had Coenwhat getting in your face with tonsils showing maybe you'd also lose altitude awareness due to being paralysed by fear and revulsion!!!! (that and the fact that I had his snot and gob all over my goggles! ) Glad to see scratch is talking as much kak as always : Will PS ask Coenie about all the kak he managed to get on my NEW container when I lent it to him.... "Don't die until you're dead"

No, but a newly qualified BPA D license holder does have 800 more jumps than a USPA D license holder..... I don't think 200 jumps makes anybody an *expert* skydiver. I recall reading an interview with a Golden Knight who felt that 500 jumps was a better requirement for the D license - he felt that in 500 jumps you would probably have had to deal with one or two scary situations which a lot of people don't in their first 200 jumps. Remember the 200 jump number dates back to the "pre-turbine" days, when it could easily take people 5 or more years to get 200 jumps in. These days any kiddy with a bit of money can clock up 200 jumps in under 6 months - are they *experts*? Personally I reckon 1 000 jumps for a D license is a bit much, but 500 would probably be a better number. I know Australia uses E (and F?) numbers for higher jump numbers. And I read that Roger Nelson wants some kind of license or special number for USPA skydivers who reach 1 000 jumps. Might keep people from getting too cocky when they reach 200 and think they are *experts*.... Will "Don't die until you're dead"

London just doesn't seem the same anymore....

Actually while the whole ITV digital thing IS going down the toilet, I have heard that monkeeeeeahhh and friend (Les Vegas?) are getting their own series. Woo-hoo!!

Hey, monkeeeeeeeeah, what is a "Dropzone.com Annoyance Committee"? Monkeaaaaah!!!! (ITV digital ads crack me up!!!

Oh, is THAT why she was so keen to rip it off me..... Will PS wasn't Miss Brazil the one who got chucked out of the competition for having a penis??? "Don't die until you're dead"

Hmmm, and yet you see fit to say sangiro isn't a skydiver for doing EXACTLY the same thing..... Hypocrite!!! I have lost all respect for you and never want to see or jump with you again Remi! (of course your wife is a totally different story....) "Don't die until you're dead"