Morcyk

I'm all about the feeling over logic, although it is rather difficult to do at times. If feelings are chemical reactions in your body, wouldn't it also stand that thought patterns are too? Is logic all that different than emotions? Don't your past emotional experiences drive the logic that you use to determine a solution?

What about the more obvious of what's not in your control? What about the people that actually crafted your parachute? Maybe a corner was cut, or the new guy wasn't quite sure of himself? You could have all your safety checks done and everything looks perfect, then you pull the cord and all the seams rip out.

Luckily I was at DLI almost 10 years ago and just started skydiving this year. So I think I'm safe.

Hehe I don't know farsi. I can just pick out a few words. I was an arabic linguist. And this may be arabic since I can pick out more than a few words, but we were always taught that the language in Iran was farsi, so...

Who the hell is Jessica Simpson?

We should have the ability to post in farsi, cause it's really difficult to read when roughly converted to english characters.

I wouldn't say that I felt necessarily safe on my tandems, but it was rather comforting to know there was someone back there that knew what they were doing. One thing I didn't like though, is that while they taught us about body position and when to pull the cord before the first jump, what if something happened to the instructor (black out or whatever) and there was a mal? I would have no idea what to do. I know it would be a very rare instance to have both happen at the same time, but I still would have preferred to know more about this stuff just in case.

I'm a big fan of tunneling home and back out again.

I like the weekdays better. I have a slight fear of coming in for a landing and kicking some poor soul in the head on the way in. At least during the weekdays, there's not enough people there to worry about that.

Glad I'm not the only one. I get pretty damned nervous on the exit, but the rest is just fun. And it's not a fear of the fall. It's a fear of screwing it up and getting tossed back into the plane, hehe.

hmm beer. I'm doing my first tomorrow. And yes, I did forget.

Sorry to all u blonds out there, but dated one that fit the stereotype perfectly. Haven't dated a blond since.

Where's the none of the above choice? Hate Mountain Dew.

In my case, I got lucky. I only checked out 2 in my area and both did the same thing and had the same base price. Crosskeys was just closer to me.

Ok, that's a good point about the tandem students not having their own gear, but I still don't see anything wrong with separating the rental price from the base price. On the other hand, the rental price not being listed with that base price every place it's listed, isn't a good thing. They should at least have it somewhere on that page. But yeah you're right about added fees. If I'm trying out say, skydiving, for the first time and I get there and find out it's gonna cost me $30 more, chances are I'll pay it just for the experience.

scuba - done skydiving - done hang gliding - looking into it now fly plane / helicopter - doesn't sound so exciting anymore. bungee jumping - not a chance in hell anymore be a millionaire - one can always hope, can't they? two chicks at the same time

I don't know about other drop zones, as the only one I've been to so far is Crosskeys, but most places (skating rinks, hockey rinks, skiing, etc) do exactly the same thing. The rental fee is always listed separately because some people do have their own gear. I see nothing wrong with this and during my short time in the sport and reading posts on here, i get the feeling that the instructors there are very good.

The last time I had a boss give me a similar statement, I was in high school, and when I walked in the door the next day, I got the old, "what are you doing here? You're fired.".

When I was speaking with Marine recruiters about 10+ years ago, they were very blunt about what I was getting into, unlike the Army recruiters who were telling me it was a cake walk, but they did seem to be interested only in the possible recruit's opinion. I was told, "It's gonna be the toughest thing you'll ever do so if you don't think you can do it, just leave now". Strange. As stated above, boot camp wasn't too bad physically, since I was in very good shape coming out of high school, but mentally it could be frustrating. There wasn't any of "your job is to clean this". It was more like "your job is to clean this and you will use these tools and this method, etc, etc, etc". No decisions allowed to be made by you. Start running and run a lot, some weight training or at least push-ups wouldn't hurt either. As for the reserves, mixed reviews there. My cousin just enlisted at 30 yo about a year ago and is still stateside. On the other hand, while I was active duty, we would go overseas for 3-4 months while the reservists were there for 6 months! Had another relative join the reserves as an MP and was sent to Kuwait 1.5 years ago. He's still there. Based on your chosen MOS, you will probably have a greater chance of getting shipped out, so my only advice is to make sure you're joining for the right reasons. Don't do it to look cool, or to get money for college, or because everybody thinks you should (which doesn't seem so in your case). Do it for you. And remember, every Marine is infantry, even if your MOS is housekeeping. I personally wouldn't do it again, but some of my favorite memories happened while on active duty. I miss the closeness of everyone, the excitement, the benefits (including no cover for most clubs), but I don't miss the structure and 2am inspections on Sunday mornings, hehe.

Sounds like it could be bad. Imagine jumping so high that you can't even tell what state you're over. What if you hit some strong gusts? What's the chances that when you get low enough to pull that you'd be anywhere near your dropzone? But then again, it could just be newbie paranoia.

Better you than me on living so close to City Hall, but at least you're within about 20 blocks of most of the more popular clubs and South Street. Oh and it's not that it's necessarily a bad area, I just prefer to live barely outside the city rather than in it.

Looks like my hard work has finally paid off. I'm finally drunk.

Doh I think I might have hit the drunk mark. Just occurred to me that it should be the same on all your posts. Time for another beer.

Uh... what's up with your posts number? For one thing it was 23723 for both posts on this thread and for another, if that's accurate, you need to get out some.

Never got into them. I was a pretty good metal head in those days. Come to think of it, I still am.