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Dude, you had 4 mals in 123 jumps... I'd say you're a dangerous skydiver. Some people have thousands of jumps and zero, nil, nada malfunctions.

Welcome to the club, bro. This certifies that you're as dangerous skydiver as I am.

Dude, just figure out what is wrong with you that he breaks your rubberbands, and move to another DZ.

Are you trying to molest me to Nylon Sodomy?! Try Mike The Cofounder, he will teach you. I'm not into N.S. However, if you spread your risers wide enough, I can fly between your lines in my wingsuit.

I'd ground you from your "No home dropzone entered" just for calling cover for the reserve pin a "Really nice work, very hard to see".

Who said that skydiving is boring?

With more people asking to pay my jump ticket, I may become a true FREEflyer.

Oda Mae (played by Woopie Goldberg) from the movie "Ghost" will continue my presense in your lives even after I die.

You sound like a small tampering which will not kill me, is OK. If you very much doubt that FAA will give a rats ass about "cover for the reserve pin... Really nice work, very hard to see", "the reserve riser was cut and the main bridle was also cut", "cut the reserve cable, routed the cutter of the AAD around the loop", and "There are more", you may want to call them and find out. Go on, bet on my death. Also, I'm selling $100 tickets to my funeral. Be my guest! lol

Are you hinting that that person may forge the investigation?

Mike, I have a similar problem. THere is a sicko photographer going around my DZ. He sneaks up on people who are innocently playing with their private parts, and then takes his photo with them. I am in this photo. Since it's been up, strange men keep approaching me and propositoning me. This past winter, someone had tampered with my private parts, and I now have a total malfunction - no parts out. I demand this sicko gotta stop, so he got to, right? What can I do about this. Thanks. Yuri Is this legal? P.S. I'm on the list.

Nah! My heart belongs to Jeannie..................

With your 30 jumps and not jumping for a year, I suggest you take Jim Slaton's ground launching course for non-skydivers (see News). Canopy control is everything. It's poor canopy control that burned me in on my 42nd jump. In my AFF course, there was very little emphasis - if any - on canopy piloting. You can start by kiting your canopy. You'll learn a lot just by feeling your canopy, all its inputs. Learning your canopy will save your ass someday from hitting the concrete at 20mph. I hope you don't ever know the feeling of your blood filled with stone and losing half a gallon of it.

Damn! Somebody was quicker than me in thinking about this wonderful idea! I was thinking of packing a total mal in both main and reserve, safely landing my wingsuit in the peas and blaming someone for the malfunction! LOL

Brian, Mike recently did a state-record 30-way Nylon Sodomy in Orange, MA. I witnessed it with my eyes. It was beautiful. Almost erotic. Maybe that's why the mad photographer put him on the list.

I'm sure there are competent people at FAA with more experience investigating incidents than you do.

If I'll be alive by then. Hurry up! Judging by the other thread, 99% of skydivers want me dead. You seem to be RW guy. Sorry, I can't even do a 2-way. But I can definitely practice with CT women If you sit or do headdown, I can do a headdown carve around you in my wingsuit.

Come this weekend.

You seem to be experienced in what you say...

Maybe, make a 2-stack and then wrap him?

Surely. If my equipment is tampered with again, I will take it to FAA office as it is. If I will be alive. If not, surely FAA will take it themselves.

Mike Shatalov, why you feel so insecure? I take threats without a sense of humor.

Have there been incidents caused by tampering with the equipment or known attempts of tampering? If you know any information, please share. My parachute may have been tampered with recently. I left the rig after a jump in the packing area, stowed the brakes and uncollapsed the slider (completely, as I always do). When I returned later, I noticed that one side of the slider was half collapsed. If you don't pay close attention, the slider can be quartered without you noticing that it's half collapsed. Asymmetrically collapsed slider may cause - I'm guessing here - a hard opening, slider hang up, or spinning. I experimented a little bit and it's virtually impossible to collapse the slider by accidentally stepping on it or on the lines. If you pull the lines, they tend to uncollapse the slider. Looks like the only way to collapse is to pull the tab on the slider.

Ummm... maybe because Internet is free and lawyers aren't? Something I will never understand about some people. Why you feel the need to whine about things you have no bussiness in?

There's a lot of garbage poured on me here, so let's set the record once and for all. Handle the truth, if you can. I have 320 jumps. I got my licence in October 2004. I had an accident on my 42nd jump on Oct 23rd. Being too enthusiastic after getting my licence, I jumped that day in strong, very turbulent, cross wind. I miscalculated my landing and landed on the runway. I flared all the way down, but the down draft or rotor negated the flare. I hit the edge of runway with my bottom and hands, breaking tailbone and both wrists. I almost died that day. I lost a lot of blood and was airlifted to the hospital... I learned a painful, but valuable lesson. I returned to the sky after 7 weeks. Since then, I made almost 300 jumps. I went to Eloy in December, Florida in February, Alaska in June, jumped at a few local DZs to gain more experience landing in different layouts and conditions. I took Brian Germain's coaching lessons. I regularly spend a lot of time learning my canopy - opening high or doing hop-n-pops. I flew Spectre 210 until jump #175, and now fly Spectre 190, which puts my wingloading at a suggested 1.1 and 1.25 lbs/sq.ft., respectively, which fits just fine in my jump numbers. I never do any dangerous landings or radical maneuvers near the ground. Never landed on front risers, nor have any interest in doing so. Always land in a standard pattern approach, respecting landing direction and stack order. I now have about 200 nice stand up landings in a row. And those few non-standup landings before that were just minor mistakes. I land within 10-20m from my intended target 95% of the time. I do love to kite my canopy after landing if and only if I know it can't possibly, ever endanger anyone else. I keep my head on a swiwel well before and after landing and know where other canopies are and put the canopy down if there's even slightest chance of someone landing close. Now that I mostly jump wingsuit and land last, it's absolutely safe to kite the canopy (again, I make 1000% sure I don't put anyone in danger by doing that). There's 100x more dangerous stuff going on at the Ranch all the time than my simple landings and canopy kiting. I'm very conservative and not going to downsize anytime soon. In freefall, I follow the exit order and time separation religiously. When I'm tracking or flying wingsuit (my two favorite disciplines), I follow the pattern described in SIM. I listen to my fellow skydivers and try to absorb as much information as possible -- if and only if they talk politely. If they don't talk politely from the start, they get equally impolite response from me. The person who puts me on the death list one day asked me at the loading area about flight plan of my tracking dive. I replied that I'm going to track perpendicular to the jump run all the way, but she didn't like the exact wording (English is my 2nd language) and started ridiculing me, calling me motherfucker, etc. I told her to fuck off. Since then, she got winded up against me and put me on the death list and spreads the lies that I'm a dangerous skydiver. She just can't let it go. I don't know what her problem is. It's amazing that the people that don't even know me base their opinions on all these lies upon lies about me. But it's even more amazing to hear nasty comments from people I respected. Good to know your deep motives now! Obviously, "you can't handle the truth". C-ya!