MarkM

From the reqs on the link: To enter the Perris Valley Skysurfing School, you must have a minimum of 100 freefall skydives and hold at least a C License. You must also have at least 30 sitfly, freefly, or freestyle skydives. Are the requirements really that low? Two things I want to try are wingsuits and skysurfing. Skysurfing by far seems the more dangerous to me between the two.

(looks at megan's picture) Nope. Dump the guy, move to S Florida so you can jump year round and date every skydiver down there until you find one you like I guess it depends on how addicted you are and how flexible your partner is. I could handle my SO spending a lot of her free time away from me, so long as we had our together time. But I also know a lot of guys that couldn't handle that sort of situation. They'd get jelous. I couldn't see dragging any non-skydiving GF I had to the DZ all the time or to something like the WFFC(wouldn't that be boring for a whuffo?). If they had problems with me spending my time at those places away from them, then I honestly don't see how it would work out. If I gave up time doing that stuff to make my partner feel better, I'd probably resent it. I suppose I'm a selfish person for wanting to spend so much time at the DZ, but that's just where I am in life at this point. Decide where you're at in your life right now and whether or not your SO can handle it. Be honest with yourself and him, because that's the foundation for any successful relationship.

I think it's in the way each sex attracts a mate. Women do it through attention, getting noticed by the guy and having him approach you. Men do it through being successful, you're more likely to get a yes when asking women out if you look like you're doing well in life. Success is something that's pretty easy to spread around. If the new person that shows up in your home turf is better than you, it doesn't really detract from your talent unless he acts like an asshole and puts you down(doesn't respect your own skill). In fact, you could learn from him as a mentor or friend to increase your own value. But attention is something that's not as easy to share. All IMHO naturally, it's not like I'm a sociologist or anything.

How significant? If it was really a lot, I'd buy the Pahokee airport, open up a DZ there and throw a huge party. Then I'd start working on putting up a tower somewhere near there just for base jumping. Then I'd bribe, er excuse me, donate to politicians that would be willing to support liability limitations for business that handle extreme sports.

Better yet, move in with the BF, make him pay all the rent and spend the money you save on jumps.

Everyone naturally boards in the proper order? Riiiiight...

I'm sure you've heard The Crystal Method and you'd likely recognize one of their songs if you heard them.

That's what I always thought too. Then one day I put a red shirt in with my socks and undies. Having pink socks and underwear is not cool. Of course I didn't learn my lesson and a few years later had a blue shirt turn all my socks baby blue.

Hmm, I wish jump planes had a kicken sound system. Would be pretty cool to listen to a little Hendrix on the ride to altitude.

Had an open one back in December, they're not that big of a deal. Mostly loud as the machine makes a lot of banging. After the first couple mins when you finally realize that all the metal fillings in your teeth aren't going to go flying out of your mouth, you'll start to relax. They also injected me with a chemical that helps the MRI. That was probably the worst part, as I don't like having a needle stuck in my arm.

Not normal, but it happens. I bruised up some ribs pretty bad several months ago on a nasty opening. Could've been the way the chute was packed, could've been a poor body position, could've been almost anything. Generally though, student gear is a lot less comfortable than gear you'll eventually get yourself.

Hey, if we can't read a ballot, what makes you think we can read a post?

This is why I'm a Linux admin

Only if the tent we're camping in has air conditioning.

Haha, yeah, that's for sure. Seeing ya go off in the Speaker's Corner was like a "woah, is that Jeffrey?". I lurk a lot more in real life than I do in the forums. I'm pretty low key and don't tend to chat too much unless I already know you well. Dunno how that comes off to people.

I usually listen to stuff like U2, Linken Park, NIN, but the last few months I've gone off on a listening tagent. Right now I'm on Junkie XL, Bistream Dream, New Order(Get Ready album), Crustation, Moby, Massive Attack and some mixes of/by Daniel Bedingfield, Paul Oakenfold and Armin Van Buuren.

Ahh now, you see, this is why I read DZ.com. Safety articles? Canopy reviews? Which DZ to avoid? Screw that. It's all about the ins and outs on scoring with the skybabes.

Friggen hilarious.

It's been six months since I vacuumed the apartment. I have really old stale milk in the frig. The garbage usually piles up before I take it out. And I have a bunch of crap(empty boxes, books, clothing) scattered about the floor in my bedroom. But I can cook a little. I'm thawing out a Mahi steak and some shoepeg white corn for a late dinner right now and often make homemade bread and icecream. I may be a slob, but I eat well.

60:5:0 60 miles of driving on Saturday before I figured out that the solid thick rainy cloud cover above me really did extend all the way to the DZ(I should've called). 5 jumps on Sunday with a new jumpsuit.

Postponing would seriously piss off a lot of people and the act itself could influence voting when the polls re-opened. I'm on the fence between B and K, I think they're both morons. But if B postponed the elections or even let it happen on his watch, I'd vote for K in a heartbeat when the polls finally opened. And if someone is too scared to go out and vote, they don't deserve a vote to begin with.

What was a better high in your life, your first jump or your first time having sex? What will you remember on your death bed? The face of some girl you screwed in the bathroom of a club or the way the ground rushed at you the one time you base jumped? Depends. Which activity are you talking about and how good looking is the girl? But as for skydiving... hmmm let's see... I'm in a sport that's 90% male and consumes most of my weekends(the good weather ones anyway). That basically kills my dating life right there. It's not a relationship friendly sport, unless you win the "Who wants to date the manifest babe" lotto or something. So I guess I did give up sex for skydiving.

Hmmm... playing with hawks under a hang glider, swinging back and forth in a hammock on a sailboat miles away civilization, diving in crystal clear waters off some white sand beach, charging full gallop on a horse through a grass field... yeah, I'd give up sex to be able to experience things like that.

Maybe it's not that they can't live life without skydiving, it's that skydiving liberates their spirit in a certain way and they couldn't imagine their lives without that freedom anymore. If you don't undertand that, then I feel sorry for you.

Jeez, what altitude do you normally pull at? I know some poeple who's hard deck is 2500 feet.