justathought

I just feel recently there has been a large increase of people into the sport that have not done things by the book but as soon as they get a few jumps and a few gainers under their belt start to spout ethics and rules about how to do things. Some people have done everything possible to maintain the correct way to do things, but get lambasted by people for being too anal or being too controlling. BASE is such a close and personal sport that one persons way may not be another persons way but does not deserve the negativity that it gets as its deemed incorrect. we have no rules we have no governing body we all jump the way we want to if someone upsets you in the way they jump then dont jump with them and dont invite them to stay at your house when they are local. If you are happy with the way you carry yourself and the way you jump then why bother getting upset about what people are doing around you. If people are burning your object and not giving a fuck about ethics then why not leave your object alone and go jump something else. It is they that will end up looking like cunts for shutting the object down and have karma eventually kicking them. As Carl said, the whole world is jumpable, and there is much out there. Getting upset about specifics is taking away the beauty of this sport from you personally. Fuck the people without respect, the people with respect will always find a way to be true to the sport. Leave the rest to their own games, eventually it goes wrong for them. Trying to stop people getting hurt for "the good of the sport" is a lost cause nowadays. Too many people, too many under prepared people. We can not control this anymore. This beast is out of control. No matter what you say to people, the BASE world is changing and its a time to choose what part you want to play in it. And although perhaps in bad form and will upset people, I have to agree with this statement Although certain people did amazing things for the BASE world, they actually did give bad publicity too through their highly publicized deaths. Having “world respected” or “worlds best” in a death report rather than “some guy from xxxxx” just showed the world that highly skilled people die doing this, so why cant their son / daughter die too? In the end, fuck the politics, and lets go back to basics, its getting too much like a the DZ

Yes I think someone of 16 is way too unprepared to BASE jump Yes I too have lost friends and also have plenty of metal work to remind me what is real Stating law that will come down on these people if this fucking stupid 16 year old gets hurt is slightly confusing as most of the time we don’t really stick to the law now do we? But I understand what you are saying She is way too young to decide for herself and way too inexperienced in parachuting to make an informed choice But my point is that a lot of people on here are handballing someone going against the grain and going against the normality of what is right This hardballing seems to be actually more toward the mentor of this obvious injury / death to occur but my point is how can we all sit in judgement when we all do things against the grain and put a tongue out to the the rules Who says what is right and what is wrong With the amount of people coming into the sport at the moment the ethics side is getting diluted so much If you want to be involved with the way the sport is going (and people unprepared is one of the ways it is going no matter how much we try to stop it) then you must accept the way people are getting into the sport. You can’t fight it and you can’t change the way the world is going. No amount of internet bitching, advice, talking, phone calls, emails etc etc etc is going to change it. Accept it and hug it or just leave it and just keep the underground aspect of emails and phone calls going that allows people to jump and get a bed in places they visit. The people getting a fast track will soon realise you cant get into this sport and jump / get a bed anywhere in the world unless they work for it. Fuck them If you don’t agree with what is happening with the sport and you can’t control it, as actually no one can. Why not just walk away from this “I am a base jumper” mentality on the forums and just go and have fun with what you want to do. Fuck the newbies with fuck all experience and let them deal with the fallout themselves. They wont have friends all over the world, and when they fuck up they and their mentors will reap the rewards of it.

Just a thought here. Alot of people are hardballing this girl for starting basejumping without experience. some of these people are doing things that other people think is stupid with their experience. some of the people were doing gainers and other hardkore objects when they had low jump numbers everyone has a level and everyone has a thought about what is right and what is wrong just because your level is different than some other persons it does not mean it is wrong base is about freedom and doing things that other people will think is wrong it is hypocritical to sit there is judgment and say "you are wrong" when you do something that others think are wrong who are we to judge anyone in this sport we do it our way and thats it do be a hypocrite we all do stupid shit just some of us end up doing more stupid shit than others