MartinRosen

It all depends how fit you are, and what techneeque you are using. Also how the Antennas look. Up here in Sweden the antennas are safe but a hassle to climb. But Ill say in US the average time to climb 1100 ft should be around 40 minutes if you are normally fit. ABout 30 minutes if you are a good antenna climber. /martin - Team Bautasten /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Yea thats what I heard aswell. Bridgejumping is for training, for cripples that cant walk at all or for jumpres that are to drunk. You can only log 25 jumps from Perrine, its clear. While we are talking about this, Who is the best basejumper in the world??? ;) /martin Team Bautasten - Sweden /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Excactly. I think there are BASE-jumps and lazy ass unpacked bridgejumps. ;) Me and the Northen Norgies made about 30 - 40 big wall climbs this year each. thats about 40.000 altitude meters to climb. Id like to see anybody do a 200 of those a year. hehe. There are jumpers and there ar jumpers ;) /martin Team Bautasten - Sweden /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

And I really recomend this album with Shaun Bartlett. Its defently the best they ever done. Its pretty soft music but very spiritual and nice. Its the only thing that gets played in the big valleys up North! /martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

It just doesn't matter. ITs a solid object. Its underhang (in total) Its not terminal, and when yu hit the clif you wont escape it cause its positive. Conclution. Its about the worst kind of cliffs you can find. Just because LB looks like a Postcard it is still a F...ing hard core place if all you morons out there (including me) cant understand this then we will have more and more accidents in the Valley the our preacious Swizz Valley is as free as The Carlifornian Valley. And hey!! its not even our valley it belongs primary to the Swissys. All of us get in there and rape their ground. No doubt people doesnt like to share spots anymore. Be smart, be conservative, be nice and take another thought and you might just survive this shit. Regards /martin Team bautasten of Sweden /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

This is just another proof. The Swiss Valley is NOT a place for unexperienced jumpers, ITs NOT a place fr them who does not track well. This place kills more than any other place, cant some people understand that this is a place fpr experienced sub-trackers. Most of the accidents in this valley is because of low experience. Have the inteligence and manners to avoid this valley untill you get skills. I recomend to jump bridges, antennas and overhangd terminal cliffs before. and at least have 50 jumps (rahter 100) before you enter the valley. The more shit that happends there the closer we will get to closing the valley. Im sorry about the accident. just another sad story. I feal for the family! regards /Martin Team Bautasten Sweden /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Fuck Andreas the last Party at Hongs place was a ripper. The last cup of Karsk was taken around 7 AM. Jesus!!! Anyhow, the rig is the shit! The hybrid is a ok Idea but it falls when you see the flap, its to bulky and soft. It has to be stiff and tucked in. Just like you made it. Im getting a smaller canopie for next year. Aiming on a 220 or a 190 Mojo. (anybodu has one for sale?) That would create a tiny rig ;) /martin Team Bautasten of sweden. /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

The Hybrid is a good idea. Its aerodynamic and har a slick profile. But then they totally forgot the Flaps. The flap-system is totally wrong and creats a huge drag. they should be made more like a Gargoyle-flap The flap on the ybrid is to big, to bulky and to soft. If you could tuck the whole thing in, it would create much less drag. /martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Please people understand that the PC is your life. It doesnt matter how you pack, exit or do your jump. As long as you have a working PC. To use a rubberband or a Pullupcoard to pack your PC is just as havign a Pullupcoard in our loops while climbing. Its just the most stupidest thing I have ever heard about. Its probably the worst idea somebody ever came up with. All respect for the jumper and Im very sorry that things like this happends. But this is to all the other jumpers that are still out there. Understand that this idea is just so fucking stupid. I have packed a 48" PC over 200 times and it isnt that hard ou know. /martin have I offended somebody. send me a message. /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Great work Guys. The show it self is really good. Its a positive show, its about sience and developing (for real this time, no fucking 6-gainer developing such as in Twin falls) This is the real thing. The NRK Crew seems interested and you got to show it all. Lets do some more stuff next weekend guys, Im coming to you to play again. hehe. Anyway , Im glad to hear what they are saying. Its developing just to get a sience show in TV about BASE. /martin - who understand what they are saying ;) /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Hey you said it your self. its just not cool. I have tryed many helmets. None of them made me look cool.So I stoped use it. I rather die than look uncool. Carnage!!!! /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

The flights are filmed during last weekend from Bispen. We were about 8 on the exit on the last jump that has to be a record, it was pretty crowded. Two way was made by myself , filming TomErik who did the barrel Roll. We got excelent video from my camera. The guy in the yellow suit is Espen from VKB. not sponsored. The suit is not a usual acro its something else ;) and its cool. Things are happening out there. Ideas is becoming real. Things we saw/did during this weekend around WS-flying was truly amazing, I just love to keep on exploring what we can do with it. Fly low pull High, stay on the right side of the wrong side. Martin /Team Bautasten /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

I do recomend 500 skydives efore even starting with BASE. Starting with BASE includes enough new things for an experienced Skydiver. For an unexperienced skydiver its even more. And more important than that. I think it takes many jumps and some years skydiving before you can be mature enough to validate the risks. If you start early, you have less of an idea of what kind of risk you are taking. Im not a fan of 200 jumps and IM totally against the 100 rule. /m /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Haha, that is probably right. Tom might die trying to hike the pile of rocks underneeth his bridge. Hart attacks are common in US. Btw. Tom have you thought about those little cars me and Per was driving around in your home shopping mall. You might take one of those going to the bridge ;) Yuri, well he is now in risk of getting shot by the US goverment for spreading bad words about them. Jeb is unfortunally impossible to kill. He is a cartoon superhero and will even after he dies, come back in his Jeb-suit or fat-suit. just like the Phantom. They never grow old and they never die. so nothig is sertain. but basejumping is not these guys issue anymore. even though they still got issues, but hey who doesnt ;) /m /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

With all these questions you will be mistaken for a Journalist. and hey just because they have their faces in the media doesnt make them the best jumpers or the best people. I know who that is on the photo. I wont tell his name butcan give you his number or hook you up for an american date. His wife will get super happy. good luck in finding fear, death and lost as a avery day thing. /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

I just saw the exact same incident in the swiss valley. Jumper flew a nice flight, pulled at a nice altitude (about. 180 m) over a feeld. There was a so called "lazy pull" where the jumper droppes the pilot close to the body. The pilot was in a leg pouch and the bridle streached to the point where its attached with a velcro flap top the leg. bounched up and down in the burble a couple of times and then slowley deployed the canopie. The jumper had about 1-2 seconds in a fully inflated canopie and had an ok landing and no injurys. Later that week, same jumper missed to find the pilot chute in the pouch and got low again. Im not trying to rack down on the jumper. We had conversations about this matter and we where both having the same opinions about the issues. The jumper has about 50 flights from airoplane and less from BASE objects. Jumper was flying a Vampire 1. Jumper didnt flare out to the max and had a good fligt and a clean body-position in the pull. -- My own opinion about this. If you are flying a Wing Suit. 0. Learn how to track first. Tracking is the key to good WS flying. 1. Start with a smaller suit. 2. Learn to fly your suit, just not only stable but good before doing base. 3. Test your WS to the max ie. pulling, headding. 4. The Swiss Valley or other lower things are not the best to start on, you wont get enough air-time to practice. 5. try to ask around for information and sugestions before you try this. There is a lot of good infromation out there. And you dont have to get the biggest suit just because it is the coolest shit on the market. Without skills you wont have any use of big wings anyway. remember, this is just my opinions, not necesairly the trouth. make sure to validate this with other opinions. regards /Martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

First. Many thanks for youre post Gillian. It gave me a bigger picture of the whole situation. And beleave it or not in youre state of mind now. Im not supriced. it could happend to many of us. Base is a sport where falior is not an option. And hey we are all humans. we will fail. Many times in our lifes. we will se our selfs fail, our good friends fail and it will happend again. I think you should not blame your self for things that happend to Adam, he was a person that clearly made his own desitions and sane enough to take responsibility for it. What you can do with what you have now is to now more about your self, you can learn from your own mistakes and have this (your own jump) as a reminder . What happend to Adam is not your fault and not our responsibility. Even thoug I truly understand your fealings about this. I have so much respect for what you just told us. Its a wonderful and tragic text to read. If it helps I really think you just took your first step to get everything that feels fucked to get less fucked. Keep up your good spirit and let good people inspire you and dont let assholes get you down! Second. The so called Journalist is a predator, ready to rip every story a part jsut for some publicity. The news paper dosent give a shit and news-papers or Media will never ever give a shit. This guy read this and made choice. A choice to stop being Human and being media. I have some years in journalist school and I can tell you guys. After that I realized that Media is not jounalism just as little as politics are for the people. Its about selling, its about populism, itsl all about the money and the numbers. to them we are just numbers, dont let these fuckers bring us down. Every time we feed of the media to get fame, money or sponsors, remember that they will feed from us for more action and gore. Its all business. unfortunally. I can now say IM not a journalist anymore. Im becoming a paramedic nurce, that feels much better. take care all you and stay disco Gill! regards /martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

I can totally agree to Espen/Fatsnakes thoughts about the 2 rules of close flying. Also I have never felt any groundeffect, and its true you need to be very close/ far beond safe close to the object to get the effect and the surfice have to be smooth. Though in very hot and thermic weathers I have felt lift/turbulence. This kind of lift isnt very comfortable so I tend to keep distance. I have still my V1 and have still a problem to fly down to things. Im headding fr a smaller and faster suit that can fly very steep and exact. Another thing to think about. If youre trying to fly close to an object. make sure you are flying so steep that you can easely lift far above the place if you feel that you are in a bad spot. As soon as you breake, stall or flattern out your suit you are lost. Keep it steap, keep it exact and follow the 2 rules from Fat snake. /martin - getting a smaller suit for next year. /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Bispen is a wall for WS flyers with balls and skills in short drops. Its not a very short drop but it is scary. Im flying a V1 and I fell my self pretty close to the rock underneeth. I have seen one Jumper track it with PF pants and his video is fucked. He did an excelent job tracking that hill, a masterpeace of skills and still it was fucking close. in my opinion. You dont have to fly close to the road, thats just for the prox-flying-addicts like my self and VKB. About pictures. I have one of me flying v1 there. Photo is taken by Stein Olsen. Please dont use this comersially or in press without asking me or stein. http://www.martin.nu/bispen_small.jpg Im looking forward to head up there and fly this wicked slick rock again. but with a smaller suit. mine is to big. /m /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Well there is many manufactures that make rigs and chutes. I don't like to say whos the best cause most of them are my friends. I just say. get a 2 pin rig from one of the manufactures, chose amodern BASE Parachute with vents and covers on the vents. make sure that the canopie size fits you, if you are in doubt about the size, just go big! get the Big Grab rizers and nice pilotchutes and a Jack the ripper hook knife. I have a gargoyle and a Perigee pro my self, I like them both. but there is more good stuff on the market. But I wont credit any of them more than others. /martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Subterminal track is the track you get before 8-10 seconds. Its not really fast and the rules for subterminal track ar totally oposite to the terminal track. A good thing to think about is your surfice. For a Subterminal track, having a larger surfice works better, its about caching air asap. After 2-3 seconds you will feel a small draft of wind. this is the "bubble of wind" your on top of. Picture this bubble as a large ball and yourself on top of this ball. Have your legs a bit separated, totally straight. and your arms streached forward straight in front of your face. Dont look up, look at your feets. After 3-4 seconds beginn to slowly "roll over " the "ball" by pushing your legs and hips down and de-arche your body while moving your arms back in a wide track position. then its just to push with your thighs and feets, and have your stommach pressed. Allso remember sholders down. This might be totally wrong for others , but its about what I feel during a subterminal track. The wide track position works good. Its also good to be light and tall for this. while its better to be a little bit heavierin a long terminal track. /martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

What is the mening of clearing a wall when you end up in the trees. The swiss valley is a hardcore place. I have more than 200 jumps only in that valley and I still think its one of the most deseaving places we have. Cause it looks so easey. The reason why we have so many accidents there is first the amount of jumps and allso that so many low-timers jump there. Its not a place for people that have less than 50 jumps (or 100) Also its not for you who have less than 10 trackingjumps terminal. THe ciffs are very underhang even if they are overhanged on the top. You have to know subterminal tracks and be sure of your exitand track-skills to go there. Reaching treelines or not, ening up in the treas is not really a success. And it is not the less experienced jumpers who end up in the treas, more often the ones with more experience. But this is a free and uncontroled sport (thank good) so its all up to the jumper, and I like that. But now your skills and learn it the righjt way before you go to the valley. its jus a suggestion, nothing else. /martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Haha, No more Iceland for you guys ;) USArmy is moving out I heard. Good thing for iceland, But Ill guess youre allways welcome to come back as tourists. to drink and jump. I guess that picture is close to Selfoss outside of selfoss. Or isnt it Benni? /martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Did you reach the river in a wingsuit or in a track, In my world a: Track is a flight without wingsuit only pants and jacket Any help from wings or surfice is a wingsuit flight. huge difference Allso , If youre flying the big ones in norway or other, when youre flying/tracking terminal, speed is the key and for that you need some bodyweight. Im 6,5' and weights 170lbs and IM to light. regards /martin /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden

Well your'e gonna need it. I actually suggest you to practice more and get really profecional before you go there. And for the jumping. the weather is turning bad soone so the drinking season is on now for another 10 monts ;) /Martin - Team Bautasten of Sweden