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I thought about keeping it, but Mike advised me to cut it away. I ended up agreeing with him. It was a center line on a 126 which I already couldn't stand up loaded at 1.35. I would've been "fine" landing it like that, but there was a pretty good chance of breaking something. Don't I know it! Yup. Keep hounding away, though, because, even if it doesn't seem like it, it does get through to some people. I like the theory of jump like you don't have any of that stuff, and don't be afraid to jump without all of your stuff. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but thanks for the cool new feature with organizing private messages! That rocks! Thanks!

I've been lucky, and I've only broken a finger. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

The only, unfortunate, excitement due to my cutaway was a cart was runover by (I think) an ambulance looking for "me" (ie, the main was fully inflated and still floating down). There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

No, that was my first cutaway due to unintentional crw when I had about 39 jumps (ie canopy collision.) Now that I'm about 600 jumps wiser, I decided to try some crw out intentionally. I still can't get away from reserve rides and crw whether it's intentional or unintentional! It wasn't a wrap. It was an A line's attatchment point popping off of the center cell. Crwmike started a hard spiral while he was the pilot. I felt some incredible pressure for a few seconds, heard a pop, felt tension release, wondered why my head hurt, and then I saw a line floating by my slider. So, it's not quite as exciting as a canopy wrap. Sorry, Djan!!! There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

That's right! I have all the gadgets. I have a nice altimeter, audible, Cyrpes, RSL, (had) a helmet, and a freefly friendly rig! Jumpers who have been in the sport for years look at all of my toys and think, "She never would've made it back in the day." Maybe I wouldn't have! At the beginning of the month, I lost my audible for a few weeks. I kept jumping, and I even did solo freefly jumps without an audible! I lost both my frap hat and helmet, too, and I jumped without those! This past weekend, I did crw. I didn't turn my Cypres on for them, I disconnected my RSL, and I attached my wrist mount altimeter to my chest, but I couldn't see it very well (I really had to try and look to see it.) Without all of my devices, I cutaway and opened my reserve, and I lived! I even kept my handles! Who would've thought that someone under the age of 30 and in the sport less than five years could've completed such a feat! Just a note to all the older jumpers....some of us really do listen! There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

2:2:2 (first crw and first jump on the PD 160 Reserve) I did jump #666!!!! Crwmike took me up and showed me the real darkside of crw for it!!! I had a blast! So that's what a canopy feels like in full flight... On my second crw jump, I had my second reserve ride (the first one was due to unintentional crw...this one was due to intentional crw!!!) We did a death spiral, and it snapped the line at the attachment point, so Mike advised me to keep my ankles in tact and cutaway. I kept me handles, Mike got the freebag, and Tom followed the main close enough so we were able to find it!!! Thanks, everyone!!! I had a great time in Richmond. I wish I coud've been on the Skydive Indiana way, but I will see everyone at Paxton! There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Where is that? And...HAHAHAHA! Yes! I remember that song! My prom date KC played it all the time! Maybe I'm being bad, but I'm not actually going to read anymore on the argument because you won't change my mind that eating meat causes unnecessary pollution, harms your body, and is cruel to animals. It would be nice to actually be able to get through to some people on this forum for a change, but everyone is way too defensive about their way of life. I'm just ignoring any posts trying to tell me that, "Eating meat is OKAY!!!!" There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

You rock! Just for that, I think I'll give you your shoe back! That's the funniest part about the whole thing.... There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

I know! Freeflybella warned me about this, though! Yeah, one of my friends in high school stopped having her period when she became vegetarian. She pretty much only ate candy...not the best thing to do.... What are other good calcium/iron sources besides animal products? There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

People asked me why I didn't want to eat meat. I said that I don't need to take the life of something else so that I can live. It is wrong for me. So, it is okay that animals are being inseminated by machines and stabbed by machines? All my life I knew this was "wrong." Is it wrong for people to kill elephants for their tusks? Is it wrong for people to kill seals for their skin? Etc etc. Are these things wrong? I just wish people would be a little more open minded.... There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Yes, I do, which is why I'll eventually stop eating it. In the meantime, I will start looking into vegetarian products and see what kinds of choices I have. No, it would still not be okay for me to eat meat since I don't need to kill anything to live. What's your point? What I think is "wrong" to do to animals, while it applies to other humans, I'm not actually sitting here shouting, "DON'T EAT MEAT!!!!" In my opinion, things would be better if people ate less meat, just like things would be better if we weren't in a war, watched less tv, etc etc etc. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

I don't understand how people can actually try to compare animals eating other animals in the wild to us having pig factories. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Wow...does that quote really not make sense to you? I never tried to tell other people to become vegetarians. I said that I don't want to eat meat for certain reasons. I don't want to eat a pig that sits in its own feces. I think it's wrong to put an animal through that. When I said something about why I'm not eating meat, people decide to debate how it's okay to eat meat. People try to justify their eating meat way too much. It's cowardly. Instead of just saying, "Yeah, it is wrong to eat meat, but I'm still giong to," people get way too defensive about it. I'm a pansy because I'm not going to eat meat? And, I will use my resources, and I won't have to kill animals. My guess is that if I don't die from an accident, I'll live longer than avg. life expectancy...how am I not using my resources? So, we should make others suffer more? Is it okay for us to cause them to suffer because it's going to happen anyways??? That seems like silly logic. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

No, I wouldn't try to stop anybody from eating meat. Do whatever you want. There are a lot of things that I wouldn't do because it's wrong for me. I'm not going to try to stop others, though. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

HAHAHAHAHA!!! Best advice yet on this thread! No, I was just talking about killing animals....to wear, eat, whatever. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

I think babies are more relevant to other animals than plants. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

I never said what's okay for others to do...I have my own moral guidelines. Another quote: What is it about the question of animal suffering that makes such ordinarily reasonable people fly off the handle? I don't really understand why we match human morals with animal morals. Lions' instincts are far greater than their capacity to understand emotions of other animals. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Oh! And we also have to produce even more food for the animals to eat...so, we're not even just mass producing grains that humans only need.... There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

So, it's okay to mass produce other living beings? Should we do that with babies? Should we mass produce kids...kill off the ones that we don't want? There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Are you sure about that? What about the animals that get trampelled in the factories? What about the ones that get sick and no one notices? I'm saying that, for me, it's okay to eat what I need to eat to live. It's not okay for me to know how hogs live in the factories and enjoy my egg McMuffin for a few minutes. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Everyone has their own moral guidelines to follow. For me, no, it would not be okay. I do not need to end a life so that I can enjoy a sandwich for 5 minutes. A great quote from Dominion: I am betting that in the Book of Life "He had mercy on the creatures" is going to count for more than "He ate well." There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Animals don't cage up other animals when they eat them. Animals don't have big factories of animals. Some animals are carnivores. We are not. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

I don't pretend to understand the emotions of animals (including humans.) But, they do exist. And, yes, we need to eat plants to live. Hence, if they really are suffering, it is a necessary evil. If it's not necessary, then it is just evil. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

Well, if it really is cruel to eat plants, then that is a necessary evil. We cannot live without eating plants. We can live without eating meat...that's why it went from being a necessary evil (when people did need to eat meat) to just being evil. There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning