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  1. virgin-burner
    ha! ha! ha! didnt knew my nick made it into urban dictionary.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  2. virgin-burner
    hey now, in defense of mark, which happens to work in the industry, that sold me a sturdy piece of workmanship and took his time off on a sunday to guide me through it, i think you're being a little harsh.. there's coaching at my dz, with video-debrief, from a guy that's a good flier, and all he's charging is his slot; way to go! if you need to earn money in the sport, why dont you sweat your ass off on a packing-mat, do some rigging, or teach AFF or haul meat all day long.. i bet you're the same guy that rants about less people getting into it, teaching them to skydive is one thing, teaching them to fly, well you should do that because you may want to have more people to play with, and because you want to give something back. skydiving is expensive enough as it is,. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  3. virgin-burner
    How come I keep hearing otherwise from so many people...? they dont work for aerodyne!? And they have no clue how to fly a canopy, so there is no hope in helping them anyways :) since you seem the man to talk to; do you guys offer demos in europe as well? and while we're at it, a pilot of similar size in either ZP or ZPX, how does it relate to say a safire2 of the same size! in packvolume? “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  4. virgin-burner
    why, oh why, did i have a pretty good idea of what was to come BEFORE i clicked on that link!? “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  5. virgin-burner
    “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  6. virgin-burner
    you can hire me as the local SKYGOD.. i'll do the WS-AFF part of the operation! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  7. virgin-burner
    http://www.20min.ch/news/zuerich/story/Basejumper-Ueli-Gegenschatz-ist-tot-16619289 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4eLjeg58Mc “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  8. virgin-burner
    you digging him!? “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  9. virgin-burner
    she is!
  10. virgin-burner
    How come I keep hearing otherwise from so many people...? they dont work for aerodyne!? “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  11. virgin-burner
    I'm not down on my looks and I'm not looking for compliments. I just figure us less-than-perfect people can all get naked and bump nasties .. leaving the pretty people out. I was just curious if anyone would claim the Ugliest Skydiver title. Also, I wonder who has the most ghetto rig here. i concur! BTW, it's up for sale! VERY cheap.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  12. virgin-burner
    NOBODY is as ugly as shropshire! but he gets overlooked SOOOO often.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  13. virgin-burner
    OUCH!!! be happy your tib/fib are still in place.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  14. virgin-burner
    jenn's awesome!
  15. virgin-burner
    Why don't you guys (chute manufacturers) sit down, have a beer and pick a measuring method you will all use in future? Like standardized method? I know each method of measuring has its pluses and minuses but just agree on one and there should be no more confusion. that would be way too reasonable for those cliquish skydivers.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  16. virgin-burner
    Wow, nice fucking attack asshole. lame; try again after your holiday! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  17. virgin-burner
    Is that what you were taught on your FJC ? Has anybody here carried out a canopy transfer ? or seen one ? there's a lot of shit swung around here in this thread.. Hey VB... glad you feel so strongly about giving advice without any training as an instructor... from the USPA SIM: d. If it is too low for a safe cutaway (below 1,000 feet) and the canopies are uncontrollable, both jumpers should deploy their reserves. This is in reference to a canopy collision... but yes. Below 1,000 feet and you suddenly have a damaged canopy, you would disconnect your RSL and pull your reserve. You want to challenge that. Seriously? What would your advice be? if you havent figured by now, no collision, a damaged canopy on opening, somewhere around 3000ft; plenty of time even for the slowest person to figure something was wrong.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  18. virgin-burner
    Wow.... gotta love dz.com. Thanks Mark. Exactly what I was saying. Below 1000' no student should EVER cut away and if a canopy is questionable on landing it at that point you should disconnect RSL and pull reserve. VB: If you are questioning that and my ability to be an AFF I then you are also questioning the most highly rated I/E's as well such as Bram Clement. look, milli, in all friendliness: you wouldnt become an AFFI here with 500 jumps in over a decade; in fact, they wouldnt even let you do tandems.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  19. virgin-burner
    i still skydive the shit out of you! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  20. virgin-burner
    just like him “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  21. virgin-burner
    you with your limited number of posts on here obviously dont know i'm haning around the bonfire mostly.. but yea, thanks for proving my point! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  22. virgin-burner
    that's really hard to beat mate.. maybe turtle!? “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  23. virgin-burner
    Iranians speak Farsi, not Arabic. Oooops Maybe Shah 269 speaks both.
  24. virgin-burner
    with all the steroids he's doing.. it's not working anyway! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda
  25. virgin-burner
    that's what i mean; i've never heard of "canopy transfers" in my FJC either! and that wasnt too long ago.. attempting to land an obviously heavily damaged canopy is nothing but pure STUPD! and there's a perfect examply of people breaking themselves with "only snapped lines" in GSD, posted within days of this nonsense here.. the first part of what we quoted, the part from kmills, is especially scary, she's a freshly licensed AFFI! seems like another perfect example of "i'm an internet-skygod and know the FUCK BETTER than you do!".. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda