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Son of a....!!! I lost to "tooyt"! Blues, Dave OH MY GOD!!!!! ROFLMAO!!!! I'm glad YOU think it's funny! OK, I LSHIFF myself. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Son of a....!!! I lost to "tooyt"! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I just used the first freefall as an example, it being (in my experience) the scariest to JM. I was a S/L and IAD JM myself and took students from first jump to A-license. That said, I think I know where the disagreement is coming from. I never had a coach rating and am mostly doing AFF progression these days. With that in mind, my students are cleared to jump with coaches at the same time as they are cleared to self-jumpmaster. At one DZ where I work, students are under the supervision of an IAD-I until their 10 second delays, then they're bumped to full altitude and go with an AFF-I for 4 jumps (essentially Levels 4-7), and then they're cleared to jump with coaches (or do solo's). Without offense intended toward any current coaches, I personally am just not comfortable clearing a student of mine to jump with a coach unless I'm also confident that the student will take care of themselves if the coach goes low or whatever. Most of the coaches I know are competent fliers and anxious to be good instructors, but not all. That said, in a pure S/L or IAD system, I wouldn't be dispatching a student on 20 second delays unless I was confident they'd take care of themself. So I guess I could see allowing coaches to jump with those students on a case-by-case basis (i.e. I trust the coach's flying abilities at least to the extent that they won't take the student out) I also work at a DZ with numbers similar to those. We started offering AFF last year, but before that we were strictly IAD & S/L (both of which we still offer, but few take us up on it). We used I's until students were cleared to self-jumpmaster. Really, with that low of volume, why do you even need coaches to do those jumps? Not enough I's to handle the load? Both are allowed to do the same things. However, being allowed to do something doesn't mean squat if the rating holder is a hundred yards away. The person with more experience jumping with students is more likely to be in the same piece of sky with an unstable student. You seem to agree that the one with more student jumps will be better at flying with students. Whether these jumps were picked up under a coach rating or an I rating, they build experience. If you don't trust your coaches to be able to dodge a meat missile coming straight at them from distance, why would you trust them to jump with a meat missile that can't yet fall in a straight line? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't recall any camera/video's around. Me neither. We can try that next time if ya want. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Why must you be so mean to me. What have I done to receive such flaming? Is your self esteem so low that your forced to put me down to make yourself feel more like a man. Don't flatter yourself Scott. The only person I took pictures of this weekend was Gia, and nobody else seems offended by that. Also, look at the fun I've poked at Jason, JD, Roy, and Bill in here, and the taunts they've thrown out about me before you complain that you're being picked on. For the record, I think every guy I know has an ugly mug. Women = pretty faces, Guys = ugly mugs. Of course that's just my opinion, feel free to disagree. Now go take a Midol and a nap. Maybe you'll feel better later. See ya at the DZ this evening? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I assume that she uses "arlo" as a screen name? Yea, that's rough. Mine is wiskydiver1 though, and I'm not toooo bad.... No, she has the same screenname that she used on the rec. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Nice Dave I help save a place for your camper and you cant even include me in a single pic. And you said you were my friend . I would have to say my tent mate was looking good in her pics. Hello! I didn't take a camera to LP. (of course if I did, I probably wouldn't have burned any film on your ugly mug) Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Actually, I was reviewing a certain container manufacturer's website yesterday and was floored to see that a reasonably equipped container was retailing for nearly $3,000. That was just with rings, soft reserve handle, hackey handle, and fancy RSL...no hook knife, tie-dye, embroidery, pinstripes, or fancy backpad. You might be able to do the parachute angle if you separate the canopy and the logo into separate expenses. The description should hinge on whatever your company does. e.g. Advertising - Market Presence Dynamic Display. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Jeezus! Try going up against Arlo! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I have a daughter starting college next year. I've committed to helping out financially. I'm strongly encouraging her to cut costs, but I'm going to give her X dollars per month and the only condition will be that she stay in school, apply herself to her studies, and get decent grades. What she does with the rest of her time and any leftover money is her business not mine. Sidenote that'll perhaps explain my stance. I've often thought that skydiving is a seriously selfish hobby. It's dangerous, and there's a distinct possibility I could deprive my daughter of her father and my mother of her son while doing something just for "fun". But I still jump. Why? Because I figure that if I quit to protect them, I'd most likely grow to resent them for depriving me of that fun, (at least in some dark recess of my heart), despite it being entirely my choice. Relevance? I've taken my daughter on one jump and she has a standing offer for me to pay for her training should she ever decide it's something she wants to take up. That prospect scares me, but the rationale I used to justify my own jumping has to go both ways. Similarly, if I told my daughter who's (by then) reached the age of majority that my financial assistance is conditional upon her not participating in certain fun activities, I'd expect that she'd resent that. And for what purpose? As long as she's getting the education that I'm helping pay for, what business do I have telling her how she is allowed to spend her free time and money? I give her money to help her get an education, not to keep her under my control. It really is that simple. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Agreed. Excellent flick! All the parts came together spectacularly. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

FYI - on the golf cart batteries he means 6 volt, wired in series instead of parallel. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Who's pictures should I use? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Mine came with a single group 24 that had been sitting on the trailer all winter while it was hooked up to shore power (trickle charging). Needless to say it was dead. I replaced it with parallel 115 AH group 27's and still had 12.1 volts Sunday afternoon, after running the furnace for 4 nights, plus lights (porch light all night one night), 30 gallons of water pumping, and one night of drinking blended drinks (using an inverter). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Agreed. And watch your spending so you don't end up asking your parents to subsidize your lifestyle/education more than they've already agreed to. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Oxymoron Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Depends on what you want to do with it. AC? Microwave? TV? All at the same time? You should be pretty well self-contained already for the basics, if your batteries are in good shape. Ya got propane for the fridge, water heater, furnace, and stove. Battery power will run the lights, the water pump, and the fan in the furnace. You've got fresh, grey, and black tanks, the capacities of which (fresh most likely) will probably be the limiting factor on how long you can "dry-camp" (remain self-contained). You can hook up your truck and give a supplemental charge to the batteries if need be mid-trip, and a couple propane tanks can last awhile too. I just bought a trailer last month and got to learn all this stuff myself. I had to buy some extra stuff and make a couple mods, but got through Prairie with hardly a hiccup (other than running out of water). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

How would she have taken those? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I was waiting for this part to come up, as I agree. I've never owned or met a strictly indoor cat who didn't seem happy as a clam to just be pampered and not have to deal with the stresses of "the wild life". Note this refers to spayed/neutered cats, which all pets should be. Occasional supervised outdoor ventures (fenced yard) seem to be a nice change of pace, and that's how they treat it...as "interesting" but not somewhere they'd want to live. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

That's JD, aka FlankSteak on dz.com. You should see the trick he did going off the Lounge porch. That one grounded him for the weekend-plus. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Yup! I forget what a funny word it is till someone points it out. Walla Walla, WA ("the town so nice they named it twice") is another funny one. It's about 50 miles from where I live now (80 miles south of Yakima). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Mine's pretty similar, but I made it out of my state for a couple years while in the Navy. Puyallup, WA Federal Way, WA Sumner, WA Des Moines, WA Burien, WA Tukwila, WA Tumwater, WA Puyallup, WA Federal Way, WA Puyallup, WA Federal Way, WA San Diego, CA (home port of the ship I was on) Huntington Beach, CA Federal Way, WA Spokane, WA Federal Way, WA (mailing address for a few years of fishing in Alaska) Puyallup, WA Pasco, WA Kennewick, WA Richland, WA West Richland, WA Richland, WA Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Wow! One house and one dormitory? That's crazy! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I think I've found most of O'Connell's stories, but this isn't the thread to clutter them with. I'll post them in a thread with a more appropriate title. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I agree that it's bullshit, but at the same time I don't think he'll mind. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)