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Anyone else bringing their BASE rig to Rantoul? I'm headed that way for the WFFC and have some ideas for some good jumps. Interested in hearing from any locals also.

That's too long. I'll be like 61 on Viagra by then... Ok well maybe not the Viagra part.

Yeah check this out... "Harrigan's Angel" gs: Howard Duff [ Harrigan ], Ed Nelson [ George Starrett ], Michael Cavanaugh [ Anthony Felber ], Robert Englund [ Belkin ], Michael Baseleon [ Crail ], Charles McDaniel [ Matthews ], Marte Slout [ Waitress ] A group of thieves pulls off an elaborate robbery at an electronics plant. While the security guard is distracted by a phone call from his boss, they drop a giant photographic copy of the building over the outside of their truck so that he won't be able to detect anything on his monitors. George Starrett, the head of the company, hires the Angels at the behest of his insurance carrier. They have threatened to cancel his coverage unless he brings in someone to assist the investigator already on the case. The Angels are bemused to learn that they must work with Harrigan, a hard-drinking, absent-minded bumbler. Kris volunteers to pair up with Harrigan because he reminds her of her alcoholic father. She struggles constantly to stop Harrigan from drinking and keep his focus on the case. While going through his notes, she discovers that a photo engraving truck made an unusual visit to Starrett Electronics. They visit North Valley Photo Engraving, where employee Belkin proves to be extremely tight-lipped about his store's services. Kelly and Tiffany talk with Felber, a man at the company whose stolen truck was used in the robbery. Although he seems cooperative, Tiffany becomes suspicious because he didn't offer them any coffee. A man in a large black truck rams into Kris's car and tries to force it off the road. Harrigan suggests a maneuver that allows them to successfully elude their pursuer. He writes down the license plate number, but a computer check reveals that it doesn't exist. Kris begins to put together a theory on how the robbery was carried out, including the use of the giant photograph. Kelly and Tiffany question Starrett about Belkin and Felber, but he claims not to recognize their names. Kris looks through Harrigan's belongings and discovers that he was once a very brilliant man employed by presidents and military leaders. He began to fall apart after the deaths of his wife and their baby in childbirth. Bosley calls Tiffany and reports that Starrett owns several warehouses where the stolen merchandise could have been sold for re-distribution. He also has a criminal record, and Belkin and Felber were arrested for involvement in the same crime. Starrett and his associate go after Kelly and Tiffany in the truck, but Tiffany spots it and recognizes the license number as the one identified by Harrigan. Kelly cuts off the truck, and Starrett's driver confesses and tells them that Belkin and Felber plan to kill Kris and Harrigan. Tiffany calls Kris, but Harrigan steps outside and gets shot before Kris can warn him. He is not seriously hurt, and they are able to fight off the two men. Harrigan thanks Kris for her kindness and promises to get himself back on track.

I also think that's a great idea. You get a strong enough showing and the powers that be might look at things a little different. Then again we might all get arrested and have our gear confiscated, but that might present the NPS and the legal system necessary to support their actions a whole other level of introspection. It may give us the leverage necessary to file a class action suit and actually make a difference in the argument. Anbody got a date in mind???

He may just be overly sensitive to the canopy not being "Perfect". I don't think it has anything to do with sloppiness. But I haven't seen him pack. Blind, have someone watch you pack and give you feedback. My first cutaway probably would have opened if I would have given it a little more time, but at the time, 60 jumps, it wasn't opening as expected and I felt like I was low, so I did what I thought was correct and landed my reserve. Nothing wrong with that! I have since had canopies snivel for 1800 feet and just watched my altitude and every thing has been fine. It's just another level of awareness.

THE List '05 World Free Fall Convention Rantoul, IL August 5-14 2005 BE THERE! Official Website, click here (attempting to keep the dz.commers screen names accurate) Gotta be there Free Load Organizers AND staff get top billing! WFFC STAFF RevJim Snowwhite (Beth) Streaker Load Organizers Flyangel2 LouDiamond - Wingsuit Vendors LouDiamond - BirdMan Gonna be there 2Fat2Fly Adrenalinejunki Airmail akurtom Alanab anothergoodin antifnsocial Bgill BMCD308 bobsled92 brothermuff65 bseriesboosted Buried CieloDiosa cocheese DaMan Drew Droquette EmLo eeneR flyinrob Freeflyin Nicki frenchy gemini Icon134 Kai2k1 Kris- FlockinA Meloo09 MrJones mwbad1 mx757 nate_1979 PrairieDoug P-nut-n-Lucky rhino RoadRash scottbre soulshine TallGuy tfelber tink717 tweak Vallerina windcatcher wingnut weegegirl scotty and tami carbone w/the carbonzone Gonna try to be there (A.K.A.: If I win the lottery, if I get money back on my taxes, if..., if..., if... By the way, if you see me, it's a miracle) Balls kansasskydiver ladyskydiver N2SKDVN Peej Piisfish skysprite wrongway Done

From the few posts on this subject I read I see people classifying it more in the realm of does it seem like work or not. I have very relevant experience with whether or not something you enjoy becomes a job if you need more background. I look at skydiving as something I do for enjoyment. Meaning if it's not enjoyable than I don't do it. If I was working as a AFFI, TI, or videographer and I made a jump in the morning but decided I would rather drink beer the rest of the day instead of jump I believe my job would be in danger. After all, the DZO is relying on me for whatever job I am doing to satisfy the demands of the customer. However, if I'm a fun jumper and decide after a couple of jumps I want to go home and spend some time with my son or start drinking becase I'm tired of waiting on the weather, than so be it... No one to answer to. Also, if I wake up and don't feel like going to the DZ or feel like sleeping later I'm not going to bitched slapped when I do get to the DZ. That's the reason I haven't pursued making money skydiving. Being around new jumpers is really cool, but right now it's not something I choose to do.

Mine should be finished this week. Apex has already delivered a few of them. I got a chance to look at Jimmy's while they were building it. It looks very much like a Vertex 2 with a larger, oblong rather than triangular tuck flap. The triangular flap on the Vertex2 I have been jumping doesn't like to stay tucked. I ordered mine with dynamic corners and they were extra. It appears to have a little more of a tapered shape to better accomodate wingsuit jumping. They are a little behind on production due to the temporary loss of some key personnel, like Karen. I'll let you know more after I get it.

I'm up for that...

I'm in agreement with larsrulz. Lift from a round can be seen when a parasail is pulled by a boat and the person is lifted into the air. The instant the boat stops pulling the lift goes to zero and the drag of the parachute keeps the person from going into freefall. Regarding inflation... When a no permiable object is thrown into a moving stream of air the laminar flow of air around the object creates a partial vaccum on the downwind side of the object. This partial vaccum would ten to aid inflation of a PC. However, the PC still functions as a scoop until full inflation or equillibrium is reached. At that point in time it operates as stated in larsrulz and my paragraph above state.

Dump it out. It's only to chill the glass.

While typing all I could think of was "I'm going home to make one!"

Fill your glass with shaved ice and cover with water. Take two to three olives and remove the pimentos. Stuff the olives with blue cheese and place a toothpick through them. Fill your shaker about half full with medium-sized chunks of ice, pour about a shot glass of vermouth over the ice and then dump it. Pour enough Stoli's to cover the rest of the ice and shake, shake, shake. Dump the ice from the glass and pour in the contents of the shaker. Place the olive skewer in the glass. You now have one of the best drinking, best tasting Martinis ever made!!!

That feeling is quite unnerving. Looking up and watching it collapse in on itself is a pretty frightening sight also!

Here's mine. I've put 22k on it, but I haven't been riding it much in the past couple of years. It's up on CycleTrader if anyone's interested.

How about bbarnhouse? She's pretty interesting.

My first car was a '70 Challenger with a 383 Magnum and a Slapstick automatic. My best friend had a '72 Cuda. I look around for another every now and then, but like you I already have way too many projects. $7500 sounds like a pretty good deal for both of you. What engine?

If you want to be good at wheelie's you need to learn to control the bike using the throttle and rear break. The natural tendancy when the bike gets too up is to drop your feet to catch yourself. Wrong, wrong, wrong. If you just dab the rear brake it will bring it back down. Once you find the balance between the throttle and the rear brake it's quite easy. Without this looping an R1 is quite easy. I've looped several bikes before I learned my lesson. 2nd or 3rd gear is probably the best to start because 1st is so narrow and the lift is much quicker. This is what has you inclined to shift on the way up. With 2nd or 3rd you should be able to bring it up to a balance point before needing to shift. Be light on the shifter, no clutch. Work on being in the power band when you twist the throttle and feel the lift. Again, no clutch! Try a small bike; a 4-stroke 75 or 100c. Less power, less weight, shorter distance to fall, and less speed. Same feeling!!!

That looks really sweet, but you better be expecting to land in the trees. If everyting goes right you'll be able to hit the trail, but any deviation from perfect and the trees are it!

I've got some pretty close frame video of her on the jungle gym though, wind noise and everything!

I would tend to agree with the "fixed-object" requirement.

How about low altitude baloon exits? I would classify that as other.

I think it is clearly there. However, my perceptions are scewed. I'm very interested in BASE and therefore when I catch a glimpse of something pertaining to BASE I notice it. I don't know if the rest of the masses do the same. It's clear the extreme sports following is rather large, but I'm not sure most people consider BASE a sport. The usual response I hear is "CRAZY". That's not always the best impression to leave an audience with from a marketing perspective. Sometimes when I have friends over or go to my favorite pub for a beer I'll through in one of my skydiving/BASE videos and people are almost always enthralled. I was checking into a hotel yesterday and the bell hop saw my camera and asked if I had any footage. I pulled it out, turned it on, and the next thing I knew there were four people looking over my shoulder. So I believe the demand is there, but now the question is what to do with it; if anything. There are people I see that I think are doing it wrong, ones that I think are doing it right, ones I think aren't doing anything, and ones I think don't want anything done. But what activities in your life do we not have these judgements about? I'm not interested in making money from skydiving or BASE jumping. If someone asked me to jump off or out of something so they could get some footage for a commercial, and they would pay me to do it, I pretty sure I'd say yes. I don't run around with my latest video trying to get people to accept it or buy it, but that's just because I'm not interested in that, nothing more - nothing less. I also have no issues with people who are interested in that. Some go a little overboard, but I'd bet that they go overboard with many things in their lives. It's just part of their personality. Who am I to judge them?

I think you guys are totally misinterpreting skyglider's vision. littlestranger, skyglider is not talking about marketing to BASE and the BASE community. It's about using the excitement of BASE jumping in advertisements for other goods to catch people's interest. sabre210 and many others, it's not about selling out hopes and dreams, it's about accomplishing something that a number of people are putting a great deal of effort into which is improving the public's perception of BASE and possibly regaining access to many of the best exit points in the US and elsewhere. I would love to go to Yosemite and make some jumps without the risk of getting arrested. If companies using BASE jumping footage to attract customers' attention enables non-jumpers to see the beauty of a jump gone well and thereby get behind the legalization effort, all the better. The person who jumped for the video is no different than most of the video out today. A single commercial would surely pay a great deal more than all the revenue from all the Triax videos combined. I don't see that as a bad thing. I don't think the release of Radix, Continuum, Thread the Needle, etc. has taken from BASE. It may have made it less underground which may remove some of the aura of the endeavor, but I'm not in it for the aura. Publicity probably makes it look easier and less dangerous than it really is, but perception and facts often vary greatly.

Yeah, he acts like it was an accident.