Jasmin

He was wearing a rig...its just he only had a pilotchute out xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Has been done, unintentionally, in France by a BASE jumper. The ambulance refused to take him to possible, they said there was no point. His fellow jumpers took him in the back of a van, he did live. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

1 beer= 2 soft-drinks is the usual rule.... 3 turbine aircraft 130 FREE cases of beer $25 tix a stack of dz.commers If anyone overseas, or interstate, is interested in coming and playing in the sunshine, let me know!!!! While I'm at it, what is the australian dz.com record? Can we set it? I'm still trying to organise the Aust. tube-exit record out of the skyvan for the boogie, which guarantees a keg for the participants if we pull it off...should be interesting... xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Hmmm, this sounds familiar Got hit by a car this year...broke ribs this year!!? I reeeeeeeally wanted to jump but circumstances didn't allow me to thank goodness. Just remember that one bad landing/opening = several bad months of no jumping. Take it easy. Make sure you can twist at the waist, arch, roll about, jump, take jolts etc pain free... I did my first jump back after 7 weeks and had to be helped out of bed the next morning....that said, I still would have tried to jump had I known that was going to happen....I was going nuts as a land lubber!! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

At the current conversion rate, that makes it somewhere around $12.60 a jump??!! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

To my dear compatriots (and anyone else bloody interested!) Picton is having a AUD$25 boogie over x-mas/NY's from 26th of dec to 7th Jan 10 FREE cases of beer a night $25 slots skyvan twin otter a NEW turbine 17 seater XL ( ie a bloody big cresco) NY's party incl. You MUST pre-register to get the cheap slots rate, check out the site for details and rego forms: http://www.sydneyskydivers.com.au/xmasboogie.htm Hope you can come play with me...stupidity and mass hysterics guaranteed! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

For our dear Mr Lutz, I believe the line is "Where were you hiding when they strained out the gene pool???" xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

That's what they're saying at work.... xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

In the last 20+ years, I've seen a few DCBM's.... "Don't come back monday!!" Although my favourite has to be the guy at one of the last quincy's who walked back from the landing area with his freebag showing and then tried to argue that it wasn't, and that the tube stow around his reserve handle (to stop it dislodging on the way tot he dz) wouldn't have stopped him pulling his reserve....despite the fact he couldn't dislodge it when asked to prove it.... xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

It has always been, and apparently always will be, "TROUBLE" xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Where in Sydney? Redfern? xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

I hosted a show for nickelodeon and clear idea tv (uk) when I wsa younger xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

ummm not really. My parents met skydiving....although they're now divorced.... I've been around skydiving my whole life, I can honestly say there isn't much I haven't seen of the good, the bad and the ugly... xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

I'm cheered I'm just wondering if this is going to cut out sometime....its getting a little tiresome, you know? I really shouldn't expand on this one other than Liquid nitrogen + nipples =hurt Even in summer....and especially when its on them unintentionally.... xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Hmm I'll take a carlton cold please...you know what VB stands for here in NSW? Very Bad xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

3;2;1 I love victoria....but only to visit xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

As some of you may recall I am having a bumper year....it ain't getting better.... This year: Total mal which I didn't pack. Had to land on the median strip of the freeway. YEP, Between the opposing lanes of traffic....on my reserve... Broken ribs thanks darling Charlie, donated whilst hanging out at the DZ.... Liquid nitrogen and boobies should not mix....I ain't saying any more on that one.... Broken hand thanks to Obes's brother, who was too drunk to hold me after trying to put me over his shoulder... Got hit by a car whilst jogging on a work trip in Melbourne (Australia).... bruised spleen, liver and pelvis and a trip to hospital for CT scans, x-rays and a couple of needle jabs to my posterior.... And to top it off... Yesterday I got nicely electrocuted. A furnace I was using decided to turn me into a human grounding plug... I thank God for getting me through the rest of the crap I've had this year....but this is just seeming a little unfair!!! Q. Has anyone else had a run like this, or am I just pissing someone off upstairs??!! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Umm I'd like to correct you on that one...its not quite as simple as showing off to the Ci on your first day.... The jumper must meet the requirements of the lic unless show cause can be given. eg You may arrive in australia with a foreign d lic and not be signed off to jump without an aad. If the d lic requirements in your country were 150 jumps, no other display of competency or currency req'd (eg star crest, spotting, landing ability...I'm being stupid on the jump no's to make my point here) your d probably won't be acknowledged as equivalent to our d for the waiving of restrictions. The CI's tend to do a fine job of assessing ability with jump numbers and foreign lic's and qualifications to assess what a foreign jumpers' rating is equivalent to on our scale....signing off a higher lic than what you have, can be an altogether different thing though... You also need to consider that dz's can impose their own rules (we have a few at our dz) and the ci's may also do the same to you.... At the end of the day, if you meet the req's for our e lic and show competency and currency, no worries. But it seems like a big deal over something that seems like such a little thing: its simple! AAD's are mandatory ps Our lic go up to F.....eg Dad is F#3 pps Star crest is an award here in australia and is actually needed for a b lic at my dz. http://www.apf.asn.au/apf_admin/downloads/opregs2003.pdf Is the apf site xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

What do you expect...he was from Dapto!!! Although I've nto yet seen a firecracker lit between someone's ass cheeks, who can forget seeing a certain jumper running around with a wad of lit newspaper between his cheeks??!!! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

um yep. did on sat and my ass now looks like it belongs on a cheetah!! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

There is a biiiiiiiig difference between $1400 and $50,000 when you are a student or unemployed....(I was both when I started saving for my first rig...) Seriously guys, do I have to remind you that they are nationally mandatory below d lic (soon to be e lic) here in Oz when excusing my post??!! I mean, if you want to be that pedantic and stupid about it, how about we don't skydive or drive at all, wouldn't that be safer??!!! We can take this to an all new level of stupidity if you like, such as what if a bird hits you and kills you in freefall, what if a meteor comes in and knocks you out?!! How silly do you want to be about this??!! I listed these scenarios because both of those scenarioshave happened to people I know!!!!! My gf was the girl who had the bloody cypress fire. The 2 knockouts were also both mates of mine and the footage is pretty scary. (I do accept my snafu, tonto, and wish to insert the words "may save" for "will save") They are nationally mandatory and I was just trying to say I will not tolerate anyone breaking the rules on this one, if the risk is of f*#king up my dz. Furthermore, I don't accept penny pinching as an excuse for doing so, when there's gear for hire at my dz for those without an aad and an e lic. I'm happy to buy a beer and jump with any dz.commer who heads over here, all I ask is that if you do decide to join us here in the sun, that you do the right thinig by us And I'm not going to get dragged into another bloody aad debate....again!! ps nothing is idiot proof: "never underestimate the ingenuity of stupidity". pps I got knocked out on opening once....it was the first, and the last, jump I did without a cypress...I hesitate to think what would happen if I'd been knocked out 2 seconds earlier... xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

0:0:0 Oh well off to Melbourne next w/e to try again! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

"Never underestimate the ingenuity of stupidity" xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Thanks for the advice and the support. It just sucks when you dread opening you pm box. Will block him from pm'ing me and he better look out....the karma fairies are onto him!!! Blue skies y'all, be good to one another.... xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

I arrive thu leave sat night. Will have a hire car in melbourne so I'll be there for sure!! MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT YET??!!! Getting my boss into skydiving!! He just passed stage 6 and is loving it. Now I get to take the odd morning off to go skydiving!!!! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."