PLFXpert

ME NEITHER...unless you count my pinky toe. I've knocked the wind out of myself a hundred times, though, while wakeboarding and suffered quite a few gashes surfing. Other than that, I'm fit as a fiddle.

i HATE shoes...so I reluctantly wear sandles w/ an ankle clasp while jumping...they don't call me PLFXpert for nothing (thankfully, for my past 30 jumps, the name hasn't applied)...I had come in and scrapped my foot and my big toe nail ripped off. Okay, I can take a lot of pain, but you have NO IDEA what that felt like. OUCH! It didn't rip off all the way so I just pushed it back down and about a week later, it fell off....mmm, sounds delicious, huh? I also broke my pinky toe on that 14th jump I mentioned in the other thread. Nothing you can do about a broken toe and actually, it didn't hurt so bad. The toe nail hurt like a Be-atch.

Ha ha ha...any living thing gets my love, but I'M JUST A HUGE animal lover. I was always pissed at Bin Laden, but since I've seen the video on Time.com of Alqueda gassing a golden retriever, NOW I'M REALLY PISSED! I wanted to join the peace corps after high school to help stop poaching in Africa and join the group that kidnaps the bears in asia, before they can cook them alive...they told me I needed a college degree before I could join. Of course, since then I've met my boyfriend...I still consider, though. That shit pisses me off. I understand different cultures have different practices...but poaching and cooking bears alive is not a cultural thing and it pisses me off. Okay, this thread just took a whole new turn....so getting back on subject: I'm unique b/c I don't cry during the news when someone was murdered (I just feel bad) but if an animal was injured, I'm outright bawling about it. Also, unique b/c I sing AND dance to most television commercials w/out even realizing it. It's just a natural habit, I guess.

1.5 years jumping/120 jumps/0 reserves=0% Knock on wood. But, I've had 4 line twists and one hard pilot chute pull, a gazillion hard openings and one PLF into a tree. About that last one...on my 14th jump, the cloud cover was so bad, you couldn't see ANYTHING ANYWHERE below...everyone got out and trusted the pilot and like an idiot, so did I. No-one on that load landed on the DZ but all managed to make it to a field or road. I tried my damnedest to make it to this field and I ended up landing 5 feet away from it RIGHT IN A TREE. I was fine, but really muddy, checked my gear, packed it up, and jumped again 30 minutes later...ha ha ha ha (by then the clouds had cleared.)

Depend on your state laws. Here in Florida, it is perfectly legal. However, they must give notice.

Nope, $120 IS SOMETHING...I realize it's ridiculous to spend that much on coffee a month...I'm a full-time student so most of my investments go towards bills and rent and more investments....I work simply for extras, like SKYDIVING and b-days gifts and other weekend fun. I figure, though, it's $120 a month going towards healthy bones since my macchiato is all milk and two shots of espresso. Otherwise, I'd never drink milk and I'd be falling asleep by 10 a.m. It's my one treat to myself, when it comes to all other groceries, it's publix brand or SAMS for me.

ha ha ha ha....nope, just supporting my investments...and trust me, the dividend is LARGER than i could spend on coffee beans and macchiatos. But enough about Starbucks....sheesh!

Yup, and I LOVE IT b/c I bought stock in Starbucks years ago.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA! I'm a huge animal lover...and living things all together. I won't kill a fly in my house. I'll capture it and put it outside. My ONLY exception is cockroaches....I'll put a bowl over them and make my boyfriend get them. I can't STAND them...but that is THE ONLY exception. I love animals soooooo much. I'm every dog in our neighborhood's "auntie carrie." I take them all to the beach and swim w/ them...ha ha ha. I have a key to more people's houses to come play w/ their animals than you'd ever believe. I have two kitties and I want a dog and a salt water fist tank, but right now, my house is not big enough for a dog. I'd like to adopt a greyhound but my boyfriend wants a boxer. I wanted to be a marine vet my ENTIRE life since I could talk until I went to UF and took my first chemistry class. Sadly, I had to WORK for an A in that class and didn't want my whole college course life to be like that, so I switched my major in my first semester. I'd still love to be a vet, though. But instead, I'll sell pharmaceuticals and make enough money to have a lot of pets.

THAT WILL BE ME....ha ha ha....what do you have against Starbucks??? I'm a coffee ADDICT and I live one street down the beach from a Starbucks so I'm there every morning. Great for networking.

Yea, currently I'm a full-time student so I can only work part-time...Il make enough to pay my bills and make about 4 jumps a week. It's not 40 jumps a week, but it's good enough for now, until I have a full-time job and can increase my sky-intake.

Well, I wasn't involved in the threads discussing the idea of skydiving in the X-games...but my opinion, a little attention to our sport, couldn't hurt. When I wakeboarded, I enjoyed watching my friends on television. I also enjoyed all the freebies that go along w/ commericalization. Then again, not being commercialized kinda weeds out the idiots.

Yup, skydiving is gone from the X-games....I think they took it out right when I started AFF. That would be about 2 years ago.

Bankruptcy? Not necessarily. I consider myself a *responsible* skydiver. I work my ass of so I can skydive AND pay my bills. I have excellent credit and NO DEBT. Some people take one road, others take another, neither is right/wrong, just different choices. If you don't want to be bankrupt, you don't have to be and you can still skydive.

ME TOO! I started skydiving to learn to skyboard...that was before I knew about ALL OF THE OTHER things you can do. Like most whuffo's, I thought, you either fell and hung out on your belly or you skyboarded. That's all they really show on t.v. so that's what I thought. I still wouldn't mind trying skyboarding one day but now I'm stoked on freeflying and perfecting head down. Did you ever compete in wakeboarding? Maybe we met before. I toured w/ team Liquid Force briefly.

I would have to agree w/ this for a LOT of things in life.

Welcome! Yup, sell them now. I sold 3 surf boards, 2 wakeboards and all my gold jewelry (which I never wore anyways) to pay for my habit. Oh, and also sold my scuba gear. I still wakeboard/surf/scuba but now I borrow equipment, and I kept one really shitty surf board that I wouldn't have gotten much for anyways. I've been jumping for a year and a half and pretty much everything I spend my money on depends on how many jumps it will cost. So, sell away!

Ohhhhhh, I see. Hmmm....I'll have to think about that. But my first thought is, it's a team that wins, not any single person. That one person can't make the rest of the team move faster or make grips. From the other perspective though, if it were me, I wouldn't want a player coach b/c I wouldn't want the backlash of people telling me I only won b/c of X person. I'd rather win w/ people at the same skill level as me.

I wasn't on said, plane...Ha ha ha. You asked a lot of questions, but to answer one: I don't think I see anything wrong w/ a team getting a pro-coach. Every team has the same opportunities to be coached. If one team has one, nothing is stopping another team from getting one. It's a free market. Also, no matter much coaching you have, you are still competeting on your own, with your own skills. It doesn't matter how much you practiced or who you practiced with, it matters how well you perform. A coach can't magically make you perform well, they can only *coach* you in the right direction. What about sons/daughters of DZ owners who start competeting....would it be fair for them to compete when they had top notch coaching from the get go? Or what about me? I've had an excellent flier jump w/ me on nearly EVERY jump since i"ve started (my boyfriend)...does that put me at an unfair advantage? I don't think so. There are tons of really good jumpers that anyone can ask, "hey, will you jump w/ me."

Clint Clawson won. Other than that, I forget but I'm sure the results will be posted soon.

Geez, I watched the weather report this morning, but I didn't see anything about a shit storm. Yes, but do you like ketchup? I find most people that don't like straight tomatoes, like ketchup or spagetti sauce and other tomatoe products. My favorite lesson learned: When I was little I said I HATED butter and mayonaise. So, for dinner (and my dad never cooks) he made me a grilled cheese sandwich. After I was licking my fingers, he said, "did you like it." I was like, "mmmm,hmmmmm." He said, "then you must not HATE butter and mayonnaise b/c there was butter on the bread and mayonaise on the inside."

Ha ha ha. I was con'ed into buying a rig that didn't fit me either. I didn't know anybody in the sport when I bought when and sales people are sales people whether they're skydivers or not. I bought a HUGE Dolphin that was WAY TOO BIG for me and not freefly friendly. My rig had so many variation on it to keep it from falling off me and to make it freefly safe. It looked really funny. Finally, someone bought it and I bought a Javelin NJ that was made to fit a girl EXACTLY my size. I learned my lesson, that's for sure. Normally, I"m not an easy one to pull a fast one on. I guess I was just so excited to get my first rig, I bought the first thing offered to me.

Way to go, moody. A lot of girls would have never come back. That's awesome! I met my boyfriend right after I graduated AFF. I wouldn't jump w/ him for the longest time b/c he had 3000+ jumps and I felt silly b/c I've always kicked sausage ass when it comes to extreme sports and I didn't want to look like a girl in the air. Ha ha ha. I got over it quickly, though, and now I have my personal instructor on every jump! I love my boy-toy and I'm fortunate he puts up w/ me.

I had always meant to try skydiving but when something in my life happened...I sort of put everything I wanted to do on hold. Finally, I just said, "f*ck it, I'm getting my life back together," and I scheduled AFF1. It's exactly what I needed, and I've been jumping ever since.

The politics one is pretty funny...except for the husband cheating on his wife.