freaksister

noooooo noooooo you have got it all wrong! do NOT give dutchboy beer on april 13!!!! you MUST give beer to freaksister on april 13, as this is her birthday!! geeeeezzzzz what are you guys trying to do here? and skreamer you could possibly still be classified as a "new" member here...hahaha just kidding. nice to meet you doasfu and hellian...i saw your names on some posts and just figured you'd be around from now on! hehe unless you piss us off then you're pretty much screwed, 'cause we find you at the dz and pull your reserve handle at 11,000 feet so you get a nice, long cross-country reserve ride home damn i'm feisty tonight! must be the withdrawls kicking in...haven't had a drink since 4 AM...bummer

I have always been a canopy-control nut. I think it is sooooo important! I did static line so I got more canopy control instruction and less freefall instruction (that might have just been a fluke, though b/c of my JMs) anyway, I still did not feel comfortable under canopy. I wore a radio for about 23 jumps! haha I am more comfortable under canopy now, but I still watch my altimeter carefully and what other pilots are doing, in case the wind shifted and I can't see the windsock or something. Follow the leader! That's my motto! (unless he you know...dies or something.) Seriously though, I can't wait to take a canopy control course. I have the film Fly Like a Pro, but without being close to a DZ, without having a coach, it just isn't the same. I have played with my risers (damn they're hard to use! take so much effort!) and all that but there is much more to learn. I also need improvement on my accuracy. It isn't consistent. I don't land off DZ but I usually err on the side of too far from the peas than overshooting them. If you overshoot them too far, you'll hit a picnic table, maybe the parking lot...better to be out in BFE and safe. I came from a little DZ, with a C-182...I started going to a "big" DZ before I got my A license. I was nervous about all the canopies in the air at the same time, and ten people doing hook turns right in front of the beer line and the sign that says, "NO HOOK TURNS." So I just made it a point to keep my eyes open, and land a little further out if necessary. Now that I have been doing that for awhile, I can't seem to get closer so I can get the accuracy for my B or C license! It is like a rut, a habit I got into...for safety's sake! hehe If the ECPA or whatever its called gives instruction on all levels of experience, then its a damn good thing in my opinion. Teaching people how to do front riser turns safely if they want to is much better than letting people go experiment on their own and kill themselves. I don't think a "license" to hook turn is feasible, however...skydivers will say, "We already have a license to skydive, a PRO rating, a this rating and a that rating...who wants another damn rating? I am rated to do "hook turns" ...woohoo!" Not.

Very cool, Sped! Thanks! I was going to ask about Palatka, haven't been there before, but it looked cool on their website.

If you time it right, you can stay in the MGM Grand for $99 a night. That was about two years ago, though. Anyway, it was in May and that was probably still off-peak. Anybody flying from an area serviced by Southwest Airlines can buy tickets for $100 round trip to Vegas. They push Vegas BIG. All the regular casinos freaks from up here take Southwest only...because its so cheap. Screw the bungee jump, but I HAVE to ride the roller coaster on that tower thing. I forget what's called all of a sudden. I rode the one on New York New York but the other one was closed because of winds. The Stratosphere! That's what it is! BAM!!!!!

HAHAHAHA!!!! I am rolling in floor after reading those Texas jokes!! I grew up on a ranch so I know all about that (except the nightgown and tube socks thing, EEWWWW!) I don't wear boots (anymore) and my horse died (yes I really had one) Our ranch is for sale, and my friend Heather keeps trying to get me to turn it into a dropzone! To use someone else's phrase (I think jtval): Great googly moogly! Turn the ranch into a DZ? Outside of Pampa, Texas? You have GOT to be joking! The bunkhouse would be cool though, we got a jacuzzi tub, mirrored ceilings, the whole nine yards (or 640 acres, that's how big the ranch is) Not very big for a Texas ranch, though...I grew up killing rattlesnakes by chopping off their heads with garden hoes and driving out to our trash dump with my dad and cousins to shoot beer cans with .22's and handguns (they wouldn't let me have the shotguns, too big for a seven-year old, LOL) All the time I was growing up, my dad, good ol' Dr. A,(who was an abdominal surgeon during the week and a rancher on the weekends, lol) would set quail traps before Christmas. On Christmas morning, we would go out and get the traps, take the quail inside and together he and I would clean them. I can still remember how the blood smelled, weird. Anyway, we fried them and that was Christmas dinner...Fried quail, mashed potatoes, corn, etc. It was damn good too! Hungry? Sis OH...and Skreamer, you better watch out! If I'm not afraid of rattlesnakes, I sure as hell ain't afraid of you! Also, to dispell any myths, we are NOT backwards country folk. My whole point here is that educated people can be farmers, ranchers, TEXANS....and Okla"homos" too...my dad graduated summa cum laude from medical school at Tulane University, but taught me how to clean game...go figure! Never judge a book by its cover!

These things are personal experiences, and they're not drop down hilarious but still... You know you're a skydiver when your grandmother makes you a birthday cake and the icing is a picture of a parachutist.(Under a round, LOL! She dug out her old encyclopedias to find a picture!) too sweet!

That is soooooo funny! I am rolling in the floor at work! hahaha I totally printed that out so I can let the whuffos read it! Great, great!! absolutely classic! I too, always take my rig on commercial flights, no matter what! sis

I love my Pro-Track. Very reliable, very interesting, cool info. but most of all always right on track with the altitude. I can watch my altimeter, and listen for the Pro-Track, too cool! I dropped the Pro-Track in the plane about a month and a half ago, I guess somebody stepped on it before I noticed.... I picked it up but didn't notice anything wrong with it until after my jump. The battery cover was busted and sticking out. Of course, I knew it fell out in the plane, because I picked it up, but didn't really think anything was wrong. Of course I used my visual alti. on the way down!

cool! good ones, wingie! i liked those! especially the one about going 8 hours to jump, but not to "jump her" ...lol oh yeah, and the one about missing your dz.com buddies...i have wondered before if i was mental because i love this website so much? i mean, after all I AM a psychology person thingie doo...but I decided who cares! ya'll are kick ass so let's just go with it! it keeps me sane, anyway! LOL

hey guys! guess who?! haha anyway, i trained with good ol' aggie dave and we had to learn spotting! thing is, i changed dz's right before my A license, because i wanted to jump turbine planes...woohoo

dude, i am not following your requested format! :) it is too late (or early) not sure which one i have to say that i know i am a skydiver all the time, constantly. if you try to forget, somebody reminds you, asks you in the airport what is that backpack thing? why do ya'll think i used to wear that shirt about plane crashes, etc? lol, sick sense of humor answers their questions, sort of. i know i am a skydiver when...I get up in the morning, and all day and all night. Sorry this wasn't witty guys, forgive the freaksis.

ROFL! I was wondering who it was too! I never dreamed it would be Jessica! I wish she could come. sis

hey lisa got any of those pain pills left? hahahaha but, seriously.......... blue skies, pray i don't hit the oil refinery this weekend,if i can't jump i am gonna be pissed, i have to spot for the first time in 7 months, might hit the refinery after all, on the other side of the dz is a prison, why am i going to oklahoma again? Sis...

hehe, your mom sounds just like mine!

nope, Hornet...like a Sabre though. Just gotta remember to roll the nose or it will whack me. So much for the owner's manual...

123, they live in Oklahoma, and I live in Texas...they are about five or six hours from where I live, but I have family there so I have things to do if it rains (like get drunk and try to keep my dad from noticing) LOL more specifically, they are in Cushing, OK (near Stillwater) and I live in Canyon, Texas (between Amarillo and Lubbock basically) sis

hey dutch, yeah i am going to ask karen. i see her regularly. i met her last year in colorado, and now she and her sweetie greg are based at my dropzone, skydive dallas...i wouldn't want to get a jumpsuit from someone else anyway, i consider her a friend and a very cool person! sis

I know why they call it opening shock...because it's such a hard freakin' opening you are in medical shock for five minutes after opening, trying to figure out if the leg straps cut your legs off or not...LOL Oh, that's just my canopy?? oops...Oh, I forgot to roll the nose?? my bad...Guess I am the only one who ever has flashbacks of Headbanger's Ball on half my jumps!

Monk! I missed you! I didn't know if you were gone forever or what! Sorry to hear about your friend . I cannot imagine how it must have felt. I didn't come for Spring Break because I am coming for three days in April. Already got my tickets. My mom is going to be there too, since she has to go to Mesa for some continuing education thing. She wants to see Skydive AZ...maybe you will be there, it is April 6,7,8...the weekend before my birthday! Glad you are going to get back into the air. Glad you are back on dz.com too. Blue Ones, April

Ya'll so craaaaazzzzyyyyeeee! LOL hehe! blue skies? white and grey is fine with me if they let me jump outta dat der plane...spotting? i'll buy a gps...not!

I don't have aol im... took me awhile to respond, i just got in a MAJOR fight with my roommate and apparently "ex" best friend. she went to the bar and got drunk and has been ranting and raving about some email i sent. geez, how juvenile. it wasn't even about her. guess she'll be moving out soon, that's what i get for being best friends with a whuffo huh? sis

how perky do you want it to be? i mean look at us, its now 3:41 there 2:41 here! we are craaazyyyy i am looking at freefly suits trying to decide who to buy one from. i really like karen's suits at "Freedom Means Choice" but I want reflective 3M tape on the legs...maybe she can hook me up... sis

how about three sentences? since the little amphibian didn't use just three words either! (hehe) 1) a skydiver who lives too far from the dropzone 2) a devoted daughter and family member 3) a perennial college student *if* I had been allowed to add a fourth, it would be 4) rape crisis/domestic violence worker so three words huh? not one of us has only used three so far! hahaha does that mean we are self-centered? what if i wanted to add that i am good in ---? ok, ok, sorry frogger, just playing around! LOL The Sistah

I missed this post because I was already out of town when Cyberstud posted it. I would have had to go with "post something witty" because this is what I did: I got drunk, decided it was 4:20, AND I attended safety meetings...uh, yeah...so, I attended the seminars and talked everyone's ears off but didn't hang in the harness because I was wasted and would have failed, thereby theoretically killing myself, hahaha...So it was a rather interesting Safety Day if I must say so myself! I don't know how long before I can summon the nerve to show my face in front of the dzo again, but HEY! no big deal, right? I mean, we skydivers are supposed to act crazy, aren't we?? "which malfunction were we discussing again, sir?" LOL j/k Sis

I second that, Wingie! I wish I could have learned when I was 16 too! He, Skyhawk, and Jumpergirl have us beaten hands down! Jumpergirl is my age now, but has been jumping since she was 16...between them and Mike Mullins' kids, we don't stand a chance! LOL Sis