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Never said it was about me. A lot of fatalities have occurred and and a lot more will occur and yet skydiving is still going strong, no fatality has any revolutionary impact.. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

Why do they care if any of us takes a dirt nap? It's not like they know us, not like they jump with us, not like they're going to jump with us in the future.. To care for someone, you have to know the person well. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

It's the vintage army surplus round system version of the modern 3ring release system.. From what I remember reading a real bitch to work with.. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

Exactly. You all babble, you should have done this, you shouldn't have done this, I would have done this bla bla bla.. Yeh yeh, you people would have done a perfect save from a mal behind your PC in your warm room, you (nor me, nor anyone else) knows exactly how they're going to react to stressfull situations and even the almighty skygod with 10k jumps can fuck up on some kind of emergency.. So quit all the bullcrap and chill out with your "you're going to die, oh noes, look at your bad cutaway, look at you flying a cam at these jump numbers", I'm so fucking sick of this DZ.com bullshit! Rant out. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

What about those who realize it, then deny it, then realize it again and then don't care about it? "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

Yeah I figured that much, already did google him before reading this reply, thanks anyway

You're right, I don't know him. My bad here. Anyway, I have a Micron on order and since this a very disturbing topic, should I be worried about this reserve PC problem (what exactly is the problem, doesn't the PC work properly, is it prone to extreme hesitation?), if I should, any solutions you peeps could suggest? "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

But seriously, come on, everybody has made some mistakes while packing, no ones perfect

That's why I'm asking "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

As often you got some valid points there, I got to agree. It indeed was a distraction factor in this "sloppy" cutaway.. Still, can 100 more jumps prepare him for everything that is to come when flying a camera, instead of actually practicing flying it, having a bump or two in the way, but actually learning the real deal early on? What makes a person so special that in 100 jumps his awareness changes so uber drastically that he can now officially fly a camera? "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

There's another thread where typical DZ.comers bash a 100 jump guy with a GoPro who ditched his helmet before cutaway, yet he is all ok and well and nobody else was hurt as well.. This can be an exactly same analogy, because next time this guy can pull his friends RESERVE handle on exit instead of a cutaway, now that would make for a "fun" video wouldn't it? As I pointed out in another thread, it's all about jump numbers here, if you're below 200, you're gonna be bashed no matter what you do, above that and you're in the cool zone.. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

You mean when the reserve deploys some broken part that is still on connected to the sticky tape mount can snag with the reserve? Small plastic rectangular mount with a sticky tape on the bottom of it glued to the helmet and then the top mount (with a camera attached to it) is snapped into the bottom one (can be taken on and off at any time, the camera). The plastic should break on a cutaway during a snag, however the sticky tape is very powerful and hard to get off.. Kinda of a rough description from how I remember the mount and stuff.. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

No tar and feather for this guy? Where's the "wtf man, watch where you hold; it's not recommended holding onto someone elses rig, because these things can happen; not cool dude; etc.."? Oh wait, I guess it's all cool to pull your friends cutaway handle because you have 3600 jumps and have a huge laugh about it! Gotta love DZ.com.. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

It's a GoPro, what's the big deal with the snag thing, even if that tiny thing ever snagged it most likely would be ripped of the helmet during the cutaway, I don't see a big deal with that. 2k feet under a reserve, it's not bad, specially when he has a skyhook RSL, not a huge problem to cutaway low and survive. I noticed a lot of you tend to claim that this is bad, that is bad, this can go wrong etc.. But you never actually show us an example. Please show me a fatality or a serious injury caused specifically by a GoPro cam (excluding ALL the rest of cams). Also there's a jump number OK tendency in DZ.com, meaning if ridestrong had this cutaway at 200+ jumps the replies here most likely would have been a long the lines "nice cutaway; glad you're alive; beer!", if you don't fall into the "OK" jump nr. recommendation zone you're not cool, unlike if you did where most of you wouldn't complain if there was the same stupid shit done.. But I don't know what I don't know, I still like to post for the drama "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

You do realize that this type of movie (hybrid of acting and documentary) will attract the general whuffo community to watch it much better than if it was a pure documentary? It's pure business man, but also a good publicity for skydiving/BASE (I hope). "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

lolz, you tell em! "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

Ok so let me get this straight.. There were 3 fatalities (which I haven't heard of, where are they reported?) due to failed vector reserve pilot chute (unknown reasons why?), then Bill Booth steps in to say it's all BULLSHIT and then you guys complain that Booths video is BULLSHIT... Only on DZ.com lol Continue the drama. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

At 73 jumps lol? More like Sabre2 / Safire2/ Pilot / Fusion (size depending on weight and capabilities). "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

Let's not rush this shall we? At least that's what they all say eh?

That's what you get when you fuck with each other in the sky.. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

If they fly those suits well and ok what's the problem? "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

It's russian.. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

Oh noes look at those AK-47's with 7.62mm rounds, they will surely take down an Apache equipped with Hellfire, Hydra and 30mm machine gun, not to mention titanium armor designed to survive 37mm projectiles, specially from that distance showed on the video.. Come on, you can even evade a fucking RPG, it's not like a fucking guided missile comin down your ass.. We all know that most american soldiers are simply trigger happy friendly firing redneck morons out there fighting not for the so declared "freedom" but for the sake of fighting, cause it's simply fucking fun to blast away (just like shown on that video from the pilots emotions).. Off course, fellow americans will NEVER admit this and continue to go on blabbing their "freedom fighting" propaganda to justify their redneck lust for killing.. "These retards are actually trusted with guns and bombs and which has resulted in an American invention known as "friendly fire". This event only occurs when they're around and basically consists of a fucktard shooting someone on their own side and going "sorry you had a gun and I just freaked out". Americans only have the balls to attack others when they are armed to the teeth and travel in numbers. When captured alone, they are not like Rambo, but simply get beheaded on youtube." America also enjoys firing at British troops, and bombing British tanks. This has gone back as far as the Second World War, as shown in a British wartime joke; "When the Germans shoot, the British duck. When the British shoot, the Germans duck. When the Americans shoot, EVERYONE ducks!" http://encyclopediadramatica.com/USA (read under the military section, satirical yet so true, laughed my ass off reading this shit). Peace. "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

I guess so.. Well you got to admit that stuff like hip rings, spacer foam, skyhook, magnetic riser covers, stowless d-bag etc. add a tad bit more functionality... But hey, nevermind that, anything I say will sound stupid coming from me anyways..

Are you implying that the shiny stuff are less functional? "Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean