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i have climbed down more times than i have jumped my local A - I always make the decision when I get to opening altitude - its amazing that you can have nil winds on the ground but get to 150ft and its blowing a gale! We are lucky that we have 3 different exit points on this A - but sometimes the winds decide that there is no way we are getting off it this time!!! I never walk down that pissed off! cause every drive back unhurt is a sucessful raid!

too true! i know of a jumper who met someone who "boasted" about the BASE jumps they had done not knowing he was a jumper - he asked the right questions about the objects apparently jumped and guess what! that guy did not come back to that DZ in a hurry! heheheheh - it is easy to tell i beleive!

mate dont i know it!!! hehehehe - he will do well here in the UK!!!

have you read ANY of the posts in this thread????? check out the ones by guys with 1000+ jumps

get back to me after you have made some jumps............ I found that one of the hardest things to deal with - do i want this, am i doing this for the right reasons etc then one day i realised.....................

will email you my "letter" on monday if you like..................

i spoke to a crw guy who uses the bands in the tail pocket and when i explained i freestow - he came up with all sorts of reasons not too - eg tension knots. i could not see his reasoning but him being a rigger / reserve packer / crw jumper etc - i wonder why his feelings are against freestowed lines in the tail pocket. any thoughts?

hehehehe! Nice work! the more you know the more you realise that you dont know...........

due to a certain individual on a recent thread http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=479251;page=1;mh=-1;;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC i was wondering about arrogant jumpers. i myself used to be one - from my qualifiying jump to about 150 jumps i thought i was untouchable and nothing could touch me. i then grew up! but I then got to about 300 jumps and again got cocky and arrogant as i was now "experienced" hehe I got to 400 jumps and it all dawned on me - dont fuck with this game! I look back and realise that i was so so lucky to get through those periods of my skydiving life basically alive! i know of other people with a similar pattern to their attitudes. I am just curious on whether people look back on themselves - and think "fucking hell i was a complete twat back then"! This is a dangerous game ladies and gentlemen - I beleive that we must always respect that - cause when you least expect it - it will bite you! ..................... pity you cant put experienced heads on newbies hey!!! you all be safe now!!

oh well..............guess you knew that anyway!!! hehehe Downright Nasty: You're not just a law breaker, you're a pretty evil person… Some of those things you have done are gonna put you on a one way escalator going down when your time is up. Give up hope of changing, you're a lost cause! Based on your answers, we have calculated the maximum penalty for your crimes*: Years in prison: 132 Potential fine: £9500 Plus a possibility of the death penalty!

Neil i have emailed you via UKBB.

hehehe! oh yeah I remember that "record" jump! Nice work! strong winds! hehehe

My fears exactly - also i made my jumping partner write one as his parents dont know and i did not want to be faced with that possible fall out that has happened with other jumpers in the past. we would not be "us" without it - i think it selfish of the people that try to stop that........ family / friends who ever - would you ever stop one of them doing something that made them "them" and happy? In answer to my Auntie (who has the worst reaction) "yes I do something that may be percieved as a selfish act - but i beleive you asking me not to is much more selfish" ................ the things you suffer for freedom! Be safe out there!

what the fuck........... is this now a forum for GayDivers.............

Me: "Its saturday night everyone is out partying and we are on top of an electric pylon" JD: "And you wonder why we dont meet any women"

fuck you still have a job??? when was the last time you went there!!! hehehehehehe

i have a letter that several people have a copy of - should i go in it explains alot of things to my family, asks not to place blame on anyone and details any wishes i have - i have also listed certain people i want contacted directly rather than hear it through the grapevine - it was quite a wierd experience writting that letter......... be safe..................

i dont know if you BASE jump to start with. How did i deal with them - i lived with it! i lost my girlfriend - who was my love! I still have members of my family that dont talk to me!!! - but still drive at 90mph on the motorway with their kids and think i am the sick one! My mother is now excepting it! but only cause I have brought jumpers to the house, shown her video and and she can see we aint the "point break" wankers she thought we would be!!! - educated! it was VERY hard to start with.......... and i have lost contact with certain family members over it and lost my love............... but to be honest - it really has been worth it!!!...........

my jumping partner has a Phd in "all this shit"......................... and i still argue the point with him! cause i still think that those "reasons" he comes out with still dont fit in the BASE world!!! hehehehehe

my story: when my girlfriend found out i started BASE - we broke up when my skydive partner found out i started BASE he did not talk to me for 6 months when my mother found out she did not speak to me for 6 months (is there a connection there?) when my family found out they did not want to know me my auntie still does not want to talk to me i almost got the sack from my job you wont beleive the shit i went through.............. i almost gave it all up............ i am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad i did not!!!!!

i think alot! I would say it depends on the wind speed and the delay you take............... is that not the silence you get from exit normally?? i would say thats not exactly proof surely it depends on wind speed...............

please dont say thats true!!! oh and in conjunction with my learn'ed friend Mr J. Skin D'la 'flicka i also am refraining from the singular liners! "dont let them bring you down!"

No not at all - but I guess you ask that as you dont know what sort of jumper I am..................... Be safe too.................

Not sure where this is from but kinda says it all to me - "Those that do cant explain it, those that dont cant understand it" or something like that!