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Is there any picture of Tandus wingsuit available? On Nick's site there's none. Is it a wingsuit to be donned by the tandem pilot only or they are two wingsuits to be donned by tandem pilot AND by passenger? However, any which way it is, it looks like a jolly B.S. to me, as well as an accident waiting to happen Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

Happy birthday Karen!!!!!

> Sorry guys, it's an Italian Party tonight!!! Luna Rossa 5 - Oracle BMW 1 ———————————————————————————————————————— Francesco De Angelis, James Spithill, Torben Grael and the rest of the crew did an outstanding job, up now!!!! If we win the Louis Vitton Cup, the mace race with Alinghi will be a REAL challenge, I think Alinghi is a very strong boat/team. We are going to watch very interesting match races from now on

Talking about men and multiple orgasms, by "multiple orgasms" do you mean: 1) having intercourse, reach orgasm, ejaculate, rest (for an "appropriate" amount of time), having intercourse, reach orgasm, ejaculate, rest (for an "appropriate" amount of time) and so on 2) having intercourse, reach orgasm, NOT ejaculate, continuing having intercourse, reach orgasm, NOT ejaculate, continuing having intercourse, reach orgasm and finally ejaculating To be clear, I DO reach multiple orgasms in the meaning 1. I heard there are men who can reach multiple orgasms in the meaning 2: I am wondering if this is a "possibility" given by training/technique or by "pure talent" Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> jolly impossible? huh? ———————————————————————————————————— Is your load cell capable to record the peak load at which break cord loop broke? In any case, to do such a test you should put your load cell into the cynematic hain, i.e., between aluminum ring on parachute and bridle, and, again ,same load cell must be capalble of recording the peak force exerted in a split millisecond. Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> hmmm, my dynometer is pretty small —————————————————————————————— I do believe that to perform a test of break load under real dynamic conditions is jolly impossible. > Cotton is about as in-consistant as it gets. even break cord varies a bit. —————————————————————————————— Agreed. I knew that. So what? I hope that the nominal 80 lb break load value is an average (not to go below, possibly to go over). Being something used by military on military soecifications, I hope such a 80 lb value is "guaranteed". We see the 80 lb break cord by ParaGear as the most reliable break cord that we can afford to buy. It has worked very well indeed up now. > 1) but I never do SLs > 2) what is a surgeons knot? ————————————————————————————— From statement 1 I can understand question 2 Here is surgeon knot (well studied by us WELL BEFORE attempting our first SL jump (in our group)) Surgeon knot is a knot which minimize at best the curvature of line forming knot itself, so decreasing the minum possible the "Break Load of line loop WITH knot" with respect to "Break Load of simple line loop". Surgeon knot it's on our "handbook" Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> My own experiments have been in line with 980's. The cord broke between 150 and 160 lbs —————————————————————————————— Did you do your test under static load gradually applied to break cord loop? While THIS setup states indeed the break load under static load, it is NOT the break load under the dynamic conditions we apply onto break cord loop when we SL BASE jump. Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> poynter manual? we are base jumping home boy. —————————————————————————————— Really? I am afraid we are mushroom packing our PC's according to what is stated (among another 1000 issues about parachutes, PC's e relevant equipment) on Dan Poynter's manual > dude, break cord is cotton —————————————————————————————— I perfectly know break cord is cotton, so what?!?!?!? > 40%? what knot? —————————————————————————————— Dude, don't try to break the hair into 10 pieces. We are BASE jumping, do you remember? Dan Poynter Manual says that a generic knot can decrease up to about 40% the break load of a line, that's why we do the surgeon knot (to minimize this decrease). Yes, if you do a crap knot you can decrease break load up to 80%, as well as can be 0% if you sew two overlapping ends with a sewing machine; our responsability to do "proper knots" when closing break cord loop, as well as jolly impossible to have a sewing machine on exit point. > and yes, I have a dynometer/tensile tester, and yes. i have tested it. —————————————————————————————— It's a pity you didn't test it under REAL working conditions, i.e., a BASE jumper exerting his full weight about 10 m - 30 ft lower. I do understands there has been lots of real tests but only with static weights applied. In then end, in our great experience of SL jumps, it has never happend to any of us any premature failure of break cord, as well as we have never experienced an abnormal break load of such break cord (the 80 lb nominal break cord bought by ParaGear), doing the surgeon knot as a standard, also when using the break cord in the CWY device. > while I have not tested 80 lb break cord, I would say that it breaks closer to 140 lbs than 80 when gradualy pulling/gradual load increased —————————————————————————————— I could believe that, but I am afraid that is NOT the real condition of deployment of our break cord in a real BASE jump. We use it (=break it) applying istantaneously (...after the forces needed to open container and extract canopy...) our weight 10 m - 30 ft below; jolly difficult to test THAT real situation. Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> Is that based on an actual experiment you've done with a tensile tester? —————————————————————————————— No. Rather, it's based on Dan Poynter manual, which states that a knot onto a oline decreases its breaking load by 40%. Indeed, it's very reasonable that a knot decreases the breaking load of a line: in fact, we use the surgeon knot to minimize the curvature. Indeed, (nearly) every time tha a break cord breaks, it breaks AT the knot or very close to the knot. The loop of a 80 lb break cord should break AT 160 lb if we could close the loop in a veru clean way (i.e., with several stitches in a row of seam along few inches). I do believe that the tests you performed caused your loop to break at 150÷160 lb: this means that YOUR piece of break cord (single strand measured in a laboratory with special clamps) would have broken at 120 lb or so. If it were a PURE 80 lb break cord, it's sort of strange that the know did NOT introduce any degradation in the breaking load. Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

... - a single loop of 80 lb break cord will break at about 0.6 · 160lbs = 96 lbs due to the 40% degradation factor caused by the knot for closing the loop. Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> I've never heard of this situation happening before and as a rigger/BASE jumper, I would like to know —————————————————————————————— It happened to me nearly that incident. About this time in 2005. I took my student to our S we use for first timers (also for fun for us ); after all the training, preparation, exit trials, it came the moment for his first BASE jump. I decided his first BASE had to happen via PCA, so we did. My student sat calmly (...well...) on the handrail, which highest round horizontal bar is 2"-5 cm diameter, you sit on this, plus there other two round horizontal bars underneath, each of these two are 1"-2.5 cm diameter. His ass/thighs onto upper big bar, with feet on lowest small bar. Handrail is all gray painted, nice smooth surface. I had gloves on. I had my right thigh pressed against handrail, with a well balkanced stance. In my right hand I had the S folded bridle and with two fingers of left hand I was holding the PC. Vertical of my right hand was OUT of handrail, vertical of my left hand was slightly INSIDE of the handrail. I intended to exert the pulling force with the S folded bridle in my right hand to open his containr and get line stretch, which I did, once line stretch happened, jumper with his weight simply pulled away the S folded bridle off my right hand, immediately followed by bridle pulling PC off my left hand. In that split second I felt a strange ripping noise and a sort of hard opening. His jump went on uneventfully (apart form "that" event...) and landing was OK. To make short a long story. The pieces of handrail (big round horizontal bar and two small round horizontal bars) are 33 ft - 10 m long, each of them with "handles" sticked into concrete, being each single piece NOT welded together but simply "pressed" against the successive one, with a "broken washer" (with diameter slightly larger than bar itself) in the middle of the two. My biggest fault NOT to check that exactly where I was standing there was a portion of big round horizontal bar containing one of such "broken washers", with sharp edge pointing up, protruding very slightly off the metal profile. After line stretch and pulling the S folded bridle off my right hand, PC was pulled off and slided onto big round horizontal bar, with PC mesh getting caught on that protruding edge of broken washer. Of course, mesh could NOT hold the weight of my student and ripped off, but that simulated a very high load break cord SL jump. There was a 4" - 10 cm sort of round hole in the mesh. PC has been thrown away. Lessons learned: 1) while doing PCA jumps, keep EVERYTHING (S folded bridle AND PC) OUTSIDE the vertical of structure 2) check for ANYTHING "not smooth" on the structure we are jumping off and take countermeasures in case exit cannot be performed away from such "uneveness". As soon as I realized what happened, I got a very "cold shower". Glad jump went uneventfully (apart from my student feeling a very strong pull (and buy a new big PC )). It was clearly my fault for not checking out every detail carefully; nonetheless, big lesson learned for my future students (also for situations in which I MUST do PCA to my experienced mates). Hope this helps everyone to avoid THAT situation (bridle and/or PC caught onto structure). Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> You’ve never had one? —————————————————————————————— Not at the first BASE jump... Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

Thanks so much for sharing, Michelle

> I want to know why more of the chicks on here are not sharing as well ——————————————————————————————————————— Probably it's because they are scared of the fact that somebody (=blokes) can think "bad" about them or that they can receive "bad" comments... If a lady is NOT confident about her body/boobies, a "not nice" comment about her boobies can shatter her... I guess... Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

Very nice boobies indeed, Mar, thanks for sharing Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

Here are my very good vibes for your father and for you

> Photoshop.... nuff said ———————————————————————————————————— Well... you can like "it" or not, you can think "it" short or long, you can think "it" thin or thick, you can think "it" nice or ugly, you can appreciate "it" or not, but there is no bloody photoshop

> Don't joke around, post your measurements! ——————————————————————————————————— Well, we posted OUR pictures in another thread Why would you need numbers when you got pictures?!?!?!?!? Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> Yes, it's my ass!!! —————————————————————————————— Well, if THAT is YOUR ass, why aren't you so kind to take another picture, in colours this time, of your bum, perhaps from another angle, and post it? I REALLY suspect that is an Internet picture... B&W... professional environment... uhhmmm... Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

Thanks for sharing, ladyflyer77 Nice bum indeed Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

Uh uh Shasa, that's a REALLY nice ass Is it really yours? Haven't you got a colour version of that picture? If it's really yours, you can take another COLOUR picture form another angle and post it here Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

Thanks for sharing it with us, Karen

> Base, do you like a thick lawn or a little landing strip? —————————————————————————————— A "MUST "for me is that my woman has to be clean. Period. Then, if she is completely shaved "down there" or is "wildly haired" it doesn't matter that much, what I like is the woman in her "overall appearance". Nonetheless, personally, I like VERY MUCH thick lawn/very hairy "down there". I think that U.S. folks go too much crazy about the "non-perfect-trimming"/"non-perfect-shaving" Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> for all i can tell it could be your ass with your junk pulled up out of sight ———————————————————————————————————— I am afraid THAT can't be my ass... ...my ass is WAY too hairy to be that one Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com

> Did you get beaten for posting a pic where she didn't have a fresh shave? —————————————————————————————— She took herself few pictures, and she agreed to do the poll with that one I voted it was nice —————————————————————————————— I will tell her Stay safe out there Blue Skies and Soft Walls BASE #689 - base_689AT_NO_123_SPAMyahoo.com