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Best- Billy and Elton coming out of the floor with their Grands faced off back to back. Covered each others songs. Duets. Billy dancing on Elton's Yamaha. Great seats at a great venue. Worst- STP. I walked out and took a shower. Scott was a mess. This was right after he left/kickout out of velver revolver and went on tour with STP. High as a kite. Couldn't sing or barely remember the lyrics. That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Sure do. It sucks if your wrong though! Btw. We put those same canopies in a downplane up higher as long as we could hold them. Took us a couple tries to get it and be able to hold on for any length. Then we went up to get aerial footage with a third canopy but no luck. And my trust started dwindling and I had enough of it. I just started to give a tip here on how we did it but then thought the better of it. I sure wish we had video of the downplane though. Otherwise it didn't happen. That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Trusting my buddy on top to fly us properly and know when to abort the "back yard" attempt when we landed a compressed stack on x braced(I was under 84) That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

As others have said you are seriously misleading yourself(or have been mislead) about the dangers of skydiving vs driving. I have seen three fatalitiy incidents first hand in just one 11 month period. Have performed CPR. Have been on site and very close to other fatalities. Lost many more friends or acquaintances that I was not present for. I am unaware of any that got killed on the way to the DZ though. If you do not have the least bit of heightened state of mind as a student you do not have a healthy respect for what your doing. That being said I remember my first jump course. Static line and I bought the 5 jump package. We had a rather large class (20+ students) and I can remember others so pumped up after the jump going on to me with stuff like "wasn't that the coolest thing you ever did!", That was awesome ect. I didn't down play anything to affect their moment but for me it wasn't. It was a stepping stone. I wanted to swoop, BASE, and go to WFFC I had seen videos and it just so happened that I needed to learn to actually skydive before I could do any of those aforementioned things. I was a student. I studied, I learned, I asked questions, I improved and a year later I left WFFC with my 300th jump under my belt and I won't tell you the canopies I was demoing and swooping. I have done a lot of adrenaline producing activities but my first jumps were nothing too exciting in comparison. But while I have a different calm, cool mindset than many people which has allowed me to push things to the limit in my activities and compete at a high level, I certainly was not bored during those initial jumps and probably checked my handles and went through drills in my head then and even later as an experienced jumper more than most. I did have a period of carelessness around the 100 jump wonder mark.(many will say I always had it but I am talking uneducated risks) Like door diving out of the cessna on a 2000 ft H&P and having the dbag hit my legs on the way up. Silly stuff and not having respect for it is what caused that. Later on after a few malfunctions on smaller yet canopies I was pretty scared exiting that low and dumping subterminal. I just didn't know any better when I knew it all. I guess what I am saying is I would be very nervous jumping with you right now. But I would be nervous(to a lesser degree) on exit on a solo jump as well. My choice of equipment caused that but at under 10 jumps you should get that with a big docile opening 7 cell as well. So it's ok to not have your jumps be the biggest baddest thing you have done so far, but it sounds like you need a real healthy dose of reality of what your doing. Read the incident forums maybe. But if you don't have a goal as to where you want to go in the sport and are just already contemplating this... get out, run away. Or take a break and stick around and just watch what others are doing. Dirt dives, Debriefing video, landings. crw, whatever. If it is just ughhh. Than move on and don't look back. Hell you can even be cocky to whoffos about it and that it wasn't enough for you. We won't know That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Many good ones in " As good as it gets" Just one that comes to mind. How do you write women so well? Nicholson "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability" That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

It was dozing a Snowmobile track. It was pretty much done with all the work out there That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Here is the slot toward the end of the first day. One side of the ice was up to 6" lower than other so while earlier in the day this lane was froze it was a real mess later and the second day even more so That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

I was wondering about that part. BRrrrr! Not 8 hours in the water. Only one diver ever went in and had about an hour total under the water. The last dive was the longest as he willed his way and didn't want to come up and get out if he had to go back in. I would say he was down to long the last time considering the conditions. He was a stud in my opinion. That was some miserable work. You can't see down there in this lake either That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

That was neat also. Although your description is a little misleading. If only it was a 7 minute job to get the winter one out. It was a huge operation with an m1070 tank recovery vehicle pulling it back to shore, lots of work to get cable from m1070 under the ice to the dozer out 800 ft and in deep water and many problems along the way. Now those two in the mud are going to need many hours of cleaning! Not going to be a fun job. The 650j through the ice is getting a much larger treatment than a cleaning of course. More intensive but not as dirty. Any easy software to reduce file sizes to I can post? I haven't checked if anything I have does it as I never tried to do anything but editing with them That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

You probably don't want to know then that this was a brand new dozer that went to the bottom of the lake. We had to drag it through a lot of junk including and old river channel 40 feet deep with steep banks to get up. Took all day to cut a channel out to it for the cable. Took divers 8 hours to hook up That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

This was right next to a bar that was drawing in a business for a few days to watch. For the most part they stayed off the ice but I seen a couple that may have made that comment jumping the guard rail and falling down the bank looking a bit tuned up right before this last pull That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

If your interested in more pictures or how we got it out let me know. Just thought I would at least share one of the videos. There is another short one I have of it first coming up about an hour before the last one That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Well busy week. Lots of pics and video, But after a week under the ice 800 ft from shore in 30+ feet of water here it is finally coming out after dragging it under the ice back in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVnUQhv7ouQ That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

I agree and my comment wasn't directed at you in particular. Just the last before I responded. However,this was a double posted thread and in both places the OP refused to identify where he was at. Never even mentioned he wanted to jump. Registered and posted that. Maybe a Roll Call section would be in order in some attempt to properly vet new members. Heck, I had to go threw that on an RC heli site I belong to to weed out wuffos. Nothing much but at least makes people post first elsewhere and possibly get red flagged. That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Everyone just keep feeding him!!! I assumed he was a piss poor attorney, paralegal or law student from the start. And have grown more suspicious since. For one judging incidents between two dropzones (5 vs 10) is retarded. Most of them are experienced jumpers and certain DZ's attract people from all over and just by the nature of the crowd are perhaps at a higher risk for indecent rates among fully experienced jumpers. This poster is on a fishing expedition and this thread should disappear as fast as possible. That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Exactly. I almost lost a Velocity owned by PD with a pilot chute in tow. Pilot chute didn't know what it was pulling on though. I believe the container opened though but it stopped there and never went to line stretch. So while I called it a PCIT all these years I am now reconsidering that malfunction. Pilot chute was the cause though. Not fabric That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Explain how that is in any way meaningful advice. You are effectively saying that you can't try to hit gates until you have hit all the gates you have tried to hit. My advice is don't try to learn this alone - get coaching. click on the Post I responded to and then see if you cant figure out my point. I wasn't the ASS. Not to him anyway. To the one putting him down. That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Nothing negative about it. I was on your side. My mistake. My quote attempt didn't turn out right though. The first line of my response should have been in the quote and was actually what I was speaking out about. The rest was sarcasm. I am truly sorry I tried to have your back. Shouldn't have been that hard to see. Everybody here wants to fight and get on there high horse. Try to get someones back and everyone assumes they are just one more of the same. No wonder what this place has become. Whatever That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Explain how that is in any way meaningful advice. You are effectively saying that you can't try to hit gates until you have hit all the gates you have tried to hit. My advice is don't try to learn this alone - get coaching. Apparently you only read my post not what I quoted. It was sarcasm for the post above that irritated me. Putting the OP down. But since the OP didn't get that either perhaps I was wrong and should not have stuck up for him!!!!! That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

never mind, you are not ready. Nope. Your not ready to start hitting gates until you can already consistently hit the gates everytime. Then you are ready to start. That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Yep. Beware. That was me once. Not well thought out in retrospect. I swooped into a fair race in front of the grandstands in full gear with my Bike waiting at the line. I was new to the state and was asked to help out with a demo into the fair grounds. It was a two days in a row with both days being separate events in regard to the races. After the Friday night demo I found the promoter and set it up for the next night. Had bike warmed and ready at the line. No time for a practice jump with gear but the thrill of it clouded my judgement. I had a slighter higher wingloading then normal with full gear but more importantly I had limited visuals in my Helmet and goggles. Because I was an idiot and swooped in I had visual restrictions coming around the turn which was a little lower than ideal to start and it had to come around. Turned out really good and everyone thought it was spectacular but even my ground crew didn't realize just how Ill conceived the plan was. When you can't abort the turn or fly long on the landing you really box yourself in to a corner getting it down and in. I landed inches from where I intended but that helmet caused just enough time with no vision of target that it could have caused problems. But no one knew the better except me. That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Nothing rude about it. I started to reply several times very similarly and my delivery wasn't so suttle. The OP could have interjected the word Swooper in his everyday comment for those that need their hand held, but non the less..... you either get or you don't, and the latter wont be picking one up at Walmart anytime soon . That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

Posterior dislocation in august and no way in hell could I pull with it. Mine was very severe and caused damage to everything sorounding it. I just rode a snowmobile for an hour and set me way back. 10 ortho surgeries and this redefined pre-op pain for me. I am sad and depressed That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

It will be 10 years this summer since I had my tibia plates fracture. Displaced 2 cm down about 6-7" starting at center. Split where meniscus attaches to so that is anchored in. Had two surgeries on it. I am a long long way from any replacement. They said that about fusing my ankle. They try and scare you. They always do that to me on my surgeries. I have way more joint concerns than that knee That spot isn't bad at all, the winds were strong and that was the issue! It was just on the downwind side.

"What was the original question again??". Wasn't it getting back from long spot. What is best?