jessefs

Save your money and use those rubber bands people put on their braces!

This is the beauty of working night shift! What better to do in the middle of the night than aimlessly wander through cyberspace, stumbling upon frown turners

Not work safe

All I know is GTA3 is freakin addictive and great for stess relief Whats UT? I know Q2 & HL...

Not to start another student canopy debate but thank god my student gear starts with Sabre2's at about .70-.80:1.

I'm always sendin' ya good vibes CHI CHI! Don't worry girl, I know you'll do great jesse

Welcome to the addiction! Unrecoverable debt.....HERE I COME!

Thank you everyone for the confirmation that this post has a purpose. Being new to a sport and community can be a little bit intimidating sometimes and the vast majority of you make it fun, educational, and comfortable. Thank you for that

BillVon: no, i would not. because i own my own company. and this was my post to the original. i checked the poster's profile, he's a student at SDC (3 jumps) not that this says anything about his credibility, that is not in question here, but my question remains unanswered. passmore is dead, this information is not going to save anyone's life, we all know if you jump impaired you could die, therefore rendering the original post useless, it should have never been posted, IMO, because it serves no purpose other than to let us know passmore was stoned when he crashed and burned. if passmore was the poster's brother/son/son-in-law/father, do you think he would have posted it? Just because YOU don't think the information is usefull does not mean that there are not OTHER people on the board that want to hear about it, what about us newbies?? "this information is not going to save anyone's life, we all know if you jump impaired you could die, therefore rendering the original post useless" ---That's great, let's also not talk about drunk driving, or that cigarettes cause cancer, unprotected sex etc... How in any way is sharing information useless? All I am doing is making the information available to those who otherwise would not have it (or would not bother looking for it). Since obviously 300 jump wonders don't need to hear this you can print it out and wipe your ass with it for all I care. jesse

It's just information like any information is. Take what you want from it, leave what you don't...at least thats what I do with information.

Only if it's a slap on my ASS

This was taken from the Chicago Tribune today. Marijuana in skydiver's system Report says he smoked 2 hours before fatal fall By Maurice Possley Tribune staff reporter Published September 12, 2002 A skydiving instructor who died in July while attempting to land on a pond at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa was seriously impaired by smoking marijuana within two hours of his death, according to a toxicology report released Wednesday. The report was made public an at inquest conducted by LaSalle County Coroner Jody Bernard into the death of Ronald Passmore Jr., 33, who died July 14 when he slammed chest first into the pond at the jump zone and died of a severed aorta. A coroner's jury declared the death accidental. Passmore's death was the sixth in a year at Skydive Chicago, a fatality rate eight times higher than the national average. He was the second instructor to die there this year and the second fatality since July 2001 in which drugs were found in the victim's system. The toxicology report, prepared by St. Louis University Hospital laboratory officials, showed Passmore's blood had a cannabis level about double that at which a person is considered impaired, according to laboratory director Dr. Christopher Long. "This (level in Passmore's blood) demonstrates relatively acute smoking within the last couple of hours before his death," said Long. This is serious impairment due to marijuana--cannabis--that would affect everything you could possibly use to skydive, particularly reaction time and depth perception." Efforts to reach Roger Nelson, operator of the Skydive Chicago, and Chris Needels, head of the U.S. Parachute Association, were unsuccessful. Needels was present at the jump zone for a USPA board of directors meeting on the day that Passmore and two other skydivers jumped from a plane with high-performance parachutes to perform a landing known as "pond swooping." The landing is a difficult maneuver in which a skydiver skims across the water, much like a water-skier, and then walks ashore. On that day, word had been passed that the three planned to swoop the tiny swimming pond at the dive zone and a small crowd had gathered. According to one observer, the first skydiver managed the maneuver successfully, but the second stalled into the water. Passmore was the final diver and as he came in, he made a sharp hook turn and pancaked onto the water, severing his aorta and causing numerous other internal injuries, according to the autopsy report. After Passmore's death, Nelson said he banned pond swooping at the jump zone. Passmore, a veteran of more than 1,300 jumps, had been living at the campground that is part of the Skydive Chicago compound and was working as an instructor for Nelson. Instructors are paid a fee, usually about $25, to accompany students who are taking up the sport. Skydive Chicago is one of the busiest drop zones in the Midwest with about 75,000 jumps a year. On May 18, John Faulkner, 28, also an instructor at the jump zone who was living at the campground, collided in the air with another jumper, rendering him unconscious. His backup chute failed despite being equipped with a device to open it automatically. No drugs or alcohol were detected in his system. On Oct. 18, 2001, Bruce Greig, of Jacksonville, Ill., died when his chute became entangled and he went into a spin. His emergency chute deployed too close to the ground and he died of chest injuries. A toxicology report was positive for cocaine, marijuana and Ecstasy.

I remember everything from my first (tandem). After getting comfortable under canopy which took a few seconds, I was so overjoyed I wanted to cry. I felt like I was hypnotized for the reset of the day. Kinda like when I lost my virginity jesse

Oh Noooooo! (I)t happened to your keyboard too! Hey.....look at that, (I) can spell agan

If anyone has a Trader Joes store near them, they have awesome frozen meals there.

Well (eye) sure thank you HH jesse

Hey HH

Thanks

In the AFP I am going through, they say to cut away immediately, without trying to clear it....maybe that is just tell newbies until they get advanced? crap...the letter after "h" on my keyboard stopped workng. Would lke to hear more on the tryng to clear the lne over or not though. (Anyone know a good way to clean a keyboard??) jesse

I agree, I think the two mix well together

I think that this database would be a good idea but at the same time, especially with so many newbies joining (including myself) I think that repeat posting to an extent is good. It gives an opportunity to add and edit ideas due to increased knowledge, experiences, or just recalling something that you meant to say during the last posting. I am sure that there are some overkill repeats but it seems for the most part, more exposure to information (especially safety related) is better than not. Newbies seeing the experienced folk still discussing and debating topics further engrains the habit to never stop education and discussion (again....especially concerning safety!) I know I'm rambling but it's 5AM and coming up on bedtime. Thanks for listening jesse

Ok, this has probably been posted before but for those who haven't seen it http://www.eco.utexas.edu/Homepages/Staff/Faulkner/yaknow.html I forget how to activate the link with markup and can't find the help page for it so thanks to anyone that completes it (unless HH has now made this automatic for www's?) enjoy

23 in 55 minutes

I think the AFP program is great, Did a lot of research at first on which route to take but it didn't take long to decide on this program. They are so thurough, and it seems as though the comfort and confidence level would be a lot higher for an AFP vs. AFF graduate (generally speaking for the average Joe) I know mine will be from this program. jesse

The AFP at my dz starts students doing this at AFP 4 and continue to do so throughout the program as objectives. It's good to know that these are important to be comfortable with. jesse