Min. of Skydive Jumps to start with BASE ?

[Blitzkrieg]

i would guess the same reason i don't... pencil packing is not wasting a pack job.

[hamsandwich]

that was when I had to pay someone else for a packjob.

now I may run just a little over 120 days between packjobs on my personal rig.

[Johnny Utah]

that was when I had to pay someone else for a packjob.

now I may run just a little over 120 days between packjobs on my personal rig.

that's funny you actually had to explain it to him

[diablopilot]

Why's that so funny?

I pack my own, have "aged" pack jobs and have no problems using them at the before mentioned altitudes.

[hamsandwich]

man, jp, you're killin me! Its not about trusting the pack, they're good for 1yr+, I just don't want to repack the son of a bitch! I'll wait till winter time (hypothetically) before I air her out.


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[dirteedave]

pencilpackin?

[dirteedave]

I would be worried about several things choppin@1k on on a skydiving rig 1. I didn't pack it 2. the slider delay 3. I didn't pack it 4. Tha subsequent web posts about how i was a douchebag for chopping a perfectly good canopy@1k@tha dz in front of 50 or 60 spectators!

Really at this point I don't expect a long life expectancy an I don't care... I'm not suicidal but I have seen what happens when you get old an I don't wanna go there, I am not goona reproduce an I got insurance ta cover me.

I wanna base an there ain't a soul that's gonna keep me from goin through with it, an to tell the complete an honest truth I think everyone should do it at least once I don't get tha mentality of keepin folks from tryin it... There are things everyone needs to know, an their own mortality is definitely one of them

The world will be better without us an everyone should consider not reproducing (VHEMT) becuz there are plenty of kids out there that need you.

[hamsandwich]

Rock on broheim.


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[waldschrat]

objects?

I used to cutaway every 120 days; why waste the packjob?


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Losing the spring loaded PC, or the main......or your skydiving license?

[hamsandwich]

you don't need a license to skydive in USA. Only if you want to go to a USPA Group Member Dropzone.

It's a possibility but if you chop low you wont probably lose anything. In fact, if you get good at judging winds you can chop upwind and start to play accuracy games with your freebag and main.

This is all hypothetical.
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[stitch]

This is all hypthotical.
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The majority of us don't understand Hebrew.

[hamsandwich]

Yeah but the majority of you also believe in things like santa claus, god, and the easter bunny too!

fixed the typo, thanks!

[fixMe]

The majority of us don't understand Hebrew.

yeah! But eye doubt the dude (super moderator) understands Hebrew at all, unless it's around Chanaka (spellin'?)? Seven day's of gifts, sign me up for dat' Hebrew stuff FO-sure!!


But on a more serious note: NiGGAH PLEEZE!!!!!!!!!!! The majority of us understand how 2 land our canopies!

Sorrry

[stevenm]

Yea, yea, santa claus and easter bunny... But do we believe in Jeebus?

Some people believe a little too seriously.......
http://www.patentlysilly.com/patent.php?patID=7118242

(yes, that is a real patent)

[hamsandwich]

Lots of people believe in all kinds of shit. I've struggled with religion for a while and now have come to the conclusion that the only god I can accept is Spinoza's god otherwise its atheism and both ideas are quite the same anaway. Spinoza's god is not a personal god as most other religions teach but rather just the sum of everything that exists through all modes of time. Reality from start to finish. so you can think of it just saying nature, physics, science, reality. 'going to church' is just living your life. "It is what it is" fits real nice.

The personal god described in judaism and alot of the other religions all seem to be invented by people to control others and have tons of contradictions in their scirpture.

Eitherway im no authority as this idea of a supreme being cannot be proved or disproved just as Bertrand Rusell's teapot-

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

I respect what other people beleive and enjoy having discussions about but I'll still make fun of you bitches on here for shits and giggles! If you can dish it, be ready to take it back.

Fuck is that a tangent or what!

Min number of jumps to start base--- there is no number, its a skillset + a mind set.

fixme where's my PM!???!

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