Cant remember where these came from:
If you arent head up and stable on launch you are either very high, very good or very worried.
Its like facing a firing squad and they all miss.
Cant remember where these came from:
If you arent head up and stable on launch you are either very high, very good or very worried.
Its like facing a firing squad and they all miss.
I really like John Hoovers favorite...
When asked by a whuffo how long he would delay and how long it took the canopy to deploy after he pitched his pilot chute, Hoover replied...
"Well, I'll step off and do a 2 second delay, pitch my pilot chute and then wait 6 to 8 weeks for opening."
BASE359
(gotta) get off like you mean it!
I´m not sure, but this could have come from Mark Hewitt,
"Remember, There´s a big planet and it is heading straight for you"
space,
ps Nick, is there gonna be a winner thingy? Are we gonna get to vote and stuff?
"it just doesn't seem that crazy anymore now that
i think i know what i'm doing" Chris Stokely
"it's all about risk management, and the way i saw it, prayer was included in my risk management." Chris Stokely
"there i was in freefall and then all of a sudden someone tried to shove a planet up my arse" Bill Legg
"This looks dangerous, you go first!"
or
"Sounds dangerous, count me in."
from the movie, "the right stuff"
"It's suicide without the commitment"
My jumpmaster this year with the blue hair at NRGB I think Team Bodybag
lost in the sky
Hi Nick, I always liked this one, pretty much sums it all up.
"What kind of a man would live life without daring?
Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that
seek adventure?
Is there a better way to die?"
Charles Lindberg
August 26th, 1938
Have fun,
Bazil
"Carelessness and Overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks."
-Wilbur Wright, 2 years before The Wright brothers' historic flight
These from the late great Seth Blake when teaching me how to, uh, flick!
"No, you gotta flick it like your life depends on it.....", big grin.
Big belly flop into the pool ***Splash!!!***
"That was perfect! Do it again!", big grin.
After first jump. Heading off for summer road trip.
"The world is one giant drop zone now, Bonnie!"
After hearing a world of ##### for a not so perfect jump.
"Seems to me that if your talking about it, you must have done SOMETHING right."
Peace.
Out.
"Happy are the ones who are willing to take the risk to see their dreams come true." (uncertain, but heard it was Carl Boenish)
"And once you have tasted flight, you will walk with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return." Leonardo Da Vinci
Are you ready for a 180 off-heading with a line over, right now?
--
Thanks
Mick Knutson
BLiNC Magazine
"Everything you ever wanted to know about BASE Jumping, but didn't know who to ask."
--
Muttered by some blond with beaudacious ta-ta's
on the edge of you-know-what:
"F**k the rangers, Boo-boo!
There's a pic-a-nic basket down there!"
BASE JUMP = GRAVITY POWERED ADRENALINE RUSH !
For use when your with a group of friends, geared up at the top of a very dodgy site, the wind is howling and everyone is looking worried about the possibility of death:
"Remember guys; The higher the fatality rate, the greater the glory"
It usually isn't received well.....
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