Sky Dive

So I went Skydiving yesterday......   WOW what a rush


 

 

 

 
 

Looks cool.......and good pic's
 
 
But not for me

I've been twice, both times via static line. I choose static line because I wanted to jump solo without someone else straped to me. Only bad thing about that is you don't get to freefall. I tell you what though, there is no bigger rush than taking that first step out and no greater feeling than when the shoot opens and your in controll.

been wanting to skydive for years now.  my boyfriend won't let me, though. 

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That is crazy ebrown!
 
 
Below pix looks like you're about to have second thoughts....
 

 
 
And below it looks like you're about to do the "hang loose" hand thing!
You R the man ebrown....I get scared if I get out of my rig without using the step bar
 

Looks Like you're GONNA CHUCK!!!
 
 
 
 
 

 
But GOOD ON YA!!! I ain't got the cohones!!!
 
BTW, delete this thread BEFORE ZYNE SEE'S IT!!!!

That is nuts!  I have always lacked the balls to do something like this.  I never understood the concept of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane

hahahha 
 
thanks guys yea man was it a rush.
 
this picture i was like ohh man this really gonna happen like right now.

I was tryin to throw the horns.
 

I see part of a Lake and a river.  Was this morning or afternoon?  Tring to figure out what you are over from the shadows.  Tecumseh?  Great pics bro.  I'd be on the ground with the cooler waiting to celebrate.   Not droping like a rock thru the air!  Way to go Bro.

Where IS ZYNE????

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ORIGINAL: HummBob

Where IS ZYNE????

 
I dunno but if we can get ebrown to wear some dreads I say he can replace ZYNE.....  He's got the white Deuce, the sky diving.....
 
well?

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ORIGINAL: Muddydawg75

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ORIGINAL: HummBob

Where IS ZYNE????

I dunno but if we can get ebrown to wear some dreads I say he can replace ZYNE.....  He's got the white Deuce, the sky diving.....

well?

 
Yeah, but DR. EMMETT BROWN is a Yank....we need a SWEDE!!

You cant replace ZYNE....he is the originator..Plus he is way smarter than I am.
But bring on the dreads, I can rock them for a bit
 
I am a YANK!!!

HAHAHA.... it seems that once we mentioned his name a few times he magically appeared.....

Zyne is away for a bit...forgot why...I think I heard that he has been ill....Mike (hummerguy) where is he, you would know more than us.

Doode ... what's up with that lump on your back man?  Took your boyfriend along for the ride or something!?  Or was he just there as a vomit trap!?  LMAO! 
Sorry, my old habits are coming back out here... so used to giving 1st time tandem jumpers crap lol!  I took great pleasure in mind-fukking 1st timers on the lift up ... and there ain't nothing like running out the back of the tailgate screaming "EEEEEEEEEEEEEENGIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE" as the last man out before the 1st time tandem students lol .. This of course resulting with an implied stumble at the edge and then supposedly tumbling out of control the first few thousand feet lol ..
Sorry but we get our kicks in odd ways ... lol  And I'm sure you copped a little crap yourself even though you were in what looks like a Cessna 182.  What dropzone was this at?  Who was your instructor and vidiot (camera guy)??
 
So I take it you enjoyed your tandem then huh!?  You just let me know once you're done going through jump school and I'll sell you my skydiving rig hehehehehe ... Granted .. you may want to consider a hefty life insurance first .. and really good medical insurance ... Dunno what you weigh but I used to jump a heavily loaded Stiletto 190 as my main before getting grounded .. with approx 290 lbs under it (just over max recommended weight) that bloody thing came down like a rocket on a mission LOL!  It is an incredibly fast turning canopy, not very forgiving, and VERY easy to paint yourself in to a corner with.  But when you come down pushing 50-55 mph just inches off the ground .. man ... I miss that :/ 
 
Glad you had fun ... after all, it's about the most amount of fun you'll ever have with your clothes on hehehehe

Back injury Imp ... too much rehab and too many pain killers .. I've been at work, rehab center, and at home in various levels of vicodin/morphine induced vegetative states .. got better though .. then travelled to Dallas for work, now back in town and doing crappy again, go figure :/ 

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ORIGINAL: bonzaiii

I've been twice, both times via static line. I choose static line because I wanted to jump solo without someone else straped to me. Only bad thing about that is you don't get to freefall. I tell you what though, there is no bigger rush than taking that first step out and no greater feeling than when the shoot opens and your in controll.

 
Ok .. first out .. no one told you about static line huh .. lol .. SL has the highest fatality rate amongst first time jumpers because you THINK you're in control but trust me here, you are far from in control on your first jump.  Not trying to slam you here, just made a FEW more jumps than you have, and I've seen enough SL students cake in and get seriously hurt or killed. 
It is very common SL students who do end up with a malfunction end up injured or killed.  I'm assuming you are "taught" to identify the different mal's pre-jump and more or less cut away from all of them with the exception of maybe a slider up mal or line twists (though we always taught ours to just chop). 
Hate to be the a-hole to pizz in your wheaties here but proper malfunction procedures TAKES TIME and repetition.  You have to develop a muscle memory and a calm/collected emergency approach.  As a first timer you don't have it, regardless of 6 hours of ground school.  What if you loose your goggles?  Can you still chop and dump the reserve?  Do you know where to put your hands with your eyes closed ?  While on your back in a flat spin sucking your arms out and away from your body?  Or without goggles heads down!?  No, you don't.  I've been in a situation where I couldn't see crap .. we did a high alti jump from 25K without bailout bottles .. it's very cold up there .. 85 or so at ground level.  My fullface helmet I used for these jumps fogged up and I had ZERO visibility .. and at 3k when I pulled I also ended up with ZERO nylon above my head ... I fought it until I went through 900 feet and got the main out above me .. this mind you after several hundred jumps .. I lost altitude awareness .. I lost track of time (it sloooooooooooooooows way down in your head during these events) of course ... had I been about another second getting that resolved this discussion would not have taken place ...
 
Tandem progression is MUCH safer and believe it or not, with the proper program you have the SAME control, you just have a fail safe strapped to your back.  If something goes wrong, THEY handle it, not you.  Then they ease you in to an AFF progression, Assisted Free Fall where you jump your own parachute rig but with instructors to help you.  Again, much safer.  If you do another jump, I would recommend against SL, it's outdated and unsafe bro. 

Z, i take it you're done jumping?  nothing to get you back up in the air?  even if you're jumping into a big vat of puddin'?  with some cake underneath it for added padding?   c'mon, surely you'd do that . . . . . . . . .

One harsh opening can paralyze me shorty .. I'm done ...:/

That SUKS!!!

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ORIGINAL: ZYNE

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ORIGINAL: bonzaiii

I've been twice, both times via static line. I choose static line because I wanted to jump solo without someone else straped to me. Only bad thing about that is you don't get to freefall. I tell you what though, there is no bigger rush than taking that first step out and no greater feeling than when the shoot opens and your in controll.

Ok .. first out .. no one told you about static line huh .. lol .. SL has the highest fatality rate amongst first time jumpers because you THINK you're in control but trust me here, you are far from in control on your first jump.  Not trying to slam you here, just made a FEW more jumps than you have, and I've seen enough SL students cake in and get seriously hurt or killed. 
It is very common SL students who do end up with a malfunction end up injured or killed.  I'm assuming you are "taught" to identify the different mal's pre-jump and more or less cut away from all of them with the exception of maybe a slider up mal or line twists (though we always taught ours to just chop). 
Hate to be the a-hole to pizz in your wheaties here but proper malfunction procedures TAKES TIME and repetition.  You have to develop a muscle memory and a calm/collected emergency approach.  As a first timer you don't have it, regardless of 6 hours of ground school.  What if you loose your goggles?  Can you still chop and dump the reserve?  Do you know where to put your hands with your eyes closed ?  While on your back in a flat spin sucking your arms out and away from your body?  Or without goggles heads down!?  No, you don't.  I've been in a situation where I couldn't see crap .. we did a high alti jump from 25K without bailout bottles .. it's very cold up there .. 85 or so at ground level.  My fullface helmet I used for these jumps fogged up and I had ZERO visibility .. and at 3k when I pulled I also ended up with ZERO nylon above my head ... I fought it until I went through 900 feet and got the main out above me .. this mind you after several hundred jumps .. I lost altitude awareness .. I lost track of time (it sloooooooooooooooows way down in your head during these events) of course ... had I been about another second getting that resolved this discussion would not have taken place ...

Tandem progression is MUCH safer and believe it or not, with the proper program you have the SAME control, you just have a fail safe strapped to your back.  If something goes wrong, THEY handle it, not you.  Then they ease you in to an AFF progression, Assisted Free Fall where you jump your own parachute rig but with instructors to help you.  Again, much safer.  If you do another jump, I would recommend against SL, it's outdated and unsafe bro. 

Well I will not disagree with you. My first time I went with a friend for his 23 birthday. I was the heaviest so went first, I landed just in time to see him leave the plane. He became tangled in his shoot and never cut away and did not make it. Both of my children watched it happen. The next time I went I had a line twist and end cell closure. I was able to stay calm and ovecome both but I have not been up since. I still think about going again though as it is an undescribable feeling.

dude you crazy lol i woundnt do that for a $1,000,000 bucks na wait lol maybe for $100 ill do it lol

man that looks like fun