format 1 #1 October 4, 2012 No, really, after so many hazardous activity what do you think prevailed in leaving you able to type and walk around Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #2 October 4, 2012 No, really, after so many hazardous activity what do you think prevailed in leaving you able to type and walk around Quote Lost a bet ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Squeak 17 #3 October 4, 2012 Quote No, really, after so many hazardous activity what do you think prevailed in leaving you able to type and walk around Up until I was 27 nothing but pure luck (good or bad depending on where you stand with me) Since then, calculated risk management.You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites format 1 #4 October 4, 2012 Quote "Since then, calculated risk management". I was looking for 'delusioned' sinonim - that's it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Squeak 17 #5 October 4, 2012 Quote Quote "Since then, calculated risk management". I was looking for 'delusioned' sinonim - that's it what about it do you think is delusional, and the word i think you meant is synonymYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MikeJD 0 #6 October 4, 2012 British weather. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Squeak 17 #7 October 4, 2012 Quote British weather. you cant still femur in doing HnPs You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites pincheck 0 #8 October 4, 2012 Until the last 8 years when i started jumping cuts and bruises but never had a Broken bone or stitches. Since then fractured back on 1st crw landing Head stitches require for large Cut on my forehead while taking Urban explore photographs in LondonLast but not least last years having a argument with a large lorry while on my Motorbike where it was almost lost my life almost lost my foot and spent a year recovering to almost normal. My typing is not that good (especially on my phone it is like a unknown language at times) Walking around, well i walk and can now run but when walking its with a limp at times due to plastic and orthopaedic surgery. The only pursuit i have not done any damage in is my Hillwalking /mountaineering in 20+ years of doing it I have done more active living in the last 8 years that the rest of my life of just plodding along. Billy-Sonic Haggis Flickr-Fun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites format 1 #9 October 4, 2012 Quote Quote Quote "calculated risk management". I was looking for 'delusioned' sinonim - that's it what about it do you think is delusional, and the word i think you meant is synonym Yep, thanks for correcting it. Now, I really smile, thinking of ways people do things, trying hard to believe "they know what they're doing" I am trying to keep that whufo aspect It really is funny, sounds like: "Watcha me.. and hold my beer" (I mean we are) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Squeak 17 #10 October 4, 2012 Quote Quote Quote Quote "calculated risk management". I was looking for 'delusioned' sinonim - that's it what about it do you think is delusional, and the word i think you meant is synonym Yep, thanks for correcting it. Now, I really smile, thinking of ways people do things, trying hard to believe "they know what they're doing" I am trying to keep that whufo aspect It really is funny, sounds like: "Watcha me.. and hold my beer" (I mean we are) that's not delusional, I know the risks involved in what i do and i do my level best to ameliorate those risks, however at the end of the day most of what I do play in, could (in a WCS) kill me. Motorbike, climbing/abseiling, SCUBA Diving and skydiving, all of which have inherent risk, I try to stack the odds in my favour as much as possible and then way up if the risk is worth taking. Some times it's not and I stand down.You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Coreece 190 #11 October 4, 2012 QuoteHow come you're alive...still? I attribute all the great "luck" and numerous "coincidences" in my life to God...especially that time I was hit by that truck head-on, and that time I jumped off that bridge, and the time with that one chick, and the times with those guns, and the time during that shoot-out, and that time I...etc, etc. Now if only He could help me stop being such an asshole, I might just make it out of this life alive...Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airdvr 210 #12 October 4, 2012 I have pondered this very question several times lately. As I age I know the odds start going up that I won't live forever. The list of 'bonus days' events started at age 14. I must be special. Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Coreece 190 #13 October 4, 2012 Sometimes the only logical answer is illogical...Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites FlyingRhenquest 1 #14 October 4, 2012 It wasn't THAT hard, really. You know, your odds of being killed in a car accident in any given year are about 1 in 6000 or so? Even if you eliminate ALL risk from your life, you will still die sooner or later. You just won't have had much to live for along the way. So who's crazier, me, who has an immeasurable amount of fun jumping out of airplanes, or the guy who lives his life paralyzed by fear of an event he can not avoid no matter what he does? If I pound in this weekend with double bag lock, well I had a good run and I accepted that risk when I got on the plane. I'd rather go that way than getting T-Boned by some jackass in an SUV on my way to work. Neither event is likely enough for me to spend time worrying about it. Now if I start BASE jumping or proximity wingsuit flying, my life expectancy would go down enough to worry me. Seems like everyone at my dropzone knows someone who died, and the story almost always starts "Yeah, he went on a BASE Jump..."I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Zep 0 #15 October 4, 2012 I'm a Capricorn and to stuborn to die, not that the old man with the scythe hasen't tried to collect me more than a few times. Gone fishing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ryoder 1,590 #16 October 4, 2012 I won't play chess with a white-faced man in a black hood."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 7 #17 October 4, 2012 Quote I won't play chess with a white-faced man in a black hood. I like to leave a big bag a burnin' poop on his porch and ring the bell at 2am however! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites DrewEckhardt 0 #18 October 4, 2012 Quote No, really, after so many hazardous activity what do you think prevailed in leaving you able to type and walk around I broke my leg BASE jumping so I wasn't on the DZ plane when it went down five weeks later with no survivors. I'm still walking around because I had good orthopedic surgeons and didn't have a compound fracture because of a premonition I had on the commercial flight out that I needed to tighten my boots because there was going to be a crash. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airtwardo 7 #19 October 4, 2012 My best friend use to say~ Yeah yeah, everybody thinks you do all the suicide shit 'cause you watched too much Batman as a kid... THEN ya hooked up with the Redhead ~ Now they're sayin' THAT crazy fucker really WANTS to die! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ryoder 1,590 #20 October 4, 2012 Quote THEN ya hooked up with the Redhead ~ Now they're sayin' THAT crazy fucker really WANTS to die with a smile on his face! FIFY"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Amazon 7 #21 October 4, 2012 QuoteQuote No, really, after so many hazardous activity what do you think prevailed in leaving you able to type and walk around Up until I was 27 nothing but pure luck (good or bad depending on where you stand with me) Since then, calculated risk management. Yupperz.... doing stupid shit is survivable... IF you take into account all the possible things that can happen and prepare the best you can to avoid the feces from occurring. Beyond that... it helps to be lucky... but do everything you can to not get into surviving only by needing what luck you have to kick in. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites davjohns 1 #22 October 4, 2012 Well, being a toy for God's amusement had to have at least one perk.I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet.. But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Darius11 12 #23 October 4, 2012 Cool head and LuckI'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites hillson 0 #24 October 4, 2012 Started the sport in my early 30s...glad I did...much better appreciate of risk. At least in my case. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites popsjumper 2 #25 October 4, 2012 I smoked his ass on the fiddle.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. 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Squeak 17 #3 October 4, 2012 Quote No, really, after so many hazardous activity what do you think prevailed in leaving you able to type and walk around Up until I was 27 nothing but pure luck (good or bad depending on where you stand with me) Since then, calculated risk management.You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
format 1 #4 October 4, 2012 Quote "Since then, calculated risk management". I was looking for 'delusioned' sinonim - that's it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #5 October 4, 2012 Quote Quote "Since then, calculated risk management". I was looking for 'delusioned' sinonim - that's it what about it do you think is delusional, and the word i think you meant is synonymYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #7 October 4, 2012 Quote British weather. you cant still femur in doing HnPs You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pincheck 0 #8 October 4, 2012 Until the last 8 years when i started jumping cuts and bruises but never had a Broken bone or stitches. Since then fractured back on 1st crw landing Head stitches require for large Cut on my forehead while taking Urban explore photographs in LondonLast but not least last years having a argument with a large lorry while on my Motorbike where it was almost lost my life almost lost my foot and spent a year recovering to almost normal. My typing is not that good (especially on my phone it is like a unknown language at times) Walking around, well i walk and can now run but when walking its with a limp at times due to plastic and orthopaedic surgery. The only pursuit i have not done any damage in is my Hillwalking /mountaineering in 20+ years of doing it I have done more active living in the last 8 years that the rest of my life of just plodding along. Billy-Sonic Haggis Flickr-Fun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
format 1 #9 October 4, 2012 Quote Quote Quote "calculated risk management". I was looking for 'delusioned' sinonim - that's it what about it do you think is delusional, and the word i think you meant is synonym Yep, thanks for correcting it. Now, I really smile, thinking of ways people do things, trying hard to believe "they know what they're doing" I am trying to keep that whufo aspect It really is funny, sounds like: "Watcha me.. and hold my beer" (I mean we are) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #10 October 4, 2012 Quote Quote Quote Quote "calculated risk management". I was looking for 'delusioned' sinonim - that's it what about it do you think is delusional, and the word i think you meant is synonym Yep, thanks for correcting it. Now, I really smile, thinking of ways people do things, trying hard to believe "they know what they're doing" I am trying to keep that whufo aspect It really is funny, sounds like: "Watcha me.. and hold my beer" (I mean we are) that's not delusional, I know the risks involved in what i do and i do my level best to ameliorate those risks, however at the end of the day most of what I do play in, could (in a WCS) kill me. Motorbike, climbing/abseiling, SCUBA Diving and skydiving, all of which have inherent risk, I try to stack the odds in my favour as much as possible and then way up if the risk is worth taking. Some times it's not and I stand down.You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coreece 190 #11 October 4, 2012 QuoteHow come you're alive...still? I attribute all the great "luck" and numerous "coincidences" in my life to God...especially that time I was hit by that truck head-on, and that time I jumped off that bridge, and the time with that one chick, and the times with those guns, and the time during that shoot-out, and that time I...etc, etc. Now if only He could help me stop being such an asshole, I might just make it out of this life alive...Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 210 #12 October 4, 2012 I have pondered this very question several times lately. As I age I know the odds start going up that I won't live forever. The list of 'bonus days' events started at age 14. I must be special. Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coreece 190 #13 October 4, 2012 Sometimes the only logical answer is illogical...Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlyingRhenquest 1 #14 October 4, 2012 It wasn't THAT hard, really. You know, your odds of being killed in a car accident in any given year are about 1 in 6000 or so? Even if you eliminate ALL risk from your life, you will still die sooner or later. You just won't have had much to live for along the way. So who's crazier, me, who has an immeasurable amount of fun jumping out of airplanes, or the guy who lives his life paralyzed by fear of an event he can not avoid no matter what he does? If I pound in this weekend with double bag lock, well I had a good run and I accepted that risk when I got on the plane. I'd rather go that way than getting T-Boned by some jackass in an SUV on my way to work. Neither event is likely enough for me to spend time worrying about it. Now if I start BASE jumping or proximity wingsuit flying, my life expectancy would go down enough to worry me. Seems like everyone at my dropzone knows someone who died, and the story almost always starts "Yeah, he went on a BASE Jump..."I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zep 0 #15 October 4, 2012 I'm a Capricorn and to stuborn to die, not that the old man with the scythe hasen't tried to collect me more than a few times. Gone fishing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #16 October 4, 2012 I won't play chess with a white-faced man in a black hood."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #17 October 4, 2012 Quote I won't play chess with a white-faced man in a black hood. I like to leave a big bag a burnin' poop on his porch and ring the bell at 2am however! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrewEckhardt 0 #18 October 4, 2012 Quote No, really, after so many hazardous activity what do you think prevailed in leaving you able to type and walk around I broke my leg BASE jumping so I wasn't on the DZ plane when it went down five weeks later with no survivors. I'm still walking around because I had good orthopedic surgeons and didn't have a compound fracture because of a premonition I had on the commercial flight out that I needed to tighten my boots because there was going to be a crash. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #19 October 4, 2012 My best friend use to say~ Yeah yeah, everybody thinks you do all the suicide shit 'cause you watched too much Batman as a kid... THEN ya hooked up with the Redhead ~ Now they're sayin' THAT crazy fucker really WANTS to die! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #20 October 4, 2012 Quote THEN ya hooked up with the Redhead ~ Now they're sayin' THAT crazy fucker really WANTS to die with a smile on his face! FIFY"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #21 October 4, 2012 QuoteQuote No, really, after so many hazardous activity what do you think prevailed in leaving you able to type and walk around Up until I was 27 nothing but pure luck (good or bad depending on where you stand with me) Since then, calculated risk management. Yupperz.... doing stupid shit is survivable... IF you take into account all the possible things that can happen and prepare the best you can to avoid the feces from occurring. Beyond that... it helps to be lucky... but do everything you can to not get into surviving only by needing what luck you have to kick in. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davjohns 1 #22 October 4, 2012 Well, being a toy for God's amusement had to have at least one perk.I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet.. But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darius11 12 #23 October 4, 2012 Cool head and LuckI'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hillson 0 #24 October 4, 2012 Started the sport in my early 30s...glad I did...much better appreciate of risk. At least in my case. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #25 October 4, 2012 I smoked his ass on the fiddle.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
