You just cant make this up!!

[Ketia0 0]

A conversation I had with a old friend from highschool..

He saw i was organizing a group of my friends for thier first tandem ( I love the sport so much that i go through with organizing a bunch of tandems.. He told me he was a skydiver... It only got better from then...

8:17pmAustin
why not?

8:17pmTrevor
Plus, I dive alone, I don;t use a tandem, and I doubt the people you are going through will allow that. Most places don't.

8:18pmAustin
If you have a license they will

8:19pmTrevor
I don't have a license. I only have 4 hours of Skydiving. If i remember correctly you need at least 20 in Texas.

8:19pmAustin
Oh wow. how did you get 4 hours of skydivng? where at?

8:19pmTrevor
The place I went to didnt make you use a tandem if you signed a policy and payed 50 bucks extra.

8:19pmAustin
thats cool

so did you land with front risers or rear risers?



8:20pmTrevor
I honestly don't remember, its been like almost 2 years. I think front.

8:20pmAustin
oh thats cool


8:21pmTrevor
I'm sure what the place was doing is highly illegal, I just dont like being strapped in with some other dude.

8:21pmAustin
lol. i see

What kind of parachute was it?

8:22pmTrevor
fuck idk, i just starpped one on and jumped

ive jumped 9 times and 4 times it was one kind, and the other 5 it was different

8:23pmAustin
At what alititude did you jump?? I think we are going may 1st! What alititude did you pull at??

8:25pmTrevor
the highest i did was 20,000, but I normally went out at 13-15K

8:25pmAustin
cool man. and what alititude did you deploy at?

8:26pmTrevor
Around 2500 feet usually, but i did it at 1200 once just to see what it was like.

it hurt

8:26pmAustin
oh wow

thats crazy

8:26pmTrevor
what about you? height? deployment?

8:27pmAustin
oh man.. Im still jumping at 14k and pulling at 3,5k

8:27pmTrevor
if i ever go again, ill be doing a wing suit jump

8:28pmAustin
oh wow! thats cool!

8:28pmTrevor
more than likely over Lake Erie

8:28pmAustin
thatll work.. So.. you have a belly reserve or a back one?

8:28pmTrevor
back

ive never needed it though

8:29pmAustin
thats good. ive never used mine either

did you pack your own parachute or use a packer?

8:29pmTrevor
oh they packed it for me

8:30pmAustin
cool cool

8:33pmTrevor
so how do you fall. does your tandem let you do tricks and shit?

8:34pmAustin
yea, do some turns and stuff

belly to earth and all that

8:34pmTrevor
i do flips and dives and whatnot

took a snowboard on my 3rd time, that hurts like a bitch

8:34pmAustin
cool man

Hey! Have you ever gone head down???

i saw that on tv.. it looked so cool

8:35pmTrevor
like a straight down dive?

8:35pmAustin
yep

8:35pmTrevor
yea, its hard on the neck though

kinda like whiplash

8:36pmAustin
ouch. do you deploy when ur head down?

8:36pmTrevor
and snap my neck? no thank you, i tilt my head back.

8:36pmAustin
oh thats cool

8:37pmTrevor
What i really wanna do is a cut off. that seems fun as hell

8:37pmAustin
whats that?

8:38pmTrevor
im not sure of that is the technical name or whatever, but its where you cut the chute off at like 30 feet high and land in water.

8:38pmAustin
oh wow

8:39pmTrevor
i was big into skydiving in college, my emo days ya know?




I dont have the heart to tell him he is such lier... lol.

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[happythoughts 0]

If you tell them what items are incorrect, they just become
a more convincing liar.

If you ignore it, it is a community service.
They will continue to expose themselves and allow more
people to recognize them for what they are.

If I want to end the conversation, I just say, "That really sounds interesting. If I do a tandem this weekend, will you go with me?"

[mtbriles 0]

Hahahaahh had a friend go through almost the same spill with me. I laughed so hard!!!

Its so funny because he brought up the "snow board" too.

Ohhhhhh silly whuffos.

Why not?
My direction in life is up...then down again REALLY REALLY FAST!!!
Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
D.S. #55

[Ketia0 0]

I asked him to go, but he said his girlfreind wont let him jump from perfectly good airplanes...

im still trying to figure out how he thinks he has HOURS in skydiving???

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[Ketia0 0]

Whuffos and snow boards.

I was laughing the whole time.. specailly when he told me he landed with his front risers..

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[mtbriles 0]

HAHAHAHA

People can be soooo entertaining.

The front riser thing was fucking hilarious!!!



Youve got a very special friend.

Why not?
My direction in life is up...then down again REALLY REALLY FAST!!!
Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
D.S. #55

[muff528 3]

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HAHAHAHA

People can be soooo entertaining.

The front riser thing was fucking hilarious!!!



Youve got a very special friend.

Not for long if he keeps landing with front risers!

[Tiger6513 0]

Doood like no way My first jump was out of a heli with winds like 60mph or something, the instructors just said jump and pull your cord so I did from like 25 thousand feet or so, it was cool like 10 mins of freefall, I was like totally awesome in the air doing flips and stuff, pulled my cords at probably 200 feet so I didn't have to ride the chute long, thats to boring for me!

Travis Roy Foundation. At very least its a tax write off

[Ketia0 0]

Yea i laughed the whole time.... But i figure, if i dont burst his bubble.. one day he *may* go skydive.. then i can bust his nuts for how bad off he was...


Cutting away at 30 feet over water!

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[LongWayToFall 0]

Why would you keep someone like that, as your friend? I have had a few friends that are compulsive liars, and anytime something comes out of their mouth, you just don't give a crap at all.

[Ketia0 0]

This is an old high school freind who lives in Ohio. i dont ever believe a word he says. This... was just pure entertainment.

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[Baksteen 84]

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im still trying to figure out how he thinks he has HOURS in skydiving???

Waiting at the DZ for the winds to calm down?

"That formation-stuff in freefall is just fun and games but with an open parachute it's starting to sound like, you know, an extreme sport."
~mom

[LongWayToFall 0]

It was pretty funny! You should have bought into it more, and started suggesting even more ludicrous things, like both your parachutes failed and you landed on some hay bales or something. People who lie like that, I usually classify as "one uppers" in that they always have to have the best story, hence why they lie. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING pisses them off more when you lie even worse and one-up em back hahahahaha.

[godfrog 2]

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It was pretty funny! You should have bought into it more, and started suggesting even more ludicrous things, like both your parachutes failed and you landed on some hay bales or something. People who lie like that, I usually classify as "one uppers" in that they always have to have the best story, hence why they lie. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING pisses them off more when you lie even worse and one-up em back hahahahaha.

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Experience is a difficult teacher, she gives you the test first and the lesson afterward

[Olaf_Norski 0]

I think he might have brougth an extra umbrella....that would make it a very slow speed free fall ya know...there then.....at the time ........

POPS # 10971

Man Small, Why Fall?
Skies Call. Thats All.

[shropshire 0]

Yeap - we had a saying about them ....

What ever you've done, they've done with bricks on their back..

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[skyrider 0]

Gotta love a Wuffo that knows more than a Jumper about jumping!

I'd not only play him, I'd record the converstions, cheap entertainment to play back each week at the bonfire !!

as for the OP, Opening at 3500 feet? Hope ya always tell manifest...Us folks opening at 2000 to 2500 would be greatful to know that! (and even more greatful to go out before you)

[tjm 0]

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Gotta love a Wuffo that knows more than a Jumper about jumping!

I'd not only play him, I'd record the converstions, cheap entertainment to play back each week at the bonfire !!

as for the OP, Opening at 3500 feet? Hope ya always tell manifest...Us folks opening at 2000 to 2500 would be greatful to know that! (and even more greatful to go out before you)

At my sister's wedding reception a few years back, I got into an a friendly argument with a guy that says he has friends that skydive. He followed with saying that when the pull there ripcord that they fly up a 1000'. I say, oh really, they must have been haulin ass. Did they pull in a head down position?

Yeah they like going really fast.

Then I proceded to explain how its actually works. He flatout started to argue against me insisting that its physics, and your going so fast that you have to fly up when you pull your chute. Also, after I told him of the dangers of pulling head down, he argued against that as well.

He would not back down from his lie. It was fustratiing.

If you're not living on the edge; you're taking up too much room!

[skyrider 0]

LOL, Used to hear it all the time filming students, wehn the family woudl watch the video, I roll onto my back, and film for about 1000 more feet, (and wave goodbye)

The family would ask how far up they went, not realising the camera simply kept falling!

[Ketia0 0]

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Gotta love a Wuffo that knows more than a Jumper about jumping! I'd not only play him, I'd record the converstions, cheap entertainment to play back each week at the bonfire !! as for the OP, Opening at 3500 feet? Hope ya always tell manifest...Us folks opening at 2000 to 2500 would be greatful to know that! (and even more greatful to go out before you)

oh yea. I tell everyone how high im pulling.. most of the time it is around 4 grand or 4500... im a belly flyer. Before we load the plane i make sure im in the right spot and everyone knows that i pull "high".... but its not really that high here at spaceland.. specially with as many student jumpers they put out.... nobody looks twice when i say i pull at 4 grand..

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[LadyDoc 0]

That's too funny. It's crazy what people will make up to make themselves sound amazing. and FOUR hours?! I'm not a tunnel worker, but my sister was, and my instructors still found it kinda crazy that a whuffo (prior to AFF) had done over an hour in the tunnel but hadn't really set foot on a DZ. woooow... I don't remember much about my first AFF jump, but, I certainly remember the canopy ride. I think that's what reality smacked me in the face. that's just amazing. I've now had my laugh of the day. THANKS!!

If you disbelieve everything because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much-what as wisely as he would not use his legs, but sit still and perish because he had no wings to fly.-JL

[shropshire 0]

Tell him about pointy rain drops ..... that should be a fun conversation

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[lost_n_confuzd 0]

I met a guy through a friend at a sushi dinner (20 + people there) who was telling everyone that he used to parachute to fight forrest fires, I was really interested until he mentioned how they would fly their chutes feet above the fire to create lift from the heat until they found a good landing area. He also used to "shoot up" after pulling the ripcord.

Edit: fixed a word

[Squeak 17]

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I met a guy through a friend at a sushi dinner (20 + people there) who was telling everyone that he used to parachute to fight forrest fires, I was really interested until he mentioned how they would fly their chutes feet above the fire to create lift from the heat until they found a good landing sport. He also used to "shoot up" after pulling the ripcord.

The fire flying wasn't enough adrenalin they they get use "H" aswell

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?

[JohnMitchell 16]

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He also used to "shoot up" after pulling the ripcord.

Sure, shootin' up always gets you higher.

I once had some woman, friend of a roomate's date, tell me all about skydiving, standing right next to my Racer sitting on the floor next to the couch. I swear I hadn't mentioned it at all; we were just chatting. I finally pointed to my rig and she thought I was going camping.