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QuoteI certainly didn't mean to get everyone so riled (sp?)up. Its interesting to hear everyone's opinion and it seems that I must be in the minority with mine.
Next to politics, religion, guns, high wingloading and AADs, there is likely no other hotter topic on DZ.COM when it comes to opinions.
With regards to this subject, we could make hundreds and hundreds of jumps safely and become complacent with our feelings towards the dangers. But all it takes is one moment of lapsed judgment, or worse being in the wrong place at the wrong time for our entire worlds to come crashing down on any one of us. But does that mean that we all must stop doing something we enjoy (and be like all the other whuffos)? Well I can't speak for any others but myself and my answer is "hell no". The rewards out weigh the risks.
I know we are talking skydiving and not BASE (BASE being an order of magnitude more dangerous than skydiving). But there is a saying in the BASE world which can be applied to skydiving and it goes like this. "BASE jumping will never be safe. But it sure can be as dangerous as you want it to be."
Try not to worry about the things you have no control over
If you don't talk about it, then it will happen.
New WFFC attendees don't realize how dangerous it can be. If we let them know they could be dead before the end of next week, then they could prove us wrong. But the truth is there has been, I think, one WFFC in the last 10 years that has had no one get killed.
Now, what is everyone going to do to make sure it isn't them this year?
New WFFC attendees don't realize how dangerous it can be. If we let them know they could be dead before the end of next week, then they could prove us wrong. But the truth is there has been, I think, one WFFC in the last 10 years that has had no one get killed.
Now, what is everyone going to do to make sure it isn't them this year?
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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
You guys fucking rule. This is so much fun...... but no worries, Mama Lucia. You didn't push me into the sport. You just gave me a memory I will never forget on my first jump, and something I'll share with you for the rest of my (what I'm now thinking will be rather short) life.
Last weekend I was standing on the ground going over the elements my jump instructor wanted me to for my last jump before he okayed me for ground school. I was miming every motion I was going to be doing and this group of (really hot) girls who were there for their first tandem started giggling at me. I thought, "I'd rather look the fool to you than not be ready when my feet hit the sky."
Just signing the waver that I could potentially pass on drove home how serious the consequences of this sport are. Just jumping out of the plane the first time drove home how much I want to do this, why I'm paying money I don't have to train to be not just good, but great, at this. One day, maybe. For now, I hope to learn as much as I possibly can, because I want to jump, not crash.
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Last weekend I was standing on the ground going over the elements my jump instructor wanted me to for my last jump before he okayed me for ground school. I was miming every motion I was going to be doing and this group of (really hot) girls who were there for their first tandem started giggling at me. I thought, "I'd rather look the fool to you than not be ready when my feet hit the sky."
Just signing the waver that I could potentially pass on drove home how serious the consequences of this sport are. Just jumping out of the plane the first time drove home how much I want to do this, why I'm paying money I don't have to train to be not just good, but great, at this. One day, maybe. For now, I hope to learn as much as I possibly can, because I want to jump, not crash.
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"Once you jump. you'll never look up at the sky the same way again."
Peace
"Once you jump. you'll never look up at the sky the same way again."
Peace
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Quote...Which is why I am an oddity-a 27 year old man with a DNR on his medical record. I don't wanna live like Christopher Reeve...
When you say, on your "medical record", what do you mean by that?
Michael
What's a "whuffo?"
I'm a Newbie....
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"Once you jump. you'll never look up at the sky the same way again."
Peace
"Once you jump. you'll never look up at the sky the same way again."
Peace
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QuoteQuoteI'm betting on at least 1 if not up to 3 fatalities next week at WFFC.
You suck! I'm betting on ZERO.
Now everyone do you best to prove me point!
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Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me.
Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka
Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me.
Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka
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QuoteWhat's a "whuffo?"
I'm a Newbie....
wuffo you jump outa dem perfectly good airplanes
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Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me.
Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka
Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me.
Swooping is taking one last poke at the bear before escaping it's cave - davelepka
People don't understand why I don't pay for my son's (he's 20 now) first tandem.
Until he's willing to pay for it himself, he's not committed to making the jump for himself. Would I help him after that? Of course.
But he has to want it badly enough to think about the consequences, and to convince me that he thought about them enough if he were to get hurt seriously. The thought devastates me.
Wendy W.
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