patworks 5 #1 January 14, 2006 Mind food "There are just three sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing, and skydiving+. The rest are simply recreation." E. Hemingway, "Sun Also Rises", +ballet "When I love skydiving+ less, my own life will become worth more to me, and I will be less willing to risk it." Phill Hill, 1st USA Champion of the World, F1, +motor racing. Like music - like skydiving.... "O death, all conquering one, Now you are conquered! With wings I have won for myself, Striving in fervent love I shall soar to the light no eye Has seen!" Gustav Mahler's "Resurrection" #2 in G "Nothing focuses concentration like a good exit on a bright day when colors explode like flowers. Around you, skymates blossom" 2 catsPat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
srsand1960 0 #2 January 14, 2006 It's all good! It doesn't matter how anyone else lives their life.... it matter how you live yours! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #3 January 14, 2006 "In a world in which we are all slaves to the laws of gravity, I'm proud to be counted as one of them freedom fighters. Skydive!" "If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle." "You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation....." "All people who live, die. But, not all people who die have lived." "A life lived in fear is a life half lived." "The coward dies a thousand deaths." "Look to the skies! They are ever changing." "Only skydivers know why the birds sing." "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -- Helen Keller "Skydiving: It is not just a matter of life and death...it is much more important than that." "Anyone can fall out of an airplane; skydivers just do it right." "It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her." -- Ernest Hemingway "A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is waht you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk." -- Craig Elliot "Aviation is not in itself inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than even the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect." "Out of 10,000 feet of fall, always remember that the last half inch hurts the most." -- Captain Charles W. Purcell, 1932 "When the people look like ants-PULL, When the ants look like people-PRAY." "The higher we soar, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly." "Living: It's the only thing worth dying for." "Humans use only 11% of their brains. The fact that makes extreme sports possible." "100% pure adrenaline... ...other guys snort for it, jab a vein for it... ...all you gotta do is jump" "Alcohol kills brain cells, but only the weak ones!" "I wouldn't say danger is my life, I prefer to think of it as a hobby." "I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go." "If you want to experience the REALLY great outdoors, fly up in an airplane and step OUTDOORS !" "Eat! Fuck! Skydive!" "Don't trust a skydiver ... their checks bounce.... " "Skydivers know why birds sing ... They don't have to pack every fucking time they land!" "The best things in life are DANGEROUS!" "If you bounce while skydiving, most people will feel sorry for you and feel some pain, even if you screwed up. If you bounce while BASE jumping, regardless of what you did, you're just an asshole." "My wife is on the rag. I'd rather go in than go home." "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!" "Gravity's job is to kill you. Your job is to keep that from happening." "It was a great skydive. Weather was fine, formation was good and stable, level okay.... and then came the exit." "Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive." "those who do, can't explain; those who don't, can't understand" "Know skydiving, know life..... NO skydiving, NO life" "Skydiving is an invitation, a privilege audaciously and impolitely granted, perfumed with danger and surprise, offering greater freedom of movement, inviting one to live life at some other level. ... If one dares!" "I live with fear and terror, but sometimes I leave her and go skydiving." "Air cooled, gravity powered." "It doesn't matter if you win or lose - unless you lose." "The sky's not the limit, the ground is, so shut up and jump." "Air is like water, just less dense ... but at 120 mph you can grab it and pull on it.." "Brainlock is not a skydiving skill" "I've gone to several drop zones that have signs saying 'No Low Pulls'... Well, rules or not, if I get low I'm pulling." "I have a Love Hate relationship with gravity." "When in doubt, whip it out." "Going low is a rush, it's just not practical!" "At 120MPH shit happens!" "Skydivers dont let friends jump pink!" "Pack fast, pull low, and date your riggers wife" "There is a reason to life. We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!" "You will begin to touch heaven in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles per hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed is being there." "Fall Fast Always Buy your Beer Refuse to die!" "Rainy weekends at the DZ are the most expensive" ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
awakefie 0 #4 January 14, 2006 "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. " Leonardo da Vinci Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mixoligist 0 #5 January 14, 2006 "Keep your head on a swivel...they are all trying to kill you." A.G.W................................... Better you than me .................................. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BGill 0 #6 January 14, 2006 "take risks not to escape life, but to keep life from escaping" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vstar2001 0 #7 January 14, 2006 ask not what you did to owe free beer, but point out why others also owe free beer..... ______________________________________________I just am................ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skypuppy 1 #8 January 14, 2006 The last thing to go thru a freeflyer's head --- his ASSHOLE! "There's nothing as final as the green vinyl... Body bags, son, body bags." Kevin V. "I thought about stopping drinking, but then I'd be a pretty boring guy." Eric BradleyIf some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead. Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstime 0 #9 January 14, 2006 "Only skydivers know why the birds sing." They don't have to pack Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,026 #10 January 14, 2006 Shakespeare said: On speed stars: "I'll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round": Macbeth On bouncing: "who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" Macbeth On the frustrations of jumping in England: "For the rain it raineth every day." Twelfth Night On buying land for a drop zone: "Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground." The Tempest After a long day at the DZ: "Fill all thy bones with aches." The Tempest On camping at the WFFC: "O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams." Richard III On BASE jumping: "O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!" Hamlet On his parachute: "this most excellent canopy!" Hamlet On AFF training: "Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently." Hamlet On F111 canopies: "it be made of penetrable stuff." Hamlet On AFF evaluators: "For I am nothing, if not critical." Othello On FAR part 105: "But, for my own part, it was Greek to me." Julius Caesar On Nova canopies: "These things are beyond all use, And I do fear them." Julius Caesar On being axed from a big-way: "This was the most unkindest cut of all." Julius Caesar On winter jumps in the Midwest: "The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold." Hamlet On skygods: "Since pride must have a fall,-and break the neck" (Richard II) On freeflyers who want to exit first: "The ripest fruit first falls." Richard II On jump plane pilots: "his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off;" Macbeth On naked jumps: "the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses." Macbeth... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sstovall 0 #11 January 15, 2006 Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines--Steven Wright Not everyone is meant to make a difference but for me the chance to live an ordinary life is not an option Who poked my smot? Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "f*#k, what a ride The six P's: Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance Things which do you no good in aviation (or skydiving for that matter): Altitude above you. Runway behind you. Fuel in the truck. A navigator. Half a second ago. Approach plates in the car. The airspeed you don't have. Being deep in the beeps is not the place to learn EPs. S= = -some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain, that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
noblesmelissa 0 #12 January 15, 2006 I saw a t-shirt I liked today.. "My drinking club has a skydiving problem" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yamtx73 0 #13 January 15, 2006 QuoteI saw a t-shirt I liked today.. "My drinking club has a skydiving problem" LOL.. I like that oneThe only naturals in this sport shit thru feathers... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrEaK_aCcIdEnT 0 #14 January 15, 2006 i saw one that said Naked Skydiving Instructor "dont worry i do this all the time." made me laugh so i ordered one. ExPeCt ThE uNeXpEcTeD! DoNt MiNd ThE tYpOs, Im LaZy On CoRrEcTiOnS! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Calvin19 0 #15 January 15, 2006 I like pretty much all BASE/Flying/Skydiving quotes, save 2, the perfectly good airplanes one, and that goddamn Da Vinci "tasted flight" it is raped and beyond all reason destroyed to no meaning at all. please post neither, for this insomatic, late night websurfur will have none of it. and i just might puke on my laptop if i see it. but ones i really liked... "Your Standing on your Bridal... IDIOT" -cant remember, i wasnt there. "Dude, there are a few things you really dont want to learn the hard way, the rest i am going to let you figure out: pull, dont turn to low, and fucking flare." "Ok bro, there is only 3 handles, and one order you need to use them in. if you fuck this shit up, you deserve it." -...teaching my best freind how to skydive.(he did perfect) "Why are they all touching their heads?" -My baby sister, when we were at the GoFast games, she was watching all of us practice reaching for our PCs, and the movements one makes out of instinct look like you touch your head as you touch the PC for body symmetry, it was hilarious. "what happens if your chute doest open?" -every wuffo that has ever seen a base jump "you dont have enough jumps to be looking at that websight" -my mentor about dz.com, he was jokeing. -SPACE- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Travman 6 #16 January 15, 2006 Quotei saw one that said Naked Skydiving Instructor "dont worry i do this all the time." made me laugh so i ordered one. You ordered a naked skydiving instructor? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JaapSuter 0 #17 January 15, 2006 Quote"Your Standing on your Bridal... IDIOT" -cant remember, i wasnt there. That was actually a BASE quote, made by Roland “Slim” Simpson, RIP. More BASE nuggets on BASE WIKI. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jdfreefly 1 #18 January 15, 2006 "....and if you are going to have a freefall collision, try not to have it with someone who weighs 200 pounds." If stupid didn't hurt, we wouldn't learn. ver 1.0 - If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough. ver 2.0 - If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough, but lucky will also work, and it hurts less. Methane Freefly - got stink? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallygator 0 #19 January 15, 2006 i was told this after a serious loss of altitude awareness, "no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to knock the earht out of orbit, so don't even try!! " this was followed by a serious kick in the ass from everyone -------------------------------------------------- who Jah bless Let no man curse. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #20 January 15, 2006 An oldie . . . "Get in or go in!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMax 0 #21 January 15, 2006 QuoteShakespeare said: ... That was brilliant ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Silverchic 0 #22 January 15, 2006 I'm surprised no-one has posted this one yet: "If at first you don't succeed, Skydiving is not for you!" And I have a t-shirt that says: Jump Land Pack Repeat.How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuFantasma 0 #23 January 15, 2006 I prefer Einstein as my source of Inspiration. Subject to each person's interpretation, here are my favorite quotes On Skydiving "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --A. Einstein On PLF (Post-Landing Fornication) "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein On Malfunctions "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity." -- Albert Einstein On Reserve Malfunctions Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein On Staying on the Ground on Windy Days Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -- Albert Einstein On Performance Dynamics "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein On Whuffos "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein On SkyGods "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." --Einstein, Albert On Incident Reports Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. [info][add][mail] Albert EinsteinY yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo". - Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chillin 0 #24 January 16, 2006 I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone...but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson (RIP) If the chute fits...JUMP IT!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
