adventurechick 0 #1 August 17, 2006 you have seen or done yourself during a weather hold? I hear most skydivers are injured on weather holds.... so let's hear those stories!! PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #2 August 17, 2006 I've contemplated opening a beer a few times. it scared the shit out of me to think that I would ensure I cant jump even if the weather got better. BLah, I still get the chillsMy photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guppie01 0 #3 August 17, 2006 Wasn't part of it, but it was pretty funny. One weather hold day the DZ was attacked by masked ninja dressed (presumed skydivers) men wielding silly string and sirens. The whole DZ/including people were covered in silly string. g"Let's do something romantic this Saturday... how bout we bust out the restraints?" Raddest Ho this side of Jersey #1 - MISS YOU OMG, is she okay? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brains 2 #4 August 17, 2006 Our favorite past time was to get out an old round parachute and a plastic kiddie pool. Sit in the pool and hold onto the risers of the round, and i mean HOLD ON! Of course this is on wind hold days. I have heard rumors of a creeper slingshot incident involving a fellow .commer, but i won't mention it cause i wasn't there. Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #5 August 17, 2006 Quoteyou have seen or done yourself during a weather hold? I hear most skydivers are injured on weather holds.... so let's hear those stories!! Solid cloud cover with a ceiling of 2000 feet didn't stop Mullin's King Air from offering hop-n-pops after a half-day wait. So some of us hard-asses signed up. Time from take off to EXIT EXIT EXIT: approximately 1 minute 10 seconds. Exit altitude 1900 feet. Great fun!!! "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adventurechick 0 #6 August 17, 2006 1900 ft??!! Dammmnnnn PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #7 August 17, 2006 Quote1900 ft??!! Dammmnnnn Some of us even turned our cypres' off... "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adventurechick 0 #8 August 17, 2006 I hope it was C and D license only! PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #9 August 17, 2006 Quote1900 ft??!! Dammmnnnn I'm sure airtwardo's got a story about how he exited lower *and* turned points. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #10 August 17, 2006 I know some people that have done parasailing with a sqaure parachute behind a car... personally I think that's pretty crazy...Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #11 August 17, 2006 QuoteQuote1900 ft??!! Dammmnnnn I'm sure airtwardo's got a story about how exited lower *and* turned points. You know, as a matter of fact, one group of highly experienced jumpers (all over 2000 jumps) did a chunked 7 way off at 1900 feet. They held together perfectly for 2 seconds, then tracked the fuck away for another couple of seconds and deployed... They were all in the saddle at around 1000 feet. This was some 8 or 9 years ago and I won't name the DZ it was at..."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
simplyputsi 0 #12 August 17, 2006 I saw, on video I wasn't there, someone get ground launched by being towed behind a van with a big old canopy. They even made a cut away handle on the towing rope so as said person could not be dragged unwillingly. It all worked out just fine, but it had potential.Skymama's #2 stalker - Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
livendive 8 #13 August 17, 2006 On the non-criminal side of things, electric star isn't particularly bright. I know a guy who likes hooky-bobbing on rollerblades, at 40+ mph, without protective gear, while spinning around & skating backwards & such. Blues, Dave"I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CSpenceFLY 1 #14 August 17, 2006 Made 4 jumps from a Cessna ranging from 1600-1900 with a Spectre 170.I had line twists on the forth one and decided it was time for a beer. Winds gusting to about 40mph took a student canopy(about a 230 if I remember) and made a kite out of it. Tied a round to a truck bumper and gave people rides up and down the runway. . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmytavino 16 #15 August 17, 2006 ... this one time.. i actually went home and mowed my Lawn!!!!!!!! an absolutley crazy thing to ever think about doing .... on a saturday or sunday... I hope THAT never happens again.... It scared the hell outta me... I thought I was turning into a whuffo that day... .....another time... low clouds,, hot , hazy,,,humid day... A bunch of us went on a Jet powered Boat ride,, UP the Niagara River and right up to the whirlpool of the Great Niagara Falls... It's a tourist thing and the high powered boats carry maybe 24 to 30 people.. Riders got absolutley SOAKED to the skin, as we crashed through 5 and 6 foot waves among the rapids downstream from the Falls....Great FUn... (only wish I had gotten the video) .. "Niagara Falls",,, " slooowly i turned,,, Step by Step, Inch By Inch".... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #16 August 17, 2006 Slip N' Slide...Lisamariewillbe P/U Truck and Thunderbow...bseriesboosted Hold 'Em...skinnyshrek P/U truck and water skis...(name withheld due to liability issues)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
SabreDave 0 #17 August 17, 2006 No Injuries 3 point 4 way from 3,000 ft. 5 second delay from 1900 for fun. And it wasn't actually a weather hold but one 20 second delay from 3,200 feet out of an ultra light The most memorable ones for sure......SabreDave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marcandalysse 0 #18 August 17, 2006 visited the muff trailer! Damn! rule number 3: dont fly over the muff trailer! mp "The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." --GK Chesterton Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DontPanic 0 #19 August 18, 2006 We got six plastic chairs, and set them up like bowling pins. Then we got a jumper to volunteer to put on his helmet and lay on one of those creepers you use for training body position. Then we slide him head first into the chairs to see how many you could knock over. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos340 1 #20 August 18, 2006 Creepers and Rounds - Drag Races at Rome down the Taxi Way. Electric 8-way - Various Places where Spence showed up. Pruitt - Round Behind the Truck. Rope broke with him about 40 feet up... And then he did it again!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
L.O. 0 #21 August 18, 2006 Quincy, back in the early 90s. I wasn't involved but I watched. People were BASE jumping off the top of a pick-up camper. They were doing a hard arch throwing the pilot chute, the whole nine yards. They fell into a gruop of skydivers who were clasping hands and they absorbed the impact. This worked great until one time the base jumper didn't get a good launch. He landed short and just two guys had to take the force of impact. The two guys were drawn together so hard that it cracked skulls, one was rendered unconscious immediately. It was neat to watch though. Head down from 1600 is fun 9 points from 3100 on a 3 way (full rotational moves, not just grip switch'n). With the famous Jim Klinge pulled the 182 out and did some fly-bys (so close that people were diving into the snow(and they were standing next to a building)) And I am the S&TA.HPDBs, I hate those guys. AFB, charter member. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CSpenceFLY 1 #22 August 18, 2006 Damn I forgot about the rope breaking. . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SansSuit 1 #23 August 18, 2006 Quoteyou have seen or done yourself during a weather hold? I hear most skydivers are injured on weather holds.... so let's hear those stories!! Bored Skydiver Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Douva 0 #24 August 18, 2006 # 1: We used to ground launch old student canopies behind pickup trucks in West Texas. On really windy days, you didn't even have to pull them; you could simply anchor them and let the 20+ MPH winds do their thing. Once we hooked up two parasailers to one truck, and they flew around each other doing over-and-unders. That was pretty dangerous. After once getting stuck at 600' for a half hour, unable to come back down do to a frontal system, I started always incorporating rope cutaway handles into my rigs. We also eventually realized that the rope cutaway is an important safety feature because the canopy can pivot into a downplane, and your only way to recover is to cutaway the rope and land. #2: I once saw low pull contests from about 1,800', out of the Bell 412 at Quincy. It's pretty creepy when you can see a free falling jumper's fingers from the ground. #3: Once a bunch of my friends and I got rained out of a day at the Holiday Boogie, so we all put on our camera helmets and went bowling in them. This video contains footage of the helmet cam bowling and the kiddy pool riding that Brains mentioned. I'm sure those aren't the only crazy weather hold antics I witnessed or participated in, but I'm too tired to think of anything else right now.I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #25 August 18, 2006 QuoteI saw, on video I wasn't there, someone get ground launched by being towed behind a van with a big old canopy. They even made a cut away handle on the towing rope so as said person could not be dragged unwillingly. It all worked out just fine, but it had potential. in fact here's the video... http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=2804Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
