cbain 0 #1 April 6, 2005 My husband thinks that all (or a very large %) of skydivers were treeclimbers as kids. We asked around the DZ one day and it did appear to be a large % that were treeclimbers. So did you climb trees when you were a kid? Christina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amanduh 0 #2 April 6, 2005 Hell yeah!! I was a monkey dude!!!! Straight up! I still remember falling out of a tree (a high limb I was bound to get to the end of! LOL) when I was about 7 years old. Knocked the breath out of me but other than that I was fine! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yoink 321 #3 April 6, 2005 Yeah! Climbing trees rocked... Still climb pretty much anything if I'm drunk enough... or try to anyway! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites selbbub78 0 #4 April 6, 2005 That's a bizarre connection, but of course I was! I fell out of a tree when I was 10, and there's still a scar from me falling down the tree on my right thigh. It's all good though, now I have better hobbiesCReW Skies,"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone "The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote) "The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mnealtx 0 #5 April 6, 2005 I lived out in the country... I was ALWAYS up in a tree... ...or trying to rappel out of them with a chunk of Mom's clothesline run through a belt loop... ... note to anyone wanting to try that: Belt loops will NOT support your weight!! Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites huka551 0 #6 April 6, 2005 If you think about it it does make sense, we are a breed of thrill seekers, and what is more thrilling as a kid then to do what mom wouldn't like, get as high as possible Muff Brother 3723 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites unformed 0 #7 April 6, 2005 i didn't when i was a kid, but i do now.This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites soulshine 0 #8 April 6, 2005 I was a climber when I was a kid. I still do on a regular basis. Something about branches that just screams: C'mon, you know you want to! Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity! ~DEVIOUS BEEF~~FGF #69~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites masterrig 1 #9 April 6, 2005 Wranglers just weren't meant for that, huh? I'll bet you did the leap off the barn with a bed sheet too? Been there done that! Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Rebecca 0 #10 April 6, 2005 Oh yes! I watched a nest of robins from eggs to hatching one Spring. It was cool. I still look at trees to this day and rate their climbability! you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BillyVance 34 #11 April 6, 2005 QuoteHell yeah!! I was a monkey dude!!!! Straight up! I still remember falling out of a tree (a high limb I was bound to get to the end of! LOL) when I was about 7 years old. Knocked the breath out of me but other than that I was fine! I used to climb trees all the time growing up! Once when I was maybe 12 years old, I fell out of one, 15 feet straight to the ground, taking the top 10 feet of the tree with me! Boy was my dad MAD. HE planted that tree 5 or 6 years before. It's still there today, with a kink in the trunk where I snapped it off... Oh yeah, I once jumped off a high porch, some 8 feet off the ground, with an umbrella, when I was 6 or 7 years old. That's probably the first PLF I ever did! Another time around the same age, I was swinging on the rope swing which had a round wooden seat with the rope knotted through the middle of. It was tied to a tree branch some 20 feet off the ground. The ground was level at the point where the swing sits still, then slopes down and away (we lived on the foot of a mountain), and I could swing way out, as far as I could, sometimes getting as high off the ground as 15 feet on the outward swing. Well one day, the rope broke at the seat on one of those outward swings, and fell I did, some 10 to 15 feet to the ground, landing with a resounding thump. Knocked the wind out of me. Dad was in the garden and he heard me thump in. So, I can say that was my first free-fall jump! "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 mnealtx 0 #12 April 6, 2005 QuoteWranglers just weren't meant for that, huh? I'll bet you did the leap off the barn with a bed sheet too? Been there done that! Chuck No, I took twine and some leaf bags...the big 33 gallon ones... tied 3 of them together and made a couple loops to put my arms through for a harness.... Climbed up on the roof and jumped off... actually didn't work *TOO* badly... of course, the whupping I got for almost busting my head on the patio slab didn't improve things... Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites NWFlyer 2 #13 April 6, 2005 There weren't a lot of good climbing trees where I grew up but I can remember being drawn to the one at my grandmother's house in the country. Back home in the 'burbs, though, if I could hang from it or swing from it, I was there... back in the day we had awesomely unsafe playground equipment! Oh, and I was jumping off the high dive by age 3."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 cbain 0 #14 April 6, 2005 So, per the poll right now - 96% of skydivers are treeclimbers. Wonder if it works the other way around? Are all treeclimbers, skydivers? If your kid is out climbing trees how likely are they to become a skydiver? Christina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Remster 30 #15 April 6, 2005 Yep.. me and Karen were both treeclimbers! I think you're on to something! lolRemster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bnacrazywoman 0 #16 April 6, 2005 I broke my arm falling out of a tree when I was four years old. My brother told me I couldn't climb that tree and I proved him wrong...until that dang branch broke! I still climb trees. Be Not Afraid. BN Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites wildblue 7 #17 April 6, 2005 Don't all kids climb trees?it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Amanduh 0 #18 April 6, 2005 QuoteOh yeah, I once jumped off a high porch, some 8 feet off the ground, with an umbrella, when I was 6 or 7 years old. That's probably the first PLF I ever did! OH MY GOSH BILLY! YOU SOUND JUST LIKE ME! BWAHAHAHAHHA!! (Everything you posted actually) BUT, get this...I was probably 12 and had this bad addiction of going into the 'nature trails' and climbing through the empty creek bed. When it was all dried up it was soooo cool because there were all kinds of caves/ tunnels/ cool looking formations in the wall where I could climb all up and through! Well, there was this one point WAYYYYY down the creek that was not accessible..unless you were ME! HAHAHA!! Well, it had this old tree that had fallen across it...The few daredevil friends I had that went back there with me every once in a while would all walk across it (the creek was about 20 feet below..) Well, good ole DUH decides "HEy guys..I'll just JUMP OFF IT!" (*Insert HEY GUYS..hold my beer and watch this, comment here*) LOL Yup...I walked straight across, everyones eyes were on me...I looked at them one last time...looked back down..looked up at the sun pearing through the trees..and LEAPED!!! To my surprise..there was a freaking stick sticking up out of the base of the creek bed that I happened to land on (left knee) that sliced my leg open! LOL I had blood spewing all down my leg. I'm laughing about it...and saying "It got in my way!" and we all hike back out..my mom sees my bloody leg when I come climbing out of the creek at the front entrance and freaks out. I'm like "Oh mom please! Just clean it off, put a bandaide on it and let me go back! I dont wanna go home!!!" LOL Didn't work..she took me home...I STILL HAVE THE SCAR!! IT'S SO COOOOL! I use to also get on the swings and swing as high as I could possibly go ...and just to the point that I hit the max height before the swing went back 'down'...I would LEAP OFF IT AND FLY!!!!! lol..should have known I'd be jumping out of something someday... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites cbain 0 #19 April 6, 2005 QuoteDon't all kids climb trees? Not when I was a kid... All the other kids used to think I was crazy for climbing trees because what if you fall. Kind of like everybody thinks I'm crazy for jumping out of airplanes. Christina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BillyVance 34 #20 April 6, 2005 Maybe we ARE kindred spirits, Amanduh! Yeah, I've done the walk on a log over the creek thing too, but that was when I was on a group hike in school. The teacher gave me an ass-reaming when he caught me... said something like "that's the stupidest thing I have ever seen you do!" I'm like, yeah right, you ain't seen nothing yet! "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 Amanduh 0 #21 April 6, 2005 BWAHAHAHAHHAA!!! Now THAT just reminded me of my junior high trip to enchanted rock! LOL!! Lets just say I got in quite a bit of trouble when I ventured off of the "easy path" LOL and decided to create my own up the rocky side of the rock! HAHAHAHAA!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Buried 0 #22 April 6, 2005 aren't most kids - at one point tree climbers?.. i suppose they may not be if they grew up in a place without trees or had over protective parents. Where is my fizzy-lifting drink? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites weegegirl 2 #23 April 6, 2005 My Mom came out of the house when I was about 6 years old, to find me about 30 feet up in a tree. She freaked out and almost called the fire department to get me down. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Amanduh 0 #24 April 6, 2005 BWAHAHAHAHAA! HOW FUNNY!!!!! I LOVE your new avatar!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Rebecca 0 #25 April 6, 2005 You'd be surprised. Just as some kids are born daredevils, some are born cautious and careful, regardless of parental influence. 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yoink 321 #3 April 6, 2005 Yeah! Climbing trees rocked... Still climb pretty much anything if I'm drunk enough... or try to anyway! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
selbbub78 0 #4 April 6, 2005 That's a bizarre connection, but of course I was! I fell out of a tree when I was 10, and there's still a scar from me falling down the tree on my right thigh. It's all good though, now I have better hobbiesCReW Skies,"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone "The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote) "The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #5 April 6, 2005 I lived out in the country... I was ALWAYS up in a tree... ...or trying to rappel out of them with a chunk of Mom's clothesline run through a belt loop... ... note to anyone wanting to try that: Belt loops will NOT support your weight!! Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
huka551 0 #6 April 6, 2005 If you think about it it does make sense, we are a breed of thrill seekers, and what is more thrilling as a kid then to do what mom wouldn't like, get as high as possible Muff Brother 3723 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unformed 0 #7 April 6, 2005 i didn't when i was a kid, but i do now.This ad space for sale. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soulshine 0 #8 April 6, 2005 I was a climber when I was a kid. I still do on a regular basis. Something about branches that just screams: C'mon, you know you want to! Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity! ~DEVIOUS BEEF~~FGF #69~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #9 April 6, 2005 Wranglers just weren't meant for that, huh? I'll bet you did the leap off the barn with a bed sheet too? Been there done that! Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rebecca 0 #10 April 6, 2005 Oh yes! I watched a nest of robins from eggs to hatching one Spring. It was cool. I still look at trees to this day and rate their climbability! you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #11 April 6, 2005 QuoteHell yeah!! I was a monkey dude!!!! Straight up! I still remember falling out of a tree (a high limb I was bound to get to the end of! LOL) when I was about 7 years old. Knocked the breath out of me but other than that I was fine! I used to climb trees all the time growing up! Once when I was maybe 12 years old, I fell out of one, 15 feet straight to the ground, taking the top 10 feet of the tree with me! Boy was my dad MAD. HE planted that tree 5 or 6 years before. It's still there today, with a kink in the trunk where I snapped it off... Oh yeah, I once jumped off a high porch, some 8 feet off the ground, with an umbrella, when I was 6 or 7 years old. That's probably the first PLF I ever did! Another time around the same age, I was swinging on the rope swing which had a round wooden seat with the rope knotted through the middle of. It was tied to a tree branch some 20 feet off the ground. The ground was level at the point where the swing sits still, then slopes down and away (we lived on the foot of a mountain), and I could swing way out, as far as I could, sometimes getting as high off the ground as 15 feet on the outward swing. Well one day, the rope broke at the seat on one of those outward swings, and fell I did, some 10 to 15 feet to the ground, landing with a resounding thump. Knocked the wind out of me. Dad was in the garden and he heard me thump in. So, I can say that was my first free-fall jump! "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
mnealtx 0 #12 April 6, 2005 QuoteWranglers just weren't meant for that, huh? I'll bet you did the leap off the barn with a bed sheet too? Been there done that! Chuck No, I took twine and some leaf bags...the big 33 gallon ones... tied 3 of them together and made a couple loops to put my arms through for a harness.... Climbed up on the roof and jumped off... actually didn't work *TOO* badly... of course, the whupping I got for almost busting my head on the patio slab didn't improve things... Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #13 April 6, 2005 There weren't a lot of good climbing trees where I grew up but I can remember being drawn to the one at my grandmother's house in the country. Back home in the 'burbs, though, if I could hang from it or swing from it, I was there... back in the day we had awesomely unsafe playground equipment! Oh, and I was jumping off the high dive by age 3."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
cbain 0 #14 April 6, 2005 So, per the poll right now - 96% of skydivers are treeclimbers. Wonder if it works the other way around? Are all treeclimbers, skydivers? If your kid is out climbing trees how likely are they to become a skydiver? Christina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #15 April 6, 2005 Yep.. me and Karen were both treeclimbers! I think you're on to something! lolRemster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bnacrazywoman 0 #16 April 6, 2005 I broke my arm falling out of a tree when I was four years old. My brother told me I couldn't climb that tree and I proved him wrong...until that dang branch broke! I still climb trees. Be Not Afraid. BN Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildblue 7 #17 April 6, 2005 Don't all kids climb trees?it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amanduh 0 #18 April 6, 2005 QuoteOh yeah, I once jumped off a high porch, some 8 feet off the ground, with an umbrella, when I was 6 or 7 years old. That's probably the first PLF I ever did! OH MY GOSH BILLY! YOU SOUND JUST LIKE ME! BWAHAHAHAHHA!! (Everything you posted actually) BUT, get this...I was probably 12 and had this bad addiction of going into the 'nature trails' and climbing through the empty creek bed. When it was all dried up it was soooo cool because there were all kinds of caves/ tunnels/ cool looking formations in the wall where I could climb all up and through! Well, there was this one point WAYYYYY down the creek that was not accessible..unless you were ME! HAHAHA!! Well, it had this old tree that had fallen across it...The few daredevil friends I had that went back there with me every once in a while would all walk across it (the creek was about 20 feet below..) Well, good ole DUH decides "HEy guys..I'll just JUMP OFF IT!" (*Insert HEY GUYS..hold my beer and watch this, comment here*) LOL Yup...I walked straight across, everyones eyes were on me...I looked at them one last time...looked back down..looked up at the sun pearing through the trees..and LEAPED!!! To my surprise..there was a freaking stick sticking up out of the base of the creek bed that I happened to land on (left knee) that sliced my leg open! LOL I had blood spewing all down my leg. I'm laughing about it...and saying "It got in my way!" and we all hike back out..my mom sees my bloody leg when I come climbing out of the creek at the front entrance and freaks out. I'm like "Oh mom please! Just clean it off, put a bandaide on it and let me go back! I dont wanna go home!!!" LOL Didn't work..she took me home...I STILL HAVE THE SCAR!! IT'S SO COOOOL! I use to also get on the swings and swing as high as I could possibly go ...and just to the point that I hit the max height before the swing went back 'down'...I would LEAP OFF IT AND FLY!!!!! lol..should have known I'd be jumping out of something someday... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cbain 0 #19 April 6, 2005 QuoteDon't all kids climb trees? Not when I was a kid... All the other kids used to think I was crazy for climbing trees because what if you fall. Kind of like everybody thinks I'm crazy for jumping out of airplanes. Christina Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #20 April 6, 2005 Maybe we ARE kindred spirits, Amanduh! Yeah, I've done the walk on a log over the creek thing too, but that was when I was on a group hike in school. The teacher gave me an ass-reaming when he caught me... said something like "that's the stupidest thing I have ever seen you do!" I'm like, yeah right, you ain't seen nothing yet! "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
Amanduh 0 #21 April 6, 2005 BWAHAHAHAHHAA!!! Now THAT just reminded me of my junior high trip to enchanted rock! LOL!! Lets just say I got in quite a bit of trouble when I ventured off of the "easy path" LOL and decided to create my own up the rocky side of the rock! HAHAHAHAA!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Buried 0 #22 April 6, 2005 aren't most kids - at one point tree climbers?.. i suppose they may not be if they grew up in a place without trees or had over protective parents. Where is my fizzy-lifting drink? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weegegirl 2 #23 April 6, 2005 My Mom came out of the house when I was about 6 years old, to find me about 30 feet up in a tree. She freaked out and almost called the fire department to get me down. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amanduh 0 #24 April 6, 2005 BWAHAHAHAHAA! HOW FUNNY!!!!! I LOVE your new avatar!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rebecca 0 #25 April 6, 2005 You'd be surprised. Just as some kids are born daredevils, some are born cautious and careful, regardless of parental influence. How many of your parents were in a constant state of semi-worry for your poor little bodies? you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
