Memorable quotes

[ernokaikkonen 0]

My first comment on the ground after my first S/L-jump was simply "More of this!" with a stupid grin on my face.
One of the other guys on my FJC, after exit, screamed (instead of "ARCH! 1000-2000-3000...") "OPEN! 1000-2000-3000"

One tandem I saw commented after landing "never again.".

Erno

[Schroeder 0]

On my first 5 sec delay @ ~5k, I flipped onto my back and had the PC bridle come up between my legs, but not deploy. After 1 try, I cleared it and got flipped around and was OK. Scared me pretty good though. When I was on the ground later, my Instructor came over and said "Dude, I was looking down and was like 'oooooh... shhhiiit' but then you made it, nice quick thinking man."
I know it was alot worse then either of us were about to say, and it never happened again (learn from mistakes) but I really appreciate the way he came over and just said, "you had me worried there man."

If I ventured in the slipstream; Between the via-ducts of your dreams.......could you find me?

[jraf 0]

Well on my first jump all I said was: Whoooooooooooooooo! Now the interesting part was when on jump 13 (would ya believe it) I had one Mother of a spinning line twist. I was really scared, I grabbed the risers, started pulling them apart ad was screaming "Oh, f**k, open you piece of s**t or i'll f*****g rip you to pieces" It did listen to my friendly persuasion

jraf

Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui.
Muff #3275

[freeflir29 0]

First jump...Military static line out of a C-130...I really didn't say anything. I do however remembering doing EXACTLY what I was told not to. I did a nice PLF.....stood back up...harness still on...looked back up at the plane flying away and thought silently. "Wow....I'm still alive. That's pretty cool." Right about then I realized, because of a whole lot of yelling, that I had landed about 40 Ft from the PI marker and the Company commander who was now yelling "WTF are you doing? Lay down...take your harness off!!!Blah Blah Blah..." Even more funny was the fact that I did lay back down but suddenly couldn't remember what in the hell I was supposed to be doing. It came back to me after about a minute. Oh yeah...pop cape well, get out of harness, S roll canopy into bag...... My brain had definately just been overloaded.

[PLFKING 4]

Quote

"Do you remember that time when we almost died?"

My brother replied, "Which one?"

They then both looked at me and then when silent

Too funny, dude.

My favorite quote.....my first jump (s/l) ended with me landing in the median strip of a four-lane highway. Got picked up, got back to the DZ, got a standing O. My JM then took me aside and said "We weren't REALLY scared until you disappeared behind the trees.....then we started listening for the sound of squealing brakes."


Don

[Sebazz1 2]

Me to tandem student ~ "I haven't lost a student in weeks"

[Galen 0]

Haven't posted here before - just been lurkin'.
"$h!t.....$h!t, this isn't supposed to happen to me yet".
My AFF level 2 jump - not long ago. I got the signal to pull at 6K. Canopy fully deployed in a cloud, had no idea where I was, looked up and saw line twists. There were only 4 but it might have as well been 20.

Respect the Dolphin

[PhreeZone 20]

"How much does it cost to get your own parachute?" ~Me under canopy on my first tandem....

TM ~ "Half your paycheck for the rest of your life"

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

Parachutemanuals.com

[Brisco 0]

I asked a TM if he ever had a first timer "chicken out" and refuse to jump. He said no, he hadn't, but he did have a woman on her 3rd or 4th jump who just fainted dead away when they got in the door. He got her back to the bench and laid her down and on the plane ride back down she came to and asked "what happened?" The TM said to her "You forgot to pull the ripcord!"

Brisco

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

[skydiverchick 0]

After my very first jump upon landing I looked at my JM and said
"Oh my god I wanna do this for real! How can I do this for real?"

He just looked at me and laughed.

Mother Hen

[Jumperpaula 0]

Ground School for AFF, Instructor is teaching us the principles of arching.

"If you were on a 20 story building and jumped, you would fall to your death. Now, if you were on a 20 story building, jumped and then Arched, you would Skydive to your death. Got it?"

[moodyskydiver 0]

"oh my God!" is always a classic with me.I'm never failed to be amazed by something during a jump.

After I became a student my JM was helping me get the gear off after a jump one day.He said"Ok, I'm gonna take stuff off of you until you tell me to stop..." I thought that was funny.While we were ridin' to altitude,on that jump, I went over the hand signals for free fall with him. After he had gone through all of them he did one I'd never seen before.It was the sign language sign for "asshole" (yes there really is an actual sign for it and it doesnt involve flippin' the bird lol). Well he did that and kinda moved it around abit. I told him I didn't know what that one was for. He said "it means quit flyin' like an asshole" LOL!Hes cool! I love having him as a JM.


something I used to tell my boyfriend everytime after I made a jump: "Ok, now you have to take me home and proove which is better:skydiving or sex" Heh! worked every time! Too bad I'm single now.

"...just an earthbound misfit, I."

[hooligan 0]

my first jump as a S/L student...looking gravly nervous, my JMsmacked my helmet and said " just fly and be free".. when i hit the ground the only thought in my mind was "i like freedom"

[skypuppy 1]

My first jump was a static-line jump, hanging exit from a 182 wearing a bellywart and all. I must have been slow climbing out 'cause by the time I got out hanging out there and looked in the jm was yelling 'GO!' I shook my head and and he yelled 'GO!' again... I yelled back 'I'm not ready!' A few seconds later I let go.
I wasn't doing too well on my freefalls, if I didn't backloop off the strut, I was barrel rolling at pull time, so one of the instructors decided to take me up high for a buddy jump. I got on my back on exit and he couldn't flip me over - I spent the whole freefall on my back till he let go, then arched on to my stomach and pulled... I landed on the other side of the airport and got a ride back to the dz. When I got out of the car and walked over my first JM saw my face and said 'Well, you might as well quit school now... I think you're hooked...'

If 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

[riddler 0]

My 13th jump was my first hop-n-pop AND my first pack job ;-)

Sometimes, I dare fate ....

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[coconutmonkey 0]

First time out on the strut for S/L,"Tom, what the <> are you doing on the wing of this aircraft!!?? Have you lost your <> mind!!??" No, just all income from then to now (is direct deposite to manifest a bad thing?).

Hearts & Minds
2 to the Heart-
1 to the Mind-
Home of the Coconut Lounge, Spa, & Artillery Range

[wingnut 0]

well nothing interesting on my first jump but now jump 80 something was cool..."mother fucker, that fucking hurt like a bitch"....still have that canopy at my parents house under my bed...i loved tht canopy, it was my first....

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"i have no reader's digest version"

[SpeedRacer 1]

At my old DZ it was traditional, on jumprun, for the tandem masters in the back (actually, front) of the Otter to yell, "Make room for the tandems!"

And everyone else yells back, "FUCK the tandems!!"

I asked, "Do we have time?"

Speed Racer
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[Ducky 0]

MY first ever visit to a DZ was for my AFF FJC which started at 8am. When inside to a classroom with now windows and had class. On break there was no one landing. So when lunch comes around I'm getting in the truck with my buddy when we notice open canopies above. We stop to watch and of course the first guy down is a camera flying swoop god. Well after the 2 previous hours of hearing about the dangers low turns and fast approaches blah blah i was freaked out.
I look up to see a guy hookin it at tree top level layed out comin in fast. W/o hesitation I yell almost scream "FLARE!!!!!!" (mind you he is at about 100') and then when he doesn't--- "oh fuck he's gonna die!!!!!!!!!!"

I was much releived to see the "normal guys" land after this "nutcase".

btw about ole Jack "hammer" Yes he is one cool cat my AFF instructor almost all the way through and mentor for sometime afterwards.


kwak

Sometimes your the bug, sometimes your the windshield. Sometimes your the hammer sometimes your the nail. Question is Hun, Do you wanna get hammered or do you wanna get nailed?????

[ernokaikkonen 0]

Ha! Reminded me of my first contact with skydivers...

After having worked a night shift, I decided to drive directly to the DZ for my FJC. This was around 5am. The plan was to sleep a couple of hours in my car outside the airport fence(I imagined the gates would be locked at night.)

When I got to the DZ however, there were no fences nor gates around the airfield, so I just drove inside looking for the skydiving club. I then noticed this one guy just standing around, smoking a cigarette. I rolled down my window and asked
-"Hey, do you know where to find the skydiving-club?"
-"Yeah, it's right here, this building here!"

The dude was drunk as hell
So I parked my car and got inside. The place was littered with empty beer bottles. The floor was sticky. And about 10 passed-out skydivers laid somewhere among the stuff... Upon my entering, a couple of heads raised from the coaches.
-"Did you come for the FJC?"
-"Um, yeah.."
-"Cool, find a place to crash and try to get some sleep."
-"Ok"

As I laid down on an empty sofa, my eyes caught on a notice on the wall:
"Sleeping in the clubhouse is prohibited"
Erno

[sar911 0]

A student with 15 jumps is doing a solo jump. Upon exiting the plane one of the camera guys says "watch this". When we get to the ground he shows us the video of him catching up to the student, taking an extra rip cord out, showing it to him and asking him "do you need this", the look on the students face was priceless at which point he panics, reaches back and pulls his rip cord and then relizes he has been had!!!

[drenaline 0]

from a S/L student his first jump (he made a tandem and now making his first S/L), he in the strut:
JM: READY?
student: "WHAT? NOW? ALREADY? ARE YOU SURE? DO I HAVE TO JUMP? COME ON! IS IT FOR REAL" after he remembered the money he had to pay for the course he made the jump, it was funny he almost chickend out.

HISPA 21
www.panamafreefall.com

[Skystorm 0]

I went up with a tandem on one fundive, and as we were standing next to the plane the JM are telling us who's gonna exit when.

JM points at me and says :"We're gonna throw her out half way and..."
before he could finish this sentence the tandem stundent turns to me with saucer big eyes and ask : "Why what did you do wrong?"

On another load we were joking about a guy that funnled the exit on a previous jump. We were all laughing when he turns to me and says : "What are you laughing about, you skidive like a girl... Oh..."

Priceless

Gene Police: "YOU!! Out of the pool, NOW!!!"

[freeflir29 0]

Thought of another one....One of my 15 sec delays I think. It took us a while to get to altitude don't remember why. I was half napping behind the seat of the 182. Had a couple S/L students going out before me. One was this chick. She had already made several jumps but had become uncurrent and they were making her do another S/L. We get to alti and just as they are about to open the door LB(JM) says "Are you ready to skydive?" the chick answers with a very enthusiastic "NO!!!" She DID eventually jump with some coaxing but I'll never forget that...funny as hell.

[Stacy 0]

speaking of static line stories, here's a classic one. some girl at my old DZ had never been around static line. when chatting with someone who was an SL instructor, she commented that "there must be different lengths of ropes for the different time delays in SL." ie there was a 5 sec rope, longer 10 sec rope... you get the idea. she was mortified with the fact that he 60 sec rope may get tabgled up b/c it's too long and that SL students never got to pull for themselves...