Lost Leg With Tandem

[meldin 0]

Yesterday I've seen the most funny thing in skydiving. At our dropzone a guy came for a tandem with a wooden leg. The freefall was good but when they opened up his wooden leg dislocated and went down. He asked the tandem master how am I ever gonna catch my leg again. Nice one. Ha-ha.

Blue Skies Forever
Mellies

[freeflir29 0]

I wonder if he had insurance on it......

[meldin 0]

No luckily it landed right on the shoe and it bounced about 2 meters high because it is spring loaded.
We found the leg again and he just strapped it back on. 4o clock I am gonna do my first naked jump for the first time. Do you have and comments or things that i should watch out for?

[freeflir29 0]

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Do you have and comments or things that i should watch out for?

This may be a shock...but I've never jumped naked. I'm pretty scared of the "Flapping Factor"

[SatchFan 0]

They won't let jump naked at my DZ. They said I would create too much "drag"!

[freeflir29 0]

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They said I would create too much "drag"!

Wow...would the sight of you naked really have that much of a negative effect on the jumpers???

[skymama 37]

Watch out if you have a nipple ring! In the incidents report in the current Parachutist, there's a blurb about a girl getting her nipple torn because the chest strap caught on it. Ouch!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[freeflir29 0]

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there's a blurb about a girl getting her nipple torn because the chest strap caught on it

I have heard stories like that one at least 20 times so far. PUT TAPE OR A BAND AID OVER IT WHILE JUMPING!!!!!

[bvsdjumper 0]

Hi everybody!
Long time lurker, first time poster Something like that happened last year at Skydive Rick's. They even have a picture of it on their web site. It was the "Pic of the Week" but was so good it was promoted to "Pic of the Year".
http://www.skydivericks.com/pete_tandem.htm

Sky-div'ing (ski'div'ing) n. A modern sport that involves parties, bragging, sexual excesses, the imbibing of large quantities of beer, and, on rare occasions, parachuting from aircraft.

[mouth 0]

BEER!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hot Mama
At least you know where you stand even if it is in a pile of shit.

[Cricket202 0]

http://www.skydivericks.com/pete_tandem.htm

[freeflir29 0]

He should get a sponsorship from the company that made that leg!! "Tough enough to survive a 14,000 Ft fall!!"

[crazymel 0]

hehehe - as Swakop is my "home" dz, I thought this was funny as HELL!! Who was the JM?? Say hi to everyone at the club!! I absolutely LOVE those guys!!!!

Life is for the LIVING!!!!!

[Stacy 0]

i believe that (or the same thing) happened over memorial weekend~ i faintly remember someone running around yelling that her boob was bleeding.. what a strange crownd of people this sport attracts...

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

Unless I am mistaken, this happened to Merrick last year, too.

Chuck

[freeflir29 0]

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Unless I am mistaken, this happened to Merrick last year, too.

Well..it was bent around pretty good but I don't think it actually flew off.....

[dove 0]

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i believe that (or the same thing) happened over memorial weekend~ i faintly remember someone running around yelling that her boob was bleeding..

Yup. Adam Rosen sewed it up. He was more busy as a doctor than a skydiver that weekend. He even set a finger that was broken by the bull.

[meldin 0]

Eddy was the JM.