thrillseek 0 #1 March 8, 2002 OK all, i know it sounds like I am beating a dead horse here, but i am STILL looking for people to be included in my ongoing book project. When i am finished, it will be the best, most accurate depiction of our sport--everything from our traditions, to our closeness and competition.What I need from you all:Write a brief version of your best, worst or most memorable skydive and send it to me at: thrill_seek@yahoo.com I will then send you a release form that says it's cool for me to publish your info. As soon as I get enough good entries, I will have the book published...simple as that! Help not only me out, but our community as well. Take the time to let others hear your stories. A.T. Clinger Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thrillseek 0 #2 March 10, 2002 doesn't anyone have a good story that hasn't been told yet?? Come out of hiding and tell the world what a fabulous experience skydiving is! Let's all be famous. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spy38W 0 #3 March 10, 2002 Did you hear the one about the 4-way RW team that had 5 cutaways on one jump yet? It's posted somewhere around here.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #4 March 12, 2002 You need to go out to the Dz and listen to some old timers talk. You will hear some crazy crazy s**t.The DZO at the first DZ I went to has been jumping since the beggining of time. He was talking to me about the days when they were jumping rounds. Sometimes when the winds were too high people would do some really stupid things on the ground (nothings changed there)........Like hooking up the skydiver/rig/canopy to the back of a truck and go! Nuts. He also told me they would see who could jump from the highest point and stick their landings. Idiots climbing to the top of the roof or ladder out and jumping off. F'n Nuts!! They would try to stick their landings from screwed up heights. He didn't want to go into details but he said several people broke legs and other things. Smoking on the way to altitude - climbing out on the strut with your cig still in your mouth - low pull competitions..................Funny story. I was out at the DZ during the weekday and these two really old looking guys came out. I picked up the fourth slot so I could get the cessna out and jump with these guys. They wre telling me that in the old days of rounds they wanted zero winds and that nowa days with squares they prayed for a moderate breeze cause these guys could not run out a landing let alone maybe even take two steps to land. One guy biffed really good but he just shrugged it off. It was one of the funnest jumps I ever did. After I broke at 4,000 and dumped at 3,000 these two continued to like 2,000 or lower before they dumped. Guess that was normal for them. Crazy Crazy. One of em had a D lic. under 100. I got my log book signed.Go to the DZ for the best stories....................I don't have anything that good yet or I just haven't learned how to bullshit that good yet......Sebazz............ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkySurfSnow 0 #5 March 12, 2002 Travel to all of the DZ's you can. If you haven't heard enough to fill a book you haven't traveled enough yet. ....and then there was the time Sebazz dumped me at 9K :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pack40 0 #6 March 12, 2002 In my club there are like five or six old guy jumping sincs the 60s. There is a guy who was in the Hungarian Airforce Search and Rescue team. Like three month ago he was entering the 4000th jump in his logbook. Once he told us that some years ago - I do not know when maybe 5-10 years ago - in the airforce they heard that in US they have the AFF training. So they decided to try it out. He jumped with a rookie who had like 15-20 jumps. The problem was that the well built rookie grabbed his hand very hard and closed his eyes -he was a bit scared-. So my guy was afraid that the rookie catches his other hand and than they will freefall untill impact, so he started to beat the rookie's helmet with his free hand. Finnaly the rookie realized what is happening and opened his chute. These old guys have some stories, every time drinking beer in the club the story telling begins. They say that back in the 60s - 70s the opening altitude was a bit lower (what Sebazz1 also write) one guy said they were jumping static-lines from 250 meters. I did not beleive but I checked the specification of an old military chute and the minimum altitude was 250m of course with higher drop/airspeed.Once I should record these stories. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #7 March 12, 2002 Quote....and then there was the time Sebazz dumped me at 9K :)Who me? [bats eyes innocently] must have been someone else [bats eyes innocently]Sebazz............ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkySurfSnow 0 #8 March 12, 2002 Haven't seen you in a while. I need to jump at Monterey sometime...seeing as how I only live 20 minutes away now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #9 March 12, 2002 And then there was that time at Hollister after a bottle of Crown Royal and several laps up and down the ...........oh thats a story I will take to the grave with me.........I swear I didn't see the plane coming in or all the runway lights.......errrr, i've said too much damn...................Sebazz............ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rapper4mpi 0 #10 March 12, 2002 I'm going to agree with everyone here. You've got to go to other DZ's around the country, especially the Northeast (a lot of old timers seem to flock at small DZs around this area) and sit around a campfire to hear the stories. That book called "Skydiving with your Pants on fire" or whatever it's called has great old time stories. As for new stories, there are many to be heard, but they are never as good as the old ones.-Rap Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,998 #11 March 12, 2002 >OK all, i know it sounds like I am beating a dead horse here, but i am STILL looking for people to be included in my ongoing book project.That's fine; the problem is in this line:>Write a brief version . . .There's an awful lot of stuff you can't tell a brief story about. For example, here are a few very brief stories:We got bored one year at Quincy, so we had sex on the active runway, and outran the resulting pursuit.I jumped with a twelve year old kid out of his dad's plane one summer, and he was pretty good.Back in NY, our plane blew a cylinder, the pilot made a big mistake, and the plane crashed, killing him and injuring the students and JM.The first time I tried to jump out of a helicopter it crashed, and the decision to bail out was complicated by the fact that one of the jumpers on the load hadn't finished packing.I jumped from a B-17 last year and saw the first three naked jumps from it ever from very, very close up.All of the above probably require a lot more explanation than you can give in a paragraph.-bill von Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nissanmaniac 0 #12 March 13, 2002 When you get it together please lemme know where I can get a copy... I'm especially looking for the part on traditions, it took me about 12 jumps to figure out when I owe beer ! I'm curious where it came from anyway. Either I'm not a social animal or I don't look like someone to talk to but I missed out on a few things as far as rituals, and things that skydivers do ... but once again I'm REALLY Polish ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
