"Safer Skydiving"

[tbrown 26]

Since everyone seems to have different ideas about just how safe or dangerous our sport is, I sort of connected with the concept of "safer sex". Originally in the age of AIDS there was a lot of talk about "safe sex", use of condoms, selectivity over who you jump with (oops, getting my sports confused here...). The conclusion though is that if you are sexually active you can't be truly safe unless you're celibate (i.e. you don't jump), and even if you're monogamous or wear the appropriate "rig", you just never know. But you'd be even dumber not to do those things, so now we talk instead about "safer sex".

Well, ditto for skydiving. If we can never make falling through the sky truly 100% safe, we sure can make it a lot "safer", which is what I think most of us, even the naysayers ("skydiving is not safe", etc opinionators) are trying to do.

This is more a philosophical daydream than a hard nuts & bolts issue, but hey, it's Friday and I've got an hour to kill before getting off work.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

[NWFlyer 2]

Does this mean we're going to start handing out condoms on the dropzone?

Seriously, I think it's a good analogy for our sport. It'll never be 100% safe but there are choices we can make and attitudes we can foster that will certainly keep things safer

"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

[skybytch 273]

I agree.

[peckerhead 0]

Back in the 80's I had a T shirt that read " I remember when sex was safe and skydiving was dangerous"

Now sex is safe and skydiving really is dangerous.

Funny...



Be prepared, be very prepared.

[tbrown 26]

Now sex is safe and skydiving really is dangerous.

[tbrown 26]

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Does this mean we're going to start handing out condoms on the dropzone?

I got one in a boogie bag at Elsinore once. Made me think "Dude, this place REALLY wants me to be safe..."

Let's be saferer out there, in whatever position we assume, at whatever altitude !

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

[Travman 6]

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Does this mean we're going to start handing out condoms on the dropzone?

They were handing them out a few months ago at my DZ. Keep it in my jumpsuit pocket now.

[peckerhead 0]

>>>Now sex is safe and skydiving really is dangerous.


Now the dangerous part is after the parachute opens. In the old days we just bounced.