popsjumper 2 #76 February 6, 2007 Easy...short layoff...Uh...27 years to be exact. My brother, Rick Whitlock was my JM. If you don't remember either of us...ask "Mr." Hooper...he certainly will. Neither one of us got along with him for some reason. I don't have any pics of me from back then but I got this one from my brother of him. Although it's at Tampa Bay Parachute Ranch we were visiting one day, you may remember him by the cut-out in the cast so he could bend his arm.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RB_Hammer 0 #77 February 6, 2007 My first was a tandem at Eloy on October 28, 2006 at the age of 51. My girlfriends best friend said she wanted to do a skydive for her 30th birthday and asked her if she wanted to. GF said, "Hell no." Her GF said "Do you think Rick would?" GF said, "Hell yes." and I did. Started AFF in Buckeye, AZ on November 26, 2006 and got my A license January 27, 2007. Man I just love this sport and the people in it."I'm not lost. I don't know where I'm going, but there's no sense in being late." Mathew Quigley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #78 February 6, 2007 Quote Easy...short layoff...Uh...27 years to be exact. My brother, Rick Whitlock was my JM. If you don't remember either of us...ask "Mr." Hooper...he certainly will. Neither one of us got along with him for some reason. I don't have any pics of me from back then but I got this one from my brother of him. Although it's at Tampa Bay Parachute Ranch we were visiting one day, you may remember him by the cut-out in the cast so he could bend his arm. I remember Rick. I've been emailing back and forth with Hoop, I'll mention this thread to him. I believe I'll be seeing him in September when I go over to England for vacation (He lives in London). I am about to make my first jump after a 27 year layoff myself , how was that? ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerRamjet 0 #79 February 6, 2007 Quote I don't have any pics of me from back then but I got this one from my brother of him. Although it's at Tampa Bay Parachute Ranch we were visiting one day, you may remember him by the cut-out in the cast so he could bend his arm. Look at this link for a shot of me from "back then." Flip through the shots there for some other interesting views. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Personal_Galleries/RogerRamjet/Blast_from_the_Past&image=RogTraciGreg-2.jpg&img=&tt= ----------------------- Roger "Ramjet" Clark FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve1 5 #80 February 6, 2007 I was barely twenty years old, back in 1970, when I made the first one in Army Airborne School. We waited all afternoon, chuted up in a hot quanset building, at Benning, for the wind to die down. Finally they loaded us up in an old C-119 and took off. We flew around for quite some time, but the wind was still blowing too hard on the DZ. Talk about pucker factor. I was plenty scared...sitting back there looking out, those two open doors, with the jumpmaster grinning at us! The next morning we went up in a C-141. Man, what a thrill! Even though I sprained my ankle bad on that jump, I was hooked. Made four more on that sore ankle to graduate. A couple years later, I started sport jumping....Steve1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallingDuck 0 #81 February 6, 2007 I did my first jump a few months after my 18th b-day. I was 60 miles away from my dz and it took about two years for me to get my A. Then I took about two years off due to lack of funds. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lastchance 0 #82 February 6, 2007 42 I may be getting old but I got to see all the cool bands. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto 1 #83 February 6, 2007 22It's the year of the Pig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
meatbomb 0 #84 February 7, 2007 18...Wish it was 16! --- Swoopert, CS-Aiiiiiii! Piccies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shortyj 0 #85 February 7, 2007 24 but don't think I would have had it in me.Playtime is essential. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyhawke 0 #86 February 7, 2007 48"It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities." - A. Dumbledore Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
voltage 0 #87 February 7, 2007 22 (1st jump) But I was not badass enough to really take it up until I was 25 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pfloyd 0 #88 February 7, 2007 My first jump was last summer 06. I was/am still 28 years old. As you can tell I haven't been jumping for very long and I only recently got my "A". What a fun ride so far! My drinking team has a skydiving problem Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnskydiver688 0 #89 February 8, 2007 My first jump was a tandem back in the summer of '04. I took the FJC the next weekend and started my journey. Took a year off in between because I was an idiot and then got licensed this last summer.Sky Canyon Wingsuiters Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aguila 0 #90 February 9, 2007 a lot later than I should Gonzalo It cannot be done really means I do not know how to do it ... yet Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #91 February 9, 2007 Quote ...I've been emailing back and forth with Hoop, I'll mention this thread to him. I believe I'll be seeing him in September when I go over to England for vacation (He lives in London). He's going to say,"Yeah, I remember that asshole." and he'll most likely be talking about Rick since I wasn't there for very long...just long enough to get on his bad side. Quote I am about to make my first jump after a 27 year layoff myself , how was that? You are soon to be kicking yourself in the butt for waiting so long...just like I did, and still do. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
el_chester 4 #92 February 9, 2007 Yesterday 15 years ago. I was 18. When I was about 7, I saw skydiving on TV and told my parents to take me. They said: "No way in hell we're ever taking you to do such a thing! However, when you are 18, you can earn your own money and we won't be able to opose." Little did they know that my first salary EVER was destined to my first jum course :) Oh, and they did come and see my 1st, 25th and around 200th jump. -- Be careful giving advice. Wise men don't need it, and fools won't heed it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SWATcop 0 #93 February 9, 2007 First jump in the Army 22 years old -1991 First Skydive 25 years old -1994 Kevin Muff Brother #4041 Team Dirty Sanchez #467 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gene03 0 #94 February 9, 2007 19 years old. August 10th 1969. Things were a little different then.“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adobelover 0 #95 February 11, 2007 49 on Static Line in 2002 _________________________________________ Old age ain't no place for sissies! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
roxi 0 #96 February 12, 2007 34 yrs old, it was on nov 19th 2006. Knew it would be a life changing experience but nothing could have prepared me to the extent of it. Since then have picked up and left the cozy lil beach i called home, camped out at z hills for two weeks and am now cleared for AFF level 3 at the dz i call home Skydive The Farm and best of all i get to drive the short bus How long til your bday?hmmm says the mouse Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim_Hooper 4 #98 March 1, 2007 Roger – Thanks for the heads-up. Just back from the Middle East and pushing deadlines, so I’m weeks behind the latest Forum threads. I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to contradict anyone’s description of himself, especially when there are so many really neat people I do remember; as for the others, I suppose I’ll have to chalk up a failing memory to senile dementia or – what’s the old Arab proverb? – ‘something, something and the caravan passes on’? Must do a Google to find the first part of it. Look forward to seeing you in London. Hoop SCR242 SCS90 NSCR26 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skr 1 #99 March 1, 2007 > something, something and the caravan passes on I remember it as "Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on". In my sophomore year I took an experimental course where they were trying to see how much advanced stuff a group of unprepared kids could understand. We were over our heads the whole time. When the final exam came around they knew there was some grumbling in the ranks and that was quoted as a Turkish proverb on the top of the page. Hey, Hoop! It's good to hear from you! It's only been 2.7 decades :-) :-) Skr Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
