Butters 0 #101 May 18, 2010 QuoteI'm starting my own discipline - "atmotrackwingturnpointwork" (C) That sounds awesome ... I love tracking, wingsuiting, and turning points! Quotewho wants to join - we have patches, and cookies I do, I do ... as long as I can still wear my wingsuit."That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baksteen 84 #102 May 18, 2010 Quote Yeah, I don't even know what I don't know.... that line is getting so fucking old here it makes me want to puke. So many of you lack luster criticizers keep going around and saying the same old shit over and over. And then another one comes around and says, "That's cause it's true... dur, dur, dur...." Followed by name calling, "You're such a 'SkyGod', with your 'mad skills', lose the ego and try to learn something. All because you don't agree with that person, when 9 times out of 10 they probably: do want to learn, don't claim to have 'mad skillz', and don't have an ego as big as yours, but you accuse them of it to try and discredit them. and BTW, I never once said that FF was "cooler".... I said I prefer it to RW, and that it is more difficult than RW. I will give you another example since you couldn't comprehend the bicycle/unicycle one. -Simply getting even just 2 people to get a solid dock with the same FF/RW jump numbers is MUCH more difficult in FF, to not understand that is just fucking stupid.. You don't even know what you don't know. Technical FF is more difficult than technical RW... I have yet to see anyone give a reasonable explanation/example of why it's not. Maestro: I present to you The Clicky"That formation-stuff in freefall is just fun and games but with an open parachute it's starting to sound like, you know, an extreme sport." ~mom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heatmiser 0 #103 May 18, 2010 What you say is reflective of your knowledge...HOW ya say it is reflective of your experience. Airtwardo Someone's going to be spanked! Hopefully, it will be me. Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mirage62 0 #104 May 18, 2010 *** It's pretty clear that wingsuiting is the most difficult discipline, since the USPA *** Actually world record big ways are the hardest. Of all the jumpers in the world only 400 are good enough to make the record. Kevin Keenan is my hero, a double FUP, he does so much with so little Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ron 10 #105 May 18, 2010 Quote Actually world record big ways are the hardest. Of all the jumpers in the world only 400 are good enough to make the record. Only 4 were good enough for the 4 way record number of points."No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sangi 0 #106 May 18, 2010 Only 108 were good enough for the headdown record."Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #107 May 18, 2010 QuoteOnly 108 were good enough for the headdown record. And several thousand are not worth a shit doing headdown or sitfly or belly fly or any other skydiving discipline all year long but still jump with their friends and manage to have fun doing it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #108 May 18, 2010 Quote Quote Only 108 were good enough for the headdown record. And several thousand are not worth a shit doing headdown or sitfly or belly fly or any other skydiving discipline all year long but still jump with their friends and manage to have fun doing it. And some of them stop sucking so bad just long enough to train up another bunch that will make a 100 jumps and tell you how it should be done.....---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mirage62 0 #109 May 18, 2010 Quote And several thousand are not worth a shit doing headdown or sitfly or belly fly or any other skydiving discipline all year long but still jump with their friends and manage to have fun doing it. LOL who wants to be these poor loser's? When you can get better and jump with your friends and mange to have fun doing it. Kevin Keenan is my hero, a double FUP, he does so much with so little Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ridestrong 1 #110 May 19, 2010 Quote Quote Yeah, I don't even know what I don't know.... that line is getting so fucking old here it makes me want to puke. So many of you lack luster criticizers keep going around and saying the same old shit over and over. And then another one comes around and says, "That's cause it's true... dur, dur, dur...." Followed by name calling, "You're such a 'SkyGod', with your 'mad skills', lose the ego and try to learn something. All because you don't agree with that person, when 9 times out of 10 they probably: do want to learn, don't claim to have 'mad skillz', and don't have an ego as big as yours, but you accuse them of it to try and discredit them. and BTW, I never once said that FF was "cooler".... I said I prefer it to RW, and that it is more difficult than RW. I will give you another example since you couldn't comprehend the bicycle/unicycle one. -Simply getting even just 2 people to get a solid dock with the same FF/RW jump numbers is MUCH more difficult in FF, to not understand that is just fucking stupid.. You don't even know what you don't know. Technical FF is more difficult than technical RW... I have yet to see anyone give a reasonable explanation/example of why it's not. Maestro: I present to you The Clicky And yet another ingenious post with good content... well I guess some are easily amused. You can get off your knees now.*I am not afraid of dying... I am afraid of missing life.* ----Disclaimer: I don't know shit about skydiving.---- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dnb 0 #111 May 19, 2010 Quote>And you think freeflying is not a challenge? >Seriously, every fresh off AFF status newbie can go on a 4way RW dive . . . Heck, anyone with one jump can stick a camera on their head, get a baggy jumpsuit, get unstable and flop around. Wow.... this thread is awesome! I had no idea I've actually been a freeflyer! - (at least without the camera part) since AFF. Now I can be cool like everyone else! Or perhaps I'll just have fun with everyone else that jumps out of planes too......drew Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #112 May 19, 2010 Quote ... Maestro: I present to you The Clicky Asshole, you got me. 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
popsjumper 2 #113 May 19, 2010 The most difficult discipline is self-discipline....like when you try to keep a straight face when somebody starts tooting off about their mad skillz and huge (padded) jump numbers.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
kallend 2,026 #114 May 19, 2010 Quote The most difficult discipline is self-discipline....like when you try to keep a straight face when somebody starts tooting off about their mad skillz and huge (padded) jump numbers. I notice this comment was "in reply to" yourself... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sangi 0 #115 May 19, 2010 You all suck anyway, no one will ever beat mah mad trolling skeeellllzzz, best discipline evah."Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 4 #116 May 20, 2010 Quote *** It's pretty clear that wingsuiting is the most difficult discipline, since the USPA *** Actually world record big ways are the hardest. Of all the jumpers in the world only 400 are good enough to make the record. Wrong, there were 400 on it but way more than 400 were good enough. SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mdrejhon 8 #117 May 20, 2010 QuoteWrong, there were 400 on it but way more than 400 were good enough. SparkyThat's correct. Many better skydivers could not make the event because they couldn't afford it, or wasn't at enough big ways with the same organizers, to be invited to the 400. That said, the organizers did their damndest best to choose the best skydivers that they were able to choose. It's a mind bogglingly difficult job to determine which applicants get the cut. Also.... I probably rank highly enough now to be in the next RW big way world record, but not highly enough to be on an over-subscribed 200-way yet. (i.e. probably more than 400 applicants applying for a 200way, I'll have a harder time competing) So I might (if I continue to maintain excellent big way currency) easily be accepted into the World Team now, while not easily accepted into a 200-way sequential. Being in the same big way event as key organizers help a lot too in up-ranking me a little. I've been to nine Perris big way events (50ways, 100ways, and Men's World Record)! And it seems I was the low timer at Kaledioscope 2009 sequenjtial 100-ways -- I don't think anyone had less jumps than I, at that one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #118 May 20, 2010 QuoteMany better skydivers could not make the event because they couldn't afford it, or wasn't at enough big ways with the same organizers, to be invited to the 400. Gotta PAY to Play.... once you pay enough to the professional skydivers who run things.... you are a shoe-in. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites