skyejumper 0 #1 May 1, 2003 I was all jazzed for the all-you-can-jump weekend here in So.Cal, and now we're expecting a big rain storm. sooo... my question is.. "What can we do for fun on the DZ when it rains?" Watching videos grows old. Drinking? hmmm... there's a thought. Anyone have any fun or interesting suggestions??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites CanuckInUSA 0 #2 May 1, 2003 Do naked dirt dives? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skybytch 273 #3 May 1, 2003 Think "all you can drink" pricing at the Bombshelter... Let's see, what's fun to do at the dz when it's raining other than drinking... Naked creeper races Lancaster Bomber reenactment Creeper competition (for the belly flyin' types) Buy the bytch a drink Hacky sack in the bar Flash Jack Gramley (he wants you to, trust me) Run naked up and down the runway Buy the bytch another drink Watch the same old videos over and over in the bar Table dances in the packing area! Laugh at the bytch as she stumbles around the dz, then buy her another drink Walk around telling everyone that it's manifest Dan's birthday Give out random spankings Play that silly German hand slapping game Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skyejumper 0 #4 May 1, 2003 Bytch.... I thought it was Pat McGowan's birthday? I like your suggestions. We'll all have to wish Jack a big happy farewell! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites cheneyneel 0 #5 May 2, 2003 I thought it never rains in So. Cal... If it is windy grab a big wheel like you used to ride as a kid a large round and use your imagination on the run way.. If you have a golf cart. long rope and a body board you can board the pond...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites lawrocket 3 #6 May 2, 2003 Show up at the drop zone if, for no other reason, that to bitch about the weather. I did that once, when it was too windy for my comfort. I had a great time! My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites feelopen 0 #7 May 2, 2003 QuotePlay that silly German hand slapping game how do you play that? I've never heard of that before... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skybytch 273 #8 May 2, 2003 Quote how do you play that? I learned it from a German jumper at JFTC last year. It wasn't raining but it was overcast so... Damn it's hard to explain. We laid in a circle, facing in. Elbows at 90 degrees, hands overlapping the people next to us - i.e. my right hand was to the right of the person to the right of me's left hand. So anyway, one person starts by slapping their hand down. Hands must then slap in order of the hands going clockwise. If someone slaps twice the direction reverses. Whoever screws up must remove the offending hand from play. We did it sober, but I imagine it would be even more fun after a beer or two. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Stacy 0 #9 May 2, 2003 offering a packer who isn't making any $$ due to rain $5 to do something ridiculous is always fun. sometimes they'll just do it. drink a gallon of milk and hold it down for an hour, kill a goose in teh field witha sock full of rocks... never yeilds results, but the entertainment value is high. knee board races using 4wheel drive vehilcles across the swoop pond is fun. we've tied kelly (froggie) up to a creeper with random things and just flung her around too. the possibilities are endless. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites brabzzz 0 #10 May 2, 2003 Hmmm. I don't know about removing the offending hand from play... I played the version when you have to knock back a shot whenever you screw up, the result being the frequency of screwups increasing very rapidly as the game goes on and a whole ring of very drunk people! You probably cant jump after that though... On another note, bungee battles in the packing hall always figures highly on my bad weather to-do-list. Mike --------------------------------------- Ex-University of Bristol Skydiving Club www.skydivebristoluni.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites riggerrob 643 #11 May 2, 2003 Inspect some piece of skydiving gear. Sew a patch on some skydiving gear. Pack up some skydiving gear. Recharge the batteries on your skydiving camera. Train rigger apprentices how to patch skydiving gear. Etc. The list is endless. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites EvilSteve 0 #12 May 2, 2003 Unicycle. It's pretty funny. Then someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Casch 0 #13 May 2, 2003 I taught myself to ride a unicycle (albeit poorly) during an overcast weekend at the DZ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites nacmacfeegle 0 #14 May 2, 2003 "If it is windy grab a big wheel like you used to ride as a kid a large round and use your imagination on the run way.. " Windy? Bust out my camera suit and roller blades! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Yoshi 0 #15 May 2, 2003 when in zhills it was really windy we had a McGuiver (sp?) contest making sail boats out of whatever you could find and racing them in the swoop pond... was a blast (mainly because I won:):):) -yoshi_________________________________________ this space for rent. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites andy2 0 #16 May 2, 2003 This looks dangerous http://www.unicycling.com/muni/ --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites pack40 0 #17 May 5, 2003 In the old days some skydivers developed a good sport for high-wind (non-jumpable). Get an old rig with a round reserve put on yourself open it and try to stop drifting. Fun. Some jumpers were drifted along the whole runway. Reserve is good you can not cut it away. Also I saw a video: At one DZ they had an old car (Trabant, somebody from E-Eurpe might know it) which was used to pick up jumpers who landed far awawy. So, the car's roof was cut down (home made convertible) and steel bars were installed like roll-cage to put your canopy oneto it. So, they put and old BE-8 round reseve on one of steel bars, so the reserve can act like a sail. 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CanuckInUSA 0 #2 May 1, 2003 Do naked dirt dives? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #3 May 1, 2003 Think "all you can drink" pricing at the Bombshelter... Let's see, what's fun to do at the dz when it's raining other than drinking... Naked creeper races Lancaster Bomber reenactment Creeper competition (for the belly flyin' types) Buy the bytch a drink Hacky sack in the bar Flash Jack Gramley (he wants you to, trust me) Run naked up and down the runway Buy the bytch another drink Watch the same old videos over and over in the bar Table dances in the packing area! Laugh at the bytch as she stumbles around the dz, then buy her another drink Walk around telling everyone that it's manifest Dan's birthday Give out random spankings Play that silly German hand slapping game Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyejumper 0 #4 May 1, 2003 Bytch.... I thought it was Pat McGowan's birthday? I like your suggestions. We'll all have to wish Jack a big happy farewell! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cheneyneel 0 #5 May 2, 2003 I thought it never rains in So. Cal... If it is windy grab a big wheel like you used to ride as a kid a large round and use your imagination on the run way.. If you have a golf cart. long rope and a body board you can board the pond...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #6 May 2, 2003 Show up at the drop zone if, for no other reason, that to bitch about the weather. I did that once, when it was too windy for my comfort. I had a great time! My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
feelopen 0 #7 May 2, 2003 QuotePlay that silly German hand slapping game how do you play that? I've never heard of that before... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #8 May 2, 2003 Quote how do you play that? I learned it from a German jumper at JFTC last year. It wasn't raining but it was overcast so... Damn it's hard to explain. We laid in a circle, facing in. Elbows at 90 degrees, hands overlapping the people next to us - i.e. my right hand was to the right of the person to the right of me's left hand. So anyway, one person starts by slapping their hand down. Hands must then slap in order of the hands going clockwise. If someone slaps twice the direction reverses. Whoever screws up must remove the offending hand from play. We did it sober, but I imagine it would be even more fun after a beer or two. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stacy 0 #9 May 2, 2003 offering a packer who isn't making any $$ due to rain $5 to do something ridiculous is always fun. sometimes they'll just do it. drink a gallon of milk and hold it down for an hour, kill a goose in teh field witha sock full of rocks... never yeilds results, but the entertainment value is high. knee board races using 4wheel drive vehilcles across the swoop pond is fun. we've tied kelly (froggie) up to a creeper with random things and just flung her around too. the possibilities are endless. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brabzzz 0 #10 May 2, 2003 Hmmm. I don't know about removing the offending hand from play... I played the version when you have to knock back a shot whenever you screw up, the result being the frequency of screwups increasing very rapidly as the game goes on and a whole ring of very drunk people! You probably cant jump after that though... On another note, bungee battles in the packing hall always figures highly on my bad weather to-do-list. Mike --------------------------------------- Ex-University of Bristol Skydiving Club www.skydivebristoluni.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 643 #11 May 2, 2003 Inspect some piece of skydiving gear. Sew a patch on some skydiving gear. Pack up some skydiving gear. Recharge the batteries on your skydiving camera. Train rigger apprentices how to patch skydiving gear. Etc. The list is endless. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EvilSteve 0 #12 May 2, 2003 Unicycle. It's pretty funny. Then someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casch 0 #13 May 2, 2003 I taught myself to ride a unicycle (albeit poorly) during an overcast weekend at the DZ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #14 May 2, 2003 "If it is windy grab a big wheel like you used to ride as a kid a large round and use your imagination on the run way.. " Windy? Bust out my camera suit and roller blades! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yoshi 0 #15 May 2, 2003 when in zhills it was really windy we had a McGuiver (sp?) contest making sail boats out of whatever you could find and racing them in the swoop pond... was a blast (mainly because I won:):):) -yoshi_________________________________________ this space for rent. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andy2 0 #16 May 2, 2003 This looks dangerous http://www.unicycling.com/muni/ --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pack40 0 #17 May 5, 2003 In the old days some skydivers developed a good sport for high-wind (non-jumpable). Get an old rig with a round reserve put on yourself open it and try to stop drifting. Fun. Some jumpers were drifted along the whole runway. Reserve is good you can not cut it away. Also I saw a video: At one DZ they had an old car (Trabant, somebody from E-Eurpe might know it) which was used to pick up jumpers who landed far awawy. So, the car's roof was cut down (home made convertible) and steel bars were installed like roll-cage to put your canopy oneto it. So, they put and old BE-8 round reseve on one of steel bars, so the reserve can act like a sail. Result: total failure the car did a nice loop. :-) OVER Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpgod 0 #18 May 6, 2003 ....slip and slide....hacky sack....frisbee.... ....learn to pack reserves.... jg"dude, where's my main?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JFC3 0 #19 May 6, 2003 Paintball "Five days? But I'm angry now!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
