Clownburner 0 #26 April 4, 2003 It's as much fun as golf, but with a much higher chance of massive trauma! 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 0 #27 April 5, 2003 QuoteThe reporter asked for ten reasons to skydive. Because I had too much money. Now I don't seem to have near enough! - Jim"Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dumpster 0 #28 April 5, 2003 It's the most fun you'll ever have with your clothes on. (and even the clothing is optional) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brokeneagle 0 #29 April 5, 2003 'perfectly good airplane'? Hah! I read the inspection reports on those jumpcraft- I'm glad to get out...Brokeneagle. I'm really very gentle, no matter what my kung-fu teacher says... he is giving me a reputation I do not deserve! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #30 April 5, 2003 Quote It's as much fun as golf, but with a much higher chance of massive trauma! I'm so going to use this oneThanksMy grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frodo 0 #31 April 5, 2003 Why? Out of the whole philosophy that I have to, and can, do a lot of things most people can't even dream of. Skydiving, racing, travelling lots and lots... ...Because sitting at home, reading books and educating yourself just for the hell of it, is a thing of the past... Time to see the world! And to experience what it's like to risk your life. To throw away the notion of God from your mind, to be the master of your fate. ...To feel that you're ahead of the others, in a sense. This sport is still so young and new, you feel yourself on the cutting edge, like an astronaut or a scientist. Again, in a sense. ...To let others play golf and watch baseball and ask questions about the perfectly good airplanes. I believe my ultimate experience will be BASE. And maybe skiing or mountaineering (it doesn't have to be extreme all the time, after all.). But BASE is... Id say Freedom in the absolute degree -- when you know dying is an option, a very probable one, but you won't regret... in your - what, 20? 40? years you'll have accomplished more than most whuffos will in their whole life. So this is the vague image, a sketch of the answer to your question. As a conclusion, I'll place my two favorite quotes here. "One might say they have no respect for life. I would say they have more respect than someone who doesn’t know what it’s like to risk it. It’s easy to fear or ridicule something you don’t understand, to say "These guys are crazy, they have a death wish". I probably would have agreed with you not so long ago. So stay ignorant if you choose, or open your eyes to those that truly live and choose to fly." - Megan Mansbridge, A Different View "BASE. How to ride it through!?! Every moment, thought and breath. Then the moment approaches. Position and poise. Survey the panorama. A cliff top or a German village. Each one unique as a star. Draw "it" in the breath. It is now. Embrace with vigour and passion. Launch up and out - hips high and forward. You're suspended in space, momentarily defying gravity..." - Trevor Yates. Died BASE jumping in April 2000 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
loughery 0 #32 April 5, 2003 Once you have had the pleasure of landing in a Cessna you will know why we jump out. TOTTOT www.SkydiveMoncton.com To my wife: 'If you ask me to stop skydiving, you are asking me to move out!' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #33 April 5, 2003 Your sense of what's important becomes sharp and real. Priorities reorganize themselves, and you become, for a brief moment, whole and complete. You see things utterly and totally differently. The perspective you have enlarges, widens, and becomes more encompassing. There is an acceptance of self that comes with dancing in the sky that cannot be found on the ground. You begin to understand that some limits are self-imposed. Those limits shatter, and you see colors more brightly, shapes more sharply, tastes more fully. You start to see what you are truly capable of, if there were nothing holding you back. For if you can fly, what else can you do if you tried? You reach down into yourself, and bring your core being into the world while in the air. There is no past, no future...just now, pure and simply now. Time both speeds by and slows down, balanced gently on your wrist. You are immediately, if only briefly, what you want to be. You are allowed to feel like you're 6 again; grinning, jumping, dreaming, flying, chasing birds and touching wind. You are again without burdens, playing in the summertime, laughing out loud and feeling everything so intensely... My thoughts. Not ten, but the ones which move me. Ciels- Michele ~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek While our hearts lie bleeding?~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ixlr82 7 #34 April 5, 2003 Of course..."You must jump to know..." __________________________________________ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpy 0 #35 April 5, 2003 Chicks dig skydivers There's other reasons? You have any idea how good a conversation starter a skydiving t-shirt is!?!?! lol but honestly sheer fun and accomplishment will do it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #36 April 5, 2003 statistics prove that the majority of people who die in airplanes do so when it hits the ground; I didnt wanna stick around and find out! My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumpy 0 #37 April 5, 2003 Quote statistics prove that the majority of people who die in airplanes do so when it hits the ground; I didnt wanna stick around and find out! landing with the plane would have to be a damn weird feeling!! Was the last one in the plane on the last jump (closest to the door) so was kneeling for takeoff and have you any idea how weird it feels to be facing forward instead of backwards!! was damn weird! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yourzero 0 #38 April 5, 2003 Quote 5 It's more fun than jumping INTO a plane I guess you haven't seen the intro to Goldeneye. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,439 #39 April 5, 2003 Here's a quote that was just posted in Talkback -- it's nigh onto perfect as a reason (of course, it was written by Carl Jung, and he did know a little bit about people ) Thrill Sports Wendy W. There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mixoligist 0 #40 April 5, 2003 It is my therapy. I skydive so I won't kill people when I'm at work................................... Better you than me .................................. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymick 0 #41 April 6, 2003 its gravity induced stress relief Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #42 April 6, 2003 Quote statistics prove that the majority of people who die in airplanes do so when it hits the ground; I didnt wanna stick around and find out! Get this; I JINXed myself.... today was the first time ever that I rode the plane downwe got to altitude and the ground winds were 40 mph.in the 3 yrs/ whopping 210 jumps that Ive been jumping I never hadda rode the plane down until today....just hoursa after I posted this post... (it woulda been the first load)but I landed safe and can try again tomorrowMy photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AirMail 0 #43 April 6, 2003 Quote today was the first time ever that I rode the plane down Uhh....BEER !!! Patrick-- It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Postal Rodriguez, Muff 3342 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wiregoat 0 #44 April 6, 2003 While slipping from a strut of a Cesna at 10,000' going 100 mph, it is impossible to stress over your stupid stressful job, the war, or what your wingnut family is up to. If, by some chance, you can, you sure are not going to be able to while tumbling out of control on a 120 mph collision course with the ground. but, but, he's a giant chicken! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tasadin 0 #45 April 6, 2003 Cos I needed a break from the ex girlfriend, and its the best way to put the world in perspective. LOL everything seems so small from 13.5k!! Physically and mentally!! "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sarge 0 #46 April 6, 2003 Man,, 'cause you can! all you have to do is give 'em your $$, they give you a parachute (they almost always work) , the plane ride is free. woo-woo why would anyone want to go whitewater rafting? I mean, what is the point? unless you get off the river everytime you finish the rapids... carry your raft back up the hill and then do it again, and again, etc... Ugh, sounds like a lot of work to me. Packing is a lot easier!!! ...and you don't have to get wet! .-- I'm done with the personally meaningful and philosophical sigs!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
melodee 0 #47 April 7, 2003 my reason was you only live once! will you be sorry for everything fun you missed in this life???????????? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JeffGordon 0 #48 April 7, 2003 Need I say BEER!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iflyme 0 #49 April 7, 2003 Makes me forget about all the other crap going on in the world for a while... good for the mental health. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlueSkiesKel 0 #50 April 9, 2003 skydiving is better than sex... ok, so maybe not better, but its the only thing comparable... i made the mistake of telling a friend that just so that i could get my point across that skydiving was awesome, he hasnt let me live that one down thats for sure... but i did convince him to try it so it worked Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
