Bounce proofing your logbook - a tradition

[pchapman 279]

Just a little time wasting here on History & Trivia:

Apparently one tradition is to have the last space in a brand new logbook signed off for good luck -- With the idea that you should then live to fill all the jump entries that logbook.

I had never heard of this tradition until recently.

Any comments?

[faulknerwn 38]

Seen it done for over 20 years here in Texas...

[lodestar 0]

a few of us out there still remember that.....however, I should tell you the rest of the story....seems like what you heard was true, but only part of it....the other part....3-5 cases of cold beer at the end of day for those supporters of the legend....you might check and see what the guys at your dz prefer for brand....or if they have any alternate requests instead of beer.....

[darkwing 5]

Never heard of it up in the northwest where I jumped for some years.

-- Jeff
My Skydiving History

[airtwardo 7]

What's a logbook?

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[hcsvader 1]

airtwardo

What's a logbook?

you may know it as the stone tablet you chisel records of your jumps on.

Have you seen my pants?
it"s a rough life, Livin' the dream
>:)

[BIGUN 1,296]

Colonel Kittinger did that in one of my logbooks without hesitation or request. Just flipped to the back of the logbook and wrote, "Blue Skies!!!" "Now start a new logbook."

Makes me wonder if it's something brought over from the older piloting world?

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[mccurley 1]

Never heard of that one before. But who's to say my memory is any good!

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[upndownshop 0]

My first bounce proofed logbook was signed 12-23-1984, the day of my first jump! Yes in Texas. All logbooks since are also bounce proofed, its working so far. :)

[raftman 12]

I bounceproof all the nOObs logbooks when asked to sign.
Mine was done in 1997.
Yes, in Texas.