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Or perhaps an all nekkid 500 way, given that level 2 is the DZ for lost lusting souls. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Or just take a break for awhile. Everybody needs a break from things and even people they love. Go do somethin' else for awhile, there's a lot out there. If jumping's in your blood, it will bring you back, you can't ignore it. Do what's right, do what's best and don' worry about it. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

This guy, Jimmy Tavino, who wrote this poem, was one of my Jumpmasters in my student days. I'd already got beyond static line by then, I think the first time I met Jimmy I was making a 5 sec. delay. He's the real thing and we've had more fun over the years - and recently reconnected for the first time in over twenty years through these .com forums! I just always ALWAYS wanted to jump. Parachutes enthralled me. If we ever saw skydivers on a drive in the countryside, my dad would pull the car over, just so we could watch. I watched "Ripcord" faithfully on Friday nights. Jumped off swing sets, out of trees, off garage roofs. It was in my genes I guess. Like Jimmy, I also started in college and even founded a club on my campus. Eventually I moved out west, went hog wild and even made a BASE jump before I finally hung it up and got married. Now 22 years later, I'm back. It really IS in my genes, I started having dreams about putting a new rig together five years ago! It just won't leave me be, thank God. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

It can. It's not unhead of to either pad the main tray or the main bag in a larger container to accomodate a smaller main canopy and a larger reserve. Point in fact, a dear friend of mine downsized from a Paracommander to a Strato Star and simply sewed a sofa cushion into his main container to make up the difference. Eventually he bought a Racer, but in the meantime the cushion arrangement worked nickel slick! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Noice job, you are to be congratulated for joining the "ain't it noice to be aloive" club ! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

The Tandem pair got to the door and about half way out when mom locked up on the sides of the doorframe like a cat being flushed down a toilet. Happy Mother's Day. You have a real gift for words, you oughta write a book or teach English lit. "Like a cat being flushed down the toilet", gawd I love that ! Guy musta really loved his mama to fight like that with her fer a whole minute. Bet a lot of old scores were settled that day.... Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Assuming you have a low speed mal, that is. Actually even from a high speed mal like a streamer, you still get a dropping feeling from a cutaway because even a miserable high speed mal slows you down somewhat and the cutaway drops you from it. Imagine what some poor slob with a rope around his neck must feel like when the trapdoor opens... As far as leaving the plane on exit goes, it's more of a windblown feeling, the force of all that air created by the plane's forward motion just sort of blows you away. If you're just a beginner, going head down feels pretty weird too, but you'll quickly get used to that. In no time at all it won't matter whether you're heads up or down or any which way, because flight isn't bound by gravity, just the direction of relative wind. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Zesty!!! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna, man you should have seen him, kicking Edgar Allen Poe, I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the Walrus, goo-goo goo-joob If you really want to read anymore of this crap, I can type it, but let's just leave it at that (sorry John...) Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. "Daisy, Daisy give me youurrr annswerrrr dooooo..." Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

My mom & dad used to beat the crap out of me and all i ever learned from it was that they were crazy and I couldn't trust them. Our two kids are 18 and 14 now and people have always told us how well behaved they are. We never hit them as a regular thing. When they were little, if there was a safety issue involved, like walking into the street, they might get a single swat across the tail to help focus their attention. Other than that we disciplined them with words, restricting privieges, grounding, no TV, etc. They turned out just fine. I think when you hit your kids you're giving up and taking the easy way out. And it's just an excuse for too many people who like hitting kids because they don't think they'll fight back. I'm no softy and we've got two GOOD kids to show for it. So there. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Level 2's turning into quite the part-ay... Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

rumor has it that a camera guy went in when he forgot his rig altogether. I would like to think thats a myth but as long as such rumors exist. I will urge ppl to look over their load for things like that. I know for a fact that there was a camera guy who got on a load w/o his rig. wasnt until he did his handle check that he realized The guy who died was in the Carolinas, can't remember whether it was NC or SC, or what year. But it made the papers. He was wearing his camera gear on a 2nd harness, so he probably felt like he had his harness on. He was last in the exit lineup and obvously nobody checked his gear. His camera survived the impact and there was a video of the dive that ended with him freaking out and screaming, at least that's what the papers said. We caught a cameraman with no rig on a pin check before exit once. Man was he ever surprised! But not surprised as if he'd jumped that way... Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

See you in hell...Level 2 it is, bring your jumpsuit. We can get on a load with Cleo and Helen of Troy, not too shabby! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Don't do it. Talk to Mr. Muenkel in these forums, who is grounded for a serious sinus blowout. Find a nice place for outdoor sex with somebody special instead. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Well that's the new way we're killing ourselves these days. Bill Booth's even proposed a 2nd Booth's Law, that skydivers will find new ways to maintain the fatality rate when the old ways don't kill as many people as they used to (I'm paraphrasing - hope I got that right Bill). All I remember from the old days is how many reports on the "sports page" (as we called it) in Parachutist used to have the comment, "an automatic opening device on the reserve parachute might have prevented this fatality". Maybe twenty years from now there will be something that inflates your jumpsuit like the Michelin man if you hook it below 200 ft, who knows ? If they do and I'm still jumping, I might even buy one... Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

And damned proud of my Spectre 210. Rather fond of the Spectre 230 myself. I'm thinking of having a beeper and a light put on it for reverse gear....nyuk-nyuk! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow...... Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Watch some film footage of Olympic ski jumpers too. Those guys are excellent trackers, though they probably have a different name for it. Only you don't have to worry about keeping a pair of skis straight! Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Watching for others Tales of Rantoul adventures In five-seven-five Your great adventures At World Free Fall Convention Regale us with verse Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

You mean we're not already here ? We must be slackin' people... Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Norton Thomas was a bona fide Hells' Angel and he closed 8th on the world's first 8 stack at Livermore - in his Angelic black & orange Strato Star. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

The S.S. Minnow ? Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Sounds more like something you'd do just to say you done it. I would highly recommend withdrawal to both partners before opening, or there could be an ugly report on the Incidents forum. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

Now if someone who did believe in God and hell found out there wasn't forgiveness, would they change their ways? The existence of God can be neither proven nor disproven. We can make arguments and point to evidence supporting either which, but ultimately God is unprovable, so there is either faith in God or not. But forgiveness is another matter. We all need to be forgiven. I don't think there's a one of us who hasn't done something they feel ashamed of. Forgiveness allows us to put the ugly things we've done, sins if you will, behind us. Some people forgive themselves too easily, just to ease their conscience, then others among us need forgiveness so we can pick ourselves up and move ahead. Either way, we need forgiveness. Most of us have our persoinal sense of right and wrong. An ethical and compassionate life can be lived without belief in God. Then again some people who loudly proclaim their belief in God show no signs of ehtical or compassionate behavior. But I don't think any of us would change. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !