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BASE is so much more a personal sport than skydiving that logging jumps you have not done and getting a BASE number you have not earned is only in fact cheating yourself..(i do not yet have a BASE number - so im in fact just a A S & O jumper)....... in fact the people who lie about their BASE experience are normally skydiving wannabes! Be Safe Be Low M

I did a FJC with CR but bought vertigo kit. CR were helpful in checking that i had rigged it up properly, they taught me to pack on it and also had no problem with letting me jump it. The advantage of buying CR kit and doing the CR course is that they offer discount off the kit (well they did when i did the course anyway. HTH Be Safe Be Low Michael

I thought I remembered that Tom was doing this - was not quite sure. Thanks Be Safe Be Low M

I have started drawing up on Excel an analysis of the BASE fatality list where i can then run pivot tables and thus have some more detailed data. This is proving to be taking longer than i first envisaged - so thought I would ask if anyone has done anything similar on "The List"??? I thought I read somewhere that someone was thinking of doing this very thing..!?!? Be Safe Be Low M

That is not an offensive comment Be safe but be particularly LOW........... M

You aint conservative in my book taking off a crapy bit of skydiving kit on a BASE jump - even if it is a >800ft bridge. Use specific gear - it is developed for the job. Dont cut corners in BASE......... Life is lethal! Be Safe Be Low M

450 skydives in total A load of 7-cell jumps Practiced CR's Canopy Drills 2 years of reading, learning, talking, and reading some more Took a FJC with CR Used BASE specific Gear Alot of time, money, effort spent. Alot of grief from Family members, Bosses and Girlfriend.

not biting my bate then?!?!??!?!

No sweat! - if you dont get a response from PM or E then - E me direct and I will forward your question to him. (he dont come here that often!) Be Safe Be Low!! Michael

All i can suggest is PM or Email Swoopmenace - he has experience of different canopies (and structured opinions) and has researched alot the physics attached to canopies............. his advice is valid!! Cya Michael PS) yep still phuqking bored on a Sunday and replying to anything!!!!!

you up for porn star exit with a guy!? are you hiding something!!!! and yes now I am bored I answer any shit!!! Cya

freebird - looking like that - owning a nurses uniform you should never be bored!!! And yes I am also bored - phuqking English October winds!!!! be safe be low Michael

At my local DZ there is a 500 jump limit on starting wingsuits - since finding a new parachuting hobbie to take my time up I am unlikely to move my 450 jumps up to the 500 in the next couple of years. Are there any UK DZ's (eg Langar, Sibson) that perhaps are more relaxed about jump numbers? Cheers Michael

I am still following this! I had some questions about the canopy I jump for BASE and the manufacturer did not come back at me and say "well hey you aint jumping it for what we designed it for!" instead they listened to me and answered my questions, gave me advice, asked for my thoughts and asked for my findings whilst i experimented (even though I am a complete newbie in this sport - but they still treated my opinion as valid as someone more experienced than me!) . For a come back like "enough of the bad mouthing about my canopy" to me seems extremely bad PR for a company - I am new to BASE and have found most people most helpful - even as far as one manufacter advising me on the merits of anothers canopy! opinions are to me what this sport is about - because it is so young - it is up to you to make YOUR OWN OPINION from other peoples opinions - instead of saying to Tom "shut up" you should have given a structured reply to his "opinion" of a canopy he has jumped. I find Toms analysis of aspects of this sport structured and well written - and although I may, in my newbie frame of mind, question things that he says - he is one of only a small amount of people on Blinc I actually make time to read his posts. To just get your heckles up and bad mouth him makes me question your own ethos and as a representive of a BASE company question your companys ethos - surely this is bad PR for a company whom this newbie may have looked toward in the future for gear and advice. Oh well enough of this - just me bored at home blown out from another weekend of jumping by the UK weather. Be Safe Be Low........ Michael

Recently saw (here in the UK) a guy flying a 60 something VX - Good skills...........

How you doing Mr Q?? - Sounds like a rocking time may have been had in Europe??? Feel free to e me any Mpegs you have of the trip!!! Be Safe Be Low......... Michael Mac

it relates to all of us dude! We all battle with gravity every time we jump - and we all hope we get a stalemate!!! Cya

phuq that!!!............

My girlfriend said she would dump me if i started BASE - so i started BASE - and then she came back to me after awhile! - Dont let the b4stards grind you down!! Dont ever let them stop you doing what you want to do - dont end up dying looking back saying "oh i wish I had" - if she wont let you be yourself - then let her go........ "3-2-1-Cya Babe" My G/f sits at home worried when i go off and jump - but hey my minds on the jumping so i dont let it get to me!!!!!! B Safe B Low Michael

With BASE sliders you have direct and indirect control. This helps stage the deployment. Indirect control is with the primary bite you take before stowing your lines in the tailpocket. Direct control is banding a bite of the slider to the inner right C-line - opposite to where the tailgate is usually situated This prevents the slider coming down prematurely. Hope this helps B Safe B Low Michael

how you going mate!!! - did not get to respond to your eMail - let me know when you are back in the UK.................. Michael

I have forwarded your post to someone i think may be going............. if he is I guess he will contact you Michael

Having never jumped a vented canopy (I own a Dagger) I can see the benefits for Way Low stuff - which i like cause I hate climbing! but what are they like to jump at terminal - do they give a noticable harder opening than non-vented or is there not that much difference. Be Safe Be Low Michael

"Atair designed a sleeve type valve to prevent this" Sleeve type?? can you build on that description - Does this differ at all to the way CR shut off their vents? Be Safe Be Low Michael

Read Tom Aiellos article on this board somewhere.................. And dont rush into the Sport............ it gives you so much............ but can take everything from you. Be Safe Be Low Michael