fanya

I can personally say that most of my line twists came from sloppy stows. After my stows got cleaned up I was still getting them here and there. Most those I suspect were being caused by over rolling the tail, every since I have messed with the tail less I have been packing less line twists. Too big of stows can cause riser slaps too I've found out recently.

If you have a little oil of any kind you can fry the fries in a frying pan. You can fry a lot of stuff with just a little bit of oil and some patience (lots of standing close and constant turning under medium-high heat) Its actaully my perfered method of cooking corn dogs, you only need enough for a thin layer. I usually use my 8 in skillet

bst advice you will ever get is to GO SLOW and listen to your body. . anyway, who did you suspend with? and where at? im prolly gonna use either 2 6ga hooks or the traditional 4pt with 8ga. not sure yet, but totally looking forward to it. and Nightengale, be warned i have been around this world for a long time, and just because they are a member of the APP dosent mean they can pierce woth a shit. just means that they can pass a class. which dont get me wrong is a good thing. just a heads up there. pick out a shop based off of word of mouth and reputation. go in and look at their albums, any good shop will have the,. and if you like what you see go there. and above all make sure EVERYTHING and i mean EVERYTHING is opened from sterile packages in front of you. ive walked out of places before because they didnt meet my standards. if something seems out of whack then feel free to say no thanks and leave. Ummm I can't remember who I did it with anymore. First one was at a tattoo convention in IL near chicago, stayed up for about 15 min and I guess I turned green so they brought me down. I was about to pass out at that point though. 2nd one was in Las Vegas by a person that I met, through BME, was up for all of about 30 seconds before I went "fish" as they called it. In my defense I was freezing and it was about 35 degrees that night in the desert. 3rd one was a private suspension thorugh a friend. I was the first to go up cause apparently I was the only one that had done one besides the host, lol. That one went real well, he had a blast heater so I could stay warm, it was in a garage in MN in Nov... I was up for little over an hour before I decided to come down because it looked like other people were getting bored with me swinging around so I figured I'd let them have a chance. All were 4 point with 8 ga needles across the back

I believe what you are thinking of is called a dermal punch. They are designed to be used for biopsies. I considered that but then figured if I ever wanted to take the jewelery out and let it heal back up that wouldn't be an option. I think I'll start at 8 or maybe 6 if it's possible and stretch my way up to a 1/4" or 1/2". I didn't read all of it but... Like someone else said anything much past 0 ga is never going to completely close, and its person dependent. And ears don't hurt, its the softest material ever. As far as how big you can go, most won't ever go over an 8 ga needle. Although if you want to go bigger initially there are people who will scalpel them to the size you want.. I've done 3 back suspensions, all with 8 ga hooks, and back skin is 11billiontimes tougher than earlobes and it was a quick sharp sting and it was done, it will be real easy with lobes. And as far as pain, just man up. I had a 6mm dermal punch stretched to 0 ga immediately in my upper cartilage, that was fairly painful. I think the worst was reverse PAs stretched from 10 to 8. That shit hurt. But good luck with your lobes, take it slow, slow is better than to fast, I've seen blow out from too fast, its ugly. *edit* forgot to say, I've been pierced by either a 4 or 2 ga needle followed by progressive tappers to either 00ga or 000ga, i think it was 00ga. The piercing was a little painful and the tapers just felt like a real bad snake bit (like the ones you use to give classmates in grade school)

Sounds good. I'd like that as well. There have been times when pages on here took a while to load because of some fuckface ad... where do I go? Never mind, found one off the Mozilla site. Cool. Ya, I knew it existed up until this point but never needed it, I just googled it.

I believe I'm smarter than average, not brilliant gifted smart but smarter. I usually say I'm too smart for my own good. In high school where people had to study for school and form good habits for college I got by doing homework before the class it was due, work 30 hours a week and still smoke weed 2-3 times a week. I went to college, did fairly well my first semester then my bad habits caught up to me and I said fuck it and quit school. I've done just fine since then doing whatever I wanted to do, never have been well off, but always had food, place to stay and money for spending. Now to ask that question here is a little bit of a catch22 imo. I think that skydivers as a whole are smarter than the average joe public.

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I wear lead, but I'm also 6'4" 140lbs so I'm a tad floatly to say the least. I actually wore weight on some of my AFF jumps. Weight belts do help, I've seen one guy wear 3 weight belts (about 40lbs of lead) but he was on a RW team Make a hop n' pop or two so you can adjust to your new wing loading though

I don't like editing, so one last thing... I got by as cheap as I could, I repeat on AFF, no coach jumps, no AAD, a DZ that was semi supportive of my jumping efforts but at the same time it was because I was showing up 3-6 days a week and I became a familiar face. And that was forcing myself upon them. My biggest problem now is I have no home DZ, can't find a job and can barely afford to stay current. I want to get my TI license but that is a ways off considering I've been skydiving for a year and I don't have a DZ to support me because atm I'm moving every 6 months to be with my GF. My opinion when I started skydiving was it is a really open sport, as I get more in depth into it I'm realizing its a really tight sport that's hard to break into.

Ok, so for those who thought my numbers were high, here's this guy- AFF $1500 Another 15 jumps to get an A license = $400 Gear rental for 15 jumps = $250 So A license, no repeats, no video = $2150 Rig was $1500 (for a cheapo). Add an AAD and the cheapo costs $2500. He's got $300 in an altimeter $30 is a for cheapo helmet. So gear total is $1850. Cheapo gear + training with no repeats or video = $4000. Add in an AAD ($1k), a jumpsuit ($400), a skydiving helmet ($200) and an upgraded rig ($1k on top of what he spent, and even then $2500 is a good price for a complete used rig). New total, representative of an average jumper getting trained and set up = $6770 If you repeat a level or two, get a video of one of your AFF jumps, or if your DZ charges more than $16 to rent gear (that's the number I used) then there you have your $7k to get trained and set up with a modern rig w/ADD, jumpsuit, helmet and altimeter. By the way fanya - no offence meant when I said your stuff was 'cheapo'. I just mean it's low priced, and that's actually how I bought all of my skydiving gear for years, prefering to spend my money on jumps. No offense, trust me I know my stuff is as "cheap" as you can get for shit that will save your life. I'm jumping a Sabre1 and a rig that is a c16 size when I should be jumping a c18-c19 but I needed a rig right right now because I lucked out and got a job over the winter packing chutes where I got free jumps but had to have my own rig, is it ideal; no, but is any rig you get for 1500 ideal, no. The aff I did repeat one level but from what I'm told pretty much everyone repeats one level. I did no coach jumps because: 1, coach jumps weren't required and 2. I got lucky and my dive and docks were done by people that were coach/tandem/dzo licensed but did it for fun. At the point I finished my A license I had 40 jumps and had been a the DZ 4-6 days out of the week when I was working 30+ hours at a "real" job a week. I love jumping, I really do, more than I can really convey to anyone, but atm I gave up a full time summer packing job to peruse a relationship. She supports what I'm trying to do and my jumping but the DZ I was committed to didn't allow dogs so I decided to peruse her instead of something for myself for once in my life. Everything is a compromise. It's like a above poster said, for a new person to commit to jumping you either have to have a good job and an established life or totally commit to a DZ life style to make it.

In my first 3 months skydiving I spent... AFF: 1500 lift tickets 8-54: 1100 gear rental: probably close to 1000 altimeter: 300 helmet: 30 my own rig: 1500 (this is the cheapest you can possibly get a rig pretty much, no AAD) + gas, beer, food So thats 6k in 3 months, and actually a little more cause I bought tandems for 3 people I know. So close to 7k in 3 months. The only way this was possible was I had 4k cash on my desk burning a hole in my pocket and was working a good job at the time. I jump once a month now just to stay current cause I have no job now. I don't know how people with family, real bills and other stuff afford to jump. At the time I started I had rent and car insurance. I've been packing here and there and my goal is to become a TI but its gonna be a long road in just jump tickets now days.

single cessna DZ I worked at took handi cam on every jump regardless if they said yes or no. he sold a lot of videos after the fact just by showing them it. its probably the adrenaline and omg what did I just do factor involved too. I know his overall video sales were 70 to 80 percent, im not sure on the no to yes after the fact ratio though

Bury the nose, roll the hell out of the tail I've packed a lot of them and have never rolled the nose, some people swear by it (rolling the nose) but I've never had the need to and have never had a complaint on the openings

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Skydive key west has some amazing views of the middle and lower keys with the gulf on one side and the alantic on the other side but they are a tandem only dropzone Skydive sabastion also has some nice views

I concour, its great to be a man.

after reading this entire shitstorm I clicked on your profile and relized you are from my home dropzone im sorry for the lost equipment but you are one hello of a stand up guy, ill be buying you a jump and if you need to borrow gear here and there to jump ill offer mine up when im there blue skys , see ya in the spring

No matter how you read it, why would you think any of it would actually happen? Why? maybe believe is the wrong word, i should replace that with hope. im on my phone atm but that hope stems from a video I saw on ted.com about a social thought timeline (for lack of a better phrase atm) that if you accept what he has been saying has been coming around for ages. that most recent phase that happened according to was in the 50/60s during the social change that went on id find a link for ya but my phone would shit if I went to that website. its another one of the millions of theorys out there but i tryto look on the positive side of things. I personally hope that its a change away from consumerism, commercialism and the love of money to more important things in life *steps down off his hippie box*

its the end of the mayan calender the crazys say its the end of the world. if you look into it most people translate the ancient text as the end of an era, you could read that as many things, I personally believe it will be the start of a massive collective shift of thought towards a better world (a la a bit hippie style, I hope at least)

What ever happened to Holy Joe at Eloy? He wasn't satisfied with a PA so he got it flayed open like a hot dog bun. ya know i guess im with the right group of crazys cause I got that done too. its one of the rarest body mods there is. I did mine myself too

i always take my shoes off in other people house, its just polite. that is if im even wearing shoes, which if its nice out isn't much

im not sure if I should even touch this can of worms... in my time I have had done: both eyebrows multiple times, my bridge pierced, the center of the upper lip, the center of my lower lip (labert?), the side of my lip, my tongue at 14ga and stretched to 2 gauge over time, I had my cartilage punched at 6mm, one nipple, and some other stuff that is better discussed over some beers at the fire my point to this post though, I have also had 2 reverse PA's that were pierced at 10 ga and stretched to 8 ga. I no longer have them but do miss them and had zero complaints on them. some were taken aback at first but they all came around and as someone else said, the rush from the piercing table is unreal, makes me want to get something done just thinking about it. I also use to do play piercing for fun, its all about the rush

Oh, we're all socially awkward at some point. I bet you're not as bad as you think you are! im not that bad, I just have to have a couple nights of hard drinking to speed up the healing process. I don't date much out of choice and actually liked this one *** mmm nice choice

chocolate starfish and the hotdog flavored water ?!?

you're forgiven since its a wendsday and probably have a real job I only get away with it cause we don't have any work for a while it looks like atm