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    SXC I had thought of that as a matter of fact thanks. I have an appointment follow up with my cardiac doc next month and will try to do more persuading and I'm also on a lead with a top cardaic doc for a second opinion, gonna ask for a stress test.
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    JW with this condition they wouldn't allow a jump tandem. Tell you what I did though. Last weekend before the heart thing I hitched a ride in the right seat of the Caravan to watch a jump and got that nice adrealine rush on the final jump run............twas nice!
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    No MJO I wouldn't do that, as a matter of fact I went to the dz today and got a refund for the aff and told them the whole story. Great group of guys at Palatka dz and they gave me a lot of encouragement. I don't want to end up being a dz woffo so I'm going to relearn to pack and help around until I can get back jumping.
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    Hello folks I'm an older (64) jumper that has been away from the sport for a LONG time wanting to get back to it. I have 403 logged jumps and had just signed up for the aff in Palatka for Saturday. Last Monday I had a heart issue (Coronary Artery Disease) requiring two stents. When I ask my doctor about when I could start jumping again he pretty much shut me down saying my jumping days were over. I refuse to accept this without further investigation so here is where it starts. Has anyone out there experienced this problem and if so can you throw some info my way? I love this sport too much to believe that this type of issue would bring an end to it. As a footnote...the doctor at first said I could start probably in a month or so until he found out that I had been away for a number of years. This makes me believe that there is a way that I can safely start jumping again. PLEASE if anyone has been through this I need help. Thanks
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    Made 6 static lines. Had first malfunction (line over canopy) reserve deployment on my first free fall. Kept leaving my left arm stretched out during pull.
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    Rules about bottles and cans had changed by 1974........heres my gf Bev holding on to a Bush bottle on her 1st jump.lol.
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    Made my first square jump on a Parasled in Delray Beach Oct 1973 it was my 73rd Jump. Bought my first square Dec 1973 it was a Babyplane it was the hardest canopy opening I ever experenced. I'd pull, grab my belly reserve and hold on tight. Lost the canopy after a cut away......best thing that coulda happened.lol.
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    My first jump was the T-10' My first one I bought was an old ucky colored PC someone tried to dye it and it came out UGLY! My next was a Mini-Cloud that opened so hard I grabbed my front reserve to lessen the shock. I lost that on a cut away that migrant workers ran away with. My next was a Para-sled #00013 bought from a guy named Robin after he broke his hip riding a mal down. I had several cut aways on it until Scott Hubbard put a slider on it and shortened the lines. Never maled again.
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    I jumped Indiantown in the early to mid 70s. I was on the jump that John Abitishio went in on. I also had to cut away a Mini-Cloud that the migrant workers picked up and ran away with.