SKYDIVING RFI

I did 3 static line jumps back in the dark ages, to get myself around what I thought was a fear of heights. My first jump was only the second time I'd been up in a plane. It was scary and hard the first time, harder the second time though less scary, and almost enjoyable the third time.

what are static line jumps?

the first time my friend did his jump, the crew are videotaping you as you suit up and load into the plane and also of course as you jump and as you're falling. and then they run up to you after you land and the camera gets all in your face and they ask "so how it was it DUDE" and they tape your corny reaction and then they add techno music to it and you get to take home a free DVD of it

i want to do this just so when they do the reaction shot thing i can anticipate it and force myself to act all super bored and DEVASTATE THEIR ENTIRE INSTITUTION

I wouldn't really want a DVD of me shitting myself.

why not

For static line, there's a webbing strap that clips to something inside the plane, then a velcro bit on the far end hooks to the top of the chute. You jump out and the strap pulls the chute out for you, so you don't have to pull the rip cord on the pack.

I don't know if they do this anymore. I also jumped with an old army issue chute, out of an old WWII fighter plane, into a cornfield.

Do they make you ride underneath some dude on your first time? Because I'd want to be all free and solo and everything.

Static line is a solo jump. Here you go, sort of in your backyard: http://www.skyranch.com/HomePage.html

No cowboy boots, no red shirts.

PP, I think most places strongly suggest you do a tandem for your first jump. And you don't "ride" underneath some strange dude, you fall underneath him.

I'm about 30 minutes from that SkyRanch place. I should go fall underneath some dude there.

So what do you do with a skydiver's license besides falling tandem with some n00b?

xp

I have jumped once, a tandem. it was awesome. for the first -- I dunno, felt like first 30 seconds but probably wasn't that long, I totally couldn't breathe, it took me a while to wrap my head around what I was seeing / experiencing. but when I snapped out of it it was great.

So what do you do with a skydiver's license besides falling tandem with some n00b?

deliver EXTREME pizzas, be a weekend private contractor for the Air Force, pick up chicks at bars, sit around thinking about how much you rule, etc

hahaha pizza idea is great.

LOL techno music reaction dvd

i was thinking abt this the other day and where i used to think 'hey yeah jumping out of a plane blah blah whatever maybe one day why not' now i think 'wtf jumping out a plane how does this make sense in any way at all'

i also do not want a video of me crying and swearing more than i ever swear and calling skydiver instructor people asshole crazy people with fucked up concept of reality and there are people starving and homeless yknow and here you are making me jump out of a plane you fucking fucks etc b/c that is basically the kind of logic loss that wld happen unless i were yknow jumping out of a plane full of zombies, in which case, no problem (tho wld still swear a lot)

Rrrobyn you must make skydiving zombie movie.

rrrrrrrobyn taking into consideration how much sense an activity makes before you do it is not really very EXTREME

no
it is not
EXTREEEMME
it is maybe not a thing i am into yet/now
i like skiing/snowboarding and i like swimming/surfing in the pacific in wintertime and i like rockclimbing non-insane rocks but those things make no sense either i guess but also they are not high in the sky which is v far away from the earth

EXTREME things kind of make me really angry!
maybe i need to be an EXTREME FIGHTER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBuyypGDNo

ignore the cheesy music and this is always HOLY SHIT WTF OMG followed by HERO HERO HERO.

When you getting a job with the Canadian Royal Berserker Air Squadron. rrroy-bin?

when the zombie vampires start making ambient techno and filming my exteremme sky adventures in cloudland

fact: i once went out with someone (for like 2 yrs) who was in cdn army reserves plane-jumping-out-of division

lol cheesy music is dayvan cowboy by boards of canada

i was into it

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