I thought you were going BASE jumping in the motherland.

Great to see her still going at it : )

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Originally posted by davemolina I thought you were going BASE jumping in the motherland. Great to see her still going at it : )

I wasn't able to go at that time as I couldn't afford the flight. But even if I went I probably would have only been a spectator as its unfortunately something your cant just up and go do like a tandem skydive.

To put it mildly... the dangers/implications of skydiving as compared to BASE are like.....comparing driving city driving to NASCAR driving. Skydiving you have the extra altitude to deal with a malfunction, cut away if needed, and pull your reserve and still has sufficient altitude to pick a safe landing spot. In base....you have none of those. Now in the video it looks like they are jumping from 3000ft which I would feel more comfortable with, but most BASE jumps made here are anywhere between 400 to 1,800ft depending on the object. It's also illegal unless its a sanctioned event.

BASE is something I plan to get into once I feel confident that I can do such safely (or in other words when I know what the fuck I am doing). To my understanding, BASE jumpers have to be experts at canopy control, gauging wind direction/speeds, and making split-second decisions determing on the situation (safe to jump? safe alternate landing area?) and Im sure there's much more to it than that.

Right now, my main focus is on getting my basic skydiving license going through AFF (accelerated freefall), which is the training skydivers go through. Info on that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Freefall

Currently I'm on level 4 with 10 skydives. I'd probably elect to have 2 years experience with 300 skydives before getting into BASE. But its in the plan.

Last edited by Matthias on Aug-30-2006 at 23:01

wow, that video was pretty intense. no way do i have the guts to do anything like that. but, at the same time, i feel like i have too much to lose to try and "live life to the fullest".

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OH man thats a sick video Matt. I can admit that my nuts aren't big enough for anything like that.

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Originally posted by Dirk W. no way do i have the guts to do anything like that.

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Originally posted by Zild I can admit that my nuts aren't big enough for anything like that.

Heh..well I can agree with ya both there but only because I don't have the necessary experience. Should that not be an issue, and if I had my own BASE gear, I would do it. These guys make it look easy, the incidents page dictates otherwise, thus is why Im choosing to hold off on that for now. Besides...falling 120mph from 14K is good enough for me at the moment.

"With the greatest risk comes the greatest reward."

So far with the jumps I've made...I can attest to that. Most people dont need skydiving or BASE in their life to make theirs complete; some have too much to lose. While I don't necessarily have a death-wish, I really feel like I have nothing to lose anymore.

I had the same mindframe when I signed the dotted line when I joined the Marines just as when i signed the waiver at the SDH dropzone. There's always the implication that something can go wrong and I can die...hell in my neighborhood I have a greater chance of getting shot on the way to buy groceries. Bottom line is, we all go out someday. Whether its when we're young and able or old and slowly deteriorating in some nursing home. If fate would have the latter option, I could really have said I lived life to its fullest.

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I hate you Matt, but that was awesome. Has anyone seen that doco that was on the discovery channel about those carnts that went to Antarctica to base jump off the ice shelves? Crazy shit!

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Originally posted by davemolina Great to see her still going at it : )

Forgot to mention she is over in Malaysia right now jumping the Kuala Lumpur Tower.



She's the one on the left.

Last edited by Matthias on Aug-31-2006 at 12:02

Team America, fuck yeah!

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hahahaha wild....

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