Sweet pictures!

Quote from: opinion914 on September 03, 2008, 10:11:45 AMinsane pics Dan, but why do some wear a helmet and some not?

Basically same argument you get from bikers, scenarios are different though but I don't think there's any reason not to in either case but that's me. Not to long ago, someone was killed landing hard. No other bones broken & no other apparent (major) injuries except the head. Wasn't wearing a helmet. A lot of skydivers wear CF helmets that have very little padding and, as we all should know from motorcycle helmets, CF doesn't flex and as such will transfer more energy to the head in the event of an impact. If you don't account for this with the padding, you're doing yourself a disservice. I'm wearing one of the goofy helmets that a lot of people avoid because it makes them "look like a student". The fact is that they actually protect you from bumps & hits to the head. Clearly, hitting the ground at free fall speed is too much for any helmet but that's not why you wear them.

Quote from: rcpete on September 03, 2008, 07:32:02 PMyup 1st tandem. we did 30 mins tunnel time. not enough. Hope they will open one closer to home. So i can take advantage of the year membership. i'm thinking of selling my monster for a new rig.

There's meant to be two (!) tunnels opening in NJ soon. They're meant to be in the same facility. Supposedly smaller than the Nashua tunnel (it's 12ft, NJ tunnels meant to be 10ft) and I'm sure they'll be packed with tourists () but you will probably be able to book and get some good tunnel time closer to home that way. 30 mins is pretty good, should help you a lot if you decide to start skydiving. I don't think they're really the same thing, kind of like a track day is to riding on the street. You can apply what you've learned but it's not really the same experience.

As for the new passion, yeah, I'm enjoying it a lot. I'll also be enjoying my old passion again when I get my new bike. I still love to ride, just now I have something else to do rather than riding around by myself most of the time.

This was jump 30 with 2 world champion skydivers, I'm basically not there until half way though! I now have 58 jumps and am on a 4 way team.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYBJrDQlxE

Seeing those pics makes me want to go actually, but you know i'm too scared.  I'll need to read Brians book 1st.

That can be arranged.

You guys sure like to touch each other a lot while plummeting to earth 

 

i wanna get the cert right now. Who wants to fund me? =D

Quote from: He Man on September 04, 2008, 09:54:27 PM


i wanna get the cert right now. Who wants to fund me? =D

I want to get a cert too but its a tossup between this or scuba diving right now 

And HeMan your video in your sig is great i was cracking up watching it

Quote from: GLantern on September 05, 2008, 06:35:48 AM
I want to get a cert too but its a tossup between this or scuba diving right now 

And HeMan your video in your sig is great i was cracking up watching it

make the beast with two backs scuba man, even if your on LI, scuba season is much shorter and not too impressive after youve hit all the "spots"

This is more reason to go sky diving! I was gonna get cert this summer but lack of $, i have $ now. but lack of time.

www.skydivelongisland.com is where im going to do it.

Lack of time?

Quote from: EvilSteve on September 05, 2008, 09:32:51 AM
Lack of time?

i go to school 5x a week as an engineer student. Class from 2-7pm usually + I train in Muay Thai. When does the sky diving season end?

Quote from: He Man on September 05, 2008, 10:10:43 PM
i go to school 5x a week as an engineer student. Class from 2-7pm usually + I train in Muay Thai. When does the sky diving season end?

Where do you train in muay thai?  i have been really interested in that for a while, i could use something like that to put some focus into

At a gym call Fight House in the city, its in a triangle of 3 other big muay thai gyms.

one of them is The WAT, and the other is called <some damn name>.

With out Muay thai, i dont know what I'd do. Honestly. Id be tweedling my thumbs. (cause i dont have a bike STILL. :/)

Quote from: He Man on September 06, 2008, 12:40:36 PM

With out Muay thai, i dont know what I'd do. Honestly. Id be tweedling my thumbs. (cause i dont have a bike STILL. :/)

Mines all fixed i should be picking it up on Monday hopefully , i read your warranty issues with FBF thats ridiculous and i thought 1 month was a long wait!!

Quote from: GLantern on September 06, 2008, 04:17:28 PM
Mines all fixed i should be picking it up on Monday hopefully , i read your warranty issues with FBF thats ridiculous and i thought 1 month was a long wait!!

Seriously. I wish i was picking mine up monday, but FBF told my shop they would ship it out saturday(today) yesterday. But as far as i know, only USPS ships Saturdays. and no business ships USPS. Only Fedex, but both places are closed on weekends, so i bet they are lying. my dealer says "we'll get it at the very latest wednesday" i bet thats a lie to, not on the shops behalf, but on FBF behalf. If they ship it monday ground in the AM it MIGHT get to them on wednesday, but at thsi point, i dont know why it wouldnt be next day. they've had it for long enough.

Either way, dude, im gonna go for the cert next year in april or june, i think march would still be too cold. do it! Mostly cause it would be more fun than doing it alone.  theres was only 1 dude doing his cert when i was doing my first tandem. lol

Next yera april or june sounds good to me, let me know!