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Well being that D.J and I are always looking for fresh
recruits to extend our odds of survival a tad Bit Longer...

A couple of months ago I took out a New BASE jumper
(ManBird)... Steve. for a level 3 recurrence training, Tower jump.
Well he finally got a BASE rig and made the mistake of asking
D.J. and Me to take him to the famous state of Idaho and help
him make a couple.... SAFE JUMPS.

He also asked a couple of times where were all the other
experienced Portland Base jumper he heard about. ????
So as not to scare him off to early D.J. and I, told him that
they were off in Europe on a extended BASE trip.
Instead of telling him there all Dead.

The first thing D.J. showed him to do was to pack a 265 fox
in the back seat of the car. Doing 90 mph. with the windows
down, between Boise and Twin Falls. (opened on heading)

Over Saturday and half day Sunday, Steve
Learned to pack.
Did his first Stowed jump. Jumped Slider up & Down.
Did his first, Tard Also a nice Water jump with a Round.
He also learned that you don't fly and flair a 245 Fox the
same as his tiny, Katana.... (nice tree landing)

His last jump on Sunday noon. I think I may have over-loaded
and pushed him a bit to far......
For the final jump I made him do his first, Full Floating exit at
the same time PCA me in freefall. Both of us, Slider Up.
In his first, 5-way. with, D.J, Spence, Sauce, and Me.
He put me in the water. Sucked D.J. Low, in the water with
camera equipment.
but still managed to keep his canopy half dry on the shore.

He passed the Test.........
Welcome, Steve as our new member of the Portland Crew.

Nice Job.....

Jesus that sounds like my kind of fun. C U at the span.

blues jerry

Hey, if you're gonna break 'em in, throw 'em straight into the fire.

First jump course my ass.

Hail the return of the old school. Next you'll have to get his rig confiscated and check him into the Steel Bar View Motel.

Good work fellas.

That was his first jump course. That sounds pretty exciting. I better hurry up with getting my +100 jumps. It's already been too long of a wait.

Free bird Forever

Ah yes....many good memories from this last weekend.

Congratulations Steve, it was a pleasure meeting you! It was equally fun watching the Portland crew break you in with style.

There are many things to comment on regarding the weekend:

- congrats to Ray for surviving Jump #700!

- the sound DJ made when landing in the water with his camera was hilarious

- thanks Tom and Cheri for the best BBQ I've ever had (Idaho has the best corn)

- after seeing my downwind ankle-twisting landing, Sauce decided he could one-up me with an even nastier ankle-wrencher

- and the best achievement of the weekend: the refinement of the "Higley-Wigley" move by the infamous DJ Higgins (maybe someone can post some pics?)

Thanks for a great weekend guys...



Bryan

edit: spelling on my wife's name ~TA

I had a damn good time. I'm about to post some video. I went over to diveout's last night and we played back the sound of DJ hooking it in over and over again.

This actually wasn't my FJC. I managed to survive a couple dozen BASE jumps a few years ago with essentially no training and only some minor bruising. This past weekend's tour de BASE was great. Video soon.

Videos of the weekend. I'll have these on skydivingmovies.com, but they're on my server for now. There was quite a bit of really cool stuff that we didn't get on video, but there are some of my firsts, a backseat pack job, a couple Higgly Wiggly's, and Ray's 700th.

Web quality
High quality

Video was shot by DJ, Sauce, Ray, BPS, and myself.

Enjoy. Try not to kill the server.

Nice video dude, CONGRATS!

Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing the vid!
Later
Blair

Good stuff. I used to throw my PC like a grenade too

How'd you like PCAing Ray?

Yeah, wanted to make sure I was getting that thing out for the first few (note that I'd stopped grenade tossing by the time we did the 5-way) I enjoyed it much more than he did. We were both slider up and I took about a 1s delay. He didn't have much canopy time before getting wet.

That last 10 seconds is hilarious!! AHH!!

Great vids!!

nice!

I'm back safe as well, can't say too safe as the plane ride back at night with no power over mountains was pretty sketchy. Had a bitchin open and flare jump this morningto end my 2 day trip. Nice meeting you guys ( spence and BPS ). Hopefully we didn't fuck up the Outback check too bad.

Oh, we must have just missed you.