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...here's a little tip I received from an experienced jumper; treat your packjob like you would a Bonzai tree. Turn it into a little art project regardless of the actual jump you will do with it.

I never hated packing, but I didn't enjoy doing it either. Fortunately, I'm a big believer in the flexibility of perception. Ever since that one jumper told me about his Bonzai tree philosophy, I love packing!

I clean up my appartment, get all the tools ready (clamps, weight, pull-up cords), assemble a nice BASE soundtrack in my Winamp playlist, and start packing. I haven't read the book, but I imagine it's something like what Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanance is about.

Of course, this only works if you allow your perception of things to change and affect your opinion. Then again, that's a pretty useful skill in general.

Damn, I think I just posted the most hippie crap-ass spiritual and useless thread on this board ever. It almost reads like a Marie Claire magazine. But what the heck, it's been quiet on here lately. Too quiet...

Cue Skin..

 

so you are insinuating you pack 5 lbs of flour into the pack job? how do you keep the flour from getting everywhere?

 

we all need to be distracted from time to time; keeps ya on ur toes.

Hey Jaap, what's on your "nice BASE soundtrack in my Winamp playlist"?

I have a secret.

I actually enjoy packing my BASE rig.

Don't tell anyone.

Dude, do you have any idea how much more useful it is to read how women think about how man think than to read about how women think that we think about how they think?

Why pack? It's a waste of time

Brittany
Unpacked BASE #? <--- yeah uh huh. getcha some.

Get video of your next terminal jump

You know I will It will be soon...

Get video of my next terminal jump

hum... terminal.... sounds contagious... Yet tasty

Can I get some?

Jaap,

You need to get a girlfriend

Hey Brits,

To get an unpacked BASE # from Mr McConkey you need to do either rollover B.A.S.E. or TARD B.A.S.E.

The cards he issues are, well,....Tom can tell you...

Anyone done the TARD-Rollover B.A.S.E. yet? (scary shit methinks)

dude im not offer the BASE comunity to jump my packjob but you should scoop it out,its fast and it opens all the time... Aperently it freaks out a larger amount of Americans arround here(can you belive that Mac?)

 

Hehe, whatever. I'll just settle for my unpacked question mark #. The only BASE #s that I'll ever get card-wise are from the keeper of the logs, Mr and Mrs Harrison. True playas fo real.

That's what I really meant

 

Nothing about BASE is evil, packing included!