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Thanks to (ULLI) (PAULA) and Lee my partner in crime and,Weed and Swiss Andy and all the others well worth the money for the course 290 feet span what a rush and it opened now just need my new friend troll 285 in the uk Itry not to piss in others people pools now ,and hello to all the AFF people and the New Zeland girl get over it life goes on.

There is a very easy way to avoid pissing in other people's pools: call the locals! You have plenty of experienced jumpers down in your corner of the country, I suggest you give them a ring or meet them for a beer.

Gus

Slightly randomly the Metro published a short trashy article in peeing in pools. Apparently the 'detector dye' is a myth..and it's the pee that makes your eyes sting, not the chlorine.

And on that note, erm, i'd best get back to work.

3=DANGEROUS DAN/4=ULLI THE BASE INSTRUCTOR/5= LEE DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST FROM JERSEY/6=CLARE AND DANGEROUS DAN- AND LEE/7=LEE AND DANGEROUS DAN IN THE ZONE.

Good Stuff guys!!!!
Thanks Daniel and Lee for being so patient and understanding with the weather. It happens sometimes wherever you go but we got it sorted in the end!

Hope to see you guys soon!!!
Portugal :-)
Paula and Ulli

Nice one Lee, I remember when the little slaphead was doing AFF in Florida, they grow up so quick these days, sniff.

  See all the gang soon, great fun,worth the money, Portugal here i come, keep me posted.

When Lee getting a user name

its so easy to unleash the fury onto the community with a few quid and a few jumps…..

so tell me, why are your non jumping friends emailing / PMing all of us UK jumpers trying to get you contacts and friends rather than you?

Also, I would to like to hear your report of your FJC, I want to know why it was so good...

seriously...

I'm a bit lazy sorry i will do in due course.

Not that lazy you take time to shout a YEEHAA to say you have jumped though!

Just testing the water.i jump in shortly

PM sent

post on the UK board.... thats the best place to make UK friends...........

 

you obviously only spent 2 weeks trying to access it then....


thats dedication.......

just curious, from all the PM's and eMails from people, I am questioning whether this spanish course is actually as "decent" as people are thinking....

I WILL put my neck out here and say that from all the PM's and eMails I have had, this course is not as tight and worthwhile as people are thinking....

I WILL stick my neck out and say that the people that attended this course are NOT worthwhile jumping in their own country after the course - so why do you think the FJC is worthwhile.....

you guys may be experienced, but you have just released some inexperienced people on our country without a blink of an eye.... that to me is disrespectful... pas I would love to hear your thoughts about releasing someone like this back on our own soil....



I sit back and await the flack.... I do admit I am a cunt sometimes

deleted by request of original poster ~TA

Feel I should add a little to the whining in here. Locals will know but for the others I have made contact with a few of you.

I volunteered myself to help RedDevil1 out, looking in the line of groundcrew. Now I have no BASE experience and very little skydiving experience but I dont pretend that I do.

To me this seemed good. Help a fellow jumper out and in turn learn something in the long slog to maybe being my turn some time in the far off future. I give a bit of labour, im rewarded with a bit of knowledge. I thought this was standard practice and a good way to work your way up amongst the community.

I made contact with a few locals as much for myself as for him and it appears it doesnt work like that. Once a bad impression has been painted, its hard to change.

Im kinda sad that it appears so difficult to get into this 'elite' group and the amount of fuss thats been caused has kinda put me off wanting to to be honest. Maybe things will be different in a year or two. Who knows.

Anyway... stay safe, might see you in the future

Dont bite my head off if Im wrong, just playing devils advocate for a moment :)
Im not a base jumper so this is just an outsiders observation as it were, but this is a serious question.
The quote ive picked out here, isnt this what effectively all FJC's do?

If an English skydiver with no base experience did a well respected FJC in Twin falls for instance.
When this skydiver travels back to the UK, if he then began to behave 'badly' wouldnt he be in exactly the same situation that the guy this post is about is in?

If the guy who does the twin falls FJC was a real solid guy at the time of the course then turns out to be a real arse at a later date, would the twin falls FJC instructors also be disrespectful?
Seems that with your point of view, it would mean that if this guy turns out not to be an asset to the community, Uli will get the blame for the behavour of someone he once trained who is now completely outside his control.

This isnt a snide dig at the original poster or anyone else. Its a genuine question.

Before I launch into one, and in an effort to redress the impression, do you now have an understanding of why it doesn't work like that, that you would like to share?

Thanks scoop, that should clear a few things up,(ps )he was doing me a favour (pm)i only want good ones not personal attacks base 813

it will always be that way..people historically do not contact 'the community'..its probably down to the insular nature of the sport especially in the uk...we have no program in place for pre schooling newbies and for looking after them once trained...

maybe a stickie with the UK base board url for the newbies and a polite request for all the trainers to let someone in the UK know whos doing what...then again confidentiality may be an issue..

who knows

Well some one should do a newbie school, it would help a lot,,,and a FJC in the UK ,that would be the iceing on the cake.,,,/Certain people have a CHIP on there shoulder about weather i should be in base ,but i here now, and i going to stay ,so help a young man not stab him in the back.

any phone number from Mac "BASE813"???
and my phone number is +34656753421, if you have any questions!!
thanks
paula

Think my bad wording has caused that sentance to be the wrong way round. PM sent to clarify.

Why 'should' someone do a newbie school? Make your BASE connections, find a mentor before you start. When I got back from my FJC it was Craig that hooked me up in the UK. Through him I started jumping with Dan and Neil (he is on a long holiday with Ray's mates), then Ian, Gus, Sean and before I knew it my phone's address book was full of BASE contacts.

But the fact is if you haven't been in skydiving long enough or haven't made the effort to get to know at least one local BASE jumper in person then you are going to face an uphill struggle. Doing a skydive with a newbie you've only just met is not a big deal, taking a newbie BASE jumping who you have never met before in person is a big deal.

This is not an elite group, but dues have been paid (some more than others). If perceived elitism is all it takes to put some people off BASE jumping then good - I'd rather their ego takes a knock than their body.

Will

yeah sorry that was a tad harsh of me... have asked post ~18 to be deleted....

Thanks for the chat... cleared a lot up and was nice to apologise in person for the public posting rather than private....

you sound a top bloke!

And then you soon will have new "BASE" jumpers all over UK hurting themself and burning objects..

Nope what you really need is that FJC all over the world makes sure that a new BASEjumper wont go home to a new world of BASE on their own,but has an experienced jumper behind to help them along..
That means 3 things
#1 People doing FJC should denie people whithout canopy skills and whith out an experienced jumper back home saying ok.

#2 Newbies needs to work abit harder to get acsepted as a newbie but also to know thouse people who later should help them further on

#3 Experienced jumpers needs to open more up,thats the only way to regulate "the attitude" we want to jump off objects in our backyard.Meaning not pushing people away as they ask Q´s etc

Just the way i think of it.. but often im not right..

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Dude, you need to start thinking more and apply a bit of common sense. Read this article by Ken Miller. Think about what you are selling and how, think of who could be buying that rig and why.

Will

Wording changed on eay now

#3 well said

The UK base scene can potentially be such an unpleasant place, you can really understand why people like to do their own thing and therefore can hardly be surprised when people simply wish to avoid getting involved with it.

How this benefits us as a community (sic), I really do not known?

Pete Mac

I have found the UK BASE scene to be almost exclusively friendly and helpful. I've called people I've never met and they've given me directions to objects, I've had phone calls from people I've never met inviting me to objects, I've emailed people I've never met and they've sent me entire dossiers of objects!

Gus

OK let just clarify it, I was referring to the UK Base Forum itself.

Some regular posters hardly set an encouraging tone for newbie’s to want to contact “a local”. Although it's clearly very desirable to avoid future problems etc...

As for "days out" I usually find it lots of fun as you know!

BTW
Baby girl (Nell) 7 lb, all well and she seems very chilled out for a new born!

congrats

ian

Cheer mate

Awesome experience delivery her myself, midwife was right on my 6 though

Sorry - this is off-topic