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...a bunch of idiots who risk their lives for no reason other than wanting to have a jolly good time?

Look at the BASE nuggets; some of the best ones are meant to be self-deprecating stare-death-in-the-face ridiculing idiotery; just like most BASE jumpers were when I started three years ago.

How times have changed...

Abbie, Collin and Russel; you better not break the pact. If I go in, make sure I'm really dead, take my wallet, and run to the nearest computer to crack a joke about it on BJ.com! Then at the funeral you'll take a big shit on my grave! After that, I want you to take the video of my accident, add a ton of funny sound effects and a laughing track, and then try to sell it to the highest bidder (bonus points if it's Fox News) and spend the money on hookers and blow!

If you can't stand the heat, get away from the fire. And wear a fucking helmet!

yeah, my tombstone is gonna say "this is only a temporary setback"

and when i'm dieing, i'll utter to the person near me "the treasure is buried in ... uggg...."

Dennis McGlynn said in the late 80s, when you guys were probably in grammar school . . .

"Risking it all – for nothing!"

Just catching on, are you?

NickD
BASE 194

Dude, a jolly good time is a fucking great reason to risk your life, probably the only reason!

, that was the first thing said to me by a grinning sub-hundred BASE number, when he extended his arm to help me out the water onto Don's boat, after having hit line-stretch only five feet above the deck and having been certain I was gonna die.

I don't think I've witnessed was a more perfect combination of words and timing...

I, for one, was happy somebody was making fun of me.

That's precisely my point!

Let's stop being so serious and go back to being idiots! Anybody who's retarded enough to leap of shit with a piece of nylon, should be man enough to suck up some biting comedy.

As I said to a friend earlier; until the ambulance arrives, I'd like you to do everything you can to help and comfort me. But once medical personal arrives and all you can do is stand back and watch; you better have some solid one-liners ready. Preferably at my expense...

HAHA that's awesome, couldn't agree more!!

Someone told me the first step in good first aid:

"Find wallet, relieve pressure."

Is that what you meant by your expense?

Tragically, this doesn't work so well if your friend is stuck on a cliff or bridge. Forget off-heading openings--we need a solution to this important problem in BASE jumping!

Michael

I probably wasn't even born yet.

Though I do own one of the rigs he made. I wouldn't trade it for anything - it's perfect.

That's petty much the reason I nicknamed this site "BadJudgement.com".

I've got one of his cool 42" PC's that would probably work great with that.

hmmm...
I thought it was when that Canadian tried to explain everything about BASE and created a Wiki!

he was simply too serious.

I saw your smileys, and I get what your saying. But humor and knowledge go hand in hand. In fact, the better educated, better prepared, and better protected jumper puts himself in a better position to be laughed at and to be laughed with.

What's been pissing me off the last few days is comments like this one:


You know why? Because we don't "all know" this. Why does another person have to die to see this message pop up again? We've seen plenty of fatalities lately that could have benefited from a little armor.

We haven't had a single new creative way of dieing in this sport for a long time. That BASE fatality list went from being educational to being memorial. Meanwhile, I get shit on when I ask visiting jumpers if they plan to jump my local objects with vented canopies and protection.

You know what though? I'd rather get criticized before we jump, than having to regretfully write post-fatality advice that I know will get ignored by most of us.

I plan to keep laughing at our collective retardedness, including my own, till the day I die. And I'm proud to have friends who will laugh at me, even when I'm gone...

it seems a sad commentary on the sport, making it easy to be annoyed at those repeating the mistakes of the past. ('course BOTH of us have made unoriginal mistakes as well...)

we can decry the ease of entry into the sport. videos readily distributed across the internet act like a marketing engine. novices attempt activities with little concern for the apparent danger.

I remember the same complaints when free-flying appeared on dzs.

I also remember reading about studies showing humans accept greater risk after mitigating existing risk.

maybe all this is a commentary on the maturity of the sport. an inevitable event. we all choose a perceived risk that balances the perceived reward. some jumpers just fail to perceive a significant enough risk to deter them from enjoying their freedom FROM protective gear.

we have made the sport too safe for some! they no longer seek to be as safe as possible.

yep, BASE has joined excessive drinking, unprotected sex, and illegal drugs as a recreational activity that can kill. while some know they could protect themselves better, they prefer the unfettered freedom and rush.

to quote another jumper, "hopeless."

I see your point, but it wasn't the original intention of this thread. I no longer care when people repeat the mistakes of the past. I just wish people made those mistakes in style; staring death straight in the face, screaming: "Come Get Me Bitch!"

You know, taking ownership of our failures and all...

Thank god SOMEBODY said this. Couldn't agree more.

When I go in, somebody damn well better be laughing and cracking jokes about my stupidity, recounting the shit we pulled, and putting the moves on my sister.

Be sure to throw a massive going away party in my honor - loud music, open doors, free drinks. Go ahead and charge it to my VISA.

We all know* the risks. No sense lamenting when things turn out bad.

* in theory

hehehehe yes!

"Leap Of Shit"
"Leap Off Shit"

Either way - it still is funny.

Those two guys would die from splitting a gram and a rub and tug...I can think of some other people to really have a good party on your expense...Russel, Magot and that dude Hydroguy might be more appropriate.

How times have changed...

Under BASE articles on the main page I would recommend reading "Snowboard Base Cliff Strike"
this guy gave a great account of his ordeal and sheds some light on how it feels to be the jumper involved in a rescue.

I assume you're aware that guy was me?

 you wrote?

"BASE didn't seem very funny anymore and I certainly didn't feel very heroic anymore"

and thanked people "Everybody was extremely helpful and supportive and nobody once uttered a negative or lecturing word on me"

??? Wow !

There's being a caviler, sometimes idiotic seeming jumper at the exit point because you've done your homework and prepared for the situation as best possible and then there is being a caviler, sometimes idiotic seeming jumper at the exit point because you think you're "cool" and want everyone else to see.