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What the heck does flick'n stand for?

I'm not sure now who first said it, but I heard it from Ritchie S. in about 1988. "Flick," means to jump as in, "Let's flick," or, "the security guard went back in his shack so we flicked." Another word for the same thing is, "huck."

Later, in a 1991 issue of The Fixed Object Journal, I started a running a cartoon called "Flick" and even though he won't admit it, it's where Todd S. got the idea some years later to name a BASE canopy the Flick.

http://i179.photobucket.com/...83/Nick_DG/Flick.jpg

NickD
BASE 194

I thought Todd called it FLIK..im i wrong? i remember i had a canopy with that name..but that was back in the 60`s where all people wearing black and white clothes....

Yes, I meant "FLiK" but spelled it wrong . . .

NickD
BASE 194

You'll find (or at least, I find) that there are slightly different nuances to the way these words are used (as, I suppose, with all words).

"Flick" is a sort of breezily informal word which promotes camaraderie: "Drop on by to visit us and we'll flick my local object together".

"Huck" is informal in another sense, and can connote an edgy (reckless?) devil-may-care attitude: "I decided to stop waiting for the wind to settle and just go ahead and huck it", or even "Don't bother completing all that training, just find a bridge and huck it".

"Jump" is, obviously, the more neutral, less loaded term.

Your mileage may vary.

I've always been lead to believe that, "Flick" meant to jump an object. And "Huck" or "Huck-It" meant to throw/pitch your PC.

Oh, come on, go Flick yourselves . . . And Huck you . . . !

NickD
BASE 194

Hm, reminds me of a campaign we had in Ontario:

http://www.flickoff.org/

Wikipedia

Flick

Flick may refer to:

A film (movie), so-called due to the flicker of the image
Flick (fencing), an attack implemented with the foil in the sport of fencing
A nickname for someone with the name Felicity (name)
An action used in a number of games e.g. pencil flick
Flick family, an industrial family from Germany
Flick Shagwell, a porn actress
An animation file format from Autodesk commonly known as an FLC file
Flick, a character from A Christmas Story
Herr Otto Flick, a character from the TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
Flicks, Chocolate-Flavored Candy "Wafers" originally made by Ghirardelli Chocolate Company of San Francisco beginning in 1904 and now made by the Flicks Candy Co. of Fresno, CA.
See also:

Flik, a character from the film A Bug's Life
Flic, French term for a police officer, like "cop"
"Flicking someone off", common slang for giving someone the finger
Flicker (disambiguation)


Still seems a little strange to me?

How could people use a term with regularity, and not commonly agree on the meaning?

That makes sense, BASE jumping has been around a lot longer than Wikipedia . . .

NickD
BASE 194

Agreed on the Wikipedia time line.

But I know you've been around a long time.

I made my first BASE jump 18 years ago.

Still seems odd that a term that gets thrown around like that, doesn't have a more defined meaning?

Well I suppose it's all just BASE slang like calling a canopy a tarp. And we, as a group, seem to be always trying to come up with our own BASE language. However, I've never heard "huck" used to describe throwing a pilot chute, and so far we've never come up with a better word than "pitch," as it works for both hand held and stowed. I mean you could say, "hurled," but than people would think you puked.

But I could see us saying, "I was getting low, so I puked a tarp."

NickD
BASE 194

I like the little BASE dude that you made out of the K in that cartoon...

Hmm, I can't get an image from that link. Any help?

NickD
BASE 194

Sweet!