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anybody know any links to sites that have funny BASE shirts?

why not make them self?

did you check the Classifieds?

a couple folks offer shirts for sale there.

WOULD BE FUNNY IF THERE WAS A BIG JOHNSON BASE JUMPING SHIRT

I got this one printed up. Doesn't cost much to do it online.

that should be a skydiving shirt. I saw one a few years ago, actually a decade ago, that said "farfrumpulin" and had a stick figure holding a pc in freefall with a straight line under him (ground). Any one know where that is available.

Those 'Farfrompullin'" shirts were sold by Mick from Blinc.

Still wear mine from time to time.

BASE359

thanks i'll go over and ask him.

They were printed by Steve Scott, a British Columbia jumper. Haven't talked to him in a couple years, but I got mine from him directly.

Wearing a BASE T-shirt, and maintaining the ethics of BASE just don't seem to go hand in hand, but each to their own.

My wife got me this one.
Take care,
space


http://us.st12.yimg.com/...sh-store_2012_506216

Why not?
On a recent trip to ITW most jumpers had both. BASE T-shirts and Morals.
Mucho BASE!
take care,
space

I like your russian boogie t-shirt!
Do you have a picture of that one?

Michi

do you have a link ("clicky" please)...to a BASE ethic site?....i must have missed something here....

it's a bit off-topic, so if people continue with this discussion, it probably will be split off.


you are on such a site!

I would have thought you'd have looked around a bit by now...
Clicky

the list may not be comprehensive. you might find your mentor or local crew interpret things differently. do you have anything you'd like to add?

My apologies, I was being a bit too "US" oriented in my opinion.

I do have the opinion that if you feel the need to "brag" about BASE, then you're not the type of person I want to jump with, or share objects with for that matter, but then I'm just one guy with an opinion, for whatever that's worth.

"Ethics" are an ever progressing thing. And BASE T-shirts are as old as the sport itself. I remember the first French guy to jump El Cap liked to parade around the Perris DZ with a shirt that said, "El Cap Para-Frog #1" and we all thought that was stupid.

BASE T-shirts are fun and they make some spare cash for BASE jumpers. But in modern times you'd never wear one while snooping around downtown, "BASE jumping? What's that, officer?"

Look into any longtime BASE jumper's closet and there's three kinds of shirts. One dress shirt that does double duty for court and funerals. And an equal number of BASE T-shirts and the plain-jane sneaky types.

But go to Bridge Day, or the Gorge Games, or the Potato and they're all over the place. And these days that's fine.

And while I think Space is just busting your balls, because I know he knows exactly what you meant, there are many newer very experienced BASE jumpers who never lived in a time when BASE secrecy was job one. So they don't understand it.

They don't know a time when British BASE jumping photos always had a black bar over the jumper's eyes like old porno movies, because being known to BASE jump meant you were immediately thrown out of the British Parachute Association.

They don't know a time when there were snitches at certain DZs and if you went around bragging about your upcoming BASE trip to El Cap, or the local tower, or building - anonymous phone calls were placed.

And they don't know a time when DZO's and some skydivers in general were so anti-BASE jumping you could lose your Instructor job or be snubbed and tagged an idiot by other skydivers.

And old habits die hard. Being underground about your BASE jumping is still very much alive today.

Sometimes, it's family, spouse, or job/career related, and sometimes some jumpers just roll that way. And being underground doesn't only mean you never post to this website. I know a few two man crews who've been jumping together since the 80s, and except for a very few people no one knows about them and what they do.

So nowadays we have two extremes. There are those who take dumps, tag objects, and post vids to Youtube. And that's fine until some shit head cuts the fence and burns your favorite object. And there's the other folks who just quietly go about their business. They'll never get offered the big movie or TV gigs or collect on the corporate sponsorship monies, but that's okay with them.

In a big way which route you take is purely academic. No minor site will stay hot forever, and there are plenty of other ways to seek fame and fortune rather than from BASE jumping. And our biggest saving grace has always been no matter how outlandish we BASE jumpers become, short of shooting us on sight, no one can really stop us . . . ever!

NickD

I wasn’t trying to bust your balls like Nick said. But I did want people to know that there are other things that determine the ethics of a jumper.

Back in the day (early ‘90s), of living and working at the DZ, most of my T-shirts were from different DZs and boogies. But I had that sacred set of non sport related clothes. We all did.
It was not cool to wear anything jump related or even worse, skydiving stickers on ones car when doing illegal BASE missions. That was definitely a no brainer.
It would go like this:
“Hey space, if you wanna scope out the new building under construction tonight be ready to roll at 2200 at my place.”
So I show up at his DZ trailer. Dark grey pants (trousers for you Brits), light grey sweatshirt, non descript T-shirt underneath. He is wearing pretty much the same greys. but but the dark and light greys are inverted. We do look like a team of sorts.
So we head downtown and park and take a walk to the construction site a few blocks over. We start walking (without rigs) around the block looking for the usual, powerlines and parkinglots and get about half way when Johnny Law pulls up and steps out. …
Johnny is screaming at us. Something about being near a construction site wearing grey at 11 o clock at night. My friend takes a step up to ask what law are we breaking and the cop freaks out. Unholstering and yells “Get away from my car! Back off NOW!"
I never did get to jump that building…

Take care,
space

>>I wasn’t trying to bust your balls like Nick said.<<

But you did it anyway by just throwing out there he was wrong without explaining it. What are we, mind-readers?

I remember a poor hapless skydiver on vacation with his wife and kids. He had a skydiving bumper sticker on his car and since he was stopping at California DZs he had a skydiving rig on board too. He tried to drive through the gate at Yosemite (the kids always wanted to visit the park) and the next thing is their all assuming the position. They almost confiscated his rig before it all got straightened out. But not before the wife and kids were totally freaked out . . .

NickD

 sorry, nothing to add..

The first base comic tee I saw was "Frank was pushed" with a chalky white hand print on the back. Still my favorite too.

jon

I still have mine as well. Love that shirt

Geez Nick,
He was the one that threw something up without explaining it. Not me. I did ask what did he mean. I did explain what I saw. And You my friend did not critique me on my writing style of the subsequent story. I can't read your mind .
Take care and good ones,
space

No worries....

Here ya go,
Take care,
space

nice!