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Thread devoted to conversations at the exit point without any drama about the jump itself. Gotta be some good stories out there. See Peter's party video linked on home page. hahaha. Can't make that kinda shit up.


Here is mine:

Me: I can't see shit.
Friend: Me either

Me: Dude, It's starting to rain.
Friend: I know.

Me; Smart people wouldn't make this jump.
Friend: Smart people wouldn't be up here in the first place.

Me: True

[Climb over, Last practice touch, poised for exit]

Friend: Don't do anything stupid under canopy.

Along the lines of.

Me: You're not helping me get off this object, quit fucking with my head
BASE386: Dont look back then, because my hair is standing on end with the static electricity.

Then on a foggy morning on an object where i hadnt even seen the landing area in the daylight.

Me: If i cant see the landing area im not going.
Mark: Pussy

Standing on a tower at about 11pm in sub freezing temps when we hear a motorbike flying down the road

Jim: You hear that? What a lunatic
Me: I just laughed at the irony.

And you still went. F' Yeah!

~Jake

My first base jump, bandit style broad daylight at a popular w.virginia bridge, circa1987, jumping old skydiving rig with capewell risor release system, belly band, unit 111 canopy, free stowed lines and 52" pilot chute.

Leroy: Watch out man, lift your leg, you stepped over your bridle..(on climbing over the railing)
Me: Fuck! What's the odds of me dying on this jump?
Leroy: 50/50
Me: 3...2...1... See yaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

It's the middle of the night, on top of a nice big "B" in a major city. My buddy is lying down looking over the edge when there is a swish of noise and a huge bird of prey lands next to his shoulder. It sits staring down at him until he turns his head, sees it, and scares the shit out of himself and the bird, which flies away.
He turns to me and says "Fuck, did you see that!"
I reply: "Yep, maybe it's an omen."
He looks down, then back at me, and asks "You still up for the jump?" and I tell him "Hell yeah, it didn't land next to me...!"
There's no "I" in TEAM...

Dave.

One more and I'll be quiet.

Same buddy, on a well known American bridge, in a state known for it's vegetables.
He's over the rail, doing his zen-mind-thing, when a dishevelled, odd looking guy with crazy eyes arrives. He looks at us all, then says to Pete;

"God doesn't want y'all doing that."

Now Pete, ("Big Pete", "Pull-your-arms-off-Pete", "Why-talk-when-I-can-just-kill-you-Pete",) wobbled a bit, thought awhile, and replied gently:

"My God does."

Class.

I was sitting on the rail ready to go 3-2,,,,and my buddy BASE 709 said woh,woh,,,, It scared the shit out of me and I said what! What! I was thinking something was wrong,,,,,then he said "Remember to walk towards the light",,,,,,,,,,I told him to F*#@ off then I jumped.
Every time after that he would always say that right before I left.

So simple and almost cliche', but I like it. Definitely a good thing to throw into the conversation right after the pin check.

 

well, at least you didnt screetch like a little girl when you made your first BASE from an Antena from 300ish feet. lol.

First, and this kinda counts b/c it's only right after exit.
A buddy of mine (Homer), like the ass that he is, is a fan of screaming BRIDAL, BRIDAL! Just to freak you out.
My favorite only works on each person one time. Right when they are about to jump, in a very loud and concerned voice and facial expression start screaming "wait wait wait, oh fuck dude" when they look back with the fear of God in their face, just tell them, damn you look good in those pants.

driving down to a super well known super terminal antenna in nor cal at 4 am. about 10 minutes from the antenna. lightning strikes the ground about 2 or three miles from the antenna.

JT: did you see that?
SLambo: yea.
JT: its ok i think the clouds are blowing away.

not the exit point but kinda funny. we jumped.

I couldn't scream on my first one,,,I was in SHOCK thought I was gonna die for sure!

But on my first one I was standing on the edge of a building,,,BASE 515 was holding my pilot chute. I counted 3,,,2,,,
BASE 515; Woh, woh,
Me; I climbed back off the edge and said What!
BASE 515; Never mind!!!
everyone else that was there started to laugh.

Great Thread!!

My only contribution, said right before
someone's exit count: See Ya In Hell

I have been known to sing Baba O'riley by The Who; and "Dont You Want Me Baby" By Human League.

It makes for a jolly nice climb.

for a minute, I thouht we were going to see a bull fight down there

yeah, that would have been awesome

Looking over the edge of a 34-story building at 4:AM scanning for cops and traffic . . .

"There's a guy in the parking lot, over there, see 'em?"

"Yeah."

"WTF's he doing?"

"Holy shit, he's trying to break into that car."

"Look, he can't bust the window, get a rock or something you dumb shit."

"Whatda we do?"

"We wait, I'm not landing in the middle of a fucking crime scene."

"Boy, there's never a cop around when you need one. We could call 911."

"And say what, this guy's crime is fucking up our crime!"

Yeah, I guess you're right."

Ya think!"

NickD

Nick, you just reminded me of a solo antenna jump where someone tried to break into MY car (unsuccessfully). It's hard to do anything about it when you're packed slider up and only 300' into your climb.

At the exit point, seconds before leaping, Joe Weber used to tell people "say hello to Jan for me".....

this was the bull...

and when his pecker popped out, my buddy yelled "I think he likes you!"

  My favorite bridge in Costa Rica- I'm over the rail and my buddy's holding the bridle ready to pca me as the cops pull up:
There was typical banter back and forth, they were pretty concerned right up till my friend says, "no, it's ok, he has a parachute." they replied with " oh, a parachute ... ok" and drove away. I love central america....

One time as one of our guys was JUST at the "point of no return"
Sparky yells out,.. "Holy fuck you forgot"
He twitched and flailed till he had a canopy

 

Dude, I really have to shit bad now! You got any toilet paper?

No, use your socks......

or BASE 432 right before we put him for his first jump off a airport control tower: "it's too low. there's no where to land." my reply: "welcome to BASE."

Trying to remember who said this to me, but it made me smile.

Me: I took an easy 4
SafetyNate?: I will never make fun out of anyone not taking it low. Unless its you.

After a discussion the night before about how I don't count seconds in free fall and just deploy by feel:

Me to ground crew: It's cloudy up here, we can't see shit. What's it look like down there?

Ground crew: The clouds come down pretty low. You better count.


Same cliff, clear skies; friend just passed point of no return in a tracking suit:

Me: FLY FATASS, FLY!

Friend later explained that he spent the whole free fall wondering if his ass looked fat.

"The only thing that stops me is my opening"

-Sick Darrell explaining the finer points of aerials while standing at the edge.

He was right.

A few years ago atop a B in a major city our ground crew stated a cop was coming around the corner.....followed by a large motorcade containing someone who is obviously important. If looking like a sniper in this situation wasn't already bad enough, a police helicopter soon appeared. "What do we do?". "Fucking hide!" We ended up jumping after everything cleared. Ground crew saved our butts that night.

talking to our ground crew from 1000' A:

Erica, this is God, We're getting ready to jump... We mean't "I." I'm getting ready to jump... God can refer to himself however he wants...

wanted to make a jump on my birthday. turned out to be a shitty, snowy, windy day. standing at the top of the cliff i asked if anyone wanted to go first....

Exitpoint: The way i see it, one person is going to jump and the other two are going to walk down. I'll go.

it was dirty but we all jumped