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Hi everyone, my name is Blake and I am starting a company that is aimed specifically towards canopy sports. I was wondering if you could give me an estimate of people ages 18-25 and ages 26 and up are actively participating in skydiving, BASE, speed flying, ground launching and if possible both international and national. if you do have info, or know who would have info it would be greatly appreciated. I am applying this information to my business plan so it does not need to be an exact number but the closer the better. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Re: [gixxer1k] statistics
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*Data sourced from the 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe'
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Re: [gixxer1k] statistics
gixxer1k wrote:
I assume you only have the stats for skydiving and nationally, but that is a starting point.

while many here do skydive, skydiving questions are better discussed at http://dropzone.com.

see http://USPA.org for US skydiving information.
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Re: [Mt7wildcard] statistics
You forgot me!

Updated: 43
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Re: [wwarped] statistics
wwarped wrote:
gixxer1k wrote:
I assume you only have the stats for skydiving and nationally, but that is a starting point.

while many here do skydive, skydiving questions are better discussed at http://dropzone.com.

see http://USPA.org for US skydiving information.



i did post it on dropzone... i used it as a generic message... i am also looking for stats on BASE and speed flying, which i thought some here might be able to help.
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Re: [gixxer1k] statistics
gixxer1k wrote:
Hi everyone, my name is Blake and I am starting a company that is aimed specifically towards canopy sports. I was wondering if you could give me an estimate of people ages 18-25 and ages 26 and up are actively participating in skydiving, BASE, speed flying, ground launching and if possible both international and national. if you do have info, or know who would have info it would be greatly appreciated. I am applying this information to my business plan so it does not need to be an exact number but the closer the better. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.


sorry guys didnt look closely enough at the wording, that was a letter i wrote to the USPA, i have edited it to make more sense in this forum.
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Re: [gixxer1k] statistics
if there is no room for error, 39 =<= 26,068 BASE jumpers worldwide. This has been a slightly conservative exact answer.

speed flying there are four of us. give or take a few thousand.

this is an impossible task, really. been tried and failed. good luck though.
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Re: [Calvin19] statistics
Calvin19 wrote:
if there is no room for error, 39 =<= 26,068 BASE jumpers worldwide. This has been a slightly conservative exact answer.

speed flying there are four of us. give or take a few thousand.

this is an impossible task, really. been tried and failed. good luck though.

the four of you pluss give or take a few thousand? lol thanks hecker, i dont think i even need to finish my bp now, i actually think this information could even help solve our world food crisis! Wink in the words of our great dick cheney "go fuck your self, go fuck your self, go fuck your self" are any of you guys going to be at the DZ this weekend, Jesse and i wanted to talk to you a bit about teamin up! we are doing a lot of cool stuff and i think you guys could have some fun workin on some of this with us!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxFc1RMbko4
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Re: [gixxer1k] statistics
BASE:460
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Re: [460] statistics
460 wrote:
BASE:460


Unimpressed ... you guys are killin me! im just going to estimate somewhere around a billion... hows that sound?Tongue
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World Wide Guesstimates
Skydivers: 50,000+
BASE jumpers: 5,000+
BASE # Holders: 1,300+

Of course there is a lot of
overlap in those 3 groups.


gixxer1k wrote:
im just going to estimate somewhere around a billion

How about a brazillian? Tongue
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Re: [GreenMachine] World Wide Guesstimates
 
How about a brazillian? Tongue
thank you ill take one of those as well! or two if you have em in stock!
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Re: brazillian
Yeah, comes from a bad Bush Jr. joke:


Aid:

Sir, there was a terrible tragedy
out at sea and 3 Brazilians died.

Jr.:

Boy, that is sad, so many is that?