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I am looking for some BASE Jumpers in Western Washington or Jumpers who jump in Twin Falls, ID to meet up with. I don't NEED you to teach me anything but I would appreciate whatever help you could give me. On the other hand I will help you'll out with whatever groundcrew work you need.

My experience:

Rapelling
Rock Climbing
First Aid
Confined Space Rescue
Skydiving

Thanks!

I recommend considerably more experience and study of skydiving for you at this time.

directly from your facebook

why would you want to risk losing that?

its not worth it.

In reply / explination:

I have no need to end my life in suicide... I got into skydiving because I saw what it was all about... decided I wanted to take the plunge - then hit the AFF course. The question about enough jumps has been ALL over this forum and there is no clear and concise answers. I KNOW that I am NOT ready to actually BASE Jump yet. In a self assessment my freefall stability while doing disorienting manuevers is crap and my canopy control is WILD and inaccurate. There is NO way that I am ready to BASE Jump until I fix that and KNOW that I am good.

I have friends and other brother Skydivers who no doubt are on this forum. There are two skydivers on my DZ who are on the Red Bull Airforce that I know of off the top of my head. I NEVER brought it up because when at the DZ I am focused on Skydiving and I don't want someone to think I am going to do something rash or stupid. I am completely focused on Skydiving and I LOVE IT... I am working on my control and am looking to do a buttload (technical term) of hop and pops that are cheaper so I can get my jumps up faster with the funds I have available plus I can work on exit and freefall stability quickly which will not only "help" me out on BASE but also keep my ass more likely to be ALIVE in the future when the crap may hit the fan if I have the skills to adjust off of a bad BASE jump.

I will BASE one day when I am ready (which isin't today) but I KNOW that I want to and it's for me so I will regardless but other than showing up to Twin Falls and running some anonymous dudes down and asking them to get on thier ground crew I am asking for a Mentor before I even jump to introduce me to the sport. When the time is right I will step forward but not for a while.

My lady is against it... everyone I know tells me that the whole idea is f-ing crazy. I am not going to do it for anyone else but me. Every day I live I am ready to die because the truth of it anyone here on this forum can die of an anyerism while taking a dump on the toilet... life is full of dangers and risks... live it or lose it (but know what you are doing when you do it).

I know what it felt like on my first Skydive... I got loaded up with like five energy drinks and it was so intense that my first freefall was 10 times the time I lost my virginity... yeah... anyways - I haven't felt that rush like that ever again.

When the weather is rainy in Tacoma... when the funds are tight... I want to hang out with BASE and watch them do what I dream of... to hell with you tube.

I don't want to BASE jump- I want to see what it is about and I will help out with what I can to whatever brothers and sisters that will show me what it is.

If anyone gets bored and will talk to me then let me know. If you don't mind me hanging out with you - it would be an honor. If you want me to go f myself then that's cool too.

Blue Skies,

Danny

BASE jumping doesn't change your risk of dying from an aneurism. It just adds another risk. Anybody who dismisses the risk in BASE because "life is risky" or something similar is, IMHO, deluding themselves. You, for example, are responding with rhetoric in answer to a very legitimate downside of the sport. You should understand that from a risk perspective, BASE jumping is to skydiving what skydiving is to knitting. That doesn't make it more hardcore, or more worth it -- it just makes your kids more likely to grow up without a dad.

Don't get me wrong. BASE offers up some pretty incredible experiences. If it calls to you, it'll call to you even when you've got a good idea of the risks. Just don't let some mish-mash of slogans that belongs in an energy drink ad be part of that decision.