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http://vimeo.com/16479661

http://vimeo.com/16479661

...hey...thats my girlfriend!

do you have to paint her black to have sex with her?

Actually I think you have me confused with someone else, I powder her up to look like 15th century royalty. Black is such an intimidating, scary color.

Here is the whole show :)

http://vimeo.com/16683616

Yes she is Hot, Yes she is Talented and Yes if she keeps going at this rate of progression she will bounce which will be a pity.

Good job Roberta and Jeb. Here's another recent E:60 clip if you're interested.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5757297

is this publicity good or bad for the sport? i don't particularly care one way or another, just curious as to other opinions - no right or wrong, imo.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7759731

Not related to bridge day, but a hilarious video of jeb.

I thought I'd just post in the thread created by "jeb" instead of making a new topic.

Enjoy.

Another good video of Roberta showing off her jumping skills along with other assets.

http://www.metacafe.com/...exy_roberta_mancino/

I don´t like the boxman exits in general, but Roberta´s track rocks big time. With her low BASE experience, her tracking skills are phenomenal. I can see this just from the vid. I just wish Jeb didn´t bring her over to the darkside of wingsuits
Take care,
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Well, it'll give her the fame that she obviously desperately craves.

That video is only 6 minutes long...wheres the whole vid?

....seriously...don't talk about my girlfriend that way...you may make me upset, moody, or possibly suicidal...which is incredibly unlike me.

Fuckin SICK! I just wanna know how you can afford all this shit!!
JEEBUS heli loads and shark dips. . .
I'll just stick to road trips, base huckin, and breakdancin

I like the name the reporter gave to WS: "Expensive Funeral Suit".

Oddly enough, it abbreviates to EFS.

What, you mean you'll start wearing black and getting arrested?

Ahaha yeah. He was pretty biased on the whole ordeal too. And he made fun of jeb left and right...

Unless it was a particularly messy terminal bounce....I'd probably still hit it.

Fair one ha ha ha

If you are skilled WS pilot, it's safer way to jump the cliffs. When you add proximity flying into the mix, then it's different story.

Remember to send me the POV video from her GoPro.

She is a great tracker..as long as she tracked successfully the Ultimate..
And that spot is one of the most difficult to track...

Nothing related to Roberta or her tracking abilities but have you ever personally tracked the Ultimate? Or even jumped it with any equipment. (I assume we speak about the exit called "Ultimate" in the well known Swiss Valley). If yes, what do you mean by saying that "that spot is one of the most difficult to track"? You mean difficult as in one of the most difficult in the valley, one the most difficult in the world or in what sense?

And if you've never jumped it, why even bothering with such comment?

I thought that, Ultimate is a pretty easy, Via Ferrata is the only really challenging track in the swiss valley

Uh-oh, the forum jumpers are out in force on this post! You've got the cookie cutter, "Wah, wah, I hate Jeb." posts but this one is a classic. But yeah, stay away from that Ultimate, it is untrackable!!

6,000+ parachute jumps will do that for you.

She has about 100 HOURS of freefall time, and if just 10 percent of each jump is tracking time, she has TEN HOURS of tracking time.

Add to that the SEVERAL HOURS of sub-terminal freestyle time (also on the vid) and you have someone whose skillset and experience in all but the first 3.5 seconds of the BASE flight envelope exceeds pretty much every BASE god out there who doesn't also jump a lot from airplanes.

Roberta is Exhibit A for the affirmative that total jump numbers do matter, no matter how many times people with 300 base jumps and 50 skydives try to say otherwise.

I have never jumped from the Ultimate but i heard about it that the problem there is the difficult exit. I have seen videos about the Ultimate and the exit does not look very comfortable.

Watching the vid.

If you close your eyes, it sounds like Peter Griffin laughing.... but more annoying.

+1. Another example, the base freefly jumps from the norgies and babylon.

The only snagg could be that 'over the edge media people' (did I say that?) might someday go over an edge they thought they would not cross. Quite a few examples on the BFL too.

...uncalled for...our lawyers will be in touch with you about your inappropriate comments about my girlfriend...and trust me, if we can take down dorkzonehero, we can take you down as well...

and yes...the ultimate is the hardest exit point in the world to track, we opened it this summer...we wanted to call it the Impossible...but since we did it, it wouldn't have been fitting...more like "close to impossible"...too long though, so we just had the Finns give it some silly name...they can't track it anyway

I would say "never say never" but I would have to say "never."

Skillset and judgment are two separate... tracks (did I say that?).

So far, Roberta seems to demonstrate a lot of both when it comes to parachuting. Part of this has to do with her being a girl; I wrote a fatality study years ago that tracked female and male fatalities by experience. The primary conclusions from the data:

Lack of confidence kills twice as many women as men early in the women's careers.

Overconfidence kills five times as many men than women later in the men's careers.

Bottom line: If women can survive the sport long enough to develop the confidence and physical strength necessary, their judgment is much better correlated to their actual abilities (and actual conditions) than is that of male jumpers.

Obviously, there are exceptions to any rule or statistical trend, but most of us also know from personal experience that, most times, most girls know better when to back off than the guys do.

I remember this study. I thought it was very interesting and a well drawn conclusion.

Well lets face it, hes a pretty easy target.


And Jeb, you should really learn how to make stuff clicky if you want us to watch all your videos.

excellent!