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At the Perrine last week, I asked three first time BASE jumpers what B.A.S.E. stood for. None of them got it right.

One jumper said "Bridges, Antennas, Structures, Earth". He had only 50 skydives in less than three months and a large bridle-unfriendly GoPro sticking out of his forehead. Mick and I told him about the Malaysian GoPro/bridle entanglement last year, but that didn't matter. He was ready to jump (stowed of course), although he knew absolutely nothing about the LZ.

Am I expecting too much when asking first timers to know the acronym?

yeah, I know what it stands for!!

base428 was nice enough to put it on shirts for all you assholes in 2005..
B est
A drenaline
S port
E ver

Get it right or get the hell out of the sport! jeez!

Thats odd. If you google "base jumping" the first result is wikipedia and it spells it out right there. One would almost have to go out of their way to be that misinformed.

Honestly his acronym makes more sense... who calls a bridge a "span" anyway??

True. But who calls a building a structure anyway??

Maybe we should call it B.A.B.E jumping

I never understand why they changed the skydiving acronyms from FS to RW, or was it the other way around

When I started it was my goal to become a base jumper, but now today, they want to be a wingsuit flyer. Times changes cant blaim them. Very few do slider down jumps in Norway anymore except Oslo BASE. Im proud of my number and the history, and very happy to finely meet Jean during her visit in Norway due to the Gravity movie by Marah. I trust that will be a very important contribution to our history.

http://www.gravitythefilm.com/

Some few pics taken during the start of the movie here in Norway

http://www.facebook.com/...904855598&type=1

FS is what? Flying Squirrel? So FS is a wingsuit flyer. Or is that WS? No 434 you got me confused....

No disrespect to Carl but for me it is more important that basejumping is accepted and known by whuffo's, then that people know what base stands for as an acronym.

For me he is impertant since he and the others inspired me to find my desire and my dreams. I do care, but it is not important for me to preach about the old days. Jean also said when asked about the numbers, since most of the new generation do not bother to accomplish the get their numbers. She smiled and said "It is just a number". However it is many other things that is important to preserve from that time and learn from.

We should maybe be glad not all jumpers is chasing their numbers, thinking of how many who do one or two kinds of objects these days.

5 days and 20 jumps later he will probably buy his ticket to Lauterbrunnen

So sad but so true...........

You're not forgetting us folks up here in Karskland, are you?

With the weather we've had this summer, slider down counts for more than 80% of my jumps this year...

a sweede and a canadian

Sorry, when you mention it, there is som slider down going on in Stavanger to.

The A in BASE has always been a little unclear to most jumpers. The original word was "aerial" but later migrated to "antenna." An aerial covers antennas as well as other structures, like smoke stacks.

On the other hand, BASE jumping is one of the few subjects you really shouldn't be learning about from wikipedia.

From what ive seen the few parst years it wont matter if people knows what BASE stands for,all our standards,etics,unwritten rules,respect and morale has been sold way to easy mainly by manufactors but also jumpers throughing people off objects whith no experience no pror Ground crewing and no moral to what theese people are going to jump in their back yards,Im diskusted watching the fatalitylist today,when i started back in 02 not even 1/3 on the list had died in 20 years now 10 years later 2/3 of the list has died..

I do respect that people want to make mony get famus etc etc but honestly only a small amount of jumpers got somthing good from this progression..

I will state that i do know i take all by 1 standard here i also know that NOT all manufactors or jumpers do the above,but we all know it happens,what happened? we stopped beeing selfregulating,and cuz of that people dies massivly..

B.ones
A.nd
S.hit
E.verywhere