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how many jumps should i have before i start base jumping? and where should i do my first base jump at? any advice would be greatly apprecated :) this part i just added to the post i am a active skydiver that just passed my aff i go skydiveing every single weekend because my dz is only open on the weekend. i have found a first jump corse that i will most likely be takeing, if you have any advice or openions it will be highly apercated. for example mabey giveing me some advice some some canopey skills i should practice ect. i fly a f-111 canopey it is a 250 spec.

0-300 your choice go to a bridge

i would go to a bridge but i dont have any frinends that base jump and have no one to pca me

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My advice would be to research your question rather than ask on a forum. Did ya notice how no one gave you sensible answers and do you know why?
Feel free to pm me.
Get real. What if some one from the forum said 250 jumps and DEVIL's Canyon Bridge in the Valley of Hell? If you are asking these questions....
take care and you know what the code FJC means?
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i have recherched it before i asked but i wanted to ask on a form that i know real base jumpers go to so i can get some real mature advice i wouldnt have even asked if i thought that no one was gonna give me a good answer and i am smart enough to know when some one is being sarcastic.

If all of your skydives are in practice for BASE jumping and you don't freefly/swoop zero-p canopies. Then 150. If not 1000 :)

thanks for the advice man. if anyone eltse has a diff oppenion or advice it would be greatly aprecated im here to learn :)

Skydive till you find a mentor if you get to 200 jumps and don't find one move to twin falls take an fjc jump the bridge till you find one.

BASE 698 is not exactly on the explanation. I am not being Sarcastic in any way. 1000 jumps skydives practicing skydiving will help you a little bit. 100 jumps learning BASE tactics will propel you way higher skillwise, thiinkingwise etc. 100 jumps after you get your license.
Answer my previous question. What does FJC mean? I dont mean to be a jerk, but maybe I am. But my question are waaayy valid if you want help.
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well im pretty shure it means first jump corse why did you want to know what it means?

well if i need 1k jumps then i need 1k jumps im in no rush to start base jumping i just wanna take my time and try to do it as safely as possible. how ever if there is more people telling me that 200 or 300 jumps are good then i might reconsider lol :)thanks for the advice.

Warning: I'm pretty damn new so take this for what its worth...

Are you a skydiver yet? I'm guessing, no. But a lot of people dreamed of BASE before they made their first skydive (me included)

Its too early to really understand the answer to the "how many skydives" question imo. wait till you're skydiving and shit goes wrong. And when you get that oh shit feeling even though you have a minute to figure out how to best solve it. In BASE you often have less than a second with no time to think. Once you experience this oh shit feeling in freefall or under canopy then a few hundred skydives sure seems reasonable. Some people take a shorter route but almost no one would recommend this unless you had a very easy object to "practice" on regularly. And even then, most people still wouldn't recommend that track.

Its impossible to grasp really how dangerous this sport is just from reading and watching youtube videos. You really don't get it until you get that oh shit feeling. I've only had it once so far in BASE and was able to walk away with only cuts and bruises so I got lucky. But it at least gave me a perspective that I wasn't able to get from reading books, the internet, or even from listening to experienced jumpers.

Where are you from?

fill out your profile a little if you want people to take you seriously.

I did about 1000 jumps before my first 2 basejumps and didn't feel ready. i did another 1000 and felt really comfortable when i started baseing. i think the 2000+ jumps for me gave some skill and experience that have helped me out in the base years to date. i'm sure there's been a couple of times that i have got away uninjured due to my increased airtime vs only having a few hundred jumps. everyone is different.....

You'll know when you're ready. 200 is a nice round number people like to throw around but the reality is that you have to decide for yourself.

I felt ready after around 300 skydives but didn't start until I had over 500.

If you can't objectively assess when you're ready to start BASE jumping then you're going to have a hard time doing any jumping. Because making the decision on when to start is probably the easiest choice to make in BASE jumping.

Get into skydiving and eventually one day you'll know when you're ready.

 

i am into skydiveing thats why the post asked how many skydives should i have before i start. the reason i asked is because i am a skydiver and i dont wanna start to early you said i will know when im ready? what do you mean by that do you mean when i have my fist cutaway or do you mean that subconsely my mind will tell me IM READY FOR BASE :) or does god beam down light onto me that tells me im ready for base. but on a serious note what made you know that you were ready?

What you are asking is same as a person who just got their drivers license to start frquenting NASCAR forums asking how to get into racing.

get this : http://base-book.com/
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Beam of light told me I was ready. Nice knowing that I have GOD on my side :)

Theres so much you need to learn and experience. The littlest bit of research would find you a dozen things to focus on with your skydiving that might help someone who eventually ends up BASE jumping MAYBE not get smashed into 1000 pieces.

"I am a skydiver and I dont want to start too early"

And by starting you mean what exactly? Are you going to "start" BASE jumping by jumping off a building downtown and deploying your skydiving reserve?

More reading less questions. Come back in a year when you have 200 skydives and then you can determine whether you are ready to fast track into BASE. At least then you will have the most marginal level of perspective, as opposed to now where you have no contextual understanding of parachuting.

How about "What skills do I need to develop and be proficient at in prep for starting to base jump?"

Here's a starter for canopy skills: http://www.crmojo.com/adobepdf/fjccanopy.pdf

Canopy skills are one component of what you are considering embarking on.

Climbmaster 5K- If someone asked you how many climbs would they need to do to start free soloing, what would the answer be?

Wish you well on your journey.

actuly someone that i meet on this form is sending me that book:) i cant wait to get it.

i would recomend not free soloing at all lol. well unless you relly wanna die:)

also i have got some info on some canopey drills that i need to practice tomorrow when i go skydiveing.

well what i mean by starting is base jumping off of a bridge in idaho with base sepicific gear also you said stop asking questions well someone told me that i should try and talk to every base jumper i can and ask questions i have been studing trust me i didnt just find this form and think that just asking a question would allow me to begin base jumping im just trying to get all of the information that i can i dont relly think that the raceing analigey relly applies to base because it is 110% diffrent i dont think that people drive race cars off of buildings with a parachute on :) considering that i would probbly get pumbled by security if i tryed to run up to dale jr asking how to get into raceing lol.

what they are saying is your questions have been answered time and time again so you can just read and research instead of signing up and posting the same questions everyone else does

yea i got all of the info i need for this topic thanks for the help.

Do CRW and accuracy for a while. You will gain necessary skills quickly doing those activities.

Enough jumps that you don't have to ask how many jumps.

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Yeah, but for some people that's like 20 jumps.

"But dude, I stood up the last 5 in a row, I'm so ready..."

I didn't stand up my last 5 jumps. Bad landing area.

I was thinking the same thing. Really? 5 in a row?!? That's better than me you better go for it dude!

I would suggest contacting a professional. I've found much success with Rapid Descent - www.rapiddescentskydiving.com.

I don't think there's a magic number really. Some will have thousands of jumps and still basejumping will scare the shit out of them. Others don't feel at home skydiving and will only have say ten skydives before moving on. I think the analogy to climbing and free solo climbing was excellent!

I think what matters most is the preparation you do for the actual basejump. Get a good track, jump helicopters and balloons, fly enormous student canopies and preferably your base canopy if you can, try ground launching your base canopy if you can't fly it from an aircraft.

Don't expect anyone to think you're cool for playing with your life. And don't expect anything else you've enjoyed before to ever be fun again. Base jumping makes a new level of stimulation which can't really be achieved in any other way and it's highly addictive.

Dear Climbmaster:

I suspect that you are surprised at the responses you have gotten, and at the overall brusque attitude of the responders. I've spent a bit of time watching these fora, and I think I can shed a bit of light on your situation. Please understand, I wish you well, as does everyone else who responded. Although it may not seem so to you, we really are trying to help.

The fact that you, like so many others, have asked your question at all, means that you, like so many others, have no conception of the world of BASE jumping about which you are so excited. There are a couple of additional problems with your question.

The first is that you are asking SOMEBODY ELSE to set standards for you, to make an evaluation on which your life will depend. Nobody else wants that responsibility, at least not for someone they don't know, and know well. You will have to learn to take responsibility for your own actions, and the fact that you want someone else to decide for you is prima facie evidence that you are not mentally ready for BASE, the first requirement for which is acceptance that your life is YOUR responsibility, and nobody else's.

Attitude apart, if you are not competent to evaluate your own physical skill set against those skills required to BASE jump more than once, then you aren't competent to BASE jump. There are so many things that you do not know that you don't know, and excitement and enthusiasm are no substitute for good judgment, which comes from making mistakes. Mistakes in BASE are often immediately fatal, and frequently very painful and expensive.

Whuffos think that jumpers are living on the edge, but the reality is that if you can follow directions and do important things in the proper sequence, one at a time, you will have a long career skydiving. Skydivers know that BASE jumping is truly unforgiving, because you have to do many things perfectly, most at the same time. You need to learn those things in the more forgiving field of skydiving, where you have thousands of feet of empty air to cushion your errors and to allow you to (most likely) live to learn from your mistakes, and develop good judgment, and so you don't have to think about your responses in the middle of a BASE jump gone slightly awry. A moment's inattention is all it takes for yet another fatality report.

I was jumping in Nevada in 1980 and almost off status, when legal El Cap jumps were being made, some of them by my jumpmasters and instructors, and I knew that this was an opportunity I would probably not have again for a long time, if ever. My instructor, who made one of the last legal BASE jumps off the Wall of Morning light, was gentle but firm in telling me that I wasn't ready yet, that there was so much I did not know yet. And he was right. It's been over thirty years, and I'm safe in saying that I now have a pretty good grasp of what my limitations are, mental and physical, and I'm really glad that my instructor squashed my youthful enthusiasm as he did. Sometimes that is what's needed.

Edited to add:

For full disclosure purposes, I am not current, and have not BASE jumped. Yet. I am however, an expert in various forms of high speed contact with unforgiving surfaces, and who knows, my BASE cherry may yet get POPped.
Blue skies!