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hey to everyone...i just want to ask a question...Can i start base without haven't done any skydive jump yet? i just know how to control a parachute from paragliding and kitesurfing....it's too expenciev and takes a lot of time if you start with skydive...

I hope you wear a bulletproof jacket
Stay hidden , they will start shooting soon

i am sure...i just wanted to ask...or if i can start base after the skydiving school...without the 150 jumps...

You can start base jumping any time you want. That's what youtube and ebay are for...

You don't need training or a parachute to do one BASE jump. Look here

wtf? what kind of tv show is allowed to depict death like that

anytime u want, just be sure to have a friend with camera with you!

Not sure, I honestly didn't even watch it. Was it pretty bad?

It was a pretty good PLF, but i don't think it worked!

It's not bad, or gross, or a splat, But that's someone's family and it makes my stomach turn to see someone go in.
We have a building in SA that caught on fire, some guys on the 30th floor threw a couple of mattresses out and tried to land on them to get away from the smoke. It's the desperation of the situation that makes me feel sick.

Thats understandable.

i take my answer...if i go to a skydive tunel for the first practise?? is it make any different??

What are you in such a rush for??? Go skydive and enjoy it, the tunnel will help but the parachute is what you need to know about and that you can't get from a tunnel.

Summary: Skydive

I don't think the tunnel is nearly as useful as real skydiving.


The most dangerous part of any BASE jump is the opening and the 10 seconds immediately after it. It is during this time period that the majority of critical BASE injuries have happened.

If you wanted to train your responses for this critical time period, you could design a simulator to do so. It would look like this:

Take the BASE canopy opening, and slow it down to about 1/10th of it's normal speed. You could do this by putting a ZP slider on it and then maybe packing it in some kind of extra bag that it would have to get out of prior to inflation.

Remove all possible obstructions from the vicinity of the opening, to ensure the no matter how poorly you responded in the practice session, you still couldn't actually hit something and get hurt. You might be able to do this by, for example, using an aircraft to position the opening several thousand feet off the ground, and several thousand feet from any other obstruction.

If you wanted extra safety for the training simulation, you could even find a way to rig a second parachute onto the student, to make sure that if something went wrong with the first one, they'd still be ok. That might be kind of unnecessary but it's still an interesting idea.

Have the new jumper repeat this opening simulation a few hundred times, to be sure they have their trained responses to the opening dialed in perfectly.

Imagine the increase in BASE safety if we could all just build such a marvelous training simulator and use it as an aid for teaching new jumpers (or learning, if you are a new jumper).

Wouldn't that be fantastic?

Brilliant

Quality post.

Dang, must be nice to get that much canopy time.

Dwain used to suggest minimizing canopy time by pulling low as the most effective BASE safety technique.

The 3-second club though so too