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doing my first jump here in mass. Its an antenna, just wanted to join the ranks. I have very little skydive experience but i know im ready. Cant wait. I will record if i can get the ccamera used lol.

Define "little"

And are you doin this all by yoself?

There are jumpers in Mass. Maybe talk to the locals.

Ody

Hey man thanks for the reply. I have about 25 skydives. Im bringing my cousin who did HALO stuff with the army. He thinks im going too soon but wont let me go alone. If there are mass jumpers here hmu. I started to skydive with the sole intention of trying BASE. Cousin is packing for me and im thinking PCA.

Is there any safe altitude to jump base with skydive rig?

P.S. I am NOT jumping skydive gear just curious for someone else

just make sure you bring your ID so the police can figure out who you are

Funny man thats a nice post. Im doing PCA and i have good canopy control. Been out to the spot 3 times to look at it before deciding to do it. Fuck you man.

ya base is a cool thing to troll

I myself was a canopy master at 10 jumps you should be fine. Just have your cousin pca you like all the other ones he has done.

Geez man lotta help from this site. I never said i was a "master" under the canopy just adequate enought o make the jump safe. And yes, hes PCA'd a number of his buddies in the service. Lesson learned, done posting on this site.

So in your 25 skydives, you didn't even bother to learn to pack? And now you're planning on PCA'ing some antenna you've looked at 3 times?

Whether you can or can't get away with it is not that important. You are getting trolled because of your piss poor judgement. Skill is the least important thing in this game.

I'll just leave this here for you
http://en.wikipedia.org/...2%80%93Kruger_effect

p.s. but momy I watched all those youtube videos. Now man up and go die like the rest of us morons.

Point is nobody is trying to help you. If you did any research or talked to jumpers you would know it's not a good idea and you are not doing it right. Get more skydives and take a base course is the help you should be getting.

lol u have the dumbest of all the posts. Im blown away by how negative most of u are. Dont care if u agree with my decision u dont need to be dicks. I spent some time cruising the forums though and im not surprised. A LOT of player hating going on here by some guys who simply cant do what others can in base. ecspecially with the wingsuits. Freeflaw sorry u were born with a small penis. c ya

P.S. I know one has to become somewhat callous with death because of the inherrent danger but u wishing death on me speaks volues about ur shitty character. If i do go in im haunting u forever bitch

Unfortunately, "when" you die on a BASE jump, you make it that much more difficult for the rest us due to the media attention your death will capture. Please pass this message to your cousin, "Please punch Hanzo in the face a hundred times. Maybe it will reset that loose connection." Yes, we are douche bags to stupid people who come on and want to fuck up an activity that is already difficult enough to gain / retain access to objects. People like you are the reason the Darwin Awards were created.

You can haunt me all you want. I have far worse ghosts from my past than you could ever hope to be.

It's because they've seen it. Is your cousin an experienced BASE jumper (100+, usually 200+ BASE jumps recommended for mentor)? If not then it's no better than being alone.

You don't even know what can kill you yet. You may very well jump that antenna 5-10 times and it work out fine. You may hit a tree or have a crappy landing and write it off. That does NOT make you a BASE jumper and it's just a matter of time before you make a mistake and end up shattering yourself. You probably wont die (ppppprobably). But shattering your legs are ending up in a wheelchair is a very real possibility.

The most important thing is. Why rush? If there are plenty of BASE jumpers around, why not seek their instruction? What are you planning to BASE jump the antenna with? Do you already own BASE gear? Either answer to that is a bad one. If you already have it, you're rushing WAAAAY to fast and if you can afford BASE gear then you could afford more skydives (with a large 7-cell, training the appropriate accuracy and canopy skills) while also networking and learning from multiple local experienced BASE jumpers. If you DONT have BASE gear and you're planning a jump...that's about as dumb as it gets.

Trust me as someone who rushed into the sport WAY too fast, thinking I knew what I was doing. You don't realize till much later how many times you were so close to shattering yourself. You don't know what you don't know and that's what's so dangerous. It's so easy to get hurt. People with hundreds of jumps get hurt all the time. Take that to heart and take your god damn time.

+1

Glad you lived through it all Zebu!

Back to the subject, this guy sounds pretty young. You have your whole freakin' life dude. You can wait to be 30, even 40, before you start and still get the obligatory 2-year career in. That IS the average career in the sport btw. If he's not young, then he's already waited this long, wait until he passes his midlife crisis and then jump into it...

I bet he wants to be the next WS proxy guy like everybody else. I'm sure Mass is the best place to train that with all the terminal cliffs close by... it might as well be the American swiss valley.

So tired of the hype that the sport gets lately...

Actually I think Hanzo is probably the troll here.



Hanzo if you are for real then why would you think people would want to help you kill yourself? People are being harsh because they see you are making a mistake. They don't want to see you broken or dead because of your ego telling you that you are prepared. Bottom line is, you are under prepared and over eager which can be a recipe for disaster. But go ahead and let that ego rule your decisions. It may pay off but it also may not.
Since you seem to be putting a lot of trust in your cousin who has no BASE experience, ask him what he plans on doing with the slider on this PCA. Will he just just use it as he normally does on his HALO jumps or will he modify it for a better opening? Also, what is your exit altitude?

Pls stop shit-talking, asking advices form internet and help from halo (lol) random jumpers.

Climb that shit alone and jump like a real man!

Real man only needs 3/4 go-pros!

Hey man, Ive been in your shoes. Ive eyed up towers for as long as I can remember. As someone who as been there I would recommend you to please get more skydives, and take a FJC at the Perrine. You will enjoy the sport more and gain the experience to not just survive your jumps, but perform really well and have more fun.
The FJCs will want you to have about 200+ jumps.
Only after that should you start jumping stuff around here with some locals. The base community is small, you will meet people from the area during your training and time at the bridge.
If you choose to jump things without the support of locals you will alienate yourself.
The longer path isn't easier, but it will get you to a place to enjoy more jumps and get on more objects.
If you take the right steps, you will become one of the locals and enjoys all the objects people have figured out over many years.
If you take the wrong path, we will tar and feather you.
Please make the smart decision and do it right.

Calm down people, his cousin has halo experience.

Ok well......I am young to answer peoples question, and yes I was stupid. I got into skydiving as a means to an end. I onyl wanted to do base. I had a bad experience with the jump and ate a huge slice of humble pie. I got there and didnt even want to do it but felt like a pussy when i wanted to climb down. I thought if you did a pca you had no chance of experiencing any type of off heading. That was not the case. Nothing extreme but not something i was prepared for either. Im putting base on the back burner until i get waay more skydives. I feel pretty stupid for having done it and my cousin wants nothing to do with me jumping until i have 200 skydives and even then he wants me to find a teacher for base. Anyway sorry for ruffling feathers, im all set with base for a couple years.

Video please.

Lol, everyone makes a bunch of wise ass comments about having go pros, which i do not have. I dont have video of it but even if i did i wouldnt post it cuz its def not cool

My cousins gf has iphone footage from the bottom but im not too excited about everybody basically seeing my in tears at landing. Not a good look.

Don't be a pussy, prove that your not a trollPlus maybe someone will learn from your mistake if you are for real....

I knew this thread was BS.

Nah, sounds like great material. Post it.

Let's see this offheading you spoke of

If you weren't prepared for "Nothing extreme", what made you think you were prepared for "Something extreme"? Crying ain't a nothing. Shitting yourself, that's extreme! Don't shit yourself!

Everyone cries a little at first..... Post the video youll be ok punkins...

I've really enjoyed this thread, the video would be the cherry on top.
Many negative things said.
On the positive side, you've got
A the balls to actually do it.
B the brains to not do it again.

Show us the video, you may as well.
Please.

And he didn't get killed, hurt, and/or arrested!

Sounds like a successful BASE jump...