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I was chatting with DW last night and mentioned it would be fun to get BASE in a day. Of course he had an amazing basegod "BASE in two hours" story, but I interrupted. "No, I mean qualifying BASE in a day. I'm talking about doing one's first four jumps off four qualifying objects, in a day." He was stumped. For once someone came up with a stunt he couldn't claim or achieve!

I'm sure someone's done it though. After all, everything else in the world has been done. Anyone got any war stories about it?

J.D. Walker, BASE 37, did it in a day, in the order B, A, S, and E. This is the same person who started the whole Get Extreme with Dew (Mountain Dew) theme of the 90's. There a few others who've accomplished the BASE cycle in a day.

Sounds to me like a good way to fuck yourself up in a hurry, but I'm sure it can be done.

 
Hey, do you have a beef with DW for some reason? What's with the mean-spirited undertones? How disappointing....

Somehow I doubt it. I know them both, and I read that as friendly fun.

The Little Aussie is just so damn good that his friends have to make fun of him. Otherwise, the only possible response is jaw-dropped-in-amazement awe. And it's very little fun to hang out with a bunch of people who are in awe of you all the time.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Narcimund, but I didn't hear any mean-spirited undertones.

You may be right Tom, and perhaps I'm too sensitive to comments on DW. I just get tired of snide remarks by those who do not know him or have only met him once or twice.

I know who Narcimund is and that is why I'm disappointed. He didn't seem like the type of guy that would be sarcastic and bitchy, especially toward someone who just told me that he thought Narcimund was a nice guy. Kind of a bummer is all....

I read that as friendly.

"wow... I just stumped the best... who'd a thunk?

It seemed just like he wanted us (or K's Boyfriend) to just think about it.

Things that make you go Hmmmmm??

I just switched to another machine so I could read your profile (the other one is having some wierd error). Now I understand.

BTW, I'm trying to refrain from using his initials. I usually call him the Little Aussie, but D-Dog has convinced me that we should all switch over to calling him K's Boyfriend from now on...

I took it as a compliment to DW actually.

>D-Dog has convinced me that we should all switch over to calling him K's Boyfriend from now on...

Now THAT I like.... wudda nice change.

No no no! Don't be so sensitive. How often does a nobody like me have a chance to do something (or even think of something) the Master can never do?

Besides, your BF helped d-dog coach MY BF through his first base jump and held his pilot chute off a 155' S this weekend. I'm full of admiration and like his company and he's the last person I'd have any desire to piss off.

This forum or dz.com-wide? I didn't think the tone here was too bad, but maybe it's worse over in Talkback... I don't frequent that all that much anymore mainly because the same themes keep resurrecting themselves.

OK, OK - my bad then. Every now & then my feathers get ruffled over certain things and I'll get a little too overprotective for my own good.

Stay safe out there. Esp on those 155 footers - I've popped off quite a few from that one myself.

And BTW, in case you weren't aware, we are ALL fabulous Nobodies.

Honestly, what we're all in awe of are his golden, flowing locks. Wow!



Peace,

D-d0g

With all respect to narcimund, who I'm sure was simply trying to come up with an interesting post, while BASE in a day might be an intriguing idea for an experienced BASEr, it's totally inappropriate (in my opinion) for someone without experience to even consider it...

Furthermore, I doubt any newcomer could accomplish such a feat without help and it seems to me any mentor who helped such a person would be doing it simply to say 'hey I taught so-and-so to BASE in a day!'

I'm not a current BASE jumper and if the most experienced BASE jumper in the world were ever to decide to decide to do such a thing, I'd probably have to defer to his experience, but can you imagine the uproar if anything happened in such an attempt - people are often out for blood after totally innocent accidents occur in jumps that are planned out properly...

Not to mention that objects for such an attempt would have to be picked to be real easy, and so much would have to looked after by the mentor (I think it would be just too much overload for the newbie) that the learning on such a feat would probably not be high...

That's just my opinion, and if someone does it and gets away with it, good for them... I think it could be done, but I don't really think it could be done safely - you'd be relying on good luck...
And sooner or later luck will run out.

Attached is a still from the latest ABA video, For A Few Jumps More, of a guy who did BASE in his first four jumps. The first three are PCA'd and he freefalls the A for his fourth, hand-held. Doesn't say that it was done in a day though. Not familiar with the objects to know if it's geographically possible. Unlikely.

I heard that Muff Brother #1 did a similar stunt. He took a non-jumper, and got him BASE in 5 parachute jumps (one tandem from a plane, then the four qualifying jumps). I don't believe it was done in a day, though.

Sure it can be done, but you'll get a lot more personal satisfaction if you take the long road, I think.

It took Norm Hocking three weeks to do BASE... his story is at http://basejump.org (near the bottom of the articles section).

As a new jumper, I read this thread. I thought about how much fun it would be to complete BASE in a day. It was always interesting topic of debate of how we would do it and the logistics of actually getting it done.
We are bringing this thread back to the top, paying respect to the many people that inspired, and are mentioned, in this thread that are no longer with us.

Halfpastniner and I completed BASE in 12 hours, in order (BASE), All free falls. 3 states, 876 miles and 2 days with no sleep! One of the best BASE adventures we have been on.

How did you fit 2 days with no sleep in 12 hours?

Math is hard?

Worm hole! The Four jumps took 12 hours. That came after a full day if work and then driving 876 miles. And then the drinking of course.