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Heisenberg
Trad climber
RV, middle of Nowehere
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Jan 26, 2016 - 06:22pm PT
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I don't jump. Your just a sh#t clown.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Jan 26, 2016 - 06:24pm PT
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Heisenberg
Trad climber
RV, middle of Nowehere
Jan 26, 2016 - 06:22pm PT
actually maybe your kid should just end up paralyzed. after some drunk driver plows into him in a school crossing.
I don't jump. Your just a sh#t clown.
Maybe he could be kidnapped. They would be better parents than you would.
P.s. Your life just became tied to his. Wish him health.
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Coward. You don't even jump? Man I'd love to have 2 minutes in private with you.
http://base-jumping.eu/base-jumping-fatality-list/
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The guy above
climber
Across the pond
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Jan 27, 2016 - 06:44am PT
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You should just ignore Floppy Dick.
Word on the street is a Base Jumper banged his ex when he was passed out drunk.
He's never been able to get over it and now displays that sadistic hatred for anyone who plays with bits of nylon. If only he hadn't had that one more bottle of Coors Light...
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Jan 27, 2016 - 08:29am PT
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My BASE jumping friends are almost all dead. I blame their stupid friends and the "Go For IT Brah!" idiots.
Hey SnailFoot, go do what you love, bruh.
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Jan 27, 2016 - 08:31am PT
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^^^^^you sure rant a lot, get some therapy!
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Jan 27, 2016 - 10:05am PT
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He's a happy kid. How you doing Jeremy?
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jan 27, 2016 - 10:20am PT
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Man that just sucks. Lived to "cheat" gravity another day only to get grabbed by the sea.
I'm assuming the surf/currents are pretty vicious in that area?
Wasn't there a recent rock-solo'ing guy who got grabbed climbing on some sea cliffs and drowned?
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Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
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Jan 27, 2016 - 10:59am PT
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Do BASE rigs provide for a canopy cutaway?
No reason for this in the air, but you'd sure want to be able to get rid of the canopy quickly if you land in or near water.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jan 27, 2016 - 11:02am PT
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Or if you have to run to avoid the cops.
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Jan 27, 2016 - 11:20am PT
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yes Sula, they do if ya order/make it that way.
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overwatch
climber
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Jan 27, 2016 - 06:43pm PT
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Coward. You don't even jump? Man I'd love to have 2 minutes in private with you.
Talk about premature
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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Jan 27, 2016 - 09:14pm PT
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If you hit the surfline ANYWHERE in Nor Cal in the past three weeks, and you weren't a waterman/woman, you were asking for it. The surf has been offscale high. Hell, you can get the crap beat out of yourself at LindaMar right now.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Feb 21, 2016 - 09:53pm PT
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Sad to say, Toby Benham died last September in a rope swing accident.
The film Smitten came out in 2011, where an incident of him getting tangled in his pilot chute was well documented.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 21, 2016 - 11:11pm PT
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To much!
Oh man I'm older now but I've said this - brothers n' sisters -
Value every breath, take every step in stride, if you must, then fly
But know that it is but a ride and not procreative if you're times up
Your times up unless you live and then you maybe real fvcked.
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 22, 2016 - 07:46am PT
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Toby Benham was pretty funny guy.
Rip ......
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Feb 22, 2016 - 09:13pm PT
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Wasn't there a recent rock-solo'ing guy who got grabbed climbing on some sea cliffs and drowned?
Michael Reardon, an outstanding climber, in Ireland.
The most recent episode of Artful Detective (Murdoch Mysteries) has the intrepid Murdoch flying a great distance in a wingsuit circa 1900. He and James Pendrick are lifted to a great height in a hydrogen baloon, from which they launch themselves.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Feb 22, 2016 - 10:18pm PT
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Never saw that one! His hesitation says it all. Killing me measuring his 'flight'
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2016 - 06:24am PT
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Hey, Biotch--quite a film clip from back in the day. You can totally see the guy psyching up, doubting, then Go for it! Splat. You'd think he'd try it over water first to know whether or not it worked. Interesting the guy at the end measuring the depth of the impact crater! Yeeesh. Sadly no surprise about the Aussie fellow dying. I've got the Smitten CD, and my first thought on seeing that guy was that he wasn't long for this world. I thought the same thing about that Himilayan climber--last name Marshal?--who managed to get up Kanchenjunga but survived the descent only because in falling headlong down a gully his arm accidentally slipped around a fixed line. The guy just seemed out of control. The next year he died on Everest. Carpe diem!
BAd
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2016 - 10:20am PT
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I feel ya, Jim. The yelling was too much. I just watched Sunshine Superman about Carl Boenish. Sad ending. It was interesting to see how the launch site that killed him had already been firmly rejected as deadly. Carl had a really bad leg from a bad break that he never had set properly because he was a Christian Scientist. Largo talks about seeing the whacky bend in his leg. When Carl hiked back up after SUCCESSFULLY jumping the The Troll the day before, he could barely make it. Perhaps that was a big motivation to use the lower jump site. Carl makes a reference to the Bible, about the temptations of Christ. Don't jump off the temple, dude. Tempt not thy Lord. Haysoos meant that stuff. Carl jumped. Game over.
I find it interesting--but not surprising--that someone who would not go to a doctor trained in science and medical technology to get some fairly simple treatment on a broken leg would be okay with trusting the science and technology of those who develop airplanes and parachutes. I mean, if the Christian Scientists (beyond stupid name) were consistent (yeah, right), they would probably have to live in caves and be hunter gatherers. They certainly wouldn't become electrical engineers and BASE jumpers a la Carl Boenish.
Anyway, a great film. And Largo's in it!
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