Incredible shots :tup:
How deep / high is that cave jump? Did you jump into it?
The cave was just a tourist thing we stopped by. It’s 300 feet or so inside, but is also a very sacred temple. Might try and sneak some bandit jumps into it next year.
Also, flying the tracking suit off the KL tower was rad as hell. It takes about 4.5 seconds before it starts flying but once it does you can get some pretty good movement before it’s time to deploy. It really can suck you low, though. I let a friend jump it and he pulled at about 100’ above the ground, then crash landed on a roof.
Minimal event carnage as well, a couple broken legs, a few building strikes, but nothing TOO serious. One tree rescue after an Aussie guy hit the tower 3 times, then drifted off into the forest unconscious on the last day.
Oh yeah and here’s a video that they made for the closing ceremony, i thought it was pretty good even though hardly any of my jumps showed up, just dancing like a jackass:
how many people attended the event? (I curious on the odds after reading the injuries)
107 jumpers. I think there were something like 3300 jumps made.
that’s not so horrible of odds I suppose.
does base jumping make skydiving boring?
In general the injuries all were, in some way, performance failures. Bad canopy piloting or slow reactions or bad decisions were the reason for injury, not just some random occurrence.
Well, I wouldn’t say skydiving is boring, but it is vastly different. It’s kind of like saying “does soccer make baseball boring”? They both involve running and balls, just as the other two involve falling and parachutes.
Obviously that’s not a fair comparison, but to me they are very dissimilar. I will say I prefer BASE more because it’s a lot more personal than skydiving. It’s basically impossible to (repeatedly) skydive alone.
Skydiving alone sucks, it really does. It’s much more fun jumping with others performing 3, 4, 5-ways, etc. My biggest (as well as Newmans) annoyance is that locally we only have tiny Cessnas that hold 5-6 people max depending on weight therefore takes FOREVER to get a ton of jumps done in a day. At different locations they have larger planes that can transport quadruple the people. For this reason it’s also easier to BASE, you see an object (weather, landing area, etc permitting) you climb it and you jump it, no wait.
lol, more of you dancing than jumping :tup:
I think @newman would do 7 flips before pulling his canvas
For several reasons:
- it has the potential to get you kicked out of the event.
- fucking up here will go wrong really quick (don’t be a pussy, I know)
- it’s a salt water pool and that shit is super bad for your canopy.
- drying a canopy sucks.
But it does look like a good time. It’s not the first year this has happened. This is the first time I’ve seen it get so much attention though.
Did you witness it happen?