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| Bob... |
 Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:42 am |
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Quote: You keep landing a long way from the camera!! But I love your canopy
colours, so all is forgiven ;-P
What's the container like?
Actually, I was spot on but Scott stayed back in the hangar to take
the picture with a little P71 point and click. I can't complain, it
was my camera and pretty wet out.
The container's a Quasar II, which I love.
Ok quiz time. My wife picked out the colors for one piece of gear and
I did for the other.
Three guesses which was which. Grand prize is a free jump at Bidwell
as soon as jump operations restart.
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~churchr/storage/saturday2.JPG
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~churchr/storage/saturday.JPG |
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| Bob... |
| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:45 am |
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On Sep 22, 12:46 am, "ynotssor" <ynots... at (no spam) invalid.org> wrote:
Quote: Do you endorse the sentiment that "the show must go on", Mike? I thought we
grew out of that Vaudeville sentiment quite a number of years ago.
I don't believe in it either and I probably shouldn't have said it, or
if I did I should have explained that standing there at that moment
under those conditions, do a safe but miserable jump or go home, it
seemed appropriate for that one jump.
Bob Church |
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| Bob... |
| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:24 am |
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On Sep 22, 11:11 am, Mike Spurgeon <m... at (no spam) spurgeon.net> wrote:
Quote: I've known him for 30+ years. I
31 years exactly as of Sunday. My first jump was on September 20th
1978 and the picture of my first landing shows me taking a 28 footer
into the corn and you running across the field towards me.
Bob Church |
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| the unknown flailer... |
| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:30 am |
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On Sep 21, 11:55 pm, "ynotssor" <ynots... at (no spam) invalid.org> wrote:
Quote: Innews:64efd064-d56a-4cc6-9cf4-665f9af52f0f at (no spam) h30g2000vbr.googlegroups.com,
Bob <chur... at (no spam) ohio.edu> typed:
On Sep 21, 6:28 pm, "ynotssor" <ynots... at (no spam) invalid.org> wrote:
You're the one that can die, and give a "black eye" to the general
sport of demo skydiving.
"The show must go on" indeed ... I've lost a great deal of respect
for you by your voicing of that sentiment.
Why? I didn't do anything that was dangerous to me or, especially, the
crowd.
I'm not cricising the individual jump decision, just the expression
regarding the demo that "the show must go on." We opted out of 2 demos into
a county fair over the Labor Day weekend, but those were substantial Wx
events, not just precipitation.
Of course I have enough respect that I can lose a great deal and still have
a great deal left.
This often happens when you think with your emotions...Its called
having to craw fish down South |
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| Mike Spurgeon... |
| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:11 am |
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ynotssor wrote:
Quote: In news:V7GdnV9jH_hL2SXXnZ2dnUVZ_q6dnZ2d at (no spam) posted.southvalleyinternet,
Mike Spurgeon <mike at (no spam) spurgeon.net> typed:
"The show must go on" indeed ... I've lost a great deal of respect
for you by your voicing of that sentiment.
Hard to believe the following is from the same individual...
Do you endorse the sentiment that "the show must go on", Mike? I thought we
grew out of that Vaudeville sentiment quite a number of years ago.
I've known him for 30+ years. I knew what he meant. You probably didn't.
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Of course, if Bob decided that local conditions were suitable for jumping at
the time, then he's the Doctor. It's the exhumation of the sentiment that I
think is detrimental to demonstration jumping, not the particular jump Bob
made.
Let's just say that he was talking about one particular jump.
I know both the place and the people. |
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| Bob... |
| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:58 am |
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Quote: events, not just precipitation.
Of course I have enough respect that I can lose a great deal and still have
a great deal left.
This often happens when you think with your emotions...Its called
having to craw fish down South
It's cool, the phrase "the show must go on" carries a lot of bad
baggage for demos but I just wasn't thinking about that aspect then.
I wasn't thinking about much but dry socks and hot coffee.
Oh, speaking of which, at least one couple did good. Harry, the pilot
and Karen, his new girlfriend and a credit to the gender, got a
several dozen donuts from some Amish place. They're incredible. The
donuts I mean. They set up a little tent selling the donuts and
coffee. No one was selling much of anything due to the weather and
small crowd so I was going to help them out and make points at work by
buying a box and taking them to work for everyone.
But I couldn't. When I asked they were sold out. It was a first rate
day for donuts and coffee.
Bob |
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| the unknown flailer... |
| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:59 pm |
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On Sep 22, 4:58 pm, Bob <chur... at (no spam) ohio.edu> wrote:
Quote: events, not just precipitation.
Of course I have enough respect that I can lose a great deal and still have
a great deal left.
This often happens when you think with your emotions...Its called
having to craw fish down South
It's cool, the phrase "the show must go on" carries a lot of bad
baggage for demos
Bob
Bad baggage for a lot of jumps, I'm thinking of the Navy SBU that went
off the ramp for Recondo off Grenada,
The seas were rough, gale force winds---Never found any of them. A lot
of people thought it was to please the Admiral
but they ain't like that-----They are trained to be cold blooded-and
without panic or fear, never quit....They can always
refuse but never do....Open the hatch and buddy and their gone--I was
just alerting craw fish that he might be a little
bit too much the other way. Look at the influence I've had on Jerry's
thinking. For whatever reason Craw fish had a
knee jerk reaction to your demo story.....It was a good one, you bring
a lot of positive things to wreck skydiving.
Maybe we just aren't used to it. I'm always on watch and will protect
your right to eat donuts, jump loud ass canopy's
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| the unknown flailer... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:57 am |
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On Sep 21, 5:28 pm, "ynotssor" <ynots... at (no spam) invalid.org> wrote:
Quote: Innews:38ab46e6-74e2-4e05-a327-d6f317ffc6bd at (no spam) b18g2000vbl.googlegroups.com,
Bob <chur... at (no spam) ohio.edu> typed:
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But the show must go on.
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But if that high school band can stand out there for over an hour in
toad strangler rain until a pilot would even take us up, who am I to
back out?
You're the one that can die, and give a "black eye" to the general sport of
demo skydiving.
"The show must go on" indeed ... I've lost a great deal of respect for you
by your voicing of that sentiment.
If you had any respect in the first place you would have e-mailed Bob
about this neurotic over reaction you had |
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| Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:42 am |
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In news:81291fc8-0b72-4629-bf49-84403d586971 at (no spam) v2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com,
the unknown flailer <thuythu at (no spam) iwon.com> wrote:
Quote: On Sep 21, 5:28 pm, "ynotssor" <ynots... at (no spam) invalid.org> wrote:
Innews:38ab46e6-74e2-4e05-a327-d6f317ffc6bd at (no spam) b18g2000vbl.googlegroups.com,
Bob <chur... at (no spam) ohio.edu> typed:
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But the show must go on.
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But if that high school band can stand out there for over an hour in
toad strangler rain until a pilot would even take us up, who am I to
back out?
You're the one that can die, and give a "black eye" to the general
sport of demo skydiving.
"The show must go on" indeed ... I've lost a great deal of respect
for you by your voicing of that sentiment.
If you had any respect in the first place you would have e-mailed Bob
about this neurotic over reaction you had
Show's over. Move along. Nothing to see.
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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries
The right to be heard does not automatically include
the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey |
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| the unknown flailer... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:04 am |
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On Sep 26, 9:42 am, "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries"
<rhondaleak... at (no spam) earthling.net> wrote:
Quote: Innews:81291fc8-0b72-4629-bf49-84403d586971 at (no spam) v2g2000vbb.googlegroups.com,
the unknown flailer <thuy... at (no spam) iwon.com> wrote:
On Sep 21, 5:28 pm, "ynotssor" <ynots... at (no spam) invalid.org> wrote:
Innews:38ab46e6-74e2-4e05-a327-d6f317ffc6bd at (no spam) b18g2000vbl.googlegroups.com,
Bob <chur... at (no spam) ohio.edu> typed:
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But the show must go on.
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But if that high school band can stand out there for over an hour in
toad strangler rain until a pilot would even take us up, who am I to
back out?
You're the one that can die, and give a "black eye" to the general
sport of demo skydiving.
"The show must go on" indeed ... I've lost a great deal of respect
for you by your voicing of that sentiment.
If you had any respect in the first place you would have e-mailed Bob
about this neurotic over reaction you had
Show's over. Move along. Nothing to see.
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Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries
The right to be heard does not automatically include
the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey- Hide quoted text -
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No blood must be spilled |
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