1. I have hit the age where I must admit that I am old.
Now that's just plain silly to think.
I think I realized I wansn't a kid anymore when I was at a McDonalds and when placing my order the girl called me "Sir" lol ouch.
It gets worse, but with the right attitude it can be a source of personal humor. Five years back I visited my credit union, sat down with a young female bank officer, and giggled when she said, "It appears you might qualify for our free Senior Advantage checking..." And just last year, a young new coworker was overheard referring to me as "that elderly guy". As you well know, it's all about one's frame of reference. I recall thinking as a young boy, "1984 - that's a long way off." And that 26-year old substitute teacher babe in high school Trigonometry certainly seemed "old" to me.
Stay young at heart by always continuing to crank out new memories.
Happy Birthday, but you are not old ... unless you say (THINK) you are.Thank you Riv.
(If that is you in those videos, I can't understand why you would be hung up on time, or mortality?!?!?)
This is awesome. I dare you not to laugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKO8sf5xgOI
Awesome Jason! Props for being such a free-spirited soul.....
The Berlin song video, I figured had he been at full terminal velocity speed, he would have to fall from at least 50,000 feet up (no oxygen mask) to the point where he opened his chute @ 3:20 mark...so I'm curious and would like to ask, how 'slow' can you regulate downward flight speed (on average) with those wingsuits?
Either way, cool stuff, man!
...You know what really struck me about this video, is how Josh can fly a wingsuit, listen to his music, lip sinc berlin, AND chew gum, all at the same time LOL.
I use a flight data recorder to display and record all of my flights. It's like a black box for a jet except its really small and it fits in my glasses. It gives realtime data and I can see it live while making a flight. I can also choose to have it on screen in the video camera.
the display in this shot reads:
Flight time:17seconds
Altitude:1679ft
HSpeed: 71.7mph
VSpeed: 21.2mph <----------
Distance: 0.280mi
Glide: 3.4
So from that data you can see that a wingsuit reduces your vertical drop energy by redirecting it to your horizontal distance ( flying ) :)
Glide is 3.4:1 meaning for every foot of drop I travel 3.4 feet horizontally
so I would imagine speeds of about 30mph are pretty average.
You know what really struck me about this video, is how Josh can fly a wingsuit, listen to his music, lip sinc berlin, AND chew gum, all at the same time LOL.
I am one of the few humans on this planet who can actually fly. I know what it feels like to be a bird. I know why they say the birds are always smiling. They have a good reason for it.
I have shifted my life around this year. If I were still at home saying whoa is me, i'd probably be on anti depressants and eating like a sow. That was a path I could have easily taken. But I chose not to.
Thanks for the info, Jason. I often wondered how flyers were able to determine (regulate) take-off point to landing target and hit it. I've had romantic (maybe delusional) fascination about getting up there someday and donning those suits and just glide. But first, need to figure out a way how to keep myself from firing projectiles when I reach a certain height.Keep in mind, flying is actually more like gliding (at least at this point ) So your speed will never be any faster than Terminal. That's about 100mph. A wingsuit gives you more surface area to catch the air and have some control of your speed and direction. The vertical energy is re-directed to horizontal Distance or travel, not speed. Average speed is about 75 mph horizontally. This means that jumping from an object that is 1000 meters high, you can potentially travel 3000+ meters away from that object.
I'm not a mathematician ( I lose count past 50 women ) but I thought the deflection speed (v/h) energy will be roughly equivalent to the displaced velocity. I thought the speed horizontally would be roughly equivalent to the vertical velocity lost. IINM, based on the info above, I didn't realize you (can) actually go a lot faster (?)...almost like the thrust principle of a turbo engine.
Cool stuff, Jason!
When I saw the thread title I had the wrong impression of what the thread would contain. Keep in mind that "third base" in my younger days meant pulling her panties down.
If you believe you are old now, you have some major disappointments ahead of you. Don't go there. Instead, keep working on your attitude as you seem to be doing. You are certainly enjoying life. Keep it going. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Live like there is no tomorrow.
Keep in mind, flying is actually more like gliding (at least at this point ) So your speed will never be any faster than Terminal. That's about 100mph. A wingsuit gives you more surface area to catch the air and have some control of your speed and direction. The vertical energy is re-directed to horizontal Distance or travel, not speed. Average speed is about 75 mph horizontally. This means that jumping from an object that is 1000 meters high, you can potentially travel 3000+ meters away from that object....
I can see why you call yourself "new Jason". With that sport you will never be an "old Jason" :P
Your sport and interests sort of remind me of Jumper but he only falls on his head from 25 feet or so with a bike on top of him. He used to break bones, every one in his body but since all his bones have been replaced with titanium rods now he only breaks the rods. Doing what you are doing there is no way the can scoop up the splatter and replace it with anything. :popcorn:
Watching your videos sort of reminds me of a documentary on hang gliding I watched ages ago. At the time I thought it would be a cool sport. At the end they announced the narrator of the documentary who was also the guy who had taken all the head camera shots and talked about the dangers of the sport had been killed in a hang gliding accident.
Anyway,
As I was saying before, there are people who find happiness in tending a garden, there are people who find happiness in playing Golf.
Personally, I don't find weeds undesirable, therefore I have no desire to pull them.
Second, I do not understand how people gain pleasure from playing golf, for me it's and exercise in futility resulting in extreme frustration and confusion.
Perhaps If I were Immortal, I would eventually consider mastering this game, but alas, I am not, therefore I can not eat green eggs and ham.. Sam I am ... Sam I am ... er I mean will not Golf...
Want to know something Ironic? I hate flying in a jet.. I hate it not a little, I hate it a lot. To the point where I have a fear of flying commercial airlines. I do it, because I have to, but I get very nervous and my stomach does back flips every time I get on board.
I recommend that no one ever do anything like what you see in the videos.
Don't be stupid and go out and try something like this. It's not a game or a fun thing to try.
You can easily severely injure yourself or even worse, you can be killed.
There is a whole lot you don't see..
Like endless hours of hiking steep mountains, driving hours upon hours upon hours, oh and let's not forget, having to learn how to Properly pack a parachute rig. This takes an eternity IMO. I still don't like packing my rig, but I feel much safer doing it myself, because I know who did it , and I know it will be done right every time.
I am in a continuing argument with a psychologist with whom I appeared on a documentary with and who made some pretty ignorant statements about BASE jumpers being reckless and selfish people.
When the program aired, It was her and the film maker picking apart our statements and her calling us un reliable, selfish and dangerous people who lack structure and normalcy in our lives. That BASE jumping is a cry for help. The bullshit spewed by this woman really got under my skin. How she could psycho analyze a group of people and their similarities and their "flaws" simply because we all share a common dream and pursuit of that dream is shallow and ignorant In my view. I called the producer and told him to give me that woman's contact info. Well he would not, so I took it upon myself to find her with the help of the good ol internet :)
I wrote her a letter, and explained to her that In my opinion she was a little "over the top" with her conclusions, and If she wanted to really know what jumping is about, to tag along and live with some jumpers and see what it is really like.
Of course she refused and stated that people like me are criminals and should be locked up because we are breaking the law, and when one of us needs a helicopter to be airlifted to a hospital, we are wasting the public resources because we voluntarily put ourselves in that position. To which I repsoned:
So, you are telling me that anyone who has voluntarily put himself in a position where it is dangerous and potentially fatal by his own free will, and who may someday need a helicopter to save his life, that this person should be exempt from a medivac chopper's services?
She responded: That is exactly what I am saying.
I replied: Then tell me how is it that a drunk driver who get's behind the wheel on his own free will, goers out and kills some innocent people and injures himself is deserving of a service like this ...
Or as we so often see on the news, a lost hiker is stranded in the mountains overnight or for days while search and rescue hunt and comb every inch of the mountain side to find and airlift these people to safety... why do they deserve a service such as this?
She said: Well, that is different...
I said, yes you are correct is it very different, a drunk driver has acted reckless and has demonstrated dis regaurd for his life and the lives of others around him, he acts without conscience he willfully drives a 2 ton vehicle at speeds that will easily crush anything in his path.
And the lost hiker, who was unprepared for the weather changes, or came without a compass or map, or the experience to read it, he has willfully put himself in a position of certain danger and probable death, because of his lack of planning or training, or both, he has willfully taken risks that were beyond his comprehensions. Yet a group of BASE jumpers, who always travel in groups, are well trained in mountain rescue, CPR, and most of whom are field medics, these people who plan every detail of their sport, who know very well that they may perish if they make a mistake. yet rarely do because of precision planning and preparedness, these people do not deserve the services available to everyone...
needless to say, it's people like her who know what is best for everyone that keeps sports like BASE an underground and illegal sport in the United States.
In Europe however...
There is a totally different attitude and more of a live and let live mentality. The sport is accepted and even welcomed. In fact, there are many countries who are embracing BASE and understand the value of such a sport. They even invite jumpers from around the world to come to their cities and perform.
enough of that.
So I'd like to know, what do other members do to keep their lives cranked up a notch?
What have you always wanted to do, but were never able to do, and what was your reason for not doing it?
I think you are absolutely nuts for jumping off cliffs and flying. This rambling id further proof of it :D But, I have a high degree of admiration for you for doing it. It takes a set of cajones I don't have and I am thankful I have enough sense to recognize it. I wasn't always so lucky.
What makes you think you can master the game of golf? It's quite different than jumping off cliffs
I've always been fairly athletic in my younger years. There's hardly a sport out there I didn't play and excelled on. If it wasn't for a case of acrophobia I developed a few years back ( I don't know why but it seemed like it just took over all of the sudden ) I'd be out there on those wingsuit as the sensation of gliding is probably close to the feeling of being inside a tube (surfing) - just you and nature and nothing else in between.
Having said that, if I had to do things over again, I'd likely spend a bit more time mastering my 6-stringers and composed a few original tunes....and stated my case much, much stronger to a long ago ex to keep the child. He'd be a fine, young and sexy (like Dad) man by now.
:(
LOL
thanks FP
I admire you as well, your level headed and down to earth demeanor is always a delight :)
Maybe I am over estimating my abilites. It would not be the first time.
Are you a golfer?
I have been a golfer for near 30 years. Not a good one by any stretch of the imagination. Different degrees at different times in my life. One thing I have learned about the game is, it is very difficult to "master" later in life. In fact I don't know anyone who has achieved that.
I have known quite a few youngsters I have watched grow and develop and actually master it before their 20's. Then it is generally downhill from then on. Anytime someone can shoot their age. They have mastered the game and it is generally only some older people that can do that. So, you figure it out and good luck....LOL :D
now I am curious.Why do I do it? I have no answer to that other than I enjoy it and the game must be played. I win a little, I lose a little.
Why do you do it?
I mean why do you continue to play golf?
Are you at least better than when you started playing 30 years ago?
If not, then what is the allure that keeps you coming back for more?
Forgive me for my ignorance, but I am honestly curious what it is about golf that people enjoy so much.
People call it a sport, but I am wondering if it is really more of an activity or a hobby.
:popcorn:
So Golf rears it's ugly head once again.
Apparently yesterday, my Aunt was in a golf tournament.
She managed to shoot a hole in one and won the tournament.
:-\
Bridge day. No one got killed and The worst thing that happened to me was I lost my lunch.
Left it in the car, or on the way down? :ROFL:
Happy 2013 to everyone around the world.
2013 is sure to hold a lot of changes and surprises.
Make the best of them all.
(http://s9.postimage.org/ilqwvysmn/Seattle_2013.jpg)
Peace and Goodwill
Jason
Another winter comes to an end and Spring time is finally here!hmmmm, Jason, either you live in a time warp or the numerous scientists and mathematicians have it all wrong
Being that I take 4 months of the year off from work and enjoy the best things, people and places this world has to offer, It is nice once again to be able to make enough money the other 9 months to make this possible.
My response: real pilots never jump out of perfectly good airplanes!
If you saw some of the planes that people skydive from, you would understand why they want out. ;D
hmmmm, Jason, either you live in a time warp or the numerous scientists and mathematicians have it all wrongLOL yea one thing about working so much is that small details slide by me sometimes.
and we all really have 13 months in a year!!! ;D
Jason,
This is a very confusing web site you linked to. Perhaps it's my browser, but the opening screen says "Don't watch this..... Watch this". When I click on the photo on the right it loads the correct title on the video window but the video does not appear to load and there is no button to start the clip.
Any chance you can instead link the actual URL of the video?
Maybe next time in Seattle we can tip a beer together. My family still lives there.
The forum also has several members living in or near Seattle.
As a lifelong pilot, I was often asked (not by other pilots) why I didn't want to become a skydiver.
My response: real pilots never jump out of perfectly good airplanes!
Your video clips are amazing. The sport looks as, or more, stimulating than aerobatic flying!
If you saw some of the planes that people skydive from, you would understand why they want out. ;D
Great clip Jason.
That's a big set of bawls you got there friend. That's got to be one hell of a rush. Of course a rush I hope to never enjoy. Cause if I go off one it's because someone threw me off :D
that is sadly true and a big reason i moved over off the planes and onto fixed object jumping.
I can't stand airplanes. They are just something i have to tolerate like everyone else.
:)
Oh it's not even close.
To put it in perspective , comparing base jumping to skydiving is like comparing sword swallowing to a blowjob.
:)
yes it's that different.
Jason,
This is a very confusing web site you linked to. Perhaps it's my browser, but the opening screen says "Don't watch this..... Watch this". When I click on the photo on the right it loads the correct title on the video window but the video does not appear to load and there is no button to start the clip.
Any chance you can instead link the actual URL of the video?
Maybe next time in Seattle we can tip a beer together. My family still lives there.
The forum also has several members living in or near Seattle.
Another Birthday today. Number 46, and the best one yet. :)
Another Birthday today. Number 46, and the best one yet. :)
Today I was introduced to a Mojito for the first time.
How Can so many amazing things go un noticed as life goes by. I love to try everything , but the world has so much to offer, it's a challenge that I think is un attainable, but now I do wonder , what other Mojitos am I missing out on? :)
Metaphorically speaking of course.
Another Birthday today. Number 46, and the best one yet. :)
Today I was introduced to a Mojito for the first time.
Have you tried a Caipirinha? Normally it is made with just lots of muddled lime, sugar and rum; however, I once had a version with basil and mint. It was outstanding.
Actually, it is cachaca (last 'c' is 's' sound) which is a sugar cane hard liquor.
Warning. If done properly more than one cocktail will result in erratic behavior, sudden marriage, peeing in pants, loss of money, and sudden blackout. Please consult your doctor before consuming caipirinha.
Happy B'day Jason. :clapping:
A caipirinha is made with cachaça, not rum, yet the two distillates are very similar.Also known as aguardente, pinga, caninha, abre-coração (heart-opener), água-benta (holy water), bafo-de-tigre (tiger breath), limpa-olho (eye-wash), etc- etc.
The major difference between cachaça and rum is that rum is usually made from molasses, a by-product from refineries that boil the cane juice to extract as much sugar crystal as possible, while cachaça is made from fresh sugarcane juice that is fermented and distilled....Sugar production was mostly switched from Madeira Island to Brazil by the Portuguese in the 16th century. In Madeira Aguardente de cana is made by distilling sugar cane. The pot stills that make Aguardente de cana in Madeira were brought to Brazil to make what today is also called Cachaça.The distillation process dates back to 1532, when one of the Portuguese colonisers brought the first cuttings of sugar cane over to Brazil from Madeira.Apart from the simpler process and hence harsher flavour, what distinguishes cachaça from rum is its much lower price - a Brazilian colleague of mine contemptuously called it hobos' rum ;).
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Caipirinha2.jpg/220px-Caipirinha2.jpg) (http://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-frc1/c13.12.162.162/386316_10150485791165929_1701295540_n.jpg)Also known as aguardente, pinga, caninha, abre-coração (heart-opener), água-benta (holy water), bafo-de-tigre (tiger breath), limpa-olho (eye-wash), etc- etc.Apart from the simpler process and hence harsher flavour, what distinguishes cachaça from rum is its much lower price - a Brazilian colleague of mine contemptuously called it hobos' rum ;) .
Caipirinha (cachaça-based) - Caipiroska (vodka-based variant)