imported_badenhop
November 20th, 2003, 08:45 PM
Hello BASE Jumpers!
I know some of you are planning a trip to Malaysia soon, and I'm all for it.
In fact, I have given some support to a couple International BASE friends to
'GET ON THE LOAD'.
It is now a bit of a pickle! Jumping from the Petronas is certainly a trophy jump for any of us, unfortunately, it turns out that BASE is about to be hijacked from BASE jumpers AGAIN!
Consider: the situation with the MIXSA group is such a mess that our own Malaysian BASE brothers WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING in the next Petronas event!
Listen up: MIXSA is a fraud.
The Malaysian International Xtreme Skydive Association is nothing more than a fancy name for thieving extortionists! Dann Lee and his sister Jasmina have strong armed several Malaysian Government branches out of many hundreds of thousands of (not very valuable) Ringgits. About US$56,000.00 which is a lot of money in Kuala Lumpur. They have done this by somehow convincing their own Government that they are the "World's Authority" on BASE jumping! HA! What a joke! Neither Dann Lee, nor his sister Jasmina have ever even made a BASE jump! And every qualified BASE jumper who has ever helped them with an event has been hosed in the end. Dann and Jasmina don't care about OUR sport, they want to inflate their egos, boost their bank accounts, and see their picture in the paper. No self respecting BASE jumper should be helping MIXSA. The building is accessable through the Malysian BASE brothers, WITHOUT the Lees. Stop helping the Lees, and the BASE jumpers can have the building back.
And get this: recently, the Malaysian BASE brothers were given permission to do some BASE jumps in Kuala Lumpur. The Secretary of MIXSA wrote a letter to the BASE brothers, and to those that gave them permission, in which he stated, and I quote: "blah, blah, blah.....we regret to inform you that we have not received your application for sanction from MIXSA for your purported BASE jump.....blah, blah, blah......safety standards as provided by MIXSA's safety guideline". The Secretary of MIXSA, Louis Wong, has never made a BASE jump! But they don't want to mind their own business and let some real BASE jumpers do some flickin'.
(I'm happy to report that the Lee's plan to stop the BASE bro's failed).
I know it's a bit late for you all to change your plans this time around, but we as a community need to make sure that these hijackers don't steal our own jumps from us. Next thing you know, they will say none of the rest of us can make jumps in Malaysia at all without lining their pockets.
There are other options besides MIXSA, and there is still freedom to make BASE jumps in Malaysia despite them. After all, in reality, MIXSA is a NON-ENTITY, fake and fraudulent. For anyone interested, if you are already making plans to go to Kuala Lumpur, and are interested in making BASE jumps in addition to the Petronas, email me,
( email@averybadenhop.com )
I can hook you up with some locals who have access to other jumps.
Did you know that they are building ramps on Petronas at level 53, which is about half-way up to the top of the building, so just because it is the World's tallest building, don't think you'll get all the altitude it has to offer.
Why? I guess they can't figure a way to safely jump their own building from the top, even though many, many jumpers have been able to do so in the past.
I know some of you are planning a trip to Malaysia soon, and I'm all for it.
In fact, I have given some support to a couple International BASE friends to
'GET ON THE LOAD'.
It is now a bit of a pickle! Jumping from the Petronas is certainly a trophy jump for any of us, unfortunately, it turns out that BASE is about to be hijacked from BASE jumpers AGAIN!
Consider: the situation with the MIXSA group is such a mess that our own Malaysian BASE brothers WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING in the next Petronas event!
Listen up: MIXSA is a fraud.
The Malaysian International Xtreme Skydive Association is nothing more than a fancy name for thieving extortionists! Dann Lee and his sister Jasmina have strong armed several Malaysian Government branches out of many hundreds of thousands of (not very valuable) Ringgits. About US$56,000.00 which is a lot of money in Kuala Lumpur. They have done this by somehow convincing their own Government that they are the "World's Authority" on BASE jumping! HA! What a joke! Neither Dann Lee, nor his sister Jasmina have ever even made a BASE jump! And every qualified BASE jumper who has ever helped them with an event has been hosed in the end. Dann and Jasmina don't care about OUR sport, they want to inflate their egos, boost their bank accounts, and see their picture in the paper. No self respecting BASE jumper should be helping MIXSA. The building is accessable through the Malysian BASE brothers, WITHOUT the Lees. Stop helping the Lees, and the BASE jumpers can have the building back.
And get this: recently, the Malaysian BASE brothers were given permission to do some BASE jumps in Kuala Lumpur. The Secretary of MIXSA wrote a letter to the BASE brothers, and to those that gave them permission, in which he stated, and I quote: "blah, blah, blah.....we regret to inform you that we have not received your application for sanction from MIXSA for your purported BASE jump.....blah, blah, blah......safety standards as provided by MIXSA's safety guideline". The Secretary of MIXSA, Louis Wong, has never made a BASE jump! But they don't want to mind their own business and let some real BASE jumpers do some flickin'.
(I'm happy to report that the Lee's plan to stop the BASE bro's failed).
I know it's a bit late for you all to change your plans this time around, but we as a community need to make sure that these hijackers don't steal our own jumps from us. Next thing you know, they will say none of the rest of us can make jumps in Malaysia at all without lining their pockets.
There are other options besides MIXSA, and there is still freedom to make BASE jumps in Malaysia despite them. After all, in reality, MIXSA is a NON-ENTITY, fake and fraudulent. For anyone interested, if you are already making plans to go to Kuala Lumpur, and are interested in making BASE jumps in addition to the Petronas, email me,
( email@averybadenhop.com )
I can hook you up with some locals who have access to other jumps.
Did you know that they are building ramps on Petronas at level 53, which is about half-way up to the top of the building, so just because it is the World's tallest building, don't think you'll get all the altitude it has to offer.
Why? I guess they can't figure a way to safely jump their own building from the top, even though many, many jumpers have been able to do so in the past.