Starting a new thread:" BASE Jumper of the Year 2002", Vote for who will be the BASE Jumper of this Year, you must vote for someone that is a BASE Jumper and makes BASE Jumps. We will notify this Board with the results. Cal Plaza #7
Starting a new thread:" BASE Jumper of the Year 2002", Vote for who will be the BASE Jumper of this Year, you must vote for someone that is a BASE Jumper and makes BASE Jumps. We will notify this Board with the results. Cal Plaza #7
I have two nominations:
1) High Profile: The Russian Extreme Project. Those guys are doing some cool shite.
2) Low Profile: Basefreak. That guy does cool stuff, always welcomes people to his sites, helps other people out, and seeks no publicity or recognition. Very cool, very low profile, very skilled.
Just depends on what your in it for, I guess.
--Tom Aiello
tbaiello@mac.com
[h2]Lets get 5+ names and create a POLL.[/h2]
My Vote goes to Tracey Walker aka> Space, if he still Jumps anymore ?;-)
Hello Tom, We need real names for your two nominees. Thank You
Cliff Ryder is the base jumper of the year in my book, he does really cool stuff with parachutes. parabalegics, overs, unders, long delays buildings you name it.
Is that Cal Plaza I or Cal Plaza II? I don't even think that 7 people made it off of CP I total, so you must be CP II #7. CP II is the taller of the 2, about 780' from the launch point to the landing.
That building was the best year of my life, I ended out with 27 off of it. My buddy DN did the most off of it with 35. God I'd love to do that building again. I didn't even know that we were keeping numbers on that building, I wonder what my number is.
Hello Kieth, To anwser your questions, we were jumping off Cal Plaza at night during the second week of February 1985 from the unfinished 41st floor. Mark Hewitt BASE #46, who at that time was living in that area, unofically awarded the Cal Plaza numbers. Mark intruduced us to the "Line Mod". It was a year or so after the Crocked Bank era.
Ahah, you were doing CP#1, who was the guy that was jumping the racer with the pullout and blew the exit and reached for his pilot chute and things went to hell and he hit the building and got hung up by his foot?
We were doing the CP #2 building during 1989 and 1990, it was one of those instances that god reaches down and touches us with a good one and the construction company goes broke (haleuja!) and leaves this fat juicy deserted construction project for our personal use for almost 2 years, thank you god!
Tom Aiello !
Good Idea . . .
In 1986 or so Don Jacobson began bestowing the "BASE Fellowship Award" at Bridge Day. The award wasn't for any particular jump or jumps but more for that persons overall betterment of the sport.
Phil Smith, the holder of BASE number 1 received the first one. (A more humble or soft spoken BASE jumper would be hard to find). Jean Boenish got the next one (mostly for putting up with so much B.S.) and some guy out in California who published a BASE magazine got the third one. (Okay, it was me).
One suggestion:
Don't limit this to today's crop of BASE jumpers. Doing so will just further the myopic view too many present day jumpers hold. There's an unbroken chain that begins with Kent Lane's 1978 leap from El Capitan that leads us right to the very last BASE jump made.
BASE jumping has a history rich in unforgettable people who showed remarkable courage and foresight. They pioneered and conquered most of what we can take for granted, and many paid for it with their lives. This was a time BASE jumpers would stand around a crater and say, "Jesus, we never thought that could happen."
Don’t break the chain . . .
And don’t call it, “BASE Jumper of the Year.” That sounds too skydiving.
Try:
“The BASE Prize,” or “The Medal of Flick,” or, well, you get the idea.
Nick
BASE 194
:P
is that kent lane?
or
lane kent?
he he he
stay safe
kleggo
Two differn't Guys
Tom really helps people out on the board and he's a nice guy, but I don't think he's in the league of BASE jumper of the Year.
Maybe "Most Busted up in a Year" or even better yet "Gets Seriously Busted up Once a Year" would be more in line.
:o
paraguay dude
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