Indoor BASE Challege in Germany

**hamsandwich** · February 6th, 2008, 11:04 AM

I hear Johnny and Miles tied for 3rd, jointly bringing the Bronze home to the USA!

Congrats to everyone that participated.

Is there a site with pics and stats?

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**badenhop** · February 6th, 2008, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by hamsandwich

Is there a site with pics and stats?

http://www.base-jump.de/64649/index.html

**huckleberry** · February 7th, 2008, 01:51 AM

Avery,
dude, you got beat by Amanda? wholy shiezah'. Don't tell me your losing a step?

Way to go Amanda!
Looks like fun!
Johnny D

fixMe · February 7th, 2008, 09:45 AM

ENGLISH MUTHAFUCKA, ENGLISH! (movie quote

)

Tried to figure stuff out on the site. Had heard miles took 1st. in swoooping but must have come in second in somethig else along with utah as well.

Cant' firgure out a bunch a little things on site as well.

Anybody know how to view whole site in English?

Thank you

**Mac** · February 7th, 2008, 10:30 AM

Have you tried bablefish http://babelfish.altavista.com/

or google

???

**hamsandwich** · February 7th, 2008, 11:36 AM

Here's a auto-translated page by google:

http://translate.google.com/translat...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Thanks for that link, Avery.

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**Para_Frog** · February 7th, 2008, 11:53 AM

Yes...most excellent showing. Good job guys!

(What's up with my boy Richard bringin up the rear?)

**badenhop** · February 7th, 2008, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by hucklberry

Avery,
dude, you got beat by Amanda?

Yeah, I got beat by most jumpers.
To maximize freefall time, you have to think outside the circle.

**mikki_zh** · February 7th, 2008, 03:57 PM

Yes, Avery has probably won the lowest pull contest with his last jump...

**huckleberry** · February 7th, 2008, 10:57 PM

Avery,
I think you should have to translate that whole web site
for almost going in!

fixMe · February 8th, 2008, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by hucklberry

Avery,
I think you should have to translate that whole web site
for almost going in!

hey , thanx for the Google translation thingy, i didn't know you could do that?

i looked around the site and couldn't figure out what thek BASE indoor world cup competion categories were?

Could somebody who was there and competed tell me what the competion consisted of. accuracy, on heading opening, swoooping distance etc.

thanx

**nicknitro71** · February 8th, 2008, 10:33 AM

What's up with all the PCAs? Isn't that thing like 270' and almost at sea-level? Did they have a low-pull contest? Even an unofficial one? Did you guys have to play nice not to get banned? No wonder why I don't get invited to those events!

**sabre210** · February 8th, 2008, 12:19 PM

What's with the PCA's?

Well the event could essentially be broken down into a few groups of jumpers. There were the jumpers who took the accuracy competition aspect of it more seriously than others and to stand any chance of a placing opted to PCA to allow more canopy time to set up. It is not a coincidence that all the winners and top placers took PCA's in all, or nearly all their rounds.

There were those who freefell it knowing that doing so considerably reduced their chances of competing in the accuracy competition. I think Avery could be counted amongst those and was having safe fun more than anything else.

Then there was Miles. Who took a PCA just so he had the time to swoop it in i expect, and he did a class job of it too.

I think Mahle and the organisers made a perfect decision in letting jumpers take assisted deployments. It almost certainly made the event far safer when you consider that any jumper who had an off-heading of more than a 90 struggled to make the beach landing and in the case of 2 or 3 had to land off and amongst tents and on the restaurant terraces - there were NO good outs, just emergency outs if you absolutely needed them.

This really wasn't an event to let your ego rule your jumping and I think everyone who participated made safe decisions based on their experience, the pressure of the event, their wingloading, their canopy control skills etc etc etc. I know I did.

So, strike it up how you want, men vs boys, hardcore vs pussies, competitive dads vs funjumpers. It really doesn't matter. We all jumped a great object, had a blast, made a good impression with the owners and all walked away unscathed (with one very unfortunate and gladly not too serious exception). In anyones books, that's got to be a successful BASE event.

**nicknitro71** · February 8th, 2008, 02:41 PM

Nice sum-up Ian!

Miles you're a pussy! You should have gone stowed and still swoop the shit out of it! But I don't blame you...I would have gone PCA as well if I was jumping that BASER!

Jump out with your cock out!

**sabre210** · February 8th, 2008, 05:13 PM

And i feel compelled to add the following too....

I'd heard a lot, and i mean a LOT about the world famous Mr. Daisher, of Red Bull sponsored fame, and a lot of it not nice to boot, and of course I've seen numerous videos with him grinning and being generally hyper like Beavis on a sugar rush, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't expecting some irritating yahoo.

But Miles is quite simply one of the nicest, likeable and helpful people you're likely to meet and he has the skills to back it up too.

I mention this because to me it's yet further proof that as useful as the internet is with spreading information, it's also a very divisive tool which is hopeless at communicating personalities. Invariably the real people behind the online personas and reputations are warmer, friendlier and more human than you are led to believe.