do i have to skydive before i base jump?

kimemerson

Re: [hookitt] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

Like the advice in your post about shopping around. I take that as bad.
Shopping for good instruction is not actually bad.

Common sense doesn't live in a persons head yet when they have 0 jumps.
Sure they can have common sense. Knowledge is what they'd be missing. Common sense does not require experience just to reside in a person's head.

What you're suggesting is, if you don't like the answer you receive, keep asking around untill you hear the answer you want.
No, what I'm saying is that you don't have to listen to just anyone. And you don't have to take the first volunteer who comes along and says they'll take you on a BASE jump.

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brits17

Re: [kimemerson] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

In reply to: So shop around, See Marta & Jimmy. Bridge Day? Good luck.
Apex still requires a minimum 150 skydives for their FJC. Bridge Day is only 50 but still, parachuting experience required... and for good reason.

Zennie

Re: [CanuckInUSA] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

In reply to: But ... but ... but ... there's video of a sac of dog food hucking off of that span with no prior ram air canopy control experience. If a sac of dog food can do it, why can't this person do it?
And that video was of Kibble #2. Kibble #1 (the video that you don't get) opened with a 90 left & line twists and hit the wall.

In fact, I think from now on I'm just going to refer to folks who subscribe to the "low-to-no jumps is OK" philosophy as Kibble.

leroydb

Re: [Zennie] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

In reply to: In fact, I think from now on I'm just going to refer to folks who subscribe to the "low-to-no jumps is OK" philosophy as Kibble.
The Kibble Philosophy...

I like it

monkey1031

Re: [leroydb] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

See attached.

-SMD7

QuickDraw

Re: [monkey1031] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

Looks hungry.

plowdirt

Re: [Janbele] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

Do you have to know how to drive before they let you in a formula 1 race car. do you have to study for a final. The answer is know, know what your getting yourself into. you may crash a little you may fail alot . don't forget the video, so we can have it on the skydiving movies.com. How not to get into base.

Good luck and be safe.

TomAiello

Re: [kimemerson] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

In reply to: It's (mostly) illegal. This is a popular misconception. The majority of the BASE jumps made in the world today are made legally. That's not a semantic game, or anything based on the actual jump being legal. The majority of jumps are made without breaking any laws--no trespassing, no aerial delivery, no law breaking.

There are many BASE jumps made under less than legal circumstances. There are also many (more) made in completely legal situations.

TomAiello

Re: [kimemerson] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

In reply to: There's nothing that says you couldn't get good heads up instruction on BASE jumping without having skydived. Sure there is.

The instructors (the ones providing the "good, heads up instruction") will generally say it. It's exceedingly difficult (close to impossible) to find an actual qualified BASE instructor who will teach a student with no skydiving experience.

NickDG

Re: [plowdirt] do i have to skydive before i base jump?

Most extreme sports involve catching big air. The board sports, whether skate. snow, or kite allow one to start slow and small. You can then work up to doing bigger and higher tricks, or you can remain very conservative.

However, when you pull the trigger on your first BASE jump there's no slow and small. It's the whole enchilada right from the start.

This is isn't a knock on that other sport, it's just a fact that the slow and small of BASE jumping is skydiving . . .

NickD
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