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Advancement of Technology - 2007-06-18 by Nick Di Giovanni

BASE gear technology can advance quickly, and it did, especially in the early years, because there’s no bureaucratic red tape standing in the way of new products and ideas.
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August 8th, 1978 - 2009-09-14 by By Nick Di Giovanni new

No one can say who made the first successful fixed object jump using a parachute because it’s lost in a blur of history and misunderstanding.
Votes: 4 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1463

Base and Life in the Military - 2007-06-18 by Nick Di Giovanni updated

When myself and some other jumpers are chased after a building jump here in San Diego I got a phone call from the Police Department the next morning...
Votes: 8 | Comment: 1 | Views: 2439

Base Jump Number Five - 2007-06-18 by Michael Schwery

What we saw from below was a very fast opening from Gabo, DX falling into Gabos canopy, complete entanglement of the two ...
Votes: 6 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1962

Be Franklin - 2007-06-18 by Nick Di Giovanni

Benjamin Franklin, Great Person, Great BASE Jumper . . .
Votes: 3 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1378

Bingo Twistle - 2007-06-18 by Anonymous

You are at the airport of a city you’ve never been to before. Your plane landed twenty minutes ago for what is supposed to be a five day business trip...
Votes: 11 | Comments: 5 | Views: 2377

Collection of Base Incidents - 2007-06-18 by admin

The following comes from an original forum thread on Blinc Magazine and is a collection of incidents or mistakes posted by several different BASE jumpers. It started with a post by Nick Di Giovanni…
Votes: 5 | Comment: 1 | Views: 2496

Considerations After the Cliff Strike - 2007-06-18 by Anonymous

The following is a post I originally wrote as part of a discussion about this incident.
Votes: 5 | Comments: 2 | Views: 1879

Dexter Base - 2007-06-18 by Chad Peabody

Right now sitting on the edge of this 420 foot cliff in Washington State, a moderate breeze is a bad thing...
Votes: 12 | Comments: 3 | Views: 2043

Down and Out - 2010-05-31 by John Long new

The story is from the book Gorrilla Monsoon by John Long it tells the true story of Carl Boenish’ fatal jump in Norway.
Votes: 9 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1557

Drunk Scouting - 2007-06-18 by Walt Appel

When I met Mr. 460, he was a fledgling BASE jumper and one of the true legends of the sport, “Dead” Steve Morrell, had taken him under his wing to teach him about the sport... in any way.
Votes: 18 | Comment: 1 | Views: 1760

Dwain's Memorial - 2007-06-18 by Nick Di Giovanni

I’m on my way to Dwain Weston’s Malibu Memorial and I can’t help think about what’s happened since the early days of BASE jumping, a time when all our futures seemed so vast, so bright, and so unlimited...
Votes: 7 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1825

Getting Hurt.. - 2008-05-11 by Kevin McGuire new

At first, all I felt was weightlessness. The sensation was peaceful and serene. But then came the acceleration and I watched as the super structure of the bridge moved quickly past my feet.
Votes: 22 | Comments: 8 | Views: 2204

Getting Our B - 2007-06-18 by Michael McHale updated

Having bagged our E, we we now rolling with the wave of enthusiasm (a bad thing) so we decided to go check out a B that had been jumped before but had been locked up but was now back under renovation (rigs in hand)...
Votes: 5 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1476

Happy Anniversary - 2007-06-19 by Nick Di Giovanni

I didn’t have a phone in my room, as it wasn’t too plush a hospital. It’s late and I lay tossing in my bed the day’s course of chemotherapy having thoroughly kicked my ass...
Votes: 6 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1387

Innocent Bystander - 2007-06-19 by Ron Luke

The main characters in this little story are myself, my two good friends Hippo and (as he later became known) Johan...
Votes: 19 | Comments: 4 | Views: 2347

Life Death Base - 2007-06-19 by Nick Di Giovanni updated

I feel less afraid of dying now at fifty years old than I did at twenty...
Votes: 17 | Comments: 2 | Views: 2865

Line Over Landing - 2007-06-19 by Jamie

I was doing my 4th jump of the day, having done 10 the previous day. I exited with a gainer kicking a little as I got over, pitched, and then had an onheading opening.
Votes: 3 | Comments: 0 | Views: 2292

MacBusted - 2008-05-11 by Michael McHale (Mac/BASE 813) updated

No obstacles except one 50ft antenna to the left and approx 60ft from the exit point...
Votes: 9 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1682

Mexican Base - 2007-06-19 by Nick Di Giovanni

In 1986, when my day job is working on airplanes, my boss and I flew to Baja to repair the propeller on a customer’s aircraft.
Votes: 5 | Comments: 2 | Views: 1566

Mike Pelkey: El Capitan BASE jump, 1966 - 2007-06-18 by Mike Pelkey updated

The year was 1966. BASE jumping didn’t have a name yet and there were no First Jump Course instructors around, so we had to play it by ear.
Votes: 12 | Comments: 2 | Views: 1366

My First Base Jump - 2007-06-19 by Jim Twardowski

I find myself on a rooftop looking out over what can only be described as Armageddon…
Votes: 10 | Comments: 2 | Views: 2363

On Base and Mainstream - 2007-06-19 by Nick Di Giovanni

In the very early eighties BASE jumping is mostly called fixed object jumping. The word BASE didn’t really catch on until about 1982 - ‘83.
Votes: 3 | Comments: 0 | Views: 1734

Rick Harrison: El Capitan Jump - 2009-09-25 by Rick Harrison/B.A.S.E 38 new

Half Dome was a completely different experience as we grew up in Iowa and had never really seen cliffs except on a couple visits to Colorado as kids. We wanted our night cliff to get the “E” for B.A.S.E and Night B.A.S.E we headed to California to do El Capitan in June of 1982.
Votes: 3 | Comments: 0 | Views: 854

Rick Harrison: My First Jump - 2009-09-25 by Rick Harrison/B.A.S.E 38 new

My first B.A.S.E jump which is always scary for any new jumper, took place from what was then named the Texas Commerce Bank in Houston, Texas on January 1, 1982. Randy, my twin brother and I had taken skydiving lessons at 21 years old, in our senior year of College as a credited Physical Education course at the University of Iowa in 1971.
Votes: 4 | Comments: 0 | Views: 912