Author Topic: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...  (Read 9630 times)

Offline Mikekoz13

  • Sure you can rub it... all the girls want to...
  • Sly Moderator
  • Sly Nobility
  • *****
  • Posts: 8630
  • Country: us
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2008, 12:56:43 PM »
Never done either....... Bungee jumping no way........... I would try sky diving...
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" W.C. Fields

Offline Medic aka Rocko

  • Super Sly
  • ****
  • Posts: 409
  • Country: 00
  • Yikes
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2008, 12:59:11 PM »
I'd do either one/both given the opportunity and the extra cash to afford it.

I did ride the Royal Rush skycoaster at the Royal Gorge in Colorado.  It's like what Timmay was describing, but you swing out over the Royal Gorge so when you look down, the ground is 1300 feet down. :D  It was totally wicked :o  They screwed up my DVD of the ride though, so that sucked.

Offline SlyBaldDude

  • Sly
  • ***
  • Posts: 148
    • Standing Out In the Crowd
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2008, 01:08:40 PM »
My skydiving experience was back in the early 90's.  I took a class, and then jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.  When I exited I bounced off of the wheel and the whole plane dumped to the side for a moment.  They thought I had been knocked out but I was fine .. just trying to finish peeing my pants so I could enjoy the trip.  It is kind of like, "AAAAAAAAAA",  then your shute pops out and its like, "Uh,  wow,  this is pretty cool.  Im suppose to land where?"

I didn't land quite right and ended up in a crumpled ball on the ground amist a cloud of dust.  I spent the next month in a knee brace.

I saw no need to repeat the experience.

GASlick

  • Guest
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2008, 06:22:16 AM »
I would do either in a flash.  Sounds like fun.  The closest I have come to anything like that was the Big Shot on top of the Stratosphere in Vegas.  That was awsome!

Offline Timmay

  • Team Sly
  • Sly Nobility
  • ******
  • Posts: 8829
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2008, 06:32:59 AM »
I thought we were all gonna sky dive in for the convention....like Viva Las Vegas Elvis style........

Offline Paul

  • Bald Rider
  • Sly Moderator
  • Sly Nobility
  • *****
  • Posts: 5435
  • Country: 00
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2008, 07:24:42 AM »
Oh sure, and I bet you want the Red and White parachutes, eh Timmay?
"...and I--I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."  Robert Frost

Offline Timmay

  • Team Sly
  • Sly Nobility
  • ******
  • Posts: 8829
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #21 on: April 24, 2008, 07:57:05 AM »
Of course....

Offline Timmay

  • Team Sly
  • Sly Nobility
  • ******
  • Posts: 8829
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #22 on: April 24, 2008, 07:57:45 AM »
Weird thing is...I dont even like Red...not my favorite color....maybe that is why I dont wear it that much...

Offline tomgallagher

  • Ad Free VIP
  • Sly Nobility
  • *****
  • Posts: 5497
  • Country: us
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #23 on: April 24, 2008, 12:05:49 PM »
I used to fly them and I had to wear one but there is no way I am jumping from a perfectly safe airplane.

Offline buddha

  • Sly Bureau
  • *****
  • Posts: 1737
  • Country: 00
  • Cut myself shaving!
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #24 on: April 27, 2008, 08:36:35 PM »
I don't think there's enough room in that little backpack for the extra underwear I would need after I got done crapping myself.
"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it never really care for anything else thereafter."
Ernest Hemingway, On The Blue Water.

Offline Bolohead

  • Bolohead
  • Ultimate Sly Guy
  • *****
  • Posts: 750
  • Country: us
  • At 56 and still feeling GREAT!
    • Jon Erdmann - Photographer
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #25 on: July 25, 2008, 11:52:39 AM »
I haven't done either of those activies but.... Parasailing and Zip Lining is a total rush man.

But this Inverted Bungie/Parashuting would be AWESOME!

Offline zzaapp

  • Sly
  • ***
  • Posts: 227
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #26 on: July 25, 2008, 11:05:14 PM »
Many years ago, preparing for an "orientation flight" in a Navy A4T, part of the training was an ejector seat simulator.  They had a mock-up of a cockpit and the seat rode up on a rail.  The fun part is that they actually blasted you out with a 1/3 the actual explosive charge that is used in the aircraft.

The instructor told us that of the three triggers, the preferred method is to reach up over your head and pull down on the handle with both hands.  A little nylon screen covers your face, he said, "The people who designed it will tell you that it is to protect you from the wind blast as you exit the cockpit at 500 MPH, but really, its because you don't wanna see what's gonna happen next..."

I survived getting blasted out of the simulator, but I have no desire to leave an aircraft that has any chance of staying in the air.

Bungee jumping, I don't think my back could take it.

Now, parasailing, I'd like to try... 

Offline MagmaBabe

  • Sly Bureau
  • *****
  • Posts: 1906
  • thanks guys!! I love ya's to bits <3
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #27 on: July 25, 2008, 11:13:27 PM »
I get over excited just by jumping up and down on a trampoline!!  :/O

so definitely not either.
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances ~  Martha Washington

Offline Jer

  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
  • Team Sly
  • Ultimate Sly Guy
  • ******
  • Posts: 747
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #28 on: July 30, 2008, 05:57:19 AM »
Parachuting is a BLAST!!!  I've done it a few times and would love to do it again, but bungee jumping?  Not a chance in HELL I'd even go near one!

Offline Rob

  • Sly Bureau
  • *****
  • Posts: 1617
  • British baldy since 2006
Re: BUNGEE jumping or SKYdiving...
« Reply #29 on: July 30, 2008, 06:06:05 AM »
NO NO NO! :o

Give me a parachute even for jumpin out of bed, man! :D