Young Thrill Seeker

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Kids these days....

[Mauser KAR98K]

When I was growing up, that was the jump off the bus going home. Friday afternoon green light/jump and the weekend was spent killing Nazis...or Japanese, commies, storm-troopers, the foot. But it felt something special with a jump. (Even had my backpack strapped to the front of me).

Oh to be 12 again in the 90s.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

I can still remember the day I put my pack on and climbed on top of my dads storage shed with a sheet that I had cut and doubled up(for added parachuting liftness). My mom didn't get her yell out soon enough as I jumped off the roof, to a not so graceful landing and trip to emergency room. I still blame it on my chute just not opening fast enough.

[austinN4]

I can still remember the day I put my pack on and climbed on top of my dads storage shed with a sheet that I had cut and doubled up(for added parachuting liftness). My mom didn't get her yell out soon enough as I jumped off the roof, to a not so graceful landing and trip to emergency room. I still blame it on my chute just not opening fast enough.

So, I'm not the only one that tried a homemade chute. Mine didn't end well either.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

Haha, maybe we would have had better luck with a fast rope.

[montanadave]

As a little kid in the late sixties, we lived a couple of doors down from a family who had a trampoline in their backyard, between the garage and the back alley. One afternoon, my older brother and a few friends (he was kind of sweet on the girl whose family had the tramp) decided to try taking a running jump off the garage roof to see how high they could get off the trampoline. So we all gathered around and watched in amazement as the first idiot flew off the garage, hit the trampoline, and promptly sailed over the back fence and into the alley beyond.

Adult intervention was immediately called for and Barb (my brother's kinda girlfriend) ran into the house to get her dad, who happened to be an opthalmologist. After he assessed the crumpled kid in the alley and determined he was going to survive, albeit somewhat worse for wear, Dr. Butler took advantage of this "teaching moment" to instruct the rest of us in some basic physics/optics about angles of incidence and angles of reflection.

Then he told us all to get the hell out of his backyard and stay off the trampoline.

[austinN4]

..........and watched in amazement as the first idiot flew off the garage, hit the trampoline, and promptly sailed over the back fence and into the alley beyond.

^This part made me laugh out loud.

[SilverBullet432]

So, I'm not the only one that tried a homemade chute. Mine didn't end well either.

Ive experimented with plastic bag chutes as a child. All test flights unsuccessful

[GTF425]

to a not so graceful landing and trip to emergency room. I still blame it on my chute just not opening fast enough.

Feet and knees together, Airborne.

[Mauser KAR98K]

Ive experimented with plastic bag chutes as a child. All test flights unsuccessful

Same here. Winn-Dixie and Publix made the worst. I think the big Wal-Mart bags did do something. It still hurt on landing.

My late father was Naval Special Warfare in Vietnam and other locations classified. He taught me the proper way, using a latter, to land the a paratrooper would. Probably saved me a tone of broken bones in my childhood, which thankfully I received none. Knee problems on the other hand...