The Wardinator

Well it was a good weekend with the folks from Skydive Alabama.  I haven’t had a bunch of time to write but I’ll get back to it.  To highlight the weekend I am posting a couple pics here along with a couple stories to explain.  I’ll even put a couple cool vids up to look at from the weekend.  The first thing that was most impressive was how they stocked the beer fridge.  They’re good people and they sure know how to drink.  Here is a pic of the beer fridge.  It literally brought a tear to my eye.

Also, after drinking mass amounts of this beer we decided to soak a roll of toilet paper in Jet A turbine fuel and play what they like to call flaming hacky sack.  Yeah, I singed off the hair on my eyebrows, arms, and legs, but it was a good time.  Here are a couple pics of it.

And just for good measure I’m going to throw in one of my favorite motivational posters because I fucking feel like it.

Now I’ll post a couple of videos from some of our jumps there.  This video is of a tracking dive.  It’s where everyone flies like a bird towards one person that is tracking away.  I decided to track on my back to get good video of everyone.  This jump ended with what they call a swoop and chug.  You try to land as close to the beer as possible and your time starts when you hit the ground and it ends when you finish chugging the beer.  Well as you’ll hear in the second video, I did a little too much swoop and overshot the mark so I cut away my canopy and came back to drink the beer.  I still won…..of course.  And they made me drink a fucking tallboy.  So the videos will be in two parts.  The first part is the tracking dive and the second part is of the end of the jump and the swoop and chug.  Oh, and if you’ll look closely you’ll see that I nailed my head on the wing of the plane on exit, that wasn’t ideal.  Good thing I’m invincible.  Oh, and I’ll throw in another one of my fucking with a dude under canopy.  Click view the vide0 to see the videos.

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