Blue Skies Magazine Sponsoring a Skyride Boogie?

Wow. I never thought this lil boogie of mine would get so much attention. So thank you!

To all the people who are willing to cancel your subscription over this...your a bunch of overzelous idiots. Seriously. All this fuss over BSM donating a 1 year subscription, a t-shirt and some stickers. Go get a life.

To all the others who still hate skyride yet are mature enough to understand things from a fun jumpers perspective. Thank you. Its nice to know there are still reasonable people around.

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If I didnt have to join to be able to teach AFF and jump at many DZs.... I would not be a member. But they are not stupid and they are forcing people to join.

USPA has a monopoly, BSM does not.

Taking a stand isn't always convenient. If not giving money to those who "support" Slyride is important enough to warrant canceling a subscription to a magazine for skydivers (a small business run by skydivers), why is it not important enough to warrant canceling your membership to an organization that also "supports" Slyride - and in a much bigger way than sending some swag for a boogie?

If you aren't willing to be inconvenienced by your "protest," then it doesn't really mean anything. If you aren't going to boycott every company and organization that "support" them, you're not taking a stand on anything. You're just blowing smoke.

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Wow. I never thought this lil boogie of mine would get so much attention. So thank you!

To all the people who are willing to cancel your subscription over this...your a bunch of overzelous idiots. Seriously. All this fuss over BSM donating a 1 year subscription, a t-shirt and some stickers. Go get a life.

To all the others who still hate skyride yet are mature enough to understand things from a fun jumpers perspective. Thank you. Its nice to know there are still reasonable people around.

This is a partial repost from the other thread;

Why do you jump there? You know that the money you are giving them is only going to further finance their fraudulent advertising and scam and blasting stickers all over Nashville. With all the info that's available online and throughout the many threads here on DZ.com, and even in this thread, you can't say you don't know.

Another question I have is this;
You mentioned that BSM gave you guys some stickers, does that mean that there is going to be a blitz of Blue Skies Magazine stickers all over Nashville? I got a screen shot of your statement and emailed it to the Nashville prosecutor so if that happens, they wont go after BSM, they will be looking at you guys again, and since you added that this is your boogie, well, I guess you will be held personally liable for the stickers should they find their way to a stop sign near you.

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If I didnt have to join to be able to teach AFF and jump at many DZs.... I would not be a member. But they are not stupid and they are forcing people to join.

USPA has a monopoly, BSM does not.

Taking a stand isn't always convenient. If not giving money to those who "support" Slyride is important enough to warrant canceling a subscription to a magazine for skydivers (a small business run by skydivers), why is it not important enough to warrant canceling your membership to an organization that also "supports" Slyride - and in a much bigger way than sending some swag for a boogie?

If you aren't willing to be inconvenienced by your "protest," then it doesn't really mean anything. If you aren't going to boycott every company and organization that "support" them, you're not taking a stand on anything. You're just blowing smoke.

I did!!

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If I didnt have to join to be able to teach AFF and jump at many DZs.... I would not be a member. But they are not stupid and they are forcing people to join.

USPA has a monopoly, BSM does not.

Taking a stand isn't always convenient. If not giving money to those who "support" Slyride is important enough to warrant canceling a subscription to a magazine for skydivers (a small business run by skydivers), why is it not important enough to warrant canceling your membership to an organization that also "supports" Slyride - and in a much bigger way than sending some swag for a boogie?

If you aren't willing to be inconvenienced by your "protest," then it doesn't really mean anything. If you aren't going to boycott every company and organization that "support" them, you're not taking a stand on anything. You're just blowing smoke.

I did!!

Me Too.
ETA - But I am curious to what the USPA donates to skyride in support of this boogie.

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If you aren't going to boycott every company and organization that "support" them, you're not taking a stand on anything. You're just blowing smoke.

Do you really think this?
It seems very extreme.
I'm pretty disgusted about how one dropzone out there supports unsafe behavior, and I refuse to jump there. But... their aircraft are provided by someone I deeply respect, and whose aircraft/pilots are terrific. While I won't jump at the aforementioned dropzone, I'm very happy to jump their aircraft at other locations, and don't feel a whit for it.
This sport is too small to get too deep into isolationism, I think. I have no problem directly not supporting something, but indirectly...we're all too much kissing cousins to draw such a hard line.

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If you aren't going to boycott every company and organization that "support" them, you're not taking a stand on anything. You're just blowing smoke.

Do you really think this?
It seems very extreme.
I'm pretty disgusted about how one dropzone out there supports unsafe behavior, and I refuse to jump there. But... their aircraft are provided by someone I deeply respect, and whose aircraft/pilots are terrific. While I won't jump at the aforementioned dropzone, I'm very happy to jump their aircraft at other locations, and don't feel a whit for it.
This sport is too small to get too deep into isolationism, I think. I have no problem directly not supporting something, but indirectly...we're all too much kissing cousins to draw such a hard line.

Exactly. One can choose to do as little or as much as they feel the need, For me it's not jumping at any DZ owned by the SkyRide crew, but will jump at DZs that take the certs.

I hope they have a great boogie and have tons of fun jumps cuz that means far fewer SkyRide tandems.

ETA - But I am curious to what the USPA donates to skyride in support of this boogie.