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Crazy Jumpers The sweater IGNOBLE/l'Inventeur/Pilote Calvin19 and Annibal: A Matter of FamilyBill Waterson Calvin and the comic strip of Hobbes was introduced to the public in 1985, a year Matthew "Calvin" previous Hecker did his beginning on this planet. Now a strong argument can be done that Calvin19, as it is known on the forum, was left by error here by the Mothership and they will return soon to claim it. To add to this argument are colleagues sweaters DISGUSTING commenting on, "This guy does some crazy fuck"; a declaration that attracts you in the thought "this is it that I must meets". "To live your life for you and done not base on the popular opinion. The individuals cannot be classified, they are moved away too various for ticket. Do not be adventurous, the breaks neck, or the sportsman, be a searching one of all things in life". Calvin is a searching one of life, kissing everyday every moment with every fiber of his is. It will go ten round ones with despair, it does poorly with the desire, and it is filled with the passion to swallow the body of life before the universe returns it to the ash. When it does not do, creating or direct an adventure, it captures it on the film. Thousands on photograph thousands freezing its friends and his family in the moment in a time moment- preserved to rekindle the imagination flames. The pebble, Colorado furnished the landscapes for his life, this art work it lives and breathes. "I like this city, the young ones open women of high school had objections, the glorious mountains in my backyard, my huge turns, 2000 high feet cliffs, the rivers, my family and my friends", it shouts. This type to live in the moment is reflected in his jump philosophy also, "all you can only is new to you once. My life is a moment collection. I have a sonorous band. Every time I fly I try to reply to this beautiful music in my head and does the visual value the time it took my imagination to compose the ideas. You could compare to it the films; I never was a voucher judges films because I could not see the entire thing in his final value. I kept am lost in only every moment, every sensation that could be taken beauty of the visual and audible sensations. Fly does this for me, I can produce the sensations before I feel them, and I have am it in the flight. See the line in an airplane or a wingsuit and taking then strong for this hole in the sky". "I live the manner that I do, with the flight, and the risk, and the dreams, and the reality, just for that maybe I can reply to musical score in my head. I cannot write the music, or the paint landscapes, but I can fly. I can move myself the body with the aluminum papers as my tools to do the sensations the more narcotics and transfer these epic visions of magnitude and the adventure to whoever can look at". These time moments heavily weigh on the spirit of Calvin. To delayed flies of the occasions to scratch objectives fill on his long list. Oh, yes there is an entitled list "the Things To Do before I Die" and reads as such:
A rather ambitious list of objectives for does not import that, on the other hand, Calvin is not just does not import that, as proved by his activity list: The pilot of Wingsuit, the Flying Rope and Jump, the Sewing, the BASIS jumping, Skiing and the Flying Skiing, Equiper, the Sail, Rafting, Mountain Climbing, Flying Speed, E.U., the Photograph, the Trip, the Aviation, the Surfing of granit, aerial Acrobatics, Paragliding, Hang To Glide, O'CLOCK. ONE. B. crewing/jump, the Kites, Editer, Films it, Dive Submarine, ZAGI running, the Soft Surface, and the Red Change. It treats currently his degree in "Flying of the Things" to the University of Valley of Utah through the online courses, allowing for him to accelerate the process. It was to fly airplane of sail to 13, hang to glide to 16 and to have won his permit of the pilot of FAA at the age of 18. Only to finish by currently been founded because of an accident and a consecutive refusal of the FAA to clarify his medical one for again 3 years. Calvin summarizes the position as a "the epic fails" on the party of FAA and it does not stop it any "bitching" of him in the public. Who is said, it reconciled that the thing more feeble it never did was "flies a paraglide in a rotor leaving me in a coma with a ¾ of value of millions of dollars a stay of hospital, a painful walk and 6 months of my untraceable life for". This in turned allowed the FAA to be founded it for the time is because of medical one. Although these 6 months can be agreed as spent stopwatch in a coma, it was wasted the time for a man that has places to go, the things to do, the people to meet. It has the small patience in order not to delayed. As Calvin, of fame of Calvin and Hobbes creating the "transmogrifier", this Calvin has intention on is innovative in all that it undertakes. Have no projects of never to take the retirement to do the things that it feels the most fascinated one of in life. "To fly is part of my life", it declares, "the thing more important you must understand of me is I do not consider BASES jumping separated of my other activities. I fly using papers of aerodynamic aluminums in so in a manner there is not in a manner for me to separate to jump BASIS. I use DISGUSTING equipment for a multitude of things besides to jump BASIS, just like a thing multitude that are equipment not of DISGUSTING one to jump BASIS. My objective is to innovate; my fear is that I never will help does not import what of all that I do". Calvin enumerates Damian Doucette, the Pope of Chris, the Lobby of Jesse, Shane McConkey, JT Holmes, the Miles Daisher, Nicholas Kaminski, Max Kuszaj, Kenyon Salo, Mike Steen, Blake, and Brendon as the sweaters that it admires. It mentally gets ready for a jump by, "thinking especially of what I am about to to do and that I will do if something goes against that I planned. Especially this does just a check of final quick engrenage, but the climbed entire, the hike, or take in advance I look for although the news are available to me. Especially I look for the characteristics of wind and air. The people need to understand that the beauty to jump BASIS and sports similar to him, there is not in a manner sufficiently to prepare to every jump. Every time leave you an object the conditions are different. My final thoughts are of what I want to accomplish on the jump". As for the biggest errors it believes than the new sweaters do, "to become on confiding and be ignorant, but this is one of the things without hope to jump BASIS". I pushed it more to explain why it considers to jump BASIS to be "without hope". "In saying his without hope; not to think that I do not mean does the attention. I mean that there is not in a manner for everyone to please, there is so many points different view it will be impossible everyone to do happy. The important thing to recall is itself that there always are things to learn, regardless of. Even if that you learn are how not to act, or which not to do. To think about the things is a very important party, but you need to obtain outside the perspectives of the experienced sweaters to couple with your clean thought". Calvin began the parachutisme to obtain in to jump BASIS. It fell in the love with all types of graves and to fly free, but hates clicks it dropzones and parachute and the clicheds HAS the age 19, it was to jump DISGUSTING and won his DISGUSTING number in 5 jumps. It was attracted TO BASE to jump at the age of 13 old years while to look at the television with his friend Alex Gilmer. It relates the day they the two discovered the BASIS, "the it was an uniform jump of the of the grave Rock, aeoe3...2...1...exit!" Only a delay of 2 seconds, the slide down below. I recall looking at me the many and many repetitions times. I looked at Alex and said, "I will do that". We did not do more than 8 years later". In the conversation with Adam Encourages, a friend since a long time and a colleague sweater of Calvin, it related this history as an of his most of "Heckerisms" memorable. The it was Christmas Eve ('04 I think). There was a little a rear wind and I said Matt that the it was his decision (as the conditions were not big, but not horrible or). I went to PCA him and the free fall after. We all obtained ready and I establish Matt for his PCA, it took out and opened well. On the landing that it shined, hit the ground, and did a wonderful PLF followed by his baldachin covering it (landed us in the wind direction). In this moment all I could think was, "I think that the this could be a little too blows for a landing in the wind direction". I could not send morally Matt of on his first jump of building and am not after looking at his less than optimum landing, therefore I jumped and crushed me just it same. All in all the it was an impressive night and an eventful the one for Matt, as it obtained his DISGUSTING number that. Oh, do have-t I mentioned the it was his fifth DISGUSTING jump? Matt probably is one of the more stunning people than I never met. With all it was by him always became one of the DISGUSTING sweaters more gifted (among others things) I am friends with. I could elaborate also on the time it did his first winning one of cliff of cliff the more wave I never jumped. Calvin appreciates the "therapy" of a jump of solo, giving him sometimes the hours to allow time of preparation of him to think about which it does without the interruptions. Nevertheless, it is more "satisfies" and in a "better" mood when it participates in a group jump dividing the experience with of others. The jump that detaches itself in his spirit, "my big jump of illegal wall with my better friend Jesse Lobby, the relative epic movement magic and the sound of vast one. Jesse is almost the guy more fresh outside, Pro Skier, the DISGUSTING sweater the most naturally consumed than I never saw. It brought me to the big illegal wall when I had turned just 20." His describes his favorite object of jump in this manner: "She is sexy, big with the perfect dark complexion, very wet to the bottom and perfects in the size". Before you will accuse it of take of the erotic art edcrituree, takes notes of what a romantic one it is flight, "the sensation without hope to leave an exit point, followed by the hope filled the sensation of aerodynamic check in the free fall as speed is attained, the fear is replaced by the check sensation. BASE to am me a challenge; a therapy in an emotion exercise, the reactions and attain "impressionent". How many people to obtain the "fear" more than two times per year on the vacation? Not a lot. I obtain it everyday almost". Who sexy, big, gauged perfectly the object is "the big illegal wall in the Colorado" that it talked about preceding one. What a man does it that likes flying; the adventure and explore the possibilities take the time for stop and look at outside his kingdom of activities? "I appreciate looking at THE Air to the Red increase runs a lot. I have not money or the competence to participate. These pilots are the better one better one to fly the better one better one. There is not argument". As for the air Army to the Red increase that someone consider a detriment TO BASE, it specified boldly in his opinion, "there is nothing cheats with the actions of the Army of the air to the Red increase. They are all my heroes. They do the stunning things and I wish that I was a part of their team. They are athletes that promoted themselves, their competences and can have someone of other to pay the bill for the things that they like to do. I consider them the innovative and searching one". "Shane, the team to the Red increase and the other stunning athletes, push outside envelops it, they look at the bend every time they fly. After reading posts by Shane and JT, (their blogs) I think that they appreciate life, jumping and be in the stunning places just as the old sweaters of school did is the sweaters of outlaw of return in the day. The miles and Shane explore places that never was jumped and was opened them for us all views and follow. They appreciate and all receipts of the place and the people when they jump". "The (the old successes to the Anti-red increase) always says 'we jump on the shoulders of giants', referring itself to the people that began the sport. These days, when I jump with the Lobby of Jesse, when I the skiing bases, I jump next to these giants of modern era. These guys are the giants of, pushing today envelops it further and quicker". "Shane is hero of mine. Shane is a Giant. Period". For "to jump" of Calvin is how it grew. It did not teach it death, but did to think about it him a lot. "It did my spirit to wander to the things that I am afraid of, but not ignorant of. Base jumping every emotion to "redlined" that a human can have for me". Growing to jump added one to interest dynamic to its responsibilities and its relations with his family. In particular its sisters, that it balks constantly of the blows of not at all on their pages of Facebook with the commentaries, a lot of as in his childhood, hunting often Anne with a mouthful to threaten spit to launch it in his direction. "I jump because I want also. Do not import what my family can think or can say to is for me of does not import. This is not unique TO BASE to jump. I feel that if one liked it one slows down or stopping it to do something that they like, then they are not liked the one and are selfish. They say that BASES is a sport and the this egoists are. I has not any illusion of that; I do not know that whoever does. The only more selfish thing says for him of not to do it. The this is not a dependance to the drugs or to alcohol. I like to jump BASIS. Dope addicts or the alcoholics do not appreciate are dependent; they need him and are illusory. I like BASES and fly, therefore I fly and jumps. Do not import that being held in my manner of this is selfish. Do not import that with my 'the better interests to the spirit' does the personnel to the ground for me and takes photos. Not me I to say am careless". Enter Annibalae¦un studying at the University of Colorado in Production of Film of BFA. Anne appreciates a lot of hobbies all in the means of art and of media, "drawing, the writing, the photograph, the films, the television, and reading". In the past she conceived iconography for the Day of Bridge and claims this as its final thoughts before a jump, "the Camera on? Check. The lens cork of? Check. The supervision? Check. The home? Check. Oh the fuck, the this is in the video method. The agreement, nowae¦f*@! There they go. Oops". She is life optimist, enumerating winning oscars, traveling the world and is the first human on Pluton as its future objectives. If Calvin is the "romantic" family, then Anne is the "clown", the pepper to his salt. Today Anne has his brother, Calvin "the better interests" to the bottom despite the indifference they could have taken part in their childhood. "I met a tree", said Anne when relaying she most of stunned transfers to the date. "Matt will like me to say this. I was outside our house in top in the green, just Tree the waste stopwatch the manner a 11 old years does. Then Matt went out of the house. This was during these years where Matt was more probable to spit on me or hit me than does not import what of other, therefore to the first sign of him developing mucus that I have left in a dead sprint. Which, look at behind was enough delayed, especially since I looked at in the back to the time, to Matt, instead of the before, and well, the trees are not completely as downy as the one would hope. I finished by spread out on the ground, stunned and in the pain, with the position of Matt on me laughing his donkey of. It returned to the interior, left me just there. A such big brother, I think that I put just there for a voucher ten minutes before I can moved myself. The entire side of my face bled and I had this big big face crust for the weeks". She contributes his "is a tyrant and a small insulting fuck" to her in their youth to doing his more fort, "I can take a lot of pains with no complaint". Which she points out also did it "weaker, because I never ask the assistance in does not import what that has importance". During this Calvin/Matt of discussion commented on how terrible it felt now to the manner it treated his sister in their younger days. Also it has, Anne, be the President of the Matthew "Calvin" Hecker fan club, with younger Emily of sister uses the vice President. In the opposite direction the question as for "the family responsibilities", Anne that she spoke frankly of THE BASIS of his brother jumps. "When I think about that it is dangerous, or how I could obtain this call. You know the call I entered the passed. 'Your brother was in an accident'. The other Matt of day went to jump an "A" some hours far. The this is the type of arrived to the point where I worry the whole time. When the beeps of telephone I have an instinctive reaction to think that the worse one arrived". I like this Matt is a sweater. It very to precipitate as a wool sweater. No, seriously, I like it. It always is so happy when it is about to to jump, jumping or just jumped. After flying an airplane this is there where I see it the happiest one. Then, I never would try to do to stop it or wishes that it would stop just to finish my personal worry, renouncing a vital party of itself? The hell no I always wonder me of the sweaters is estimated selfish by of others. But how it this is less selfish to try to obtain the sweater to be in accordance with that you want? If I said Matt to stop jumping because it could die, I really would be worried it would die or I am worried that I would must treat his death? Of more, one of the reasons that I imply with to jump, the sweaters and the community are to avoid the call. I do not want Matt to die to jump; I do not want Matt to die, the period. But if it dies to jump, I want to be there with him if possible. I do not want to obtain the telephone call. I do not desire to have the questions remained without response and second histories of hand. That is my view on the question. Who all is secondary to how expense it looks at and how it this of entertainment is to be there, but that reasons for me". Anne never has BASES jumped but she has a tandem jumps in parachute and in 2007 she completed a jump of rope of FRASCA. She credits is around his brother and its colleagues sweaters with to contribute to his personal growth. "Well, it had a direct hand in my decision to transfer of a life of limping as a major English to Colorado Declares to a life of a manufacturer of film, that is exactly where I want to be. It brought me of a life of discontent and boredom to 19 to the agitation and personal happiness to 21. I thought in fact while to look at Continuum, these guys, at least in theory, live as themselves they could not see tomorrow. They do that they like, they understand the mortality. Do I want to live the think about life, "I will do that tomorrow"? when the thing that I put back is my own happiness, my dreams, my life? If I transferred. I do now that I like. My personal growth between the form of a reduction in personal limping". In the consideration to if to jump BASIS is a sport against the force turn in his point of unique view, "In the BASIS, you have just your own weaknesses or your fears to conquer. You have an apathetic environment to do the competition to but it does not compete any return. Now, you, your instincts, your spirit, your logic, your heart and all, they fight the whole time. Want to bring your entire body of logical reasoning, your physical body, and place your fears in failure as to jump of some immense height in the open atmosphere? That is not a turn of force or a sport, that is the art". The contribution of Anne TO BASE between the manner that she recommends to non-sweater-overs one' on the problems to overlap or how few a sweaters of impact would have on the National Parks in the comparison to the varappeurs and to the pedestrian hikers. "The relief workers not are they paid? Do not do f* % the king hikers pedestrian is lost the whole time? I do not obtain just the logic in to forbid sweaters", she moans herself. Another contribution is the documentation that she does his brother and of colleagues sweaters on the film, in the photos and his iconography. She considers his engagement with the community as one interested the one. "I want to know these people; I want to be part of it. If I never contribute something to the basic community, the this is because I can and it arrives, not because I look for it needs or the recognition for him. I am taker. Any to give is purely incidental". Not to be surpassed by his brother she can be just as romantic to describe that she likes better to jump BASIS. "I appreciate comradeship. I appreciate also psychology, the aesthetic, the method, the fight, and the human flight. The vitality of him all. The manner that it approaches me to the sensation that it there really has a reason to be living and we are more just at random emptying synapses and the cells hit together to form the pod a not very fleshy sticky one". When it is a nomination matter on the forum Anne does not leave the connotation of aeoewhat-the-#@!%-are-you-doing-here?" stop she. "I like to think that I contribute something in maybe just a fresh opinion asa and there, maybe a perspective of the foreigner on the things". As for the changes TO BASE the sweater-over one. com, "I could say that I would do the more pleasant people, but I do not believe in the censorship and I feel that although person has the post, limiting there by the big degree that people can post are just that. There are members that are of an abrasive annoying manner, but at the same time, as a non-sweater-over one, I feel as I surpass limits while posting a commentary to them. If a good party of the time, I keep my think about me". She adds, "thank you you, the BASIS jumping the community, to leave a band helps as I sit on fringes it and claims to belong. And to allow me to take photos and is strange and left". "Oh, the left", she pleasing. Although the clumsiness that she can feel, his brother does not see it. "Anne is brilliant and always to create. I like the two my sisters to the death".
If Anne is the pepper to the salt of Calvin, then the 4' 10" energy bullet that their parents named Emily is the spices in their lives. Emily, a University of 19 years and assistant of Colorado, majoring of Spring of Colorado in Psychology "is delayed happy" as Calvin describes it. It is quick to point out that "Emily is impressive and can fly without the wings", referring itself to its gymnastic capacities. Emily explains to come some to an accomodement with the athletic activities of its brothers. "I did not think about him dying or is injured as a lot before the accident. I I always guess saw it as is indestructible. I always trusted his judgement and its systems. But apreds his accident that it me clarifyed me more than you cannot be to do sure the things than it does just by is intelligent of him. It frightens knowing me a lot that I to could obtain does not import when that calls word of family it is dead paragliding, or jump, or one of the a lot of things that his does. But, I guess what frightens more it thought about me not him doing these things. It is the airman, the sweater, the adventurous, the pilot. I know it that not doing these things it dissatisfied facts. What it does is beautiful, narcotic, and I like the Fact that it them does. I will not remain in says that it feels fresh and I like the revealing how impressive people my brother is. 'Ouais, that has reason; it is pilots, a DISGUSTING sweater, a pilot of paraglide, a skier, Matt Hecker, it is my brother'. I like this does. Not poorly of". As a young child she idolized his brother. She relates to play on his first system of jump to their house of the father. "It was a lot of entertainments. There was this incident where crazy something arrived while they allows me cheeks over and I rebounded completely around the rope. My brother and its friends thought the it was impressive, but apparently it it was dangerous, therefore I did not obtain to play over more". As Anne, she jumped jump of rope of FRASCA of the Calvin alongside the side with their mother. She hopes to a paraglide of day and to the faces that it brother could think that that is "fresh" of his small sister. It never encouraged it to participate in any of its sports, although its friends suggested for him that she need at least to jump in parachute a day. Although she does not frequent the DISGUSTING forum of sweater and because of his screw a distance of his brother while to attend the school, she always feels that it and his BASIS jumps of the to the friends contributed to his own growth personal by the years. "I have an absolute love for the flight, the adventure, and the beauty of this world. I would say that that is around my brother and its friends, be sweaters or not, formed without any doubts my views on life. I became very adventurous and my brother is the cause of that. I would see it that leaves the entry door the innumerable times and looks at returned it with the histories and the stunning photos that did wants to be done me more in life. Especially it and the other DISGUSTING sweaters did it if I want to live truly life more full and better I can, does not import how I accomplish that. The only thing that I admire more of my brother is than it accomplishes although it wants, in life or in a day, it does not hesitate, it does it just. Although it rule his heart to do, it always does it". While a lot of sweaters have boredom reconciling their love of the free fall with to keep the peace in the family, Calvin managed to do if. Calvin in the comic strip has his Hobbes of faithful companion; this Calvin has love and the support of its two sisters "to the ginger". "I think that it helped my parents confront my life also. Anne in special loves coming TO BASE events and things as him. The 'the support crew' is impressive and the memories always are better. I had a big childhood in comparison of a lot of people, but jumping me and do the things I like to do did to realize me the importance of call of my mother, or kissing it, etc."
I asked Adam if it felt that Calvin would attain all the objectives on his "the Things To Do before I Die" the list. "Provided that it does not die first, there is not a lot of that could stop for him. It is elastic rotten and very motivated. I hope just that I can be there for certain of the brightness that it imagines". As preceding mentioned, "this guy does some crazy fuck" and the east all would be lucky to meet and to take part in his brightness. Calvin19. Victory. Period.
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The quick questions with Calvin: Q: Your bigger accomplishment in thus removed life? One: the trios of Household Q: Which type of vehicle do you drive? One: the Bush of Subaru Q: What your epitaph will it read? One: the "Audacity" Q: the Favorite Book? One: Contact by Carl Sagan Q: What you does it unique to jump? One: Nothing I jump just things as all the others. Q: The changes that you would do to the Basejumper.Com: One: "is ridded of the whole ginger" Q: Which is your bigger weakness in to jump? One: I have only the conscience of air of average. Q: What do you feel are yourself your contribution TO BASE? One: I help to do it and participating it capable. Q: Who does you chose as the next interviewee? One: JT Holmes Calvin Statistics:
You to thank to Adam Encourages and Emily Hecker for their contribution to the item. All rights reserved. No reissue of this equipment, in any form or average any, is allowed without the permission expresse of the author. Posted on January 16, 2010.
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