Originally posted by 2Sharp
Ok, did i get this right? you want to attend a (kick butt) seminar with the Strider guys, Ernest Emerson, and Bram Frank and you're afraid of the flying??, i'd rather be afraid of getting my butt smacked to the floor 
Yeah.....getting my butt kicked and slashed at by the best in the business is very intimidating but I hope to leave there with more than just bruises and a deflated ego. I plan on walking...........ok ok Hobbling away from there with some good training.
As intimidating as that is when is the last time you heard of people walking away from falling a couple miles up out of the sky at an un-Godly speed in a huge chunk of metal????
I've seen several people walk away from getting the butt seriously kicked and then some but the falling outta the sky part scares the stuff outta me.
Second to the last flight I was on came too close to that. The pretty woman beside me had dug her nails into my forearm during the flight and I didn't know it until after we were on the ground safe and noticed all the claw marks in my arm.
Normally a pretty woman screaming and digging her nails into me is something I would usually end up liking
(Heck liking it's what I wish for everyday)
But at the time it just wasn't doing anything for me. Heck I even got away with having that done to me with my wife in the next seat and she didn't have a thing to say about it
The last flight they pretty much had to knock me out and chain me down. Waitaminute....ok ok that's starting to sound like another one of my demented fantasies. Anyways I was pretty much a wreck before and during the flight because I couldn't get the bad thoughts out of my head.
I think it's a control thing. When that episode happened it made me realize that I had absolutely no bearing on my safety at that moment. Once I realized that flying became a big no-no for me. Ask my wife she knows I am a huge control freak. When you're up there you have no control, none, nada, zilch, zip, 0......
Originally posted by kh21106
Wish this were closer to me. Im in NY. I would no doubt attend.
NY isn't that far from PA. We should make this a duo suspect trip. Come on it'll be fun KH. You know you wanna
Originally posted by John Hollister
Oh, Don't get a flight with Ross, that one is sure to crash! (JOKE! . . . It's a joke!)
John
OH WAY TO GO JOHN!!!
I was just starting to think it might be ok but you just had to say that now didn't you!
Just got done telling the wife I was gonna start reconsidering flying again but
Nooooooo!!!! you just had to go and throw that Hollister wrench in the works now didn't cha?????
Ross T.
stinkin Hollister probably jinxed my a$$...... 
