What do you look like?

Nope, Farthest in the cart with a Ohio State coat is Noah (7), we adopted him in 2000. Then comes Quin we adopted him out of foster care when he was 3 in 2004. And of course the super genius Grace, we adopted her in 2002.
My little slice of heaven. :)
 
Gorgeous kids mate! Wich one likes to play with the bass? be sure to make a bass player out of him :wink:
 
hey guys, this is me... Adrian :)

playing cello from 16 years , I guess. I'm 25 now. In 2004 i picked up the bass guitar..



flying my paraglider... a sport I love so much, but unfortunately earlier this year I had an accident witch almost made me unable to play music again... I survived though, and after this summer/autumn tours, in winter, I hope I can fly again. I don't want to quit... but everyone is pushing me to..

I've met with Florin and he gave me a set of strings and said: "If you keep flying, those strings can last you a lifetime"





this is a close-up from an official photo session with my band...
 
Fraxture said:
Nope, Farthest in the cart with a Ohio State coat is Noah (7), we adopted him in 2000. Then comes Quin we adopted him out of foster care when he was 3 in 2004. And of course the super genius Grace, we adopted her in 2002.
My little slice of heaven. :)
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Good stuff man...
 
hey precision, sdo you mind if i asked what happened with the paraglider?

i hope you make a full recovery mate and get back to what you love doing.
 
Precision... call me risk-averse, but you do NOT want to be doing stuff like paragliding.... we already have a tenuous-enough grip on our mortal coil without doing stuff like that!

Get your adrenhalin on the stage... pumping out serious grooves! :wink:
 
theres something about flying that is special, something that even warwicks and stages cannot replace :D you only get to live once
 
I begun flying at the age of 13. It was love at first flight! In 98 i bought my own equipment and started to fly very often. I 2000 at the age of 18 I was already flying on mountain sites, very high altitudes...

In 9 years of constant flying I've never had any problem, accident or bad stuff. In return, I received a great feeling of satisfaction, a lot of amazing friends, unique sensations and pleasure.

Since I can remember me, I had only two dreams: to play music and fly. I've managed to do both very good until this year, on third of march, when I went to a very small hill near bucharest for practicing ground handling. It was a routine day, the wind was strong, and the temperatures were quite high for this time of year.
I was unlucky! Really! I was somehow picked up by a dust-devil (a small but very powerful dust tornado
- [video=youtube;Q3QcMB2owFc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3QcMB2owFc[/video] )

. i was instantly dragged on the ground with an amazing speed, and somewhere ahead of me I saw the land starting to rise in very small steps... being dragged, I hit the first step (it was about 40 cm high!!!!!!) with the left side of my body... the pain came instantly and my breath was blocked for a few seconds. Right after the impact the glider fell on the ground, my colleagues jumped on me to avoid another drag... all this happened in max 5-6 seconds, and i covered a distance ~ 30 m.

I was unable to move my left arm, the pain was focused on my shoulder. I've checked my legs and my toes to see if I can move them, so I presumed that my spine was alright. my left side of torso and my left leg were also damaged on impact. In hospital on x-rays It appeared that I have only 2 small fractures on some bones in my left shoulder, the torso was ok...

This accident came with a very bad timing! My band activities on march were halted, and all the preparations for release of our new album were delayed.
Looking back, I consider myself lucky, because i was very close to a full fractured torso. After a month, I released my hand and returned slowly to work. I made a custom strap, very wide from a very thick leather to better dispose the weight of my bass.
It feels very weird to know I crashed in front of a 30 m hill after all the amazing flights I've made in very difficult conditions at over 3000 m.

Well, now i plan to return to paragliding somewhere in winter, then the weather is very calm and I can re-start flying in maximum safety conditions. You can see some photos and movies of my flying group on www.parateam.ro

This is the only place where I wrote this story... I already forgot about it until now. :)

Cheers guys! I hope to come next time with happier stories! :)
 
Wow, just looking at the photo feels like I got kicked in the fellas! I could never do that and please be carefull!
 
Hey, I see me down there going to a gig in Brasov. I think the roads down there are more dangerous than the flying...
 
ThirdthumB said:
Must be great,

flying high, and shouting: "WARWICK RUUUUUUUUUULESSSSS !!!!!" :twisted:
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hmmm... interesting idea... I should tatoo my glider with a big W, this way she'll know that after the flight I must return in one piece to my bass :lol:
 
You should get a one piece NT bass, maybe she will get the idea better ...
 
precision said:
Since I can remember me, I had only two dreams: to play music and fly.
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it was the same for me. since i was 7 or 8 all i ever wanted to do was fly for a living (the RAF to be more specific). then music started to become just as important and i had to make the decision between attempting to fly for a living or being a musician. i decided to follow the musical path

however doing something like paragliding might be a good way of doing the other thing i love whilst still being able to do my music. i'll just have to hope that in a few years this becomes possible :)
 
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