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05-16-2018 , 08:48 PM

#26

Jabrel3

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Join Date: May 2018 Posts: 43

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Originally Posted by Natamus

Wow talk about no backbone when challenged to elaborate

Is there a question of yours I didn’t answer sir?

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05-16-2018 , 08:55 PM

#27

gregorio

Carpal \'Tunnel

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No, he's just an *******

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05-16-2018 , 09:05 PM

#28

Jabrel3

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Originally Posted by gregorio

No, he's just an *******

Haha ok thanks man and sorry if I missed a question of yours. Didn’t come here to piss people off lol, just venting about something that happened to me.

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05-16-2018 , 09:12 PM

#29

lonely_but_rich

ɔarpal \ʇunnel

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 24,110

Why did they stop you, huh? You some kind of weirdo or something?

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05-16-2018 , 09:17 PM

#30

Natamus

Tripped and Fell

Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 16,388

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Originally Posted by gregorio

No, he's just an *******

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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05-16-2018 , 09:19 PM

#31

Rapini

ragging

Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 13,096

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Originally Posted by Jabrel3

Is there a question of yours I didn’t answer sir?

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Originally Posted by Rapini

Why have they tried to silence you?

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05-16-2018 , 09:30 PM

#32

Jabrel3

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Originally Posted by Rapini

I don’t really know. But there are a number of people supporting me who unfortunately can’t speak out about the situation because they are still employed by IFLY.

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05-16-2018 , 09:38 PM

#33

steamraise

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 9,924

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Originally Posted by Jabrel3

Over the next few months I began putting together a plan

Did you inform management of your plan?

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05-16-2018 , 09:52 PM

#34

Jabrel3

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Originally Posted by steamraise

Did you inform management of your plan?

Of course, everything I did was encouraged while I was with the company. It was brought up in team meetings about how what I was doing was great etc. Once you are a Internakonal Body Flight Association tunnel instructor, it is the norm to do private coaching. There are many of us who are no longer employed with the company who do private coaching in IFLY tunnels around the world. Of course, what I was doing was a bit different than coaching skydivers and tunnel flyers because I was working specifically with the special needs community.

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05-16-2018 , 09:57 PM

#35

Alobar

Born Ready

Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 42,368

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Originally Posted by Jabrel3

Lol very welcoming bunch here.

I thought you were a member of the community? Seems like you should know what kind of bunch we are...

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05-16-2018 , 09:58 PM

#36

capone0

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 43,152

Did you poop on the GM of the Dallas site or piss off one of his/her favorite sub-ordinates?

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05-16-2018 , 10:05 PM

#37

Jabrel3

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Originally Posted by capone0

Did you poop on the GM of the Dallas site or piss off one of his/her favorite sub-ordinates?

Only once but then I used a wet nap to clean it up.

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05-16-2018 , 10:26 PM

#38

matrat

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Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 913

Jabrel3 at work (21 seconds):

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05-16-2018 , 10:38 PM

#39

Jabrel3

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Join Date: May 2018 Posts: 43

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Originally Posted by matrat

Jabrel3 at work (21 seconds):

It was worse because the wind tunnel recirculates 160+mph wind through the building.

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05-16-2018 , 11:20 PM

#40

SirOsis

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Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 29,516

That's quite impressive, the work you've done. I think the main reason I couldn't do it is because I'd go insane having to give this response (answer?) to the question "Cure what?"

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Originally Posted by Jabrel3

You are also reading too much into the name, it was ment to be general and all inclusive. Obviously flying in the tunnel is not going to cure anyone from their disability. However it did give them an experience that they may not have though possible before.

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05-16-2018 , 11:42 PM

#41

Jabrel3

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Originally Posted by SirOsis

That's quite impressive, the work you've done. I think the main reason I couldn't do it is because I'd go insane having to give this response (answer?) to the question "Cure what?"

Thanks man, it actually wasn’t that common of a question as most of the people I worked with understood what I was doing. For a lot of these kids getting to go to iFLY gave them a sense of normalcy, it was my way of showing them that their disabilities didn’t have to hold them back in life. Parents where always very grateful and often times in tears when I would take their kids into the wind.

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05-16-2018 , 11:45 PM

#42

Natamus

Tripped and Fell

Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 16,388

Yea let’s be clear what OP did is great work and deserves recognition. His story of “they stopped me doing this for no reason and gave no reason at all and they want to silence me for no known reason” that makes no sense and is sort of unbelievable

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05-16-2018 , 11:57 PM

#43

Jabrel3

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Originally Posted by Natamus

Just because it doesn’t make sense doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. I think as poker players we can understand this. And thanks for the kind words but recognition is not at all what I seek or why I did what I did. I saw an opportunity to do something good and I was in the right place at the right time, so I did.

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05-17-2018 , 12:22 AM

#44

lonely_but_rich

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Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 24,110

You're saying they stopped you for no reason? Does iFly hate orphans?

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05-17-2018 , 12:41 AM

#45

Jabrel3

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05-17-2018 , 12:45 AM

#46

Jabrel3

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Originally Posted by lonely_but_rich

You're saying they stopped you for no reason? Does iFly hate orphans?

No, I am sure they do not. At that moment in time corporate would not have known who or how many people I already had lined up to fly, however many of my friends in the company did and so we made it happen anyways.

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05-17-2018 , 12:46 AM

#47

txdome

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Gabe Sierra go back to trying to get this thread deleted, for your sake. imo. B+ troll if that's your game.

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05-17-2018 , 02:47 AM

#48

Natamus

Tripped and Fell

Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 16,388

I never said it didn't happen I said there's more to this than you're telling us and I've made that very clear...

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05-17-2018 , 05:01 AM

#49

El Diablo

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 70,770

Alobar/mod:

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Originally Posted by Alobar

absolutely no one here does (or has even heard of IFLY

LIES. I've heard of it. I did IFLY indoor skydiving for a friend's birthday party and it was pretty fun. Also I got a free IFLY frisbee. Pretty ****ty frisbee tho.

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05-17-2018 , 06:21 AM

#50

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

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Originally Posted by El Diablo

Alobar/mod:

LIES. I've heard of it. I did IFLY indoor skydiving for a friend's birthday party and it was pretty fun. Also I got a free IFLY frisbee. Pretty ****ty frisbee tho.

Did they try to silence you at any point?

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