Hi Joe,

I received my copy of your Good Stuff DVD today in the mail and just

wanted to let you know how much I liked it, even though I haven't watched

all of it. I have almost worn out my copy of Good Stuff on tape, so now I

can watch it and play it for my friends all I want. Plus the extra material

on the DVD is much appreciated!

Thanks and Blue Skies!

Guy Poly, D21296

just a thought: you should've called it 'great stuff'. dude, thanks for the

dvd's. i've watched one segment or another every day now. you da man.

merry christmas mate. hope to see you soon.

Subject: Good Stuff on DVD is awesome!

From: Craig Poxon

Received my copy of Good Stuff on DVD yesterday. Thanks Joe!!

I'd been avoiding seeing Good Stuff for a long time because I wanted

to wait and fully enjoy it on DVD. I was succeeding until very

recently when it came on in the bar at the DZ. I couldn't take my eyes

off it and ended up seeing a lot of it! No matter, there is as much

new footage ("More Stuff") as there is old stuff ("Good Stuff") so

there was plenty to enjoy. The Plane Chasing is phenomenal and alone

makes it worth it. Just having it on a DVD is a massive step forward,

being able to pick and choose the scenes you want to view as well as

having the additional things such as the director's commentary, which

is incredibly informal and fun. Even the trailers and commercials are

cool.

This has to be the most outstanding colletction of skydiving footage

and I cannot recommend it enough. Absolutely fantastic.

--

Craig

D11665 FSB5

Hey Joe

Got my DVD .. GREAT VIDEO!! One comment .. need some

CReW on there .. I figured such a hard core video

there would be a couple nice wraps!!

THanks a bunch .. still a great deal!! Tim

That DVD is incredible! . . . and you are insane.

Hi!

I recieved your DVD last Friday! Excellent!

It works on NTSC, like it very much

Thanks a bunch

Ralph

Hi Sissy,

Just to let you know that my Good Stuff DVD arrived on Saturday and it looks

very, very good. I'm amazed it came so quickly, I wasn't expecting for ages.

Watching Good Stuff at the dz with your jump buddies has its merits but I

realised from watching it at home that you're not really doing it justice

unless you're giving it your full attention. Awesome.

One of my favourite two shots is of Patrick in his winguit, when he starts

doing those carving turns you really get the sense that he's flying, not

just falling. But the best is the shot of Rob Harris skysurfing where Joe's

got Rob's left hand and Rob leans over and puts his right hand over the

camera. He's looking pretty cool with his shades on, he's smiling and

goofing around with Joe and obviously loving every second of it. It's a

great image.

Gus

Martin Evans of SkyEye once told me, "to be a camera flyer you've got to

beas good, if not better, than the people you're filming." I'm not in the

business of kissing ass, but Good Stuff was hard proof that great skydiving

movies are made by great camera flying.

Good Stuff was a great way to break in my new DVD player...get one

have a good x-mas

peace

blue/safe ones

Eric

I just got it!! I love it!!, I have one question, in the Rob Harris skysurfing

scene, what is the name of the song that is playing? I like the song alot and

i want to download it.

Thankyou and great job on the DVD!!

Omar

hey joe, its glenn in yuma, az. i met you when you came out too roy fox's

world record attempt and i want to say that dvd you gave me is awesome and a

lot of people love it, i just want to say thank you so much and i'm glad to

be one of the first to receive it. we are now working on jay stokes event for

this year 2002 and we are going for 600 jumps in 24 hrs so it will be fun and

i hope you can make it for this one also as jay is going to shatter the

record, i hope to hear from you soon, also bryan beuchler says hello too..

Hi,

Just wanted to let you and your wife know that the DVD arrived and it was

really worth waiting for. GREAT movie, Two thumbs up.

Thanks again

• /Malin

i actually just purchased it about an hour ago on your website! i am

looking forward to getting my hands on it. it is good to know that there

are those out there in the skydiving community working to bring a bit more

refinement to visual media production. keep up the good work and whacky

ideas! (am looking forward particularly to the 'couch potato' sequence.)

kevin

I received the DVD the other day it plays fine on my Panasonic DVD player

and JVC TV. Its great realy good quality.

How much do I owe you??

Let me know and I will e-mail my visa number if that's ok with you.

Many thanks

Bryan

Hi Joe,

I've got the video Good stuff and it rocks ! Am thinking about

getting the DVD... but had a question. What's the specs on the sound ? Is it in 5.1

Dolby ? If ya can drop me a line and let me know that would be great ! I tried

looking on your website for the sound specs too but did not find them.

Thanks & Blue Skies,

Charlie K

Joe,

I loved the VHS version and plan on buying the DVD (thnx for the extra

stuff) soon.

Don't let some jealous jack-off stop you from continuing to sell out

(not that you are but if selling out produces awesome skydiving videos

like Good Stuff, keep it coming).

Good Stuff is the video I show whuffos and they love it too.

Thanks and Blue to you,

John Black

Joe...

you've been in the business long enough to know.... you aren't going to please

them all. anyone out there that has 45 jumps, and a digital camera strapped

to their noggin..., thinks they are going to be able to plug it into there

Imac and make better videos then everyone!!

they have NO idea what kind of time and resources it takes to put out a product

like you do, and Norman Kent, and a few others that are on the top of the

game!!! -- so don't loose too much sleep!! gotta be ready for the CAVE

BASE!!!

blues

Hi;

I want to say that the Good stuff DVD and tape rule! When I show them to my

whuffo friends, they just kind of stare, slack jawed and totally awed. Too cool.

Just out of curiosity, what was the music that accompanied the freefly section

after the Baffin Island base jump section? Keep up the Good Stuff!

Kevin Grishkot

D12524

Insanity takes its toll, please have exact change...

The World Famous Tink. (I never heard of you either!!)

Hi Joe

I dont know if youll remember me, we met at Elsinore whilst you were filming

the AFF with Troy for the Learning Channell show in Nov. I was the English

guy who had a brocken leg (done on 11 Nov at Elsinore)

Ive been reading in the NG about the Good Stuff DVD which we spoke about in

Elsinore. My question is are you planning to distribute it in Europe, UK to

be precise?

I would love to gethold of a copy as all (well the vast majority) of your

fellow Americans are raving about it.

Thanks for your time Joe, I look forward to hearing from you.

Buzz

some dude posted "same old crap by arrogant sell-out-the-sport producer" so i

feel compelled to post this note. a lot of people already have the tape and i

wanted to make the dvd worth getting. so in addition to the same old crap, i

heaped on just as much new crap, so now its a big pile of crap worthy of a dvd

system! i posted the good stuff dvd menus on www.skydive.tv if you want to see

what some of the new stuff is.

joe

Joe...

you've been in the business long enough to know.... you aren't going to please

them all. anyone out there that has 45 jumps, and a digital camera strapped

to their noggin..., thinks they are going to be able to plug it into there

Imac and make better videos then everyone!!

they have NO idea what kind of time and resources it takes to put out a product

like you do, and Norman Kent, and a few others that are on the top of the

game!!! -- so don't loose too much sleep!! gotta be ready for the CAVE

BASE!!!

blues

As Jaimie Paul would say..."I don't care what they say about me as long as they

spell my name correctly." I think pretty much everyone thinks your work rocks.

">so don't loose too much sleep!!"

Yah, what he said.

Chris Schindler

I have the DVD - it's in the #1 position, full time, on my DVD player.

I also have a few dozen skydiving videotapes, everything from World

Freefall conventions (official and Zabo), to various records, to my own

team tapes (and one from the Knights 8-way (Thank you, Chris Talbert)). If

I was going to show skydiving to someone visiting me, it would be this

DVD. It's got everything that skydivers and non-skydivers like to watch,

and it's indexed nicely into chapters.

I've seen Good Stuff before. I even thought about buying it. The DVD,

though, was easy to decide to buy... it's beautiful.

http://www.skydive.tv/gsmainmenu.html was really clever, too!

Jack Cunniff

D-17518, and a very satisifed customer (totally unaffiliated with Joe

Jennings, or Marcus Price, who sold me the DVD).

Joe,

I've have only seen one person say anything bad about Good Stuff. Everyone

else says they love it. The most important thing is what I think of it.

Good Stuff kicks ass!!

DCvet

Me too

.Anyone out there who thinks they can put together a better product should go

ahead and try. I'll warn you though, prying the price of a few jumps out of me

is a tough sell. After watching a friends' copy of "Good Stuff " I still want

my own copy...

Just got my Good Stuff DVD yesterday.

After watching it, it is unquestionably underpriced.

You may want to buy it before Joe figures that out.

Dave

cooooooool!! there's nothing more encouraging than getting good feedback about

your work. thanks a million! just makes me want to run out there and sell-out

some more! good stuff isn't going to rock everyone's world just like there

isn't a song everyone in the world likes, but you've got to put your stuff out

there just the same cause we only live once.....

joe

Pat ...............

A classic production like this deserves to be viewed on the highest quality

media!

I'm going to (finally) buy a dvd player so I can see this video (in DVD)!

Gosh Pat i am not trying to go against your grain and i do respect your opinion

about what you do and don't like but(don't ya hate that word?) i find that i am

a bit more critical than most because i have done a few productions of my own

in the past and i thaought Joe did nothing less than a Great job with Good

Stuff. (whew that was long winded) The long lens special effect you where

refering to is used to compress things and i thaought it was done to give the

viewer a feeling of speed and movement i didn't get the impression that he was

trying to fool me and make me think the skydivers where actually lower than

they where. But again you know better than any one what you like and don't

like.

Just my 2 cents

michael mcGowan THANKS MIKE!!

Good point. In fact, one of the really cool things about the DVD is that Joe

includes a second version of the main production with his v/o commentary, and

he clearly talks about the long lens compression. There was never any attempt

to "fool" us. I really love the shot because it is something we rarely get to

see, and it sure does give a perspective of speed.

I didn't buy the original "Good Stuff" but did get the DVD. The extras are a

great addition and chapter access makes it review to see just what I want

without fussing with fast forward and reverse. I also really liked Joes sit on

the sofa commentary.

-tom buchanan

I've received a Good Stuff DVD and it is 'Good Stuff'

It plays no problem on my Panasonic DVD player and JVC TV,

Its really good quality.

Joe sent me a DVD stating that if it worked I paid for it and if it didn't

work on my DVD player but did on a friends then I could keep it for free -

how's that for customer service .

It only took about five days to arrive from the states.

> Where did you order from Brian?

I e-mailed Joe himself to ask if he was doing a PAL version , which he

doesn't so he sent me an NTSC version on a 'try before you buy' basis, but

you can order from his website http://www.skydive.tv.

I haven't worked out the exchange rate yet so I cant tell you how much in

sterling.

It only took about five days to arrive from the time I e-mailed Joe .

The quality is excellent and there are some really funny clips on it for

example two skydivers going out the back of a plane on a complete set of

lounge furniture and their actually watching TV !!!!!

Most recent widescreen TV's will accept NSTC and the DVD is region 0 so it

should be no problem, my Panasonic DVD ( not a top of the range one) and JVC

windescreen TV play it no problem.

It might not be to everyone's taste but I think Its brilliant but that's

just my opinion.

Nice one Joe, excellent service.

Bryan

Hey Pat, you are a looser, aren't you!

Sammy Popov

<yawn>

Joe Jennings "arrogant"? muahahahahahahahaha...that's a hoot.

a "sell-out"? aaaaahahahahahahaha.....O please stop, you're killing me.

geez, if you're going to troll, at least try to be SOMEWHAT believable.

dave

That's a great video; how is Jennings a sellout?

Allow me, please, to interpret. "...from the

he'sgotdriveindustryambitionsuccessandI'maloser producer..." See; it's easy

if you can read between the lines.

Great piece of work!

Sounds like you didn't even see the DVD version yet you feel qualified to knock

it. Keep talking out your ass.

You're a queer. Joe's video rocks!!

Whoa! pat you knucklehead, whoever you are you're not helping me sell dvds

here, man. we're all arrogant sell outs to some degree, so i'll give you that,

but the dvd is not the same old crap... there's a lot of new crap on it and you

even get to listen to me ramble on for an hour, now that's good crap! i mean

"good stuff" sorry. buy one pat... i know you want to... buy one for you and

one for a friend, hell i've got thousands of em with new special effects that

make the jumpers look even lower! just kidding pat... go ahead and pass if you

want... ps... thanks for the cool responses gang, i really appreciate reading

them. if i can i'll post this string of thought on my website

www.arrogantselloutcameraman.com!

Hey Joe! I bought the DVD too just because I'm on there in the

246-way Good Stuff. I'm a pilot. Of course it's all about ME! And

of course I'm not in an airplane right now so the engines aren't

whining. There's not enough of ME on there! Ok, when the engines

aren't whining the pilots are. :D

I love the DVD man. At least this is something that I can show my

parents without fear of swearing or topless chicks. It captures the

enthusiasm of skydiving and shows the positive Good Stuff going on in

the sport. But of course, you already knew that.

Chris Schindler

thanks Chris! glad you like it. i tried to get the topless stuff in there but

they wouldn't show the goods and i couldn't find anyone to swear on tape, so

all i got was a rated g flick, maybe pg. in editing, some of my friends were

pressing hard for skin cause it sells, but my feminist mom would have kicked my

ass and of course i wouldn't be able to show it to the nephews and nieces or my

own kids.... so the decision was easy. when my kids grow up and mom's passed

on, perhaps i'll take up freefall pornography.... damn, i forgot about my

sisters! blue skies man! joe

Joe,

Any idea where I can get a copy in the UK?

I know Craig Poxon has managed to get a copy but he doesn't want to

reply to my e-mails for some reason.

Richard.

A101902.

richard

you might contact klaus at www.skydivingvideos.de - he sells the good stuff

dvd. i also sell it on my website www.skydive.tv and you can sort of surf it

too cause i posted the menus. let me know how you like it!

joe

Joe,

This Pat guy is an obvious dummy...aren't all of us a little bit arrogant to

think we can get away with falling out of the sky and drifting slowly down to

earth? Anyways, I have a copy of both VHS and DVD, and thanks for doing it I

wish some of the other filmmakers would follow suit. Great, well-rounded show.

I was wondering where the location is of the awesome footage of you and

Patrick falling below the tops of the mountains...is it near Locarno,

Switzerland? Take it easy,

Leif

OK, I saw this video once last year. It took me at least 5 seconds to

figure out that the jumpers weren't low ('cause I'm slow). It took me

another 10 seconds to start feeling motion sickness.

Other than that, I loved the video - and wanted a copy but didn't get

around to buying one - yadda yadda.

But now its winter and I'm not jumpin' so much. DVD huh? I'll look

for it next weekend when I'm up to the DZ for a repack.

Pat, ya may not like Joe or his video - but ya helped him sell anudder

one.

Joe - I hope to jump with you some day.

JAKAL

Had the Good Stuff VHS, when DVD came out ordered that one too.

Went right to my top 2 DVD list - even only the Other Stuff -part was

worth the money. Especially the catching planes part was interesting

because I have read the articles on that one and seen some of the stills

last year. BTW someone did quite good a job on spotting the living room

jump....

Thanks for providing this DVD to us Joe!

Also the service was very good, I ordered it here from Finland, Europe

and I was informed that there might be problems with the NTSC version

on some of the DVD players. (of course the modded one I have works on

NTSC/PAL and because the DVD is region 0 then even the region restrictions

do not apply to this DVD).

BTW, does anyone know any other skydiving DVD's than Good Stuff and Dive In!?

VSH quality sucks.

Pet

Bacchus, n.:

A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for

getting drunk.

-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

hi Pet

glad you like it... it's amazing how quickly vhs is becoming the "old" format,

like the old 8-track players. i made the good stuff region 0 for just that

reason - i figure, why restrict it to certain regions cause i wnt to be able to

sell it around the planet... i suppose there's a marketing reason behind the

regions, but i don't have the budget or the time to deal with having different

products..