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The person now managing KL Tower BASE Jump applications is someone who was rejected from the event just three KL Tower events ago due to his ultralow level of experience and continuing to be dishonest. This person is Adi Khirman Marji.

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The numerous monkeys living around Gua Damai have never been a problem in the 14 years that I have been BASE jumping off the cliff there. But while I was jumping at Gua Damai in 2022 there was an appearance of a new species of monkey that liked to boast about peeing over people’s gear. This turned out to be a human form of monkey named Avery Badenhop.

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In 2018 KL Tower's new representative Avery Badenhop sent messages to Sibu BASE jumpers stating that KL Tower was banning Sibu BASE jumpers. After exposing the efforts to destroy Sibu BASE jump, instead of rectifying the problem and other negligence associated with their BASE jumping event, KL Tower managers chose to go on a campaign of denial and threatened legal action to try to cover it up.

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Trying to educate BASE jumpers about making the extra effort to ensure that no tower strikes happen at the annual KL Tower BASE jumping event was always a challenging task. Despite education given to BASE jumpers about the serious problem of tower strikes and the frequency that they happen, BASE jumper’s core belief and feeling that it should be almost impossible to hit such a massively overhanging tower remained dominant.

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In November 2021 KL Tower introduced a new attraction named Tower Walk 100 which could be potentially deadly to a BASE jumper when they crash into it.

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It should have been very easy to prevent BASE jumpers from slamming into the massively overhanging KL Tower. But every year tower strikes continued to happen, often resulting in serious injury. It was due to failures on all levels. The complacency of BASE jumpers, the negligence of event contractors, and the strong denial of later KL Tower management that there were any issues. All parties were very naively or negligently keen to ensure tower strikes continued to happen.

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The greatest achievement at the KL Tower event was neutralising the negligence of event contractors and new KL Tower managers to finally eliminate Tower strikes from the event in 2017. However, there were harsh consequences to pay. It resulted in expulsion from the event with KL Tower managers and event contractors determined to do everything known to bring back a record number of tower strikes and other incidents. They also set Malaysian BASE jumping up for the next fatality.

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Malaysian BASE jumper Aziz Ahmad has been notorious for sabotaging the safety of the annual KL Tower BASE jumping event for a number of years. During KL Tower BASE Jump 2019 he became a victim of his efforts to decay the standards and safety of the event. He almost got himself and another beginner BASE jumper killed getting caught up in a shocking canopy wrap due to his lack of expereince and carelessness.

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After 17 years of participating in and organising the KL Tower BASE jumping event, completing 925 BASE jumps from KL Tower, world leading organiser was finally dismissed from the event after neutralising the insistent negligence of new KL Tower managers and their event contractor Aziz Ahmad that always led to preventable accidents each year.