SERIOUS QUESTION FOR MANLY MEN!!!

[JohnMitchell 16]

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Do rounds have the same type of line system? As in flaring and toggles/ risers and braking and such? Curious...

No , not at all. Most are steerable, some use toggles for steering, some just color the line yu pull on to steer. Right turns right, left turns lef, just like your square. Difference is the lack of much forward speed, 4-5 mph at most for a reserve. With so little forward speed and such an ineffiecient wing, there is no flare when landing. It won't do a thing. You can do a "pullup' on your rear risers as you feet hit the ground. That takes some impact off the legs. I don't see the manly advantage in jumping rounds, I'm not going back.

[TomAiello 26]

I jump rounds fairly regularly. I've got several of them, including a belly mount reserve.

I've never tried to land one on hard ground, though.

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
SnakeRiverBASE.com

[happythoughts 0]

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You can do a "pullup' on your rear risers as you feet hit the ground. That takes some impact off the legs.

If it's part of the job (military), so be it.

For recreation, there's no point. If someone needs a permanent limp, they should just get kicked in the knees once a week and save the money.

[gjhdiver 0]

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ANYBODY ELSE STILL JUMPING ROUND CHUTES?

OR AM I, AS I BELIEVE TO BE TRUE, THE LAST OF THE REAL MEN/

POST UP!!!

SERIOUSLY!!!

Pah.

Real men jump Parawings.

[airtwardo 7]

Pah.

Real men jump Parawings.

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No...THUNDERBOWS!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[BillyVance 34]

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Pah.

Real men jump Parawings.

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No...THUNDERBOWS!

You forgot Paradactyls!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[hookitt 1]

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You forgot Paradactyls!

gjhdiver has one and if the conditions are right, he lets people jump it. It was too windy the day I was going to.

I have a crossbow that hasn't been jumped in probalby 25 years. It's in new condition. I keep threatening to jump it but haven't yet.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[BillyVance 34]

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I have a crossbow that hasn't been jumped in probalby 25 years. It's in new condition. I keep threatening to jump it but haven't yet.

What's a crossbow? What's it look like? Any pictures?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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[hookitt 1]

Para-Commander copy.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[riggerrob 643]

I used to jump rounds - back in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Sold my last round reserve in 1985.
1986 was the last time I jumped a round main. The German Army was disappointed that I suffered a partial inversion and burned dozens of holes in their T-10.
1987 was the last time I used a round reserve, missed the country! ... but that is another story.
Hee!
Hee!
Round parachutes are best left to men far younger, far braver and far tougher than me.

[flyinchicken 0]

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They make students jump with round reserves in Canada? Are you sure about that?

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT! No rounds for students in Ontario that's forsure. Dunno bout the rest of the DZ's but we're not THAT far behind.

"Diligent observation leads to pure abstraction". Lari Pittman

[gjhdiver 0]

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They make students jump with round reserves in Canada? Are you sure about that?

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT! No rounds for students in Ontario that's forsure. Dunno bout the rest of the DZ's but we're not THAT far behind.

My first sport jump. 2000 feet static line.

Main - GQ Aeroconical round.

Reserve - 24 foot unmodified Irvin front mounted reserve. Unsteerable, free packed, no pilot chute, but a spring placed between the lines and the fabric to help it out.

Two shot capewells, no AAD.

After I had thousands of jumps and was running Z Hills, I went back home for a visit. They were still putting out students on the same gear.

Not fancy, but it worked every time.

[benforde 0]

Sorry, can't let that slide.

[bert_man 0]

worse... i jump a round reserve... which means I jump a round chute at the most unexpected time...

[cloudseeker2001 0]

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Sorry, that was my Burt Bronson imitation. He's a famous rockclimbing forum troll, a personality used by many in many incarnations.

SERIOUSLY!!! REAL MEN USE ALL CAPS!!!! ALL THE TIME!!!!

To be honest, I've never skydived but I've been on the ground in the mountains and watched USFS smokejumpers smash into trees to avoid missing they're landing zone or flying over a ridge. Seems like squares would have been much smarter, but I don't really know.

I do like to kiteboard and some of my foil kites look suspiciously like your jumping rigs, only on a kite I'm facing the open foils and I think you guys/gals run with the wind.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a373/Blowboarder/DSC00014.jpg

Anyways, just wanted to say hello, lame ass troll style.

Cool site, lots of interesting shit to learn here.

Thanks for the welcome.

BB

I have tour'd the smoke jumpers base in Mcall Idaho and I have much respect for those people! I have seen pics of exits, jumping static line with tons of fire fighting gear and the damn tress are on fire!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"