Wind tunnel pics

[firediver 0]

damn...do you ever NOT look hot??????????

Looks like you had a blast!!

Skydiving isn't scary;...but clowns...CLOWNS are scary!

[skyyhi 0]

Girl, I am looking forward to getting my license and going to MJ's 2-way camp. . .

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[kai2k1 0]

Great pics, I wanna get to orlando!!

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[dropdeded 0]

Very cool Rosa Very Very cool

someday......

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[jumpwally 0]

Rosa...you look delicious !!!!! wally

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[CrazyIvan 0]

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Girl, I am looking forward to getting my license and going to MJ's 2-way camp.

Michael Jackson's camp?

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[skyyhi 0]

Don't think Michael Jackson's face would survive freefall. . .might come apart at the seams. . .lol

MJ is an RW instructor over at Skydive Elsinore. . .

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[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

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Don't think Michael Jackson's face would survive freefall. . .might come apart at the seams. . .lol

ROFLMAO!!!

[WFFC 1]

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does it feel any different than freefall? looks like you had a blast

It's a lot more difficult than freefall. Hop in for 30 minutes straight and you'll know what I mean. I also got the strange sensation of being in a vaccuum cleaner.

[Lee03 0]

COOL Great pics!

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[ChasingBlueSky 0]

Hey - nice pics. Any chance you get the pics of you, TurlteSpeed, HeatherB and Me developed?

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[Amazon 7]

Great Pictures Rosa


I am looking forward to the tunnel opening down at Perris.. then I will need to escape the cold and wet and SNOW we are having and come fly..

[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

Hey you!

Btw, these tunnel pictures were taken by the tunnel photographer, and I found them on Skyventure's website.

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OMIGOD!!! YOU FORGOT YOUR RIG!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

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[vonSanta 0]

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OMIGOD!!! YOU FORGOT YOUR RIG!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

LOL that was the first thought that popped up in my mind.

"Oh shit, how's the cutie gonna survive that?!? What a waste!"

There's just something not natural about seeing a skydiver on her belly with no rig on.

And Rosa, you look pretty damned good in those pics. Reverse of me - I look better with a helmet/goggles on than without .

I'm just fearful that this belly flying in tunnel thingy will pervert you from the True Path Of FreeFly. However, I doubt you'll how any problems finding male FF coaches, so there is hope that you may yet be removed from the influence of the vertically challenged.

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[mjosparky 4]

Hey Girl, great pictures. You lool like you have been doing that all you life.
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[arlo 0]

george (one of the guys that works at skyventure) took the pics of the tunnel camp. he does a great job of it, too. dave, you're right - the pics are taken from inside the antichamber thru the open doorway. that is one of the only times a camera is allowed inside the tunnel doors.

for the person mentioning wearing weight belts in the tunnel: like with any skydiving, you have to maintain the same fallrate as the rest of the skydivers, so weight is very common in the tunnel...as it should be in the air during a normal skydive. most people don't have the same fallrate, so weightbelts (or vests) are used to compensate for it. if weight isn't used, it tends to build in bad habits during your skydiving (i.e., the heavier person sticks his/her ass up in the air in an attempt to dearch/slow down creating BAD body position/muscle memory). the tunnel just makes this very evident. if you don't use weight and you're arching your ASS off to keep up, what happens if you have to move or take a grip? as soon as you change your superarch position, you become less aerodynamic and you pop-up/float/bellycork. the closer you are to a natural arch position, the better your control surfaces work, the less time you spend trying to maintain fallrate and the more time spend on remembering the dive. :) weightbelts are std equipment like a jumpsuit or alti.
p.s. rosa, you did great!

[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

Thank you, Arlo, sweetie! I will definitely be back. I sooo loved every darned minute of my tunnel time.

[ltdiver 3]

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...I wore 10 lbs. of lead, at most. After I became more tired, I wore about 12-14 lbs. In the pics with Eliana, she wore 18 lbs., and I wore 12-14. (She told me that she wore 28 lbs. in the tunnel when she flew with the Russians!) One of the male campers wore about 28 lbs.(belt & vest) while flying a 3-way with an Instructor and myself. Again, I wore between 10-14 lbs.

Yikes!! You're scaring me, Rosa! I normally wear 16# of lead filming 4-way video. They'll have to fill a rig with lead to keep me down in the Perris Tunnel!

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[Viking 0]

or you could just take my course and learn to arch like gumpy

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
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[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

Oh, you have sooo much experience as a skydiver that I am sure that you will be just fine in that tunnel.

Whatever works in the tunnel is completely personal for each person. Also, some of us females in the camp requested less speed, at times. (It can be rough on us working over three days per camp.) Of, course, when flying with several others, it's every man for himself on wind speed. LOL! The bigger guys usually have the upper hand...after all, they can't be on the "net" the whole time...LOL! Btw, I have been told that wearing a weight belt in the tunnel is much more comfortable than on the plane.
Edited: Arthur, have you tried to keep that arch when spining a fast 360 or when taking quick multiple-sequenced grips? Trust me, you will pop up with that kind of limb movement. (Read what Arlo wrote. It's true.)

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or you could just take my course and learn to arch like gumpy

Your forget, dear Luke that I am very old. I might break!

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[Shark 0]

Hey Rosa,

Nice pics! At the DZ I heard you had posted pics from your tunnel trip. Keep that pic of you and Eliana. In a few years you might be in her place; may be even Synchronicity.

[billvon 3,049]

>I am looking forward to the tunnel opening down at Perris..

First flights happened today. Won't be long now.

[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

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Nice pics! At the DZ I heard you had posted pics from your tunnel trip.

Man, DZ gossip travels FAST!!! LOL! I haven't gone to the DZ since before Florida.

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Keep that pic of you and Eliana. In a few years you might be in her place; may be even Synchronicity.

That's so sweet! Thank you, Mark. Jeremy (Airpseed camera guy/"Cosmo model"...LOL!) called me "little Eliana" (I am actually older than her!). I think that it was only because we are both latin, but I love it. LOL! I would be so honored if I could even be 1/2 the skydiver that she is someday!