Who's the go-to person for Speed Skydiving advice?

[chuckakers 426]

Hey skyhoppers,

I head up the load organizing at Skydive Spaceland and have several guys approach me about learning speed skydiving. I want them to learn correctly and safely and I am sharing various links with them for knowledge, but I'd like to get some "best practices" info from a first-hand source.

Wondering if someone can recommend a speed guru or would like to help out.

Thanks!

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[skydiverek 63]

Talk to user "Amazon" .

[adamUK 3]

skydiverek

Talk to user "Amazon" .

I can see lots of gentle fun poked at a number of users on here.

[piisfish 140]

adamUK

***Talk to user "Amazon" .

I can see lots of gentle fun poked at a number of users on here. Amazon was actually a Speed skydiving competitor :-)

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[piisfish 140]

US male record holder is Stan Snigir
Maybe he could help.

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[joephus 0]

Amazon gave me some good information on these boards, also Arnold Hohenegger the Chairman at the ISSA (issa@speedskydiving.eu) was really helpfully in answering some questions I had about gear issues I was experiencing and procedural type information about exit order and separation.

[chuckakers 426]

joephus

Amazon gave me some good information on these boards, also Arnold Hohenegger the Chairman at the ISSA (issa@speedskydiving.eu) was really helpfully in answering some questions I had about gear issues I was experiencing and procedural type information about exit order and separation.

Thanks!

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[TriGirl 333]

And, if you want to hear what the judges will be evaluating, contact Randy Connell at USPA.

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[sheenMatthews 0]

There are some dropzones who still use rip-cord gear when teaching their students. Once they’re properly trained however, they graduate to the common bottom of container design. A reserve deployment does use a rip cord to activate the chute, but this is an entirely different design and we hope we never have to pull that handle.

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[jumpwally 0]

...anyone know what the current record is ?

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[skydiverek 63]

jumpwally

...anyone know what the current record is ?

570 km/h average over last 1000 meters (354 mph average over last 3300 feet):

http://gssdb.speedskydiving.eu/hall_of_fame.php?links=off