List of Ideas for Freefall

[popsjumper 2]

To add to your list:
Jumps:
Crack the Whip
Pumpkin Head jump - Ask Aggie Dave
Watermelon Pass
Spaceball/Cue ball
Cannonball all the way to 4K
Zoo Dive - ask CSpenceFly

Skills:
Fly Overs
Tracking on heading
Tracking on heading with distance
Did I mention tracking on heading with distance?
Back tracking
Stopping on a dime after diving to formation
Knee/Bootie Flying
Formation approach in your lane (no orbiting)
Popping beer bottle caps with a lighter
Electric 4-way - again, ask CSpenceFly

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[DougH 270]

Noodle dives are fun, with an extremely high level of zooiness.

Every one dives out, gets relative with no contact, and then beats each other with pool noodes.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[airtwardo 7]

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... and skydivers made their own parachutes from the skin from Terradactal wings...

I still have my old 'PARAdactal'..and these NooBs think Z-po is hard to pack!

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

[ZigZagMarquis 9]

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... and skydivers made their own parachutes from the skin from Terradactal wings...

I still have my old 'PARAdactal'..and these NooBs think Z-po is hard to pack!

I KNEW that's how the PARAdactal got its name!

When I started, there was a guy that would come out to Cal City once in awhile and jump a double keel Dactal. Unfortunately, I didn't know enough at the time to watch and appreciate what he was doing when packing it.

[SeanSolo 0]

THE LIST:

rodeo
horny gorilla
naked jump
tube jump
paper, rock, scissors jump
wagon wheels
mr. potato head jump
hulla-hoop jump
water-raft jump
mr. bill
flipping the cat (is there another name for this?)
ride the wingman (is there another name for this?)
rubix cube jump
simon says jump
crack the whip (is this the same as flipping the cat?)
pumpkin head jump
watermelon pass
spaceball/cue ball
cannonball all the way to 4K
zoo dive
noodle dive

Skills to Practice:

docking smoothly
entering a formation gently
flying in proximity without grips
diving out after someone
360s
tracking jump (on heading with distance)
back tracking
fly arounds
controller center-point turns
side slides
controlled back and front loops (within 20 degrees on-heading)
controlled left and right barrel rolls (on-heading)
fly overs (is this the same as fly arounds?)
stopping on a dime after diving to formation
knee/bootie Flying
formation approach in your lane (no orbiting)
electric 4-way

Cookie Firecrotch
"Don't you know who I am!? I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!"

[DougH 270]

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electric 4-way

get yourself some liquid courage, and do an electric 2-way instead. Unlike RW, the less people you have the more interesting it gets.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[Mr17Hz 1]

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By the end of the year, I hope to be the first person (that I know of) to solve a rubix cube in freefall three jumps in a row. I challenge you to beat me to it :)

you're my new hero!

Don't give me credit yet, My solves are still between 2 and 3 minutes each. Down from the 5-10 minutes it took me a few months ago, but that would still hurt the same.

Matt Christenson

mattchristenson@realskydiving.com
http://www.RealDropzone.com - A new breed of dropzone manifest software.

[JohanW 0]

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THE LIST:

rodeo
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ride the wingman (is there another name for this?)

Rodeoes can be done on horses with or without wingsuit.

I actually practiced once without suit with me in a delta before I put on my suit. I now have about a dozen - they're fun, but you don't get to see the rider's grin until you're back on the ground. They make a great base for a tracking jump too
Hybrids make for very nice twoways - jump with a light girl or very small guy in a baggy suit, and work on your fallrate.

Johan.
I am. I think.

[Joellercoaster 6]

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Maybe someone has a picture or can do a vid-cap from an old video to show folks here what a leg-lock in RW is (was).

It's not exactly old footage, but it is retro. Clicky (YouTube).

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"I'll tell you how all skydivers are judged, . They are judged by the laws of physics." - kkeenan

"You jump out, pull the string and either live or die. What's there to be good at?

[ZigZagMarquis 9]

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electric 4-way

get yourself some liquid courage, and do an electric 2-way instead. Unlike RW, the less people you have the more interesting it gets.

I thought "Electric" what-ever-ways involved acid or LSD, not just plain ol' "liquid courage"?


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Maybe someone has a picture or can do a vid-cap from an old video to show folks here what a leg-lock in RW is (was).

It's not exactly old footage, but it is retro. Clicky (YouTube).

Is that You Tube footage of Air Moves at Perris? Sorry, I can't open it, I ain't got the bandwidth... If so, then it would be circa late 80s or 1990-91?... right?? Anyway, I agree, not that old, really, but seeing as how a lot of the folks here were not much past still crapin' in their pants then... kinda old to them...

[Joellercoaster 6]

I'm pretty sure not... the description makes it sound much more recent than that; a (European) club were using the '86 dive pool for fun in their competition.

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"I'll tell you how all skydivers are judged, . They are judged by the laws of physics." - kkeenan

"You jump out, pull the string and either live or die. What's there to be good at?

[ZigZagMarquis 9]

Ah, cool. Wish I could see it.

[popsjumper 2]

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get yourself some liquid courage, and do an electric 2-way instead. Unlike RW, the less people you have the more interesting it gets.

You're the one that did the 1-way aren't you?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[DougH 270]

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You're the one that did the 1-way aren't you?

God no!! I not that fawking stupid. I still get heart palpitations from the two way show down I did on new years eve. But now you have me thinking.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[NewGuy2005 53]

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can someone point me in the right direction for a list of ideas to do during freefall? i have been searching DZ.com all day and have yet to find anything...

Low pull contest.

[Ktownbret 0]

tag can be fun!!!

www.okanaganskydive.com

[fastphil 0]

Hula hoop dives are a lot of fun...

[SeanSolo 0]

THE LIST:

rodeo
rodeo the wingman
horny gorilla
naked jump
tube jump
paper, rock, scissors jump
wagon wheels
mr. potato head jump
hulla-hoop jump
water-raft jump
mr. bill
flipping the cat/crack the whip
rubix cube jump
simon says jump
pumpkin head jump
watermelon pass
spaceball/cue ball
cannonball all the way to 4K
noodle dive
playing tag jump

Skills to Practice:

docking smoothly
entering a formation gently
flying in proximity without grips
diving out after someone
360s
tracking jump (on heading with distance)
back tracking
fly arounds
fly overs
controlled center-point turns
side slides
controlled back and front loops (within 20 degrees on-heading)
controlled left and right barrel rolls (on-heading)
stopping on a dime after diving to formation
knee/bootie Flying
formation approach in your lane (no orbiting)


so me and a friend of mine where doing a sort of reverse rodeo where i was the horse (so we could see eachother's smile and such) but when i went to flatten out/backfly she was more on my thighs than anything, forcing me into a sit. so i was in a sit, and she was in my lap. is there a name for this?

Cookie Firecrotch
"Don't you know who I am!? I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!"

[yeyo 1]

for the list:
monkey see/monkey do

HISPA #93
DS #419.5

[SeanSolo 0]

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monkey see/monkey do

i think this is the same thing as simon says

Cookie Firecrotch
"Don't you know who I am!? I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!"

[recovercrachead 0]

taking a flare gun in freefall. Dont keep it loaded in the plane. Load it in freefall.

Track high, Pull LOW!!!