New skydivers getting pulled into a discipline too early

[shermanator 4]

Hiller, if you are able to, come check out Elsinore this weekend. on Saturday Feb 24 is Excell Basic (RW) , and Sunday is Excell Freefly. these are both free camps, with coaching. they are great ways to learn more, improve, and help get a feel of what you would want to get into.

Myself, I'm more of a flat flyer.. but want to do FF as well, I just need coaching!

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[HillerMyLife 0]

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Outside of competition nobody on your DZ will insist you focus on one and don't complain that everybody wants you.

Lots of great points in your post but no where in my OP or this thread have I ever complained that "everyone wants me". I DO consider myself lucky that I live near not 1 but 2 outstanding dropzones. However, I've always had the attitude that skydiving is about true freedom and an endless pursuit of getting better and learning.

And as I've been suprised to learn, there are more than a couple super type A personalities on the DZ...I don't see how not wanting to focus in one area or another is so important that it must be decided now. I was merely posting about something that I have observed and wanted some feedback on.

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[78RATS 0]

belly flying? ask yourself if you want to spend the whole dive in the deployment position.

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[billvon 3,070]

>belly flying? ask yourself if you want to spend the whole dive in the deployment position.

Head down? Ask yourself if you want to spend the whole dive at a speed that will destroy your reserve/harness if you have an AAD misfire.

CRW? Ask yourself if you want to have a low speed intentional entanglement for most of your skydive.

Swooping? Ask yourself if you want to fling yourself at the ground at 100mph and pray that this time the canopy pulls out before you hit.

The above are why there gets to be these "wars" over disciplines, and why some people feel they are being "pulled" into one or the other. Whatever floats your boat.

[Fast 0]

I agree with you bill (I think) I don't like when people get so bent out of shape about if you are a free flier or belly flier. I do both. I think you need to learn belly before freeflying for saftey, but even just between those two disciplines which each have sub disciplines, there is so much to learn. NOt to mention crw.... yeah.

Why anyone would want to be tied down to only one thing amazes me.

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[champu 1]

I've generally focused on one thing at a time, but it certainly hasn't been for an entire career. Focus is healthy, but the right amount is, of course, different for everyone.

Particularly if you're going to be jumping a lot, as we can here in SoCal, I would highly recommend setting some goals for yourself. I don't mean something team/competition related, just "general ability" goals. Then take a step back and figure out what's going to get you there. It could mean getting on a team and doing hundreds of jumps and hours in the tunnel in one and only one discipline, or it could just be setting a day aside once a month to do two-way freefly jumps with a particular person, and doing all other sorts of flying any other time you're out jumping.

Don't fool yourself into thinking you can only ever get good at one thing, but don't fool yourself into thinking that being good at everything means thrashing around in the sky with different jumpsuits and helmets on.

[azdav 0]

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and throw in some fustercluck and you've got a fun dive....those are my favorite.

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