How do you define a stand up landing?

[quade 4]

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How do you define a stand up landing?

The only part of the skydiver that touches the ground are the soles of the feet.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[cloud9 0]

I think some of these folks are related to the Clinton's

(lets see now, depends on what your definition of is, IS)

[WrongWay 0]

No butt or face contact with the dirt.

Wrong Way
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[benny 0]

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I think some of these folks are related to the Clinton's

(lets see now, depends on what your definition of is, IS)

Hey now, I thought we were to save politics for other areas! Seriously, who am I to say but my guess is, stand up means don't fall.

Never go to a DZ strip show.

[mjosparky 4]

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Graceful tip toe landings are friggin lame. Leave that to the style freaks.

Do you really have that much trouble doing "Graceful tip toe landings"?

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[Lee03 0]

I'd say that a stand up landing is just that, the only part of your body that comes in contact with the ground being your feet.. In my short career of 33 jumps as a skydiver, the majority of my landings have been stand ups!

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[LoudDan 0]

Is this a trick question?? Because if it is I have a battleship to wallpaper with pancakes.

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[newsstand 0]

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Unfortunately i'm a master of the butt slide. Damn near 800 jumps and i still have trouble landing on my feet. The good news is i have a "coach" lined up in January to help me work on my landings.

Man I feel better now. Around jump 22 or so I downsized from a 230 to a 210 student rig and I can't stand up for shit unless I have at least a 5MPH breeze blowing.

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

[twnsnd 1]

You're a style freak aren't you.

-We are the Swoophaters. We have travelled back in time to hate on your swoops.-

[vonSanta 0]

So, what if you land very very nicely in this nice and gusty winds. On yer feet. You stand there feeling smug for being able to land under the conditions. While your mind is commending the rest of your body for flawlessly carrying out its less than rational orders, a gust of wind grabs your canopy which you haven't gotten around to deflating yet because you were busy feeling good about yourself and you're sent sliding backwards, dragged after the canopy?

Is it like in weight lifting - remain standing for a set amount of time or does that count as a butt landing?

I've been caught in "Smug Mode" once or twice. I try to learn from it.

Santa Von GrossenArsch
I only come in one flavour
ohwaitthatcanbemisunderst

[Michele 1]

My definition is simple:

If I can stand up afterwards, it's a "stand up" landing.

Ciels-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[vonSanta 0]

Think I'm gonna use that.

Last landing was a butt-surf. Surfed for what I felt was an eternity in zero wind under my (to me) super-duper 149 Safire. Surfed on my feet with my butt touching the top of the grass - flared it out and stood up. Walked by the student chicks and said "Intentional? Yeah, I wanted to do that. Grass to your ass is a great feeling".

Santa Von GrossenArsch
I only come in one flavour
ohwaitthatcanbemisunderst

[mjosparky 4]

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You're a style freak aren't you.

I have turned 1 style series and that was to get my C lic. and have never competed in accuracy. If you cannot tippy toe your canopy, you need practice or a different canopy.

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[Hooknswoop 19]

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If you cannot tippy toe your canopy, you need practice or a different canopy.

If you don't stand it up, it don't count

Derek

[mjosparky 4]

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If you don't stand it up, it don't count

No more calls, we have a winner!

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

[DanglesOZQld 0]

Yeah that about sums it up.................
Nice to see that the flag is the right way up in your pic BTW ha ha - heard about a certain GK jump when that happened! BSBD -Mark.
PS- A stand up landing to me is one where one does not fall on ones ass at any stage. One is allowed to run walk or do whatever else it takes to achieve this goal. Have I said ONE enough!?? ;)

"A Scar is just a Tattoo with a story!!!"

[sdgregory 0]

That said . . . some of the swoopers seem to slide on one kneewith the other foot forward. Does that count?

[twnsnd 1]

Nah, just need more wind.

-We are the Swoophaters. We have travelled back in time to hate on your swoops.-

[skylord 1]

I'm an expert on this, and I've got three jumps under my belt to prove it. Here it is.

Technically, a stand up landing is one nobody saw you make.

If someone was watching, you have to make a tactical decision, and this cannot be taught. Set up for a PLF, as always, right? Balls of the feet, calf, thigh, hip, shoulder, roll, legs up. Repeat up to 7 times on one landing. As long as the bruising momentum from a failed flair is spent by whatever means, including lying, it is a stand up landing.

Really, I've lucked out on my landings. The first was a two step thanks to great radio advice. The second was a bit different since I touched down in a rougher area. I landed slower, but tripped on rough terrain and took a knee. Elsinore did not ask for a review of the play, and was not charged a timeout.

Stay on your feet, its a stand up, even if you run it out.

Bob

Bob Marks

"-when you leave the airplane its all wrong til it goes right, its a whole different mindset, this is why you have system redundancy." Mattaman

[jsaxton 0]

I had a similar landing career until I downsized to a canopy that I was loading a little more. Then my landing skills improved a lot.