What has the tunnel done for your flying?

[GQ_jumper 4]

Whats the biggest thing the tunnel has improved for you?

for me I notice that now when i turn points i stay in my slot a lot better than i had been before. I no longer slide away from the formation as i'm turning to take my next point.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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[Falko 0]

In the tunnel I learned how to turn with my legs, how to slide, carve and how to go vertical in blocks.
The learning curve in the tunnel is amazing...

Ich betrachte die Religion als Krankheit, als Quelle unnennbaren Elends für die menschliche Rasse.
(Bertrand Russell, engl. Philosoph, 1872-1970)

[ladyskydiver 0]

A ton. My time in the tunnel, I learned how to stay inside the little itty bitty tunnel radius. I'd always had a big sky to play in and with experienced jumpers never knew how much I moved around - until I was in a limited space and did I learn a lot. Each successive trip to the tunnel teaches me even more from learning to fly the mantis to side slides to knee turns to beginning verticals to....

And I blame my tunnel addiction 100% on Arlo as she's the one that got me booked for my time without disclosing how addicting it is.

Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile.

[Reginald 0]

I’ve found it improves the subtleties of my body position, which are difficult to do in free fall. I just did 1:45 minutes of tunnel time this weekend and watching the tapes last night was impressed at how much better my body position was from the fist session to the last. My center points were actual center points, my mantis looked like a mantis, etc.
The tunnel give you time to focus on these things and get good video of them, where it’s much more difficult in the air. Hell, in the air it’s hard enough to get a good point of reference let alone a good camera view of it; actually that is the best part of the tunnel IMHO, you get perfect points of reference for every little motion.

"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things." CP

[flyangel2 2]

Check out what it did for Mailin on her first AFF jump

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

[Squeak 17]

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A ton. My time in the tunnel, I learned how to stay inside the little itty bitty tunnel radius. I'd always had a big sky to play in and with experienced jumpers never knew how much I moved around - until I was in a limited space and did I learn a lot. Each successive trip to the tunnel teaches me even more from learning to fly the mantis to side slides to knee turns to beginning verticals to....

I was hoping to learnb all that on my 1st and only 30 mins

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[Squeak 17]

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Check out what it did for Mailin on her first AFF jump

The JMs let her go on AFF 1???

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[flyangel2 2]

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Check out what it did for Mailin on her first AFF jump

The JMs let her go on AFF 1???

Why not if she was stable? She met all the TLO. Where does it say that the JMs can't let go?

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

[ladyskydiver 0]

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A ton. My time in the tunnel, I learned how to stay inside the little itty bitty tunnel radius. I'd always had a big sky to play in and with experienced jumpers never knew how much I moved around - until I was in a limited space and did I learn a lot. Each successive trip to the tunnel teaches me even more from learning to fly the mantis to side slides to knee turns to beginning verticals to....

I was hoping to learnb all that on my 1st and only 30 mins

Well....to begin with.... for the above mentioned first.

Wait and see what Pete has you do. Usually the coach has you go into the tunnel for the first 2 minutes by yourself so that he can see your skill level, etc. After that, he works on the TLO's that you two agreed to.

Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile.

[gordy 0]

That is totally awesome, bet she end up an amazing flier....

[flyangel2 2]

Jen will have walked away with her A license in ten days.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

[gordy 0]

That is awesome!

[Paige 0]

I've only made one belly jump after accumulating almost 8 hours since October 31st (mostly sit flying). My belly flying was like night and day. I fell straight down, had great turns, forward and backward movement. The only difference for me was the scenery. Bellyflying in the sky was definately a lot easier than what I was doing in the tunnel.

Hoping to get some sit jumps in this weekend and I'll let ya know the learning curve on that one. Hopefully it goes just as well.

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[Peej 0]

The tunnel helped improve my freeflying tremendously. Especially taking docks, carving in a sit and generally just my awareness of the air flow over my body and how little movements are so important. On my next trip to the US i want to spend a lot of time in there on my belly cos that's where i lack skills the most.

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