AggieDave 6 #51 September 1, 2009 I have the video that Ian shot on practice day and I have the gate video. Sorry that's all I have. Indian Terry has a couple of pictures from ZA up on his FB, but that's all I've seen. You're sore? It couldn't possibly be from the HUGE tumbling rolling stop you did on a speed run. Or maybe the non-lifted screaming downwind ZA run... --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piahenzi 0 #52 September 1, 2009 Oh, my darling Hans! I know that beat up, mashed up, been thru a war zone feeling. You've seen me take the hits :)) and I have it after every meet and it lasts for a week. I wouldn't give it up for anything.... Let's you know you are ALIVE!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hans 0 #53 September 1, 2009 Hmm I swore we had 10 competitors. The Farm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianmdrennan 2 #54 September 1, 2009 Dave was nice enough to mark me as a guest since the video camera broke on my speed run, and I was unable to complete the final 2 jumps because of time constraints. Not that it ultimately would have really mattered I suppose, I put down 3 zeros prior to that ps: You know I owned you in that speed run....stooopid video camera Performance Designs Factory Team Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hans 0 #55 September 1, 2009 Thats my boy. Wait until Nationals and the World cup I will own you. I am taking bets. The Farm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianmdrennan 2 #56 September 1, 2009 Oh lordy Performance Designs Factory Team Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hans 0 #57 September 1, 2009 I forgot you are on my team at the World cup. Nationals baby The Farm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dqpacker 7 #58 September 1, 2009 Here's a shot of the pond from above that I cropped from some rw pics from Bart. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frost 1 #59 September 1, 2009 Quote Oh lardy there, corrected it for ya. Quote Ian Drennan was also on hand completing some competition runs as a guest and also provided free coaching to the other people in the competition you should have provided Hans with some free coaching, he could have used a zero or two. P.S. Hey, Al, can we do "guest appearances" at the FLCPA meets? I could have used a couple of those this last season... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
morris 0 #60 September 1, 2009 Hans, as there isn´t any video, I´ll describe you how it looked like from my perspective. I´ve been in the main building and thought to myself "Hans is up with the Cessna, let´s have a look". As I went outside spotting the sky I could see you flying the last part of your set-up. To make it all the way to the pond in time for your landing I would have had to run - impossible with the way my foot felt that moment (you know how hard the soil on the other side of the taxiway is, don´t you), so I kept on walking and saw you initiating your turn while I´ve been closing in on the "taxiway-end" of that treeline. During recovery you disappeared from my view due to the trees, I couldn´t see the timed part of your run - but I didn´t miss what this was going to be all about... You flew back into my field of view just after you passed the exit gate at what looked to me like high subsonic speed - I guess we both agree that the runway would have become a problem for granted if you wouldn´t have taken that decision to get this meat missile stopped somehow. From that moment on it looked like some kind of rolling-and-bouncing-triple-somersault hidden in a fast traveling cloud of dust with single arms and legs sticking out of that cloud/being visible once in a while for brief moments - the very best and most extreme single piece of swooping action I´ve ever seen! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aykay 0 #61 September 1, 2009 QuoteHere's a shot of the pond from above that I cropped from some rw pics from Bart. I can see my house from there! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
morris 0 #62 September 2, 2009 Thanks to everyone at Skydive Houston, the atmosphere and hospitality at your DZ is great! Special thanks to all the helping hands on site, you know who you are! Very special thanks to you, Dave, for making it all happen! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TCMRigging 0 #63 September 2, 2009 Dan set a new Texas speed record with 2.53sec. The average MPH through the speed course was 56.59 MPH. WOW that is freaking fast when you think of how fast he needed to travel through the first gates to get this overall average. Here is a handy calculator to figure speed over distance measured in seconds. http://www.csgnetwork.com/csgtsd.html Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #64 September 14, 2009 Thank you everyone for such a great meet at Spaceland this weekend. The scores will be posted in the next couple of days (Haylee is converting them to a nice electronic version for us). If you weren't there, you missed out on the largest swoop comp we've had in Texas, on the largest swoop park in the world. Simply put, you really missed out if you missed this one.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
selwynj 0 #65 September 14, 2009 How about some pics from the air of the swoop course?“It takes ten years to get ten years’ experience” Eric "tonto" Stephenson D515 PASA Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #66 September 14, 2009 I don't have one. Try www.swooppark.com and see if they do.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dqpacker 7 #67 September 14, 2009 Some pictures from the practice day and some distance jumps. I wish I could have seen Danny R. last speed run. I heard it wasn't as good as his run at waller. Is there any video of that Dave? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #69 September 14, 2009 Outstanding photos! I think that Rob may have video as well as maybe Chuck Akers. I've never seen or heard of anyone having to address chopping their main on the speed course in a pre-comp briefing. I've never seen anyone do it during a competition. So I didn't cover it in the competition briefing. I didn't even think to cover it. So, now thanks to Dan, the briefing will now be longer. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frost 1 #70 September 15, 2009 Great job, Dave! Comp ran very smoothly. I was psyched to uhm.. make a guest appearance and make some practice runs :) Look forward to swooping that big pond in October and seeing everyone again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dqpacker 7 #71 September 15, 2009 Here's Danny's speed run. Photo's by Ori Kuper http://www.flickr.com/photos/orikuper/3921742819/in/set-72157622250157291/ And here is the rest of Ori's pics. http://www.flickr.com/photos/orikuper/sets/72157622250157291/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianmdrennan 2 #72 September 15, 2009 Priceless!Performance Designs Factory Team Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
psuCory 0 #73 September 16, 2009 More photos of the non-competition jumps: http://kossanrandom.shutterfly.com/97 Great job on the even SDSL, Dave and crew! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #74 September 18, 2009 Here are the meet results from meet 3 of the Texas Swoopers. Thank you to all the competitors (in order of placing): Greg Windmiller Jessica Edgeington Craig Saucier Shannon Pilcher Bryan Buechler Justin Price Dan Raffaelli Iurri Flavio Michael Shatalov Cory Kossan Ivan Buznego Daniel Carroll Erika Dufort Alex “Roo” Kaiserman John “Bonston” Hartley Pia McFarland Next season should have more comps and more comps at SD Spaceland. If your DZ would like to host a Texas Swoopers meets, let me know, but understand that we will only have meets over water.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
