My first jump/tandem in HD

[ssgp2 0]

I bought a little camera for the occasion and made a great souvenir.

Hopefully, it will not be the last

http://contour.com/node/105940

[Psychonaut 0]

Hmm.. game on.

Stay high pull low

[andreeb77 0]

Just one second, please. Need to get popcorn!

[Sangi 0]

Fuckin ace man, gotta love the sky all the way down..

oh oh not to mention the fatassjellychin close up giggling around for a good time at the start of the vid..

ROFLMAO

"Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

[ssgp2 0]

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Fuckin ace man, gotta love the sky all the way down..

oh oh not to mention the fatassjellychin close up giggling around for a good time at the start of the vid..

ROFLMAO

:D

I was told that I was aerodynamically stable...
;)

[ssgp2 0]

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Just one second, please. Need to get popcorn!

Extra butter for me please!
;)

[DSE 5]

Congrats on your first jump. Hopefully you got outside video to help you remember the jump itself?

[Zymurdoo 0]

Well I guess the time has come to for me get a real job. Our days as skydiving videographers has come to and end. Anyone wanna buy my fancy dual camera set-up?

Blue Skies, Soft Docks and Happy Landings!
CWR #23
(It's called CRW, add an e if you like, but I ain't calling it CFS. FU FAI!)

[MotherGoose 0]

Can't help but think that this is the first of many to come. As everything gets smaller, lighter and higher def, the flying tripod becomes obsolete.

Today is a sad day.

You think you understand the situation, but what you don't understand, is that the situation just changed.

[ChrisRomp 0]

I dunno. Video from an outside flyer is (IMO) better than a handicam. And I don't see the whuffos buying wrist mounts for cameraphones or picking up a GoPro just for their one tandem jump ($99 for better vid and stills is still cheaper than a GoPro... for now).

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I dunno. Video from an outside flyer is (IMO) better than a handicam. And I don't see the whuffos buying wrist mounts for cameraphones or picking up a GoPro just for their one tandem jump ($99 for better vid and stills is still cheaper than a GoPro... for now).

You'd be surprised at how many tandem students want to take their cameras on their jumps.
I've only seen one DZ that allows it. Imagine that student dropping the camera on a house, car, or worse...

[ssgp2 0]

I understand your concern about having a newbie holding a potential projectile in his hands.

The camera I used is very light/small and was attached to my fingers by a strong nylon string.

If I loose the cam, I loose the finger....

When I was told that a DVD of my jump would cost me 150$, I figured I could put that money on a camera that I could use for my first glider ride and motorcycle rides to come.

I didn't catch any video of myself in free fall and probably couldn't reproduce the view of another person shooting me.

I was more interested in shooting the area of the jumps, since I spend lots of time around that spot and was curious about the 3 dimension perspective of my environment.

This camera is also very easy to attach to an helmet and will be used for every jump when I get my license.

I read the sticky regarding the distracting effect of wanting to be a Speilberg of skydiving.
My perspective is simpler, just want to record the experience and maybe learn a few thing watching my technics.

I like to use videos with my other hobbies as a learning tool.
I turn the cam on and forget about it to concentrate on what I'm doing.

[Halfpastniner 0]

Sounds like a bulletproof plan to me

BASE 1384

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I understand your concern about having a newbie holding a potential projectile in his hands.

The camera I used is very light/small and was attached to my fingers by a strong nylon string.

If I loose the cam, I loose the finger....

When I was told that a DVD of my jump would cost me 150$, I figured I could put that money on a camera that I could use for my first glider ride and motorcycle rides to come.

I didn't catch any video of myself in free fall and probably couldn't reproduce the view of another person shooting me.

I was more interested in shooting the area of the jumps, since I spend lots of time around that spot and was curious about the 3 dimension perspective of my environment.

This camera is also very easy to attach to an helmet and will be used for every jump when I get my license.

I read the sticky regarding the distracting effect of wanting to be a Speilberg of skydiving.
My perspective is simpler, just want to record the experience and maybe learn a few thing watching my technics.

I like to use videos with my other hobbies as a learning tool.
I turn the cam on and forget about it to concentrate on what I'm doing.

I can hardly wait for you to get a hundred jumps under your belt and you get to come back and read this. I'm not sure which of your statements should become my new sigline. There are a few posts of my own from back in the day that leave me red-faced too. It'll be humbling.

A point of note; one of the first things you learn as a skydiver is to never tie anything to yourself that you can't get rid of. It could kill you or someone else (and has).

[ssgp2 0]

Thank you for the heads up!

I'll keep that in mind.

That is the main reason I joined this forum, I don't know anything about the sport and want to learn has much as possible from those who have the experience.


The first step in the learning process is to say without hesitation; " I don't know..."

I apply that rule to all things in my life.

The second thing I learn is the be able to keep an open mind to new things and re evaluate them against what I am use to.

I love to read and it probably saved me from a few broken bones
;)

[ChrisRomp 0]

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That is the main reason I joined this forum, I don't know anything about the sport and want to learn has much as possible from those who have the experience.

Everything on this forum is 100% true and accurate.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. I hope you decide to do AFF (or similar method) and learn to jump solo. It's a great sport and has changed my life. Listen to your instructors. :)