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loosing weight for wingsuit flying

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Hell if I know. I rarely skydive and only BASE jumps are from a 1500' exit. About 30 of the BASE jumps are on a Prodigy with around 1500ft horizontal and 2 on a V2. I was getting the same horizontal with the V2 but they were my 2nd and 3rd jumps on the suit, so I had no idea how to fly it properly.

I plan on skydiving more this season to work on my L/D but numbers are boring.
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I'm glad to see that there are others that feel my pain B|. This is one of the many, many reasons why I rarely do "flocks" any more. I personally am not interested is GR, but what kind of wingsuit do you fly?

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Never mind you beat me to it:)

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Prodigy, V2, Classic (S.U.I.T.!!), GTi, or Skyflyer 1.

Depends if I'm loaning any of my suits out or not. If I want to "work" then I jump the V2, otherwise I like jumping the Prodigy and Skyflyer 1.

edit: and the Classic still kicks ass. It flies forEVER
A waddling elephant seal is the cutest thing in the entire world.
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i weighed 195# when i wrecked my ankle BASE jumping
after that i dropped 15#'s to lower my "landing" load
having recently taken up wingsuit flying "seriously"
i dropped another 15# to lower my "flying" load
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Try being 6' (1.82m) and 130lbs (60kg). My flocking position is a cannonball.


What is your Glide like?



To land he installed flaps on his Wingsuit and sets them to 30° ;-)
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I lost weight for health puropses, i.e. wanted to be in better shape. The driving force was not primarly wingsuiting but it sure helped and was used to motovate me in my mind. I feel much better and my wingsuiting has a much larger envelope now then before.

I chose the "old fashioned way", get a better body not a bigger suit :)

Scott C.
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I chose the "old fashioned way", get a better body not a bigger suit Angelic



What weird thinking made you do that?
Thats like saying people need to do more then 2 jumps and learn to actually fly that before buying the biggest suit around?

Silly people:P
JC
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