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just to give you guys a heads up, here are the top 10 at the world cup after 3 rounds of speed and what they're flying: Jay Moledski-Canada 300 New Velo Jonathan Tagle- USA 278.07 New Velo Isaiah McMauliffe- USA 277.13 New Velo Brian McNenny- USA 273.23 New Velo Shannon Pilcher- USA 272.01 New Velo Ian Bobo- USA 270.51 New Velo Tom Delibac- USA 269.22 New Velo Brent Henderson- Canada 262.70 ? Rob McMillan- Australia 262.63 ? Matt Harris- Australia 257.84 ? As you can see, the new Velo is kicking some serious booty, so like i said...it's a swooping machine Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

this is posted on PD's blog too but here are the top 10 after 3 rounds of speed, let the races begin: Jay Moledski-Canada 300 Jonathan Tagle- USA 278.07 Isaiah McMauliffe- USA 277.13 Brian McNenny- USA 273.23 Shannon Pilcher- USA 272.01 Ian Bobo- USA 270.51 Tom Delibac- USA 269.22 Brent Henderson- Canada 262.70 Rob McMillan- Australia 262.63 Matt Harris- Australia 257.84 Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

nice, thanks! i got an email this morning stating that kaz had sprained her ankle during practice pretty bad is on crutches but she's still competing!!! what a tough woman! way to go kaz Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

Does anyone out there know if there's any way to correct color vision in people that have minor deficiencies? this is an honest question...thanks Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

yes, it's definitely a swoop machine. very cool to fly and compete under. two thumbs up Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

just from a US PD side of things: Scott Roberts Isaiah McCauliffe Brian McNenney Shannnon Piltcher Ian Bobo Jonathan Tagle Albert Berchtold Tommy Delibac i'm probably missing others, but there's all the others from other countries too like Kaz, JayMo, ect should be a meet with very strong competition. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

For those that are interested Isaiah and Al from PD will be posting updates about the world cup when they can on PD's Blog: http://pdblog.typepad.com/pdblog/ good luck to all teams.... Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

There's reasons why PD designed, developed, and is marketing the katana. One of the reasons is that the KA will give a pilot the skills necessary to step up to it's bigger brother the Velo, IF, they want to later in their skydiving "career". When you go to a Velo it's not just about swooping, it's about being on your game EVERY time you go up in the air and fly it. The KA helps develop the flying skills, the perception, and the mind set of the pilot for the Velo, because the Velo is a monster. Like someone else posted you could do a high pull from altitude and still have to decide whether to beat the tandems/ students down or sit in brakes and wait them out when they're at 3k and you're at 6k. The KA helps develop those decision making skills. so personally since the majority of us haven't seen you fly you might want to stick with a KA 120 or 107 IF that's the road you want to take. but i would highly discourage someone to go from a ST 135 to a VE 103. also highly recommend some coaching from an established coach if it's economically available (ie PDFT, Fastrax, or pretty much all of florida) good luck... Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

Cameron, from the aussie national team, was out last weekend and found it not too be that big of a difference compared to what he's heard about the place. he said he raised his altitudes about 70'. it's pretty cold right now so like the others said raise your altitudes but it won't be as big of a difference from what it is during the summer. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

In my limited experience i've found that the lower you need to start the more accurate your altimeter should be. say you need to be at 350' to have a good 90 on a certain wing, if you have a crap altimeter that reads 100' low then you could very well be in a world of hurt. however, on the opposite side of the spectrum for someone doing a 450 on a certain wing that ideally needs to start at 1000' they can be 200' high or low and they'll still have a decent swoop because they can assess how fast or how slow they want to descend because they have more time in the turn. BUT, for competitive swoopers most of them want to be within a certain altitude because they've found that altitude to be best for them and they need an accurate altimeter to help put them there. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

i haven't used an analog alti since i started swooping 4 years ago. i personally think digital is just more accurate. however, use every resource you have. i use my alti to get me to my base leg then i pretty much eye ball it, if i think i'm getting low i'll check my alti and see. i also don't have an audible cause i'm not used to it and the times i have had one it's just distracted me more than it helped. experience also comes into play, people that dont have a lot of experience i might push more towards depending on their alti a little more because those people haven't developed their "swooping eyes" yet, but even with the most experienced they can still be caught off guard. so use everything, depend on nothing. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

good vid, thanks guys Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

Like Dave said, if someone is not able to properly use their control inputs to save themselves from a low turn they probably shouldn't be doing low turns (ie swoops). With that being said, it would be hard to sell me on the idea of not getting my parachute over my head if i was too low to the ground. however, i think there are different ways to get your canopy over your head and that's where having the proper tools in your tool box along with experience comes in to play, this is what I think Brian Germain is talking about in those quotes you stated. For example here, i don't think brian is stating that you must land with a bank angle, what he's saying is that if you are in a turn don't wait to complete the turn and come on heading before you start to save your life. start saving your life while you have the canopy banked and in a dive (ie flare your ass off). Here's another possible example: Let's say you do a 270 in a big landing area, but 180 degrees into it you find yourself too low. would you A) complete the turn and stab your toggles thereby getting the canopy over your head, or B) stop the dive/ turn immediately and start conducting a flat/braked turn and either land in your intended direction or in your "out" direction? these are two different options that both bring the canopy over the head, the only difference is when and how many options to save yourlife you give yourself. option A gives you one shot and even then it could be too late. option b gives you 2 shots plus you're higher when you make those desicions so you're safer, i call that the jackpot . coming in at an angle with the canopy not completely over your head is dangerous and shouldn't be done, especially to save your life. i had a close call just before the 2nd PST event where i was going for a wingover and started banking the canopy too early and hit HARD. i mean i got whip lash in my neck and i thought i had seriously busted up my leg, and that was on water! hopefully that made sense, but if not here's the short version: get that canopy over your head! Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

I thought it was the "no popping up 30' and stalling the canopy rule" aka the andy farrington, that was preventing us from doing that? either way, stand up or no stand up, it's brutal on the body...especially if there's no sand. excuse me, MODERATOR, please keep the subject relavent to what's been posted and not about your fantasies of shagging your own mom and not mine. Thanks and have a nice day. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

http://www.performancedesigns.com/pdzone/videosspireteaser.asp just a little somethin somethin Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

i'm pretty sure the primary purpose of the "stand-up" rule is to make the overall event that much harder. i guess when this event was just 3 positive zones and no stand-up there were a bunch of ties. there is no doubt though that zone accuracy is probably the hardest event on your body. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

i have both aluminum and stainless from multiple creators and prefer the stainless. both types of aluminum rings float up my risers when flying in full flight and coming out of a front riser dive. i've also accidently grabbed the ring instead of the rear riser when it floated up and had to switch hand position when i was in my roll-out. changes the opening characterics a little bit too i've noticed. i've had one RDS set-up with aluminum rings for over 2 years now and it's still going strong, no knicks or abbrassiveness to it. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

yup, that's what i'm talking about too. hit the outside entry gate, hug the inside of the corner, hit the outside exit gate. as far as the rear riser thing goes, do some experiments and see what works best for you, but i can tell you that the top dogs i've seen compete all run through the course 100% on rears and they smoke people who go to brakes. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

uhhhh, wouldn't that be ideally then? Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

PEA engineering is my preferred RDS as well Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

smooth and straight = fast if you can't be straight, still be smooth. being smooth and efficient with your inputs (harness, risers, brakes, ect) is just as, if not more, important then having a straight line through the course in my opinion. but yeah, you still have to carry some juice going through the course and ideally a pilot should be able to go through it entirely (100%) on rear risers. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

i double stow a small rubber band on the first locking stow, then put the second stow in the pocket, then a single stow w/ large rubber band on the other locking grommet, then it's a mixture of large, small, and broken rubber bands, tube stows, and free stows in the pocket, until i get to the slinks where i triple stow a small rubber band so i have no excess line anywhere. put it in the container and you're good to go. grant adams showed me that technique after he showed me how to get out of an otter with the door not all the way up. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

so is all the preaching of it's the pilot not the canopy irrelevant too? Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

i'm not going to lie that it sucked not to win any "skrilla" but it wasn't because jay was or wasn't on a prototype canopy that he won. tieing jay in the fastest speed time, winning one of the freestyle rounds, being competitive in accuracy, were all personal goals and accompishments i had. the only thing that i, and the rest of load 3, got fucked on was the 2nd round of distance when they held our load off for an hour to get tandems up and by the time we got to jump the wind went from 0 to 8mph head wind, but hey, that's competition i guess. why not? my friend took his stock VX and got the stabilizers taken off and had a JVX line trim put on, boom there you go, he now has a highly modified canopy that you couldn't buy at the time. ok, well lets strap on 80 #'s and break the record. hell, lets make it one of the events at the next PST after the pro/am. The only unfair advantage i can really see jay having is that he has 6000+ jumps. if others put in the time and money to develop their skills then they'll also have that advantage, but when it comes down to it i personally only know of a few people that are willing to do that. personally i have no problems competing against pilots who have modded canopies because i know they can be beat (look at paul and zuliani), it still boils down to the pilot. however, that being said i'll still gladly take what ever PD puts out when it finally does come out. Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down

how about if the z-brace or JSX canopies were out but were $5000 or $6000, is that accessable to everyone? i don't think so. there have been other companies besides PD that have had non-available canopies flown and win in competition. the JSX has been flown in competition, XAOS's with cascaded HMA have been flown in competition, and i think most of us know the PDFT has flown prototype canopies in competition. yes, 99% of us don't get to be at the tip of the speer when it comes to this stuff but sometimes it's not that great to be at the tip Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down