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k. gibson did say that. in this sport what happened yesterday is dated. Break-away, Fly like a pro, and ground rush, and pack like a pro are still relevant. would you not give any one of these to a newbie?

this is a follow up post to my previous post. If your profile is published in our book, we will send you a free copy of swoop one or swoop two. please see my post titled " experienced jumpers needed"

If you have 5000 + jumps, I would like 5-6 sentences about your ultimate advice to intermediate jumpers regarding general safety. This is to be published in PIER MEDIA's book: The Skydiver's Survival Guide (2nd Edition). ----------------------- This assignment may sound slightly vague so I am enclosing a sample below. In addition, I need you to email a picture and a brief bio with your jump experience and jump number. please email me your image and text to : marcusantebi@aol.com ------------------------------ sample: John Grimlad D-10967 6500 jumps First Jump 1989 "I've seen more friends get hurt or go in making dangerously low turns intentionally and unintentionally. Never execute a turn you can't recover from beforeimpacting the ground"! If you are learning how to do high performance landings, understand the risks. Learn from experienced people. Take your time. Hook turns are learned over thousands of jumps."

If you have 5000 + jumps, I would like 5-6 sentences about your ultimate advice to intermediate jumpers regarding general safety. This is to be published in PIER MEDIA's book: The Skydiver's Survival Guide (2nd Edition). ----------------------- This assignment may sound slightly vague so I am enclosing a sample below. In addition, I need you to email a picture and a brief bio with your jump experience and jump number. please email me your image and text to : marcusantebi@aol.com ------------------------------ sample: John Grimlad D-10967 6500 jumps First Jump 1989 "I've seen more friends get hurt or go in making dangerously low turns intentionally and unintentionally. Never execute a turn you can't recover from beforeimpacting the ground"! If you are learning how to do high performance landings, understand the risks. Learn from experienced people. Take your time. Hook turns are learned over thousands of jumps."

Imagine yourself colliding with someone in freefall and being near unconscious? You re instinct may be to pull your reserve. You can’t see well through the blood in your goggles. You’re terrified. You re disoriented and can’t distinguish left from right. You grab your cutaway handle thinking it’s your reserve. You pull it and wait ….bang your cypress fires, or splat! - no cypress fire! There are also scenarios under other kinds of malfunction (other than a spinning one) that disorientation might cause you to pull the reserve handle before pulling the cutaway. Disorientation and panic are common problems. The advantage of the metal d-ring is that it looks and feels completely different than your pillow cutaway, which can greatly reduce the chances of pulling out of sequence if disoriented or in panic. If you decide to stay with metal, make sure the Velcro is in good condition and that the handle is securely in place before you leave the aircraft. Avoid letting inexperienced jumpers take grips on your harness. Avoid jumping with less experienced people who can’t control their movement in freefall. However, two soft handles work great, and are the trend for a lot of people. Your rig will be more secure from snagging in the aircraft and in freefall. Also, if you have a hard opening with weird g-forces going through the harness, the pillow reserve is less-likely than a d-ring to pop free from the webbing of the harness. You need to take some precautions and get some extra training before going over to the soft reserve. For one, I recommend that you keep your cutaway color red for the rest of your jump career and never change that. You were more than likely trained on red. I also recommend a silver-colored, soft reserve handle. This way you are not changing the ingrained color coding that you drilled as a student. Make sure you practice peeling the reserve ripcord before pulling the handle. Let someone hold the reserve cable and pin in place so you don’t accidentally fire the reserve, or practice several times before a scheduled reserve repack. It is also important that you retrain your practice rip cord pulls to include the action of peeling the Velcro free before pulling. Pulling first and not peeling can cause a severely hard reserve pull. To ingrain the correct procedure I speak the steps out loud while I’m doing them. For example. 1 deploy main stable | 2. Look up 1….2….3…. 3. | 3. oh poo-poo a Malfunction | 4. Arch, right hand on red, left hand on silver | 5. peel and pull red…clear 6. peel and pull silver !! I know it sounds really lame to practice that, but believe me, race car drivers, pilots, etc all are trained in that manner. It really programs them correctly and insures that they do what’s right in an real emergency. Finally just make sure you are clear on how to inspect the reserve cable before every jump. Since you no longer can see the terminal ball of the reserve cable, you need to learn how to continue to inspect it concealed by the pillow. Ask your rigger for help. Good luck

where should i send the free video? who is this. i'll send you a dvd.

Instrucitons on flying the vx 55 1. make at least 200 jumps on a sabre 170. 2. While canopy control is still fresh in your mind immediately down size to a stilletto 107. 3. maket 30 jumps on the 107. 4. call PD for the rwl (reccommended wing loading) on a velo75. 5. after listening to a 1 hour discourse on how wingloading is not relevant, but experience is, disgard that information. 6. call 5 major sport parachute dealers, and try to order the velo 75. 7. after being denied by the dealers for liabilty reasons, call icarus canopies directly and ask for simon. order the vx 74 in white w black ribs for future resale value. 8. make 11 jumps on the vx 74 in texas or neighboring state. 9. order the vx 55 in lemon to avoid unneccessary wait time. 10. make 14 more jumps on the 74 while the new zealand ships the 55 cutting patterns to spain. 11. make 16 more jumps on the 74 while spain awaits the zero p fabric from PD. 12. receive the vx 55 in yellow, and get pissed , call for simon , but dont reach him cause he's no where to be found. 13. jump the 55 in yellow even though it does not match your rig colors while spain rebuilds the canopy in lemon. 14. post ravings about your speed exploits and 940 turns from 1000 feet on dropzone.com.

hey swoopers, i saw some neato skydiving vids with swooping scenes that gave me a real woody! I currenty banging out 100 degree turns with my st120. i weigh about 175 with gear and full pockets of cash. question: am i ready for a vx 55. who can teach me how to fly it? what if the winds are 30 mph? does any one else jump something so small? am i gay?

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