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AFF level 3 cut away none since about 1000 jumps. Bobby

Wave off at the dinner table when full.

Just go to the old phosphate quarys that what we do here in Central Florida. So far skydiving = 1 broken tail bone Road biking = 1 case of good old fashon road rash. I fell doing about 22 mph. Mtb = 1 ACL reconstruction and to many to count bruises, cuts, scrapes, and I did not know that, insert any part of the body, would go in that direction. But I love them all. Yea the road bike scares me a lot more than skydiving ever will. Bobby

I use to teach SCUBA diving and from that experience have a couple of points. As you go both to altitude and back to earth the pressure is going to force air through the rupture if it is not closed. If it is not fully healed the pressure might reopen the rupture. Thus increasing your time to heal. Plus it will probably hurt, more on the decent as the pressure changes quickly. My second and greater concern is this. Sudden changes in temp in your ear will affect your balance. A good example of this is when diving with a wet suit hood on in cold water. If you pull on side back and expose a single ear to the cold water you tend to become disorientated until your body warms the water in the ear. If you want to test this theory out get a friend who’s ears are ok, not ruptured. Sit them on a bed or something else soft and where they won’t hurt themselves if they fall. Take 2 turkey basters (SP), the tube with a bulb on the end for marinating turkeys. Fill one from a bowl with ice water in it and fill the other with warm water. Squirt one into each of there ears at the same time and watch. Some people just fill a little dizzy, but some just fall down. But it does prove the point that I would not want that to happen in free fall where the air in your good ear is warmed by your body and enters the eardrum from your eusatachain tube and the other is the cold air at altitude entering through the rupture. Will this happen on your jump, I don’t know. But these are my thoughts on the subject. Check with your doctor and good luck. Bobby

She is good. Look for us middle of next month.

Start packing now. You are jumping big forgiving rigs now, as compared to that new elipical you might have in a couple of 300 jumps. If I were able to choose which rig I would preferr to mal because of a bone headed packing mistake, its a rig loaded 1 to 1 or lower. Normally student / rental rigs have enough jumps on them that the material won't fight you. Unlike new Zero P, learning to pack is hard enough. Unless you get a new canopy in said rigs. I have several friends who still can't pack after a 1000's of jumps. Which isn't bad as they can aford to pay a packer, but sucks at a boogie when the packers are backed up. Plus if you are jumping your ass off and the packers are busy I could usually beat the packers if I packed for myself. Hey maybe its me but I want to understand my gear and when your new there is nothing like looking at a canopy over and over to know what is what instantly. Makes reviewing any issue easier to say name a part of the canopy was wrong, than to say that line hooked to that thingy did not look right. When asked who I trust more packing me or my packer, she wins everytime. Truse me she rocks, but I still trust myself to pack. Finally why learn twice. My girlfriend learned to pack and caught on quickly, then quit packing. Around jump 100 she decided to start packing and had to start all over again. I stayed away for a while. Repeating a class sucks. My opion, learn it and stay current. Bobby