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Terminal dive? Deploy drogue from terminal?

Well, unless you have some kind of cyborg technology with I don't see how I'll be able to view the video in your head. :P My back is finally starting to get to the point where I can think about heading to the DZ. Hopefully within the next month or so.

Douva's summary is pretty much correct. My version of events is posted at http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1419921 Anyone happen to have video of my crash and burn? I'd love to see it.

No feet as in my feet? :)

Sounds like a plan, though I probably won't be out to Eloy again until next year's boogie.

Unfortunately I had to be in Dallas Sunday. I thought I was going to get my cousin to jump on Monday, but he wussed out. Didn't find that out until pretty late though, so it wasn't worth trying to make it back to jump.

Yes, it's Heath.

Yes, it's Kim. And I'm pretty sure that the last two times I saw them, they were rings of some kind. Maybe she has both. Maybe she'll wear both! I'm sure she'll tape them or something.

Yeah, I briefly looked at the points they wanted you to be able to turn before taking the class and it certainly does look quite challenging. If I'm lucky enough to be near a tunnel sometime soon I think I'll put my $$ into that first.

Yeah, as I mentioned last weekend I thought there was no way I was ready, then this weekend I realized I probably could offer useful advice to some of the people I'm jumping with. That's really my only incentive at this point; if I'm jumping with someone and see something they can improve on I'd like to feel confident in being able to coach them about what I saw. It seems to me that it's not quite the same offering advice to someone with 30 or 50 jumps who probably just needs a pointer here or there vs coaching someone who just got off AFF. I really want to be able to help those I jump with, but I also want to make sure I'm not inadvertently doing them a disservice. I already talked to one of our S&TA's about this and he said he'd be happy to play student for me and that as long as I'm only giving advice on what I know to be true it's not a problem, so maybe I'll just go that route for now and hold off on the rating until I'm a more seasoned skydiver.

Yes, should happen Saturday; probably in the morning. I'm at 97 jumps and Kim's planning on matching that Friday, so we should have 2 practice jumps before our 100th.

Actually, I believe they are rings. We already have one person at the DZ who now sports a 'gimple', we don't need any more; I'm pretty sure she'll be taking them out or taping them.

I'm thinking I don't want to land in the corn field naked...

1) I'd be more worried about a misplaced grip and being the 'hangee' ;) 2) Good idea! I was thinking about wearing a towel under the harness but the tear-away pants sound like a much safer and better idea. 3) Screw the shorts! :)

I assume you mean the coaches course?