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Time: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 8:00 - 6:00 Location: Skydive Spaceland - Rosharon TX Info: Spaceland Lite and Skydive Spaceland are hosting a 4-Way Formation Skydiving Competition to help all of the Texas 4-Way teams get their season started off right. The one-day meet will be for all divisions (A, AA and AAA) and consist of 6 rounds. Registration is only $40 per team and competition jumps will be $20 per person ($100 per team per jump). Any participating teams that want to make a full weekend out of the event will be able to train Friday, Saturday after the event, and Sunday at a discounted rate. Please contact one of the Spaceland Lite team members for further information. For further information, including confirmed teams and the official draw, see the Events page at www.spacelandlite.com

Hey Todd, I was wondering if I could see what the scores were for the speed round. Thanks, Kat ______________________________________________________________________

Meet #1 was great! Thanks to Todd and all the staff, help. The meet was smooth and ran awesome. I was really impress with everyone improvements and flying at this past meet. We should have a great season. Had a great time, glad I went. Now I need to work on getting those gates better. Thanks Brains for the pictures, looks great. Kat ______________________________________________________________________

sorry, but no. Couldn't get on her flights. I need to see if someone could pick me up from the airport or something. My flights are: Friday Atlanta at 11:56 a.m. Monday leave at 7:30 a.m. Can someone help? Kat ______________________________________________________________________

Ok. Me and Britt both got tickets, so I will see ya Friday. Kat ______________________________________________________________________

yeah, here is another one for you... ______________________________________________________________________

As much as I would love to go.. My professors have doomed me to an exam that weekend!!!! Can you believe them exam over the weekend, how dare they. Don’t they know I skydive on the weekend? Sorry, Hope everyone has a great time and no matter what the weather does everyone will be having a better time then me doing an exam! Hey when ya'll coming down to swoop with us? Take care and have a great time. Kat ______________________________________________________________________

I marked it in my official calendar. So count me in. I will talk to Brittany this weekend to verify she is also coming Kat ______________________________________________________________________

Hey I believe this could be just for you. One has to start somewhere and this would be a great stepping stone. I had just about the same number of jump you have, when I really wanted to start doing more and becoming a better canopy pilot. Between negative influences, “Girls cannot fly canopies...,” and mostly myself not asking for correct advise my progression went very slowly. Now do not get me wrong, I learned tons of stuff flying and basically teaching myself, but after competing in last year CPC, I have learned more in the past few months then I have in the past 1000 jumps. I say do it, Just be safe, and take baby steps, but with advise and coaching. You will learn more in this one weekend then you probable could on your own in a few months. Also you will have multiple people showing you multiple different things that will help you improve, no matter where you are at in your progression. There will be other Girls too.... Hope to see ya their, Kat ______________________________________________________________________

Did not know the water goes that deep. I would love to see that video. Was he swooping south to north...or something? Kat ______________________________________________________________________

Ok, I might say it is cold, but I will not back out. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. Now, I better not hear you complaining it is too cold or crosswind or even downwind. lol jk Come on out and play, before it gets cold. Kat ______________________________________________________________________

Ok, ok, already lets here more about this camp. When is it going to be? If we are going we need to start to make plans now...... Kat ______________________________________________________________________

sounds great. I will make sure you know about all of our meets here in texas. Good luck in Canada, I really hope to see ya next season. Try to stay warm...... Kat ______________________________________________________________________

Thanks the pictures were taken at Skydive Houston, Texas. ______________________________________________________________________

Just a few more.... ______________________________________________________________________

Hello all, I must say this past weekend I had a total blast. Since the CPC finals in Co, Brittany and I have been really working on our swoops. Saturday morning the day started out with some overcast (4,000 ft) so we got together a couple of hop and pop loads. Around noon clouds cleared up and the weather was great from that point on! Brittany, other swoopers and myself swooped the pond all weekend. Towards the end of the day on Saturday we had almost everyone at the pond watching our final swoops for the evening. Thank you Clint McClure for these great picture of us all. Sunday, I did something for the first time. I went to rears on my landing and Oh my… What a difference. I cannot wait tell next weekend to go at it again. Kat ______________________________________________________________________

Must say a BIG CONGRATES to you both!!! Ya'll look great!!!! Kat ______________________________________________________________________

An even better way and cheaper is to test yourself on the way up to alt in the air plane. Look outside guess what alt you are at and double check with your alt (could even look at other also to make sure yours is reading correctly). You get way more opportunities to gain eye sight reference to the ground/alt then the short time you are in free fall. Also this way you can spend the time in freefall working on other maneuvers and occasionally glance at ground then alt to re-enforce the visualls. ______________________________________________________________________

That was great shots of us. Really liked the angle and how they fast forward our swoops. Made them look really nice. And yes mazzy looked nice too...... By the way when and where is the next meet? Kat ______________________________________________________________________

My prayers are sent his way.... ______________________________________________________________________

Yes I agree with Amanduh, lets see some pictures. Everyone loves pictures, I know I do, expecially if they are of me....lol Had a great time. Kat ______________________________________________________________________

I hear ya, I really don't like to pull low at all, but I really enjoy big ways. At any normal jump my normal pull alt is around 3000 (avg between belly and FF jumps) I could not answer the poll there was not an option for me. I had a cypress fire, but was not a save. I was in the base of a 60+ record way. When you are the last 12 or so to track off it may be a little down and dirty. Well, I tracked off and pulled my chute I uncounted a slight hesitation with a very long snivel. During the snivel you can see the canopy is trying to spin up to the left so I am going with it and so far no line twist, and then as the canopy is fully opening it takes a rapid turn to the right and now I have a full line twist, Yes just one. I know I am low and dirty, but I have had these twist before and they came out in no problem, So I tried about one and half tries. During the second attempt I knew this is way too low, it is time to cut away and fire the reserve. At that moment the canopy is spinning completely on my back. Between deciding to get ride of the canopy and the actual cutting away of the canopy(cables fully release) I heard my 1700 feet go off. Ok I am on my back, falling away from my canopy with my hand already on the reserve handle trying with all my might to flip over and pull the reserve. I had a great opening, and plenty of alt to decide where to land, kept all handles, etc. When I got to the ground, I knew that was low, really low and was wondering if the cypress had fired. I looked at my Pro -Track and it read 700 feet. When I took the rig off, I found out that the cypress has indeed fired. I was mad, scared, glad, every emotion you could imagine. I had video of the whole thing too, which after watching the video it made me feel better about the situation. It showed that I did everything in a very quickly matter. On the video you can see that the shiny little reserve handle was completely out and pulled at 1000 feet. Now, do I like that I was that low, no, but I did save my life and I learned something from this. I learned when I play on big ways I will jump something way more predictable then a Velo and something that opens way quicker. It is just not worth it to have to deal with that kind of situation when you are dumping that low. Also, I will not really give a canopy a second chance before deciding to get ride of it, but it is hard when you know these things sometimes come out of line twist so easy. Good thing I had video, when I got back to my home DZ there was all kinds of rumors around the DZ, but luckily video can prove what really happened and not the rumor of I had a cut-away then did nothing tell the cypress fired, I thought that was the funniest one of them all. ______________________________________________________________________

you mean http://www.eyeonmotion.com lol ______________________________________________________________________

What you need to do is call in advance and make a reservation. They are actually located on the airport I believe. What happoned is I made a reservation, walked outside of airport and told the lady who then calls the shuttle people and they will be there within 5 mins. It was basically the best option for me and cheepest. You do not have to worry about filling up the car with gas, or return it. Way cheeper then a taxi. Good luck. ______________________________________________________________________

Hi, I was just in the same boat for Nationals. I took a shuttle from Ont to the DZ. Here is the info for it. Discount Shuttle 800-699-4826 800-670-4867 $48 Ontario Airport to Perris It wasn't too bad, did not have to worry about calling people, renting cars, returning cars, etc.... It was pretty easy. ______________________________________________________________________