SuperKat

Do you think 600 feet is too high for a double front riser approach? If not, I'm probably going to do about a few hundred of these before I do a 180 front riser approach. What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?

They will always be my gurus and mentors. Whenever Scott stops by my DZ I take his courses, even if it's overkill or if I've taken the same classes over again. It's like being in college for over 10 years. I just can't get enough. What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?

Dude, look at the video again. It's a no wind day. 1st stage flare, the canopy didn't plane out and my sink rate didn't slow down either. So what do I do if I don't want to hit the ground hard? I finish the flare faster. Once again no wind day, the canopy didn't plane out at the first stage flare. If you look at the video again, I'm finishing the flare before I hit the ground and while I'm running it out. 210 200 Both Scott Miller and Heath Richardson are aware of the spectre's flight characteristics, my wing loading and my performance on it. They think I land it pretty well. They had no complaints on the timing of the first stage flare or last stage flare. Those aren't my best landings. Those videos are both no wind landings. Scott has video'd me land 40 times for his courses and Heath has video'd me land 15 times. With each and every landing they both said that I'm getting better at it. What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?

Whoo hoo! Thanks dude. I don't plan on downsizing from this canopy until I reach 1000 jumps. I plan on milking this mutha for everything it's got. And no, I won't get tired of it until then. 1000 is my mark no more no less and I'm sticking to it! What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?

A swoo approach. What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?

I've taken 3 different Scott Miller canopy control courses, one Heath Richardson course at X-keys and just this past may a Flight 1 canopy camp course with both Scott Miller and Heath Richardson as the instructors. I've got about 60 Hop and Pop jumps practicing manuevers such as, 1/4 brake turns, 1/2 brake turns, deep brake turns, front riser dives, 180 front riser turns, canopy stalls, landing approaches with 1/4 brakes and 1/2 brakes, and planing out with 180 front riser turns and front riser dives. Since May this year till present, I did 30 hop and pops practicing these maneuvers. When executing the front riser dives and 180 front riser turns, I've always watched my alti to notice how much altitude I've lost. Don't mind the book, I just want y'all to know what I've accomplished. I feel that I'm ready to do both front risers for a landing approach. To be on the safe side, I would execute this manuever at least by 600 feet for starters. I would also execute this maneuver into the wind. And yes of course I will watch out for oncoming traffic and obstacles before I do this. And yes, I will talk to my instructors and Heath Richardson before I do this. I just wanted an outsiders take on this. I've been dreaming and day dreaming about this. I'm too friggin' excited. Let me know what you think. And thanks in advance for your input. Here's one of my landing videos. It's from the Flight 1 camp back in May. Not a very graceful one because of "no wind" but it's funny cuz a dog's chasing me and as I was trying to cheat by touching it, it looks like the dog's gonna bite me and I jump out of the way. This was an accuracy jump. I was the closest one when I landed about 10 feet away from an orange frisbee out of the group of 7 people that were trying to hit it! Whoo Hoo! 12MB video http://www.superkatnyc.com/landingwithdoglarge.mpg A cleaner and more recent no wind landing: 2.5MB video http://www.superkatnyc.com/landing08large.mpg What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?

I first met Craig about 3 years ago. He yelled at me for not setting my brakes before I layed my rig down for him to pack. He schooled me like I was a 5yr old boy and showed me how to properly stow my brakes. Then, when I had my first chop last year, he saved my ass $1300 by finding my main and freebag 4 days later. The impressive thing about that was no one knew where the hell my canopy landed so he practically combed the forest surrounding the landing area and actually found the canopy and freebag. When I heard he was strapped for cash I actually hooked him up nicely with a couple of extra bucks. Just a few months ago, he was drinking quite a bit and then ran up to me after I had landed and started boxing with me while I was walking towards the hanger and holding my canopy. At that time, I was really pissed off about what he did cuz I just had a lazy throw which resulted in a pilot chute in tow but managed to clear the burble for the pilot chute to fully inflate and I didn't have to chop. He changed my pattern from being relieved to being ticked off cuz he came pretty close to hitting my face a few times. He'd back off and then charged at me swinging his fist. Then, he'd back off and charged at me again swinging his fists again. I pretended to laugh it off and he'd threatened to knock the smile off my face. That next morning, he heard that I was pretty ticked off about and wanted to apologize to me so I just forgot about it and went on like nothing ever happened. I'm glad that my lasting impression about him is how he was man enough to know he made a mistake and he was going to make things right again. He didn't owe me a thing, but he felt bad about what he did. That alone said a lot to me about his character. He was a little pit bull with a big heart. I'm gonna miss ya buddy. Rest in peace bro. I only regret that we never got a chance to fly together. What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?

I guess that's almost similar to a canopy dive towards the ground, eh? Apparently, towards the end of the video, he apologized to someone and said that he's okay. What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?

Low Turn, Lost right hand toggle and NO PLF!!! You need a quicktime plug-in to watch this movie. http://www.superkatnyc.com/karateman.mov For quicktime plugin: http://www.quicktime.com What's the most you ever lost in a coin toss, Friendo?