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Well it really only matters if you care about your life. If your lines get caught around your camera helmet you need to be able to get the entire mess off of you so you can cleanly cut away and pull your reserve. If you cut away and the main stays with you due to being tangled in your camera helmet it most likely will tangle your reserve too. Kirk

Not to be on the crude side but there is a huge difference if they swallow or not. So for the sake of your poll are we assuming they swallow? Kirk

In my 19 years of driving I have totalled out 3 cars. First was my second car no ice on the roads but on the off ramp (which was a suspended off ramp ) there was ice. Second, turning left onto a four lane road curb lane let me through but could not see next lane and as I edged out WHAM. Third car (I totally loved this car to a 1984 Chrysler Laser turbo just got it repainted two week prior) I was driving down the road and someone on a side street blew through without stopping. i would have t-boned him but for some stupid reason my reaction was to turn away from him hard. I missed him but hit a building the idiot was driving a new Cadi without insurance. Kirk Kirk

1st car – 1970 Barracuda slant 6 up graded later to a 360 CUDA kept it till just a few months ago 2nd Car – 1974 Duster slant 6 3rd Car – 1982 Honda Accord 4th Car – 1983 Honda Accord 5th Car – 1984 Mazda RX 7 6th Car – 1984 Chrysler Laser turbo 7th Car – 1970 Duster 8th Car – 2002 Hyundai Accent 9th Car – 2004 Hyundai Elantra I use to work on my own cars at one time I had cars1,4,5,6,7. I would alternate between fixing them and just getting so sick of them that I would park it. There was a time just one or two days where I did not have any of them running.

I think the Crossfire or Crossfire 2 are by far the softest openning canopies on the market and generally open on heading. Kirk

I would love to hear how it went myself. Unfortunately I was not able to attend due to throwing my back out getting my hot tub in the week prior. Kirk But atleast I was able to watch everone from inside my hot tub

From CNN web site: http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/31/news/gas_prices/index.htm?cnn=yes Kirk

About three years ago I ordered a Tony Suit pit special on a rush. I go my suit in 13 days and it fit like a glove. Kirk

I know you were just messing with me When I go to the gym I do not have a spotter either so I use dumb bells. If you get stuck you can just toss them off to the sides. I can't quite push for the max bench but I can come pretty close and still have safety in the fact I can just toss the weights to the side. Kirk

When I work out on the bowflex I will work out to the same intensity that I do at the gym(in respect to weights , reps, mucsle failure and time between sets) but I am never sore the next day after using the bowflex like I will be from going to the gym. The only thing I can think of is that at the beginning of the movements it is less weight than at the end. Kirk

I own a bow flex. I also go to the gym regularly so I honestly prefer free weights at the gym. That aside I think the bow flex is the closest thing you will find to free weight in a home universal gym. I would say the only thing I dislike about them is at the beginning of the movement it is easier and at the end it is more difficult. Kirk

Alot of us choose to keep our day jobs and work weekends at the DZ. You end up working quite often but you can also make between $200-$400 a weekend during the peak season. Kirk

You need to define comfortable living.

$3500 on a hot tub, about $2000 to the deck to hold the hot tub. Still left to do is $2000 on roofing the deck and privacy screening. To sit in the hot tub to sooth a very sore back from moving the hot tub onto the deck by yourself ...priceless

It was a really great experience the instructor worked well with my son. To get into the tunnel the instructor stands on the grate and has the child start to lean out from the doorway. The instructor kind of helps them lean out on to the air and then they are flying. The instructor stands on the metal grate holding onto the child lightly will the child is flying. They will give the child hand singles to fix their body position. Then after a minute they lead the child out of the tunnel and kind of do a short little demo for them to see and then the child gets to go back into the tunnel again. It was really safe and fun. Kirk

There are quite a few issues with taking a child skydiving. 1) Liability, as Bill Booth has mentioned before there is no waiver that would allow a child or parents to sign away the rights of that child. So lets play devils advocate and say the skydive goes wrong and the child is either killed or a quadriplegic for life. They ( by they I mean any of the childs relatives, it not just the parents) could sue the DZO, the instructor, the pilot, and the manufacturer of the of the tandem rig used in the skydive. 2) Harnessing them up. My son is 4’ 9” and 76 LBS he is too small to fit into our smallest harness. On a rainy Saturday, I just wanted to see how small of a passenger I could fit in the harness for furture referance since some females are pretty small and can get in the under 5' catagory so I tried it on my son. 3) This is just my personal one but I feel that something’s should be left till a child matures more. I feel that skydiving is an experience that should be held for a more mature teenager/ young adult just as sex and drinking should be too.

If you want to give your son the experience of skydiving there is always wind tunnels. I have taken my 9 year old son to the wind tunnel and he had a great time and it compared to a skydive much cheaper with video and a t-shirt it was $80.00 for 2 minutes. Kirk

It is my understanding that the X-mod helps with the rather hard opennings the FX has and makes them have some better flight characteristics but they are different even an X-mod FX is not a Xaos 21 because the plan forms are a little different. Kirk

I think you are missing the point, it is not that fact that the instructor has to adjust it after openning. It is the fact that the Chest strap becomes a neck strap that is the problem to begin with and depending on how loose the they were harnessed up to begin with the neck strap can dig into there neck even if totally openned. Finally Shawn is just looking for hints on how to lessen this being an issue. Kirk

Since this is next weekend, I thought I would bump the thread back up. Kirk

I not really that young 35 but I really hate new Metallica and ever since the black album I have gotten more into Pantra. Just thought I would add Medgadeth although they play great live(seen them twice) Dave really has no stage presents. Metallica put on a great show when I saw them but I liked Pantra better then either live. Kirk

My personal favorites are: Pantera southern tread kill Pantera far beyond driven Metallica ... and Justice for all Kittie... Orcle Queen of the Damned sound track Oh and anything with Metallica would have to be before they sold out. I will not listen the their new crap.

Well, it is pretty obvious that you had one of the screwed up Safire’s made by Precision. I had a Safire loaded at 1.55 to one and found it had a ton of flare. They are not as responsive as the Crossfire but that can be a great thing when someone does a panic stab of the toggles.

I have been noticing a lot of the other TM’s at where I work leave their student harness fairly loose in comparison to how I usually adjust mine. This last weekend I decided to try a looser fit on the harness’s to see for myself which I truly prefer. What I found was every student complained about how the chest strap hit their throat and a few complained even after I loosened it all the way. Now even when I have the harness snug on them half the time it still is in their throat but I have never had anyone complain after I loosened it. Also with the looser fit half of my students could not get their legs up I believe this was due to me having the hook shifted a little back for easier hook up however what this I believe does is holds the students weight more by the back laterals and not by the front( so essentially the harness is pulling their legs back. Kirk

Not sure why this is considered an improvement. Doesn't a shorter recovery arc means you have to start the turn lower? If I start it higher, wouldn't that give me more opportunity to detect a bad setup and adjust? It's late and the Sierra Nevada () and I could be wrong on that. I did not understand that either but when the Safire 2 was introduced one of the improvements they boasted about is the shorter recovery arc, but as someone stated not everyone is looking to swoop their canopy either. Kirk