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Suffering a dislocated kneecap and a fractured fibula when trying not to pay for riding the subway :)

And BTW, when lying on your back, arms out from the chest is equal to up, up/down is relative to the earth, not the orientation of my body :)

Yea, I was taught to put my arms out from the chest when doing a plf, but how is that supposed to be done when you still brakeing your chute? Or using a descender? let the chute go completely? I've hurt myself while training PLF's on the ground but never when I've done it for real I NEVER hurt myself! The way I see it, PLF are there to protect the jumper from landing injuries by depleting energy over a larger area of the body, usually by rolling it off from the outside the legs and over the back, keeping my arms up and reaching for the sky helps my body bend and I dont have to slam my shoulder into the ground...

I recemtly twisted my leg bad enough to dislocate my kneecap and fracture the fibula, I was operated some 8 weeks ago and now I'm fully healed apart from having to remove a long screw in my calf. I dont know when I can start jumping again, but I hope I'll be able to start during july, if my leg is strong enough at that point, but at the same time I'm worried that I'll never get the same range of motion in my knee or my ankle...

It seemed like a good idea at the time :p I dont think I've started skydiving yet, right now I'm only training to start. But http://www.skydiving-galleries.com/pages/ViewPhoto.aspx?PhotoID=255 is why I wanna start, dunno if I'll ever see views like that, but I'm willig to find out...

Luckliy it's easier to do PLF's when landing than training them on the ground, the canopy has always kept my arms up so that the rotation from hip to back is alot smoother :)

Would that be all the hot air that spills out of some skydivers mouth when they brag about their latest jumps? :p

I agree

http://www.viosport.com/ I'd say those mini cams offer the best bang for the buck, if i were a camera jumper I'd be using one... Personally I would go for the military SCOUT camera myself.

The first thing that happened at my first jump ever was that my helmet flew off by the draft. Prolly some faulty strap...

For me the fear thing is comlicated, when I did my first tandem jump last aug I felt nothing near fear, not even nervousness. This feeling lingered on when I started my training and now it has gone so far that I'm afraid of not being afraid. That at one point it'll come at all once, and that it's gonna happen when I need it the least, for instance in an emergency. Over time I've started feeling "more" on the ride up, mostly a higher degree of nervosity but not the kind of fear that I "should" be feeling given the circumstances.

I payed SEK 5900 (431.237 GBP) for my S/L training here in sweden, the AFF equiv. would be SEK8900 (650.510 GBP ) for instruction, ground training and 9 coached jumps. But then again, in sweden skydiving is relatively cheap. I made my first tandem in early august 2005, 3 weeks later I was in ground school and now I'm 1/3 through the training, why be in a rush?

I've never even heard about firefly since at the time no-ones was airing it here in sweden, but I heard good things about the movie so I wen't on and saw it. And since Then I'm hooked for life, just ordered the dvds off amazon.co.uk and I'm hoping for a family guy-esque revival of the show...

I'd like a license

You know, protec DOES make ski helmets...