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WAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! yes it's true the Purple Tailed Otter is going to Mile Hi so I've been told. My life as a spoiled skydiver is over. I'm gonna miss her.

Hmmm.....I'll try since I really don't use my arms or upper body to turn(as far as I know). I lift my right leg and I turn right the opposite is true I lift my left leg and I turn left. the turns are centered on my vertical axis unless I add other movement.Combine that with foreward movement and you have side slides(using small leg inputs), I guess if you go extreme with it you can carve. On a funny note I can fly with one leg up(Crane?) and not turn........take all this with a grain of salt as I'm still a toddeler

Tell me about it it's supposed to be in the mid 60's this weekend it's gonna be cold up there

heres the first question for CN#3 ......So my container was getting a mod and stuff. I asked one of the video guys if I could use his rig(it has a Cobalt 150 in it). He said yes and said the cobalt was in his mirage. I grab a mirage out of the video room and ask ****(name withheld to protect the guilty) if this is the right rig he laughs and says no it's Erics Xaos 88. He takes the rig from me and says he'll get it......you can see where this is heading......he comes back with a different Mirage. I ask him if he's sure this is the right one. He says yes. I go and have a great jump with Treeman track away and as usual with a Cobalt I pull in full track. and bam instant canopy I look up thru all the dancing blue lights flying around my eyeballs and WTF there are no double diamonds and this isn't his vengence WTF am I flying. I yank a toogle and I'm spinning real fast this is definitly not a 150. I now opt for the minimal input land straight in option. I land with no problems and I check the tag and much to my suprise I've just jumped a Stilleto 107. So my question is since I can land a 107 now should I forget about getting a few hundred more jumps on my Cobalt 150 and downsize to velocity 97. I mean I obviously have the canopy skills for it. I don't even know why I was thinking I needed more jumps on my current canopy. I do believe I'll look at ordering one right now.

Theres nothing casual about dying!! The term is used to minimize the horror of all the death that comes with war.

Cleveland Oh Buffalo NY DC area Penfield NY Pittsford NY Dallas TX Denton TX Manhattan NY Denton TX Long Beach CA Denton TX Cincinatti OH Cleveland OH lots of Hotels in Indiana and Iowa for 9 months (work) Denton TX Austin TX Denton is like a black hole not even light can escape it but some how I finally reached escape velocity

I booked on southwest for 260 the other day....try their website, if they fly out of Philly

Used to play Ultimate and as I think about it I saw more people going to the hospital playing ultimate then skydiving. Ultimate terminology: Hospital pass= a high floating pass that 2 or more players can get to running at full speed. I dislocated my shoulders at least 4 times and my ankle still makes clicking sounds on occasion, so I stick with skydiving now it's so much safer

Being the agnostic that I am I might have to buy one.....just in case

J5 "Power In Numbers"

All I can picture is people of my skill level walking through the brush looking for their lost ball and it's cracking me up

I try for the most part to keep my political views to myself but this is truly scaring me. The last time I posted something about this people took exception to the organization that was sponsering this initiative so I will offer another link and if you don't like that organization then write your senator yourself. The link I usually don't even vote but I find that this kind power in the governments hands really scary and so I have to try to do my part however insignificant that maybe PEACE!!!!

What does the Homeland Security Act have to do with Security is a better question and an even better question is what else is in that bill cause Armey's crap is small potatoes compared to some of the other stuff in it. I guess being "safe" is better then being free....NOT!!!!

Was One Bad MF!!!!!!.......That is all

lately I've been jumping with a real good freeflyer and today the plan was for me to dock on his legs after he docked on me I was sitting he was headdown. What happened was he took his dock and I went to dock with my right hand first got that dock and rotated us over to my right we broke and tried again with the same results. I know this is due to my lack of ability when it comes to flying asymetrical in a sit/stand so I would appreciate any tips/hints on how to fly my slot to take grips in the 69 and flying asymetrical in general would be appreciated

Sweet .......Hope everything dries out by then.....It's starting to look like a swamp out there

Shouldn't the jumpmaster rating be changed to coach?

True but depending on how your built it might need to be loose when your standing, but when you arch you bring your shoulder blades back which pushes your chest forward and expands it a little. The shoulders on my student gear used to slip of my shoulder in the plane, but once I was out and arching everything was tight. I know that the main lift web is adjustable on student Talons. I have no clue about other student containers, if their not adjustable use the rigs you've had good results with. It would be really painful to have a hard opening with a chest strap around your throat

what he said http://www.skydivingstunts.com/Pages/chuteless.html

Yea boyyeee count me in if 300 jumps is enough then I'm there

What Dave said(legs wide =more stability).....plus you might also try wearing something less baggy on your legs like jeans(looks too cold for shorts) I found it much easier to learn how to sit in shorts and a longsleeve t shirt because you have less drag on your legs which makes it easier push down. Once you learn how to fly with less drag on your legs bust back out with your jumpsuit. Heres a pic from last year note wide stance to keep me stable 90 degrees between torso and upper legs 90 degrees between upper legs and lower legs I probably had 20 sit jumps at the time and had just stopped backsliding of course everyone is different but thats about what you want to look like when you start sitting

I used to play Descent 1, 2, 3 and starcraft. I sucked at SC, but I could rock your world in Descent

yea I guess it is pretty funny didn't notice when I was typing it......replace headup with sit

When I said can you stand with a ball?....I meant you not me. I'm not close to that....yet Now the question I have is what if I spend the first 600-1000 FF jumps doing headup does that make me underskilled what if my goal is to be able to fly with a ball headup before I go headdown? Is that not a good idea and if so why not?

"I am God, thou art God, Everything that groks is God" Michael Valentine I like that explaination much better I was "born again" the first time I jumped out of a plane