Finally, something we can agree on!
yea maybe he doesn't know. On the other hand you , YOU know what he doesn't know?
Becouse i don't know what he doens't know therefore i dont know on what you are agreeing
to ledballon: keep running, i mean this is what you are doing, donsizing and changing canopy as soos as you feel bored or not challenged. That is fine till you can run. Someday you will be not in shape for a run or you really will not wont to run at all, but you have to keep running, so something strange can happen.
i watched you landing my velo-103 with a 270 a couple of times, and everything was fine, for me it is important knowing where you goona swoop and where you finish your swoop, plenty of room. that mean that you know what are you doing. he knows his stuff
i watched landing you velo 111 directly donwwind with a 270, wow was surprised wind was 5 to 10 mph with gust till 20 mph that day and you landed fine, swoop was just a tiny higher than it should have been.
what i like of you is the no fear factor the attitude of just do it and lets deal after if something goes wrong.
i really need some of that
i went from 500 jumps with a ka135 270 degree rotation to a 120 ka and i started everything over, from flaring the canopy to high speed approches , straight in , 90 145 180 230 270 , 50 jumps to get to 270 again !
honestly i think that i wasted a lot of time doing so, but it is my way. i am fine with it.
the next step was from ka120 to ve103 with the same approche but just less than 10 jumps to get to 270 again
next step was ve 103 to vc 96 , in this case only 1 jump to get 270 degree rotation.
every one is different and this guy has proved that he is different from me
before judging you should see how he is flying the canopy and how he "lands"
there is one thing that i would say about having the right canopy, to actually been able to train and learn, what canopy model and size is right for you now i dont know, you can keep downsizing but for what?? Can you train with that new smaller canopy?? can you learn new staff with it?? spare some money and get a coach for a day and lissen to him and not to people on a forum. OR just lissen from the right people at your DZ, people like formation skydivers :PPPPPP
on my part i think 103 for you is fine, keep lissenig to everybody then you decide for yourself, it is your life.
once you got that, upon your head you dont have a sabre, honestly beeing a dick at low altitude with toggles, i would not expect from noone. so just keep landing fast canopies with right tecniques everything should go fine .