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Think this is a chart designed to make people feel good about themselves! After nearly two years of enforced inactivity I still have a resting heart rate of about 55 which would put me on a par with athletes in the youngest age group, and I know that''s not true. When I was fit my heart rate was 42. The real fitness measure is how quickly the heart rate returns to normal after exercise. Anne
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Totally agree it is underhand. Apparently the current government has a behaviouralist group dedicated to thinking up this sort of thing. If you can get BBC radio iplayer there is a BBC Analysis programme on Nudge Theory available for the next few days. At about the 18 minute mark an Australian asks a question about the ethics of including organ donation on the licence application. The response is just a little bit evasive. Anne
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You cannot opt out. The only options are opt in now, already opted in, will opt in later. And the code is hidden amongst a bunch of other codes relating to what sort of vehicles you are permitted to drive and under what circumstances. That is an entirely unethical setup. Whether one wants to donate or not, the decision should remain explicitly with the person concerned. There is something tyrannical about unaccountable bureaucrats introducing a process which in effect gives them ownership of the human body. A change of this magnitude should have gone through the scrutiny of full parliamentary debate. Anne
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You're doing one big new thing and that's enough for your body. Keep everything else normal. Eat normally, drink normally. Don't starve yourself. Wear comfortable clothes. Don't rush around, give yourself plenty time. And keep thinking about those fun videos. The more you expect to have fun, the more you will have enjoyment sitting at the forefront of your brain. Anne
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Your instructor is going to tell you what you need to do throughout the skydive, including the exit from the plane. Focus your brain on doing what you've been told to do. Think it through on the plane. If you feel yourself getting fluttery, go through what you've been told to do. When you feel more relaxed, go through what you've been told to do. When your instructor is telling you something, focus on your instructor. Focus on the job in hand, not your imagination. Practice that mental discipline beforehand - find yourself a couple of videos of someone really enjoying their tandem, watch them and think 'I'm going to have as much fun as that'. Then every time you get nervous, make yourself think about those videos and how you're going to have fun like that. Nervousness is natural but you don't have to let it take charge. Anne
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Yup, it's an expensive sport! Once you move from the standard experience and basic training packages, you tend to need to buy fairly expensive chunks of tunnel time, plus pay for coaching. The alternative is to find someone who is coaching groups, which might enable you to buy smaller chunks of coached time. Your father might be able to point you to someone who does that. Whatever you decide, if you do a standard session with a tunnel instructor, make sure you tell them you're building up to AFF. If they know that, they can give you more help. Anne
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Why not send them an email saying you're planning AFF and ask what they recommend? Have a look at their training packages - these aim to teach you to fly your body in freefall, which is a good start. You can also get AFF specific training in a wind tunnel, which covers a bit more. You might be able to get that training from a tunnel instructor, or they might be able to put you in touch with someone. Or have a chat with your father. If he's taking part in a tunnel camp there may be someone there who could give you the training you want. Anne
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Perhaps the cat is a master teacher, demonstrating what happens when there are no rules Anne
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Silver was used in the old days to prevent infection and it's getting popular again as a way of reducing antibiotic requirements. It's also being used in outdoor kit, particularly socks and base layers, to prevent them getting smelly so quickly
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Construction companies have a role called expediter, a bit like the despachante Wendy described. Also the sort of people who really need someone to cut through red tape for them are people moving to a country, especially those who need to be up and running with the day job immediately. Often they work through international consultancies who already have people to do that for them, but there's a growing number of independents who either provide the service to those companies or provide the service to other independents moving in to the country without the support structure provided by large companies. Why not start with some sort of support website aimed at expats and use that to find out who's looking and what they're looking for? Anne
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I'm making the suggestion on the basis of long (5 years) tunnel experience. The whole point about trying out a shoulder in the tunnel is that if the OP feels there is a problem, he can get out immediately, with no worries about canopy handling. And tunnel time can be bought in quantities as low as a couple of minutes so there's no need to commit to a major session. The chance of the OP getting sensible advice from a doctor round here on a sporting activity is pretty low - the normal response is to say don't do whatever it is. That said, there are some good sports physios in the area. Anne
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Don't just stop when you finish your tunnel session, do some sort of warm down that gets the lactic acid out of your muscles. Swimming might help. And organise your rotations to alternate between headup and something else. Also, if you're training with a coach you could ask about exercises that will stop you making so much use of your arms, provided you're at the point of having a reasonable degree of control. Anne
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Try a few more tunnel sessions - that'll let you know whether you have a weakness that is likely to get worse or if your shoulder was reacting to the shock of unexpected exercise. Anne
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The nice thing is that everything is so close together. With the pool as well there's the opportunity to get away from the DZ and chill for a couple of hours if there's no jumping for a while. And it'll all be familiar since you've been there already. Sounds like you have everything as organised as can be! Anne
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Sounds like a good group. And you're right, he wouldn't be allowed to jump if he wasn't up to it. You'll probably relax a bit after his first jump
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Great stuff, that's going to be some couple of weeks with AFF then the World Challenge. Who's doing the AFF coaching? Nice idea finding a carer who can fly - will he be jumping as well? Jamie'll have a great time doing FS with Tarn. Anne
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Will he be doing the Bodyflight World Challenge again this year? Enjoyed watching his training last year. Anne
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Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikpvy8sVcFA&feature=plcp Anne
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How do foreign hotels and "incidental" deposits work?
adagen replied to guineapiggie101's topic in The Bonfire
I quite often stay in hotels which are booked through the business I'm working for and paid by them. Hotels still ask for my credit card details. My response is that the bill is paid by the company and anything else I'll pay as I go. Sometimes needs a bit of discussion to get the message across, but more and more people are doing that now. The hotel are trying to protect themselves against you drinking the contents of the minibar then skipping off without paying. If you try and charge a meal or drinks to your room, their systems should flag that you need to pay as you go so that's not an issue. If a major hotel accepts a regular booking for me but isn't prepared to trust me not to steal the contents of the minibar, then I certainly don't trust whoever checks the contents of that minibar before and after my stay. And with that climate of distrust, the less access they have to my credit card details the better. Anne -
It's perfectly true that seatbelts don't matter on Ryanair - reason is that passengers don't matter, just their wallets. Anne
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If you want the sensation of freefall, you could try going to a wind tunnel. That removes the hard opening / hard landing problems. Anne
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The location of the mechanic and the part was a 5 hour flight away but the actual delay was two and a half days. My contingency for that flight allowed 24 hours delay and I could still get back to work as scheduled, but I ended up losing 2 days work. Anne
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Got a citation for that? I've got a longstanding argument over being stuck somewhere for 2 days because the airline didn't have a qualified mechanic and didn't have parts to fix a fault. They got the parts then discovered they didn't have the mechanic and had to bring both from a 5 hour flight away. Anne
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Have you tried talking to the tunnel instructors? Chances are they could put you in touch with someone who would do pre AFF training there. Or venture south - Bodyflight near Bedford definitely does pre-AFF training and can lend dummy rigs. Anne
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There are 3 UK tunnels. Biggest is http://www.bodyflight.co.uk/ off the A6 outside Bedford. Most of the instructors there jump. All are very helpful. They will on request do AFF specific training for you. MK you know about. the 3rd tunnel is another Airkix tunnel in Manchester. Haven't flown there but I have heard it's good. Given that you're London based, Bedford is probably your best bet. If you don't want to drive there, taxi from Bedford station is reasonable. Anne