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Relax, everything else will come if you just smile. I know it sounds silly, but I've seen it work too many times to go with anything else. We'd be glad to have you in the tunnel! We get a lot of people with your story who return later to learn more advanced skills because it helped so much on AFF. We can show you exactly why you are turning and other details like that, but the number one thing we're going to focus on is learning how to relax and have fun. If you smile, you instantly start flying better because it relaxes you. If you're tense it'll take you that much longer to learn stuff because you are less aware of your body and what it is doing. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

I think they were three little figures representing White, Grissom, and Chaffee. I'm not sure who left them though. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

Use a thumbscrew whether it requires it or not. Your camera will experience a lot of forces trying to shake it around. If you can keep your head from jiggling, then the screw will hold the camera in place and the box will protect it from impacts. Two separate issues. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

--My grandma just died and I have a cousin named Kiefer Reynolds --I am an English dog fanatic who's looking for a bulldog of specific breed, but will not pay more than 350.00 for it. --But at the top is an article actually about me, Kristopher Reynolds, written by a staff writer at the LA Times named Christopher Reynolds. Good Times. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

Dude, they make ring adaptors...cheap. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

What I was getting at more than anything else was the equating % to mph. On a hot day, 85% is slower than a cold day at 85%. Personally, I like to fly at night especially if it's cold. Then, the air is more dense, and so capable of producing more drag. But more importantly....got any vids of the competition??? Saw last year's and it was very nice. Need more tricks to learn. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

Blinko, where are you getting these numbers from?

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The ground looks a little too green, but the hills resemble the Dolly's, is it just south of Perris? Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

no, it simplifies to y = (x^2) / (2*(1-x)) Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

I have gotten a different answer everytime, and I'm 99% sure their all wrong I give up You put dx/dy in your original statement, did you mean dy/dx? Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

With the number of students you have on campus, don't tell me you can't get more active jumpers. I helped run a club when I was going to ERAU that boasted anywhere from 20 to 40 active jumpers each semester, with tons of tandem activity. Our school only had 5000 people total. Believe it or not, every college student isn't poor. Many have rich families that are funding their adventure into education and often times want their kids active. You have to be visible. A lot of people here talk about fliers, those are good. If you can arrange demos, they get attention. Whenever we did a booth, we'd have videos and gear all over it. Then follow up with a "wanna skydive?" info session a few days later to get curious people even more jazzed (offer free pizza and the attendance will double). We were able to get Bill Booth to talk at one of them. Not a big name to new guys, but he's charismatic and knowlegable and that works well when coupled with video and demo (not just jumping into events but also showing off the latest technologies in skydiving). And what gets people to stay once they're hooked? Party. Clubs are designed to get groups together with common interests and goals. Skydivers want to belong, and need others to help them grow in the sport. A big boogie each semester, with a couple parties at member's houses keep the group together. If you don't promote group activities, then you will not retain membership. Also, as a leader, you need to continually grow new leaders. If someone takes an interest in the club when they're new, give them little duties that are fun. Like taking care of the bar-b-q and beer at the boogie. It'll expose them to other duties that they'll want to take on later. I worked my way up to president by junior year, then back down to vice-president my senior year so that I could help oversee the training of the new guy. It's been a couple years, and the names the club lists on the website are unfamiliar, but there are a lot of them and I see calendars that resemble the types of semesters that we set up, so something must have worked. Good luck, and have fun with it. It's a lot of work, but well worth the effort. And don't do it alone. You need a group to run everything, so start spending time with other jumpers in order to build that initial team. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

Wow, Zenny, careful with words like, "arrogant". You yourself seem a little TOO sure of your own beliefs. It's the old "how do you know you're not wrong" thing. But, for the record, you are wrong. How do I know? I'm better than you. That's what every non-Christian expects to hear from a Christian, so I figured I'd throw it out there. Even though the truth is I don't think there is any difference between us, we're just wrong about different things. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

Learn to paraglide first. What you know from skydiving will not help you in paragliding, but what you learn in paragliding will be invaluable in ground launching skydiving canopies. I've been running off all sorts of hills in Southern California without instruction, and most everything I've learned has been adapted from what I learned in paragliding (with the exception of canopy control during the flight)... The importance of a good launch point. Seeing a good line to follow before you launch. Picking a launch point that leads to a good landing area. Commitment on launch (uber important!!!). Learning to fly close to the stall point of your canopy as you get speed and can let up on brakes. How to read a hill for air currents (mostly rotors). High and Low cycles of wind, when do you not want to launch. Angle of the hill, size of canopy. Ground handling of canopy. That's just a small list of things you need to know well in order to pull this off successfully. If you have as few jumps as your bio says, I don't recommend trying it until you've started to get an understanding for what you're getting yourself into. I've seen far more experienced canopy pilots than I get hurt doing this, so the risk is high. If you decide not to listen to reason, and go for it, the only advise left is GET VIDEO. That way when you wake up in the hospital your friends can show you just where you went wrong so you don't make the same mistake next time. :) Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

Bought it from goodguys.com Normally $799.00 (cheaper than sony), less 10% discount from goodguys.com, no taxes, no shipping for regular shipping = $720. It's an authorized Sony dealer and a trusted company (unlike an internet reseller). And it's still a great deal. If you don't have $$$ to gamble on the online resellers, then here's an option you might want to consider. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

It wasn't meant as a personal attack, but I saw why she took it out. One of my peeves is everyone adding their two cents, or IMHO. Those things show up a lot in your posts, so I made a sarcastic comment about it. No harm intended, I just use sarcasm when I'm annoyed. Usually I don't here, but it slipped. I understand your post, but I do not believe you can teach the ideal. Each part you teach someone is like giving them a lego piece. It's up to them to build the final product(s) using their pieces. It's that method that allows people to be creative rather than follow fluid routines they've learned. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

So then how do we teach it? edit: no personal attacks. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

Thanks, Arlo, for helping to explain to these guys how tunnel flying works. I'm one of the guys here at Perris, and learning to spot HD tunnel flying scares the crap out of me. Michael did work with me for a little bit. He did all the hard work while I watched and helped with the easy stuff. And I use "easy" loosely. There's no way I'd take responsibility for someone's safety at this point when it comes to learning HD in the tunnel. It takes the speed, strength, and understanding of someone who's been in the tunnel a lot longer than any of us have (which is only two months). If you hadn't noticed, none of us are flying HD in the tunnel either, and it's killing some of us. But it's actually a pretty good thing. I can probably outfly most people in every other FF possition. And I've only been working here two months. Tunnel flying is not just about perfecting techniques (like working on your daffy), it's about raising your body awareness to unimagined levels. To understand the effect of every square inch of your body on your flight is the most powerful tool you can have in the air. By not flying in the tunnel until we get a HD spotter, you are doing a huge disservice to nobody but yourself. You're limitting yourself in the long run because you've closed off your mind to learning true freeflying. There are nearly an infinite number of variations on each traditional FF possition because of the flexibility of the human body. There is no way you could have maxed out that understanding to the point where you have nothing to learn but HD left. Joe, Carlos, Michael, and all the other top Orlando staff have more freefall time than most skydivers on your DZ combined, and yet everyday I was training I saw them learning new things. Trying new ways of doing things. Some of them have been working there for 5 years and they still have so much to explore. It's very common to limit our learning because we want to feel we're better than we are. But you'll learn more if you humble yourself a little. Recognizing our weaknesses is the only way to eliminate them. Don't limit yourself, keep flying, never stop learning. Those three things are reason enough to keep jumping and tunneling. The tunnel allows us to learn at an accelerated rate, but don't ever fool yourself into thinking you've learned all you can. Think of your potential as a distant goal that you can never reach. If you never try, then you'll never know just how far ahead it is. Blah blah blah, it's 1:30 in the morning, I just got home from a great last session of the day with the FF guys from Elsinore, and I'm still real pumped about it. One of those nights where I know exactly why I chose this path in life. And if any of this wasn't enough to convince you that HD is not the only good that can come out of the tunnel for you, then all I can say is patience. It's not going to happen any time soon. No matter how many times we bring out Orlando guys, we will not begin training until the job can be safely done. Maybe by nationals, maybe by thanksgiving, but there's no good reason to risk someone's neck, period. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

When you first started FFing, were you anywhere near the people on your dive. No. Nobody is. That's because you can't fly any surface, anytime. You have to learn the surfaces, the transitions, the different ways of combining it all together. In the wind tunnel, we teach not to just do something, because people can't just do something and get the desired outcome. In the tunnel, you hit a wall, hard. In the air, you end up away from others. If, however, you have an understanding in your head, and have developed the proper muscle memory, then it appears like you are just doing something yet you are really flying these maneuvers. Remember, it's FreeFlying, not FreeFlailing, and there's nothing safe about a zoo-way. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

Blah blah blah, politics, blah blah blah, individual rights, blah blah blah, oooooooo something shiny. Hey, isn't there something that we're all missing here. If you read the article very carefully, somewhere between the lines you'll find a greenie is days away from being another year older. See, I knew this thread was about something that really mattered and not another political forum. Happy Birthday if I'm right. Continue with the mind blowing debates if I'm wrong. Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

There are courses that teach advanced paraglider maneuvers that involve intentional partial collapses. Most, if not all, are done over water. My best guess is that this guy was trying to learn something new, frieked, got the round out (there is no cut-away for the couple of people who missed that post), and by that point ran out of options. Why didn't he give the glider a chance to reinflate before the reserve was thrown? The one thing the video doesn't show is descent rate. He may have been under a thousand feet when he initated the collpse, who knows. He might have thought he was going to fall backwards into his glider and get wrapped up in it, so pitched before finding out. Whatever it all boiled down to....that video was cool! ***EDIT*** I don't think he frieked. As soon as the round is inflated, you can see him intentionally trying to collapse the main by grabbing onto one side and pulling. This ended up putting it into a spin, and increasing the force nessesary to pull it down. Did he try to collapse it wrong? It's hard to tell from the video and my limited paraglider experience. Anyone with any knowledge on the subject? Don't Confuse Me With My Own Words

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That's the last time you'll see a belly shot like that. The air-straitener is more than half way complete, and the fencing around the bell goes up soon enough. 2.5 days away from the second half of instructor training to begin.

The way I see it, what started out as a great story (the matrix), became muddled and then crammed together (reloaded), and then turned into a bunch of action that had to be wrapped up with an open-to-interpretation scene (revolutions). And if that wasn't enough, the scene with the oracle and the architect at the end was lame. The present is safe (though completely unceartain how anyone, man or machine, will survive without the other's support), but maybe not the future. I liked Rev. enough, thanks to the battle at the dock. That made the movie. I just wished they would have put that much thought into the story. They made you think in the beginning, but by episode 3, err, revolutions, it was a totally different, and not as spectacular, experience.

Without ATC...SoCal DZ's are shut down.