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    Did you catch any of their names? I know a couple GK's
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    That's the exact set up my parents run. They're super quiet too, just kinda expensive
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    I will do everything in my power to help achieve this goal, I'm even trying to do so right now my being involved in student progressions, canopy safety and decission making with a student's safety in mind on being grounded or not. This has been a hard year already and it's still only begun. Abort your runs, take an out, land downwind, swooping is NOT a sport where the goal is to stay alive (as said on the today show) swooping is a sport that requires years of practice and a mature mind that realized that IF you mess up, you need to abort your run and then take a step back and realize what you did wrong. Just one of very many topics that I feel would help, but not the only one. I will save lives
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    I'm not a TM but my sister is now 11, she's been dying to skydive since I started almost 5 years ago. She still lives in Brazil and as soon as she turns 15 we'll be going. Now granted I know this wasn't the question, but I would feel comfortable with letting her jump at 15 because I know what's going on etc. At my DZ here in KS our age limit is 18 and I wouldn't allow anything less.
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    Student in question has been coached a number of times on canopy control but still continues to make poor decissions, mostly dangerous decissions. Canopy being jumped are Nav 260's, Student has around 60 or so jumps and is still working on their progression. Any fear I had is when it gets to the point of having to meet the accuracy requirements, why the student may do as a result of trying to land on target.
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    That's cool man, reminds me of a joke though: "Man goes out to the bars and just gets rip roaring drunk. Stumbles home, barely gets his keys in the door, steps on the cat, falls on the stairs and finally makes it into the bedroom where he passes out in bed next to his wife. He wakes up the next morning, hung over as all can be, vomit breath and just messed up. Goes downstairs, expecting an ear full, only to see his wife cooking breakfast for the kids, with a smile on her face. She greats him with kiss and good morning. Puzzeled, he sits down at the table, observing his wife in a chippery mood, cooking away. He asks the kids if they know what's going on, did she win the lottery or something, and one of them replies "Mommy said you were good and said the right things last night" Confused still, the mother finally turns and says "While you were so drunk and passed out in bed, I tried taking off your clothes, but you refused and kept yelling at me HEY LADY, I'M MARRIED! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!"
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    That's just mean and kinda over the edge with that post
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    There is currently only 1 instructor left at the DZ that will JM this student. We've about come to a decission to ground them for fear of them becoming another landing statistic. The student doesn't realize when they've done something dangerous and has a repeated pattern of making unsound judgements under pressure that have resulted in some VERY close calls. I for one don't want to sit around and let them continue to jump only knowing that if we give them "one more chance" the last chance could be the final mistake. I can't deal with that hanging over me, knowing I could have prevented it from happening. I'm also in a very difficult position becuase we're a small club, we're all friends and the student in question is also a friend of us all...
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    hahah that's AWESOME but I can sooooooo see that ending bad, if you know what I mean. Get a little too bouncing and miss your target... OUCH!
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    Sorry didn't read your post, just kinda skimmed through everyone's
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    Very interesting. I've dealt with many students who are just like that, either stupid or just stubborn. I generally have a way with the stubborn students that leaves them thinking twice about talking back to me. I do it professionally, that being said, I'm a pretty big guy. The real question at hand is, if someone has a history of mistakes, at what point do you just say ok you're done for your own safety? After the 1st? give them a 2nd chance? My concern is, if you give a student another chance, what's to say that chance will be the ultimate mistake, low turn, etc... I don't think I could live with knowing I didn't ground someone when I should have.
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    At what point do you ground a student from the sport? It's a tough decission to make and I'm curious what others think of this topic. (edit: typo)
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    To do that one properly you also have to hide their task bar. It's fun
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    Beta 1 was released on the 27th to a select group of people. 64bit os and from the sounds of it, a very strong server side. Anyone have it and running it yet? Noticable improvements, server and user side? How's the new file storage system? WinFX? I'll be putting it to the test run sometime this week, but curious if anyone got the first batch through MSDN on the 27th
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    I've experienced what you're speaking of and found the best result, is to export the movie as an avi and then load it into the windows media encoder. It's a free program and can be downloaded off the microsoft website. I have yet to be able to get a good render directly from premiere. The other nice thing is, the wmv encoder allows you to pick your settings. I prefer to use the streaming option with dvd quality picture and cd quality sound. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5691ba02-e496-465a-bba9-b2f1182cdf24&DisplayLang=en
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    I let my customers pick their own music. Have been introduced to some cool bands I'd never heard of before too.
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    I've been offering online video packages to my tandem students off of my website. I have yet to have one want it
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    hahahah that's great man. I filled up my roommates room with balloons once. That was a riot
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    look in the wingsuit forum there are discussions there.
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    Sorry I didn't right it
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    Does any of this sound familiar?
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    My official tittle at the dropzone is DZA
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    I just bought a book called "101 things to do before you die" It's pretty good, though I have a lot of things left to do still. One of them is to achieve your childhood dream and I started thinking of what that was and remembered. When I was 12, I had a dream of opening a club/resturant. I went to the extent of learning a drafting program, made the floor plans, spreadsheets of costs involved etc then actually sent my proposal off, only to be laughed at. It's still a dream of mine, though I don't think of it 24/7 anymore, when it gets brought up in conversation I always get giddy and excited about it. One of these days and $450,000.00 later, I'll have my club. So 2 questions: What was/has been you childhood dream and have eyou achieved it And, who wants to invest in my club idea?
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    Possibly heading from KS any day, any time. Just looking for someone else to split the gas cost with me. I'll be taking the party bus
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    yeah i know, my mouse was there and i just clicked on the name. it was easier