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For those of you who don't know who Mr. Jimmy Legend Coiner is. Below is a link to his promotional video. And yes it's safe for work http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1815281094573954996&hl=en We love you Jimmy

I was pretty sure Jimmy's last name WAS actually Hoffa...

Hey everyone. I'm working on a project and am in the need of raw skydiving and or base footage. I have a bunch but I've been limited over the years to mostly tandem and cessna footage and am looking for some more advanced stuff. If anyone is interested in helping and doesn't mind sending me a tape or DVD or raw avi breathtaking footage I'd love you forever. Of course all credit will be given and any tapes etc returned as needed. Send me a PM if you are willing to help. Mucho thank you - Chris

I was just scrolling down to post about that drink. The post whore beat me too it lol.

lol ok this is going to sound weird but is anyone else unable to send messages from myspace. ie it stays they've been sent but then doesn't show in the sent. Only reason I ask (no I'm not an addict) just really really need to respond to someone and it's not showing in my sent box for 2 days now...

oh but she is... I've seen pictures

scrambled drunken pancakes... ie - too drunk to figure out how to flip them so just scramble them up and couldn't find any bacon either, so we used bacon bits instead hahahahah

No no no -- guys seem to brag about how small their equipment is, and how fast they go. And they they wonder why the women aren't all that impressed Wendy W. And this is why http://www.skydivekstate.com/genius/mr_tiny_canopy_guy.mp3

Here's some other ones so you can see the angle of attack up and distance on exit

I've got a couple hundred 182 tandem videos so here's my advice: On exit, I get all the way out on the step and look back into the plane. I'm kind of sideways on the step holding onto the strut. I wait for the ready, set and half way between the set and go I start to leave. I come off belly to relative wind, arms tucked all the way behind me grabbing my container and legs tucked to drop straight down with the tandem. Depending on how many rolls or how quickly the drouge comes out, I track back up the hill to keep proximity to the tandem, or steepen the attack to chase if he's gotten below me. The TM and I always meet to the righ if we're not facing eachother and then carve to the sun. Once stable, if ever stable, I'll move in and dock on the passengers hand, sink below and turn them, then relocate so that they're facing the sun, lift back up and undock. This generally gives time for them to do a 360 and then a salute and pull. On pull, having almost lost my head once... I back up and to a 45 degree off of them and above. As they go by, I rotate onto my back and shoot up and carve. Make sure they're open and then roll back onto belly and pull. The biggest thing I've noticed is the difference of the tandem exit for the 182 vs otter etc. The door is so much smaller that it's harder for them to get out and stable right away, thus giving them more time to accelearte before getting the drouge out. leave just a tad bit early and reading what the tandem is doing and then TM you can adjust your fall rate while watching them and know where it's going to end up and not get a drouge in your face. it's also better for exit shots, you get the whole plane etc in the picture. The tandem will tend to sink and go more straight down than you will as a camera man off the step, so you do need to track up the hill a bit, which is my preference to actually be a bit below the tandem on exit as they'll generally pass me or we'll level out together. Once you see the TM reaching for the drouge, start to slow down, or hit the brakes hard and then go from there. My camera setup is a flat top with a HC90 on top shooting with a .42 kenko and a 20D on the front with a 18mm lense. Works great for the up close stuff, the .42 really shows the sky and allows you to get in and personal. Enclosed is a pic of being low and exiting before and tracking up the hill. You get a nice shot out of it.

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Question: For those of you who have graduated or have a child who has graduated. How much did you or they receive overall when leaving college and starting the "real" world What do you find is an approriate giving gift?

When we were getting ready for BD we were putting our BASE canopies in student containers. We were fitting up to a 300ish in them no problem

I travel a lot with my rig and generally in groups. It's funny because typically 6 rigs will make it through and then like the last rig will get flagged. I talked to the x-ray guy once, just bs'ing cause he was interested in the rigs and he said it's not the cpyres it's more the spring loaded PC on the reserve.

And the winner of electric circle is:

I pay $320 a month and that includes all utilities. It helps when your roommate owns the house

Dude... Looks like you'll have to use your hamster duct tape for your car now

A group of 7 skydivers are invading Vegas next week for a quick 38hour drinking binge. Anyone live in Vegas or going to be there and want to tag along for a good time Nov 16th - Nov 18th Thursday night we're hitting the piano bar in New York New york (it's a tradition) and making the guy play Scotty Doesn't Know haha. Then who knows from there. Friday night we'll probably go to Rain, Ice or the Rum Jungle

I got my first tattoo before I had sex too, though not by much. I was 14 for each I grew up fast lol

That's where I'm getting most my info from right now

Ok here's what I need it to do. I need a light source to follow a path that's been traced out. I'm assuming that can be done correct? Instead of using the wiggle command for random movement of the light source, I should be able to have it follow a mask/path? Or am I incorrect?

lol that's not what I was doing, I was trying to better explain what I wanted to do. I found info on tracing signatures and animating them, so I "should" be able to apply it to the effect... I think

Maybe I should say I want to animate the tracing of the image/logo. I kind of found something similar but still can use some help if anyone knows how Chris

Ok... Here's the deal. I get these ideas stuck in my head and can't get them out and I have something I want to do in a video and can't figure the flipping thing out. Ok I have a vectored image logo that I want to have the look as if I were drawing it, or more so, tracing it out/burning it into paper. Any ideas on how to do this? Is there an easy way to set a course for an effect to follow? I've generated the Ipod effect of the tracing lights (hehe) and now I want to apply that to the logo I have so it basically spells it out. Can someone help me pretty please

Go to Walmart, not in the Electronics department but to the car audio deparment. They have a generic one that'll charge your ipod and transmit to your stero for $24 bucks. It'll also attach to anything with a stereo jack on it too if you want to play other things. If you go to the electronics department they're gonna rape ya for the adapter for the ipod, works just the same though AND it charges at the same time ;)