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Tonto

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Hmm...well, as for me, I:

Primarily freefly
Love my wingsuit
Have been known to get on my belly and have done a formation larger than 20 people.
Newbie swooper
IAD-I for the last 3 years
Taught the FJC
Occasional combat CRW a few times a year
And I jump a camera on occasion

I like it all.B|
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Hey asshole! :D


You left off swooping.


As for me I've done quite a few things in this sport and will get on a handful of different kinds of skydives.

FF
RW
CReW (weekend warrior/sport canopy CRW)
Swooping
Camera flying on occasion even.

What do I live to do in the sport?

I live to do tandems, I LOVE doing tandems. Hard to explain, but I love it.
That and swooping.

9 times out of 10, if I'm not doing a tandem I'm doing a hop&swoop solo.
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--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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CReWDAWG (and toadsucker at that ;)) ALL the way. BEST PART OF SKYDIVING...

...wrapping someone up in nylon:D

CReW Skies,
"Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone
"The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote)
"The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM

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You didn't read the whole thread.... did you?



You know what? I wasn't paying attention and when I clicked on this thread it went to the 2nd page and I didn't notice. HA!

Ok, screw all of this, I'm off to the DZ to hang out and learn from Scott Miller and if we're lucky and the clouds break...get some jumps in.B|
--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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I learned static line, then mostly freefly.. out of my first 500 jumps (other then when on student status) I did about 15 or 20 belly jumps.. I have a handfull of birdan jusps, I am a tandem instructor and coach. I still like to freefly, but I have found myself doing a handfull of belly flying with low timers lately (I really enoy teaching newer people how to do different things, and its really cool to be able to see a good amount of improvement even in 1 skydive. I swoop, and have a handfull of crew jumps (high performace crew and also under big fluffy 7 cell f-11 canopies). I have done 2 speed dives with a max of 249mph (hip mounted pro track). I also fly video for tandems and have done a couple bog way video/4way videos... I really enjoy track dives and hybrids... I havent done any accuracy (other than swooping) but none with an accuracy canopy, but I would like to try it some time...

I guess I ust want to be a well rounded skydiver and no matter what dropzone I go to with any type of people flying I would like to be able to get up in the air and hold my own...

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I live, breathe and eat CRW.


I was invited to be on the Women's World CRW record (Unmanned Flight) attempt, but it has been cancelled. :(
Nina

Are we called "DAWGs" because we stick our noses up people's butts? (RIP Buzz)
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I live, breathe and eat CRW.



I did too, for many years. Something about being at the DZ at 04h00 and having done 8 jumps by 09h00 before starting your normal day of AFF, Tandem, etc.

Of course, there were the down sides... Like a team member prone to singing one line from a song like "Why does God make things like Tornadoes?" by the Crash Test Dummies - every 5 seconds on the climb to altitude in a C-182... but at least I'd get the chance to try and kill him on the way down!:D

Ahh. And those landings... the adoring applause when you managed to stand them up...

CRW is cool. I still bump end cells with my AFF partner after the student pulls. I still wear gloves on every dive, and carry knives, and it's helped me so many times when the traffic on final is heavy. It's never heavier than a stack or plane!

t
It's the year of the Pig.

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Currently, Freefly, Flat Fly, Swoop, and instruct... and coach... and I'm a student.

I've worn tights, didn't like em... but they sure made a person in a resteraunt in livermore want to kick my ass. (got wet on a pond swoop and only had bounceproof tights to wear home)... any way, the tights were great for freestyle.

Tried a board a few times. Wow... spinning is cool... until you wish you weren't spinning.

lots of camera for tandem and AFF, and some 4 way.... and Freeflying.

Quit doing camera dives for money and continued Freeflying. My teamates and I (MadStyle Fly Team) managed to do well in the earlydays of freeflying.

AFF came later. I've had the priveledge of teaching some amazing people how to skydive. Some of those people can school me now.

Birdman is quite intrigueing. I've a dozen or so bird jumps.... and one cutaway with a birdman suit on.. Yippee!

Hmmm... I guess I'm a jack of many trades, and master of none.

I'm at the airport right now and they just announced a boarding call.... C-ya
My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

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Can we vote on what we used to do?



Yes! What you used to do, and what you do now. I don't do freestyle, Skysurf, Camera or Tandem anymore, but I voted for them.

t



OK hands up who wants to see Tonto in his Freestyle Tights :ph34r::ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:
You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
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How's yours doing?

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Well, nowadays we start at 0600 hours. But still very early, before the sun. We get to greet the sun on our ride to altitude sometimes!

Stand your landings up? :o You mean that's possible? ;) I just slide the suckers in like I'm sliding in for home plate safely.

I can do RW...but why? CRW is where it's at!
Nina

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OK hands up who wants to see Tonto in his Freestyle Tights





[B]ME! ME! I wanna' see!!!! :$


Wanna see me in my laytex speed suit?:ph34r:
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Wanna see me in my laytex speed suit?



[B][U]SWEET!!!![/U][/B]

My favorite color just happens to be blue, ya' know! >:(
Nina

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Wanna see me in my laytex speed suit?



[B][U]SWEET!!!![/U][/B]

My favorite color just happens to be blue, ya' know! >:(


It's awesome. I feel like I'm walking around naked in it.:)
Wanna wear it?:ph34r:
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If I could be a Super Hero,
I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year.
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[B]ME! ME! I wanna' see!!!! :$



:D:D CRW gear got pretty close to that too, you know. Cutting down drag for big Bi Di's and making it easier to slide that stuff off your body when you're the Wrapee..

Fortunatly, I have good legs having been a competitive cyclist in my youth.

Even more fortunatly, I stopped wearing tights before cameras were a common sight on the DZ..

I even wore pink at one point...:$

t
It's the year of the Pig.

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It's awesome. I feel like I'm walking around naked in it.



If that's the case, why don't you just walk around naked then? Saves time squeezing into all that tight latex. :$


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Wanna wear it?



Ummmm......with or without YOU in it? >:(
Nina

Are we called "DAWGs" because we stick our noses up people's butts? (RIP Buzz)
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Fortunatly, I have good legs having been a competitive cyclist in my youth



But I [B]STILL[/B] don't see a posted picture of you in your tights. >:(

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CRW gear got pretty close to that too, you know. Cutting down drag for big Bi Di's and making it easier to slide that stuff off your body when you're the Wrapee



Sadly, I have not had the opportunity to experience a Big Way. My hope was cancelled. :(
Nina

Are we called "DAWGs" because we stick our noses up people's butts? (RIP Buzz)
Yep, you're a postwhore-billyvance

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