rgoper 0 #1 December 6, 2001 every skydiver has there own "favorite" disciplines, mine of course, is "freeflying" for me, it's just to see how fast i can go. for whatever that's worth. i like RW as well, but i'm not very good at matching fall rates, gotta work on that some more! i also like 2 way, or more sit, or head downs, there a blast! i just wished freefall would last longer on speed dives, that's the only "down side" of free flying for me. what are your thoughts? peace, through these holiday seasons.Richard"Gravity Is My Friend" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FallingILweenie 0 #2 December 6, 2001 I LOVE to freefly. I am starting to get the hang of flying on my head now. I have been learning to use my hands while head down and hopefully i'll be able to start doing docks and stuff. I too suck at rw, but love chasing big-ways out. I also really like tracking dives (especially 10+ at sunset...) although if the dive is being led by someone who knows what they are doing i will get left behind pretty easily. Right now, any skydive would do......blue skiesTomas Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lazerq3 0 #3 December 6, 2001 I guess right now I'd have to say RW, because its what I've been practicing with the most. But I've also started dableling in FF and have done a couple twoway sits that where really fun(horny gorilla style), plus I've been getting better at holding a solid sit. I guess my main reasoning for going RW is that its a chance to jump with other people right off the bat, where as in FF you need to learn the dif postions before you can saftly jump with others(corking). So for me its a catch 22 because if someone says hey lets do a ## way, its a chance to jump with people wear as Right now I cant go up to some FFers and say wanna do a 3 way sit, because I am not good enough yet and to get good meand practicing by myself, which is still fun but to me not as fun as flying with other people. AHHHHHHH!!!! what to Do!!!!!!!!! Long term I'm looking at being able to do both RW and FF to get into the hybrid dives. I'd really like to try those some time. And then fly camera!!! But with only 57 jumps I still got a long way to .jason Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #4 December 6, 2001 My favorite is RW. It's what I learned first, it's what I've dedicated the majority of my jumps to. RW can be really fast, it's a challenge both physically and mentally and when it all comes together and you're cranking out points with your friends or docking on that 30 way it's awesome.That said, I like freeflying too. Just like RW better pull and flare,lisa Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michele 1 #5 December 6, 2001 Oh, that kind of discipline.'Kay, never mind! "What of the dreams that never die? Turn to your left at the end of the sky". ~e e cummings~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lewmonst 0 #6 December 6, 2001 even though i learned belly, and was stuck there for a while, until i got new gear... i've moved to the dark side and enjoy the challenge of small freefly jumps... able to dock in a sit, hang feet up and campfire with 6 other sitter/hd's... Freeflyin seem more intimate and just so much more natural to me than belly, why play in only 2 dimensions when you have 3? I also love chasing anything with my camera. and i still get a kick out of a good belly dive every once in a while (make sure i can still fly my slot :) )....and while i'm not a surfer (like a one-tandem jump student calling themselves a skydiver), for the individual challenge i love my dozen or so jumps on the board. (but i still suck) and that's ok... starting to enjoy landings more and more, eventually i'll aim for the pond... no rush thoughOK, i guess i'm too ADD to choose one discipline. (sorry)lew Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jabeln79 0 #7 December 6, 2001 My favorite discipline is skydiving.. As long as im in the air im happy.. Although Rw is a close second until i learn to freefly.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkydiveMonkey 0 #8 December 6, 2001 I love falling !! Don't care what I do on the dive How do I fall? PHUKINFAST !!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #9 December 6, 2001 Guess.....(Pssstttt...it's in the user name....) I 've bucked authority all my life. Non-conformist....that's me. I was just a Free Flyer waiting to happen...."and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SkymonkeyONE 4 #10 December 6, 2001 Quotestarting to enjoy landings more and more, eventually i'll aim for the pond... I have always been very-much into RW; both sequential 4 and 8-way as well as big-way. Back ten years ago I had a phase where I was really into skysurfing. I made a bit over 100 jumps on it before I tired of it. There wasn't any competition back then, so I just lost interest. I still have all the gear, though. I enjoyed sit flying occasionally, and still use my skysurf suit when people want to just do that, but hardly anyone does it with a suit anymore (though it is much easier that way). I haven't done a lot of strictly "freefly" jumps, but do enjoy head-down and transitions. Normally, the only time I do that is at swoop meets (my teammates and I normally launch a flower instead of "stacking out") or the occasional jump at Raeford where I just show up too late to organize an RW dive.I wish I had time to jump as much as I want to. I average about 10 a week over the course of the year, so I shouldn't bitch.Chuck My webpage HERE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SpeedRacer 1 #11 December 6, 2001 Speaking of "discipline", has anyone heard from Freaksis lately??Speed RacerWhat contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork from my lunch?!-WC Fields Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #12 December 6, 2001 "I average about 10 a week over the course of the year"ASSHOLE!!!!!!! "and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Stacy 0 #13 December 6, 2001 4 way. 4 way 4 way 4 way. Flying tail, on some of the exits I get to basically dangle from the plane by one leg. Turning points on the hill, having eye contact with your teammates all the time, it's incredible. Verticals... you name it. I love 4 way. =c) Stacyhttp://astro.temple.edu/~sweeks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PhreeZone 20 #14 December 6, 2001 Speedy, check HEREPhreeC-31712] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites AggieDave 6 #15 December 6, 2001 Quoteit's just to see how fast i can goit's just to see how fast i can goI bet if we jumped together you'd have to go head down just to have a chance to keep up with me in a sit, you'd hate to see me in a stand. AggieDave '02-------------Blue Skies and Gig'em Ags!BTHO t.u. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites billvon 3,120 #16 December 6, 2001 Big ways. Nothing like them. You fly to altitude with six other planes in tight formation, each plane drifting around just a bit as the pilots try for the perfect lineup. Then you line up and exit. The first thing you have to do is find a tiny dot of a base, hundreds of yards away, and then point yourself not at the base, or even where your slot is relative to the base, but where your slot will be in ten seconds as the base goes shooting past your airplane. You dive and change your relative speed, in a pack of forty other people doing the same thing, flying in a loose formation with all of them. Then you flare out of the dive and start your approach, still flying in a pack, knowing you have to be lined up on Kate, dock behind Junebug and Derek, but in front of Duffy and Mary Pat. Then it starts to come together, and dozens, sometimes even hundreds of people, start building a shape. Your slot opens up, and you have to steel yourself to not take it, but go to your slot instead. There are always judgement calls - do I drift right to get the line, then try to tow them back? Do I wait for that lost guy in front of me to clear, or do I go around/over him? Is tension or slot position more important to get right?Finally you dock, and become part of a hundred other skydivers doing something that can actually be seen from the ground. You keep flying, along with everyone else on the dive, constantly adjusting the shapes of hoops, the tension in the line, the levels of the dive, the sight picture. Then someone two hundred feet away keys it, and huge chunks of the formation move to a second (or even third) point. It's so big at this point you can't really see it all - all you can do is keep your eyes on the base and the people around you, hoping they'll do their jobs.Then it's breakoff time, and you turn, cup air and take off, watching between your legs while the whole formation explodes into rings of skydivers tracking away. You track forever, then finally look around and pull. As your canopy opens you look around you and see half a dozen other people opening all around you, and you can recognize them by their canopies. Even after your canopy is open you can hear this massive thunder of canopies opening all over the sky.Then it's time to join the pattern and land, jockeying for position with a hundred other people who all want to land on the same patch of grass. Somehow it all works out, and you land in formation with three other people. "Did we get it? How'd it look? How was Shelly's wacker? Did it build?" everyone asks, and it's not until we get back to manifest that Kate gets on the PA and announces that we had it for eight seconds. Cheers break out and everyone heads for the video room to see it on the screen.And as if that wasn't enough, then we pack up and do it again.-bill von Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites brits17 0 #17 December 6, 2001 I'm at a point now where I'm doing absolutely everything. I haven't jumped the board in about 50 jumps, but plan to get back on it in the near future. Freeflying will always be a favorite discipline. But I'm really into the swooping thing right now. It's challenging and a great adrenaline rush. So I'll have to stick with skysurfing and pond swooping as my 2 fav's. Now its a matter of hitting the pond consistenly... C ya!Blue Skies,Brittany S!C-31392 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #18 December 6, 2001 "Now its a matter of hitting the pond consistenly"Heheheehehee.....He said "hitting the pond" ..... I thought you're supposed to avoid that..."and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Merrick 0 #19 December 6, 2001 Quote"Now its a matter of hitting the pond consistenly."ROFL - From the pics I saw Brit, it looked like you 'hit' the pond pretty damn good! Seriously tho, it's awesome how competent you've become in this sport in such a short time... good-on-ya!"Pammi's Hemp/Skydiving Jewelry" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PhreeZone 20 #20 December 6, 2001 I would have said Freeflying before I started downsizng and getting better canopies... Now, I'd say I'm more into landing and working on getting a swoop going. Just last weekend I was going over the water at like 3 feet and looked down, There I saw a reflection of myself and my canopy. The canopy was bight and the double diamonds were clearly seen too Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #21 December 6, 2001 "I must have just moved my eyes since its not on the video"Feel the vidiot force!!! Next time get it in frame!!!"and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites rgoper 0 #22 December 7, 2001 See ya ther bro! I bet i'd have my work cut out for me, keeping up with you, but don't think i won't try! FREEFLYIN!Richard"Gravity Is My Friend" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Zennie 0 #23 December 7, 2001 QuoteI bet if we jumped together you'd have to go head down just to have a chance to keep up with me in a sitI can vouch for this. Having attempted to do a 2-way sit with the Ag-man. We got a nice train exit, broke apart and the remainder of my skydive was playing catch up in a fullout stand. I never did catch up and my ProTrack had me maxed out a 189. Thus Aggie's other nickname "Corn Fed Mutherf@#$" "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PhreeZone 20 #24 December 7, 2001 I'm not about to bother moving too much and trashing the PC110, the Cypres and the rest of the gear in the water Expecially considering I was setup short already and had to run out of the water puddle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #25 December 7, 2001 "I never did catch up and my ProTrack had me maxed out a 189"Hmmmm......I'll take some of that Dave! Sounds like we have similar fall rates!"and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. 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freeflir29 0 #9 December 6, 2001 Guess.....(Pssstttt...it's in the user name....) I 've bucked authority all my life. Non-conformist....that's me. I was just a Free Flyer waiting to happen...."and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #10 December 6, 2001 Quotestarting to enjoy landings more and more, eventually i'll aim for the pond... I have always been very-much into RW; both sequential 4 and 8-way as well as big-way. Back ten years ago I had a phase where I was really into skysurfing. I made a bit over 100 jumps on it before I tired of it. There wasn't any competition back then, so I just lost interest. I still have all the gear, though. I enjoyed sit flying occasionally, and still use my skysurf suit when people want to just do that, but hardly anyone does it with a suit anymore (though it is much easier that way). I haven't done a lot of strictly "freefly" jumps, but do enjoy head-down and transitions. Normally, the only time I do that is at swoop meets (my teammates and I normally launch a flower instead of "stacking out") or the occasional jump at Raeford where I just show up too late to organize an RW dive.I wish I had time to jump as much as I want to. I average about 10 a week over the course of the year, so I shouldn't bitch.Chuck My webpage HERE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #11 December 6, 2001 Speaking of "discipline", has anyone heard from Freaksis lately??Speed RacerWhat contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork from my lunch?!-WC Fields Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #12 December 6, 2001 "I average about 10 a week over the course of the year"ASSHOLE!!!!!!! "and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stacy 0 #13 December 6, 2001 4 way. 4 way 4 way 4 way. Flying tail, on some of the exits I get to basically dangle from the plane by one leg. Turning points on the hill, having eye contact with your teammates all the time, it's incredible. Verticals... you name it. I love 4 way. =c) Stacyhttp://astro.temple.edu/~sweeks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #14 December 6, 2001 Speedy, check HEREPhreeC-31712] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #15 December 6, 2001 Quoteit's just to see how fast i can goit's just to see how fast i can goI bet if we jumped together you'd have to go head down just to have a chance to keep up with me in a sit, you'd hate to see me in a stand. AggieDave '02-------------Blue Skies and Gig'em Ags!BTHO t.u. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,120 #16 December 6, 2001 Big ways. Nothing like them. You fly to altitude with six other planes in tight formation, each plane drifting around just a bit as the pilots try for the perfect lineup. Then you line up and exit. The first thing you have to do is find a tiny dot of a base, hundreds of yards away, and then point yourself not at the base, or even where your slot is relative to the base, but where your slot will be in ten seconds as the base goes shooting past your airplane. You dive and change your relative speed, in a pack of forty other people doing the same thing, flying in a loose formation with all of them. Then you flare out of the dive and start your approach, still flying in a pack, knowing you have to be lined up on Kate, dock behind Junebug and Derek, but in front of Duffy and Mary Pat. Then it starts to come together, and dozens, sometimes even hundreds of people, start building a shape. Your slot opens up, and you have to steel yourself to not take it, but go to your slot instead. There are always judgement calls - do I drift right to get the line, then try to tow them back? Do I wait for that lost guy in front of me to clear, or do I go around/over him? Is tension or slot position more important to get right?Finally you dock, and become part of a hundred other skydivers doing something that can actually be seen from the ground. You keep flying, along with everyone else on the dive, constantly adjusting the shapes of hoops, the tension in the line, the levels of the dive, the sight picture. Then someone two hundred feet away keys it, and huge chunks of the formation move to a second (or even third) point. It's so big at this point you can't really see it all - all you can do is keep your eyes on the base and the people around you, hoping they'll do their jobs.Then it's breakoff time, and you turn, cup air and take off, watching between your legs while the whole formation explodes into rings of skydivers tracking away. You track forever, then finally look around and pull. As your canopy opens you look around you and see half a dozen other people opening all around you, and you can recognize them by their canopies. Even after your canopy is open you can hear this massive thunder of canopies opening all over the sky.Then it's time to join the pattern and land, jockeying for position with a hundred other people who all want to land on the same patch of grass. Somehow it all works out, and you land in formation with three other people. "Did we get it? How'd it look? How was Shelly's wacker? Did it build?" everyone asks, and it's not until we get back to manifest that Kate gets on the PA and announces that we had it for eight seconds. Cheers break out and everyone heads for the video room to see it on the screen.And as if that wasn't enough, then we pack up and do it again.-bill von Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brits17 0 #17 December 6, 2001 I'm at a point now where I'm doing absolutely everything. I haven't jumped the board in about 50 jumps, but plan to get back on it in the near future. Freeflying will always be a favorite discipline. But I'm really into the swooping thing right now. It's challenging and a great adrenaline rush. So I'll have to stick with skysurfing and pond swooping as my 2 fav's. Now its a matter of hitting the pond consistenly... C ya!Blue Skies,Brittany S!C-31392 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #18 December 6, 2001 "Now its a matter of hitting the pond consistenly"Heheheehehee.....He said "hitting the pond" ..... I thought you're supposed to avoid that..."and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Merrick 0 #19 December 6, 2001 Quote"Now its a matter of hitting the pond consistenly."ROFL - From the pics I saw Brit, it looked like you 'hit' the pond pretty damn good! Seriously tho, it's awesome how competent you've become in this sport in such a short time... good-on-ya!"Pammi's Hemp/Skydiving Jewelry" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #20 December 6, 2001 I would have said Freeflying before I started downsizng and getting better canopies... Now, I'd say I'm more into landing and working on getting a swoop going. Just last weekend I was going over the water at like 3 feet and looked down, There I saw a reflection of myself and my canopy. The canopy was bight and the double diamonds were clearly seen too Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #21 December 6, 2001 "I must have just moved my eyes since its not on the video"Feel the vidiot force!!! Next time get it in frame!!!"and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites rgoper 0 #22 December 7, 2001 See ya ther bro! I bet i'd have my work cut out for me, keeping up with you, but don't think i won't try! FREEFLYIN!Richard"Gravity Is My Friend" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Zennie 0 #23 December 7, 2001 QuoteI bet if we jumped together you'd have to go head down just to have a chance to keep up with me in a sitI can vouch for this. Having attempted to do a 2-way sit with the Ag-man. We got a nice train exit, broke apart and the remainder of my skydive was playing catch up in a fullout stand. I never did catch up and my ProTrack had me maxed out a 189. Thus Aggie's other nickname "Corn Fed Mutherf@#$" "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PhreeZone 20 #24 December 7, 2001 I'm not about to bother moving too much and trashing the PC110, the Cypres and the rest of the gear in the water Expecially considering I was setup short already and had to run out of the water puddle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites freeflir29 0 #25 December 7, 2001 "I never did catch up and my ProTrack had me maxed out a 189"Hmmmm......I'll take some of that Dave! Sounds like we have similar fall rates!"and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
freeflir29 0 #21 December 6, 2001 "I must have just moved my eyes since its not on the video"Feel the vidiot force!!! Next time get it in frame!!!"and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rgoper 0 #22 December 7, 2001 See ya ther bro! I bet i'd have my work cut out for me, keeping up with you, but don't think i won't try! FREEFLYIN!Richard"Gravity Is My Friend" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zennie 0 #23 December 7, 2001 QuoteI bet if we jumped together you'd have to go head down just to have a chance to keep up with me in a sitI can vouch for this. Having attempted to do a 2-way sit with the Ag-man. We got a nice train exit, broke apart and the remainder of my skydive was playing catch up in a fullout stand. I never did catch up and my ProTrack had me maxed out a 189. Thus Aggie's other nickname "Corn Fed Mutherf@#$" "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PhreeZone 20 #24 December 7, 2001 I'm not about to bother moving too much and trashing the PC110, the Cypres and the rest of the gear in the water Expecially considering I was setup short already and had to run out of the water puddle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #25 December 7, 2001 "I never did catch up and my ProTrack had me maxed out a 189"Hmmmm......I'll take some of that Dave! Sounds like we have similar fall rates!"and I'm not easily impressed...Ooohh look...a blue car!" -Homer Simpson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
