DiverDave 0 #1 July 10, 2001 Greetings, all...Well, the Flyboyz freefly skills camp at Perris was a blast... I did 2 coached jumps with Fritz on Saturday and one with J.C. on Sunday, and a whole bunch of jumps in between.Jump 1 with Fritz: sit exit, did 360 turns, weedwackers and backflips... went pretty well. On the debrief I could really see that my knees were up too high (a bit above my waist) and too close together. Also, my feet were a bit too far back, stealing air... A related problem, I was leaned forward a bit with arms too far back, fighting not to backslide.Jump 2 with Fritz: Headdown exit, sit maneuvers... The debrief showed that my headdown position needs a lot of work, and that my sit hadn't made much progress yet.Jump 3 with J.C.: Headdown exit, sit maneuvers... The headdown exit went a lot better, with only a couple of corrections... kept the headdown for a moment after we broke, then transitioned to sit... WOW, what a difference a day makes! The video shows a completely different sit technique from Saturday, with knees below waist and shoulder width apart, and feet only a touch under. Back straight, could perhaps be leaned back a bit more. Totally different feeling! The turns were smooth and stopped on heading, with no distortion of position. Weedwacker was smooth with good eye contact, and flips stopped exactly on heading. What a blast! Now a million more things to work on...In between the coached jumps, I did a bunch of jumps with some of the camp participants, including Pat Works (great freeflyer!) On Sunday Fritz led a great bigway tracking dive at sunset.On Saturday at sunset I earned my beer for the weekend: A formation sitfly jump... formation as in 2 Otters! Very, very cool. I was in the lead plane, floating. The exit went really smoothly, then the visuals were incredible as the jumpers from the trail plane came in as the sun set behind a great cloud formation.All in all, a great weekend...Cheers... Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Macaulay 0 #2 July 10, 2001 JC's coaching for Flyboyz now? Anybody know if Psycho Circus is still around at all, or did they just call it quits when Heath went to Monkeyclaw?- Macaulay Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DiverDave 0 #3 July 10, 2001 JC has been hanging around Perris quite a bit lately... especially since the planning for the Para-Performance Pro Blade "Pro Cup" started a couple months back. He does some freefly load organizing, but I think he mostly does canopy-school related stuff with Jim Slaton. He's still teaching canopy flight over at Elsinore, as far as I know.I don't know that he's formally coaching for the Flyboyz... I sortof got the impression he was just helping out for the skillz camp. I can say this: he is an incredible freeflyer and canopy pilot, and an excellent teacher/coach as well.As for Psycho Circus, no idea... haven't heard anything.Cheers... Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
