wingnut 0 #1 May 20, 2001 as the traditional skydiver story starts out..."no shit, there i was, though i was gona die" well i didn't think i was but it was a wild weekend!!!!!HEY EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!oh man was my weekend sooooooo cooooooollllllll!!!! all started out on thursday when i took my rig to get the reserve repacked at Performance Variable (large german rig and chute maker). i took my sabre 150 with me!!! had the rigger repack my res. and put on some new velcrow, also asked him if my sabre would fit in the rig, he said yes, just have to shorten the closing loop a bit...... picked it up on friday. i should have had the velcrow replaced a long time ago it is so much nicer to close the top flap on my main compartment.......went to an airport about 100km away were my club was jumping for the weekend....nice strong winds to help my decent...... got on the 3rd load on sat. and did a hop n pop at 5k. 3 seconds of freefall then deployed.....seemed like forever for this sabre to open...i was scared from all the stories i had heard about slammers.(specialy since my last ride was a slamer that ripped my canopy) it opened beautifully though...right on heading. right off it was so much more zippy than my pd 9 cell. did alot of practice flares at altitude and even tried to stall it held the toggles at my waist forever, it never stalled. came up on aproach and the ground rush was wierd. came in at 1/4 brakes about 30 ft up, then let it have it when i got closer and made a perfect standup with just a little swoop. next 2 jumps were about the same, but i played with turns up there, man i loose so much more altitude, used to beable to do a 360 and almost loose no altitude, now i eat it up! i finnally see about the low turn injuries!!!!!!!!!okay then i made my 4th jump of the day (first time i ever made 4 jump in a day...BEER) it was into the field next to our club presidents new house. he was having a party for us skydivers there and it was a nice big field to land in. i set up my aproach and landed very nicely....on my butt!! then i proceded to slide 10 feet into a compost pile!!! that sucked but it was my first landing into a compost pile does that mean beer? we had a kick ass party and sang a bunch of german dfrinking songs....ya know the germans love drinking songs.....drove back to the airport in the morning and made two more jumps....first was from 11,500ft. more altitude than i've seen in almost a year.... went low on the tandem i was jumping with and never made it back up.....next jump i jumped with another tandem and i took a "cool" exit this time. was standing on the over wheel step on cessna 206 holding on to the strut and a floater bar. the tandem went and i dove after them....that posistion is a good place to view exits from. i went late so i wouldn't have to worry about being in the drouge's way. i finnally made it to them in the last 1,000ft and tried to dock but there was no time left. i then rolled on my back and watched them deploy above me...rolled back over and fell the last 1,000ft to opening altitude.....rode my chute back and the video guy followed me back...shooting video all the time of me flying....my new chute does look so pretty when it's in the air!!! oh i forgot to say. my sabre is turquoise top and bottom with neon green ribs!!! it looks sweet!!!!! well i hope you all had a kick ass weekend like i did. 6 jumps and many many beers drunk!!! wooooo hooooo!!!!!!!"if dreams are like movies, then memories are like films about ghosts"-counting crows Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pammi 0 #2 May 20, 2001 Sounds awesome! I'm so jealous! I miss my baby already. I have to tell you though that you are in for a very very long week. After jumping my Sabre 135 and doing about the same thing..noticing how much faster it was, more responsive, then having that little swoop to a stand-up landing, it's all I can think about now! Getting back up there and doing it again!! Sounds like a great time!!! (oh and the canopy sounds gorgeous! I love those 'stained-glass-effect' type canopies. That's also what mine is...silver with pink ribs..they are very pretty!)Pammi"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." http://trak.to/skydivechick Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
