fun 2-ways

[gus 1]

Hi guys,
Has anyone out there got some good ideas for fun 2-ways? Before you all get started they can't involve any sexual content (I know what you're like) 'cos it's for me and my mate Ric. We end up jumping together quite alot and whilst I do enjoy falling down the tube for 10k and geeking at each other there must be more to it than that!
What about cool exits? I've done tubes, what else works well for 2 people? Neither of us can really freefly (yet) so belly stuff only please.
Peace,
Gus

[wingnut 0]

i've done mostly only two way jumps before and you can have some fun very easily. how about a linked exit and then turn point by flying a 360 around the other person while they hold a heading and then redock and switch. or maybe just 90 deg turns....start out in a frontal dock and then one jumper turns 90 deg. and redock on thier side. then they turn 90 more deg. and you dock on thier knees, then another 90 and your on thier other side and so on, then switch..combine both or just make some stuff up, it's not that complicated to think og some stuff to do that's fun! hell when he least expects it fruit loop him that will throw him off.

"if dreams are like movies, then memories are like films about ghosts"-counting crows

[skybytch 273]

Practice "swooping" a formation. One of you be the base, go out flat and stable and straight down the tube. The other one hesitate one or two seconds in the door, then dive out after.
Build a compressed accordion, then spin it by bringing back your outside arms and straightening your legs a bit. Gets going fast! See how long you can hold on.
"Hog flop" - face off in a two way, then break off and both do backloops. Redock. Repeat.
If you're jumping a plane with a step and strut, both of you get on the step. Take grips on inside arms, then backloop off. See how many you can do and stay docked.
No contact drills are fun and useful. Do whatever you would normally do, just don't dock.
Track together. Go out last and start out 90 degrees from jump run. Hold that for a few, turn, track, turn, track, etc.
Oh yeah... and have fun!
pull and flare,
lisa

[Deleted 0]

mate, we need to get ic1 and freefly like the bad boys we are
Ric

[Pammi 0]

What a great thread! Thanks for the ideas Lisa and Wingnut! Merrick and I should be jumping together, maybe starting next weekend. It will give us some things to try after we get used to flying with each other!
Pammi
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
http://trak.to/skydivechick

[Stacy 0]

try this- it's good for practicing flying around people and it can get cranking once you catch onto the pattern:
star, open acc-compressed acc-cat-compressed acc the other way, open ac. star
you basically are rotating around the other person, and switching.
Stacy
http://astro.temple.edu/~sweeks

[Grogs 0]

We like to do one called a 'memory dive' If you have the Blocking Together book laying around your DZ (it's really useful, it's full of formations from 2 to 20-ways), it has 9 different 2-way formations in it. Try and do each one of them. Since they don't necessarily go in any certain order, it requires quite a bit of thinking to keep all the points straight, and also requires a good bit of flying to accomplish all of them. A couple of other dives I like to do are:
1. Start in a star, then one person flys around the other one, doing a sidebody, a cat, the other sidebody, then back to the star. After the first person finishes, the second one moves around and does the same moves.
2. Launch a compressed accordian, then one person back out, side slides over, and forms a compressed accordian on the opposite side. Then the 2nd person does the same thing. If you really want to have fun, you can pop up and slide over the person and do a vertical transition instead of backing up.

[Zennie 0]

This is really good, because I do a fair number of two-ways. These are good drills for improving my RW skills. Keep 'em coming!
Actually, just this weekend I did a combination of wingi's & skybytch's drills. We started undocked & I swooped down to dock up. Then we did star, 90 side dock, star, alternating turns.
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Blue Skies!
Zennie

[Tee 0]

Believe it or not, this seems like such a basic dive, but you can learn a TON for belly flying RW work. Simply play pat-a-cake with your partner. Everytime you move your hands out or across to clap, you also have to compensate with your legs so you don't backslide or turn etc. Even try clapping hands by having one of your hands going up and the other down at the same time and keep yourself stable. One hand wants to fly up with the wind and the other you have to push really hard down. Great lessons to be learned in this dive.....and hilarious to watch your partner too! Tee

[Greg 0]

A couple I have tried are:
Not sure what its called: exit linked or free and link up after the hill. Get grips, then each drop your left knee, and hold on for as long as you can. You can get a fairly fast "helecopter" like spin, its fun.
Two way Horney Gorilla's are fun too!! Try exiting with your legs linked!!
Greg A-37958

[Emma 0]

....or, if you feel like having some fun after all that work, you could try a Rodeo....
Skydiver 1 gets in the door (depending on your door, it may be easiest to sit in the door or crouch a bit), while skydiver 2 clings on his/her back (be careful of things like Cypreses and handles) - I find it's easiest to put your hands under the harness on either side, just below the shoulders. Then, Skydiver 2 clings on VERY tight with the knees around Skydiver 1's hips....
As long as the person on the back keeps really small and tight for the exit, and the front person gets themselves big and flat and wide, and presents to the relative wind, after a few seconds it should start to level out. Then, the person on the back can sit right up and give a few crracks with the imaginary whip...he he...
Looks wickeeeed on a video and is excellent fun...Just make sure you separate by at least 5,000 feet and keep aware of altitude because you will be motoring like an extremely fat tandem!
Have fun!
Emma

[gus 1]

Hey these are cool,
I like the sound of the Rodeo, definately have to get someone to video that if we did it.
Thanks for all the suggestions, keep 'em coming.
Gus

[jumpergirl 0]

One of my favorite 2 ways is a copy cat dive. Exit, dock facing each other, then skydiver 1 turns 90 degrees to the left, skydiver 2 docks on sidebody. Back to facing each other then #2 turns. Back to facing, skydiver #1 turns 180 degrees and #2 takes cat grips. Back to facing, #2 copies it. Back to facing, #1 turns 360 degrees, #2 copies it. Then change it to right turns and keep going. I did this with a friend and we got 28 points out of it!! It's fun and you can learn a lot from it.

[Stacy 0]

just did my first rodeo this weekend. i will try to get that vid up on the web somewhere as it's the most hysterical thing i have seen in a long time. someone who watched the vid at the DZ asked if I was going to press charges for manhandling. Froggie, you saw it!!!! It's a lot harder than it looks!!! =c)
Stacy
http://astro.temple.edu/~sweeks

[pyke 0]

don't know if it has been mentioned, but my HOTTEST 2 way to date is:
linked exit-star(is a 2 way star really a star?)-sidebody-cat-star - repeat!
alternate one does one full cycle, then acts as the docker while the other turns the points.
Gets you really good at turning tight and relative.
Hope you guys have fun. Remember, the best 2 ways are your own, so just be creative while being technical at the same time!!cheers,
Kia Kaha,
Pyke
NZPF A-2584

[skybytch 273]

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(is a 2 way star really a star?)-

Yup! And the old timers would be very happy to hear you calling it that!
But on kinda the same tack, is a 2 way "round" really round? Does a donut really look like a donut? And I've always wondered... what the hell is a Bunyip?
pull and flare,
lisa