CPC 2005 - Who is that?

[Chris-Ottawa 0]

Hey Guys and Gals,

I'm curious about something I sawa in one of the CPC 2005 videos. I watched 2 different ones and in both, they show a guy doing some sweet moves under canopy.

The guy is jumping what looks to be an extremely small, pure white canopy. It is not the one that says selection.com or whatever it says. The selection.com canopies also seem to be zipping along but this one just looks absurdly fast. The white selection.com canopy makes a pass right after this one and goes down hard after a distance attempt, and just before it, someone under a red and white canopy makes a distance run.

The movie I was watching was from skydivingmovies.com and someone linked it in another thread. If you do a search for "Colorado 2005 CPC and GoFast Challenge" you will find the video. It was posted by Ian Drennan, one of the forum admins. The canopy I'm talking about is seen a few times throughout the video, but I think there's more than one. The one I'm specifically curious about is the one seen at 40 seconds into the video.

I'm curious who that is, what canopy is that, what size is it, and how fast is he going there? The canopy looks like it is below 80sq ft for sure. Probably closer to 65-70ish if I had to make a guess.

He is really motoring...and seems to pull off a 60 degree bank on that turn. Mental. I believe the same guy is seen in the other go fast video flying backwards with twisted risers for a large portion of the pond. Again, he is cruising there too. That may be the selecton.com guy though.

Either way, both videos are sick, but I promised myself to try and avoid swooping, or anything to increase the risk of injury. I know some people will say that's lame, but I get more than enough thrill from exiting, freefalling and flying my canopy...just not close to the ground. I may try it a little, but I'm not going to buy a tiny cross braced canopy just for that. I'd need roughly a 55sqft canopy to get to the same loading as you guys.

Thanks

Chris


EDIT: Mods, feel free to move this post to the swooping forum. I realize now that it may be better off n there.

Thanks

"When once you have tasted flight..."

[CanuckInUSA 0]

I'm guessing that the person you are thinking of is Mark Shimell and he was flying a JVX 87 ... which ironically is now the exact same canopy I'm flying since I bought it off of Mark last August. But there are two other (non Selection.com) canopies in Ian's video but both of these canopies have stripes. One is being piloted by JC Colclasure and the other one is Nick Batch.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[Chris-Ottawa 0]

Hey,

Thanks for the info. I'm looking at the video again and it looks to me like a solid white canopy. I don't see the selection.com logo on the bottom skin, and I don't see any stripes. I can't really make it out but there could be a red strip in the middle. It's the run that starts at 40 seconds into the video and he banks the canopy HARD. The selection.com canopy makes a run right after this run.

I'm almost positive it's a solid white canopy, no logo, no stripes.

Thanks

Chris

"When once you have tasted flight..."

[CanuckInUSA 0]

That's Mark Shimell ... and he got a big fat donut on that run because his body left the course once he banked hard. But I can't talk since I was immediately followed Mark (not in this video but in the comp) and crashed hard after rear riser stalling my canopy. You see we were dealing with about a 10 mph down wind component on that jump and I confused ground speed with airspeed. It's all good though. Both Mark, myself and everyone else survived and had a good time that week.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[Chris-Ottawa 0]

That's pretty crazy, so it was a JVX 87, loaded at what approx?

You all had some fantastic swoops, and some nice spills too, but it just seems like he is going much faster than everyone else in that shot.

I think I saw the riser stall you did. I got this video, and it could have been posted by you because you were talking about the riser stall. Were you the one near the 3/4 mark of this video, the second guy to bail in the little "chow" montage? Under a purple white and blue canopy?

There is also another guy that seems to be going much faster as well. He was jumping a pure blue canopy with red stabilizers.

Either way, wicked swoops. I'd love to make it to the event, not to compete, but just to watch. I'm more than happy not swooping. My cameraman femured on a jump I did with him, swooping doesn't really interest me. I would love to downsize to a tiny canopy so I can go do H+P's and screw around up high, but I have no desire to land one. I love flight, but wouldn't want to land a pocket rocket. I'm more than happy under my Spectre 135. I've got lots more to get out of it and many years of jumping.

Thanks for the info

Chris

"When once you have tasted flight..."