Pulled it this time....yaaaay!!!

[stylin 1]

Went up tandem-2 Sunday morining, still some anxiety going out the door (dont know why), had a great exit, everything smooth, went through the drill perfectly, great forward motion, wave off, hand on the ripcord, and I yanked the son-of-a-bitch this time, up went the chute. Yaaaay! Finally.

Well, it didnt go all that well. This chorizo and egg burrito I ate the previous day caught up with me just before reaching jump altitude, stomach freaking out, hurting like hell, and me going....NOT NOW!!! I guess I had my mind off it once we were out the door, but once we were on the ground....thats when it really started up. Lesson for the day: no more chorizo and egg burritos before skydiving. Learn something new every day.

I still hadnt had enough, had to do it again that day, so I took a few hours to shake off the burrito, went swimming, then back up again. Winds and dust devils were kicking up, on the ride up he was telling me it may be a turbulent ride down in the chute, thats when I mentioned the burrito I had just shaken off, the BLT I ate about 30 minutes ago, and I hope I dont get the El-Puko on the way down.

Well, he cleared that up real quick, by telling me that he had just eaten a green burrito for breakfast this morning, and if I dare puke up, Im gonna get the green burrito treatment when he pukes up all over me. That solved that problem.

Fantastic exit, felt really, really good, was staring up at the plane just above us. We were keeping up with it for a few seconds, made me start laughing, lost count, then I started joking about it saying "think we can beat it down?". By that time, already rolled into position, went through the drill, just starting to go forward, then he's shaking my arms. So Im like, "whats he want?", still skaking my arms, I throw my hands to the side trying to say "what?", still shaking my arms, so finally did another touch, shaking stops. Turns out he's trying to tell me to relax. I WAS relaxed, so then I just shot forward for about 5 secs, recovered, then we practice turns. So we start spinning to the right, round, and round, (uh oh, the BLT), and round, (hold it, remember the green burrito), then left, round, (the BLT), and round, (the green burrito), then stop. Whew! No BLT, no green burrito.

5K, shit, where is that thing, grabbed it, started pulling, turns out to be a hard pull, nothing happening, pulled harder, nothing happening, yanked the mother fucker, nothing happening, looked back at him, so we both pulled and up it goes.

So now we have another issue...hard pulls, and Im going on about that all the way to the ground, all the way back to the holding area, and for the next half hour. Thats okay, glad it happened that way, something else to think about.