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SkymonkeyONE

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Just a quick note to say that I finally went back to the AFF instructor course 12 years after failing the first time. I spanked the course and passed in three skydives (the bare minimum). Billy Rhodes was the course director and he was a designated evaluator the first time I went.
The course is challenging, but not hard at all to the properly prepared student. The first time I went, I was competing religiously in 4-way in the Carolina Council. I made absolutely no practice dives, instead launching "Venezuelan Connections" from the otter in prep for a meet the following week. Needless to say, I thought I was plenty bad-ass to just wing it, but instead, failed miserably.
2000 jumps and over a decade later, I went back just to check that last block and become a "total" instructor. Also key was the fact that my wife got her AFF ticket about four years ago and I was jealous. ;)
Anyway, now I have ALL the ratings. That and two bucks will get me a beer in Aviators....:D
Chuck Blue
D-12501
AFF-I, SL-I, Tandem-I, BirdMan-I, SM-1!
My webpage HERE

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Congrats.. after doing my coaches course this weekend I have a new appriciation for the AFF-I's. We were thrown some of the stuff from a AFF-I's course in the air, just not in the exit... I learned a lot...
If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will....

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I actually did a real level 4 the day after I graduated, while the other guys were still in the course. Perfect, right up to the point where he pulled his BOC pilot chute and held on to it for four seconds while piked forward and falling away on his back. NICE! I re-jumped him the next day and he did fine.
Chuck
My webpage HERE

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You'll find most students will do well, but always be ready for a quick response required by you. You've got a lot to look forward to! Aff is what keeps skydiving interesting for me. I love seeing students do well, and enjoy helping the ones that are having trouble. Just wait till you recover a student spinning on his/her back, you'll surprise yourself to see how easy it really is. Welcome to our world!
jumpervali aff-i-02

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