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Just thought I'd share a funny comment I heard at the DZ a while back. One of our instructors who started jumping with rounds was telling me about their first times jumping squares. He told a friend that had just got a new square, hey wanna try something cool? Get under canopy, before you release your breaks grab your rear risers and pull down here (chest strap area), and if that doesn't scare the sh*t out of you, let one of em go.

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:D;) Well, I guess in the old days that would have been a wild ride. No wonder the old timers look at canopies swooping across ponds with amazement these days.B|

:)



It's still a wild ride... open your eyes, every one looks in amazement.

Jayhawk ...that was really funny thanks for sharing.
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Get under canopy, before you release your breaks grab your rear risers and pull down here (chest strap area), and if that doesn't scare the sh*t out of you, let one of em go.



hahaha that's funny as hell. i want to go grab one of the student canopies and try that. it would be kinda fun. that only thing would be that the landing from that jump would suck ass, all slow and shit.

maybe i'll just try it with my vx 85.......................NOT :P

later

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:D;) Well, I guess in the old days that would have been a wild ride. No wonder the old timers look at canopies swooping across ponds with amazement these days.B|

:)


And now a wild ride would be??????
Mabye jumping a round?
;) ralu ;)

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Get under canopy, before you release your breaks grab your rear risers and pull down here (chest strap area), and if that doesn't scare the sh*t out of you, let one of em go.



I do this with my main (Lightning 143) all the time, mostly for fun but also for echelon positioning on bigger dives. My teammates and I called it SCReW (Stalled Canopy Relative Work). Believe it or not, there is a level of control even though the canopy is a sniveling POS. There's no forward drive and it's entirely possible to be face-to-face 10 feet from another jumper. On one jump we had 7 of us in a circle no more than 25 in diameter all facing inward.

Bob

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On one jump we had 7 of us in a circle no more than 25 in diameter all facing inward.

Now that would be a very cool sight. Must've been a tricky set up with perfect timing...wouldn't want to be the one who f'd that one up.

Cheers!

--Jairo
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Rounds.......no way man! I ain't jumpin one of those things. Tooooooooo scarey for me.:D
There are two things in skydiving that I am not going to do......competition CReW and jumpin a round. I have built the occasional stiletto two stack, but that is as far as I am going with CReW. I would rather see it from afar. I have a lot of respect for those guys who do that stuff, they are awesome pilots with major clankers.;)

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in jannuary i attended my first national championships in paraski, and also made my first 8 jumps with an accuracy canopy - Profil. needless to say it was really boring to fly it since i was the last out... so i started to pull my toggles down even when only one cell was full of air, which made jumping this tanker a bit more interesting :ph34r:



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It's scary??? Just because you are going down with 18ft/sec?? Or because with little wind you'll move backwards???
I had the wildest jumps with rounds... You need great skill to do something like landing in the target area or style.
But I'm not sure if i will ever do it again! :$

;) ralu ;)


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so...who has the footage...that would be frickin' tight.



It was pretty cool - I'm trying to get a copy of the video. The setup was all seven, line abreast entering the stall. The canopy collapses front-to-back but stays open left-to-right; there is no forward drive. Manuevering is done by carefully (ie. slowly) easing off the rear risers until the canopy just starts surging forward. Turning is done by easing up on only one riser opposite the desired turn direction (eg. let up right to turn left).

Bob

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