Too small, too soon...

[davelepka 4]

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Ex: "Wow. You are really good for your jump numbers. I'm impressed. For someone who has natural talent, your choice of canopies seems off though. It looks more like that canopy is flying you, rather than you flying that canopy. You may want to consider a progression that really shows off your skills and allows you to become the master of your parachute. Anyone can fly a small parachute. Few can master them. The degree of the turn does not indicate mastery. It's your ability to find that sweet spot where there is virutually no input required to come out of that turn. To be able to direct and redirct at will and with ease. To have the ability to build speed on ANY canopy. In short. It's a cheap way out to try to buy a canopy that does the flying for you. You're better than that. I can tell you have natural talent."

I see what you're going after, but I think the reason that the situation exists at all, is the reason that appraoch may not work.

The reason that this jumper is jumping the canopy he is, and doing the big turns, is that this is what he sees accomplished swoopers doing, and he wants to be an accomplished swooper. Any way you spin it, he knows where he wants to be, and most likely won't be open to taking steps backwards in his progression.

Additionally, canopies are expensive, which further discourages a switch.

The first point is more the reason that you need to tell the guy of the impending injury or death he faces, or simply to ban him from every DZ you can, and maybe then he'll see that his choice, while possibly being a detriment to his canopy piloting progression, more importantly is definatley a serious threat to his health and well being.

[Pendragon 1]

interesting... but I think 500 is overkill to begin with, say, 45s and 90s

Having a canopy handling course requirement is a good idea IMHO

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[phoenixlpr 0]

How about 250?