New to RW

[Stevehend15 0]

Im just off student status and want to get into RW. I already have a nice suit with booties and such. I am at complete loss of what to do now. What do I need to focus on?

[migliore 0]

You are lucky enough to live in central FL, which has some of the best DZ's and best belly flyers in the world, so the ball is definitely in your court.

What's you home DZ? Do you have any aspiration for competing? If so, the best thing you can do now is work with a mentor/coach who can help you to develop your basic belly skills. Like any sport, never underestimate to importance of the fundamentals. In this case, control of fall rate, front/back and side/side moves, and center-point turns are crucial. Also, try to find other people with similar goals and jump with them as much as possible because you learn a lot more on each jump if you don't spend the 1st half of it just trying to get in the same airspace as each other!

Another suggestion is to compete in the FSL as soon as you're comfortable (and safe) with 3 others. The rookie-level competitions are low-key and lots of fun. Plus, you can usually get free 4-way coaching during the event.

Good luck.

Shane

[GQ_jumper 4]

2 ways and lots of em!!! even if yu odn't want to pay for a coach, find a solid skydiver thats willing to make a bunch of jumps with you and just knock em out. don't be in a rush to get into bigger rw formations, with more people trying to get in their slot together your learning curve is going to suffer.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

[MarkR 0]

Try to take a cam-flyer with you as often as possible when you're doing RW. When you're at home, watch the footage over and over again until you can't see it anymore. Errors and mistakes you would've never noticed in free-fall will become crystal clear to you once you can review them in slo-mo without the rushing wind in your face. Go for the details, find out which movement has caused with effect, try to internalize that knowledge.

As a next step, do lots of mental training. Learn the blocks and randoms (and their names) - it'll be a lot easier to remember them in free fall when you can see the figure you're supposed to fly (and your own slot) with your inner eye. Believe me, I used to have the one or other brain-lock before I did.

»Somewhere between the lies and truths borderlines get shady.
Somewhere between the yesses and nos you can find the maybe.«

[GQ_jumper 4]

That's a great point that was just brought up. I did little to no jumping over the winter but still managed to improve between my monthly tunnel session. It was all due to mental prep. Watch your videos and critique yourself, then visualize yourself doing it correctly. You brain controls your muscle, so train it first.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

[StreetScooby 5]

This was discussed in a previous thread. You may find some useful information there.

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2299697;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread

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