Fun twist on an old trick

[PhoenixRising 0]

This video is fun. A good indication of the level of ADD we all have.
very unique way of doing a rodeo.

http://www.vimeo.com/4855856

Justin

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[SuperGirl 0]

toooo funny! absolutely love it!

Lurch, you're the man!
And Reed, too, for flying that thing stable!

[ScottGray 0]

I need to get in touch with my inner Lurch !!!

That's great!

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[Bill_K 0]

Nice!!!

[DSE 5]

THAT was great.

[sdctlc 0]

That was AWESOME! Nice job Lurch! Also for Reed to hold steady while the transition happened, looked a little wobbly but pulled it off nicely!

Scott C.

"He who Hesitates Shall Inherit the Earth!"

[SuperGirl 0]

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I need to get in touch with my inner Lurch !!!

oh yeah? no kidding?
cause I could get in touch with my inner Reed and we could try one of those this weekend

[sdctlc 0]

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I need to get in touch with my inner Lurch !!!

oh yeah? no kidding?
cause I could get in touch with my inner Reed and we could try one of those this weekend

MUST RESIST COMMENT, TOO EASY, just walk away

Scott C.

"He who Hesitates Shall Inherit the Earth!"

[SuperGirl 0]

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MUST RESIST COMMENT, TOO EASY, just walk away

lol, bring it on can't be worse than sqwrl's "how andreea qualified" picture

[ScottGray 0]

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I need to get in touch with my inner Lurch !!!

oh yeah? no kidding?
cause I could get in touch with my inner Reed and we could try one of those this weekend

Ready to ride !!!

WSI-5 / PFI-51 / EGI-112 / S-Fly
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Contact us for first flight and basic flocking courses at your DZ or boogie.
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[Skwrl 56]

Damn, I'm impressed with both of them.

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[lurch 0]

Thanks, guys. I've been doing a lot of work with burbles lately, and got the idea one strange night over a beer, thinking "No WAY anybody's ever been dumb enough to attempt that..." Thought about it a bit more and realized with a really stable "horse" experienced in full contact combat wingsuiting, if I can suss out what the burbles gonna do and get my wings into it clean enough we might actually be able to pull it off.
Next day I'm out at the airport... "Hey Reed... I got this REALLY stupid idea for assembling a rodeo in midair."
Took a bit of trust, for him to sit still for that and let me deliberately crash his burble. I still can't fuckin believe he managed to keep flying through that, but WTF, it worked first try.

So megaprops go out to Reed for taking a hit for the team and staying airborne like he didn't have some yahoo just crash-land on his back,
Rick, our premier camerabird for managing to keep the whole thing in frame through what had to be some interesting fallrate variations,
and J-SHO! For chewing up the footage and spitting it out "all dressed-up like" into an actual video.
-B

Live and learn... or die, and teach by example.

[LouDiamond 1]

Not to rain on anyones parade as that was pretty damn funny, good job Lurch. BUT, there is a really old video, as in VCR tape old, of several European Birds doing multiple back/rodeo docks on one another without the combat contact. I think Chuck still has that tape somewhere. If he does, con him into converting it from VCR tape and check it out as the smoothness and speed they transitioned is quite impressive. From the looks of it Lurch, if you keep practicing that move you may be able to do the same. Still, that was some funny shit.

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[Costyn 1]

Haha nice!

I've done the same with Mirjam, she'd fly in her slowest atmonauti/track (sub 100mph vertical), I'd fly beside her in my wingsuit, and then under her and she'd land on me, and we'd keep flying together as a rodeo. Good times.

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[mccordia 74]

Nice one...and yea..was going to say that its a thing Ive seen you do/practice with Mirjam more than once as well...

But still..cool beans..
We'll slap the video on WWWN later today as well..

JC
FlyLikeBrick
I'm an Athlete?

[pinkfairy 0]

Hahaha!

NOW I know where all the wingsuit people come from, they don't recruit, they procreate!



This explains the infestation we have of them at my home DZ.

Lovely video, I'm looking forward to trying it myself!

Relax, you can die if you mess up, but it will probably not be by bullet.

I'm a BIG, TOUGH BIGWAY FORMATION SKYDIVER! What are you?

[Butters 0]

I like it .. this is what I said I would do to a certain someone if they burbled me one more time.

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

[voodew1 0]

Before everyone goes out and tries this know

There will be an impact - done right not much - done wrong it can be rough - that being said set up so there is no head to head contact - be about 1 foot high and to the side - slide over and grab on

Please wear helmets - be careful

The pimp hand is powdered up ... say something stupid

[mccordia 74]

Its also possible to slide onto someones back, coming in from the front.
This means you can sink your legwing onto someones back through the burble, while still flying the armwings.

There is some lovely footage of Loic doing something similar on his website.

JC
FlyLikeBrick
I'm an Athlete?

[mnskydiver688 0]

Hey now! Those were all completely on accident... I never flew in front of you at the correct angle to totally steal all your air.

Sky Canyon Wingsuiters

[phoenixlpr 0]

This is a realyl old trick.

[Butters 0]

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Hey now! Those were all completely on accident... I never flew in front of you at the correct angle to totally steal all your air.

I know (and I'm not complaining because it's fun, makes good video, and teaches me to fly through burbles) but I still think it would (or will) be fun to just collapse my wings and take you for a ride ...

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

[lurch 0]

I'm busted!
You're not going to believe this, but thats exactly where I got the idea. At the DZ, watching a bunch of little birds land on a hawk's back trying to take it out. Couldn't believe what I was seeing at first. Hawk over the runway. Bunch of birds hassling it. One by one the little birds flew over it, and...disappeared. Hawk started wobbling. I realized all 5 birds had landed on it and were most likely pecking at the back of its head trying to drive it away. Hawk's probably thinking "Get off me!" After a bit, one by one the little birds gave up and took off. Thinking about it later, I was kinda thinking it might make for a good skydive.
So...
Anyone gonna put up video of the guys whove done this before or what? Wheres Chuck Blue...he find this thread yet? I gotta see the old VHS tapes Scott was talking about.
-B

Live and learn... or die, and teach by example.

[mccordia 74]

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Anyone gonna put up video of the guys whove done this before or what?

Costyn might have some backmounted video on the times he did this one with his lady. And I know there is an old video on skydivingmovies (I think Sweden?) with a guy in a green/silver wingsuit doing some midflight (wingsuit/freefall) hookups.
Click here for a video (click Video) of Loic doing some (technically) rodeos, where he rests his feet on the rig/head (and flies it) and does the same standing on the rig with one foot. All fun (and technically more difficult/in controll) variations.
And thats just the stuff we know about. My guess is that there is tons of stuff happening everywhere without most of us knowing because it doesnt show up in the micro-universe called DZ.com

More videos on who did this before...only important if anybody gives a hoot who 'invented' it. I sure dont
Its a fun video..make it about that. First claims are nice for beer in a bar, but pretty useless otherwise

JC
FlyLikeBrick
I'm an Athlete?

[lurch 0]

Eh?
"Its a fun video..make it about that."

Whos making it about anything else? Reason its up here is for people to laugh.

I don't care if we weren't the first to do it, I just wanna see how the others turned out, might pick up a few pointers for the next time I try it. Before this was posted, so far as I knew this might have been the first midair-assembled rodeo, since I'd never heard of it being done before, but I also figured (correctly, as it turned out) that when it was posted here, someone would pop up and say its been done, and when. Although I'm fairly well-informed, I've only been in the sport for 7 years or so and I'm quite certain theres an awful lot of cool stuff thats been done before I came along that I've never heard of. Almost everyone thinks their new idea of the week is original, and almost everyone is wrong.
I DO know it isn't commonly done, so I'll just second whats already been said here and urge anyone else thinking of trying this to just be careful think it through, wear a helmet and use an AAD.
-B

edit: Things to consider for any newer wingsuiters who want to try this:
Do both wingsuiters have AADs?
Have you flown in and around burbles enough to be able to get out of a burble cleanly or avoid getting sucked into one? And do you know exactly how hard you're going to hit the other guy when you fly into his burble and from what height? I did that from an altitude of about two feet above Reed and even from that close, it was almost enough to take us both out and send us spinning. If I'd done that from 5 feet, it could have broken his spine or my neck. From 7 feet it could very easily have killed us both.
Suit style: What are the odds you're going to dislodge the other guy's wing cutaway handles?
Gear in general: What if you bump his hackey and stuff it into the pouch with your knee? Or dislodge it and either entangle with his bridle or deploy him while you're still on his back?
All I'm saying is consider all the weird stuff that can happen trying stuff like this. Reed and I spent quite some time working out plans for various possible outcomes and complications. If you don't coordinate with your wingman in advance, when things don't work like you expect them to, neither of you is going to know what the other bird is going to do.

Finding yourself backflying next to your unstable wingman with his bridle wrapped around your neck and his fallrate about to drop to 50 mph because you just fell off his back is not the time to realize you do not have a plan for this and in the 3 seconds you have before his bridle strangles you he is unlikely to think of folding his wings to drop with you and give you a chance to get loose or for him to chop it.
So please plan ahead.

Live and learn... or die, and teach by example.