CanuckInUSA

What you want me to become a LIEberal now and call for all guns to be banned? ROFLMAO .... Newsflash I grew up as a brainwashed LIEberal. But then some hard working people who live in the real world and who do not believe in government controlled socialism and communism snapped me out of my spell. However I promise you if I ever become homicidal you can call me anything you want on internet forums and I will not think anything of it. I still believe in personal responsibility and I believe that people should do the time for their crimes. I actually knew Kara before all this. We both jumped at the same DZ when I lived in CO ... she did things then that made me want to keep some distance between us. When I heard the news that she murdered her parents I shook my head but I was not surprised. She never was my poster girl. I am calling you on this and raising you a dose of reality. Come join us in the real world professor. Now that humans know how to create objects like firearms and ammunition, they will never go away. No matter how much you call for government control of our lives. Firearms are not going anywhere. When push comes to shove people will make their own firearms and make their own ammunition, just like what they are doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan right now. PS: I will give you folks in the US some credit. At least you send your murderers to prison. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

She fucked up. She murdered her parents. She committed a serious crime and now she should spend a long long long time locked away. If she is ever released free again, she should not be allowed to own firearms. But ... I guess if she was not carrying a CCW that day that inspired this thread, maybe she would be dead instead. Seemed like a good thing to have at the time. But she abused her powers. Maybe we should be registering our butter knives. You know those can be deadly weapons in the hands of an unstable person. How about toothpicks? We must get toothpicks off the street and get people flossing more. No wait dental floss can be used as a weapon too. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Of course ... it offers more protection than any skydiving helmet I have. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

IMHO you can become a good BASE jumper sooner than someone can become a good swooper. Swooping takes a lot of time, a lot of dedicated jumps and some luck not eating it in the corner as you are learning before you become an accomplished swooper. But once you get to a certain stage in your swooping career it is kind of like mathematics. If you do this and do that then the result will be known. For the accomplished swooper some of the bigger dangers are dealing with other canopy traffic and dealing with possible gear malfunctions. At least in my experience BASE is far less predictable. The problem with both disciplines is that as you get better as you get more experienced you start doing more difficult jumps. The dangers of BASE can be managed and reduced by doing safer things like going belly to earth hand held off of your favorite 400 cliff. But add some aerials on a stowed jump off of the same cliff and the unknowns of BASE are compounded. I view a BASE canopy opening like mathematics, but I don't view a BASE jump like math. PS: Sorry to use the math analogy on you, but you know what they say "Mathematics is Reality". Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I keep seeing double whenever you post the medal standings ... and I really haven't been drinking. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

More information has emerged concerning the Gun Collector. He is a lawyer and well know in the "Gun Rights" circles. He has even done some work helping to train the Guatemalan special forces. He was not at home because he's been sick living in a hospice. In fact it is possible (this info is still not verified) that he has recently passed away due to his illness. Anyway, more from my new favorite reporter ... NOT: http://citynews.video.citytv.com/video/68229703001/Numerous-Guns-Seized-Downtown/ I could say things about my interpretations of his journalism, but I won't. However at the end of this video the journalist speaks of the Gun Registry, speaks of how the Gun Collector was an opponent to the registry but now how the registry is being used to track what has been stolen. To this my response is: Please explain how the Gun Registry will help prevent guns from being used in crimes in this case. No please explain how the Gun Registry is used to prevent gun crimes in any case. The Gun Registry does not prevent gun crimes. Heck the police still do not even know (according the various media stories out there) exactly what was stolen. I can appreciate they have a lot of firearms to cross reference. But seriously how long does it take to inspect a firearm, punch the data into a computer and check the results? Wasn't the Gun Registry supposed to shine in examples like this? Wasn't the Gun Registry supposed to provide the police with almost instantaneous information concerning the status of a firearm. The Gun Registry is an utter failure. It does not prevent gun crimes and since it's data has been breached by hackers (and openly given away to polling firms) something really is fishy concerning the thief/thieves behind this crime. Lawyers typically do not associate with street thugs. So I am questioning whether or not a street thug is the thief here or whether or not there is some other politically motivated insiders doing their magic with the registry (pure speculation on my side). Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

IMHO ... BASE is more unpredictable. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Just remember there is this window of opportunity once you reach your setup point. Your location in the sky and your altitude above the deck dictates what tools to pull out of your toolbox when it comes time to initiate the swoop. The more experience you have the easier it is to recognize how well you flew to the setup point, to realize what tools you can use and what tools to keep in the toolbox on that jump. Right now you should concentrating on flying good patterns and getting into the habit of trying to get to your setup point as consistently as possible in different weather conditions. I am not saying don't swoop (I will leave that decision up to you and your coaches/mentors). But swooping should not be your primary focus at this time. Being consistent flying your approaches, being predictable to the other canopy traffic in the sky, learning your wing, learning how to control that wing, learning how to be accurate with it. If you fly a bad approach to your setup point, you are already behind the curve when it comes to swooping. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I don't always blame Toronto. but yes you got me on the Lefties and the CBC ... guilty as charged. Once again it is the media (CityTV in this case) I am ticked off at. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

My beef is with the media not the police. All indications are that the gun collector is a law abiding citizen who happened to like spending a heck of a lot of money on their firearm collection. Last time I checked as long as the gun collector is licensed, registers their firearms and follows the laws on how these firearms are stored, they are legally allowed to possess firearms in their residence. In light of this I choose to stand up for the rights of this person and now I am labeled as someone who has a right wing agenda? Well if standing up to the media and their bias reporting is right wing, I guess I should be looking for a job on the right wing of my local hockey team. We may never learn how the criminal came to their knowledge that this apartment had a cache of firearms in it. It is possible it was a random break in (not likely), it is possible the criminal was aware of what was in the apartment through word of mouth. But it is also possible that the criminal obtained this information through someone who has hacked into the Gun Registry. If standing up and saying the Gun Registry is a joke and has not done anything towards stopping gun crimes is a right wing agenda? Well I guess I should be looking for a job on the right wing of my local hockey team. The media vultures who handled this story from the original post are painting the wrong person as the bad guy. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

The internet is not the best place to be doing such coaching. I say this not because I am trying to hold you back, but because it is better explained and demonstrated with one-on-on coaching. Let's just say a swooper has a window of opportunity as they setup their swoop. Depending upon how they arrived at their setup point (every jump is different) dictates what sort of turn and what sort of tool they pull from their tool box to get them to the ground safely swooping the deck. Of course Stu and myself speak of a "tool in a tool box" because we both learned from the same coach a few years back. If you are serious about becoming a better canopy pilot, check your ego at the door (this is generic, it applies to all of us, I am not saying you have an ego), dedicate jumps towards canopy control and seek coaching from any of the qualified pro pilots out there. They can teach you a whole lot more than you will ever try and learn through the internet. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

This could be from the same crime, hard to tell. But the two sound the same. This print story is short on details except to say that it sounds like the police now know what is missing and that the gun collector was obeying the existing laws. http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/02/13/8375296-sun.html It's unknown how the the criminal came to know what was stored in the apartment. But what is known is that the Gun Registry has been breached in the past by hackers and even the RCMP has freely given out the data in the registry to a polling firm. This Gun Registry is just been a huge waste of tax payers money. It has not stopped gun crimes and it is possible that data breached from the registry through hackers could have helped contribute to this crime (but I am only speculating this). Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

You are making a whole lot of assumptions there Mr Von Novak. First off my beef is with the media not the police. Secondly do you even know the existing firearm laws in Canada? Or do you like to make false assumptions in order to further your agenda? Some of the firearms seen in this story are "non-restricted" meaning that they needed to be stored unloaded and using one form of a locking device. This means they could have been locked in a secure cabinet or locked with a trigger guard or action locking device. But the majority of the firearms seen in the story fall under the "restricted" class meaning they need to be unloaded and locked with two security devices. They needed to be locked in a secure cabinet plus have a trigger lock or action lock installed. The police said "the firearms were legally registered and properly stored". This leads me to assume the police knew ahead of time exactly what firearms were legally allowed to be at this residence and that the gun collector had most if not all their firearms locked in a series of security cabinets (how secure they actually were I can not tell you). My assumptions could prove to be as false just as your assumptions that firearms were just lying around the apartment could be false. I have not seen the inside of this person's apartment, you have not seen it nor has the media seen it. Only the police, the resident and the friends of the resident know how the firearms were stored. But that does not stop you from writing rhetoric about how you are speculating these firearms are just laying around the apartment free for anyone to take. We do not even know if a single firearm was stolen. What you are going to believe everything the media tells you? All we know is that a criminal broke into this residence, this crime was noticed by a friend of the residence who was out of town, the friend did what any responsible friend would do, they called the police and then the media vultures showed up to push their own agenda of how evil it was that this man liked to collect firearms. There are details about this crime that you do not know about, nor do I know about. Only the owner of the gun collection and the police know the details. But what we have here is the "I hate guns" media telling the world their bias lies and you know since this is from Toronto (home of the Leftist Marxists nanny state lemmings) the people will believe the garbage the media is feeding them about what a crime it was that this collector had all these firearms. Actually I do have a small beef with the police. They never should have talked to the media. They should have just gone about their business of investigating the scene of the crime. But who am I kidding, since when has the Canadian Justice System ever cared about actually going after the criminals. This is after all the only country in the world where you can admit in open court that you built the bomb that blew up an airplane killing 300+ people, yet still be allowed to walk as a free man in society. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I am shocked Tom Brokaw and everyone else at NBC ignored the major difference between Canadians and Americans. You know the fact that a Canadian's head splits in two when they talk. http://btsh.org/bruise/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ike.gif Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Criminals are all in favor of strict gun control laws. Criminals want governments to ban all firearms. It makes their job easier. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I see you are just like the media and all too happy to paint this collector as a criminal. You must believe in the moto "Guilty before proven innocent". Hey did you notice the large number of firearms the police were taking out of the apartment? Might this be a clue to you that these firearms were actually stored the way they were supposed to be stored as required by law? If this gun collector was guilty, wouldn't the police be carrying little to nothing out of the apartment? For all we know, no firearms were stolen. But that does not stop the media from reporting the garbage as only they can do. BTW ... the Gun Registry is a useless 2 billion dollar piece of junk. Criminals DO NO register their weapons. But that never stopped the media from reporting their garbage and never stopped the nanny state lemmings from believing this junk. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Unbelievable how the media works. A gun collector has an abnormally large cache of firearms in his apartment, but the gun collector is a law abiding citizen, the gun collector possesses the appropriate firearms license, the gun collector registered all their firearms and the gun collector properly stored all of their firearms as the laws require them to be stored. Then the gun collector goes out of town on a vacation and some criminal decides to break into this persons apartment to steal some stuff. Now who do you think the media would pursue as the criminal? The person breaking into the apartment? or the law abiding gun collector? You guessed it. The media paints the gun collector as the criminal all because they have large collection of legally registered firearms. Here is a link to the media's video news story: http://citynews.video.citytv.com/video/68054247001/Guns-Seized-From-Downtown-Apartment/ PS: You know what is really stupid about this story? The police say they do not know how many firearms were stolen. But wait a second, all the firearms were legally registered. WTF did we pay 2 billion dollars for with the "Gun Registry"? Shouldn't the police be able to just query the database and compare the results with the firearms they found in the apartment? Unbelievable how useless some of these government programs can be. 2 friggin billion dollars and this is what we get? Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Actually you can lose control of some cars (especially on something like a rear engine Porsche 911) simply by taking your foot off of the gas and then cornering fast. It's called "lift off over steer" and this occurs because the weight is shifted to the front of the car and off of the rear wheels while cornering. To prevent this one must apply a small amount of gas after braking in the turn in order to shift the weight back onto the rear wheels. But this of course is total thread drift. Sorry I can not help myself. I like swooping and driving fast cars around race tracks. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I guess my memory is not as good as I hoped it would be. Personally I would choose a different tool if my wingloading was approaching 2.0 or higher. I still stand by my original words that say Crossfire2 is a good canopy to transition in order to learn advanced canopy flying techniques once someone has proved themselves as an intermediate. Plus it is possible for someone (assuming they are mature and have some mentoring/coaching) to skip the Crossfire2 and jump into something like a Katana. But neither one of these canopies should be considered intermediate canopies. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Sorry your jump numbers are too high to buy my JVX. Seriously ... I agree support Brian Germaine, buy his book and learn the material. Then once someone has read the book and understood the material and are serious about progressing with their flying skills ... seeking coaching from any of the qualified pro pilots who are out there. It is amazing what one can learn from talking to the pros "one on one". I know when I did my first high performance coaching while flying a Crossfire2 I was pushed up 200 feet from my initial setup altitude. It was not easy at first being pushed up so high (the riser pressure on the Crossfire does build up pretty high), but it was absolutely the right thing to do. I did not know it at the time, but I was living in a moderate corner as an intermediate swooper and none of the locals knew enough about high performance competition swooping to correct me in those early days. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

IMHO ... the Crossfire2 is a canopy one transitions to once they are accomplished as intermediate canopy pilots and wanting to explore more advance canopy flying techniques. If memory serves me correct the wing loading should be in the 1.4 to 1.6 range. There was a fellow loading it higher a fews years back and without a doubt an advanced canopy pilot could likely handle the higher loading. But not too high. Use the right tool for the right job. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

I am not a moderator, but I am going to try and pretend to be one for this post. Let's stay on topic and the topic is "Recovery Arcs on intermediate canopies". I have no problem with newer jumpers aspiring to be high performance canopy pilots. The newer jumpers just need to realize that there are no short cuts to swooping and even though some folks here may occasionally come off as canopy nazis, they know something newer jumpers do not know. I have had my close calls + at least one of my friends is dead thanks to a swoop gone wrong. One must dedicate jumps towards canopy control, one must learn the performance characteristics of the canopy before one jumps it. And most importantly, one must realize that they are not special and that complacency kills. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

When you look at the title of this thread is says "Recovery Arcs on intermediate canopies". But many people (myself included) would not consider a Crossfire2 and for sure a Katana as intermediate canopies. I came up through the Sabre2, Crossfire2, Velocity and then JVX ranks. Personally I think the Sabre2 is an awesome canopy for the aspiring intermediate canopy pilot to be learning on. But they should likely keep their turns at 180 or less. The recovery arc is too low to be doing 270s for someone still learning to swoop. Once someone is accomplished doing 180s on something like a Sabre2, the next reasonable canopy to progress to would be something like a Crossfire2 starting slow on it and ultimately progressing to doing 270s. There is nothing saying someone can not skip the Crossfire2 and jump to something like a Katana. A properly mentored/coached canopy pilot who dedicates jumps towards canopy control can progress much faster than the traditional canopy nazis feel that they can progress. But the Katana is high performance (almost cross braced like) and should not be considered a canopy for intermediate canopy pilots. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

With the exception of 1980, it used to be an "Hockey tournament dominated by communist All-Stars". BTW the women's tournament is using non-NHLers and the girls are very good hockey players. But to put things into perspective, while preparing for the Olympics the Canadian Women's National Team often played exhibition games against boy's Midget "AAA" teams. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

Yes the score was 4-3 with about 45 or so seconds left in the game ... but the empty net goal does count and LOL even here in Canada that empty net goal is being talked about as one of the best empty net goals ever to be scored in the history of hockey. We are going to have to start using mirrors on our helmets (or use a HUD) to know when someone is coming hard at us from behind instead of lolly-gagging our way back into the zone to retrieve the puck. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over