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Oh look, a system of Diophantine linear equations. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Fermat's Last Theorem annoys me to no end. It's a completely useless result that just happens to be the simplest numerical illustration of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture. I've only used it once in my life, and that's as a semi-joke solution to a problem from a Rings and Fields course which just happened to be the FLT with z=1. The fact that the FLT has finally been proven has not advanced our understanding of mathematics at all. The conjecture it follows from is a pretty big deal, yes, but the FLT is just a small bit of useless info that falls off the side. Now, if someone wants to prove Reimann's Conjecture, then we can talk Oh, and by the way, kallend was right about Zeno's paradox. It's just a convergent infinite series (1/2^n, in fact). What Zeno could not understand is how you can add up infinitely many small things and still get a finite answer. We know better now. There are perfectly legitimate things in analysis and set theory that would destroy your brain. Maybe I'll post some of them -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Good luck wherever your life takes you. Thanks for all your help. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Glen would kick my ass if he saw me do this From the video it looks like you're not agressive enough. The sit is not a naturally stable position and it feels very different from an arch. Imagine a hill and a valley. If I put a ball in the valley, it will roll down to the bottom all by itself. That is an arch. If I put a ball on the hill, I can make it still but it has to be in perfect balance and is easy to disturb. This is the sit. This means that you need to be agressive to stay in the sit, whereas in the arch you could literally go to sleep and stay there. It looks like you're not agressive enough with the way you enter the sit, and you're not agressive enough with your legs when you do get it. Your legs are almost straight most of the time. Just swing them into the wind and press, spread wide, and tense them up. One of the things that really helped me is practicing the body position on the ground. It's impossible to explain over the net, so it's best to just ask a coach. The practice position doesn't look like you're in a sitfly. You're standing with your legs wide open, knees slightly bent, torso straight and arms to the sides. Your coach will then shake you every which way, and if your legs are tense, you won't go anywhere. I found it almost impossible to be aware of my legs when I was just learning, so the practice really helped. I imagine that those few dives on your back would have a similar effect. Just make sure you get video, you want to build the right muscle memory. Anyway, that's it. I'm not gonna teach anymore, no, really, I promise Every person is different and what worked for me may make it even worse for you. Listen to the licensed and trained coach first and always run these things by them. I know you know and understand all of this already, it's just the standard disclaimer. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Ugh, I shouldn't be teaching, but hey. I found that what really helped me was thinking "stand on the wind" instead of just trying to get into the body position. When I get the sit, I really press on the wind with my legs and stand on it. Run it by your coach. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Some people just have all the luck The Tri is a great first canopy. I've had my 160 for almost 100 jumps now. It's pretty docile, so I feel I'm ready for a change, but it's really stable and it's pretty hard to break yourself with it. You don't sound like you have "the need for speed" or some other silly thing like that, I think you'll really like it. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I don't know, you tell me, where does one look for information about aircraft design? If there are enough experts that could have said that the design was flawed at the time, then we are talking about criminal negligence. The company is still at fault in this case and should be punished. I know we're all taking risks, but building airplanes (or parachutes) is a serious business and should be taken seriously. I agree with you on the rest. Perhaps the investigation should have been made criminal and the documents seized before the company knew about it? It's difficult to prove either way, but that's how your judicial system works, no? If I was the prosecutor, I would go the expert opinion route. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Perhaps witnesses. Maybe you could find some information about the flaw that was available at the time and the company did not check. Some old documents could do the trick. Other expert opinion could work. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Complicated. It would require knowing the thoroughness of the investigation conducted by the company into the matter. If someone in there just shrugged and said "Don't worry about it", then I would sue. If they investigated the flaw enough to believe it shouldn't have been labelled a flaw in the first place, then I should not sue. Anything in between is a gray area and I can't give an answer on a messageboard. Of course, the investigation itself would probably occur during the trial, so I've sued already. We're really talking about whether the lawsuit should be successful or not. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Hence my statement about being innocent until proven guilty. Unless you signed a waiver, you should be compensated for your suffering, but no punitive damages should be awarded. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

You do know that the AK47 is a Russian design, right? It stands for Avtomat Kalashnikova. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

In this case, even if I do sue I should not win. People are innocent until proven guilty, and so are companies. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Was there information available when the aircraft was designed that the material or design may not be suited for this application? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

That girl is awefully low to be in freefall. Or did she have a cutaway? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I believe he's putting this in another perspective. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Diverdriver put it very eloquently. And I guess experience taught these companies that putting up a defense is a waste of time and money. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Don't know much about piloting. If the flaw was caused by negligence on the part of the manufactorer, either in not following testing procedures or using substandard materials, then yes. If shit happened, first of all I probably wouldn't sue, second, even if I did I should not win anything significant (in Eugeneland, anyway, heh). -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Still, I doubt they would listen to him very much. Someone like lawrocket would be able to give a qualified opinion. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Keep in mind that the manufactorer would probably not qualify as an expert witness. It's still expensive to run a trial. The case is sad all around. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

It's not that odd. The legal costs for even a single lawsuit would cripple a skydiving equipment manufactorer. They have no choice but to ride the storm. Also, see a post by PhreeZone about the recall of the canopies. There apparently was a Service Bulletin issued about this. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I didn't misunderstand you. If I have a choice between taking advice from a AD licensed FF coach and a TM on freeflying, I'll take the coach. In fact, I wouldn't listen to a TM with 4000 jumps, but less FF jumps than me. Gladly, I've never met a TM like that who felt he needed to help me out with my sit. But if I did, I wouldn't listen. Now, if he was talking to me about canopy control, that would be a different story. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

But a manufacturer with no money is not -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Is anyone aware of any precedent for a case like this? Has anyone sued equipment manufacturers with this much success before? Is yes, does anyone remember what happened? It would be nice to know if we will have to say goodbye to Precision. Also, runaway jury perhaps? Lawrocket? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Don't mean to try to teach with my great experience of maybe 40 sitfly dives, 30 of which were mostly flailing. I'm just going to relay what David Brown told me. I asked him about those suits and he told me that they will not teach you to sitfly and are a bad idea. He also said to keep my legs as wide open as I can, that adds stability. I never tried a suit, but I can testify to the truth of the stability statement. This is coming from David Brown, not me. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Happy birthday dude. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.