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Same thing we do every night, try to take over the world! Hmm limited funds probably keeps you out of the tunnel. I'll go with "Walk around every room of the house, naked." I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

So go do the training and rent your gear up to jump 25 or however long it takes you to decide that you want to be a skydiver. Other than that, stop making excuses! If you want to jump, jump! If you don't want to jump, go do something else! It's normal to have doubts in this sport, but if you really enjoy it that much, you're not likely to want to stop. In any event, it's not like your gear just disappears if you quit skydiving. You can always sell it and recoup some of the expense, so as long as you got your money's worth of enjoyment out of the training and jump costs, it would have been worth it. If you did each jump and hated it every time, then it would have been a bad decision. This is probably happening now because it just got real for you. Funnily I started skydiving because I wanted to fly a wingsuit. At 0 jumps, I was pretty gung-ho about flying a wingsuit. Around 160 jumps when I was getting measured for my wingsuit, it got a lot more real for me. I was substantially more nervous about the idea at that point. I did it anyway, but it was like being in AFF all over again. See? Normal. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I took a 7 gallon keg of Sawtooth over for my 100th, an if I'm still in the sport on my 1000th (Looking good so far) I'll probably do something similar for that (Smaller keg though, they only went through about a gallon of it.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Neither are explosives but god damn they're entertaining. I thought there was no problem that couldnt be solved with suitable application of high explosives? Explosives are like violence and XML. If they didn't solve the problem it's only because you didn't use enough of them. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Dunno much about how it works in Australia, but if you have the money, the mental fortitude, the dropzone has the instructors available and the weather holds out you can finish AFF in a couple days. People here have done it in that time, and some people took years to finish their training. Most people talk themselves out of it and quit before finishing AFF. There are currency requirements with skydiving, so if you do one jump and then go away for several months you'll probably have to do that first jump again (And possibly ground school too.) So you want to be able to jump at least a couple times a month and more if you can. In the USA, once you get through the AFF program you need to do some supervised jumps until you get your A license. Where I jump that means hiring a coach to jump with you until you fulfill the requirements on the A license proficiency card (Which you can download from the USPA web site.) All the licenses still carry a currency requirement so if you have a gap of a couple of months, the dropzone will most likely require you to do a jump with a coach to verify that you still know how to do all that stuff. That's the general gist of it, though I've glossed over a bit. Since you're in a different country and may still have more questions, I suggest that you search for the parachutist certifying authority in your country and contact the dropzones you're interested in, personally. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Cool. Did you bring beer? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Find a local dropzone, inquire about training. Oh, and you'll need a rather large briefcase full of cash. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Dang. The Seattle tunnel has a lot of off hour time and specials that run $10-13 a minute.

Fortunately you don't need to walk to make pie! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

If you don't remember any of that stuff it'd probably be best just to enroll in an AFF course and start from scratch. That way you don't miss any of the differences from the last time you jumped. What you do once you graduate from AFF is up to you. I'd suggest a canopy course as soon as you're ready to set out on your own again. If you have a vertical wind tunnel nearby, you could also go hop in there for 10 minutes or so, make sure you still remember stable falling and maneuvers and stuff. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Perhaps. He might be in trouble when he gets the tunnel bill, which runs somewhere around $1000 an hour. Perhaps they'd prefer to spend the $80 on another 5 minutes of tunnel time. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

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I like the view and being able to just be in the air flying like that for a while. During the summer I'll do at least 12K hop and pop a week and just enjoy the view coming down. Sometimes I'll just relax and not turn too much, sometimes I'll more aggressively dive to lose altitude. On one jump on a particularly warm day in September we had 4 people who pulled at 12K and I just followed along behind them watching them work their way down. When you take a canopy course, you really start to explore canopy flight more thoroughly. I recommend doing this as soon as possible. There's a lot to learn there, and you'll probably end up using a lot of what you learn on every jump afterwards. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That one's easy. What's the phobia for when you're afraid to click my youtube links? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Nope! Reasonably SFW music video! I could have linked one of his other ones, but they seem to be mostly substantially more depraved. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

YouTube suggested that I might like this video. I did, and the rest of that guy's videos as well, so I thought I'd share. I had to download the song and make it my ring tone. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

It's more fun when it's illegal. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I suppose I should look into this whole titanfall thing. Hmm... Is it normal to have an erection after watching the trailer? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

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Yeah, back in the 80's they use to have a variety of fairly nifty things. For a while there the two things that could be guaranteed to be in any shopping mall were a Radio Shack and a loud coin-op video game arcade. Somewhere along the way, Radio Shack stopped having anything even remotely interesting and became an overpriced cell-phone and battery store, and I have't seen an arcade in a mall in a couple of decades. These days it seems like the two things guaranteed to be in any mall are a California Pizza Kitchen and an EB Games/Gamestop store. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

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Why would you use a reserve so much larger than your main? Not ME personally mind you, but I know several guys with smaller mains than that and they never talk about their reserves. So though it seems like a trollish question, it actually isn't. Me personally, I like my big-ass canopy and I have other plans than being a swooper. So I don't foresee a future where I'd ever have to worry about it. I'm just curious. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Does the tunnel rat put them in that position, or does the student himself do that? It took me a few jumps to get my arch on and not be an ironing board, and I think my AFF instructors would have preferred it if I'd stayed an ironing board. I've had a lot of newbies in the tunnel and they usually don't relax enough for a good arch in the first 10 minutes or so. If they're anything like me when I was getting started, they're just trying to muscle their way through the air. The tunnel guy maybe could tell them to arch more, but sometimes that goes right over the student's head. Or at least, my head. I loosened up quite a bit as I got familiar with the air. Then all my coaches had a devil of a time getting me to de-arch (And honestly I'm still not that great at it.) To the OP: You're responsible for your safety. What would YOU have you do after a year out of the sport? Would you really feel comfortable getting back in the air and just picking up where you left off? I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Cisco's language is a whole different ballgame from a linksys router setup. It does kind of make sense once you get used to it, and it's very handy to learn it, but expect there to be a bit of a learning curve. With most commands there should be a key to print out possible completions for the rest of the command. I forget if it's tab or question mark, but you can start a command and then hit that key and the interpreter will suggest completions for it. That's moderately helpful. The one I was using was extra-complicated because I was trying to set up a wireless network with NAT to the outside internet and DHCP. In addition I had some machines that I wanted connected via cables. You have a remarkable amount of flexibility when setting that up, but like I said, their command language really takes some getting used to. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

They don't even have an option for less than 21 jumps. If you fill it in with the lowest selection allowed and a 260 square foot rectangular canopy, you get a 58. That's actually less bad than I'd have expected it to be. You still get a lecture that you should land well away from people and not try anything fancy under canopy. That's actually basically what you're going to do as a first jump student anyway. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?