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I don't know - maybe next month? ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

By bringing your elbows forward, you can arch a lot more. If you bring your hands behind your back, you cancel a significant amount of arch. I agree with all of your posts here Remster - Psychonaut - it will make a ton of difference, but exactly backwards from what you think - elbows narrow will let you fall faster and the air flows smoother..... In addition, if you are trying to go faster, bringing the elbows forward, and even rolling your palms in (grabbing your pecks) will take the arms (elbows) out of the airstream - reducing the drag by reducing the amount of body presented to the wind (you just pulled hands/forearms/elbows/half the upper arms and shadowed them with your torso). Frankly, putting your hands behind your back just puts your arms on either side of your torso (thus maximizing the area of body presented to the relative wind and putting it adjacent to the torso - so not only just as much total area as in the wide stance (minus your hands only), but now it's all together into a single blunt body (arm/torso/arm) where, before, it was just a smaller blunt body (torso) with two arms sticking out). It's like an extra square foot of drag or more compared to elbows narrow. as for the airflow comment - I think the air will flow more smoothly with the arms in front if you sit up nice and high. With the arms in back, the arch is reduced, and the crease between the torso and arms is just another area for air to stagnate at. This discussion is reminiscent of when old timers are trying to increase the base fallrate and tell everyone to 'take high grips' - it's totally counterproductive to the goal. Edit: I'll withdraw this whole post for anyone that can completely dislocate each shoulder in freefall and roll their entire arm (shoulder to finger) completely behind their back and under their rigs. Let's call this the "Venus DiMilo" technique Small women at my DZ ask me how to fall faster from a base mantis - Lift head and chin and shoulders VERY high, grab your boobs (get upper body narrow), knees together (get lower body narrow) and feet on butt, push down the pubes hard - so far 100% success rate for every one of them. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

perhaps the thread title is describing the pilot, not the plane ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

"Take public defense for one. It should be just as good as an expensive private defense but we all know it isn't." "it is about time that a victim got something. " Andy^2 - good responses. but really, you are both just responding to one of the two cliche soundbites of the thread that the public laps up like extra sweet, sweet Kool Aid mix. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

You can't fly a human into a building. Best you can do is throw them AT a building. Less damage, but the sound it makes is a bit more satisfying. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

Argue? Convert? My dear fellow you fail to see the humor. This is a forum for intellectualization and pontification. No one will ever win or be converted by the BS of cyberspace. This is fantasy land for those who do not have video games at hand. I do see the pontificaiton in spades across all the threads.... then, dear sir - get thee to a WII ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

the guy is running the hurdles, there are so many jumps, I can only conclude he's just plain not happy about anything and wanted to lay blame on every cliche target in sight ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

Good one! I don't understand your approval, as you seem to be advocating a "Christian Nation" approach - which, frankly, I don't think is applicable in today's world even if it was back then. If you are not advocating that position as it pertains (marginally) to this thread topic, then you are really wasting time here arguing with those on the flip side of the same coin you value so much. You won't convert anyone, and it's annoying when people try (atheists, christians, mormons, or whoever) - mainly because it ends up with just a bunch of people talking smug about their position and belittling their counterpart ( yes, I see the irony of this paragraph and that sentence) background - I'm cynically agnostic (apathetic agnostic) I have serious issues with organized religious/political machines and I'm not religious personally in any way - I'm not even atheist, I believe wasting energy on subjective belief systems is silly in general as it can't be resolved directly (by definition). ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

wrong - our heritage includes a clear statement that we do not have a Christian "government" - big difference I hope the nation is not defined as a "xxxxxx" nation, but simply a nation of individuals and all that that encompasses you people keep looking for a matrix to fit in, some stereotype.... I believe the founders really wanted to get away from that How do you like The Apotheosis of Washington, then? Right under the Capitol dome. that's a complete non sequitor still I looked it up, it's neat. thanks But I don't think the founders intended for us to be multi-theists either. Nor do I believe a painting constitutes the gov demanding we convert to one particular belief system or the other ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

read it, if I read it independently I'd have thought a few here could have written it poor guy sounds like the worst of both extremes 1 - claims the government is overtaxing him and he resents it and wants his independence (bitches about code and crookedness, etc) 2 - he wants big business to take care of him forever yet resents the the profit motivation of business that doesn't enable, effortlessly, this nanny desire (cries about pensions, etc , etc, ad nauseum) he's not a libertarian, he's not a liberal, he's not a conservative - best I can tell, he wants to be a facist of some kind - "WAAAAH, I want the government to let me be free and an 'individual', but if I fail, the company should change my diapers no matter what" - it's a zero win philosophy with all his contradictions, no wonder he went off the edge from what I can tell, he can give every single special political group some kind of hay to make but in the end, he tried to burn his family and kill a bunch of other people too - so as an 'individual' he failed completely to do anything right - much like the rest of his life - he's pathetic ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

"cut the top rate" = "tax receipts were high" "spending was higher" you nailed both points - and still come up with the wrong answer cut spending, reduce taxes - that's the only combination that works to balance a budget - unfortunately nobody in politics gets the 'cut spending' part of the equation aside - ban aircraft - if we can save just one life.... ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

wrong - our heritage includes a clear statement that we do not have a Christian "government" - big difference I hope the nation is not defined as a "xxxxxx" nation, but simply a nation of individuals and all that that encompasses you people keep looking for a matrix to fit in, some stereotype.... I believe the founders really wanted to get away from that ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

I have NEVER seen a situation where a vest was a better choice than a belt. Ever. It just doesn't make sense in terms of balance. CG is around the waist/hips - that is where the weights need to be - it's not rocket science at all to the OP - Falling faster in the mantis you have two axis to address: 1-width wise on the body - getting narrow is the trick - elbows and forearms into the torso knees together 2-longitudinally (length of the body - same goes for any mantis fall rate though, just fast means you exaggerate these things more) - arching through the pubic area (not the chest) - head/shoulders up VERY high - knees high relative to pubes Weights - a MUST, so sorry, too bad, deal with it. If you have to tuck your booties above your thighs (by bending your knees to take them out of the airstream/drag) then there really is no point flying Mantis, is there? Weights - a MUST. If you have pull your hands and wrists into your chest, then there really is no point flying Mantis, is there? get thee to a tunnel on the plus side - Mantis will get you MUCH more range than 'old school' boxman and arching as hard as you can - you don't slow down that much (you don't change your area presented to the wind much) and you end up with a sore lower back ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

shhhhhhhh - if you have a penny in your pocket, you know the government is listening with the tiny microphone hidden in Lincoln's nose ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

nevermind, you got it right first tuneup at the pros - then do the regular stuff yourself ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

If used, take to the shop and get them ground to the right angles and tuned and waxed for the first time. Some of that equipment you just can't duplicate at home Most ski shops offer free waxing clinics where you can learn the basics - they win because they push all the gear you didn't think necessary in the 'starter' kit you have now. Some of that extra stuff really is useful. It's really easy to sharpen and wax. But you really do need a good clamping setup or it's a bitch. And they have to start with the right grind and condition that a shop will provide. 2 years ago I started taking care of my own as well as my wife and daughter's. the following year, when I took mine in for the pre-season tune, the tech took a look at them for a few seconds and said - don't waste your money here this time, go ski on them, they are good to go. $aved a ton of money and they were tuned a lot more frequently than if we had to take them somewhere else. As for which wax to use for whatever conditions - you can learn that quick and it's usually part of the clinic. For someone that isn't skiing all the time, it's a joke to take them to a shop and get them done there - unless you plan to use them right away. How is the tech supposed to know the conditions a couple weeks from now if that's the next chance you get to go? etc etc ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

silly,,,, you can't strangle someone with a gun ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

funniest post to date I'd like freedom from the same old topic in multiple threads just like the founders intended but then, Speaker's corner would be 3 threads - 1 - for guns 2 - for religion C - partisan insulting back and forth and: 3 - general country bashing all around ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

There was an original topic??? In the big scheme of things? not really.... ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

If I take away all the bullets, and then pistol whip someone to death........ does that count? ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

~~ now I have to go look up another new word.... edit: I found nobleman, and dollyman - I can't murder them with a seatbelt though, I understand. Apparently, it's impossible to misuse a seatbelt for that purpose. Maybe if we added some scary looking extensions on it so it appears "threatening" - then we can try to pass a law forbidding seatbelts. Or, I could glue a gun to the seatbelt and then strangle the nobleman........that might work. ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

I think it's clear that any attempt to pull this thread back to the original (more interesting) topic is not appreciated - we need to stay on the current tangent of the same old narrow minded (futile/impotent/deathly tedious) debate of: religion good vs religion bad and those that disagree with either side must be labeled as horrible and terrible people with crappy agendas (rather than just individual beliefs that they hold dear) ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

Only three? and one was white? - clearly this interviewer list did not represent every single variation on the planet - what a racist interview (in some people's worlds) you should complain ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

Oh come on.. wheres mine.. I have been getting ole George stewing in his borscht now now, you can't add another check to your tally of receiving impotent warnings - maybe if I took a seatbelt and strangled a doberman with it I could get one. Oh wait, you can't murder someone by misusing a tool like a seatbelt.... my bad ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

it would be pretty quiet around here without that kind of partisan hackery - sling away ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants