sundevil777

Yes. Just because PD says something is illegal does not make it so. They can publish anything they want in their manual but that doesn't make it law. That is why others are referencing regulations in order to answer you as to what is legal. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I did not know the V3 had the cypres control unit like that - I would also not want to have to dig it out every time to look at it. Attached is a pic from my Infinity, which also locates the control similarly, but there is no problem accessing it. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Please clarify what you mean. well, it's tucked under there pretty good. it's not like you get it out "easy". and to keep on rotating it alongside the cable is sure not gonna do it any good. I still don't understand, guess I didn't realize exactly how it is done on a V3. I thought my Infinity was nearly identical in respect to the location, and I never have to "get it out/rotate it". All I have to do is open the reserve flap and look at it. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Please clarify what you mean. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Paragear still sells them, they should be ashamed (image from their catalog attached). People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

OMG, that canopy must have some serious flaws. I doubt it could be fixed by the factory. I'll buy it from you for $800, save you the trouble of having to throw it away. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Sometimes the court takes cases not because they anticipate overturning the ruling, but because the issue involved is so important, of such consequence that an affirmation at the very highest level is important. I think this is appropriate. Nothing for Obama to be afraid of, right? If they rule in his favor, and even the conservative justices go along then there should be no more controversy (or at least less, some will likely not be satisfied). People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Yes you do... http://www.l-and-b.dk/help_center/manuals People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

What was unusual about the old version? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

To the original poster - relax and enjoy your dive. Listen to your instructors and not strangers on a forum board. Good luck. Now ignore the rest of my post here and stop overthinking things. Sundevil - there are a few pros with a wide stance but they are exceptions - relaxed and a bit narrow seems to be the key today. Wide actually really hurts stability - we teach knees touching drills in mantis training camps to untrain the BAD habit of too wide knees. wide knees force "bone on bone impingement" during attempts to arch in the hip joint which really inhibits the ability to get a smooth arch (it causes cupping/dearch in the hips) except for the most limber of genetic mutants. Potato chipping can come from too tense, and also a flat or cupped arch - wide knees forces the hips to dearch based on the anatomy of the joint. The wind is pounding on the flat torso rather than flowing around a curved body in a controlled fashion. Try it - push your hips down with very narrow knees - easy push your hips down but start with really wide knees - nearly impossible (the hips just won't allow it due to that mechanical interference I mention) For doing leg turns, it makes a very unsymmetrical body position. For AFF, women seem to have a bigger trouble than men too for the issue of wide legs. Experienced jumpers that have problems holding position is almost always an issue of too wide a stance. I try to train shoulder width apart for students - even narrower for advance camps. And I'm constantly working on the issue with my own form every season (such a hard habit to break). If I'm swirling out of position on 360's and bigger, it's always wide stance causing a dearch. Go watch an advanced tunnel camp and watch the instructors with the oldtimers - 90% of the time is spent with the instructor trying to squeeze their knees together. Stability has to come from clean airflow around the body, not hanging out joints as wide as possible. Old school vs new school. I'm definitely guilty of being out of touch with the mantis technique, and what you say makes sense. I'll have to try the mantis more this season with legs a bit closer. However, it still seems like I see plenty of very wide spread position among the very best in the world. The attached pic shows airspeed a couple years ago. 2 of them were quite wide during the entire dive, 2 were about shoulder width or just slightly wider. I suppose they don't need to do much adjusting of their fallrate having long ago dialed that in with their teammates. Anyway, thanks for reminding me that techniques have evolved since dinosaurs roamed the earth. To the OP, I suggest studying "Zen and the art of falling with style"...no, not really, but you could take a lesson from the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and just..."be", or something like that. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Warning - any advice you get online should be assumed to be wrong. This online stuff is not a substitute for your instructors/coaches, especially when you have video to review with them. I think the term used is "potato chipping" or "chipping", which is instability in the 'pitch' axis. If I understand you correctly, this might actually not be a problem. A lot of newbies actually tend to have their legs too close together/not spread far enough apart for good roll axis stability. If you look at really good RW flyers, you will usually see their legs spread apart quite wide, it will often seem to be nearly 90 degrees. This will give good stability in the roll axis. You do not want to spread your legs during a track or dive, just when you are falling flat. A lot of newbies also have very busy legs - they don't realize they're flailing with their legs/feet. This can also be described as over-corrections, like when a person first learns to drive, it is common to be very busy with the steering wheel going back and forth too quickly and unnecessarily, then after a while it is realized that very small, not so frequent corrections are all that is needed and it is done without thinking about it. It used to be common advice (decades ago before AFF existed) that when a student was chipping or spinning, for them to go into a slight track for a short time and then go back to a flat and stable position. Of course we do have to use muscles against the wind, but it shouldn't actually feel that you are - so the emphasis is definitely toward relaxing, or perhaps it should be thought more like not fighting it instead of simply relaxing. Have more confidence than is justified, that helps to relax. Warning - any advice you get online should be assumed to be wrong. This online stuff is not a substitute for your instructors/coaches, especially when you have video to review with them. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I am not understanding your logic. Near simultaneous deployments are not a good thing, that is correct, but it very often results in both deploying. I think that would be OK, even with your arms temporarily tied up by your WS, even if they both open in a down plane. That is not the worst thing that can happen. If you cutaway first, the main can no longer open and might hopelessly entangle on the reserve. I and many others think that is likely enough that not cutting away first is the best choice. Wearing a WS complicates the situation slightly, however I'd rather have to deal with getting my hands free to deal with a 2 out than have to deal with getting my hands free to deal with a chopped main that has fouled my reserve. Both scenarios can go completely, unrecoverably bad, but if cutting away made more sense as you say with a WS, then it would be the right choice without a WS. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I brought up only the very first in that list (gear on bench), and people have a tendency to get angry when others touch their gear. I have no problem 'manning up' for the rest of the list. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

40 years ago, 25 years ago, and 15 years ago (and all years in between) the EXACT same thing could have been written about the Irish, and their supporters in Boston, NYC, San Francisco. The only difference is that the IRA didn't target NYC, it targeted London, Birmingham and Belfast. You are so very wrong. The only difference! The huge difference is that the goals of the IRA were actually quite reasonable and limited, were they not? When those reasonable and limited demands were met, they were able to live in peace with their former adversary, were they not? Of course it would have been a lot better if they had pursued their goals without violence, but once achieved, it stopped, right? In contrast, the demands of the Islamofacists are not reasonable. They aren't just seeking self-determination for themselves, they want to impose their way on the world, starting with destroying the state of Israel, no matter how many wars they lose in that quest, they want their way. I say tough shit, lots of national boundaries were changed after WWII, and they were on the wrong side anyway. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

How about the first Gulf War, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, and Bush (41) got a huge coalition of many countries together through the UN to wage war against Iraq? The 1st Iraq war was debatabley justified BUT certainly had the wrong players - we should have kept out noses out of the trough. .... We weren't attacked but OUR oil was Iraq wouldn't have been kicked out of Kuwait if not for the US leading the coalition. After Hussein agreed to the terms of the cease fire that allowed him to stay in power, he never stopped violating them. So should we have just told him that was OK, the terms of the agreement didn't actually mean anything, or enforce them? I assert the violations alone were enough to justify the war in Iraq. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

How about the first Gulf War, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, and Bush (41) got a huge coalition of many countries together through the UN to wage war against Iraq? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Are you a pacifist? Have there been any just wars? People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

Their culture is morally bankrupt. Not just individuals, but their leadership. I see nothing wrong with extreme intolerance for such a culture. It is not based upon their race, or their ethnicity. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I could understand that, if there were any dogs at all at my DZ, not at all allowed. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I would really like to do that, but don't want to start trouble, at least not in that way. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

When the available bench space (benches to sit on) is not so plentiful, people will still use the benches as if they are tables. Unfortunately there aren't tables at my DZ, but that does not mean that benches should serve that purpose. There is plenty of space on the ground to put their stuff, but no, they use the benches. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

What do you mean by "because it's not"? Were you not saying what you would do and why? Of course having both out is unwanted, whether doing WS or not. It is also unwanted to have the main risers or RSL shackle snag the reserve as they are dragged up along it. Anyway, I understand that there are arguments to support both sides. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I don't see how the decision to cutaway first or not is affected by how much you think the pin might still be 'engaged'. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

My habit is to look to the right and see the PC pulling my main bag up. I don't think it causes much difference in my shoulders being level, and I bring my head back down as soon as I can. I think it is worth knowing that the main did actually lift off, plus I jump a big canopy that isn't so sensitive to body position. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

I think your decision to not cutaway first was correct, and what happened justifies that. The result if you had cutaway first would have been a lower opening. People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am