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What a great game! What a performance by Luongo to come in and steal one for Canada. I thought the Czechs were the better team overall. Definitely one of the most exciting nailbiters I've watched. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

USA is out. Tomorrow night's game between Canada and the Czechs should be a good one and will likely produce the World Cup Champ. I don't think Finland will beat either of those two teams. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Duct tape worked great for me many times..... -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I've been going to Muay Thai for just over a year. The school that I go to teaches karate, Muay Thai, BJJ, Filipino Stick fighting and self defense courses. The school's owner had years of bouncing experience way back when .... guys used to come from all around to take him on. He has always changed with the times and adapted new techniques/styles and his real world experience into the school's curriculum. One of our local jumpers, who got a black belt in karate when he was about 17 or 18, trained this year for his first MMA fight. He focused most of his time on BJJ and his ground fighting skills. He has lots of bar fight experience but used BJJ for his ground skills and Muay Thai training to work on his stand-up/striking skills. His preference was to go to the ground in his fight but he was fighting a striker who wanted nothing of going to ground...so he smoked him with a right, broke his jaw in two places and ended the fight with his striking skills. The night he fought, our school had 10 people fighting..6 in MMA bouts and 4 in Muay Thai fights. All our fighters except one MMA fighter won their fights. Most in very convincing and decisive fashion. Based on what I saw, I think BJJ and Muay Thai or other striking disciplines are a pretty good way to start. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

No gonna happen Tuna. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I'll take that bet AggieD ! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Canada should win and I want them to win ..... but they deserve to lose for the ugliest uniforms since the original Vancouver Canucks uniforms way back when. Canada 2, US 1 in the third... -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I used to have a drinking problem. Now, I love the stuff! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

All I do to my PC-1 cover is bend it backwards and use a piece of tape to hold it there while I put it into my d-box. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Meet The Beatles - The Beatles Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles A Quick One While He's Away - The Who Who's Next - The Who Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones Beggar's Banquet - The Rolling Stones Freak Out - The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free - The Mothers of Invention Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa and the biggest mindblower of all time: Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix Experience, followed by Axis Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland (Yeah, I'm old

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing: The Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson. Time Enough for Love - Heinlein The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe On The Road - Kerouac The History of the Second World War - Sir Winston Churchill -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

It's not a myth. It happened in 1987 in North Carolina. The cameraman was videoing a tandem. Here's a thread about it. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Rob, That is the one I am thinking about. You're right and thank you for refreshing my memory. He was just fiddling with the locking pins on the top attachments, not trying to do the snaps up. What a shame. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Rob, I believe the first tandem fatality was at CPI in 1985 or 6. The tandem instructor forgot to attach the upper snaps...the lower laterals were done up...and he impacted with no pull after spending the entire skydive trying to fasten the top snaps. The CRW wrap and fatality happened later....after I took the attached picture of my old buddy Mr. Beaker and his wife, Gail, after they docked on me. You might recall this picture was used on the cover of CanPara magazine and created quite an uproar...not because of the tandem crw but because Beakie and Gail weren't wearing helmets. hehehe Ahhhh...the good old days! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Yes. There are a lot of replies and follow-on in the Bonfire thread. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I like the distortion of a wide angle lens. I used a 16mm when I was doing this. I think that a 35 mm lens or digital equivalent could be used if you point it straight back and take the first shot a bit later. If someone wants to do this without putting a Digital rebel on the strut I think you could get good results that a student would like without spending a ton of money. On this type of camera you might have to jury rig a remote release using the IR remote but it can be done. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Tuna, Phelps swam the fastest time of his life in the 200!!! That isn't choking. Choking is doing way less than you are capable of when the pressure is on. My hat's off to him for getting in the pool to take on the best and then doing his personal best in that event. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I would disagree with this...The JM's attention should be solely on his student and handling the SL, etc. I found that the pilot would get very good at timing the shot with a bit of practice. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

In today's digital world I could see this being a nice little revenue generator: 1 - Digital Rebel with a Sigma 15 or similar (or maybe the new Canon 10-22(?) zoom) 2 - The pilot squeezes off 2-3 shots of each student exit 3 - When the aircraft lands somebody walks out, pops the memory card out and pops in a clean one 4 - pop the card into a reader, make prints for students, collect money 5 - Go to bank A quick burst of 2-3 shots is about all that is worth taking and usually the first one is the best so the pilot's timing is important. Depending on the exit and where the camera is aimed the timing would vary. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I used to mount a camera on the strut of a 182 at Gananoque, ON in 1985-6 or so. I used a big clamp with a ball and socket head that I bought at a camera store in Toronto. (pics attached) I taped the camera shutter release wire to the strut and ran it back into the cabin and up to where the pilot could click off a few shots on exit. I applied lots of duct tape to the mount/strut and to the mount/camera so that it couldn't loosen up. I used a 16mm lens. I also attached a photo taken with the set-up....looks just like the ones attached to the top of this thread. (Pre-drogue tandem exit so this shot was taken in 1985) The camera takes a lot of abuse in a set-up like this. I left my Olympus OM-1 attached for a month once and the light meter never worked again but that was all...not bad considering it was just ssitting there unprotected. The OM-1 was a tough little camera. If you do this I would suggest using a box to keep your camera out of the wind-blast and protect it a bit from the heat-cold extremes it will endure. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Good for you! It's good to know what a stall feels like and how to recover. Have fun playing with that new canopy up high

I would be scared sh*tless!! That trashplane was actually the last one I ever did. We started it under 2000' and shortly after the photo was taken the violent bucking resulted in me being briefly engulfed in Angus's canopy...white fabric and lines everywhere. I popped out of it but was pretty lucky not to have gotten my camera, which was duct-taped to my left foot, entangled as the shutter release jack was broken off so it had been involved with some lines. We were at about 1400-1500' at that point. Not a good altitude to get wrapped. (I should have included this bit of information in my original post) It was done under 170-180 sq. ft. 7 cells..I can't imagine the violent reaction you might get under a Xaos type canopy. Wild! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Is it packed in a cutaway rig? Here's another one for ya JP! PD150 9 cell. I haven't done this yet with my Sabre2 135...but I will someday. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

It is wa-a-a-ay more fun if you stall your canopy with a friend! In the old days when canopies all had dacron lines and were lower aspect we used to do this quite a bit. We called it a trashplane. Sometimes they downplaned very stable and other times bucked and thrashed around violently. This was my buddy Angus Smith and I at Gananoque ON in about 1985 or so. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Gord Moore. Don't know exactly how he did it but it was on a jump from ZNH. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey