Treejumps

What happened to the big dramatic "I'm never posting here again" thing? This place is like crack, one hit and you can NEVER leave. As far as dramatic exits, yours didn't last long. Glad you could bring yourself to post again.

*** "It all comes down to common sense." And common sense should tell you that using headphones in freefall or under canopy is stupid. Just in case there is confusion about that, using headphones in freefall or under canopy is stupid. You need the sound of freefall and the wind under canopy to help control yourself and your canopy. You should take up another demanding sport, like bowling, if you want to jam out while doing it. Leave the music on the ground and save yourself and others injury or death.

Has anyone ever heard of or actually seen this video? The local marketing rep was hitting us hard and even offering 90 day same as cash financing to get us to buy. Anyone?

How about a nice baby swiss, or a wheel of Gouda to go with that? Seriously, aparently nobody cares, so why not quit the drama queen act?

Nice job. Way to go!

After a couple years of not having one, I finally have one, and now you want it changed?

There are plenty of basers in MI.

What do you have or like in a double needle machine? Primary use will be to attach binding tape. Found a singer 112-140 for a good price. Is adjustable space between the needles important? Any input appreciated. Thanks.

Actually, its Beer On Container, and the proper stowage is to place the beer in the BOC before stowing the PC. Upon landing you will have liquid refreshment readily available. Smiley was the first guy I saw make proper use of the BOC pouch. CYa.

I have a chin cup that I used once (I don't care for them), but you would need to have the rachet adaptors already installed, or put them on.

What everyone else said, plus.... A 135 is a very small canopy no matter how you load it. The lines are very short and even at 1:1 wing loadings it will be quick in flight and fast to turn. It has the potential to spin very rapidly if you had say a line over or even a fired brake line. You would be well served to practice on something larger until you can stand up all of your landings and land in the peas 9 out of 10 times. Be safe.

Assuming everything is done by the book there are only two possibilities. 1. You are swimming, rolling the windows up, or other wise using arms to try to gain or maintain stability. I doubt this is the case as you look to be in a very good body position, but you never can tell from a still. 2. More likely, and I have seen this before, the double throw. You throw, but then very rapidly "throw" your arm back out to the stable position, quick enough to brush some bridle. As you jump more you will relax and relize that you can maintain stability without being "flat and stable" every second of the jump. Think in terms of a stowed jump. You will have to reach back and pitch, all while remaining stable. Of course this is all just conjecture without seeing a video, but I hope it helps. Cya.

Yawn.

RIP Thanks for all that you have done for those you did not know.

I guess this means that plumbers will get fined for showing crack as well for ?

Very cool, but I don't think it is tracking, it sounds more like Antmonauti.

Bummer. When I wrote a proposal to the BDC in 2000 Jon was extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Jon has been there since the beginning of BD and has supported base thoroughly. Many do not know that Jon and his brother are the guys who basically created the whitewater rafting industry in WV. He is a pioneer in his sport and a great guy to have at BD. We are pulling for you Jon! Tree

If the rope becomes taunt (tight) it creates what is known as the lockout point. Things can get pretty treacherous if this occurs as the paraglider will essentially dive straight at the ground. YMMV

Hey Mike, Yuri is in Egypt freediving, but he will be back home in Early March. Maybe we can have an old school jump & party at the you know what. Tree, now known as daddy, Team Old & Brittle

Thanks Kevin, I've been thinking I need a better tool for that task. Cya.

All good points. In this case I will just wait and see what happens with the performance of the JVX. If Jim wins everything he enters this year, he will sell some canopies. If he performs as he has over the last 5 years, well... you get the picture. I guess we are lucky that canopies are as good as they are given the tiny size of the parachute industry, and the relative amount that can be spent researching and developing. I doubt that worldwide sales of xbrace canopies exceeds 1000, and I would be very surprised if it ever hit 2000. Given those numbers, a highly esocteric competition canopy that would do well to capture 20% of the market (a very aggressive goal) would be hoping to sell maybe 200 canopies a year, but I think that is a very high number. In creating a business plan (I hope there is one) for a product like this figuring out the potential market and the percent you hope to capture are difficult yet critical. I don't know what the sales goal is for a product like the JVX, but splintering the already tiny market (1000 units a year) for xbrace canopies is far riskier than flying them. Best of luck to anyone who tries to make better canopies, and even more luck to make money doing it. Cya!

Very nice writing. You could definitely write shorts. Tree

I also agree with you, but canopy development has been fraught with marketing ideas cloaked as "innovative developments". Is this really a new canopy? What percentage of it's planform does it share with the VX? A Xaos 27 is probably 85% VX planform. THe nose of the JVX looks an awful lot like other xbraces on the market. What makes it any better or any different? Longer lines? Different trim? The performance gains of very thin non-cascaded HMA vs the loss of performance due to the drag of all those extra lines seems to be a trade off. If its new and improved, we will find out for sure. For those who have been around a while (longer than me) a bit of skepticism is prudent thing when so called new skydiving products are touted by their salepeople. YMMV

Hi Nick, Luc your work, mate. Lets see, How about "Classic", Early Model, Vintage, or Pre-Basetoric? I look forward to making it to Old Timer, or whatever they end up calling me. It means I'm still alive and still jumping, and if I've got that going for me it will all work out fine. Cya!

This is my favorite *** Today, he said, African Americans are more likely to live in communities near pollution sources, such as freeways and oil refineries, and far from health care centers. "There are a lot of indicators that our lives are not valued," Akbar said So is he saying we put those people there and have some mystical power to keep them from moving? God forbid they take responsibility for their own lives and MOVE. I mean, how could anyone actually MOVE? Thats impossible. Education is the key and it is not highly valued, check that, valued hardly at all in those communities.