Treejumps
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VX 62! Why would we want to see him under that barge. I mean jeez, thats only like 3.0 to 1. My grandmother could swoop that giant thing. Come on, what about those awesome swoops on the 55. No good video of that? No good landings on that? How dissapointing. Bruno, please compete. Ask Lyle and Jim real nice if they will let you try out for advanced again. I mean, if you can land a 55 better than Luigi lands his 46, you would probably clean up in advanced. Really. snicker, snicker
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Thanks Lance, All those years of mentoring finally paid off for me!
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Personally, I would love to see Bruno vs Luigi in ANY type of canopy competition. Speed, distance, accuracy, stand up landings, whatever. It would be truly comical to see Bruno eat every last one of his words. For that matter, watching Luigi trounce Bruno physically would also be fun too. But as we all know too well, Bruno dosen't, check that, can't, compete. At least not at any PST event. How bout it Bruno? I've got $1,000.00 says you can't even carry Luigi's rig for him. Quit while your ahead. (behind) tree
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Like I said Bruno, if you are dumb enough to post pics of a non existent swoop, people are going to call you on it. Those pics show a very poor landing, you digging out, and your body laguage says "oh god, please help me survive another one". No one asked you to embarass yourself by putting those pics up, and clearly, no one is impressed. (I guess in your mind, the thousands of impressed fans just haven't bothered to post). Drew gave you an excellent suggestion: Canopy Coaching. Given an appropriately loaded canopy and several hundred supervised landings, you may be able to swoop.....one day. Sincerely, Tree
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Here Bruno, just for you.
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Funny, I never see any swoopers with their tail deflected and toggles dug down when they are still at 50' unless thery are digging out. This just looks like a poor approach, and it does look like you are sinking it in. I know that you see things in your own world quite differently, but if you are going to post pics expect feedback. Whats up Bruno, you afraid of your rear risers? Just to show you how its done, I'll also post a pic.
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Hey 813, Your right, there are no base jumpers at bridge day. You should go somewhere else for BD, as you would be way too cool for a boring event like BD. As I can tell by your number, you've been doing this for so long that you probably are bored by anything othen than a freefall & layout from 150' over hard earth. You would have no peers at BD from whom you could learn from, trade information, or otherwise enjoy spending time with. Just another boogie with cheap american tap beer and a campfire. Tree BASE610
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Pilot chute canopies can be replaced without throwing the entire assemebly away. WOrk would need to be performed by a Master Rigger. Pretty easy to do and much cheaper than new one. Tree
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Way overdue!
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Longer risers do seem to give the canopy better dive. I had to extend mine because of my extended arm length. Mine are 27", with a custom placement of the dive loop. Its set now where my arm is at full extension, but not so far up that it is uncomfortable to hold onto for a while. Having the correct length will improve performance, and having the loops at the right spot makes it easier to pull down (using lats instead of bicept). You mileage may vary. Tree
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No Kitty! Can it really be called freefall or even skydived when he is clearly flying a rigid wing glider? Dirty high puller as well. Nice face plant landing as well. If any of us jumped out from 100,000' we could all track the distance with ease. I guess having a bunch of wuffos think you are cool is good enough for Mr. Kitty. Real jumpers are all too aware that this is not even close to ground breaking, not that anything else Kitty's done is either. Try landing that wing, or a wing suit and maybe you will one day earn the respect that consistently eludes you. F-ing punk! Tree
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What I am saying is that this design was fairly typical.... 20 years ago. More importantly is that with bands and stows there is the possibility of a line bight going through another line bight, leading to baglock. The probability is low, but if it is possible, it will eventually happen. Tandem reserves use a similar stowing system, and I am aware of a tandem that was opened for repack that had this situation. It would have bag locked and two people would have died. The velcro pouch eliminates this possibility, and is used on virtually All other reserve systems. So once again we have an outdated manaufacturer (Velcro is better than tuck tabs, right?) straying from proven systems and saying that it is better. Some riggers are wisely refusing to pack reserves with this "new" design freebag because of the liablility. Tree
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My girlfriend lost her racer freebag ( I know, who jumps a racer?, But it was an inexpensive 1st rig that fit well). I ordered a new freebag from Jump Shack, and the new bag is nothing like the old. Jumps Shack has decided to step back 20 years in parachuting technology and build free bags that utilize rubber band stows intead of a velcro pouch as well as rubber band locking stows (on brass gromets). Does anyone know of a source that may have an old style freebag in stock? It is an 11X size. Thanks, Tree
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Nice one Jason! Tree
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I have over 100 jumps with a pocket on my VX 120. The openings are great, about half the time I get a crossfire like snivel, and the rest are perfectly accepable. My pocket is about 5" wide accross the length of the slider. I am a videographer and this is my primary main. Enjoy, Tree
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Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith in 1983. Wow, thats 20 years ago. Getting old.... but now growing up! Last show- Hallucinogen at the Amazura Ballroom. Tree
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I think the major difference in using rear risers is in the rigidity of the wing. When you use rears as opposed to toggles you are changing the angle of attack directly by pulling the entire back half of the canopy down. With toggles you change the angle of attack by deflecting the tail (flaring) which then changes the angle of attack. X-brace canopies are extremely rigid so when you pull the rears down the canopy does not deform (very little) and speed is not compromised. With a non x-braced canopy when you pull the rears down eveything works the same, but the canopy deforms significantly, making it less effective than on a x-brace. I think it is this deforming that makes it easier to dynamically stall non x-braced canopies on rears. I love my VX on rears, it is the only way to fly. I don't even bother on me crossfire as the reas feel very mushy. Tree
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Small Canopies and cypres's???
Treejumps replied to garyharbird's topic in Swooping and Canopy Control
No matter how fast canopies get there will still be a significant diference between a diving turn under canopy and a body accelerating in freefall. For thoese who also base jump this will be more obvious because in base you can feel the true accelration of gravity (33'/sec^2). Under a canopy, even a very small one, lift is being generated, and in a dive the lift being generated would have to be substantial. These forces prevent the pilot from coming even close to the acceleration of freefall. To see for yourself (don't take my word for it) go make a 5 sec freefall from a fixed object, and I'm pretty certain you will notice a big differnce in acceleration from a hook turn. At 2.4 on a VX my time out flat lines regularly. My cypres is removed because its a hassle to take it out to swoop water. Tree -
I agree. There is no majic height. I don't know why folks get so defensive because I (notice that I said I, and not all the people I hang out with) have noticed that people tend to overstate their turn heights. Maybe I'm worng, but I still think that these numbers are inflated.
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The post I was referring to was less than a month ago.
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a VX a 2.4
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I'm not sure since I don't use an alti. I would say that a front riser 180 would be around 500'. It could be done between 300' and 600' depending on the agressiveness of the turn.
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Thanks Chucky. With all due respect, I'm pretty sure that you don't speak for anyone but yourself, least of all those who are winning on the tour that you relish referring to. As I recall you recently told everyone on this forum that "trips ( triple risers) still go the furthest". Are these folks that you claim to represent also taking your advice on risers? I don't see anyone winning PST using trips, and about the same number staring at altis while lining up their turns. That however is merely an observation. I would be very interested in an actual, factual survey of the top 20 PST swoopers' methodologies. WIth this information we could all know what the pros really do rather than speculate. Keep up the good work,
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He did ask specifically about 180's. BTW, do you actually sit there and look at your altimeter while lining up your turn? And since you are dropping ratings and so forth, what is your PRO Tour Ranking? As I said, it is just an observation I've made. Your results may vary. Tree
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In general I think that most people highly over estimate/ overstate their turn execution height. Most turns happen in the 400' to 500' range for X-brace canopies. I'm not saying that its a pride or ego thing, just that watching (and doing) these turns regularly it becomes quite clear that no one is doing a 180 from 700'. I wass just thinking about this from the top of a 800' tower on Tues. evening. Even a 270 from 700' would leave you hanging with all but the most gentle carving 270' using only the harness. I also do not use a altimeter, as most swoopers do not, but a more realistic number for non x-brace canopies is proabably 200', and X-brace is probably 400'. As always, your actual useage may vary, and planets coming up at you may appear larger than actual size. Tree