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you know what. i bet you guys are hurting bens feelings...... because you know im self centered and have none!

ok and now another question.. since im -5 is that a good thing or a bad thing and i think it is true when i meet a girly girl that the only thing we have in common is living on the same planet..

jumpin on the bandwagon eh?

you got to hate it when that happens...

lol.... just like in the av.... ive got to land that and call it the shimoo! Just start the basics and maybe land on dry land to start with there tough guy i know i know.. im going to start back with the basics this weekend.. i shall stand ALL my landings up this time!

shit. on a hot humid day in georgia that might be the only way i could loose altitude, instead of gaining, under a wing that big..

one of these days you will quit being a hater and you wont be so fat anymore!

he's a whiney little bitch. isnt he?

what does a high score mean and what does a low score mean?

make him beg dammit!

lol.... just like in the av.... ive got to land that and call it the shimoo!

shut up lee.. i wanna see him beg!

no how you doin?

kelly. you need to get laid...BAD!

i got -5, what does that mean?

hmmm do any of them go good with vodka? your getting slow beezy.. everone else new i had problems YEARS ago....

well i will be honest with ya, i HATE stalling my canopy. it scares the hell out of me.. some peeps think it is fun... i dont like it, but i do know exactly where my stall point is and i do know what my canopy does when i stall it. i know this because ive tried it. doesnt mean i have to do it every day. actually i probably will never do it again with this canopy. but thats me. ive done it i know how it acts, and im not doing it again..lol... the feeling of flying backwards and the canopy folding back up is not a feeling i like too much..

dude!.//.// mix it with absolute manderin and it taste alot better..

by all means yo can land just about any canopy with the rear risers. but before trying it you need to know your stall point for the toggles and also the stall point for the rear risers. when you stall a canopy with the rear risers your airspeed is going to be faster than when you do it with your toggles, and a rear riser stall is going to be more abrupt and sneak up on you, so before ever trying to land with your rears you should find this point and how the canopy acts before during and after the stall... do this up high.. like 2000 ft or higher... there is a slight chance in creating a malfunction when stalling a canopy, small chance but it is there....

lol... everything about my canopy is mods..... well not really, but there are quite a few little things...

well with the slider that joe makes the openings are just as slow, even slower. and it is not off heading at all.... i like a quicker opening also. i pack the velo to open fast, just so it doesnt spin. but like i said before.. the slider fixed it all, and i have the benifit of taking off the slider..

you would have to talk to joe bennet on this one. i havent personally tried it, but he has and i even talked with him about it last night. he said he always moves the cat eye 2 inches obove where the factory set it and it opens alot better.... he told me to fly it next time and make the ring on the riser where the line goes through, unstow your brakes and hold them 2 inches past where the cat eye goes through, then see how it flies if it is flying fine then move it.. there is also a trick, some sort of knot you can do to simulate a deeper brake setting before you reline it to see where it opens better at.. i dont know the knot, but im sure some yest pilots out there do... i was going to do this to mine untill joe made me a removable slider, the removable slider fixed ALL the off heading opening problems.. now it opens great terminal and subterminal. so there is no need for me to mess with the brake settings now. he told me last night that he thinks the slider he makes, makes it open better because of the stiffness of it... it is stiff and reinforced and wants to hold its shape... but there is times when i have to almost stall it with the rears to get the slider to come down past the cascades. but that is nothing, especially now that i dont have spinners.

i like to call it "trim" it seems just a quick "trim" with the rears at the right moment. this is kinda getting off topic... but to visualize. your slightly behnd the canopy, just befor hitting the gates you "trim" with the rears. or else you hit the ground, then your out in front of the canopy and it begins to climb. a vx will do this on its own kinda. a velo you have to kinda hold it there "in the rears". the vx has a flatter glide, this is why i guess.. i wish jim would chime in here... the jvx from the way i remember jim explaining it, is trimmed inbetween the velo and the vx. has less drag than the vx and a smaller nose. i havent jumped it yet but im willing to bet you put somone under that thing and get them to bust out a bunch of jumps you will see it winning the comps alot... but you have to remember, all this shit is more the pilot than the canopy. the canopies just have different flight charecteristics. and when i call the vx a turf surfer, that is just another way of saying flatter glide i guess..

thanks.... that is kinda what im sayin.... but it seems you can get a little more distance with the vx with this style flying also... but you dont have to pop it as much if you do it right it will climb itself. the more you use your rears say to "dig" i hate that term but pull yourself out of the corner the more the canopy will climb, if you go to far past the point the canopy looses , it is tricky and hard for even some of the best pilots to get right... great i can see it now, all these cats bouncing because they turn to low to dig on the rears...