Spizzzarko

I wonder if they go commando under that thing?

We jump year round in Colorado...

Publification! Be there or be square! Pub now! You can dooooo eeeeeeeeettttt!!!!!

It is not a bad system. The rings are big if I remember correctly.

Great... Now anything written about a canopy other than a velocity is going to be stricken from the record... Next thing you know Stu will be a mod, and then it will open the door for all th eother PD boys and girls. That's how this neighborhood will go down in flames folks. It starts subtle like, but then they just take over. I might as well just tell Sangiro to ban me for life now...

To make space you should leave the AI out of Air and the C out of coach. I think everyone will get it....

Banned? MY ASS!!!! I just need some incriminating pictures of Ian and then I'll be good to go! I'm heading back to the Swoop bonfire forum to call everyone mooth.

Wing loading in all actuallity only plays a small part in swoop distances. There are many more variables to take into account: 1. Wind Speed and direction (down wind, cross, and into the wind) has quite a bit of say in your distances. 2. Amount of turn. The longer you turn th longer you will be building up speed. Most people probably come no where close to canopy terminal. 3. Power applied to the turn. If you just do a weak one front turn then you are going to get less out of it. 4. Turn technique. If you are using risers the whole way then you are introducing drag with the actual riser input. A harness turn doesn't introduce the drag of a front riser turn. 5. Density altitude / Field elevation. We get some pretty long swoops up here in Colorado because the air is thinner. It allows us to go a little faster. The hotter it gets here the faster we go. The faster we go the more ground we cover in distances. 6. Line type and canopy configuration. RDS and technorra, will allow a canopy to go faster thus more distances. 7. Body position / Jump suite type. Body position and jumpsuits really play a huge factor in canopy speed. So just like a scrotum, here it is in a nutshell: There are many more facets to distance than wing loading. 2.2 loading on a velo 103 = 407' I'm sure I have gone further, but that is the farthest I have gone in competition that I know of.

"hey rc stuff takes some mad skills there buddy" Yea, skills you don't seem to posses!

It is a viscious circle...

There is no room in swooping for smut dude. If people were swooping with erections then they would be crashing due to lack of blood to the head. There needs to be goergious mooth male models on the shore line to keep erections at a minimum!

Yawn... This argument is getting old.

I have seen dudes in the swooping thing to just win and get their pro card. That was their only goal. Now that they have it, I'm sure that their life is just empty, and they have to take up other things like RC cars and stuff. There has to be a limited progression ptherwise you just burn yourself out or get hurt badly in the process.

It seems as if we have hit a point of diminishing returns once you go smaller than 350 HMA. Like I have said earlier, I think that propper technique will far outswoop 150lbs hma.

I would like to see a competition where you win too, but I'm not holding my breath... Feel tha burn! In all actuallity, Ian is probably one of the best swoopers I have ever witnessed. I am proud to know him and to have competed against him in the past. He deffinatly doesn't bring it weak, and he can tell you more about the Velocity than a lot of people care to know about that canopy. Do you know how Ian has gained this pleathura of knowledge? By going out there and risking coming in last. I'm sure he has had better comps than others, but sometimes if you are going to go for the glory you need to be willing to pay the price.

Speaking of mooth, it's Shimmel! blahhhh just kidding Mark. I think I should have gotten the 84... I only have two jumps on the JVX yet though, but I'm liking it. For those of you who are bad mouthing competition, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by going and participating in them. You will learn more in 10 competition jumps than you will in 50 beer line swoops. It is like doing 4-way with Airspeed. If you do 5 jumps with them you learn a lot. If you do 100 jumps with a license holders you learn how to chase people who backslide. Think about what you would rather do.

Bailiff.... whack his pee-pee! Don't worry... I take care of that enough hahahaha

What do the do to "impact" them? How does that work out? Is that tat in your avatar yours?

You forgot the "Retox" option. My job has been keeping me busy and seriously cutting into me alcohol consumption. How am I supposed to keep my wing loading up without all the beer?

Yea my jaw is starting to hurt quite a bit back there and up into the back and inside of my ears. I'm thinking it might be my wisdoms, but I havn't had it checked out yet. Is that the feeling yall got before you decided to get them pulled? I didn't know they could put you to sleep and pull them. Did you have to go to a hospital for that? For those of you who didn't go to sleep for this, what do they do when they pull them? Is it like that dentist in that old movie the little shop of horrors?

"now collapsing your Lightning onto the raft at the Ranch Pond Swoop meet...now thats tough... " That's so freaking mooth that you don't even know it. Mooth mooth Mooth!!!!!

There are those who either do not compete or there are those who do compete. There is no in between if you really get down to it. The ones who compete and run these competitions realize that everyone has an opinion, but for those who chose not to compete and to just critisize your words get really old really quick. For them to hide behind the excuse of I don't have enough money to compete, or I think popping up is not the coolest way to perform distance so I'm not going to compete is pretty freakin lame if you ask me. Either step up to the plate and compete or shut the fuck up unless you have something usefull to say. The argument of keeping distance competition runs within the verticle limit of the gates will go on untill Lord Slaton changes the rule. I don't forsee him doing that in the future, but what I do see happening is a change in th eactual events. It happened this past summer and I think the competitors who were there had a good time with it. Later in the season before the CPC champs, Lord Slaton mentioned that he might change the speed rounds from a carve to straight. A few people whined, complained and cried like children so If I recall correctly the speed rounds were carved again. It is my opinion that competitors should have the skill and flexability to handle changes in competition events. If someone can only do distance by keeping it on the dirt, then so be it. Conversly, if Lord Slaton changes the rules 10 minutes before the comp that requires me to stay within the confines of the gates on all planes, then so be it. As long as the rules are applied evenly accross the board then the only problem would be the comfort level of teh copmpetitors.

"Wash it in cold water using all temperature Cheer. There should be very little if any, shrinkage." I beg to differ. Cold water usually causes the shrinkage... Oh wait... we are talking about laundry now... Carry on.

Why don't you order an all sail 80 and let me hold on to it for you until you get back and are ready for it. Of course I will have to put a few jumps on it to "break it in" for you so its not so hard to pack. I am willing to do this all for you because I'm that kind of a guy. All heart man... All heart. I hope you are doing well. Do you need anything sent to you, or taken care of here? Let me know if there is anything I can help you out with. Be carefull. Grant

Does him being a masturbater qualify him as a master of sorts?