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My reply would have been "STOP GIVING ME THE SHITTY ONES!!!!!"

hahaha nice. How are you doing on the CPC so far?

I like the ones were the student arches through their knees and their nipples, but their ass is straight up in the air! those are the best. There's nothing like a good challenging aff dive to really bring it out in you. Every now and then it's fun to land tired from all the WORK you did on the dive.

Dude, What the hell have you done to deserve all of this? Did you anger the gods in some sort of horrific manner?

Here's some more...

Here's some Pics of the event!

Here's one for distance. All of these were in the Colorado CPC last weekend.

Here's one of Zone ACCURACY!!! I'm trying to stop, but I went over the line by an inch.

Check dis one out!

Aaaaahhhhh ssssooooooo..... I see your point young jedi mastah.... Sorry for blasting you, I didn't see the insideness of the joke.

"If the student had no flare, I blame the instructor 100%. He should have his rating pulled immediately." That's a pretty assignine statement. How can you hold an instructor responsible for the actions or innactions of a student, assuming the instructor armed the student with the appropriate knowledge? How many times have you seen an AFF Go awry? Do you think the AFFI's intentionaly briefed the student to de-arch, and to have his feet on his ass?

i'm gonna come in with just front riser input, let go and flare. That's probably not the best way to go about doing that. Dropping your fronts can lead to a dropped toggle, which can lead to death. Also, you are asking the canopy to do a lot if you are giving "front riser input, let go and flare" in that amount of time. Why not think about bumping your front riser initiation altitude up some. Smoothly give front riser input to build up speed, and then smoothly let your fronts back up to full flight. Your canopy will still be accellerating at this point. Now when it's time to flare then smoothly flare. You want this to be a process that takes a little time before you reach your flare initiation altitude. The gound will interfere with this process, and hurt you if you hit it hard. So practice up high.

Colorado Springs is having a wounderfull bout of weather. It's FOGGY, overcast, and about 48 for the high, here. I love this place, PSYCHE!!!!

B&H has good prices on the pelican cases. I have had my pelican for 6 years nows. It's the heat!!! I would HIGHLY recomend one. Try allcases.com too. Have a good day.

Allright corner... that was pretty funny... I'm actually pretty sore myself. It was a real pleasure meeting you, and I look forward to seeing you more at the DZ, and in the next comp.

Caption: "Dude, wanna throw something at him?"

It was actually a 3-5 KTS quartering cross to head wind from left to right accross the course. The distance rounds could have been a lot longer, but several of us didn't enter the gates very cleanly at first, but we got the hang of it a little later in the day.

Nice... Thanks again Jason, for running a top notch event. You did extremely well, and I'm very excited about next months event. Grant

Nobody got hurt, but I was a little sore the next day. It was just a really FUN event, and the competition was extremely stiff!!! Everyone stepped up to the plate and brought their A game. I can't emphasize how fun the CPC was. I think It would be a great learning event for many other jumpers, and I would like to see more people in it. There were a lot of cross braced canopy's in the event, but one guy came out there with a Katana 120, and gave us cross braced guys a real run for our money. People jumping stilletto's, Sabres, crossfires, katana's, and many other canopy's can be extremely competitive. So don't rule yourself out because of what you fly. It's how you fly that makes the grade.

It would be cool if he did. Great job out there on Friday. Remember, don't fly angry. hahaha Those pictures were great!

I think I got it at just under 300'. It's definatly going to improve this season, as everyone get's more comfortable with the gates. Maybe Jason will post all of the scores for each event.

Saturday's comp was extremely challenging. The conditions were changing all day long, making no two jumps identicle. The day started out with a slight head wind on the distance rounds, so they were not scorring huge distance runs. I think I did just under 300' on my second round. I was having difficulty hitting the gates as cleanly as I wanted in the beginning of the day, so I wasn't getting the distances that I knew I could have gotten, with a clean run. Several of the other competitors were having the same problems, and a few even had some verticles when entering the gates. The strategy that most competitors had was to just fly through the entry gates clean, and a lot of us were stretching to get every last inch out of our swoops. The zone accuracy came next. This was were the comp get very interesting. I think the zone accuracy was a make or break event. The head wind that we had for the distance rounds had diminished quite a bit, and the temp was rising quickly making the DA go up quite a bit, so shutting the canopy's down was the challenge. The strategy quickly became, to plop down in zone 1 or 2 and use zone 3 for a slide out area and not get any negative points. As I said earlier, this made the accuracy rounds really exciting to watch, and to compete in. Some of the competitors went long into the penalty zones, and lost some points. I only know of one person who flew / slid off the side of the court getting penalty points, and I believe there were a couple of verticle extensions in these rounds, too. The speed rounds came next. These where also very exciting, and didn't quite turn out as I had expected them to. I figured the person with the smallest canopy would beable to walk away with winning these rounds, but that wasn't quite the case. In these rounds the winds were shifting around quite a bit, but they weren't very strong. The temp was getting pretty warm, and the DA was getting up there, so the conditions felt pretty fast. The strategy that a lot of the competitors were taking into this round was to fly clean through the course and to fly high through the course so as to not hit any of the course markers. Hitting one of the markers gave you a 5 second penalty, and that would have taken you out of the running. I saw a lot of the competitors flying low through the course, and I even did so myself. I only saw one or two course marker strikes though, so it was some clean running for the most part. Those who didn't fly through the course were able to kite their canopys out, with the exception of one competitor. This was a difficult feat to achieve, as there really wasn't much head wind if any, so they were having to run pretty fast to keep those canopy's inflated. All in all, I was extremely impressed with the level of competition. Nobody got hurt, and there wasn't a lot of digging out of the corner. I think each competitor really learned a lot, I know I did. I think the overall strategy for the comp was to have a clean run each and every time. There were several people who took themselves out of the running by getting a verticle extension, or striking a course marker. There was a marker one hundred feet out from the entry gates, and a lot of competitors were focusing a lot on those instead of focusing on the entry gates. This may have hurt them a little on having clean entry's. I would have to say the dropzone and the DZO really stepped up to the plate to host this event. Jason Tolliver did an outstanding job of running and setting up the course. The course was nice and visible from the air, and on the ground. It was appearant that there was a lot of time and effort spent in setting the course up. Also the judges did an outstanding job of keeping a close eye on the competitors. I don't think enough kudo's can go to the judges for staying out there all day and getting fried from the horrible UV that we get up here in Colorado. So if you want to have a great time, come out and compete in the next Colorado CPC.

Dude, Don't Fly ANGRY... Jason, Great job this weekend. You ran a tight ship, and a great comp. The competition was fierce, and fun, and I'm looking forward to the next comp. Grant

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Ahhh you so observant GI....