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  1. freeflysteve
    Have you reached your target number of jumpers yet? Happy new year. Steve Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  2. freeflysteve
    Could have been a better year but the upside is i have time now to train for a static line instructor course and, more importantly, also to spend more time with my daughter who now has 49 skydives and will be my impetous to still turn up at the dz. So watch this space! Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  3. freeflysteve
    Javelin tjnk. manufactured aug 03. No problems with tuck tabs,actually its the best jav i have ever had for comfort. Thanks Steve Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  4. freeflysteve
    Yep agree with your comments. See my reply to Bigway about the subsequent car crash!!! Not my year. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  5. freeflysteve
    Thanks . To continue the story six weeks after and one week before i was due in hospital for surgery i had a head on car crash!!. This resulted in both myself and the driver of the other car being cut out of our cars by the fire brigade. I was in a bmw X5 and he was in a jaguar xk8.Both of us travelling at about 40mph.He was in a diabetic coma so just kept on going me i just thought wtf. Got a broken rib more back trouble and lots of bruises oh and no car!!. Anyways op went well just can feel the other injuries now. Guess no more skydiving for at least 6 months and now probably no more camera for a while after that if at all. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  6. freeflysteve
    Only thing that we/i think happened is slider wasnt properly stowed so bottom skin of canopy caught the air rather than the slider and an almost instantaneous opening was the result.That combined with a flat top pro loaded with digital stills(canon 10d,20mm lens and video didnt help the situation!!!. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  7. freeflysteve
    Just got out of hospital and now have a little titanium cage in c7/t1 after fusion of prolapsed disc. Approc 3 inch scar in my neck but that is the only discomfort. Have been advised no skydiving for at least another 3 months. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  8. freeflysteve
    Videoed my daughters tandem and jumped with her on her 30th and 31st jump,she did her first 12 way(attempted!) on some guys 500th this saturday just gone on her 49th jump. She was 16 this July and i am so proud of her. 1 jump to go to get her UK "B" license.
  9. freeflysteve
    Where in the UK are you? Lat weekend at Netheravon an AFF student started his course on the Friday and by Sunday early evening was on his first solo/consul jump. The weather is better at the moment than most of our summer has been. No reason not to start now,drop me a pm if i can be of any help. Blue skies Steve Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  10. freeflysteve
    Had a very hard opening on my Sabre2 135 resulting in slipped disc at about C8 awaiting scan to find out exact damage. It happened 2 weeks ago when jumping camera with stills and video resulting in numbness on my left side and tingling fingers,first real slammer with the sabre2 in over 400 jumps on that canopy,normally a nice snivelly opening and end cell closure resulting in slight off heading. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  11. freeflysteve
    Landing area i believe is at approx 12000ft so minute freefall about right for a jump that is about 17000 ft above lz. I think canopies are like student navigators approx 260ft cos of higher technical wing loading landing at 12000ft above sea level.Dont know about tandem rigs or canopies. When team extreme landed on mont blanc at approx 9000ft i believe the effective wingloading on their parachutes was about double so landing at 12000 this could well be higher. I was actually booked to go on trip but withdrew cos i thought it would be too dangerous landing at that height above sea level,lets hope i am wrong and everybody is safe. Also it is not above Everest as i understand no permit for that, it is a jump in the Himalayas and yes you can see Everest! Congrats to those that have jumped be good to see my buddy Martin Preston on the list of people that have jumped. Steve Reynolds Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  12. freeflysteve
    And there's me thinking it was Gordon Brown in the UK,cos it all got fucked up over here when he was chancellor of the exchequer and then they let him be f$%^*$ prime minister!. TOO much reliance on investment bankers and AAA ratings without looking at the risk just the rewards,basically pure human greed at all levels have caused the problems your and this side of the pond. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  13. freeflysteve
    Is that why some talk about the fifth attachment for tandems. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  14. freeflysteve
    Claires FS1 jump and our first jumps together
  15. freeflysteve
    No just an FS coach but even then I let others instruct her,I was too nervous!! We jumped together on her 30th and 31st skydive will post some pics. Thanks
  16. freeflysteve
    Claire has just got her FS1 on her 29th skydive. Age 16 years 1month and 1week!. Yes I am a very proud dad.
  17. freeflysteve
    One guy once met never forgotten. A truly nice guy. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  18. freeflysteve
    Cos the brake line could have wipped round another line or produced a tension knot. The mal it seems was not there when the brakes were first released but it happened almost simultaneously when the toggles were grabbed later, so it seems to me logically, if he had not let them go the first time the mal may not have happened. My own observations and my own thoughts. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  19. freeflysteve
    Looks like on the video the jumper must have after opening released his toggles from his hands and let them loose,the self induced line twist happening after he retrieved them. Once i have released my brakes i never let go of the toggles and would say that by doing so he created his own malfunction,no different to other incidents about flying back on stowed breaks and releasing them to perform finals! Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  20. freeflysteve
    Couldnt agree more. I am an FS coach and just love it,also do camera for tandems and that gets to be hard work but very satisfying. AFF instructor not for me at least not in the foreseeable future.
  21. freeflysteve
    Demo license,thats a skill?
  22. freeflysteve
    17 to drive. Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  23. freeflysteve
    Lat photos
  24. freeflysteve
    More Photos Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!
  25. freeflysteve
    Thanks Steve Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting!