skycat

oh now hunny...you don't want to hurt any of us, if you do, I'll just hide my palm so you won't know your schedule anymore.*evilgrin*

It's all Cyndi's fault....she made me do it.

Oh btw...I'm willing to trade if someone can find me a Derek 2.0, cause I think Derek 1.0 definately needs an upgrade.

Hey now I said he was in one piece with little wear and tear. *giggle*

sure are.

Hey woman post those pics!!!

As a bonus though he will pack your reserve for you and make you cool little gadgets for your rig or what ever. He is currently my seamstress since I'm making my own freefly pants.

nope I'm a good girl, well i might be up for sale after this thread. But he was the bad boy driving my car like a crazy man and then laughing his head off when I left finger imprints on my dash board. he is a brat. [tounge] Just cause he can hook turn does not mean he can take tight corners in my mustang at like 70, then laugh when I skreech..... btw...no he doesn't snore, although he will fall asleep after dinner. Ohhhh....I'm so going to be getting spanked for this.

nope, doesn't do windows either, but he can make a mean grilled salmon. An no I'm not up for bid either.

*hugs* I'm so glad you guys came down even if the weather ended up being crap, we had a ton of fun, and you guys are definately the greatest. I can't wait till we can all meet up in Dallas again, so we can get some jumps together and actually get some of that girl talk in that didn't happen cause we were busy watching the eggs get stolen from our chef at the restaurant. I'm so surprised we didn't get kicked out, but next time I think we need to leave the instructors in their cages at the DZ, I don't think they are ready for being out in public yet.

For sale one HooknSwoop, he has been well maintained, with very little wear and tear. He comes with his own ratings and rig, although he won't let you jump it. He has been house broken, and you can take him for car rides, although don't let him drive especially if you have a sports car cause he will take it at like Mach 3 around corners when exiting the feeder on to a side street. He is easily distracted with Dropzone.com especially if someone posts about small reserves blowing up, so you can have some of that quiet alone time. He also comes with his own container of zip ties, for the more adventurous sort. So make me an offer.....

Ok, just an update, I tried it with my other rig a Reflex R350, the laterals are longer on it than the mirage, but the harness is made a little different to accomidate the larger container, this one also has hip rings. It was much easier to get it to move, but it got stuck at the same point as the mirage up around my chest, Derek (hooknswoop) tried to yank it farther and I ended up good and stuck. So after he was done laughing at me and I got it back down so we could test the fit of my new terch, after the terch was connected I actually needed to pull it over my head to remove. Well, as proof and 3 tries later, with it not coming off, we ended up having to undo the chest strap to get it over my head. So I think Phree is on the right track it is the rigs with the longer MLW that will have more problems.

exactly....I just didn't know how to put it correctly

Sorry I'm not going to, for now anyway. I just hope Robert stops and takes the time to look in the mirror, so that the next lady who comes into his life he allows them the time to grow into eachother lives. And a word of advice to everyone, nothing is a relationship killer like previous relationships. If you need to constantly talk about your previous relationship to your current partner, maybe you aren't ready for a new relationship. On the other hand, if you are both going threw the same issues such as Robert and his GF maybe it is better to just be friends who are there for eachothers comfort and support. Then maybe some where down the road it might grow into more, or you may just always be good friends. A very wise friend of mine once said for every major trauma (divorce, death, separation, custudy battle) in your life you need ~1 yr to mourn/recover. For that year no matter how hard you try relationships will not work. After she said that I really took a look back and she was right. The 2 relationships in my life that have lasted the longest happened after that 1 year when my head and my heart were healed.

Do you really want me to post in the open forum how I know?

hey, last week it was the linux help desk, this week it's Dr. Ruth.

ok, I'm going to have to be brutally honest on this post since I do know you personally. It isn't going to work, for several reasons. You are to pushy, you want to much and if you don't get everything you want you feel like you are the only one doing anything. If she has a life outside of you, you feel neglected, you want her to come running to you and cling to you in hopes that you are her big protector. The reason she needs space is cause you have a tendency to suffocate the person you are with. You are so scared of being alone that you end up making the other person run in fear. "She vents to me because I encourage it.. I am a release for her in many ways" Do you really know what you are saying is that you want her to be emotionally dependent on you, well guess what, yes it helps her to talk about it, but then she will start equating you with the break up. I've seen you do this over and over again. The problem is it doesn't work, because once she is past the stress of her past relationship, guess what, she is going to look for someone who has nothing to do with her past. End this with her, cause it sounds like she is actually working on renewing friendships, building herself back up, figuring out her priorities, which by the way could be with her as #2 and her daughter as #1. You have a habit of trying to date emotionally unavailable women. Until you yourself are truly emotionally available, you are not doing yourself or anyone else that you are with any good.

Yes you are being to aggressive. A hook turn is a high performance manuver that by pulling down on the front riser, increases the speed of your canopy which with proper technique will cause it to plane out across the ground for a much longer amount of time than just flying it strait in. If performed incorrectly can injure and/or kill. Not only should have you have stand up landings, you need to be able to run out landings, slide out landings, and know every aspect of landing your canopy. Do a search of this forum it already has lots of information and debates about the progression of hook turns.

ummmm....Not really sure if she counts as more than maybe a 2 year old child I used to, not anymore. But then again, I have lots of friends and I can skydive all year, so the only time I'm alone is at home at night and well I'm usually happy no one else is here so I can just relax.

It can happen, what is really odd though is that 2 months later I was dating Derek and now I can't immagine him not being in my life.

It's really hard to say what you need to do, when I don't think any of us here have seen you land. Maybe a start would be what kind of canopy did you learn on and what are you on now? Have you had an instructor watch you land? If so, what did he say? Are you still flaring you high or have you worked that out? How many jumps a weekend do you do? Ok ignore all that other stuff....really you need to talk to your instructors, have them watch you land, get video of you landings, by watching your self you will see if you are flaring too high, flaring all the way, not putting your feet down when landing. Trust me video is a great tool, cause even if your instructor is to busy to watch, you can show it to him after the beer light and after you have placed a cold one in his hand. Then he can go over it step by step and show you what you are doing wrong. Kelli

Ok girls perspective..... All I can say is this isn't about distance, cause Derek and I have a 70 mile trip between us, and only see eachother one day a week + weekends. Sometimes things get in the way during the week or on weekends, but it's ok, we both understand. One thing you didn't say is how long this has been going on. If it's been a month or 2, there are 1001 things that could be going on. She might not trust that it is going to last, she might not really be ready for it to last. Maybe you need to back off on the bending over backwards for her. From what I read in another thread you maybe give to much and end up getting walked all over. Trust me there is definately a point when you can give to much, you can chase to hard, it actually ends up driving a woman away even if she does/did like you. Maybe you should do the same thing skystorm needs to do. Don't be in a relationship, give yourself time to be happy alone, to totally heal from your divorce/custody issue that was/is a major trauma in your life. Go out, get some new hobbies like indoor rock climbing that can be done all year round and to kill time during the week, meet some new people, read some good books. When you wake up in the morning and could careless whether you have someone else in your life, then you are ready to have someone in your life. Just becareful and stay away from the emotionally injured ones, cuase they aren't ready for you to be in their lives.

I'm looking at about $80 oneway, well that is going with an estimate of $20 per tank, don't know how much gas is heading that way, so it could be alot less. Still much cheaper than a plane ticket and stuff.

18.5 actually per mapquest. That is with an average speed of ~60 mph. If we go in the RV the only stops we will make is for gas since none of us smoke and the potty is on board. Even if only Derek and I drive the mustang, I'm almost positive we will get there faster *evilgrin*, and same rules will apply only stops are for gas. Also I know they must take the slowest time possible cause it says Houston to Fargo ND 1300 miles 24 hrs. I by myself with taking a nap did it in 20 hrs, this includes having to take 2 lane roads threw Kansas. So Eloy 1100 miles will definitely take less the 18 hrs if it is all interstate. Anyway I was thinking more along the lines of 16 hrs, that is by car anyway, not sure about travel time with an RV.

woo hoo...the one good thing about living in HOT HUMID houston on a no wind day. Which is fine for me, but poor old wuffo slappie *duck* better go with the bigger canopy....Lisa, you got a 210 in that arsenal of canopies? ok anyway Hooknswoop and myself are going, TequilaGirl is going as of a week ago . She will probably fly, but I'm pretty sure Derek and I will be riding with rgoper. If that doesn't work out we will also drive so I can bring the tent and stuff. Ok I'm going to run and hide before Slappie hunts me down and kills me.