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Well you see I'm tiny, and with a small yoke it doesn't matter how loose my chest strap is the darn slider slides right back up my risers. So it's a great fix for the problem.

Yeah but that is for Quincy, I'm sure Rantoul will be a little different.

My rigger makes the strap with the velcro loop for rigs for just a few bucks. Plus you don't have to have anything sewn to your jumpsuit and can remove it completely if you needed to. Also it is always there no matter what you are wearing.

Ummm....97 Mustang GT......I'd like to think that makes me a chick who can kick ass,

Ummm....97 Mustang GT......I'd like to think that makes me a chick who can kick ass,

come on down scott....we have no problem tossing you back and forth between us in the sky

come on down scott....we have no problem tossing you back and forth between us in the sky

Hell girl I have a 97 also that he can jump....it doesn't matter we just have to get him under one.

Hell girl I have a 97 also that he can jump....it doesn't matter we just have to get him under one.

hey slap-ass are you coming to Dallas this weekend or pussing?

hey slap-ass are you coming to Dallas this weekend or pussing?

Server is back up now.

Server is back up now.

So slap-ass are you coming to Dallas or not????

Exactly....If you are organizing a dive with a newbie, plan one that will succed, yes shit still does happen, but there is a lot I can do to make sure it doesn't happen. Like planning an exit that I can muscle out if I have to. Keeping things simple like side bodies or open accordians where they never have to take their eyes off mine. Even if they can see me doesn't mean they can stay with me, but for some reason as long as they see my eyes we are golden. Some newbies are scared to dock, scared that they will hurt me. Guess what, I can take a hit, and it takes a HUGE hit to hurt me. Someone told me this trick once about docking, both of you get on creepers, and have the other person drive at you and dock on you. When he/she hits both of you end up moving, I had a big guy scared to hurt me and we did this he was quite surprised. I also make sure to stress that if all we turn is 1 point, that is one more point than they had before. This is also why I throw in formations that I can make sure the dock happens, it boosts their confidence, and if they are confident with their flying, that will make them relax that much more on the next jump. Which in turn will help them learn faster.

Ok little missy if you say so

I think in the bunkrooms or tenting it depending on what the weather channel says for coldness at night, since Derek has to be at the 20-way stuff at like 7:30am.

Hey if Susan also makes it up we can have a 4way mirage chickway. FF or belly doesn't matter (cyndi don't back slide).

hey I think that is Clay's kid

oh oh oh....we can have a mirage way!!!!

Well my first crossfire was one of those "anomilies", it didn't occasionally have a problem, every time you pulled the front riser down the nose folded under. My rigger decided to take measurements of the ribs and such, and on the ribs that should have been the same length (airfoil thickness) they were anywhere from 1/2 inch to 1 inch off on a rib that was only 6 inches (or 7 inches depending on which measurement was right) long to begin with that is a big difference. He took some other measurements that had to do with the nose, but those really stick in my head. This was definately a quality control issue on that canopy. Icarus was great to me though, I told them where they could stick their line trim mod and 10 weeks later I had a new crossfire on my doorstep. This one is perfect the ribs that should be the same length are and she is very solid in front riser turns, Derek (hooknswoop) put it threw it's paces several times in no winds and in bumpy high winds, and she few beautifully. From what I can tell the tolerances on the canopy were/are extremely tight, so if quality control lapsed, you had a problem. This could have happened at any of the manufacturing plants, it just seems that the US one had the most. Stuff like that can happen on any canopy by any manufacturer, and sometimes the skydiving gods just say nope I don't like the color of that canopy and *poof* it just has issues.

we can even make hooknswoop organize...he is good at that kind of thing.

you work for what??? tits and tits alone??

so are you coming up or not....I forgot that msdeva and I think freeflygoat will also be there

When I jump with newbies, especially ones in the 20 jump range, I try to make sure the docks are ones where it is easy for them to keep eye contact and where they don't have to do head switches. Rounds, open accordians, side bodies depending on who is on the dive. Here is a dive Tequila Girl and I will do to take a newbie out. So far it has always worked and the newbie who has more than once said that is the first exit that has worked is more confident and on the next dives more relaxed and will to do more. (I had over 200 jumps, Cyndi over 100, the 3rd person 25 jumps) Exit a closed accordian, I was in the middle head jamming and controling everyone the next strongest flier in this case cyndi was point who had to make sure to jump up and present and the newbie was tail all she had to do was dive out. Exit everytime has come off perfect. From there a round, I did a 180 and they just flew together and I closed the round. Then an open accordian on the newbie, to side-bodies the newbie side bodied on me, cyndi side-bodied on her, then back to the round (repeat). It was very simple and someone always had control of the newbie...also the newbie was the base.