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if you get it on her dress and she freezes is for a couple of years thats gotta count... right?

go to symbiosis suits - they are without a doubt the best RW suits on the market. They have a very cool designer too and come in at about £130 basic with loads of options. Try their lopo which is designed for fast falling or if you really want to motor their excel (but this is more expensive). Ask people in your DZ shop - they will be able to tell you which your body size would be most suited to. In my opinion you are prob best going with the lopo - the excel is really for serious comp jumpers. clickety http://www.symbiosis.suits.btinternet.co.uk/

is this one of those down loads that I realy ought to wait till i get home to view?? some of the stuf that gets posted on here is gonna get me fired.

go click her web link in her profile - shes pretty hot too

Looks like we have another hottie joining the forums. Check out Alana's cute smile on her web link. Speedy recovery to the elbow Alana and welcome to the forums.

If you've only a couple of jumps your probably on a canpy that is vertually impossible to land gracefully. (an old crappy F-111). As you progress you will get to jump nicer canopies that are easier to land. Out of my early student jumps I think I only stood about 2 up untill I got onto ZP - then I was fine. Cannopies are a lot like cars. When your a student they give you a milk float to jump. It doesnt fly great and you certantly dont look too cool in it, but then you're gonna find it hard to kill yourself - (how dificult would it be to kill yourself in a milk float? - you could right, but you'd have to do something dumb ass.) The point is your on a crappy cannopy now cos you will find it hard to kill youself on it. Some of the features which make it difficult to kill yourself on it also make it difficult to land gracefully. When you start jumping nicer canopies the landings will become instantly a lot easier. Dont worry about your landings too much too soon - it may not all be down to you.

goddamnit you guys - im surfing at work... im so gonna get the sack now.... a little warning next time. Then I can surf at home

did you tell em?

I must spend more time on here than I do actually working.... shhh - here comes my boss...

Crap, he'll be suggesting a crusade to free the holy land from the yolk of the infadel's oppression next... oh wait............!?

It would be very difficult for this outcome to be replicated in the UK. You have to prove that the raper "knew" that the victim says no. Thats actual knowledge not presumed. There are unfortunate cases where the guy honestly believes the woman is consenting even though its obvious to everyone else that she is not. Thats where the jury comes in and has to try to figure out exactly what he actuall thought. If the jury thinks it was so damn obvious that he should have known she was not consenting, that doesnt meen he's guilty - it just means that they are more likely not to believe that he honestly thought she was consenting. As for revoking permission, thats fine. If a woman says stop, you have to stop. Theres a nice case on the point where a man accidentally drives onto a parking warden's foot (accident so no crime). The parking warden (meter-maid in Amerenglish I think) obviously starts screeming at him to move. At this point the guy thinks "god I hate parking wardens" and doesnt move. At that point it becomes a crime. Point is that a legal act can become an illegal one if you are asked to stop and dont. PS, I wouldnt have moved either, but I would stop if told to.

The guy has the worlds BEST moustache and mullit combo too!

sliced my hand open trying to push the roler door up a little further. Didnt appear to be a big cut but freefall must have made it bleed a lot cos there was blood everywhere on landing. Damnit I still have spots of it on my break toggles and slider...

Thanks. Dont see much point in any major mods on the container. Maybe just have to put up with it till i get a custom build

Now I REALY like the look of those. They were in the mag a couple of months ago and I looked into buying one. When I asked about them though, I was told that they weren't actually as impressive as they look. I'm also wondering about the fact that there's only one finger hole - what happens if your under a fast mal and your trying to mess about with a knife that spins round your finger? Has anyone seen these/got one? I still might buy one as a second knife if peoples impression of them has been good.

Just wondering if anyone has ever changed the colours (colors) on their container. My Javelin has some crappy sky blue panels that simply don’t match my colour scheme, (tragic I know). I was considering the possibility of simply dying/painting the panel's red with some fabric dye/paint as my rigger has told me it would be uneconomic to replace the panels. A custom rig is my long-term solution, but currently out of my price range. This would be a short-term thing and I'm not too concerned about any impact on re-sale value. I am aware of the danger of having any dye/paint seep through onto the reserve so was not going to be touching the pop-top unless someone suggests a way round the problem. Anyone have any experience of having done this, or similar before or know any methods I could use to achieve the desired effect? Cheers.

not quite - thats a pull up cord. A pull up tool (eg pack boy) is a length of cord with a cylindrical metal handle that does exactly the same job as a pull up cord. When not in use the cord goes round the neck and then connects with the other end of the handle to form a kinda necklace.

your gonna stab yourself with that tosca - A hook knife of some sort will be much more use in cutting lines anyway as it guides the lines over the blade; with a free blade you have to worry about that yourself when you perhaps ought to be worrying about how your gonna land the heap o' shit your under.

those are sweet pants, but I've just ordered a pair from kurupee. Hope they look as good as yours. From discussion on here elsewhere they sound good and are hard-wearing, and they're only costing $160 !! Hope I dont get the same probs with delivery as there appears to be with firefly suits at the moment. Thanks everyone

I wear mine 24/7. Also a member of a fairly big University skydiving club and we arrange anual trips out to the US to get a group of students through AFF. We award a pin to every student on completion of the course. They treasure thiers and think of it as a symbol of thier success and entry into the sport.

I test jumped my reserve (paltry PD176) loading it to about 1.2. Flew beutifully and basically the same as my main although didnt flinch at the 3 twists I had on opening. Even managed a surfed landing. My point is not that this is an experiance of a high wing loading, but that you can test jump most reserves. At perris Square One let you borrow any reserve they have and hook it up as a main to jump - see if you can have a go on yours. If your gonna end up on your reserve, your likely to be in a bit of shit - or at least shaken up a bit - so it would be nice to have had experiance of how it flys, especially if your gonna be loading it highly.

yup mandatory in the UK - nuf said edit: Try square one at perris - they sell a very nice metal one (same size as the $6 one you've seen), but it aint gonna break. Cost me $20 plus $6 for larry, the rigger there (excellent guy - very competant) to pop stud it to my mud flap.

A realy nice linked exit you can do that will be great practice for launching a 4-way is for one of you to float and the other to dive in a linked exit. If the floater hangs on to plane on whatever outside grips there are on the plane. The diver squats inside and takes upper arm grips on the floater. Make sure the divers arms are inside the floaters when they take the grips. The diver should be looking at the floaters face to get the key (eye contact is all in RW). Floater can key the exit with his leg or a shake/nod whatever. On exit the diver should just present his body to the wind and drop off with legs fairly striaght, taking hold of the divers grips as he does so. The diver should do a standard dive exit, again presenting to the wind, with his feet up his arse so the formation doesnt "flip" on the hill. This should level out real quick and give you plenty of working time. Its also great for practicing exits as its basically a scalled down version of how to best lauch a stable 4-way. If you cant get this exit right you are just gonna funnle a 4-way, so practice. Keep switching exit positions so you get to practice both as when it comes to 4-way your position may be determined by your weight relative to the other jumpers. This advice comes from someone who has just been doing a lot of RW practice at your kinda level and has worked really well for me.

thanks a lot, a new pair of krupee pants are on their way to me. That comet chaser design is gonna look sweet in red and black and will match the flame artwork on my helmet. Cheers