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Sorry brother...that isn't true. The main reason for exit order...Belly bigest to smallest, freefly biggest to smallest, Is the amount of time each spends in the uppers. The amount of drift each group will get, and how that will effect where we all open. It has absolutely nothing to do with how fast each group penetrates or slides down the hill. I think putting a new freeflyer out in the belly groups is a really, really bad idea. Now you have a situation where someone is spending a longer time in the uppers (corking alot) and probably flocking in some direction they can't really control...I vote they go to the back of the freeflyers.... All in favor! Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

Damn...you beat me to it!!! Vespas are lame! Oi! Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

Love does exist. The absolute need to be with someone forever. I got real lucky and found it...and I pity those that haven't found it. If you think sex is good, that is just because you have never had anything better. Sex with real head over heals love is the best rush, closeset to God experience you get to have...well the best i've found (and I tried all the ones I could find) Don't get me wrong, I'm not a proponent of marriage, I tell people to not get married all the time. If you aren't thrilled to death with everything about someone, don't get married just get laid! It's a hallow existence...but it's all you have without love. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

ROFL!!! That's right you qualify now LMFAO. POPS! Happy birthday Dude! PEACE! Jason Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

It was entertaining.... The message that a warrior elite ruling the peasents as a better model of government then the evil capitolist running the show was...silly. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

MX and my arm look really long! Here is an outside grab... Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

O.K. got permission to post it. By popular demand he is the vid. http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=4967 for explanation go here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2434396;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

No, you can't have too much compassion. I empathize with most patients more then most of my contemporaries...at least when we talk about it, this is the way it seems. I use my emotions a lot at work, so much so that when I tried zoloft to quit smoking I lasted 3 days because I couldn't function at work. Not from the lack of smoking but because I felt...dead. I pay attention to how peoples body language effects me and this tells me if they are about to hit me...or if they are about to code. What you have to learn to do is live with the pain you will feel...and you will feel it more acutely if you empathize deeply with your patients. It's alot harder to operate this way and it's not the kind of thing you can be taught. I have watched people self destruct on calls because they couldn't integrate what was happening with what they believed to be the way things should work. I choose to feel with my patients, this is not something you should do without recognizing the danger! You must have a way to let go! You also have to be able to turn it off and ACT when necessary. The time comes when you must turn your emotions off and deal with what is in front of you, grieve latter. Find someone to talk to about your feelings, preferably with someone who does what you do. The ones that really get to me, drive me to sit with a bottle and toast them, are rare...but it happens. The common response to drinking behind this kind of thing is that it's bad...and it can be if you are doing it to hide. For me it's part celebration of the life that was lost and part tool to lubricate the mouth. Obviously it's not the kind of thing you should do alone. I believe it's much more dangerous, for me anyway, to try not to feel. The ones you hide from are the ones that come back at 3am. You may sit on the edge of your bed and cry sometimes...but that's O.K. Learn to be comfortable with your emotions, explore them, hold them up to the light and integrate the way you feel into who you are with your eyes open...the rewards outweigh the liabilities. Good luck! Peace! Jason Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

Actually, he doesn't need to tone it down. Boomer is not a guy with an attitude. He realized he made a mistake and listed the choice he made about turn degree and the canopy he was on as mistakes. He was humble about what had happened and in all areas of skydiving I have found him receptive even eager for advice. Advice he gets from both top competitors and beer line swoopers at his home DZ. If you don't think, and I'm not saying it's happening here, that people talk just to talk on this forum...your not paying attention. One thing he didn't list...DON'T use an analog alti to set up and initiate your turn with. Strong work saving yourself from a painful mistake Boomer...I was running as soon as you initiated the turn.... Peace! Jason Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

Yes..........he is a HORRIBLE public speaker. I laugh at his speaches all the time. I could do better than that. However..........I think he is a good leader. He isn't afraid to make a decision. Critics be damned. Clinton was SO AFRAID to make a decision it cost MANY lives. Somalia.........cost us 18 American Soldiers. On ONE DAY! Why............Clinton insisted on being diplomatic. My friends were on the ground trying to call air support. Yep............the requests went ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE........and were denied. The blood of those 18 Rangers and Delta guys is on Clintons hands. From there it just got worse. After a "defeat" i SOmalia it emboldened the terrorists. After they attacked the World Trade Center, Two American Embassies, and a US Navy ship. Clinton did....................yes nothing. Or right next to it...........in fact he did worse. He made Americans look like pussies so the Muslim extemeists came after us harder. Now we are having to prove otherwise every day. reply] Defeat? How do you figure? 18 Americans vs. 5000+ Somalis...Talk about A-symetric force structure! You have like 180 dudes vs. a city and who comes out ahead? You think Specters would have made the situation better? Lets be honest here. The reason Somalia blew up was because we pulled the Marines out...who were doing a great job BTW. Who was it that was crying about nation building? Don't worry, extreamists don't hate you because of Clinton...they hate you because your not an extreamist...or mabey they don't hate you Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

Oh well be there...it's kinda hometown after all. I think it's cool to wear RW suits freeflying...I won't cry about you having grippers Every RW jump I make someone always has to point out how I'm not dressing for success. You can claim the no beer boogie clause! No beer offenses at a boogie! Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

I know baby can hang!!! I already posted it somewhere else....more will see it here...hear? Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

Amazon brianfry713 ebusto Elisha Feeblemind Fri. to Late Sat. Afternoon (Prior engagement that evening) fit4flying flygirl1 jacketsdb23 kelpdiver (next to the beer station) lovelife22 McBeth monkycndo NWFlyer (defintely maybe thinking about it) NunTiuX sebazz1 (don't put me to work! ) Shawndiver---> (peering out nervously from Lodi ivory tower) Smilie... will be a pack bitch on Friday at least, maybe Saturday too! vdschoor WeakMindedFool Here is som NMFlyer for those that haven't had the pleasure of arial close encounters! Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

My dropzone does bussiness with skyride and it doen't effect me at all. The bussiness is minor compared to the tandems they do. If it brings tandems that wouldn't normally show up fine. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

I was having the same problem...Tunnel time fixed it. I went to the tunnel to fix this very problem. When I was in a sit I found that my arms were back putting stress on my shoulders at the end (weakest part) of my range of motion. Now I sit using my back and legs more. I can dig my elbows in and roll my shoulders back and get more control this way. My elbows are at a 90 with the distal part of my arms up. The only time I have to bring them down is to take a dock...and that is mostly forward. I don't have it perfect yet but it's getting better and I can tell the difference in the amount of pain I don't have. Peace! Jason Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

Nobody Swooped the pond?!? But the pond is asking for it...they all ask for it! They all want it!!! Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

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LOL...didn't mean to scare you...I really wanted her to get rid of it though. It took her too long to chop it, but she had good reason and did everything right for her situation. Time is altitude! A diving spinning mal eats altitude something fierce and the sooner you get rid of it the more time you have to deal with your reserve and select a good place to land. I didn't stay for the bbq cause I had to get home for dinner...I'm sure I will see you out there cause I'm out there all the time Peace! Jason Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

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Glad to see you are OK! I watched your cutaway from the loading area. I was the one saying chop it! Over and over...and over. So that's why it took so long for you to cut away. As for the discussion of the collision, discussing incidents is the primary reason some of us lurk here. Learning what went wrong teaches us what to do right. You explained the situation to the best of your understanding and that is all we ask. Thank you again and I'm glad to read that you are ok...I understand you hit the only ditch in the neighborhood...strong work On student ststus I hit a van in a field...I win! Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

To add to ED's post. We had strong uppers at Lodi today and the staff that you just maligned made sure everyone knew to give EXTRA time between groups. Oh yeah...we had some extra sick freelying going on too, it is Lodi after all Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

Track away from the group. Once under canopy if you find youself flying down jump run turn away from it...alway keeping your head on a swivel for other canopies. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

AAhh...things are differen't. We do cross county lines and send ALS units out on strike teams as ALS units. This is not what I am saying! To carry meds is through your employers approval only. Yes they would be inventoried and no, I don't carry supplies with me because I have very little need. I am fortunate to jump in an area where EMS is close. One of the places has an aero medical helicopter at the same airport. If however I jumped where the fastest respose would be 30+ min...I would be prepared...with both equipment and medical control (were talking about a cell phone here!) and I would do it with the full approval of my agency, or I would make altenate arrangements through another provider, perhaps as a volunteer. Now outside of control, If I find myself in a situation where someone requires intervention and I have the equipment and the training to use it, I will every time. I would also report the situation to my employer and medical control. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

You misunderstand. I'm not trying to be difficult, rather I'm trying to exchange ideas with you kids from other areas in the country. I'm not slighting MD's and by the way, thanks for letting me know where protocols come from (ROFL). If you think being an er doc prepares you for field medicine, I have to disagree. The reason most MD's wont take over care in the field has nothing to do with "mutual respect" it's more of a liability thing. That's why the AMA distributes those cards that tell MD's to back off or assume all liability for the whole scene. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos

If you do carry drugs and use them without the ability to contact a base station you are diagnosing and prescribing, both functions allowed by a Physician only. What besides Narcan and Dextrose for unconscious unknown do protocols allow you to administer before contact? So if you send out a strike team your paramedic becomes an EMT-1. No your paramedic operates under the protocols of your county. As for drugs I can give...the ony drug I need to make contact for is Dopemine. I know down there in so cal you have extremely restrictive protocols. Not so in the rest of the country. We are on mostly automatic orders in nor cal. As for diagnosing and prescribing... semantics and you should know it! We assess and stabilize, let me give you a hypothetical: You have been in a car accident. You are entrapped and injured, who would you rather have come take care of you: a: An MD b: A Paramedic c: A copy of title 22 Now with all that time on the street I'll assume you have had the odd Physician show up on scene. With the best of intentions they generally haven't a clue what to do with themselves. It's out of their arena of training in most cases. You can always tell the ER MD's, they are the ones that won't assume patient care from you at gun point. Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos