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I disagree to a certain degree, Jim. Obviously skydiving will never be "safe" but I've been on 5-10 way tracking dives and felt safe enough. I've also gone on 4-6 way freefly dives and felt safe. I've been on 2-way sitfly dives and felt unsafe. It really depends on who youre jumping with. Just use common sense. Its probably not a coincidence that the dives I felt "safe" on were the ones where we had a clear plan and everyone stuck to that plan. Skydiving only starts to get scary when people start doing unexpected things. Plan the dive, dive the plan. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

its only bad if its not closely followed by a pound of sausage! --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

Yeah it sure did take a lot of bleach to cover my body. Here's a couple more pics. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

you got me, I'm actually a bleach blond sky chick. edit - youre in constant motion in a midswoop too right? Right? Hehe... --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

grab your rig, unpack your main parachute, disconnect the slider, dbag, bridle, and PC and climb to the roof of your apartment building and jump off unpacked stylee!!!! --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

You gotta go with your comfort level. I was lucky enough to have freefliers at my DZ with thousands of jump experience that were willing to help out low jump number skydivers. Their tracking dives were very safe. The rule was if you got left too far behind to not pull below 4.5k. This allowed good vertical seperation if for some reason you got lost. But yeah, you gotta go with your comfort level, good point dagny. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[QUOTE]Either way, as long as she gets some airtime once every 30 days, she can still maintain currency, and work towards her license.[/QUOTE] This in my opinion is a very very bad idea. Especially for someone with not that many jumps. I know the "rules" are set that if you make one jump in a month you dont have to go through formal currency training but its extremely stupid to push the edge of that. If all you can make is one skydive a month is it really worth it to you to risk so much? Why don't you take a break until you can skydive currently and safely. Like they said, it's just like riding a bike at 120mph... --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

would it affect your decision if you knew the reserve was overloaded but you thought that the customer could handle the WLing from prior experiences? --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[QUOTE]Actually... don't go. To be honest, I'd rather not see anyone with 25 jumps doing any kind of specialty dives[/QUOTE] Thats a ridiculous comment. You should be ashamed of giving a newbie discouraging advice. A tracking dive is like any other skydive. If its planned very carefully and executed with care it is a very safe dive. True, it might take more planning than a 2 or 3 way RW dive but that doesn't mean that someone with 25 jumps shouldnt be able to track with others. In fact, at 25 jumps I think it is vital for him to track with others to start immediately working on a flat/fast track. Tracking with more experienced people will force you to push yourself to keep up. Like I said in my original post its a great chance to learn something. Just make sure whoever is organizing it is aware of your experience level and you are comfortable with thier experience level. Have fun skydiving.

[QUOTE]but I do not think it was the "limit". [/QUOTE] OK, if that feat is not the max, tell me, what is? We're not talking theory here, dude. We're not saying what could be done now with wingsuit technology where it is. We're saying a man flew down a mountain slope maybe 7 meters off of smearing himself across the whole side of it. That sounds like the max to me in wingsuit flying. If it's not I urge whoever can beat it to post the video. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

check out The Skydiving Place. It's right near Fort Bragg. It's an awesome dropzone, with some military guys out there, plus a bunch of non military jumpers. They can probably work out a faster progression for you since you've already made some static line parachute jumps. Blue Skies! --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[QUOTE]My next two jumps that day I tucked in my boosters and had great jumps.[/QUOTE] I noticed you had freeflying under your main discipline. In that case you could probably go either two ways. Forget the booties and just keep learning basic RW skills until youre proficient enough to step up to the demands of freeflying. Or, and this is what I would do, learn to fly the booties. Fly the hell out of them. Theyre a great tool for RW. Ask around some of the experienced freefliers and see if they want to do a tracking dive. You'll learn tons by going on tracking dives and will help your transition into freeflying. Look at the booties as a challenge. If you can't overcome such a simple challenge as learning to fly with booties now then how are you going to start working on your sitfly later? The great thing about skydiving is that it presents one challenge after another to you. Accept the challenges and grow as a skydiver. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

booties? Did you try some toe taps to get a little leg awareness? About the headdown on deployment thing just think about it. You have to fly every part of your body. If you're going headdown you're probably extending your legs out too much. You probably dont notice this because you're compensating with your arms foward in regular freefall, but as soon as you go back for the pull you start tipping headdown. If you find yourself doing this there's two thing you can do. One, bring your feet up a little on your ass. Two, if youre not at pull time you can catch a little more air by extending your arms out in front of you more. Obviously you can't do this with both arms when you're pulling but you'll see lots of people compensating with one arm in front of their forehead while they reach back with their other arm to pull. It's all about maintaining stability with the air column youre flying in. It's great to fly naturally while you're in the air and not think about it too hard but it's also very good once you're down to review the dive and try to figure out the physics of what happened. Once you start analyzing your dives in this way you'll really start to gain a lot more from each skydive and will start to fly in a way you did not know you could. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

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the one that you connect with on a level that surpasses merely the physical.

sitflying is fun! --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

it ain't a healthy delay unless you're having to steer your sniveling canopy through and around trees. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

to go as hard as I can at whatever I am doing until I die. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

what about stitching a different color peice of ZP onto the bottom skin in between attachment points? --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

definitely! Maybe I didn't make myself as clear as I wanted but I am not asking for a video so I can teach myself how to pack a BASE rig. I just wanted it to supplement my learning. I want to learn it and feel very comfortable with it before I take my pack job over the edge. I just don't want to spend 40 dollars on a video I'll watch a couple times then never again. I figured there were other people like me that's why I offered up the idea to get these videos in circulation a little. No biggie! I'd probably buy a packing video if any of them were up to date. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

I was wondering if anyone had any BASE packing videos they didn't need anymore that they'd be willing to ship to me for a supplement (obviously) to being shown how to pack a BASE rig by an experienced person. I find I'm not too unusual in that the more sources of information I tap the better I understand something like BASE packing. I don't know how well this will work but after I view the video I'd be more than happy to send it to someone else (granted they are getting instruction from an experienced BASE jumper as their first and foremost source of information). If you have a BASE packing video that you'd be willing to part with or even dub you could email me at: andy@nc.rr.com See Ya!

with 120 skydives on regular risers and 1 skydive on triple risers I can safely say I hate the triple risers. Maybe they have to grow on you, but they sucked for me. *edit - obviously take my comment for what it is, just a simple offhand comment about my very small experience with triple risers. if you dont like them you can always just switch them out with some regular risers. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

[QUOTE]I was taught not to try anything drastic below your hard deck.[/QUOTE] Good advice you learned! But we do fuck up occasionally. --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

just think about your aviator helmet coming soon to a doorstep near you! --------------------------------------------- let my inspiration flow, in token rhyme suggesting rhythm...

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