The111

You bastard. I was thinking of using that song in a video sometime. Now, I will point out what only a true Tool fan would have noticed - that you cut that song in at least 2 separate places. But I will let it slide since otherwise you wouldn't have been able to include the best part, the ending.

No way man, I was serious. The format war is ON. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Just like Picture Always Lacks color...... Be safe Ed Oh for fuck's sake, Ford vs Chevy, BM vs PF... The wingsuit war wasn't enough so now we have the video format war?! (it's pretty pointless btw since anything American is obviously superior in all aspects) www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Well obviously with 19 jumps you know not to jump a camera yet, etc etc, obligatory warning. So the answer to your question... the Bonehead TRV 19/22/23 box works for the HC90. I topmounted mine because I don't like how wide it is, but I know a few people that say they've sidemounted it without any problems. See attached pics.

Not mine... found that out when I received your Herc Boogie DVD. It worked fine on my PC though. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I thought you were going to be too busy freeflying to care about wingsuits? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

The HC90, if you have the funds. I love mine. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I think (Scary) Perry shoots skydiving footage with his HDV camera (HDV is NOT HD btw. Although everyone is calling it HD everywhere..it's 2 really different formats) Maybe Perry can post some stills somewhere online.. My Keys Boogie video (another shameless self promotion ) is a 50/50 mix of my footage (HC90) and Perry's (HC1). It's compressed, obviously, for the internet, but you can still tell how nice it looks. For reference, any scene with a blue and white wingsuit in it is footage from the HC1 (i.e. if I'm in frame it's not my footage). Any footage with the bright yellow suit/helmet guy (Perry) in it is from the HC90. Also, the beach swoops (both of them) are Perry's (I don't swoop). The footage definitely looks nice, but when I watch it on a normal screen I honestly can't see a huge difference between mine and his. The HC90 shoots pretty crisp footage though, IMO. I haven't seen any problems with the HC1 footage, except when Perry leaves his autofocus on. Another wingsuit flyer at Zhills, Scotty Burns, uses an HC1, and if you check out some of Omar's more recent videos (the acrobatic review, for one), Scotty's footage will be in there, though it may be hard to tell which footage is which if there were 3-4 cameras mixed throughout the whole video. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

You are right Perry. I think too far ahead sometimes, and it is probably best to allow this sport to develop at a natural safe pace, rather than to rush it. Stickball is still fun. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Gimp is awesome, although I am very inexperienced with photo editing (i.e. I only do basic stuff) I could do everything in Gimp I could do in Photoshop, and from reviews I've read that's true even for advanced users. You can download it for free and it's only 10MB!!! Guess I'm another part of the marketing team... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Because again, those are the MINIMUM requirements, and are stated as such. When you approach a good instructor asking to fly, he will get more information from you about your skills and comfort level. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Very true... I will have 12 hours before I hit 550 jumps. To the other poster - 200 jumps is a MINIMUM. Every wingsuit student is still expected to exercise intelligence, caution, and good judgment getting into the sport, and if you have 200 hop n' pops and can't even track without going unstable, then you obviously are not ready for a wingsuit yet, and you know it. EDIT: (the "you" in the sentence above is a generic you, not directed at the poster) www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Hey, and one more thing. Speaking of all that free video - I'll be videoing all the wingsuit jumps I can, and making a short edited video after the event, of all the flocking fun. See my latest VIDEO from the Keys Boogie for a taste (minus all the beautiful green water, of course). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

You lost me there. Haha, there is something horribly wrong with that picture. What on earth is Scott wearing?! Never seen him outside of a wingsuit. Nor have most seen me outside of one. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Yup, that's me. Good ol' reliable F111. They even make reserve parachutes out of me.

I'm not sure if the "skill required" vs. "performance" curve is the same as with modern canopies, necessarily (though in many cases it probably is). For example, it would be possible to design a wingsuit that is very difficult to fly (i.e. requires a lot of skill to keep it stable) but also offers poor performance. I think in time suits may, in general, perform better and be easier to fly. But the advanced stuff will always take more skill to fly than the beginner stuff, within the same generation of suit design. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

This is the one from airgun? Looks nice! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Thoughts on competition. The weight classes are a decent idea, but I have some comments that hopefully aren't too critical. First, what exactly is the type of competition? Nothing was said about that. I'm assuming, based on the weight class comment, that it will be either time, distance, or some combination thereof. Now, as guilty as I am of chasing numbers sometimes , I do not think this is the best way to go about shaping the evolution of wingsuit competition. Competition, in any discipline, is what makes it grow and brings in new people. I think that if we take wingsuit competitions (unarguably a new frontier) into the direction of number chasing, we will approach something akin to speed skydiving, that does not gain a mass interest, and honestly isn't that fun. (no offense, speed skydivers - I'm actually interested in it) The time/distance idea is not a wholly bad one, but cannot be the only mode of competition if we wish to further our sport. There simply has to be a more compelling (especially in the eyes of a non-flocker) mode of competition. What that is, I'm not sure. This is where we need to start throwing ideas out there. As I said, we're at a new frontier, and we shape the way this sport goes. I for one want to see it get bigger, the way that freeflying did, so I can go to any DZ in my country, and count on running into some local talent and having some fun flying partners. So again, let's throw out the ideas. The only two I can think of are spinoffs of current competitive modes in FS and FF: sequential and artistic competitions. - Sequential 2, 3, or 4-way dives. The judging of a successful sequence would be an issue to overcome, since it is not possible with current flying skills (or ever, arguably) to quickly make, break, and re-make multi-person docks in a wingsuit. - 2-way acrobatic routines with outside camerawork being included in the "artistic judging". These could also have compulsory sequential maneuvers: barrel rolls, backflying, etc. I am more interested in the 2nd option, and think it has a more viable future, both for us, and for bringing the sport to the masses. In my opinion one reason FF is so much more appealing to the young crowd (over FS) is because of the variety of artistic moves, and the beauty it provides to the spectator (vs FS). Again, I'm guilty with my two ideas above of simply copying current competition modes from other parts of skydiving. But there have got to be even more options out there that I am overlooking. Some creative mind out there can come up with something cool. I was told once quite some time ago, a somewhat "secretive" competition idea about using GPS/HUD to make flyers fly a pre-programmed trajectory through the sky, judging how quick they are able to make speed and direction maneuvers. Not sure what the status of this is, nor can I say more - but it's an example of a novel idea. So, people, THROW SOME IDEAS OUT THERE. If we do try to do something that has never been done (a 2-way acrobatic competition for example) it will for sure be a little rough around the edges. We may not be sure exactly how to go about things, or how to decide who gets first place. But that's the burden of pioneering. We have to start somewhere, and a "giant fucking wingsuit boogie in Russia" sounds like as good a place as any, to me. Thoughts?

I've honestly never heard of any of those brands and couldn't really care less who else does or doesn't care less about them. I carry my stuff around in a plastic Wal-Mart bag. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

What about twobody? Has he ever seen a wingsuit before? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Haha, great advice. Now go steal some money from your friends. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It's just a fun little gimmick, it will always require two pictures, and forcibly (or naturally) crossing your eyes. Another downside is the pictures can't be very large (since you can't cross your eyes very far). But you have to admit it's kind of neat when you get it in focus. Except for the headache... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

There was a guy in the Keys with two HC-1's (you read that right) on his head. I think the idea was mounting at the right angles to get some sort of 3-D type final product. Not sure of the specifics. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Hey Chuck.

I don't know how high I pulled, I just waited for my Dytter to go off. www.WingsuitPhotos.com