The111

The most important piece of info isn't available from the photos. Whether you leave your wings open or closed, whether your bridle is 5ft or 10ft... you can easily create this situation by placing your PC on your ass and letting go. A good throw is the most important thing, and the pictures here don't tell the story of how he released the PC. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

1. work on deployment sequence 2. add mega snag hazard to your foot IN THAT ORDER www.WingsuitPhotos.com

In a folder with the date and place they were taken. Backed up on: 4x 1TB HDD's. All identical mirrors. Stored in ESD pelican cases. Two stored on-site, two stored off-site (overkill). Right now my entire archive (includes skydiving photos, videos, and lots of other photos and important personal data) is 700GB. Once I reach my 1TB capacity I'll have to buy some more disks, but really they're cheap. Only $100 for a WDC Caviar Black 1TB. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

LINK Though it's more "pretty pictures" than it is training material... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Awesome. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Wrong, I just searched for Sangi's first posts in the WS forum and he got polite responses to the first dozen or so easy answer questions he asked. The first one where he was unhappy with the responses was when he asked: "What will happen if you put a 100 jump wonder in a V3?" Which honestly is about like entering a handgun forum and asking: "What will happen if you give a 5-year old a loaded gun and send him to school?" I mean, WHO KNOWS? Nobody can predict the future. Maybe nothing will happen in either case, but the person asking either question obviously knows that it is a bad idea and against published recommendations. Both questions are silly, and both questions are disturbing because they make you worry about the thought process of somebody who would ask them. So when people POLITELY responded to Sangi asking how many jumps he had, and where he jumped so some locals could answer his questions in person, he got offended. If you get offended because people are honestly concerned for you, and honestly trying to help... that is your issue. Silly skygods... trying to offer good advice. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I hope this does not come as a surprise, but there is a gigantic overlap between all freefall disciplines. Be it vertical, flat, or glide... be it from a plane, building, or earth... all cases share one common denominator: a human being flying his body in a way that God/Allah/FSM never intended. I was with Tony on what I believe to be one of his first ever wingsuit flights in June of 2006. On the plane he looked at me and said "How do I go forward? How do I go up? How do I go down?" At the time, he was in a smallish suit he eventually called the Eagle, I believe. I thought to myself, "oh boy, this is going to be a fun jump." Well, what actually happened, was Tony left me IN THE DUST. I was wearing a Birdman S3, one of the top performing suits at the time, and I had about 400 wingsuit flights, I think. It turns out that somebody with 8000 skydives can fly a wingsuit even if he doesn't know it. I may have never stepped off of an object, but of course I can understand that yes, there is a difference between 1.5GR with legs bent and arms cupped, and 1.5GR with legs extended and arms swept. The difference is absolute speed and power (flare) available. I've been at 35mph fallrate for over 1 minute, and I've been at 220mph fallrate (faster than I know how to fall without a WS) for over 10 seconds. The bottom line here is that NEITHER of those 1.5GR positions can be accurately called "max performance." Both are compensating some degree of performance for some certain goal. Please don't mislead. Max performance sacrifices NOTHING. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Agreed. Have you done a camera jump, Ridestrong? I have done hundreds... but my very first one was one of my all-time stupidest skydives (recounted somewhere previously in this thread, I think). Cameras are huge distractions, plain and simple. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Photos online. CLICKY Double docked double rodeo! Congrats to the pilots and riders. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

He could go faster and more efficient at that angle by wearing a smaller wingsuit. You could also say that the flocker with bent legs in the other photo is at "max performance" as any other angle or speed would result in him not flying next to his partner (which was his entire goal in that skydive). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

The icing on the cake here is that you think somebody with his arms swept behind his back is at "max performance." www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Agreed... even though realistically I don't think slapping the container will harm anything, I always slap on the shoulder myself. It is also something you can actually feel (since you have nerves in your shoulder but not on your container). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Fair enough... I grasp.

Exactly. To those who don't like others touching your gear, I challenge you to find ONE documented example where a skydiver was injured/killed because he let another skydiver touch his rig on the plane. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

To play devil's advocate... my first camera jump was a solo wingsuit jump with a .3 lens on my video camera. I had about 400 jumps. However, back on the other side of the argument: on that same jump I chased a cloud too far (for pretty footage) and almost broke my ankle landing off near lots of tall trees with nasty wind shear. If you have a new camera setup that you intend to jump with people eventually, I do think it is a good idea to jump it solo first. But it is still a distraction, even then. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Here are those pics! http://www.matthoover.com/gallery/skydiving-photos/2006-12/ www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Your point is understood, but I'm not sure where you're going with it. What's the danger in a blind man having a lockpick set? Is it your position that lockpicks should be regulated more, or less, strictly than guns? To me the answer is obvious: less. Much less potential to do harm in the hands of the untrained. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Non-native English speaker yeyo for the win! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Agreed! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Mmmmm... German techno crackers. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

not in liberal land where crime isn't about your ACTIONS, just the property you might own I'm a liberal (if I have to pick a title), and I think lockpicks should be legal to own. For that matter, aren't liberals more likely to think drugs should be legal to own, compared to conservatives? I.e. punish the actions, not the ownership? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I'm from USA, I know everything, trust me. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Yeh I think I'd rather run out a landing barefoot than in wooden shoes. Unless it was on pavement maybe... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

But the real question: is the new suit blickable? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I'll have to demo one when I can... and get my SM111 converted if it's as awesome as you say. www.WingsuitPhotos.com