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Dude.. they won't accept it.. instead of going into the list of funniest videos it will end up on real tv, and they'll come up with some story that this was a super dangerous maneuver that could have ended in catastrophe..

dude... check this one out.. WebSuDoKu

There's a guy at our dz that started off having the same problems as you do, he's fairly tall and skinny, maybe weighs 140 pounds. At first, nobody could stay with him in a sit (too slow), he fixed his body position and there have been times were I had to go into a stand when we were jumping together.. now he flies very comfortable in the low to mid 150s in a sit. I'm about 6'2, 205 pounds.. so not a small guy at all...

Witness number 2 checking in. Both Deuce and myself had the honor to be witnesses of this small, but beautiful ceremony. The Rack(tm) has officially stepped away from carrying the title, and The Rack(tm) v.2.0 was very, very honored to take on this new and exciting venture. She will carry the title with pride, Deuce and myself can guarantee you this. Iwan

http://www.kryptonitestudios.com/ipod/ NSFW!! Happy Thursday

NorCal.. represent.. my car will be full already but these people are looking for a ride from Dublin / Pleasanton to Byron tomorrow afternoon...

Hey, don't you tell us what to do! You're not the boss of us. Blues, Dave Yes I am. Well yes.. you ARE telling us what to do.. but NO you are not the boss of us..

The stingers are usually on the outside, docking on the belly formation somewhere flying either head up, or head down..

Aaahh... I just put one and one together.. Dave is not sick.. he's setting up his camera helmet That outside video slot.. it's already taken care of, there is no way out of it anymore.

and I think I see mr McGowan shooting photos from the other side!

Vinny, you are a true friend.. I was going to handle this through a PM requesting you make sure you stand behind tallguy in pictures, so you dont block him, but you were already thinking ahead.. Can't wait to party with you again JACKASS

I knew he was sick Anyhoo.. get your ass better Dave, cause you ain't bringing those germs to B-town!

I'm going to stop responding to all these.. it's either my language skills (with english being my second language) or people only read what they want to read, and skip through the rest. Next season I'm competing in the CPC, in all competitions and not just one, on my Sabre2, cause I have no issue competing against crossbraced pocketrockets. All I was saying is have a class for people that dont fly crossbraced yet.. like I said earlier, the way Nationals is set up for 4 way for example. You can say just go ahead and go compete in 4 way open with your rookie team with an average of 6 points, who cares if you end up last cause there's no way you can beat Airspeed right now anyways.. It will not be motivating for a lot of people, that's why I mentioned the stock class. Same goes for AggieDave's idea, I think it is an awesome idea.. the only issue I see here is that a lot of people that are currently flying velos, VXs and all that are super-uncurrent on those stock class canopies probably (of course with some exceptions.. I know Skymonkeyone flies his Sabre2 a lot.. ) Over and out Iwan

I'll make sure to put the flash on and blind you I might take your picture if you're nice to me.. ha ha!! See you Thursday chopchop!

Mark, what I was referring to was a class for people that are currently flying regular 9 cells, people that are not ready for X-braced, not necessarily "downgrading" all the Velo pilots to regular 9 cells and have them compete.. I think that would be a recipe for disaster, you don't want to compete on a canopy you haven't jumped in a 1,2,3 or 5000 jumps.. Think of it in a way like Nationals for 4 way, there would be the Open (the Pros), Advanced (amateurs on X braced), and Intermediate (9 cell class) This way people can start competing flying their Sabre2s, Pilots, Safire2s, Stilettos and Katanas and move up in the ranks as the experience grows. It would definately be something that would bring the "younger swoopers" on board in the competitions earlier. The minimum for CPC is 500 jumps, I think that is a very reasonable minimum, but someone with 500 jumps can be extremely intimidated by the distances and speeds set by the Velo pilots (which someone with 500 jumps has no business on) Just an idea Iwan

Manual focus, set to infinity.. Autofocus doesnt make for very good results with video cameras.

We'll all wear our dropzone.com t-shirts

I agree with you, and that's what I mentioned earlier, I did alright (not good.. but alright) when I competed against the crossbraced canopies here on my Sabre2-135 in CPC competion #1 in NorCal. The idea for a regular 9 cell canopy competition is to put a podium place well within reach for the people on 9 cell canopies. A lot of people asked me why I was competing, cause "the guys with the velos will win anyways" and my answer to that was I just want to find out how well I am doing, for myself.. as a learning experience. Putting a 1st place more within reach because everybody is flying similar canopies to yours will motivate more people to compete.

Andy, After some browsing I found this and I think it has all the answers to your questions Have fun, and be safe out there.. Iwan

Hmm.. someone have a camera jacket I can borrow? I'll jump "bottomless" but I'll need the cheater wings to stay with the formation probably.. ha ha..

Maybe after a beer or tw... enty-two.. You really dont want to hear me sing.. really..

"if you don't know me by now, you will never never never know me ..." Oops, sorry, just practicing for karaoke. Carry on, folks. You ARE kidding us here aren't you? Don't sing that song.. PULEEEAAASE???

You should know me by now..

Yep thinking about it.. I might even be flying video at night.. I have an extra IR light that I can put on the camera.. so it should be interesting to find out if that works..

Can we talk about the boogie some more? Who's planning on doing night jumps?