JeffGordon

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  1. Dude... C'mon.. We won't tell anybody..
  2. Could be kinda inconvenient if one of your packers needs an extra 45 bucks one weekend
  3. Had a tandem passenger this weekend who was a skydiver back in the day. He had around 200 jumps on rounds and now is in his 80's and blind in one eye. It was a great feeling to give him back the sky for a few minutes. He wanted to open high so we opened a 7k and showed him what you can do with a semi elliptical tandem.
  4. kinda ironic when you consider the literal translation of his last name.
  5. 28 may not be out of reach. See this
  6. Try an Astra. The switch is on the shoulder strap. THe advantages are: Other jumpers can see it's turned on in case my dumb ass forgets. You can turn it off under canopy.
  7. Good point. I always tell my students ARCH, ASS, REACH, PULL. We practice this by; ARCH -- Student in arch (on the ground) ASS -- Student places right hand on butt, left hand above head. REACH -- Student slides hand from butt up right side. Her hand will cross the ripcord handle. PULL -- Student pulls the ripcord handle when her hand touches it.
  8. Be aware that some DZs will not allow a person of limited experience jump without an AAD.
  9. Corn don't look that high from 300 feet does it?
  10. No. And this just pisses me off. I've been a tandem instructor for months now and I have not gotten laid once. The closest I've come is this past weekend when I had a very drunk passenger following me around, offering to carry my gear and telling me he was my bitch. I thought tandem instructors were supposed to get all the women.
  11. This sucks. Good vibes, Heal quick
  12. Being a rank amateur in this sport, yes mostly I just fall. But as with some of the more talented people I've seen there is no other word for it. It's flying.
  13. I've done the same thing. I went for a long time without logging anything, and when I wanted to get my tandem rating, I had to go back to the manifest computer and copy all that shit by hand into my logbook. It took forever, and none of the jumps I did out of town during that period will ever be logged. (around 40 or so)
  14. A friend of mine from Walterboro (Andrew Dontknowhis lastname) will be there (the deaf world record attempt)
  15. It will also cover my ears and protect them from a riser strike.
  16. I am a new tandem instructor (80 jumps) and a couple of weekends ago, we had a guy with 80 jumps who brought in 4 first time jumpers. He wanted to go with each of them. I talked to the videographer and we agreed he could jump with us but to keep him from above me he would leave on "set". So the count on exit was "Ready, Set,......... Arch" No Problem.
  17. Prayers for Lew and Cajones Lew, Heal quick, Enjoy the good drugs.
  18. If you don't have dive loops, it is easier to grab the risers on the inside with the thumbs pointing forward. I guess this would push out the risers, but it is incidental