airann

Funny you should mention this... I have been in the process of making a suit. I had black material laid out on the floor to make a pattern. I took my FF suit I have and laid it inside out over the black material and sprinkled it with white powder. When I took away my suit, I cut around where my FF suit was, (that would be the non white powdered areas) plus 1.5 inches aprox -allowing for margins of error and seams. Well, it worked. Another guy just went in the store and draped material all over himself and he made a corduroy suit. And about material..., its true. My friend told me that my unfinished suit is great, but he gives it 2000 feet before it blows all to hell. AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Canuck, good going- I like the way you think. Freefallguy is RIGHT ON, (this is a good thread). Here you go- instead of looking at old ass pictures of me for examples -check my friends in this one. It might be a better example of what we are talking about, regarding having your shoulders over your hips. They are about to -or have just done- a dock. Also- GEAR -in this example picture is -another issue. His flap is wide open. This can happen in freeflying easy. Understand that I sit with this one person at 170 to 200mph. That is seriously hauling ass. (This is a large person in a sit.) AND FALL RATE, I jump with many, if I cant keep up I am OUT. I can adjust by watching. I can tell whats up before it happens. He stands- I stand. for example- I dont wait till the fall rate changes, I stand and stay with him. Faster or Slower. You cant be base every single time, so you have to have a diversified fall rate to jump with the masses. Back to gear, -At any mph shyt can fly open much less 170 . Check your stuff really well, especially your older rigs. Slow down before you open, you are going faster than belly flying. Its basically this, get your suggestions on form here but go and feel it. See what is right for your body. Its all about what works and is comfortable. AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Excuse me Wind, if you jumped a Casa, and I know they are lined up over there, then I just dont even know what to say about that!! AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Talcum Powder and toilet paper. Funny stuff! AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Mouth, do you know where Blaine is? Cyber and he are close friends, as you know. Sad to find out this way. But send us some information if you can. He will likely call Bill or Monica in the morning. Do you know if it was in Monroe or Thomaston? Cyber told him to avoid the trees, that is how he broke his ankle. Hitting a tree, trying to make it back from a long spot, didnt work out and well, etc. We are/were expected to be in GA staying with Pyke on the 15th for the Skydive Monroe X-Mas Party at the Hilton. Yikes, this cant be good. AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Yo Brit! Wahtzzzup? (Ck your email.) Jess, I have a house thats rather cool. Let me know a few days before you arrive and I can heat the pool.. the jacuzzi is always hot. And Ag Davie, you are welcome anytime. I think just about everyone else knows where the key is. The only thing is.. I have a rather large Great Dane who you cant miss and a little one you might step on. He totally calms down once he figures out everything is cool. Kinda, right Brit? I have 2 quest rooms, drop me a line anytime. Oh, btw... I am 1/2 way between both dz's. I suggest you jump both if you have the time. AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Paula, I think I talked to you, Skycat, and Brit there before I met you guys! How bizzare! Zennie too now that I think about it... AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

The email I got was Semi Formal. Slappie, the word Semi, in Semi Formal, doesnt refer to a truck with 18 wheels. AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Dude, you didnt recognise Rook in the picture? I will just email him. AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Well, I figure you have about 50 seconds. .... I cant think of anything that can happen in 50 seconds that I would be jealous over .... EXCEPT a totally bad ass skydive. Then I wouldnt even be jealous I would be saying - SugarPlum, its time for my coach lessson, I will pay ya later...... AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

I have 2 pair of prescription goggles that I got when I was a student. One pair in smoke and one pair in amber. But the prescription did not fix what I wanted it to. I jump in Gatorz and I have never had a problem. I dont even wear a sunglasses anchor thingy on them. (They are made out of aircraft material.) I just stick my helmet on and jump. I dont get any air on my eyes or anything. My other friend jumps in his and once, we did four jumps and he lost four pair of contacts. So, his dont fit as good as mine, I guess. Most of the Para guys wear Gatorz. Raymond and I traded. I had the blue lenses, and he had blue hair, so we traded. Apparently he still has them. The last picture I saw of him on the ParaPerformance website was ole Raymond standing there with the blue lenes Gatorz hanging around his neck. Slayton wears them too, I see. Ratz, I wish those guys would quit copying me. BBBBaaaaaahhhh! AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Happens alot at nearly noRulz. I was there not too long ago and ScaryLarry went with whatzhisname and did his 100th. They tried for about 2 hrs to convience me it was the day for me to freefly & 'fly free'. The best view however was just outside manifest in the smoking/rest area, --Scary comes right over us low as hell under canopy, kicking both legs wide open and screamin bloody murder. One of the funniest things I ever saw or heard. He landed just behind the hangar and by the fish pond. Yikes. AirAnn BAWAHHH! and click on Hey Jude!

Maybe Hell! Six is shooting that video!! AirAnn The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. --Michael Althsuler

On my 100th skydive - whereby I was so excited about the 11 way campfire - I forgot every thing I had learned. See if you can tell the four seriously bad problems with this picture. (attachement) feet are too close together knees, feet, legs too high feet are not flat shoulders slightly too far back. I drove forward one way and turned arouhnd and drove forward the other way during this jump. I thought -hey I am just visiting everyone. Uh, no.... everyone was following me around cause I was base. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. --Michael Althsuler

I have a friend who did the Indian thing and worked for him. He said he was most stable that way. He then went to a sit suit. I dont suggest you do that. It is easier, but you will learn to depend on it. I have heard nothing but good stuff about Monkey Claw and Stuey, as well. I learned the old fashioned way, flail and error. With the flail and error thing, my worst habit that I learned on my own was having my feet too close together. (See my picture by my name? Feet too close together.) Shoulders over your hips, feet shoulder width apart. Feel the air with your arms and hands. Patience. Small corrections. In this attachment, (this picture is so old) I am turning a little and trying to come down some.

Thank you VERY much. I finally get some confirmation on the girl angle. I should be aerodynamic (I am not exactly a Hooter girl myself) so, there is a difference in the posture. I was damn near certain of it. After about 50 times, you get the idea somethings gotta be wrong! I finally figured out to tuck my pelvis in slightly. I had an Oxygn as well, but I never wore it once. Seemed like I was too cozy in there. And I would tend to like to hear myself talk in there too. BWAAHHH!! ..I might one day have bad breath and pass out in freefall. -That wouldnt be good. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. --Michael Althsuler

If your cat has extra toes - you are lucky its a Hemingway cat. As in Ernest Hemingway! Ernest Hemingway, writer and famous cat lover, made his home on the small island of Key West, Florida. He shared the island with nearly fifty cats, including a polydact cat (six toes) given to him by a ship captain. Ernest Hemingway acquired this cat with six toes and was very taken with this special feature. A colony of about 60 cats , descendents of this original cat and about half of them having extra toes, now live on the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida. Because of the notoriety of the cats on this estate, cats with the extra toes are often referred to as "Hemingway cats". The cats are fed by caretakers of the museum. The vet comes to the museum to administer their yearly shots. The whole procedure is somewhat like a "cat rodeo," with cats being rounded up by means of treats. The job must be done rapidly, since the cats soon sense that something is amiss. The vast majority are vaccinated the first day and their names are checked off on a list to avoid confusion. The vet returns the following week to inoculate the few who are missed the first time. ("Cat-trick"-If you gently insert your finger in the cat's ear, he will not move while having a shot) I know a ton of usless information- AirAnn You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? --Dennis Miller

The tube my friend jumps a cutaway release system designed by the manufacturer. First thing is you have to take a long track to line out the tube behind you then pull. This means breaking off at at least 5K. Yep, thats our drill. When we (my jump friends & myself on the perimeter) first started jumping with tubes, it was like- well, lets see what happens. Break high. So the guys did. And right away Larry's tube is in his lines just after the slider is down. (he was hand holding it) He laughed it off, but we could clearly see the ramifications of this. ..I think it wasnt as bad as it looked on the 2 videos, because he did break high and track away. After that it became the standard for our tube jumpers in our area. Levin uses a bigger canopy, and not the Alpha84 on tube jumps. He has the tube on both feet. Its tricky to keep it deflated while sitting in the rear of the plane, however. He keeps it pushed down, everyone gets to the door and he is out last, usually. (The tube got all over me once just out of the door.) By the time he lands he has taken it off one foot. AirAnn You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? --Dennis Miller

He went back to driving and he couldnt keep it up as you know its hard by yourself. Also well, traffic dropped off dramatically. I am assuming its rough to get it back. Plus your site cant be out done, my man!! I guess he would have to be giving away free money to lure the dz.com'ers (as one DZO calls us) from this forum. As you know, we all love you. You have been more than fair about every ugly situation and have made our cyber play ground a very nice place to be.

Scary, we are alike on this. Gimme the -smart skydiver injection- -the quick fix pill to the low number jump idiotizms -dust me with the fairy stuff so I can just go do it - I listend to the wise old skydiver... why cant I do it??? Relax and Patience the answer to my most frequently asked questions. All too often in this sport it is something you just have to know. Something you have to feel or to experience. Here is facinating tip- I have studied freeflying since my conception as a fledgling skygirl. I have been coached by several superior freeflyers -all men. They all tell me the same thing.. this is -the position- you have to be in. So, Pelvis here, legs here, arms here, back here, head looking at the horizon, and so forth. As it turns out.................. A woman freeflyer has to put her body in a different position -ever so slightly- than a man. Freakin trial and error... Patience and Relax Ill be damned if that wasnt the answer. Heh, who knew? ..come here Grasshopper.. ya see this stone in my hand?... AirAnn You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? --Dennis Miller

Jess- I will bring the cookie to AlamoSky!... I got a call from a lost buddy, Dana the packer. Nice guy. Anyway, he is there now and says I should come on up. They have one of SDC's Otters for the winter. How do you like the DZ? Isnt it a take over of sorts, there used to be an older dz there, I wonder if its the same place? AirAnn You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? --Dennis Miller

Remi and Sangrio both have valid points. Steering some topics off the main vein can be a good thing for serious posts. Then again Remi has a good point as well, if nothing is lively the thread gets a sterile no fun quality. I think maybe, only a maybe... a dzsports error could have been that it was too diversified. Too many separate topic forums, if you will, splitting off the main vein. This is all total hindsight, so there you have it, in my opinion. Either the topic stays on topic in a thread or it turns to boobies. The thing about this site, is it continues to be fun. The second we have flames -. I think its great right now and threads come and go, just no sky wars, please. AirAnn You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? --Dennis Miller

I was going to say, hummm that Slapshimself is getting pretty good. Still... its all fun as hell to see these videos. All the videos I get to see (over the shoulders of others) are veterans flying perfectly and some non visible error is dwelled upon. The exit is analized and so forth. These are FUN videos, both for comic relief and for training purposes. As you can see from these shots, Skydiving is a team effort. Everyone is flying to gain one end result. Its a beautiful thing to put all these different skill levels together and see what happens. To me, the other interesting thing is the two videos themselves. I am thinking Ramon has a freeflying lens of about .42 like the rest of us. Vs. Josh who shoots other stuff. I dont know what lens that is and its good video. They both are. I am very happy these videos are available to view. On a more serious note- Also, in the video vault are more interesting things ... Like Wingnut's Ripped Main.. he is flying it, but you dont know whats on top.. so its damaged a clear cutaway and a good job done. To look at these videos ~ is to think about what you would do. And for me, the visual aid is priceless. You can explain stuff to me a zillion times but until I get the picture I have no idea. I want skydivers to come back, like SkyMedic did and say how they handled a situation. Vs. us looking at fatality reports and assuming how we could have avoided it. AirAnn You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? --Dennis Miller

That is too funny Dutch. I got the visual on that. Wish I could draw cartoons. hummmm.... I will get back to ya on that one. I am getting pretty good with a few computer graphic programs over here or not... matter of opinion. You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? --Dennis Miller

Yeah, main thing is you are all good! (Should I start a background ck on this Dude? .......I did that with my Mom's bf, turned out to be in & out of prison, not an attorney & never graduated high school, was wanted in Louisana for fraud) We were missing your posts. And of course concern was that you were mainly ok. Scary shyt when a skydiver suddenly isnt posting. Whew. You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven okay? --Dennis Miller