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No one told me you showed up? Were you the guy with the duct tape on his pants? You certainly have 2nd in the DZ com challenge. ramon

We will see who can beat my score as witnessed by Aggie and Nac (and will probably be published in Skydiving magazine). BTW I know a slender girl that can do 300 in a stand (last year she did 273 in this contest). All of you...post your scores...digital photos of Protrack or scans of published speeds (skydiving mag or parachutist) will be accepted. Ramon

a 165 pound guy in a freefall suit did get 244 mph during the competition. there is skill involved. ramon

Saturday April 6th it was Aggie Dave........weight w gear ~270 Ramon..............weight w gear ~218 NacMacfeagle... unknown but probably a little more than Ramon ProTracks set on TAS were worn on the ankles. Any DZ commer think they can beat the champ? Aggie and Nac...what were your speeds? Ramon

I think it might actually be very good for a cheap rig. Don't let anyone convicne you you need to buy a mirage or a vector to freefly (I have a vector III also). That rig is fine till you want to downsize or get a new container. My main flap never came open. I have video of one riser cover open in flight and it was open when I was in the plane..no one noticed till we saw video). You have a totally concealed bridle. Just make sure your pop top is tight (basically if you can see your reserve pilot chute or you can fit a line or a finger under the pop top it might need to be tightened by the rigger that packed it)...If he tightens it and you can still see a gap or fit a line under then maybe he did not do a good job packing the PC and spring. You can use a pull up cord tied to the leg straps to prevent legstraps from sliding up your legs in a sit. have fun ramon

Right on Never fly over anything you don't want to land on. well at least try not to. Good job..no point in trying to see if you can make it over the powelines if it is fine beneath you

where you jump? Moss Point? You know Miami? ramon

I'ts ok dude. Weather kept us from making all the jumps we wanted.... however high quality organized loads and debriefs (all invited) were done by Max Cohn and minimally all the freeliers that attended gained in their knowledge. ramon

Friendly reminder of how complacency hurts. disclaimer. I have been guilty of all of these..have you? 1. I have to hook..that guy is going to cut me off I will wait and then hook..... 2. Look at those people I'm really going to hook it this time. 3. winds aren't that bad fuck it...I jump an FX.... 4. Yeah, I'm safe...yeah I see where your coming from safe...uuhuuhhh. yep..I understand... yeah dude I always have an out.....I've done that before..don't worry about me.. If you read this months parachutist you might know that fatalities under canopy have been on the rise in the past 10 years. If you have spent a couple of years on a busy DZ with an aggressive "canopy" atmosphere" you mioght have seen a few mishaps (ankle, broken back, femurs....totally busted up and horribly mangled.....moaning in pain...'your ok dude...talk to me...the doctors coming ..hold on...") Take your time plan your outs. listen to experieinced jumpers...if you jump on a po-dunk DZ...go spend some time at a big one and talk to some healthy experienced jumpers. Put ego aside and listen. what if you woke up tomorrw with no memory of what the hell happened except that you are paralyzed and someone said you turned low. I't is not a giant Redbull acid party festival.."WOOOHOOO LOOK AT MEEE!!!. it is your life...and the life of your friends. ramon

Saw lots of Javelins falpping this weekend. flapflapflap...but that is what everyone else has..so I'm getting one..and plus My DZO will give me 15% of reatail (BFD) BS fuckers don't make serious changes till someone dies. Hey Dave, you did good this weekend. too bad the weather sucked. Sorry I didn;t show you that video in the packing area, his buds were in there and I thought it was poor taste..Later I guess you dissappeared. however...I still have it and if you want to scare your self back to the reality of the sport next time we meet, I;ll show you. peace blue skies black death ramon

Good job. Show everyone you got what it takes by never lighting up another one. ramon

You have more exhaust decibels than your engine has horsepower. You have aftermarket FRONT wheels for racing but stock rear wheels. Your engine makes twice as much horsepower as torque. You ever painted your wheels to match the same color of your car. You put your automatic car in neutral at every stoplight in order to roll it back and try to fool other people into thinking you have a manual DuPont gave up trying to figure out the shade you were asking for. Your mod list includes stereo equipment, shifter handle, MOMO steering wheel, PIA driving lights, exhaust tip, but no REAL engine parts. A chameleon lizard undergoes fewer shade changes than your custom paint scheme. Your rims and tires are so large, that you have to install the tire/wheel from underneath the car because it simply won't fit in the wheel well going in from the side. The dealer laughs when you bring your car back in for service under warranty, and you've only had it 6 months... Your tires / rims stick out from the lip of your car by more than 1". Your paint job is from the WRONG end of the color spectrum. You installed spacers on your STOCK wheels and tires to get them to stick out past the fender. You see cars like yours in a Shriner's Parade for Children and clowns are driving them. You bring a empty Maxwell House coffee can with you to compare size when you shop for an aftermarket exhaust system. Your Eclipse GS-T hardtop has a "SPYDER" emblem on the rear... Your knowledge of suspension is: "the more negative camber, the better the handling." You push your through the staging lanes. That way, maybe you can break into the 16s by keeping the motor cool between runs. You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings. Your rear wing AND your rear window have a third mount brake light... The back lighting in the gauges in your A-pillar gauge pod work long before the actual gauges are hooked up. You cut 4 coil springs and scrape the chassis on the ground. Sparks are cool when you corner at normal traffic speeds! You have to find a way to drive AROUND speed bumps in a parking lot. You install clear corner and brake lights to be different. You install colored bulbs in your clear lenses. You ever put neon on the bottom of your car, and then busted it on the first speed bump you went over. You painted the UNDERBODY of your car to match If your rear spoiler is taller then you are. if you can fit fist f**k your exhaust tip You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE! If your tailpipe extension is the most expensive mod you've done to your engine yet. Your tailpipe extension fell off during a quarter mile race and you went three tenths of a second faster due to weight savings. EVERY car in your class has a turbo pushing double digits worth of boost. You spent $5,000 on the engine and you can not out run a stock Camaro, Firebird, or Mustang GT You want the 'wastegate' sound, but don't want to install a turbocharger system. You think Nitrous Oxide on your Hyundai Sonata puts you in the same performance league as the Chevy Corvette. The automatic version of your car runs 2 seconds slower in the 1/4mile. If the 1970 Plymouth Daytona Superbird has a smaller spoiler than your car does. You think the Del Sol is a sports car... A torque converter does NOTHING for your car. You think a deep farty noise = the sound of high performance If you think that horsepower is far more important than torque If you have ever claimed that switching to a cone filter has given you more than 10 HP. If you have ever considered installing more than one set of fog/driving lights. If you claim that the aftermarket cold air intake system you just installed doubled your horsepower or took 2 or more seconds off of your E/T. Your baseball cap is always on backwards when you drive. You spent all night on the Internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai... If you removed your side view mirrors and put them at the TOP of the door / window frame. If you think the Fugees are 'speed' music. MOMO is 'absolutely required' to go fast. Your four cylinder has a dual exhaust system installed. Your four cylinder has four exhaust pipes ("Hey, one for each cylinder!") The color of your interior upholstery hurts the cones and rods in other people's eyes. If you cannot drive your car in snow as the ground effects create a plow effect. If you have installed driving lights to compensate for headlight blackouts / tape. If you think that 280 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a `mildly' modified engine. If you have stickers on your car for parts that you could not point out if asked where those parts are installed. You think pushrods are a bad thing... Your car has more decals than you do the quarter in seconds. Every Honda you EVER owned, all the way back to your 1978 Accord was either a V-Tech or a TYPE-R. You took your rear seat out and gutted your interior for weight savings but you installed 400 pounds of electronics, neon, DVD, Sony, etc. If you gutted the interior to save weight on a car that you will never take to the track... You lean your seat so far back when you are driving, that everytime you hit a bump, its your back and not your butt that hurts. You have hydraulics and sixteen switches on a car you claim runs low 10s on the street and corners better than a Porsche. If you can estimate that your car makes more than 250 HP without ever running it at the track or getting a dyno reading. You claim that you can get a titanium block for your engine. If you have ever thought Hyundai and "PERFORMANCE" went hand in hand If you've ever gone to a parts shop or speed warehouse and asked for a 1" to 6" exhaust adapter... If you've ever contemplated adding "TYPE-R" stickers to your Sonata... If you've removed more than 1/2 of the coils from your springs by cutting them yourself ... If you have more neon lights on your car then a strip club... You put Kanji on your Ford ZX2 or Ford Probe... You own a "TYPE-R" Hyundai or Mazda. You couldn't afford headlight masking, so you just painted them with flat black Krylon and its peeling. You claim that polishing your intake gave you 5hp. You own a V-TECH Hyundai or Mazda (especially a V-TECH ROTORY Mazda RX-7) You have neon INSIDE your car or in your ENGINE compartment You ever claimed that high gas mileage made your car superior in performance to V8s. If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT. You think yellow plastic interior trim makes your car cool You spend $500 for a giant hand welded tube for a muffler with the weld marks extremely visible If you paint your drum brakes to simulate Hi-po calipers If you install fake hi-po caliper / disc simulators You have a FRONT wing. If you lower your car and add ground effects but retain the stock 14inch wheels with disc style wheel covers If you equate the sound of performance with the sound of a Weed Eater[tm] If you think bolting a fake muffler to one side to simulate dual exhaust is cool If you think colored head lights work better Clear tail lights and turn signals. They're colored for a REASON! If you take mom's 4 door Honda accord and do any kind of mod to it You drive a Ford Escort station wagon with Kanji, wide tires, and Limp Bizkit stickers on the rear hatch You claim you lost the race because you had a passenger in the car. You claim how if you went from a roll you would have beat him. You claim you lost because you missed a shift.. and your car is an automatic. You claim you lost because he must have been on the juice.. Flying past the person who is 10 car lengths in front of you after they have put on their brakes.. and claim a victory. after losing you flip your opponent off.. rev your motor and fail to break the wheels loose even around a corner. Tell everyone about how you lost the cop because of your "driving skills". you are a white kid driving an import.. wear baggy pants/hat turned around, walk with a fake limp and end every sentence with "yew know wha I'm sayin?" Your idea of aiming a handgun is raising your arm over your head, pointing the gun away from you, and then just letting your wrist fall to the side to where the gun is almost sideway ... drive around in a $20,000 import with $10,000 in mods.. and still live with your parents. You can relate to every line of the song "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" by the Offspring you take offense when I say.. "your sister is like your car.. small, tight and relatively easy to get into." ... And the Number One reason you might be a ricer if... (drum roll)....you are a skinny, backwards hat wearing, dog chain wallet, 2 ft wide pants leg, Limp Bizkit looking fag with a badly applied peroxide hair color treatment!

You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance for survival make your time!

Partly cloudy to mostly cloudy is either...jumpable...or it is fucking covered in at 3 grand. Mostly cloudy....mostly cloudy....sheesh. I hate trying to decipher the newscasts. Its like you have to see what it is today and translate that into tomorrow's version of mostly cloudy. why can't they have and "totally socked in" weather genre? and leave the mostly cloudy to mean...partly sunny?

big blue hole...then short jump with Max Cohn and the Peeps from 8 grand (that was quick). then a cool jump I videoed with Max and above podnahs from full altitude. We were all waiting all day for a break. overcast weather really sucks. ramon

Supposed to have a boogie starting today and tomorrow. Got partly cloudy skies on the coast which is half way tween Houston and the dZ so I am going anyway. We'll see ramon

You me and antimike launch a three way round with my hands on chest straps. when were off the hill you and mike have hand dock and I go into a stand underneath you. then Levin comes head down and docks all over you two. Piece of cake. tell AntiMike we will do at least 1 to say we have a 4 way DZ com docked hybrid. ramon

With Max Cohn yes they are pre-booking. There is also the Spaceland school of Freeflight and there will be loads of decent freefliers around to get free advice from also. ramon

And Goat has been on some of the biggest 9 way baase plus stingers at Freaks Flock Together. Peace of cake for 4 way. Ain't no braggin involved. I just figured it ain't been official yet so...we gonna do it official. ramon

I am 90% sure I can organize a multi way hybrid dive (three levels (head down, 2 belly and one hanger) With minimal 4 way with grips (base and stinger) and all dZ commers. And if Goat and some of the Dallas folks help we can do way bigger. HAH ramon

with grey stripes on sides. Huge Schlitz malt Liquor patch on rear of left bottom leg. Carlsberg beer on right. 1st School of Modern Skyflying patch on left front lower leg. Ask anyone there who Ramon is..I'll be sneaking hugs from Paula when AntiMike is not looking . ramon

with grey stripes on sides. Huge Schlitz malt Liquor patch on rear of left bottom leg. Carlsberg beer on right. 1st School of Modern Skyflying patch on left front lower leg. Ask anyone there who Ramon is..I'll be sneaking hugs from Paula when AntiMike is not looking . ramon

Icarus Alpha's (rare) are something else though..I'm not sure about those. Jim Slaton may have loaded an Alpha at 2.2. ramon

Icarus Alpha's (rare) are something else though..I'm not sure about those. Jim Slaton may have loaded an Alpha at 2.2. ramon