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If you're going to do serious 4way, get the "FX" mods on the competition suit. I do not recommend zippers on the booties.
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how could it -- here's the 10 way debreif "go faster #8"
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I am ashamed of myself.... every time I talked to Bert, they had the stupid thing hid somewhere, I did see squirrel hunter though....
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i prefer the updated version, MonkeyClawDango..... Ya know, I never got to see that, every time we went to find it, something always came up, I know it is hilarious. (as all the monkey claw productions are)
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Every skydiver should know and love that bit in Fandango..... Someone has a copy of the original short movie that this was based off of. They screened it at the DZ a few weeks ago, pretty cool. Not much changed between the two versions (well, except the actors of course)
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I much rather train back to back, but some people can't remember the next dive, so we have to go 20's.
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Obviously it's 4,000 ft...time to track away! ah right, got it, a 20 minute break till the next load!
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there are some tertiary rigs around. they were doing intentionals a couple of weeks ago at DeLand....
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I know that, I was wondering what the speed graph would show from abotu 2500 feet till 1700 feet.
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short break from 4way? why?
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can't you change the resolution to get closer to one part of the dive? I was wondering what it recoreded as my vertical speed, it read teh deployment at 1700, I know I pitched right around 2500.
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just to add to that --- look through the middle, at your clone... 90/10 rule: 90% through the middle at your cross reference, 10% outside the formation.
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In general what I've understood is that the industry is down in the 30% range (students and up jumpers) for the season this year..., some DZ's seem to be holding level, but I know of a few who have taken a fairly big hit.
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Damn....someone else that feels the same way I do. I have laughed at myself several times because I didn't know who someone was. I just really don't care..... yeah, that happened to me in Nashville -- day of the CMA's -- I walked out the front of the hotel, and all these Limo's were pulling in and people getting all excited, I was like who's that??? People just kind of stared at me like you're an idiot for not knowing. oh well..... if it was Shania Twain or Faith Hill, that's another story...
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I have experience under a highly loaded, zippy canopy, spinning mal... trust me when I say you would not have time, nor vision, nor strength to locate the offending line, get the knife and give it a cut. of course, then, you'd be dealing with a fairly unstable canopy (depending on design I suppose), that would require chopping anyway. basically, my MO is -- open canopy, is it ok?, if not chop it, there is no need to waste time. I figure my altitude loss was about 600 feet bewteen having an open spinning canopy till a good reserve. it wasn't a long drawn out event. ( I wouldn't mind viewing that one on the jump track software)
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here's the deal, you should not, I repeat not, ask "what not to do". by doing that, you will concentrate on the negative, and end up doing what you're not wanting to do (if that makes any sense). I've seen it teaching skiing and I've seen it in skydiving performance, you ingrane what not to do so much, it's all you end up doing. Instead focus on what you should be doing, what the feeling should be, what should you see, feel, hear, etc. there are some good articles by Jack Jefferies on this site to help with that.
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It's kind of interesting that they were able to have a conversation at normal levels in the back of the Van, we know how quiet that plane is!
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wasn't Bill Booth in the background in a couple of scenes... they did some filming at DeLand also (I was there one of the days), and I believe it is their skyvan that was used.
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it was moving his feet around because it was catching a lot of air as they are designed to do, when I first learned to really fly with my legs, my calves would get really sore from working my feet into the equation.
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my experience.... I had a smaller Zpo pilot chute, the thing was getting pretty weary and bits of it came apart at nationals, we patched it back together, and I got a new pilot chute a couple weeks ago. Well, the new one I got was a bigger "F-111" version (I didn't ask for anything different, just worked out that way).... I was amazed at the difference in openings, softer and more on heading (ok, until the thing went into the line twist spinning mal I chopped
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Bill Hallets rig is nice looking (well, colors aside anyway ), and he has a 119 crossfire and a 126 ( I think) reserve in it....
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you want something that is going to give you a staight line from knee to toe, and not collapse against your shin, making a "sail" so you can catch air with them. I'd go with the mega bootie if I were to buy that suit, but then again, I'm a Bev Suit fan.....
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you won't get away with that in the advanced class.... again a right hand donut is a round formation, and assuming you're talking about a mirrored skydive (which is where a right hand donut would come into play), it's still the tail on the IC in the "C". your continuity plan would not be as flexible if you were to jump the whole dive pool.
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Does freefly experience REALLY translate into RW skill?
weid14 replied to Jessica's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
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I was walking back from a reserve ride, got all my stuff and found a tandem drouge and same deal, been through the harvester and out in the weather for at least a season. I dont' think they continued to use it though.... also found a student canopy in the woods after a year, it wasn't in such good shape. and my very first cutaway, I landed, took one step and there was the cut away handle weird (keeping the reserve handle and throwing the cutaway seems to be my theme when going for the reserve.)