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Out of curiosity, would you mind linking that conversation here in thread?

Of course! Thanks, will proceed shortly.

It's awesome. DSE, do you mind if that guide is going to be translated to Russian? Currently there's some lack in instructional materials about "what to do after FFC is completed", I was suggesting FLB's videos as starting point for my students, but this guide is really a major improvement which could keep student busy (and interested) for few dozens of flights, resulting in improved safety/awareness.

V2. Improved back deflector, different (better) shoulder air inlets. Easier to fly than V1 imo and better distance results.

Russia national flock was 36-way with, say, 10 more people being in alpha-group, this makes about 50 regular wingsuit pilots. I'll add about 20-30 to those since they're actually lone birds who prefer mountains over flocking.

If your wingsuit flights were more comfortable than your regular skydives, then probably recurrency flight is better than recurrency jump :) It was a case for me for jumping 4 months after trauma and 9 months break in jumps total - I found myself scared about freefall but not wingsuit flight. If you're not sure, then I'd advise to make a bunch of jumps to practice and refresh necessary wingsuit-related skills as wave-off with legs, WS-like pull (i.e. not box position) and tracking as well. Anyway it is like bicycle - once you can do it you wont forget how to do it.

I thought that porn movies are not allowed in this forum. Indeed they are.

And video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Gkk8jCVfk

Site seems to be down. Could anyone email me the program to helxen@gmail.com if you have downloaded it. It will be greatly appreciated.

Not so grid-friendly, but still nice picture from yesterday: http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/185233_249646511742943_100000927894929_743602_4480367_n.jpg

Well, if some wings are waiting for you somewhere, you'll be there sooner or later. If that's not really your type of fun or you just think "well, its kinda cool, gonna try that someday" - you'll realize it as well during the course. Also, dont think that you waste two hundred jumps just to get to wingsuit. 200 in 18 is about being current with your skydiving skills, not about stubbornly doing 200 jumps in 18 months, and as it was mentioned thousand times before - doing so totally worth it. There are numerous cases when person tries to get into ws sooner than recommended, myself is not an exception, though later you realize that it was not good idea in general.

Also, http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3565607

I would be more concerned about canopy ride than about wingsuit flight, tbh. With a medium-sized wingsuit (say phantom) your flight is about two minutes or less and canopy ride being considerably longer. I broke my right shoulder two years ago and was unable to fully extend hand to reach toggles. To release toggles I had to pull-up myself on risers, then quickly grab both risers with left hand, then quickly release both toggles. Not a wise-think-to-do, honestly, but there was jump abstinence syndrom :) Also, due to overall hand weakness I was totally tired by the moment of landing. Anyway, If you are serious about going back to sports and even wingsuits, I bet you'll get an answer to your question sooner or later while jumping your regular skydives. IMO, if you can manage effective flare after 3-5 minutes flight under the canopy, you could fly wingsuit without serious limitation. Though that's from personal experience, not a recommendation.

Jarno, does it mean that part of Gap's 8-14 august organized flocking/coaching is going to be omitted?

Dont forget to shit bricks while watching :D

Bump! Jarno, please check PM!

It will be interesting to fly this suit AFTER 15 years from DOM and be alive after! :)

Russia: Entirely DZ-dependant, though most common is either 200 or 300 jumps and Instructor-led training.

PFI course for those interested, maybe?

well, that was 2nd jump overall, but for some reason we were unable to overlay grid properly, thus thinking it's incomplete and made another 10 jumps, which were substantially worse than this one :) anyway, nice flocking experience.

Howdy all, 12-13 Sept DZ Puschino hosted wingsuit boogie where we tried to set record formation according to USPA guidlelines ( http://raisethesky.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/USPA_Wingsuit_Bigway.pdf) The question is, did we succeed? (please check attachments)

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/062809/no-birds-but-you-guys.gif Love that comics, couldnt resist. Though too lazy to fix the pic for you, but you could figure it by yourselves :D

Not actually dislocated, just broken one - yes. Broke a right shoulder last year in a car accident, with joint completely off the bone, got surgery and did my first jump three months after. The metal is still inside, some general movements are still somewhat restricted, but not those, which affect wingsuit flying. Main problem in flight was not the shoulder itself, just overall physical condition which is substantially worse than it was before trauma. Though, i still can manage 130-140 seconds flight w/o any problems. Also, three jumps a day is close to the physical limit I can handle nowadays. Since that's my right hand, I was somewhat concerned about pull time, but it went quite smooth, like as usual (with some practice on ground, ofc). Unstowing toggles is abit tricky, since i cant fully extend my hand upwards yet, same applies to the flare - i.e. you have to flare from mid-flight. Also, since you fly 1/4 braked under the canopy, your landing pattern changes slightly. As for EPs - could reach both handles w/o problems. Hope that helps.

People Attending 1. Dmitry Karpekov 2. Lutz Lüdtke 3. Jarno Cordia 4. Costyn van Dongen 5. Hans Schoeber 6. Grisha Andreev (V2) 7. Vladimir Zanadvorov 8. .. 9. .

mwahaha!