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Her little face is furry. Thats enough for me.

Major repost. Its not a bug, its a joke. Its been that way for a long time. __ My mighty steed

We love her. 12 week old Chinese Crested Hairless She has no name yet! Suggestions? __ My mighty steed

OK, you really corn-fused me here. How could my collapsed slider being at the top of my risers increase the chances of a toggle being knocked loose??? __ My mighty steed

Wear contacts if you can. I cant wear contacts on the ground, let alone in the air. My eyes are way too dry. Tried several times and several different brands over the years. They just don't work well for me. __ My mighty steed

They arent all supposed to do that. Mine doesnt come down that far. I have large risers. Slider stops at the top of the risers. __ My mighty steed

Nope. I suppose its not impossible for a line to drag past the snap, but if it ever did manage to catch there (which I just cant see happening) it would just unsnap the goggles. I stole the idea from a drozone that uses this setup for all their student helmets. Totally windproof assuming you set the straps properly so that they are snug to your face. Been jumping this setup for several years and never had a single problem. __ My mighty steed

You may benefit from my setup. Eye surgery is too expensive for me at this time, so till I can afford that here is what I do. I wear glasses on every jump. I have a pro-tec helmet which I painted so it doesn't look half bad. I have a pair of Flex-Z "over the glasses" goggles which, rather than wrapping around my head under the helmet like most people do, I have attached the goggle strap to the helmet itself on either side by adding metal snaps on each side of the helmet and on the goggle strap. Bought the snaps at home depot. Now, I just wear my glasses the whole time. Helmet on or off on the ride up. If off I'll put it on at about 10k and then just before the door opens I just snap the goggles into place. These goggles are completely clear and so they don't interfere with my peripheral vision nor does the pro-tec helmet. OK, nobody will ever say that over the glasses goggles are the coolest lookin things on the DZ, but they dont look bad and this setup works great. You can see a picture of it on my website under the "Gear" link. Click the thumbnail for a bigger picture. The goggles aren't attached in the pic, but you can see the snap where they go on, and attached is a picture from an exit where you can make it out... __ My mighty steed

Me either. I don't want a swooper to take me out, nor do I want to stupidly blunder into the path of a high performance landing. The result would be the same whether it was his fault or mine. We would both be seriously injured or dead. Separate landing areas would certainly seem to prevent either scenario or at least seriously reduce the chances of such an event taking place. I don't have much knowledge. I'm not all that experienced either. I do believe that some common sense stuff is not directly tied to experience in the sport. __ My mighty steed

I disagree with you. How can you know enough about the dynamics of the environment you're proposing if you don't understand it in the first place? It isn't only about seperate landing areas, it's about how those areas intersect in patterns, pattern direction, flight paths, and the necessary safety buffers required around those to make it work - and that's just to start with off the top of my head. Unless you have an obnoxiously large landing area these are some issues you will have to deal with. Blues, Ian I don't think these proposals were meant to have that kind of granularity, but rather, they were just the basic framework. I would think the specifics would need to be worked out for each dropzone at each dropzone depending on their layout and amount of space. At that time, swoopers would DEFINITELY need to be involved in the process for the very reasons you state. For these basic recommendations? I still don't see that the chosen disciplines of the people that came up with them is relevant. __ My mighty steed

I don't think its relevant whether they swoop or not. People don't need to drive a car to create common sense rules about how cars should behave with regard to each other. Now if it was a rule about how one should execute a high performance landing, clearly you would want swoopers to have a LOT of input. To decide that swoopers and non swoopers shouldn't land in the same place I don't think you even need to be a skydiver. All you have to do is look at what can happen when the two mix in the same landing area. __ My mighty steed

Welcome back! __ My mighty steed

Sorry Bub. That was your fault. You put a newbie driver in your car and expected her to perform perfectly? Brilliant! Even worse, you are angry at a newbie driver for making a newbie driver mistake. __ My mighty steed

I have more than a few biffs, but I've never landed squarely on my ass. How does that happen by accident? I can only see that happening if you do it on purpose. If you cant stand it up, you should be doing PLF's __ My mighty steed

So stop playing e-mail and phone tag. Take your rig there and drop it off. Hate to say it, but you sound like you are whining. Take your rig there, and get it repacked. __ My mighty steed

Best approach is to just dont bother. If they want to jump they know who to contact. It'll just frustrate the hell outta you because everyone will SAY they want to try it, but then it will be impossible to find a time cuz reality is they really dont. __ My mighty steed

Its not just a "bad habit" Thats actually a recognized type of Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder categorized as "Body focused repetitive Behaviors" I do the same thing. Its damn near impossible to stop doing it. Read up __ My mighty steed

Sounds a little high to me... __ My mighty steed

I count my blessings that I have not been subjected to the sight of guys jumping naked. The LESS of their skin I see, the better I like it. For gods sake, why would you do that to people? Are you just flashers that want to expose yourselves to people and have found a place you can do it without getting arrested? __ My mighty steed

Sure it will. In a thousand years. __ My mighty steed

I would never have imagined that your "A" hole could reinflate

Am I? __ My mighty steed

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Just bought John Petrucci's solo album "Suspended Animation" Freakin awesome.

Wrong. You just didn't see them. That doesn't mean they aren't there. They are __ My mighty steed