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oooh, look at the big brain on mr remi History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

A block is worth two points if you do it correctly. one for each of the formations. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Biq queston, who's gonna win the Tour de France this year?Quote I heard the big battle for first is going to be between Dale Earnhardt JR. and Wayne Gretsky History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eliana, Natasha and Ditta all fly point I believe, a typically fast, precision-oriented slot which generally requires less physical strength in piece-movesQuote double check your sources, point flyers turn their share of pieces, not to mention when memory blocks come into play they are the OC. and on the subject of Natasha, she was on a "PC" team last year, this year they are the national team and it's a different story. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you took Eliana (US team), Natahsa (US team), Arianna (Italy), Ditta (Norway) ect and put them on the same team...They would kick ass. Not just female ass, but male ass as well. Quote Ron is absolutely right, you can't count women out because they are not physically as strong, IMO an all female team made up of the women mention in Ron's post would probably kick the crap out of the majority of the top male teams in the world. You say they aren't as strong but take into account how much lighter they are than men, and last time I checked it's a lot easier to move quick when you aren't heavy. i've recently dropped some weight and my speed has nearly doubled. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dan - your wooden spoon was certainly working hard over your best looking female statementQuote that's just wrong!!! History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

2 ways and lots of em!!! even if yu odn't want to pay for a coach, find a solid skydiver thats willing to make a bunch of jumps with you and just knock em out. don't be in a rush to get into bigger rw formations, with more people trying to get in their slot together your learning curve is going to suffer. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

of all people to not know this History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

i'll definitely take ou up on that, i have to stop by th 5th group memorial and pay my respects to a few of my fallen friends anyways. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

chances are i'll be in bragg next year so i just may have to. although from what I hear he got a big laugh after finding out that I'm a big Airspeed fan History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm sure the aussie's will put up a good fight, as will all the teams that show up. What kind of average is your National team pushin? History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I've never met him so i had no clue how he'd do going back to SF History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

well considering he hasn't been an 18B in over ten years.....according to his teammates though he did fine on his transition back into the community and group life History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't the russians also have a fairly young group of guys on their 4 way team, that can always play a part when the tensions get high. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

no 4 way teams at the moment, he's busy workin at his real job History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

more news on the 8 way event, Dan BC observed some of the Russians 8 way training and said they have reached the point where they could very well be a contender in the race for the gold. That would be awesome if there were to be another team pushing for the top spot, the stiffer the competition the higher the scores. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

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you forgot arcteryx in the open 4way class... Quote The Norwegians definitely have a great team but I don't think they are quite at the level of winning medals at a world meet. Russia I believe will be right there in the battle for first as well, and I definitely can't count the French out, they may be a new team but three of the members were of the former national team and I think are already world champs. and even though Sinapsi did beat Fire at the showdown I believe Fire had just come off a training break and was a little uncurrent, the 47 pointer goes to show that even if Sinapsi did have the more current team fire has the pure skill, and just to throw in on more variable, I think Italy has the hotter female of the two teams. For 8 way, yes the French have improved since the world cup, but I've been watching AS training their asses off all season, and watching some of their jumps from last weekend I couldn't believe how far they've come in the lasat few months. And now that it's coming down to crunch time they are stepping it up even more. Again, I'm not going to make a prediction for 8 way, both teams are too talented, but I'm pullin for my boys(and gal!). I'll be in Eloy this weekend and ask what kind of averages they've been doing on draws, I know they were expecting to have to push at least a 21 to win this thing. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

I was waiting for someone else to start this thread since I started pretty much all the threads for the big competitions last year, but oh well...I'll step up and get this one going as well 4-Way This year we've seen more countries than ever before pushing out teams that have been posting scores in the 20+ range, US, Italy, Belgium, Russia, France, and I think the Brits have 21 potential this year as well(please chime in if I missed any countries). In past World Meet's its almost always been a battle almost exclusively between the US and the French for 1st place, this year it's shaping up to be a 5 way battle royale. I don't think the competition is going to be won by pure flying ability alone, it's going to be heart, drive, and how well each teams holds up under stress. The US team proved themselves under pressure at the 2005 nats when they came back from behind to tie the GK and later beat them in the jump off, and even though the Point flyer for the US Natsha is fairly new in the sport compared to some of the other teams she more than proved herself on the international stage last year at the Malevsky meet, it's going to come down to the last round and it's going to be close but I think we should have this one. 4 Way Women Everyone saw the score posted by the French female team last week, and I thought I heard something about the British women's team posting something close to that recently as well. It's awesome to see all female teams stepping up the scores to the same level as the open class teams, I would love to see a 20+ in the female class so we can just do away with female class and get our butts kicked by girls all the time(that would rock). I haven't seen any scores from the US team in the last few months but I'm sure they are pushing hard to be every bit as competitive, and honestly I can't decide which country really has the upper hand in this one, so I'm just going to go ahead and say Old Glory(that's the American flag for you Europeans) is going to be flying over the podium in this one. 8 Way This is the one I'm really looking forward to. The French team has been together for three years without any roster changes, and everyone knows the reputation the French have for excellence in this sport. They may have lost the World Cup in October but it was by a very narrow margin, and they were in the fight until the very end. The US team, Airspeed(the greatest team in the history of the sport in case you were wondering) has had a few roster changes in the last two years. Eric Gin, formerly of Fastrax came to the team this year already having some 8 way experience under his belt and I have heard nothing but good things about his flying for Airspeed thus far. Thomas Hughes, former British national team member, former Arizona Blade, and Alternate for Fire last year, Thomas is argueably one of the fastest guys in the sport(chop him off at the shins and he could be the British John Eagle!!), and watching his recent training videos you would never know that this was his first 8 Way team, he also has world meet experience with the British team, so he's no stranger to competition stress. Andy Delk and Brian Johnson have been on the team going on two years now, they were both on the 4 way lineup that crushed everyone else at the World Cup last fall and have won international events in 8 Way before. Andy H. has been on the team since 2003, he was with Airspeed for the World Meet in Croatia in 2004, a very experienced 8 Way flyer and current world champ. Eliana Rodriguez, has been on the team 5+ years now I believe, this will be her 4th World Meet with Airspeed, another current World Champ, and then there's her smile, need I say more?! Craig Girard heads up the 8 Way project for Airspeed, he was on the original 8 Way lineup after leaving the Knights one of the most experienced competitors in the sport probably pushing close to 30,000 jumps(I doubt he even know the exact number), and I believe 4 or 5 world championships to his name. And then there's the man himself, Kirk Verner, one of the founding members of Airspeed, has competed in every World meet since the early nineties and has walked away with a gold medal from all but three of them(and a silver medal ain't exactly something to laugh at), Kirk and Craig also fall into that list of fastest guys in the sport, every one of my videos of me doing 4 Way with Kirk you see him putting on the brakes as I'm still winding up to start my move, he be fast!!. Airspeed has the pure talent and skill, France has the experience and continuity as a team, it's going to be a rough meet for both teams and I think too close to call. Even though AS won the World Cup in October they did it flying much different than they are known for, they were right on the edge of losing it, that's how hard they were pushing themselves, they will tell you themselves, they were right on the line, any further and they would've have lost it. So stackin it all up I'm not even going to make a call on this one, I'm just going to sit here for 5 days in August glued to omniskore pushing refresh every 30 seconds and watching my nails dissapear. But you can sure as hell bet I'm going to be holding up a US flag the whole time screaming at the top of my lungs for my country. I would have written more but I just looked down and realized that my underwear is on inside out and have to go fix it, underwear malfuntions can be traumatizing if not immedeatly mitigated. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

overall is overall. afterall.. Quote damn, that wuz deep i'm gonna go ponder that one for a while History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

at least you have a full team, my IC and I have been trying to put one together in colorado for about a year now and maybe one of these days i won't be out of town for the military when there's an NSL meet going on History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

whats your goal for point average at the end of the season? History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

now that i think about it a little bit more i remembered that when i was trying to get my passport it took me twice as long because they couldnt' take the original copy of my birth certificate. the one i've had since the day i was born is no longer valid because so many immagrants have forged california birth certificates that they had to change the type of paper they are printed on. so i had to pay to get a new copy so i could get my passport, which if i hadn't gotten it in time would have kept me from travelling to iraq the first time i went over there since i went through germany on a commercial flight History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

My brain must be losing its last few working cellsQuote i traded my working cells in a long time ago for 4 way cells History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

We've known for a long time that 5.56 didn't do the job, and we've been complaining about it for years, they're right about the 6.8, i've seen the ballistic gel tests. where 5.56 penetrates over 14 inches before it creates any hydrostatic shock, the 6.8 makes it about half an inch and then creates a huge cloud of damage beyond that. for now all we can do is use 5.56 with a heavier grain, ie 77 grain long range rounds, and the other trick is to hit the spine, i don't care if you're only using a .22, you hit the spine he goes down and doesn't get up. my teams rule is that you can miss the heart as much as you want as long as that round hits the spine, simple rule huh History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower