jheadley

What if you grabbed the RSL and just yanked on it, pulling the reserve pin, like you can do on a vector tandem? Just a thought

"You're the Best" from the Karate Kid. "I'm the best... around... and nothing's going to ever keep me down!" or maybe Monkey Versus Robot

Well I started this thread several months ago (surprised to see it got bumped) and since then I've gotten much much better. I've done some tunnel tunnel time and learned mantis, and learned to fall really fast. I can comfortably fall 135 on my belly, and when I really need to, I can go into the 160s (TAS). I was struggling to go 125 before. How I did that was similar to what riggerrob said, arch like hell, feet on ass, and arms in front of chest in a very fast mantis position. I've done a lot of coach jumps since I first started this thread and I've never let my students get farther than 15 feet away from me, even when they tumble for 1000 feet. To the aspiring coaches out there, the best advice I can give is to learn the mantis position. The amount of fall rate range you have in incredible, and it's also easiest to have your student dock on you with your arms out in front of you instead of on either side of your head like in normal boxman.

QuoteI also love the "toy" aspect of the pro-track. Quote I love my gadgets too. I just got a neptune for a visual altimeter and it's definitely fun to play with when i'm doing hop and pops from 13K If you want to play with your pro track more, get Jump Track. Sometimes I do dives where I just go as fast as I can, then as slow as I can, just to see the graph.

I suggest to people I coach that they don't get audibles until at least 50 jumps. Learning altitude awareness is so important. I actually made 2 jumps today without an audible, the first time in a while. It was actually pretty nice, I was much more altitude aware than usual. I may do it more often.

Well Jim Slaton did a few weeks ago, that's one.

If you see a program on your desktop that says "Registry Cleaner", it's spyware. Get legitimate spyware removal programs from download.com called Spybot - Search and Destroy, and Ad-Aware. It's funny, there are actually anti-spyware programs that are more annoying than the spyware itself. There was an anti-spyware program on the bar computer at Z hills that changed the web broswer home page to say "WARNING, your computer is under control from a remote source, run this program to get rid of spyware." Then when you try to run the program, it is a legitimate spyware removal program, but you have to pay for it!. Then when you try to uninstall it, it appears to be removed from your computer then it pops back up on your desktop a couple seconds later. I researched the program and was able to get rid of it by running a script in safe mode, but I just thought it was funny that the anti-spyware stuff uses the exact same tactics as the spyware.

I always thought that was a Hot Karl or a Cleveland Steamer. Oh well, you learn something new every day.

I second the psycho pack opinion. I've got close to 1000 pack jobs, all pro packs and I'm pretty good at it. I played around with psycho packing once or twice but could never get it clean enough to actually use (I tried the way they show in that video that floats around the internet). Then yesterday I watched a guy (JmpnKramer on here) do his version of the psycho pack, and I tried it today (when the weather sucks I practice packing), and I could actually get the pack volume so small that it was actually way too small for my d-bag to use safely.

Urbandictionary had a couple definitions of steamroller... A sexual act that involves the following steps: - An individual shits in another individuals mouth. -The "shitee" chews up the shit, spits it out, and rolls in it.*Sung to the tune of "Maneater" by Hall & Oates* OR When your lying naked with your girl in bed and you decide to roll all over her fully erect yelling "I'm a Steamroller" "I'm going to roll all over you" while laughing hysterically. OR While boning a girl doggie style standing upat the top of a large, steep stairwell... You jam your thumb in her asshole and punch her in the stomach so some steam builds, then push her down the stairs so she rolls down releasing the built up steam along the way. I prefer the menudo handshake myself. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=menudo+handshake

reminds me of "Freedom Fries"

Pelvic Power Lifting http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/1564.html NWS

I especially hate the people who have cell phone conversations while they're at lunch/dinner... with me. If it were a group of people it'd be one thing, but when you go out to dinner with only one other person, you should not sit down only to have a 15 minute phone conversation while that person (me) just stares at you twiddling his thumbs. Ask if it's important, and if it's not, tell them you'll call them back in an hour. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who was ever taught manners as a child.

I also am afraid of nuclear war, and carnies.

I saw these at West Point Memorial Day Boogie 2004 Skydivs Skydivn Skychik Skyd1ve Jmpnjak Skydvve Gotajmp Swooop Skydv2 2Skydv Jump PDQ

Do the cowboys eat pudding? (lets see if anyone can figure out what that is a reference to)

Chuck Norris

I've had two funny things happen when I talk about my skydiving. One time when I told a family member I had 40 jumps, they asked if I could take them on a tandem. Also, at about 150 jumps, a guy asked "So have you gone solo yet?"

This is from Sebastian's web site. Can someone explain to me how this is even possible?

Everyone who is talked down on radio, the last thing they hear before the flare command is "Feet and knees together, prepare to PLF", rarely do they even put their feet and knees together, even. I think it might have something to do with that phenomenon where the student says the radio cut out on them.

Note that I am not asking if you TEACH your students to PLF, I am asking if they actually do it. When I first started teaching FJCs, I would only quickly go over PLFs, I explained their importance, what they're used for, I'd explain how to do a PLF, I'd demonstrate a PLF, I'd have them do one. If they did it well, I figured that'd be the end of it. I always tell a first jump student to PLF on landing, not to try to stand it up, and definitely not to try to butt slide it. I then kept noticing that when the students actually landed, they would ALWAYS pick their feet up and land on their ass. I figured it must have been my fault for not teaching them well enough. So each FJC I taught after that, I spent more and more time on PLFs. I made them keep practicing them over and over, and kept telling them how important it is. I kept telling them all the people I've known and seen personally who have broken bones because they didn't PLF when they should have, but still, the same thing, just landing on their ass. This is extremely frustrating for me, I don't know if it's my fault for not being a good enough teacher, or if this is just the normal thing for students to do. I think one of the problems might be that my dropzone requires 2 tandems before AFF, and on both tandems, they are told to butt slide the landing, so they might just have that stuck in their mind.

I definitely know how you feel buddy. When I was on AFF, when I was driving to the dropzone, the closer and closer I got my heart would start beating faster and faster. I would usually just hang out for a few hours and get comfortable being there before I even went to manifest and ask to jump, you might want to try that.

I'll be there... I live in a tent...

You could always whore yourself out to fat chicks for 50 dollars each. (No offense to fat chicks. Fat chicks need love too... but they have to pay)

I had a friend who did a tandem and he was amazed when I told him that he could jump in a t-shirt and shorts if he wanted. He apparantly thought you had to wear a space suit or something.