jheadley

Looks damn good. My Pshop skills are nowhere near that Here's my best pchop. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jheadley/images/The%20full%20assway.jpg I'm the one in the cowboy hat

I read the reviews and others have problems with the force of visor openings. They say that it will eventually "break in" and get easier with time. Since my helmet is relatively new, I'm assuming that's part of the problem. I closed and opened the visor around 100 times and it's considerably easier now. Maybe I should put some kind of lubrication on the inner racheting part? I'll keep the Oxygn... for now...

Many people from Virginia Tech are going, competing in 4-way, 2-way, and sport accuracy.

loosening the screws makes the inner ratchet part pop out. Which way are the rachets suppose to go in? With the visor closed, should the spring be facing the back or the front of the helmet? It looks like either could work, but the spring may make the difference. Also, it doesn't seem to want to fully close. When the visor is put down, part of the rubber on the top catches on the button and allows it to flip up without depressing the button. Hmm. I think I'm going to buy a Z1.

I just bought a used Oxygn helmet in very good condition. It's the older kind with the button on top. I have found it very difficult to pull the visor up while the helmet is on my head. I even removed the button on top, and disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled the visor and the pivoting mechanism and it is still very hard to pull up even with two hands, and it's impossible when I've tried it with gloves on. Any fixes to this? This is my first full face helmet, but I used a Z1 once and it was nowhere near this difficult to flip the visor up. Thanks

I'm satan. It's a really bad camera.

I have met him (http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jheadley/images/mesamandron.jpg). He is a very cool and down-to-earth guy, which I was also really surprised about. He is very very intelligent. He came to my college to debate an anti-porn woman about the morality of porn. He was very respectful even as his lifestyle was being attacked.

Skydiving Club of Virginia Tech member here. I don't really post, but do lurk a lot. I think other members do the same. We have members ranging in jump numbers from 1-2000. http://www.skydivevt.com

You all should read up on the Ladder Theory. Everyone knows it's true, but nobody wants to admit to it. http://www.intellectualwhores.com/masterladder.html

Thank you very much! And it's a real shitty digital camera. I'm amazed it turned out that well.

In this pic of a friend under canopy, I took the shot at just a little too low of an angle. I would like there to be some blue sky between the top of the canopy and the top edge of the pic. Can any of you photoshop badasses add some sky and draw the top parts of the two cells? The file attempt.jpg was my attempt at it. While it doesn't look terrible, It's obvious there's been digital manipulation going on. Thanks in advance. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jheadley/images/DSCN3449.JPG http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jheadley/images/attempt.jpg

try sticking a light bulb in the microwave

I weigh about 175 without gear. 1st jump 280 2-6 260 7- 210 I'm just a tad above .9:1.

That's a very good plan. I waited until I had 2500 dollars saved up before I even began AFF. You could also see if you could get a job as a packer at the DZ. You can make money and learn about skydiving at the same time.

every skydiver I have ever met has always been so nice and friendly to me. I am naturally a very shy, almost anti-social, person. Being around such friendly people motivates me to be more friendly.

there is a monkey, ape, or some kind of primate, or reference to a primate in every simpsons episode.

I started drinking at 17. I went through a brief period of liking to get drunk (although never really that drunk) but ever since 18 I think I've been drinking more responsibly than 21+ year ods.

yea the most fun landing I've had so far was a downwind landing . I knew I was going downwind but didn't want to change my pattern. As I got close to the ground I kep thinking, "wow, I'm going way too fast". As I flared, I felt like I was swooping, like I was just gliding a foot off the ground for about 5 seconds and then when I landed, I spun around backwards and the canopy drug me for what seemed like 20 feet. Fun

The show said that the guy who did the record jump exited at 105,000 or something like that, and deployed at 17,000. Funny that he deploys higher than we usually jump from. Why did he deploy so high? The show said it was an 8 minute canopy ride too. Can anyone explain?

It talked about WWII paratroopers, smoke jumpers, the change from round to square canopies, had a little about bill booth creating the 3 ring system and tandem system, some recreational skydiving shots. Mostly it was about military application and also application for the space program. Thanks for telling me the show was on, it let me procrastinate for another hour. Justin, who is moving into a new apartment tomorrow and as of 8pm, has not started packing yet.

congrats, dude. Nothing's better than going through a great skydive and having a great standup landing. Don't you just love those student rigs? So docile and forgiving. I used a 260 sq. ft. canopy for my first 6 AFF's and stood up all of them like you said without even running it out. They switched me to a 210 on level 7 and now I want to go back to the 260

This may open great doors of opportunity for blind people wanting to skydive. Seriously though, why didn't the dog freeze to death? Isn't it like -30 degrees at 30000 feet?

slightly OT but when I was doing my 2nd tandem, during the climbout, the camera guy's camera fell off and it ended up landing about 20 feet away from the packing area.

I've been PADI certified since I was 15, having made 20-30 open water carribean dives, a couple dives off of moorehead city to swim around sunken WWI and WWII ships. I only recently took up skydiving (12 jumps). In my very limited experience with both sports, I can see a lot of similarities in the two. I like both because of the feeling you get when you are somewhere that you shouldn't naturally be (under 100 feet of water or plummeting through the sky). SCUBA diving is extrememly calm and peaceful and beautiful. I hate the water but when I SCUBA dive, it feels like I'm not even in the water. Swimming is effortless and it just feels like you're floating around in another world, like in you're in space or something. Skydiving has a little more of the "adrenaline" factor but it too can be very calming. I really don't even notice the wind noise when I'm in freefall and to jump at sunset is very beautiful and calming. I'd like to do both but there are no real good SCUBA diving areas around me, and there are plenty of dropzones. Also while skydiving starts expensive and get cheap, SCUBA diving starts expensive and stays expensive.

Did a tandem when I was 18, started AFF this summer when I was 19. I have few financial obligations so I was able to get a job this summer and spend all the money I made on getting my license. It's a shame it's so expensive, I'd love to get other people my age involved in it