Zennie

Cyber beer! In addition to hips, feet make a huge difference as well. I had "lazy" feet so I was negating a lot of the forward drive I was trying to get via the hips. One of my coaches noticed this and suggested that I point the toes down to go forward & up to go back -- kinda like a gas pedal on a car. This dramatically helped my proximity and also allows me to do more fine adjustments as I get closer. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Wow, Steve's really pouring a lot of money into facilities. That's great! But you're forgetting one thing.... POOL! POOL! "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Hrm like a lot of posters this was a very strange year for me. It was my first year jumping (174 jumps), so I have a whole bunch of great memories. My SCR, SCS, being in on someone else's SCR, 12 point 4-way, 8 point 8 way, 6 point 10 way. Got into a stable sit, learning head down, learning swoop basics, no groundings & relatively few lectures

Send pyke my best wishes for a speedy & complete recovery. But for God's sake don't give him a laptop for his hospital bed or he'll give Clay a run for his money as top post whore! "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Oh and thanks to PhreeZone as well! "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Well I of all people should be thanking you as well (I was going to during today's chat but you left before I could). So a big thank you for taking the initiative & hosting my movies!

And just for the record I think you deserve one... "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Lemme just note that as funny as this would be to do, and I personally don't have a problem with it, I wouldn't want to do something which might get certain people pissed at me. So if those people realized that this was just all in good fun, I'll be up for it, otherwise... well.... I like building bridges rather than tearing them down if you get my drift. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

So I bop on over to the Dropzone and as I'm looking at the forum listing I get this sense that something's different. So I scroll down, notice that the page is bigger and *ding!* Three new skydiving discipline forums! I for one am excited about this, since I'm starting to get a little more serious about freeflying and trying to learn basic swooping skills. Thanks Bossman! "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

And in Pammi's (and my & Merrick's) defense, that was probably our worst skydive of the weekend. It was still a blast though!

No that was Ramon in the record jump. Slap wore it on the SCR/SCS jump. I know it's confusing. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Your nipples are showing. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

If the waylow person you're referring to is in black & pink, I know who that is but I'll let that person fess up. The guy going head down is Scotty Carbone. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

chicago didn't make it in on that jump. We got him his SCR later that day (no video, sorry). "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Heh, one of those zoomers was yours turly. I'm the guy in white & black (that whole Tao thing ya know) orbiting trying to find a dang slot. What you can't see was that I was just a tad low and was trying to get back up & stay close to the formation at the same time. The classic moment of that video has to be Merrick bailing out of his (hot) approach at the last possible second. Everybody went "WHOA!!!! YEEEAHHHH!!!!" Lots of fun. Brings back some good memories.

Well I finally managed to get all my VHS skydiving videos digitized. I have two from our dz.com gathering at Spaceland: Pammi's SCR & My SCS (video by Ramon) dz.com Record (video by Josh Hill) I have a few others, such as some freefly & student jumps off my main skydiving page. They're all pretty big (~10M) and I've had problems playing the dz.com record video directly in the browser (although if you save the movie directly to disk and then play it from there, it works fine). So if you've got the time & the bandwidth, enjoy! "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Or as Albert Einstein put it... "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Swoops! Swoops! It'd be nice for those of us just learning to have a place for discussing things before we femur in! "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

I can vouch for this. Having attempted to do a 2-way sit with the Ag-man. We got a nice train exit, broke apart and the remainder of my skydive was playing catch up in a fullout stand. I never did catch up and my ProTrack had me maxed out a 189. Thus Aggie's other nickname "Corn Fed Mutherf@#$" "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

OK the cow swoops were pretty damn funny. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

This has been brought up from time to time (including by me)... I think some sort of filtering would be a nice feature. It could either be a user-based post block or a simple post scoring system a la Slashdot so you can filter for yourselves. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Blue Velvet was truly a messed up movie... "Don't you fucking look at me! Don't you fucking look at me!" "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

The Smiths were unable to conceive children, and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife and said, "I'm off. The man should be here soon". Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer rang the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. "Good morning madam. I've come to......" "Oh, no need to explain. I've been expecting you," Mrs. Smith cut in. "Really?" the photographer asked. "Well, good! I've made a specialty of babies." "That's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat. After a moment she asked, blushing, "Well, where do we start?" "Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch and perhaps a couple on the bed. Sometimes the living room floor is fun too....you; can really spread out!" "Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work for Harry and me." "Well, madam, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results." "My, my, that's a lot of ..." gasped Mrs. Smith. "Madam, in my line of work, a man must take his time. I'd love to be in and out in five minutes, but you'd be disappointed with that, I'm sure." "Don't I know it," Mrs. Smith said quietly. The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. "This was done on the top of a bus." "Oh my god!!" Mrs. Smith exclaimed, tugging at her handkerchief. "And these twins turned out exceptionally well,when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with." "She was difficult ?" asked Mrs. Smith. "Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. People were crowding around four and five deep, pushing to get a good look." "Four and five deep?" asked Mrs. Smith, eyes widened in amazement. "Yes", the photographer said. "And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate! Then darkness approached and I began to rush my shots. Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just packed it all in." Mrs. Smith leaned forward. "You mean they actually chewed on your um...equipment?" "That's right. Well madam, if you're ready, I'll set up my tripod so that we can get to work." "Tripod?? "Oh yes, I have to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big for me to hold very long. Madam? Madam?..... Good Lord, she's fainted!! "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

Yeah but you'll always be Body Shot Babe #1! "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."

BASE jumping. "Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control. Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper."