Levin

i recommend an observer ride in the plane first. seriously recommend. the problem won't be so much on the plane ride up as it will be on the fall going down. after everyone has jumped ask the pilot to make a rapid descent. also ask him to pay attention to your face. if he sees your nose pouring blood then he needs to slow the decent and you need to wait a bit before jumping again. be sure to take some gauz or a rag. edit: typos

yah i definitely have had my fill of injuries, but unfortunately i never seem to learn my lesson. i posted all that and the video in hopes that maybe someone will learn something from it. broken bones definitely suck. my bone doctor told me that a "boot top break" was a common football injury. he said often football players tape it up and keep playing on it. i don't see how. i didn't hurt but i definitely couldn't walk on it. much less play football. another injury for ya. back in june is was doing a 2-way sit and i didn't come to a complete stop before i took a dock on the other jumpers foot. my forward movement was almost completely stopped but not quit. the other jumper weighs 180lbs + gear. i weigh 130. when i took the dock i went under him and pulled him over me into my burble. all 200lbs of him came crashing down on my left shoulder. the crash knocked 3 bone shards off my shoulder. one of them is 4mm long. i keep putting of the surgery to suck them out. while i've been putting the surgery off, use of my arm and shoulder has worked those bone shards into my socket. 95% of the time i don't have any problems with that injury. but the other 5% of the time it ranges from pain to paralysis. not the loss of feeling type of paralysis, but the kind where my arm doesn't work. sometimes i can't pick up my rig with my left arm. the worst thing for it seems to be sitting on the co-pilot's side of the otter and resting my arm on the rig of the person next to me. that will mess it up for a good bit of the day. i have surgery scheduled for it again this dec. 15th (?) i think. as it gets closer i'm already thinking about postponing it till january. if i wait till january that will give me an excuse not to jump in the worst part of winter when it's cold and miserable. i've definitely learned my lesson from that injury. always come to a complete stop before taking a dock.

when you get it figured out, please be sure and post the video.

It was my fibula. I think at some point I've misspelled every word I've ever typed. Before I made my cast jump the bone doctor warned me that if I landed on my cast and went to fall forward, the top of the cast just below my knee would break my tibia at that point. Just the thought of that sounds crazy painful. I held my cast behind me and landed on my good foot and put my arms forward to catch my fall. worked great.

If he is guilty of "Bait & Switch" and he is then we need to find some of these people that were screwd over. These people are necessary to build a case for the FBI. I think involving the FBI would be a better answer to this problem than going after copy right infringements. Those of you that have put up consumer alert websites should add a notice for people who have been "Bait & Switched" to contact you. Once the FBI has actual victems to work with they can build a case against the parasite.

i believe he's married. he's old enough to have made millions at the expense of others.

i can't see how SkyRide can offer a better service that would justify higher cost by booking tandem reservations for other DZ's. His services are not going to get you on the plane any faster or offer a better window seat with peanuts or altoids to snack during the climb to altitude. i get what you are saying but i can't see how it would apply in this industry. bottom line is the best way for a 1st time tandem jump customer to jump is to make the reservation directly with the DZ. that is up to the DZ's and the industry. in light of all that has happened I don't see how this guy can ever be fully trusted. It's not just SkyRide. His evil business tactics have a history dating back 5+ years. they don't

i have a couple of obvious ideas but nothing you haven't already thought of i'm sure. you may want to ask this in the wingsuit forum. i see alot of pictures of people rodeoing bird people. i doubt seriously they put those dives together after exiting the plane.

I've been meaning to post this for some time. I've broken both of my ankles on 2 occasions the exact same way while swooping. The 1st incident was at Skydive Dallas in Oct 2001 on an Alpha84 and the 2nd on a FX74 at Skydive East Texas on February 28, 2004. On both occasions as I was planing out after my turn and I got to relaxed or lazy with initiating toggle imput and allowed myself to impact slightly on my butt. The angle of impact was not steep. I just came in a couple of inches low each time. With the forward speed my canopy was still flying. I tried to run the landings out while still going approximately 15 miles an hour. I nor anyone else can run that fast. With a small canopy, harness imput while attempting to run that fast with the canopy still flying will turn the canopy in the direction that you step. On each incident I started to run with my left leg. On the first incident my canopy turned to the left and I had to keep running with it. I had to turn my right foot slightly to stay up and when I did I got slammed. On the second incident I went down after the first step. The first incident broke my talus bone. The second incident broke my fibia at the ankle. There is a big difference in these two breaks. The broken talus (load bearing) was a horrible experience. It hurt. I'm a morning pisser. When I would try and get up in the morning and put my foot down the blood rushing into it felt like someone had my ankle in a vice and was drilling a hole in it. I could only take it for a few seconds. It took me 20 minutes each morning to get out of bed putting my foot on the ground and then picking it back up on the bed. I was in a cast and walking boot and on crutches for almost 13 weeks. It was 17 weeks before I started jumping again. The 2nd break, fibia (support) was no big deal at all. It never hurt. I was off the crutches in 2 weeks. I had the cast off in 6 weks and was jumping 2 weeks later (of course I made a cast jump). I think the most interesting factor in these two breaks was the shoes I was wearing. When I broke my talus bone I was wearing tennis shoes. When I broke my fibia I was wearing high top sketchers. The fibia broke even with the top of my boots. I highly recommend anyone that performs swoop landings to wear high top boots of some sort. Protect your feet and ankles. When swooping that's what's taking the abuse. Trust me when I say you don't want to break your ankles. In some cases they never heal back the same. Such as my right ankle with the broken talus bone. It's been 3 years and it is still 1 1/2 times the size of my left ankle. For me swooping is worth the risk. But it's never worth the risk when it's preventable. A few weeks ago at Skydive Houston I was trying to make it back from a long spot and decided to make a downwinder to save myself some of the walking distance back. Winds were blowing about 5-6mph. I saw a ditch in front of me that I thought would be fun to swoop down. To build up a little extra speed I pulled down double fronts and let them right back up. As I was going down the ditch I saw some high grass coming up. I put my foot out and angled it to push the grass down so that I didn't trip thru it. Turned out the high grass was covering a slab of concrete that served as either a driveway of sorts or as a drainage ditch. I impacted the concrete on the bottom of my foot just above the heel going about 40mph. I bounced off the impact and landed about 30 feet in front of me. I felt the impact all the way up in my knee. I felt for sure that I atleast cracked something. Fortunately all I did was compress the joint. Had the high grass turned my foot I would have most certainly broken it again. The impact did leave a huge bruise on the side of my ankle that didn't go away for a couple of weeks. Moral of the story is know your landing area. A big surprise followed by instant pain sucks. There is video from my view of the concrete strike at www.flyingarab.com. Click video then funjumps. The video is titled Levin's broken foot. But I didn't break it. Tarek hasn't changed the name. edit: misspelled the subject line

LOL. I guess if he was he would be selling certificates for ultralight rides on SkyRide. Ooops! Did I just say that? My Apologies to the ultralight community.

Very sorry for your loss, Conway. My prayers are with you and your family.

sorry dude. i don't think it qualified as a personal attack. more like a frustrated comment. i agree it could have sparked a retaliation reply. i stand moderated.

I never said you or your friends are scum. I said you and your friends are part of a parasite support structure. You spend your money at the PARASITE's place of business. That money goes into the PARASITE's pocket and is used to further invest his infection on our sport. the old website happens to be over 400 fictitous websites for businesses that do not exist. The owner of these websites and SkyRide is the same PARASITE that owns ASC. Instead of blindly trying to support and defend your home DZ I suggest you go do some research and educate yourself about what is going on behind the scene right in front of your face. Get a clue dude. edit: almost forgot to address this what the hell are talking about? are you saying no one should say anything because everybody does illegal stuff and that makes us all illegal hypocrits?

I get the whole support your DZ no matter what thing. Don't think you are immune because you jump there. Very few to no skydivers spend their entire jumping career at one DZ. One day you may decide to move somewhere else and your home DZ will change. You may find yourself on the other side of the fence. Especially if you later on decide get ratings and go the instructor route.

i did a google search for skyride and skyrider just to see if your site was showing up on the list. after doing i skyrider search i noticed that Skyrider is a brand of ultralight. In earlier post in this thread someone said they had started a class action lawsuit when they got ripped on multiple tandems. That persons user name is quicksilver. Quicksilver is a very popular ultralight that has been around forever. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?username=quiksilver;guest=8025207 I have a gut feeling that Claire is really Cary and Cary is an avid ultralight pilot. I could be wrong but I think that whole lawsuit thing was just bullshit to try and shut this thread up.

Cool!! Wonder how many clicks it will take to get it to the top of a google search. keep clicking and see. www.1800skyrider.com

they did

the email on the SkyRide site (skydivinghouston) is going to to Skydive Houston. Apparantly the PARASITE screwed up and left the "ing" off of skydive on his contact email.

huh? it's not pain. it's disgust. huh? i'm in texas dude. i'm not travelling across 4 states to check out a PARASITE's place of business. i never said the people weren't way cool. most of the people in this sport are way cool. why would i assume asc jumpers are any different. what i said was, ASC jumpers are part of a parasite support structure because they put their money in a PARASITE's pocket. i am quit sure that 99% of all ASC fun jumpers are not involved in ASC's DZ politics and jump their just because they have fun jumping there. that is why i keep saying it is important to inform the jumpers at ASC about this issue so that they will realize their money spent jumping is being used to invest in the destruction of our sport. because this PARASITE shits in other people's backyards. not his own.

www.skydivinghouston.com is SkyRide. www.skydivehouston.com is Waller. The SkyRide website (skydivinghouston) currently has an email for reservations@skydivehouston.com on the contact page. This just recently popped up on that site in the past few days. Skydive Houston's main email is info@skydivehouston.com. They do not use reservations@skydivehouston.com. They never created that email. Skydive Houston is right now looking into this. But I do not believe they know (at the moment) what to do about it. Apparantly the PARASITE has hijacked their email. I advised manifest at Waller to use the link for the FBI tips provided by BlueEyedMonster. I'm not really sure what to do about this either. Anyone have any ideas? As for the reply you received, SkydiveHouston is not sure they sent that reply. Manifest at SkydiveHouston todat called the SkyRide number on the skydivinghouston website. The tried to find out where this fictitous DZ was located. The person they talked to at Skyride gave them directions to Spaceland without ever saying Spaceland.

seen it a bazillion times. and everytime i see it again i have to see it atleast 3-6 times.

send Hookitt a PM. he's a rigger in your area.

i got a little bit of groundrush on my last jump. though maybe not the same groundrush yall are talking about. It was my 2nd CRW jump. I have a Spectre120 and CF uses a Sabre170. In a downplane that makes me slightly inverted. I was seeing the ground coming up under the nose of my canopy. My plan was to not in anyway scream like a girl. At the last split second he got me and I yelled BREAK! He let me go at 80' and I swooped out of it. It was sweeet!!. CRW rocks. I think I might like it better than freeflying. And better yet I can do them both on the same jump. I primarily jump an FX74. So when no CRW dogs are on the jump then the FX is always fun too. But I've never gotten anykind of groundrush swooping it. I guess because I always look at the ground at an angle instead of directly at it.

don't suppose yo got to watch him pack it.

i do too, but it is certainly not a prerequisite.