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i must admit i have a look on ogrish from time to time do i get off on it? nah... its just curiosity when i'm bored ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

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i'll have a big mac and fries please ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

so, its not a turn done by a dude in a pirate costume then? shiver me timbers ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

i hear what you're saying, i'm going to ask about canopy lessons on friday afternoon at my DZ. get signed up as soon as possible I'm 99% sure i'll never go below the 190 as it'll be plenty fun/fast enough for what i want, and like the other poster said.... i'm in England, its not as if we get the weather to be doing 2-300 jumps a year ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

I've been thinking what is a hook turn, how do you do it? what happens if you do a sharp, aggresive low turn? (apart from turn i guess and speed up...how much height do you lose?) stall turns? canopy lessons, here i come ! I'm only asking out of curiosity, i'm not going to attempt any as i'll be pumping my instructors and coaches as well for info WELL before i even think about doing of that stuff ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

as an adult, do you believe you should be allowed to watch anything as long as you want to? ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

if only my balls would drop and enable me to be a man nah, i know what you're saying, and you're right. If i'm sat in hospital with god know what injury, will somebody going "oops, we got it wrong, mate" help in any way? nah my money, my life, my choise, nuff said and yeah, shit weather over here.... i'll be doing around the 75 - 100 jumps a year mark, if the weather holds up. ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

pleae don't think i'm trying to preach to any of you, because i'm not (15 jumps ) but i don't see what anybody can learn from watching an 11 boy simply falling to his death with no parachute opening at all, no malfunction to observe and learn what to do if you have the same, no incorrect EP's to teach you what order you really should do things in, no pulling too low to teach you to be alti aware... just a body falling and going "thud" i can't learn anything from that unless this topic is about other people going in, in which case i'll go and put my dunce cap on and sit in the corner ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

i had a virtually sleepless night last night, going over and over and over everything i'd read on here and what my instructor said to me on the phone. I got up this morning (not easy considering i got out of bed at 3am becasue i couldn't sleep and came back on here to see if anybody else had offered any more good advice) and took a hard decision for me. I rang my instructor and asked him to change my order to the 188 canopy. It was hard becasue i have such massive respect for the instructors at my DZ, to go against what they are advising is not easy when its just me (15 jumps) going against the advice of three people with over 23,000 jumps between them. I hope they haven't lost any respect for me because of it, because i still have a massive amount of respect for them ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

can i ask... what do people think they can learn from it? do they think they will learn if people die or not from the impact? do they think they will learn what to do in an emergency from watching it? do they think they will lean how to hit the ground from watching it? do they think it will teach them about some kind of new danger? just exactly what do you think a skydiver will learn from watching that kind of thing? ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

cheers for all the advice folks something that i've not really thought much about, that is very obvious to me now... get some canopy flying lessons ! ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

true us brits use the "C" word all the time, nothing too offensive, but i was told by an American friend that if we used that word in the States, all hell would break loose ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

I'll shut up ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

i've never been told to not put my hand in a fire, but i've got slightly more than half a brain, so it appears obvious to me not to just how stupid do you have to be as a none skydiver to have no idea if its safe or not to push your 11 year old out of a plane ... thus requiring you to view a video to inform you of the potential dangers If you're so stupid to need a video to tell you if its dangerous not, how do you manage to walk upright? ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

how many people are potentially about to do that to an 11 year old? is this video being shown going to save many lives? in reality...nope. I'd bet my house on the fact that anybody with at least half a brain will already know not to do that to a child... its voyerism dressed up to look like its not, if you say its for "educational purposes" ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

Hi Gus yeah, i don't think we've met. I know the instructors are ALL really decent people. I feel like a bit of an idiot/scum bag for changing what i've ordered, but i just can't ignore this uneasy feeling i've got about jumping a 168 at my level. I know the instructors all think i'll be ok, but i've tried to soak up all the information from all angles and come to a decision on how i feel inside about it. It doesn't matter in my head that i'm told by the instructors (you know how many jumps they have, and we both know how serious they are) that i'll be ok, i just can't shake off this feeling of needing something more sensible, and at the end of the day...i'm the one who's got to go up in those planes and jump out of them and try and get myself back on the ground in one piece I'm down there this weekend, so i'll have a good chat to them about what i've done and try and explain how i feel inside about it all. I hope they don't think i'm showing any of them any disrespect for going against their opinion ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

i understand what you're saying, thanks for the advice its really hard when you're a student, you put all your faith (and life) in their hands and believe what you're told. All i want to do i jump and have fun, and be safe. I've watched people come screaming into land at Langar and i just know that even after 50 - 100 or even 150 jumps, i'll not have the confidence or really, the desire to do that. when i said earlier that i view the canopy ride as just a means to get on the floor, i meant that of course i want to do that as safe as possible, but i also meant that right from the start of getting into this, its been all about the freefall to me. thats why i've taken this up, and unless my opinion changes, i'll just want a little performance from a canopy, but will always just take it easy under canopy and bring it in for a safe landing without any hooks, swoops or anything else of any added danger I'm 39, i don't have the bravado of a teenager, i just want to jump out of planes, enjoy the freefall, and then come down nice and safe ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

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i'm getting a wings container, he said he'll change the size of that too

i'm changing the reserve to a 188 too, is that advisable? ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

so by your logic, if a drunk driver knocks down and kills somebody, but really regrets it... the fact they will regret it for the rest of their life is punishment enough? does guilt and regret, save you from criminal prosecution? ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

i've just rang the guy and changed the order to a 188 pilot, i had a sleepless night last night with worry I've got to be comfortable in my own mind about landing, thanks for all the advice ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

thanks to all the responses i've had here, i've decided to tell the guy i'm buying it off that i want at minimum the 188 pilot ________________________________________ drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police