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Thanks everybody. So, then it goes without saying at my stage of training to chop, again, as per our training at the DZ. How common (or uncommon) are lineovers?

Cool videos man, nice work, and thanks for the download.

Yeah, thats dumb, I didn't know you had to register. I've uploaded to skydivingmovies.com, and am waiting for approval. I am going to show to my instructor as well, and ask about it. Thanks.

Here is a clip of my wifes first tandem jump. First question, whats wrong with the canopy, what steps are in order to fix it? Second question. As an AFF student myself, I am told that it is not big, rectangular, and flying straight, to get rid of it. Clearly in the clip, it isn't rectangular, and not flying straight, but looks like it was taken care of easily. I guess if it happen to me, I would have gotten rid of it as per the training. What do you guys think? http://www.esnips.com/doc/36045fc7-477e-426e-8541-e004a40fdf24/malfunction_question.wmv

Stumbled across this video. Pretty Crazy. http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1150360941/Major_Adrenaline_Junky Slotperfect added: Some of the other video thumbnails and hyperlinks may be NSFW

Tailgaters. I hate tailgaters. -- Tailgaters are due for a phat brake check.

Really great work! Nice site!

I don't remember where I found it, I was just going through some pictures on an old cd, and stumbled across it. Modern Art or something lke that...?

Is there something so weird about this picture?

thanks for the insight. I have a long way to go. I really look forward to it.

Hey everybody. I am still doing my AFF. I hope to jump a lot more frequently in the coming months. -- I really love photography, and eagerly want to get into photographing jumps. I know everybody progresses at their own rate, but was just curious about how many jumps you had before you starting shooting as well. I will be using a 20D btw. Thanks!

I don't have any video footage, but would love to enter. Is there anybody that would be so kind to let me use some of their footage, and let me have a go at making a video, and entering? I'd love to give it a shot!

yeah, played that before good one, only took me a few tries to get a peek though...

'Road to Perdition'

Yeah, I'm not down with the whole sitting on the couch, smoking a cigarette, and watching life pass me buy 'thing'. Thanks again everybody who responded. I feel better now, knowing what I do. I still don't know if I felt right, jumping the next day after somebody 'bounced', but again, that could be because I am very new to this sport. Regardless, I will jump again in a week or two, and hopefully knock over a few of those AFF jumps! Cheers.

Thanks for the warm welcome guys! Bring on the Knowledge!

Its good to hear that most, if not all of the responses were that they would wish for continued jumping, after a death. Its good to know, and helps me to understand that Ops continued the next day. (I do not know if they continued the same day. I will know that later). Maybe if I had several more jumps, and was more experienced, I would have felt differen't about jumping the next day (or even the same). *Just to clarify* it wasn't a friend of mine, or anybody close to me, it sounds like that might have been misunderstood. But, thanks, its good to know that its not a disrespectful thing to continue ops, if something does happen.

Hey everyone. Just saying hi! Great forum, great site, love it here, and very happy to have found it. See you on the boards!

Hi. I am new here, awesome site, lots of good info, and great forums. I am lucky to have found this site. A quick blurb about me, and then my question. I am a student, I have 4 jumps however, I haven't jumped since January. I am starting over from AFF Stage 1. I am an American Expat currently in Australia. I will be doing my training here. I just had a quick question. I was supposed to jump just this passed Sunday, to start my training again. I was very eager, and looking forward to this. However, tragically, Saturday, the day before. Somebody jumped, had a malfunction, and passed on as their reserved failed to open in time. I opted to postpone my jump, and retraining, not out of fear but out of respect, as I just didn't feel right jumping the day after somebody's life was lost...where I was going to be jumping. I found out a day later, that Sunday, the day after, it was 'Operations as Normal'. What I am asking is if something terribly tragic like this happened at your DZ, would the DZ be down for a day or two, or would business just go on as usual. If it was my operation, I would have shut operations down for at least the weekend. Another quick note, this DZ has had 3 deaths in the last 2 years...? Thats pretty bad...isn't it? Thanks for any feed back, and see you on the boards!