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Hmmm... Perhaps you can tell us what it means to you. Your words are the key to unveiling the deeper meaning. Then again, some dark secrets are best left dark & secret. Did you dream I gave it back to you? Or did I keep it for myself?

I think this is common. The non-injurious bounce followed by the dusting off and walking away. I had mine within the first months of starting up in the sport and I've had several weird ones since. I've often wondered, Freud & Jung spoke of dream symbolism. For many, dreams of flight have a generalized significance and in some it is specific, but those people likely don't actually fly and have not experienced anything close to it. We have. So I wonder if we now bring a whole other meaning to our flight dreams that Freud & Jung could never have imagined. I dreamed I found your freebag. Wonder what Jung/Freud would say about that?

The OP never heard of it. I never heard of it. I was never taught this. I don't teach this. Its like the special prejump handshake thats different depending who's in the airplane with you. If the consensus is its another tool in the tool box make it the standard. Put it in the ISP where group skills are taught. Right now its seems to be like a safety meeting. You only know about it if you know about it. I was taught this during my "coached jumps" period. I teach this (It's not really a "teach" but a "tell"). Most DZ's I've been to, whether it's US, Middle East, Canada, Australia...folks know what it means, and they respond. Even if you don't know it's a "standard," If you see that someone is kicking their legs as an "I see you" (maybe because they're being funny, maybe it's music, maybe it's that a bug is in their crotch, but you DO see them....mission accomplished. Until this thread, I didn't realize it wasn't a "standard."

The manual says "rigger." Their website (easier copy/paste) says: Your rigger (or reserve parachute packer) can replace your power pack very easily. It will take less than 5 minutes to do this. The procedure to follow is explained on page 25 of the VIGIL I User's Manual and pages 27, 28, 29 of the Vigil II User's Manual. Gowlerk, the "slam" against CYPRES comes from a guy that owns a Vigil. Given that my personal and student rigs have both, I'm very happy with my Vigils. One of my CYPRES units wouldn't turn on the other day, reasons unknown, no error code. Its replacement will be a Vigil.

Yelling did not help the incident of 8.30.2011. The surviving man was yelling to the deceased. Neither of them deviated. We'll never know if the deceased heard the yelling, but kicking might have gotten someone's attention. Is leg kicking the only answer? Of course not. But it is a valuable tool in what may be a rapidly shrinking number of options.

Never seen the one you linked from Amazon. the other can is what I use, I get it at Costco in 3 can bundles. It's also available at Home Depot or walmart. The Upholstery stuff is almost the same, but it is more fine or something. A wingsuit student explained it, he works for 3M. The only thing I noticed is the upholstery stuff is easier to get too thick, and it turns white. Red stuff, takes a lot to get it thick/white. Cheaper, too.

Always. Use the red can.

There are great coaches out there that aren't tied to any manufacturer. There are people that have sought continuing, outside education to be better instructors/coaches. Brand name isn't important, and for what it's worth, PF isn't mentioned even once in our coaching course. There are many that simply want the title of "coach/instructor" after their name. It's about ego vs passion for the student's success and for the sport. The problem is that those without the passion can (and have) created scenarios that affect all wingsuiters across the board. As wingsuiting grows, this issue too, will grow. Putting brakes on from time to time isn't a bad thing if it causes us to stop and examine what we do. Maybe that's just how it is, and Chuck Blue is right. Stop bickering, accept that the standard is a race to the bottom, and suck it up. Put me on your list, Simon. DSE-D29060 3,400 jumps USPA C/E, AFFI, PRO, Coach, Phoenix-fly Examiner/Coach ~Skydive Elsinore Wingsuit School ~Over 50 suits in various brands/sizes, PF-Supported School. ~3 Full-time Wingsuit Coaches, 2 part time ~We are here 7 days a week, DZ closed on Tuesdays in the winter (unless military is training, then we're open)

Robyn was a hard-core, no-compromises vegan. She championed breast-feeding, and home birthing. Robyn volunteered a LOT of time to various groups in Wisconsin. She was a lot of fun, had some very unique perspectives on the world, and made people think (one way or another). Yes, Robin could get crazy verbose, but that's mostly because expressing every detail of her thought was pretty important to her. She didn't ever assume much about anyone. My favorite story is when she came to Elsinore, she thought the bunkhouse had a maid and linen service like a hotel. Her 2 year old woke the whole place up at 5 a.m. when he was hungry. He got into everyone's food, and this bothered Robyn because she didn't want him eating meat or dairy (kinda hard around a bunkhouse of carnivoric sloths). Her son kept getting into food, so one of the guys gaff-taped him to the wall. He was not happy, but when his mom came out, he was laughing once he saw her. She wasn't too happy at first either, but it didn't take long til everyone was laughing. Trying to find her a Vegan pizza in Elsinore wasn't easy either, but she managed to do it. She also somehow managed to remove all the pictures of sexy women posing in the bunkhouse. Jose had some good ones from sports magazines. She didn't care for them, and did some interesting things with them. Braeden, I have your cow toy at my house. The next time she came out, she stayed in a motel, and so we didn't see as much of Braedon; he was being babytended by another skydiving friend. Robyn grew a lot that week too. Robyn borrowed my helmet (the shot seen on her FB page) and asked me if she could remove the "Have you kicked your packer today" sticker, because she was just that non-violent. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1720408483364 is her first jump outside of Wisconsin. She is supposed track back and forth past the base, and then track as far as she can at 5K. She really wanted to excel at skydiving. We spent a lot of time working on her track and she grew a lot in a week. I suspect most folks only saw the very talkative, super hyper Robyn, but when it was cloudy out, she went deep into some intense subjects. I'd suggest she was well-read if not well-educated. She loved people, wanted to make a positive contribution wherever she went, and freely shared her knowledge and her passion. She overflowed with passion for everything she was doing. If it was the 60's, I'd say she defined "Flower child" in every sense. Her return trip to S'nore was filled with wet weather, so she spent a lot of time touring the area and seemed to have fallen in love with this place. She made a lot of friends here. Her FB chats and emails were always filled with fun things, sometimes silly things, but she stayed in close touch, writing often. Her last email is one I'll keep close to my heart for a long, long time. You'll be missed, Robyn.

shouldn't be about the brand, but about the speed.

http://www.sony-mea.com/support/download/316131 PMB download

Picture Motion Browser does a resample of images from AVCHD cams to make them "double resolution." Viewed at normal sizes, they look pretty good. As far as plugins, Ultimate S Pro and Ultimate S Light both do grabs, but they resample at the project resolution. You can do the same thing in Vegas as PMB does, but it takes a coupla workaround clicks.

In Template Creator, convert current files to slugs. Save as a template. Then open the template via PA. The template doesn't save as a veg file, it's a template. http://dspcdn.sonymediasoftware.com/videos/vegasproassist/03_Creating_Templates.flv

I'm attempting to point out to you that newbies (in any discipline) don't know what they don't know while they're out trying to z'kick ass". Move aside from wingsuiting. ~The guy that puts a GoPro on his head at 18 jumps is just "having a kick ass time." He doesn't realize he's being unsafe. Boo and hiss?? ~The dude that has 100 jumps and downsizes to a wingloading of 1.3 doesn't know he's being unsafe, just having a kick ass time. Boo and hiss?? ~The person who jumps up to do a flip on their A-license graduation skydive is just having a kick ass time. They don't realize jumping up towards the tail is unsafe. Boo and hiss?? ~The person that is so caught up in having a kick ass time, they don't check their navigation nor altitude and end up landing in trees or the river. Boo and hiss?? ~That drunk guy from Flock U who was twisting my just-out-of-surgery back and neck in your trailer down in Moab...he was just having a kick ass time, totally missed the potential for badness there. I'm grateful you talked him off me though. Boo and hiss?? ~The person that downwinds it in the middle of the load? He's just having a kick ass time, and doesn't realize he's being unsafe (just watched this one occur a couple weeks ago, turned out to be a fatal "unsafe." The downwind guy didn't intend to kill someone else). Boo and hiss?? ~Lest we not forget the specific guy that didn't know how to stop his dive in time and placed his knee on the back of my neck, causing my lens and camera display to break off, breaking my molar teeth, and displacing my cochlea. I can't hear anymore, but 2.5K$ fixed up my tooth. I figure it was a 7k jump with medical, dental, camera travel costs thrown in. Haven't found a value for my hearing just yet. An apology vs a "Fuck You" from the Vertical Organizers would have gone a long way. Boo and hiss?? ~The dud that borrows his buddies logbook with 500 jumps and signs up for a USPA course. He's just having a kikk-ass life and doesn't know why the requirements are there. Boo and hiss?? ~The guy that rents a wingsuit for his first flight? He's having a kick ass time, but may not realize he's not being safe either through his own actions, or the actions of a "coach" who has never been taught to teach and has never been evaluated in a wingsuit by anyone who knows what to look for when evaluating a potential coach. That's what an Examiner does for USPA. And why USPA has IRC's and IERC's. The pix previously posted demonstrate how unevaluated/untrained "coaches" can set up very unsafe scenarios while "having a kick ass time." Boo and hiss?? We'll just agree to disagree, I guess. I can't agree with facilitating equipment to unseen, un-interviewed newbies over the Internet. We've had multiple problems with rental suits here at our school. You knew this already. Boo and hiss?? at anyone who thinks of safety first? I can't agree to endorsing "coaches" that *no one* has "tested" for skills/knowledge, and these are the only points where I disagree with your effort. Boo and hiss??

Once your doctor clears you, tandems are a terrific way to get back into the sky.

Gonna be a lot of fun, but you forgot to mention Robi Pecnik will also be doing some coaching for those that want to work with Robi. We'll have the entire fleet there, too.

I'm really, really sorry you see it this way, Simon. Couldn't be further from the truth. Like when you asked if you could reference/use my water training...I told you I'm all about safe training, learning new things, and helping others along the way and thanked you for the courtesy of asking and praised you stepping into additional training, right? Teaching and learning is my passion; quality instruction is what I genuinely care about. Whether you like how I present myself or not, I believe you understand what drives me. If you understand my motive, and recognize I don't stand to gain nor lose from your list nor your rental business, then what could possibly be my objection to an "independent database" of coaches? Safety should always come first. Competence is a huge component of "safe." I've already posted pix of incompetence; it's difficult to accept the standard you've embraced when it's incompetent and unsafe. Do you disagree?

Wait...you don't know what "SEO" means, but you can put a mechanism in place to self-manage? Your credibility fell off the train here. How long til we see an article in Parachutist about "WW promotes safety and donates X to whatever through WS rentals and a database of "quality, peer-reviewed coaches?" This smells so much like a non-profit that paid for an endless summer....

Super-tall guys (remember Stefan, Jarno?) work pretty well with a front float exit on almost any aircraft. I don't like it much, however. But....when you're 6'7" like Ville and 6'10" like Stefan, it's really the only choice. S/L exit didn't work for them in an Otter or Caravan. Here is a very tall guy in this video If the student needs to be front float, then coach rear-float, the coach still has the opportunity to control the student. Same with student inside, Coach outside and student inside/coach inside. Being able to control right up to fly away is important, IMO.

I disagree, Jeff. We'll happily teach anyone our methods here. We're confident that they are entirely different than anything anyone else is doing because we approach it from a very different perspective. However...if they want to learn it directly, then they'll have to pay for the experience because it takes me off the line. If they want to shadow for a week, that's their prerogative. We're a tourism destination, so there are coaching or FFC jumps every day. Crazy busy here and we've learned a lot about how to do things wrong and how to make things better. With people like Hammo, Jay S, Lob, and a few other I/E's with years of experience chiming in about how we work...it's turned into a very successful program. Just ask our students, pilots, or DZO's. An "independent list" of people that call themselves "instructors..." sure. It's just an internet version that reflects the real-world. I feel it suspect because it comes in the wake of the Flock University mess that hurts us all, and something related to instruction needs to be salvaged. But it's unfortunate that those that don't know what they don't know will be "endorsed" to those that know even less about what they don't know. As but one small example: There was a guy on the Vertical 25 way. He did not have the quals, experience, nor coaching to have merited his inclusion. He struck me in the back of the head, not only costing me a molar and camera, but 6 months later, I discovered my cochlea has been damaged. My hearing in that ear has deteriorated past the point of being legally deaf. He'd never been trained to stop and flies at a small DZ. The two organizers told me "how we organize is none of your fucking business." Well....my health sorta is my business. And my health, your health, is greatly dependent on the quality of people that are in the sky with us, don't you agree? Coaching helps alleviate all of that. I can promise you that any student that comes through our school knows how to do stall stops on their second jump. With so many new people coming into the discipline, proper coaching should be a valid concern for all of us.

mine are all blue/yellow. That way when I screw up, folks think its Monkey or Rick H. If I put a student in blue/yellow, folks think it's me anyway. Consistency contributes to confusion. Then there are those Ill Vision guys...you never know WHO is WHO in all that purple.

Set Preview to Best/Full. Then cap the image. Other options are to use plugins that capture images and automatically create movement/slideshow for you.

And a sweet new Ghost3 it is...but it's missing the pony.

More specifically, a student rear-float and a coach inside the aircraft.