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Those are not Aerodyne rings, fool! They DO look great though! Chuckie

Ugh! I don't see how you can stand it. Our dog sleeps on the bed sometimes when I am away working, but I never permit him on the bed when I am home. He has a dog bed down on the floor at the foot of the bed.

That's cool. Tell everyone back home I said "hello."

"Foosball is the DEVIL"

Somebody sort this out and PM me back. I am not really interested in towing my camper down there (and all that entails) and running my generator all weekend to boot.

I wear "Ice" framed Gatorz. I have black frames with black smoked lenses for my military contract work and chrome frame/mirror blue lenses for skydiving and whatever else. For the best fit I always just bend them by hand. Chuck

He probably got that from watching Soul Flyers II. There is footage of one of those guys flying like that in the DVD.

This is Shawn. He is a Raeford/Parkton jumper. This is Ian Drennan's wife, Katie. The one after that (to the right) is her as well.

Katie and I are wondering whether or not there is room to plug in our massive trailer if we bring it. It has a 5k generator, but I am not sure I want to run it all weekend. That said, I will have to find another place for us to stay on the DZ. I REALLY don't want to stay off the DZ.

Put your feet together, Sam. That will get you more "loft" and less drive on your back. Chuck

JVX pilots may dominate at some point, but I can promise you that point won't come until the Athlete's sponsors start buying that canopy for them. Lets be real here: Equipment manufacturers are always vying to get the best competitors flying their canopies. Those sponsored athletes are going to jump the best offering a company can come up with. NONE of those people are going to arbitrarilly blow off their sponsorship and jump another canopy unless they are: a) fed up with their current deal, or b) have been courted by another company, or c) they have lost their deal altogether and have to scamper for another deal. Some people in that last category might then chose to switch to the JVX (or another canopy) which they must pay full price for. I can only think of very, very few instances where the top-level fully-sponsored pilots changed canopies in the past few years. Then, it was a Precision to Icarus trade and in JC's case it was an Icarus to PD trade. As far as I know, the only fully-sponsored "independant" team who's deal is not tied directly to a canopy manufacturer is Red Bull. Those guys can jump anything they like, so long as the manufacturer can sew that logo on bottom. Some of you younger guys that kicked ass last year are no doubt sporting various degrees of sponsorship now. Some of you might even be sporting some degree of Daedalus sponsorship. One thing I can almost guarantee, though, is that if you are currently operating on an un-signed 50% sponsorship by one company and another competing company offers you a full ride, you are going to take the ride so long as it's another proven canopy. That's the way it works, folks and you are very naive if you believe otherwise. Chuck

Aaron is right about jumping the glove on every tandem. I have seen plenty of cases where passengers who had not bought the video prior go ahead and buy it once the TM shows them the footage he took. Also, it's good practice. Chuck

I take mine to terminal on almost every single jump. I use that rig for AFF, video, and everything else other than tandems and wingsuit jumps. No problems at all. I pull my slider off on every jump. Chuck

Bill Coe, the guy that owns PD, designed that canopy.

It doesn't really matter whether he got the one fastest run. What matters is his average got him first place in the event. I can't count the times I have been in competition and beat FAR better competitors because they verted a round. Chuck

Jeffro flies a Xaos 27 and he won the meet. The best competitors are going to do the best under whichever wing they are most practiced under. The best competitors are going to do well no matter what is over their head.

"People" do whatever they like. Don't be forced into something just because "all the cool kids do it." Skydiving has a lot to offer. There is, seriously, no reason to get too focused on one thing.

With all the questions about where the manufacturers will be this year SkyFest thought we might share our list. We will be adding seminars to the schedule as it works out. For a complete list of events that they will be attending go to their website, I believe most of them have their schedule posted. So far to date: Sun Path Products Performance Designs Relative Workshop HiPerUSA Velocity Sports Equipment Alti-2 Vigil Phoenix Fly Single Helix Sky Systems Tony Suit Parachute Systems Strong Enterprises Applied Deceleration Pony Printing BirdMan more to come... The total number of sponsors and prizes list is even greater. The prizes will be auctioned off during the event. The website is getting updated soon. Keep an eye on it. Hope this is ok with the mod's.. SkyFest: The Boogie that "Pays it Skyward" Over $11,000 donated to upcoming jumpers in the last 5 years!!http://www.skyfestboogie.com

BTFU.....and do a trick!

See you in ONE month, fool!

pass a cock-a-tilly, my nilly.

Hey jackass, where's the Sunrise Rigging option?

There is nothing louder than that jet pack.

I don't know of any AFF course directors who are also not Coach Course directors. This is not the "old days" where we only had one person travelling around running all the AFF courses. All these people want your business. Chuck

that sounds like a good purchase to me. It would be perfect for the camper