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  1. SkymonkeyONE
    I wear the "Ice" frames and they really work well for skydiving on my face type.
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    Yes, the large Hurricane logo is on the top of the butt on all of her suits and pants. She also generally puts a spelled-out logo on one of the legs.
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    It always helps. I wear my video helmet (with a .3 lens on my PC 109) on every AFF jump I do now. Video is a tremendous debriefing tool. With the .3 lens I get the student's entire body in frame, even when I am flying with a legstrap grip on Cats A and B.
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    The site that Tim had planned on using apparently does not have the right water table properties to support the structure. I am not sure what his secondary plan is, but it positively sucks that the original site was not satisfactory; it's maybe a half mile from the dropzone. Chuck
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    I just looked at the photos on the Lake Wales site. Tagle does have both a weight vest and weight belt sitting next to his rig. His slider is in fact off, but his deployment system is still attached to the top of the canopy, and the canopy does look small enough to be a 90. I stand totally corrected from my previous hypothesis! All I can say is "wow." I had a talk with Jonathan at the Wildwood PST meet last summer and told him that it was definitely his year. He had trained hard, travelled to a lot of meets, and done very, very well in them. I had no idea he was joining "Blue" at the time, nor do I think he had any idea. This is just great. Way to go, Jonathan! Chuck
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    If that is in fact what happened, then it's a veritible 180 degree change from what people flew all last year and the year before. Just for discussion's sake I would just like to say that the distance runs on my 2.4 (without lead) loaded Velo 75 were about 40 feet on average shorter than they were under my 2.23 loaded 79. It was a much faster canopy in general flight and certainly when weighted up for four-way, but it fell off quite dramatically at the end of the swoop. Tagle weighs about 160. If he was in fact loading a 90 at 2.5 then he was wearing 40 pounds of lead, or very close to it. I can't wait to hear the complete details. Fascinating.
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    Who gives a shit, Kris! You got to jump your ass off in a variety of suits at some good boogies this past year. Nice.
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    Hey, Matt, don't piss that S1 support guy off! He might fuck up a 4187 for you!
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    Better make sure your newly-renovated Airstream does not get in the way of any bulldozer stupidity.
  10. SkymonkeyONE
    That was pretty fun looking.
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    Uh, she posted 12 times yesterday.
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    if thats worth = to $50 u.s. or more, you got a deal! If you don't get video, it never happened. Also, the "$50 Fijian dollars" thing was a play on something I heard on The Real World.
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    WHAT???? I CAN'T HEAR YOU....
  14. SkymonkeyONE
    That is a fantastic video! I am moving it to General Skydiving so that more people will see it. Oh yeah, here is the CLICKY
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    That's correct, John. Kris has so many wingsuits he had to sell me his PC 109 in order to be able to afford jumps at the Holiday Boogie! Thanks for the deal by the way, Kris; the camera is working out great. Chuck
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    A better bet is that he may have jumped a 90 loaded at 2.5 for the Speed rounds. Luis Cani wore 50 pounds of lead for Speed at Wildwood.
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    code does not show as anything but gibberish on the forums, dude. Good thing I know HTML
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    Born in Opeleika I bet......... It's spelled O-P-E-L-I-K-A jackass!
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    probably not
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    You sure about this? LOL, yeah really. Teleported to Hades I presume? As to the package, you should have simply insured it at the post office. Postal insurance is really cheap.
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    that is a much, much smarter way to go about it assuming his profile is up to date.
  22. SkymonkeyONE
    Sounds fun, J. Now how about a cockatillioooooooooooooooo!?
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    Adjustable MLW's are fine on rental and student rigs. It's nearly impossible for a smaller DZ to have enough properly-fit harness/containers to fit every body type, so adjustable MLWs are the logical option.
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    That would probably be the best way to describe it on a dropzone anyway.
  25. SkymonkeyONE
    Ha ha! You'z right!