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    How did I miss this last night? I thought it was brought out some time ago that "peppermint" was actually a guy posing as an alter-ego in an attempt to catch someone else who was supposedly screwing around on his old lady? WTF? Chuck
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    Rantoul doing BirdMan stuff.
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    Bring the pain
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    Marc is totally right in that respect. You know, there are actually thee different Velocites. The upper and lower sizes didn't quite scale right, so they made mods both upways and down until they could sell those other sizes without compromising the median norm. That absolutely does not happen in some canopies. Chuck
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    I have caught myself off guard a couple of times lately not having my slider stow. When it happens I just kill it then pull it under my chin. If your chest strap is out, it ought to be tight. I can't recall ever smacking in due to my slider popping up, but I do know it was close a couple of times. Chuck
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    Holy shit, does anyone have any KY lube for this dude?
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    Hard wings are fundamental to efficient flight.
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    "Extemely Fuckface MonkeyLip Self-promoter Felix"
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    You BIG, PURPLE FUCK! We are loving you here at Raeford and we don't suck.
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    Very tame. Totally work safe.
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    All incorrect: I AM YO FUCKING DADDY!
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    Troy Ketsdever has been a pro as long as I have. He, if not already doing so, will definitely coach you all you want.
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    I fly all my suits with my toes pointed back and outward when in "most efficient" mode.
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    Dave said "goat nuts."
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    Pooh Bah

    SkymonkeyONE replied to pop's topic in The Bonfire

    comparatively weak. Get to work.
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    burning man

    SkymonkeyONE replied to jtval's topic in The Bonfire

    I would be very surprised if the skypeople didn't have a camp this year. I would also be very surprised if there were not an aircraft there. Chuck
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    Dave, I will second what Ron said and follow it with a reason that was also discussed. I jump a competition bootie RW suit for all of my tandems. I do so because of the incredible power I have to steer with my legs and get my arms completely out of the video. A great deal of the time, unless my student has poor arm position, I do the entire drogue fall with my arms beshind my back. When you have a freeflying vidiot who likes to back-fly under the tandem pair, you can literally take yourself almost completely out of the video; it's cool. As to my personal "animation factor," it depends on what kind of time they appear to be having. If a person is sitting there not doing anything at all; not waving, not smiling, nothing; then I will flap my arms like a bird or something. I will point both hands at the passenger and nod my head; something, anything. Chuck
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    I always pack with my lines to my back, pin to grommet. I started doing that when I began making a lot of wingsuit jumps and have found that all my openings are better packing in that manner. Chuck
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    After a couple of hundered wingsuit flights on HP mains well under 100 square feet, and two chops in my wingsuits as a result of spinners, I chose to send back the smaller of my two Velocities (a 75) and have them send me a Sabre2 97. I posted about this briefly in another thread, but figured it warranted another thread. While the 97 is still a very small main, it is quite a bit larger than what I normally jump (A Velocity 79). Also, being quite a bit less elliptical, it is far less prone to off-heading openings. That said, here are the pics! I am pretty sure this is the only PD/BM factory team colors Sabre2 in existence, but I could be wrong. At any rate, it's damn sexy. Edited to add that I hear Lisa from the Norgies jumps a 120 with the same applique and end cell color. Peace! Chuck
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    That's a very, very good point. Having your EP's down is critical to safe flights under smaller canopies. Hell, under any canopy for that matter. Things can get ugly extremely fast and if you do not have your gear in order and your shit together you are going to find yourself in the hurt locker. I know, I have been there and very nearly paid the ultimate price. That said, I have been jumping very-small canopies with my wingsuits since my first flight. I jumped my 107 Stilletto once, just because that was all I had packed, but other than that, I have never jumped larger than an 85 in my suits. I have been jumping my Velocity 79 for quite some time now with no problems whatsoever, but just today I got my "real" wingsuit canopy: a Sabre2 97. Small and zippy, able to fit in my XRS, but still a MUCH smarter choice for wingsuit flights. The custom embroidery is bad-ass as well! Chuck
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    The simple answer is that on a one JM skydive, the instructor stays with the student for the ride back down. On a two JM AFF, generally one will go skydive, swooping the last group or something if they feel like it. I have never had a tandem not go, and only one AFF who balked on a level 5. That guy had balked on the previous dive as well, but I talked hiim into it on the go-around and he had a perfect skydive. On the jump in question, though, he wasn't haveing anything to do with it, so we rode it down. I have had more than a few SL students balk when the door of the C-182 they were riding in suddenly swung up beside them. In those cramped quarters sometimes it's neccessary to take the entire load down if the first guy balks. That really sucks. Chuck
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    Did you suckle his man-boobies?
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    I might have a pumpkin laying around. Have Derek call me. Chuck
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    Told you so..... Reverse dumbell curles really help. That and massive amounts of 12 ounce curls after jumping. Are you flying the entire time holding your wingtips? I only let mine go to dock and at pull time. Chuck
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    My thoughts exactly. The first is too dark.