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That prototype is currently with Bryan Harrell at Skydive Elsinore. Eric was loading it MUCH too heavily to do any real evaluation. That canopy will not be flown in the Blade Raid. Chuck My webpage HERE

Remi is correct here, at least I hope. To everyone: Please do NOT troll in this forum. These discipline-specific forums are meant to be used as a tool for learning. Keep the bullshitting to the talkback forum. This thread is officially done. Chuck My webpage HERE

I think I could magically undelete them with my new superpowers..... My webpage HERE

HEAD! Move that mellon of yours and fetch the paper if you can! I'm not kiddin, that boy's got a head like SPUTNIK! Spherical, yet quite pointy in parts! My webpage HERE

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The way I understand it after watching the news yesterday, they are going to do that every night for about a month. My webpage HERE

You misunderstood me. I am not talking about how the cateyes are located and the brakes are stowed. I am talking about how much slack is in the lines once they are released. My webpage HERE

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This all reminds me of the snow sculpture Neal Beverly did in the middle of the dropzone a few months ago. A three-hole qualified chick. Very lifelike. My webpage HERE

That was, um....Interesting. My webpage HERE

I just love to help folks out; it's the way I was raised. My webpage HERE

Kris, there is absolutely no problem in sliding your landings out on the bottoms of your feet; as a matter of fact it's quite stylish! You reach a point during your flare that your canopy is going to stop flying. Some wings, like your Stiletto, have a pretty high stall speed, so you have a choice to make: Do I want to stop completely and have a shorter surf, or do I want to go farther and then either run it out or slide it out. I don't recommend running to anyone, but some people (like Luis "Luigi" Cani) do it on every jump. If you MUST jump barefoot for vanity's sake, then I guess you are going to have to do that. Smarter people wear shoes with slick bottom soles and slide. I personally normally wear either an old pair of Navy coral dive booties or a pair of US Postal Service high-top athletic shoes given to me by Ray Porterfield. Those things have fairly hard, slick soles and are very unlikely to "grab" when I lower my landing gear. I wear Tevas sometimes too, but only with my bootie suit, so I don't rip off the soles if they catch on anything. Someone has already talked about flaring all the way and the possibility of "bowtieing" your main. Flaring all the way on a Stiletto while you still are over your "stall speed" will generally give you a nice stand-up landing. Flare that much after you are below your stall speed and your are going to bowtie that rascal. It's the same with any canopy really, but much more so with a Stiletto since the brakes are set so high and tight from the factory. When I was jumping Stilettos (a 107 and a 97), I added six inches to the brake lines on both of them. This made the stall point down around my hip bones as opposed to my belly. I am not saying that is what you need to do, but I really liked mine better that way. Toggle hookers can get away with high, tight brakes, but riser divers cannot since the canopy bucks in turns with your hands in the toggles. All this being said, you come back to your choice. You either stop your main completely by flaring all the way when your canopy is above stall speed, or glide farther then having to slide or run it out at the end to avoid the inevitable bowtie. Your call. As for canopy coaching: I recommend coming to a major boogie or a swoop competition. Both are places where you will be able to get your style critiqued. There is always a week-long camp prior to the start of any "regular" PPPB meet, WFFC included, so that may be your best bet. Chuck My webpage HERE

I don't do that at all. I do exactly like I was instructed: A jumping jack moion to get the pilot chute out and then continue forward. The bag gets drug out behind. I haven't had a problem with a un-modified rig, but my buddy Bobby Pritchard has had three very bad problems which led to cutaways and low reserve deployments. Bobby jumps an old "Classic" and can slow it down to 32 MPH easilly. What happened was that he did not have enough snatch force to open his main. He is a small guy, maybe 130 pounds, and when he went to chop there was not enough drag on his bag/pilot chute to release his three rings! From that point, he got very small and frantically tried to speed up. Fired his reserve one time just as his risers let go; very dangerous. He had his rig modified and now has no problem whatsoever. The lack of snatch force with an unmodified rig comes from your bridle having to pull your deployment bag first OVER the bottom lip of the container, then BACKWARDS to get deployed since you are travelling forward at a high rate. Most of the snatch gets used up by that first "roadblock". We discussed this in an earlier thread a few months ago. Bottom line here, at least for someone jumping a tiny Javelin like mine where the bag goes straight down, lines toward my backpad (not rotated) is that you need to have your rig modified if you are going to jump a BirdMan suit. I am doing it to my pond rig right away. Chuck My webpage HERE

I give. Six Thirty One and no room. I am gonna drink a beer and go to Slappies. By the way, I have been post-whoring shamelessly and need a spanking. My webpage HERE

That makes me nuts, Wendy. 6:29 and no room yet. My webpage HERE

six:20 six and no room yet. Make that 6:twenty7 and no room. My webpage HERE

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Six twenty three and no room yet. My webpage HERE

1822 and no room yet. My webpage HERE

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Unbelievable! I would have said I already drank six! I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. My webpage HERE

Uh, I think she meant LSU. But, while we are talking "tigers", go Auburn! War Damn Eagle! My webpage HERE

My RV gets seven whopping miles to the gallon. This, whether pulling a 2000 pound trailer or not. Odd. My webpage HERE