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Everything posted by SkymonkeyONE
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Fascinating. Having caught myself quite low on a number of occasions, I felt time slow down. Anyone else? Chuck My webpage HERE
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Bring your ass on down. We have a very good crowd at Raeford, without the big-headed attitude of some other turbine DZ's. My webpage HERE
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Well, I certainly DO love beer out of green bottles.... My webpage HERE
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In my opinion there cannot be enough quality sites out there. I enjoy browsing around on occasion to see if there is anything I am missing. This is truly my home online, but I am no xenophobe. Chuck My webpage HERE
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Exactly. You must be flexible throughout your entire canopy flight. I always try to land in a predetermined area and direction. We always discuss landing patterns at the mockup prior to boarding. It is for that reason that I posted earlier about making a plan and sticking to it. The ability to make turns in both directions and judge altitude will help you tremendously. NEVER get "lock neck syndrome", also known as target fixation. The closer to the ground you get, the more aware you need to be of your surroundings. the LAST thing you want is to throw your final turn only to run right over a student under a 240 square foot canopy which you didn't notice until you were commited. You must be able to stay well ahead of your canopy. If it is flying you, not the opposite, then you really need to rethink your choice of canopy. Chuck My webpage HERE
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When Should The Thought Of Swooping.....
SkymonkeyONE replied to rgoper's topic in Swooping and Canopy Control
Bob can certainly go forth and do neat things with the canopy he has. I recommend trying all varieties of combinations on the canopy he has before he worries about trading to another. Chuck My webpage HERE -
Ass licker, present for duty, Mam! My webpage HERE
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I generally become cognizant of ground rush at around two grand. My webpage HERE
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Actually, my favorite board is my six four Charlie Baldwin comp weight Thruster. Or is it my Gnu Pharoah 143. Or is it my HO VTX with dual high wraps? Or is it maybe my Dean Lavelle signature Hyperlite? Nah, I can't decide. My webpage HERE
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I truly am dumber every day. My webpage HERE
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Your shit isn't working. My webpage HERE
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Look in the gear reviews. I wrote my opinion on the Monarch there about two years ago. I owned two 135's; both spanked my ass relentlessly but flew very nice. My webpage HERE
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DAMN! You slack-ass HO! Get to work and make me a sammich! Chuckie My webpage HERE
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The first one was very styish, young skymonkey. Hooty Hoo! My webpage HERE
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When Should The Thought Of Swooping.....
SkymonkeyONE replied to rgoper's topic in Swooping and Canopy Control
Right on, Derek. It's an individual event and everyone does things their own way; some quite successfully. On the other hand, there are the Bruno Rodriguez's who just don't listen. Chuck My webpage HERE -
When Should The Thought Of Swooping.....
SkymonkeyONE replied to rgoper's topic in Swooping and Canopy Control
I just wrote a pretty long rant about something not entirely related to this thread, so I deleted it and will post it elsewhere in this or another forum. The bottom line, though, is that anyone wanting to learn a specific task ought to use all sources available to him and not worship any one "god" like a mindless automaton. Man, you never stop learning. My favorite part of competing is being out on the road and sharing tips with others. Everybody does shit differently, but most do very well with their own wildly-varying style. My best advice is to study tapes, go and watch competitions, talk to everyone you see there, and eventually come up with your own technique which works best for you, no matter what the discipline. The average Joe has no business ripping 270's and finishing up with rear risers. I tailor my advice to each specific individual when I talk to them on the dropzone or on the road. That being said, I also try to answer specific questions with specific answers and vague, generalized questions with generalized answers. There are some guys in California who have created a sort of "history of swoop" video. The problem is, NONE of them have been skydiving more than about 8 years. No matter how many jumps they have; they just weren't skydiving during the formative years of the discipline, therefore they can only truly show what they "think" is how it happened and what was possible. Do you follow me here? Chuck My webpage HERE -
Ben, I completely understand what you are talking about when it comes to selling gear. My wife and I liquidated a ton of our older gear about over the past two years and I so no reason to hose people. I set the prices very low and was fascinated to find that I got very few bites initially. After a time, I raised the asking prices for some of the combinations and found that I got more calls and the gear sold right away. I still sold the gear for the original, very low prices, but just had to laugh. Chuck My webpage HERE
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Sounds to me like you just are not willing to do what it takes to follow through on your desire. You sound like you really like to be around the sport and the people, but allow yourself to be sidetracked too often. The bottom line here is that currency is key. In my opinion, one really ought to set aside the money to get through the student program, or at least have enough money on hand to be able to make at least a couple of student jumps per weekend. If you drag it out you will, in my 21 years skydiving experience, have a much harder time getting graduated. Spending a bit of money in the wind tunnel will pay off greatly in the freefall stability department. Do that and then get out to the DZ and finish a program. Chuck My webpage HERE
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Yeah, I thought you quit quite a while ago. Don't MAKE me do a search and pull up the other thread, woman! Chuckie My webpage HERE
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Getting him out? A simple proposition: put his shit outside and change the locks. If he gets stupid, call the cops...period. My webpage HERE
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When Should The Thought Of Swooping.....
SkymonkeyONE replied to rgoper's topic in Swooping and Canopy Control
Listen up..LONG before there was such a thing as sub 100 canopy, we were swooping our asses off at much lower wingloads. Well over a decade ago, once some people began to realize you could live through a landing on a 150 square foot canopy, which was the ABSOLUTE smallest thing on the market, people truly began to "swoop", though we did not call it that. "Swooping" is what one did at the end of his dive to a large RW formation; turf surfing is what one did at the end of his landing. The Golden Knights 8-way team were jumping PD 190's and 170's at the time, I was jumping Bogy 9 150's and a 175, and we we were all initially toggle hooking the piss out of them. Then, some of us started yanking risers to build speed. The Deland Gang showed up with the new PD Excalliburs and we were floored. They had 135's and 150's and were swooping the shit out of them; clear across the dropzone. I bought myself a new Excallibur 150 and did what it took to keep that thing close to the ground. They made smaller ones, but nobody jumped them at all. Jack Jeffries was the only guy I know that jumped a 120, but that was not until later. Do the math and you will find that the average wingload for turf surfing back then was about 1.2. Yes, parachutes had a shorter recovery arc back then, but the same rules applied and we did what we needed to do to get the maximum surf out of whatever we had over our head. We dumped high, checked our altitude, threw our move and let it plane out, checked altitude again, then came in and tried it out. Shit, my old roomate Rixter Neely was renting gear from the club until he finally got his first real rig and he would hook the piss out of whatever was in it, including a ParaFoil one weekend because that was all that was left in the loft! The bottom line here is that you can think what you want, but the reality is that you can swoop any damn thing you want. When I am feeling exceptionally jump-hoggy down at my dad's DZ in Alabama, I have been known to grab whatever is sitting on the rack and get straight back on the plane. You think I am not going to swoop whatever is in the container? I can swoop my dad's Sabre 190 and 210 all the way across the DZ with ease. You just make a different kind of turn under a canopy that large. What I do is a larger one-riser dive; sometimes up to a 360 to build mad speed and I come out of it much lower because I know it is going to plane out immediately. Look I am not telling anyone to swoop. I am just telling you that if you think you need a heavily loaded main to even practice on you are full of crap. The same principles apply and a good pilot will get a swoop out of whatever is over his head if he chooses. My initial reasons for downsizing were twofold: First, the 200 square foot canopies of the day were literal boats over my head and I was getting blown all over the sky on windy days. Second, big main equals big container and I am not a big dude so rigs were hanging off the sides of my back and hampering my RW. So, as rigs became available that fit me better, I was able to get the smaller mains I needed to more safely (yes, safely) get me to the ground. As better, faster, smaller parachutes became available I was right there. Still I stayed at 135 for quite a few years when smaller stuff was available. I weighed 150 pounds soaking wet. I didn't need anything smaller to get the job done, so I didn't see the point. I regularly get away with wingloads as high as 2.8 on the 65, but that is purely for vanity and test purposes. Nowadays I normally load between 2.2 and 2.3 on a 75 for general use and competition, but can still pick up someones Hornet 150 to test jump and get a fantastic turn out of it. The same principles apply no matter what you are jumping. Learn on what you have, then if you truly want to downsize go ahead, but in moderation. Never let vanity drive you; that is when you get hurt. The worst swoop mishaps I ever had were under a Sabre and a Monarch 135 because I was doing stupid shit. Chuck My webpage HERE -
Actually, Mike Mayo, the former head rigger of the US Army Parachute Team did a TON of research on this subject. It is all on video. They tried every single combination that was in the Golden Knight inventory at the time and archived/published the results somewhere. My wife was involved in quite a bit of the testing. Chuck My webpage HERE
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That sounds positively FUHREEEEEKY! My webpage HERE
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Right on. My webpage HERE
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Swooping in turbulence - toggles or risers?
SkymonkeyONE replied to Geoff's topic in Swooping and Canopy Control
That was a good response. I am a very unhappy camper in turbulence, therefore I will generally jump the larger of my mains and not worry too much about my surf. If it's really bumpy I won't even skydive. I am jumping way too small of a parachute to get caught at 25 to 50 feet in a downdraft and I KNOW it from past experience, so I would just as soon not jump either of my swoop rigs on those days. Chuck My webpage HERE