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All correct. Raymond Adams is the shit. That dude is awesome and yes, he cuts my hair too. Chuck My webpage HERE

Yes, call my favorite booze-hag Jeanie! Such a team player she is....I cannot believe she ran off and married that ferriner! Hooty Hoo! In all seriousness, Jeanie herself did mine at the factory and it works as described in the instructions. The pisser is having to hold it firmly to your head while it cools. She made me wear baking gloves so I wouldn't burn myself. Chuck My webpage HERE

Abso-fucking-lootly! If you want protection, get the ProTec. If you want something to block the wind and keep your hair out of your face, get the Gath. I can get "stock" ProTecs for $30 at any of about 10 places in town. Hell, I can get CHROME ones and candy apple red shorties for $16 in town. Much more stylish than the stocker and they sell them at bicycle shops everywhere. I cannot believe that they charge like $100 for the gath. The thing is like .20 cents worth of flexy plastic. I still keep a modified protec for students and another for riding my harley. Chuck My webpage HERE

I have been jumping Tempo reserves for quite some time now. I have also owned PD, National, and ParaFlite, as well as FTS. The only one I ever had to land was a Rascal 202 over a decade ago. I am not impressed by the "surfability" of a reserve; I just want the thing to get me to the ground in one piece. I believe I have my PLF technique down after 20 years in the army if it comes to that. Still, I have no doubt as to my ability to stand my Tempo 120 up. Both of my rigs have them in and I am more than happy with the company and workmanship. On a more practical note: you won't find a better deal on a reserve. Chuck My webpage HERE

Just wrote about it last weekend.....Dave Davenport My webpage HERE

Raeford is the bastion of US style and accuracy training. The Golden Knights train here most of the year and our DZ has a large pea gravel pit, a regulation tuffet, and tons of high-tech telemeters from grading style. Want to learn accuracy; bring your ass here. Nearly every single international team came here to train all through the 70's, 80's and early 90's. Now, we still get some teams, but they don't come nearly as much as back in the day. I equate that to a lack of interest in our nation. Raeford nowadays is mostly RW, with a good freefly crowd building. The Knights and all the US team competitors still go at it heavy here during the week. I really like accuracy. Sinking a Parafoil in onto the target is a true art. My wife was actually on the US team and she can really kick ass. The skills you learn there really help out with "proper" demonstration parachute jumping, too. I still jump with our command's parachute team (USASOC) and get great satisfaction from stomping two feet in the black. Chuck My webpage HERE

You see, that's the pisser about it. I only missed one day of the whole event last year and I still only met three dropzone.commers face to face: April, Kreg, and Karen (freaksis, n2skdvn, lewmonst). Didn't really party with any of them either, as the timing was off. All that after CLEARLY stating repeatedly where my RV was parked and giving the "let's hook up" call. First bad on all of us, next bad on whoever does not accept the offer to meet up. I am going to boogie my ass off, one place or another. Hopefully yall will want to hang out. Chuckie My webpage HERE

Uh....The truly hooked up skydiver can get a fully dressed Wings for about $950 with every option they offer. Same goes for Infininities. PM me for sources. Chuck My webpage HERE

John, I am fascinated that you did not learn this in your FJC. Immediately upon canopy opening, one looks up and sees if their canopy "is there and square." If it is, then the first thing one does is perform "post opening procedures." This consists of three things: looking left, then turning left 90 degrees; looking right, then turning right 90 degrees back onto your original path; and slowly flaring your canopy until you discover the stall point. You do this on every jump. You do all these things to determine if your canopy is going to react correctly to toggle input. If there is something wrong with your canopy that is not immediately evident, it will generally show it's head during post opening procedures. Should you open your canopy and have something wrong with it (a low speed malfunction), your "post opening procedures" then become a "controlability check." The intent at that point is to try and accomplish the same task, but one of three things will generally be happening: your parachute will either be turning right or left, or it will be stalling off on you. If it is turning left, you must be able to cancel the turn with 50 percent or less right-toggle application in order to be landed safely. If it is turning right, you must be able to cancel it with 50 percent or less left toggle application in order to be able to land it safely. If it stalls before 50 percent brakes are applied then it is not landable and you execute cutaway procedures. That is one of the primary reasons for checking the stall point on every skydive. The other reason is so that you know at what point in your flared landing your parachute is going to fall back. Obiously you do not want to stall your parachute at an altitude higher than that at which you can step down to the ground safely. A little background here: I teach at a club where our first jump course runs five days, from Monday thru Friday, 5:30 pm till around 9:00 every night. I do not half ass anything and I get pissed when "shake and bake" students are left to fend for themselves. That being said, feel free to ask me anything you like about subjects that you do not have a good enough grasp of. Chuck My webpage HERE

Not sure if I said so already, but when I was test jumping parachutes for FTS (later APS), I had to land all variety of crazy shit. Brake lines crossed so that you pull right and go left. Mains hooked up backwards. Toggles coming off in your hands because they were improperly installed forcing you to land rear riser, etc, etc. Straight-in rear riser landings under larger parachutes are not that big a deal. I have landed as small as a 135 with pure rear risers; no toggles at all. It is definitely a good skill to master. The rear risering we are doing in competition is completely different. We throw big 180 (or bigger) riser dives and then plane out with the risers at speeds in the 60mph range. At that speed, the riser input is VERY touchy. Pull too much or off to one side more than the other and you are DONE. I have seen MANY, MANY bad wipeouts because of botched rear riser swoops. Once again, this is completely different than rear riser landings for survival; straight in and without trying to build speed for a surf. Chuck My webpage HERE

The Sabre 2 is a fine parachute, but it was built to compete against the terribly popular Hornet and the Icarus Safire. In my opinion, which I have stated repeatedly on these forums, the Hornet is the clear choice for that first or intermediate rig. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Sabre 2's openings or flight characteristics, but I would NEVER pay the $350 or more difference just to have it because it says "PD" on the side. As far as the extensive testing, etc goes, every company tests their products extensively prior to release. My dad bought a Sabre 2, as did my uncle; both of them love their mains. Both got fantastic deals on them too, as they are extremely "hooked up", but my dad almost shit himself when I told him that he would have been just as happy with a Hornet and he could have saved tons of cash. Oh well, like they say: "to each his own." Chuck My webpage HERE

This varies canopy to canopy. Some manufacturers will tell you this on their websites, but generally, it is something that I figure out for myself. Chuck My webpage HERE

In case it hasn't been beaten to death already, the point is to LOOSEN your chest strap all the way, NOT take it off. You do this AFTER you kill and stow your slider and BEFORE you unstow your brakes (at least that is what I do on every single skydive). Chuck My webpage HERE

Yep, I am a 38 year old juvenile delinquent. Nope, I don't want to be president. Nope, I have never been "seriously" injured. Chuck My webpage HERE

Triple F is hereby crowned "whiney bitch number one" for his preemptive vote against migrating the forums. That being said, I am sure he will not be the last..... Chuck My webpage HERE

Do a search in this forum and you will find volumes on the subject of rear riser swooping. You cannot be competitive on the pro circuit nowadays without rear risering skills; at least not in PPPB events. To answer a later post in the thread: I started working on my rear riser swoops at altitude on high hop and pops. Chuck My webpage HERE

The simple answer to your statement about people complaining about not being able to land a parachute straight in is, "yes, of course you can". What you cannot do, though, is get the same distance out of that landing if distance swooping is what you are working towards. I have absolutely no problem landing a 65 square foot canopy straight in with no double fronts or anything, but that is not why I jump that main and those just like it. The swoop purist (and competitor) strives for that combination of speed and distance. Chuck My webpage HERE

To all the women out there who think that it's fascinating I have been jumping this long and still live through repeated swoops on a handkerchief: "If you are old enough to sit at the table, then your old enough to eat!" My webpage HERE

post whore! Who's the monkey? My webpage HERE

As somebody who used to frequent titty bars, I can say that yes, that chick actually had that done to herself. Generally, the chicks with the mammoth canons were girls who had very big tits that sagged on them like African National Geographic photos. I grabbed onto one of these "feature dancer's" cans one day and was fascinated how light they were. I seriously do not think the implants had anything other than air pressure in them; no liquid of any type. Very odd and totally freakish. Chuck My webpage HERE

QuickDraw, we do not have to do any booking at most places here in the states unless they are just really busy. There are gun ranges all over Florida, especially towards the middle of the state out in the country. We rednecks really do love our guns! I used to have a bunch of guns, but now just own four. My dad on the other hand is ready for the uprising, believe me. My webpage HERE

Good man, Dave. Was there any good ole wrassling afterwards? Hooty Hoo! My webpage HERE

AYE! "I know you got 'em with ya, and I know where you hide'em." My webpage HERE

Nothing to it, my brother. Rick made three perfect jumps yesterday. Two of his classmates who played hooky from work on Friday in order to get a headstart made their first freefalls yesterday evening. Needless to say, there was a lot of drinking going on in Aviators. Chuck My webpage HERE

Wow, do you really want to know? Without digging through my logbooks, here it is to the best of my recollection: various surplus rounds and a Papillon until my 12th jump (my dad still has that Pap in his shop) Django Pegasus 223 (black rainbow pattern) in a Wonderhog a one-off 8-cell 200 square foot FTS prototype that Dave Davenport built for me. an FTS Bogy 9 200 in an original Vector FTS Bogy 9 175, and two Bogy 150's in two rigs (vector and centaurus) PD Excallibur 150 (the original crossbraced tricell) in a pre-Sunpath Javelin J1. I made my 1000th jump when I had this rig. My old roommate Rixter Neely in Mississippi still has that rig. Two Monarch 135's and a Sabre 135 in two rigs (vector 2 and Jav) Stilleto 107 in a Vector 2. I made my 2000th jump with this rig Stilleto 97 in another Vector 2 Vengeance 97 in a Vector 2 Alpha 84 evolution 2000 and an Icarus VX-74 in a Vector 2 then a Jav XRS Cobalt 85 in a Jav XRS or another Vector 2 Cobalt 75, H-mod added after six months in an Odyssey RS Competition Cobalt 75 (damaged in competition) and 65 in the Odyssey RS and the XRS I think that's it! Chuck My webpage HERE