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Agreed. Ladies and gentlemen, please refrain from boosting your post numbers in the specialized forums unless you are asking bonafide questions or giving educated and experienced answers. That is all. Chuck Specialized Forum Nazi My webpage HERE

Everyone make sure to hook up and party with Ty Losi. He packs there and freeflys; a big red-headed guy. The boy is a MESS! I give him the highest props. Chuck My webpage HERE

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Actually, on the "old" dropzone.com there used to be quite a bit of smutty posting! VERY entertaining. Chuck My webpage HERE

Agreed, Brandon. That's a fascinating little commentary. Chuck My webpage HERE

I am assuming you are talking about getting down after being a late diver. Everyone seems to have a favorite technique, but one I use quite regularly on big-ways is the "chicken dive". It is a great way to HAUL ASS down there while keeping your eyes on the target. While I also use the inverted dive technique quite often- at least on the first half of my swoop- I find the chicken dive to be more appropriate when I start out closer to the base. At any rate, this is not a new technique; the instructions were written in Parachutist quite a few years ago. Here is how I describe it: Make your diving exit straight out to the side or downward while keeping your eyes on the base. Put your arms well back in a delta and arch like hell while keeping your head up. Drop your knees well DOWN until you go head-down. I can go straight head-down and keep my eyes on the target this way. As you need to level out and adjust your angle of attack, just extend your legs a bit. Once down to about a 45 degree angle to the formation, transition into your delta-to-swoop braking configuration and glide into your slot. I know that sounds kind of funky, but it's what works for me. For the record: I am normally an "outside" guy and love being last out. Pays to have a good, safe swoop. I am very cognizant of what others are doing while I dive. Target fixation leads to mid-air collisions of the worst kind. I was once knocked unconscious while videoing by an unconrolled zoomie who thought he was MUCH farther from the formation than he actually was. Chuck My webpage HERE

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Are you talking about Andy Anderson or Andy Farrington? My webpage HERE

Here is the proven Chuck Blue method: Dock on your buddy's ass/back/lines; anywhere he can get to a biplane easiest. Top man flies the stack over the top of the DZ (downplanes are best when they fly straight down from overhead the landing area). Top man unhooks his feet from beneath the slider/riser cross-connectors (if used), then works himself down the lines a tad until the bottom man can grab the legstraps of the top guy. Top guy's feet are apart and he releases his toggles and looks down. Bottom man swings up his left foot which is grabbed by the top guy and pulled up to his belly level. Bottom guy throws up his right leg under and to the left of his left leg, crossing them. Top guy grabs that leg with the other and holds both very tightly to his belly or chest. The higher the grip, the more secure. Bottom man grabs his toggles, pulls the right one smartly until he is facing directly at the ground. As you rotate over, the top man will feel your legs "untwist" in his hands, then will also grag you with his legs. He is in total control of the connection and you are in control of steering. If your parachutes are similar type/wingload, then you will go straight down, if not, then you will fly in the direction of the larger wing. Either way, the man with the toggles steers and the guy with the legs holds you together. I have done downplanes with many, many mixed types of parachutes and it's all good. A comon-sense rule of thumb, though, is that the parachute with shorter lines is to the bottom so that when you collapse that biplane into the legstrap-grip transition, they won't hit each other and will continue to fly. This is the very simplest method I ever found and is very safe. Straps and figure four leg-locks will get you hurt. At the end of the downplane, when the holder gets tired or either of you get scared, then the holder simply lets go and your parachutes fly in opposite directions. Break-off height for downplanes at Raeford was/is 500 feet, but I got ran off the DZ several times for breaking that rule many years ago. I don't get the opportunity to do much CRW anymore, but I sure do love it. "Back in the day" we used to ALL (well, not all, but certainly a great majority of us) do CRW at the end of our skydives; at least a two-stack. Microlines and fast elipticals make it a much more daunting proposition, but "stilleto crw" as we used to call it is making a bit of a comeback. So long as you are wearing a hook knife, wearing gloves, and have your legs covered with a jumpsuit or pants, then it's all good. Chuck My webpage HERE

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I can definitely confirm this. One of the "tricks" most members of the Golden Knights 8-way team did all the time when they were jumping Sabres was exactly that. They would come around the corner, then just let go of the toggles and slide out the landing on their soles. Of course back then they also flipped upside down on top of the slider like a spider and would sometimes not flip out until just before they touched down. Saw Darren Schuster get one of his feet caught in the risers, then spiral into the water beside the runway at Raeford; NICE! On a different note, some people keep their brakes VERY tight on their mains; it's just their preference. Anyway, by having them like that you can rest assured that your canopy will buck when making your riser turns. Another 1990ish GK 8-way story: J.C. Coffman would make his riser turn WITHOUT his toggles in his hands (because it bucked), then reach back for his toggles and flare. This, while very unsafe and not very efficient in my mind, worked for him 99.999% of the time. Well, one time old J.C. was swooping the pine trees and going for the then-stylish "pine comb kick". Anyway, he did his turn too low, frantically reached for his toggles, but only managed to fly right into the tree at a height of about 20 feet. Rixter Neely, my vidiot, climbed up that damn tree like a squirrel before J.C. came too. It was a hoot! Moral of the story: keep you damn toggles in your hand! My webpage HERE

Wow! I am gone one week and come back to find this thread; whacky. Anyway, the my simple answer to the original question by Paul is "no." I am not bothered at all that people are asking. I find it much better than people now have a forum in which to gain canopy control-specific information. I will be happy to answer ANY question on the subject. You know, you are correct in saying that there are plenty of things other than swoop landings. While it's true that I devote a great majority of my time fine-tuning my technique, I can still stomp a disk, do CRW, and speak on basic and intermediate canopy control. I am sure that more sooner than later we will have people piping in with those "less aggressive" questions. Sincerely, C.W. Blue II swoop lord and general man about town. My webpage HERE

Yes Ann, that's me, but what's up with the text written over my legs? . That picture was taken at Perris in June. As far as knowing "everyone", that's what you get when you skydive long enough (or anything else for that matter). I am very extroverted once I meet people at a place, but actully pretty damn shy unless I know someone there. One of the greatest things about skydiving is getting out and going to boogies; that's where you meet the greatest variety of people. Dropzone-hopping and competing gets you introduced to tons of people too. And, NO, I am certainly no publicity whore

SEE WHAT I GET!? Gone for another week of hard work in Key West only to come home and find people using my good name in vain! BWAHAHAHA! Actually, I have written quite a few articles which have made it to the front page. You other slaves to the computer need to get on the ball and create something. Chuck My webpage HERE

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Dude, you want to see a BIG fucking skydiver? There is a guy at Perris named Mitch, who is a freeflyer. That dude is the epitome of "no neck" bodybuilder, but he gets along fine in the air with his VERY floppy suit. He is also very cool to talk to in case you ever run into him somewhere. My webpage HERE

Sangiro, I think it's a fine idea, so long as they are taken as "serious", and the chatter is kept here in the talkback forum. I think if it is done properly, then those forums will be a fantastic repository of information for people interested in getting into those specific disciplines. My recommendations are: canopy swooping (and piloting in general), CRW, VrW, and maybe skysurfing. Once again, I believe so long as people don't flood them with one-liners and fluff, it's a great idea. Chuck My webpage HERE