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  1. There are some Quebec kites called Paraskiflex that are single layer and they are amazingly easy to use and give quite a lift. http://www.paraskiflex.com/ Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  2. We don't really forget anything that we are exposed too. Everything is still there in the unconscious and it will still express itself in our behavior (patterns). Actually the more unsolved issues you'll "forget" or in other words keep them the unconscious the more you'll "attract" the same unpleasent experience over and over again. It works pretty well if you think that there are no coincidences and that somehow, unconsciously we've "attracted" everything that is happening in our life. If the reason why we've "attracted" a certain experience is unconscious then we can't make anything about it and we'll "attract" that experience again and again
  3. I got it 2nd hand from a friend who changed his container for a downsize. This happened in Europe at the Vector Festival. Anyway MARS people are chill so don't be shy and drop an email and I'm sure they can give you all the details you're searching for. I've chat a bit with Kovarik Pavel a sale manager from MARS and here's his email kovarik@marsjev.cz I've tried to attach the manual from the CD but there's a 300 kb limit. Take it light, Jean-Arthur Deda. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  4. Wings. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  5. http://alternativeto.net/software/sony-vegas-pro/ Check for the free/open source. I've used Cinelerra a while ago and it was pretty good. I've used on Ubuntu linux. Edit to add: Cinelerra has a live cd version http://cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php#livecd Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  6. Just to add some information in the air, there's a new AAD from MARS called M2. I'm using one and the price is good. http://www.marsjev.cz/products/n-1.htm?lang=en Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  7. I am really inspired by your thinking but one reality that I see is that nobody can make skydivers smart when they are blocked by their ego. I've worked on 1 DZ and been a regular to 3 more where they used 45 as the separation rule. I've stoped opening my 400 jumps mouth to the SO, AFFI or free-fly guru's that know it all. I'm accepting stupidity as a trade off for having this experience called skydiving. I'm trying to be safe by asking the group after us to give 7-12 secs depending on whatever I get from the chat with the pilot on the winds and I give the same time to the group before me and that's it. I wish that skydiving community was inspired by smart people and I salute your effort but the reality is that their models (or the people that they want to copy) have other strong points. Maybe I'm circle-ing in the wrong DZ. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  8. you probably end up making a language. But offcourse, you need to not be contaminated with a language in the first place
  9. That's actually an interesting topic. Over long periods of time languages are the most natural expression of who we are. And when I say we I mean different human communities. It's a fingerprint of the feedback loop that shapes civilizations. We are exposed to an external experience that we make sense via a vocabulary used in a certain way that we call grammar, that shows how we work inside. French language seems to be more of a left brain language (very creative). You can't speak french if you don't know the grammar exceptions. Not to mention that how you write a word and how you read it there are 2 different things. What makes it more interresting is the ability to learn and think in different languages. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  10. I don't think it's about what I do/don't have. Just to put this in the air: Can one addict recognise the game/the play/the false image of another addict? Yes. Welcome to Politics. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  11. To a believer in his image this swis account thingy will not affect it. Anyway, we the humanity have yet to experience how it is to be leaded by someone that is ballanced and not a chronic addict to money and/or power. From the pharaons to Stalin to the guy that inspired the boss from Office Space to Sarkozy, they were all chronic addicted / out of ballance. Szarkozy showing what's more important for him and it ain't the people Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  12. In a way yes. He's investing into something that probably will translate to more money/power, his image. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  13. I'm putting my thougts via a funny message but I believe that this is naked truth. I think he's suffering from the clasical symptomns of chronic addiction. An highly addicted person feels obligated to stash/hide away the object of his addiction because, in his mind, the other addicts will try to steal it [which is actually true ]. Statistic showed that chronic addiction to money is highly spread within the rich people. They stash away more than they'll ever need and will do anything to keep things like that. Can you trust someone with a chronic addiction? No Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  14. Here you can find a snapshot of the website from sep 2010 http://web.archive.org/web/20100922155438/http://www.ukskydiving.co.uk/ Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  15. Projection. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  16. True. How about we take this conversation up a notch, let's name names and review their "coaching" services. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  17. I've took 2 canopy coaching and some free-fly coaching and calling those services *professional* it's a deformation to the term. For your personal reference AFF it's a professional service. Are you a canopy coach? What's your annual income? How often do you keep track with the progression of your students? What's the average progression that happens after your canopy class and in how much time. Could you point some names that you took from "zero to hero" as a reference of your teaching method? What do you know about teaching? Did you graduate an university? What makes your service a professional one? In Canopy Piloting Coaching the key word is coaching meaning that the person is focusing on coaching. I'm expecting him to be better than average canopy pilot, a fucking good teacher and a professional (paying tax, keeping records, focusing on teaching trends within his service, working on different approaches for different student type, overall believing 100% in his service to make it legit and standing behind his product). After AFF I haven't seen any coaches that are professionals. If you don't pay tax you're just scamming. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  18. I hear you but the main characters that teach today the swoop curse to the new generation, learned how to swoop from trial and errors. Check with the swooping history video. So, there's still a bit of trial-and-error left in their teaching methods. Me, I surfed today 5 full seconds from double fronts on a Sabre2 190 WL 1:1. 5 sec of surf can cover some ground if I'm in a downwinner. BTW since I've begin working on double fronts I've focus on how much time I'm spending surfing rather than the distance I've surfed. I've figured that time spent parallel with the ground is less influenced by the weather conditions, WL and it might reflect better if I've made any improvements. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  19. [Drunk Irish Voice] I have bloody question for your "character". [hiccups] How does he get the initial capital for building the blooding vertical wind tunnel heh? [more hiccups /Drunk Irish Voice]
  20. I love skydiving Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  21. d123

    A hero dies

    Thanks. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  22. Thanks Jamie and keep up the good work! Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  23. dude, I really like your ideas. Stay youself. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  24. d123

    Catapillars effect

    Did you hear anything about a phenomen in which you have two catapillars in different opaque glasses next to each other and when you touch one catapillar, they both "curl" in the same time even though they can't see eachother? Have you ever heard about this? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!
  25. I still have a hard time believing that the "line of resistence" - which is the part that's being roled - has spo much resistence compared with the drag force generated by the entire cocoon material in 200 km/h blust of air. Holding the rig on the ground and pulling by the bridal connection it takes less than 7 pounds of force to break the "line of resistance". For me the drag force - on terminal as it allegedly happen - must ne higher (or maybe my expectations are wrong) and I think it should stand you up. I've started my measurings but I haven't jump yet. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!