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That was hilarious. LMAO. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

I thought I'll share this link with you guys... [URL http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/illusions.htm]Clicky.[/URL] The Mona Lisa one is great ... I've made my 1st clicky. [Beer][Beer][Beer] Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea - Fall Down. Zero 7 - Destiny. Nina Simone - Feeling good. Morcheeba - Be Yourself. U2 - Vertigo. but it's all up to the video material. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

I got a Brain Stress Puzzle and a good&old bottle of red wine. Try to guess which one I finish first!!! Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Wise words. Congrats for your realization. I know that something like that would have made me happy too. Thanks for the kinds words and for the good advices and I wish you best of luck and success in all your challenges. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Yeah me too. For a while I've punched dead goals. In the end I've felt like I've bought myself an expensive massage to a wooden leg. I didn't really felt it and hell I didn't need it. Not that I have a wooden leg nor that I want to have one (real leg that is). Obviously I voted for the plan update thingy. I hope that's wise. Still wanna try the gypsy bone rolling. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Never been a happier Grasshopper in my entire life. You know grasshoppers can jump and they almost never have a hard landing. I kinda like that name. Should I be worried? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

I'm talking about big plans and maybe ego related in a way. Something like creating a company, being the best in your line of work, having a big house, being rich or famous. Something that requires personal sacrifices. I'm talking about a situation where you plan something big that seams meaningful for you at that time and requires a long time to finalize it and then later in the process, when working towards that goal you find that the goal lost it's meaning for you? Something came up or something changed in your life and your system of values changed as well and it render that goal without any meanings for you. So, the question is what do you do in that case? Do you update your plans or stick with the old goal just because you want to show that you can do it? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Actually when I said good gypsy I've ment a gypsy good in rolling the bones Wow you are a true existentialist. I guess you are right no one is getting out of here alive. Role the damn bones for me too. If the gypsy lady says she needs to see a picture of the one she rolls the bones for, show her the attachment. She'll know it's me. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

I'm almost 30 and I think the same way as you do. Sadly as we get older our ability to adapt will reduce substantially rendering us isolated from the main world (because is just too much to keep up with). But until that time there's a lot more to ride. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

If you are very happy with that method I will start doing the same thing. Where do you find a good gypsy? You don't have to tip the gypsy do you? If so how much do you tip? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Just curios to find out what is your dominate method regarding life planning. Obviously you get multiple choices. And do you plan your dive the same way as you plan your life?

Wow ... I've finally got it And there I was thinking the she was a poor packer without enough money to buy proper cloths. The world we live in ..... Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Is she a full time packer? That could explain the knee bruises. Just for the record I wouldn't jump anything that she packed. She freaks me out and I've seen a lot in my life. Imagine Michael Jackson with a Halloween costume. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Get well soon Bill because I'm hearing that 2007 it's gone be an amazing year.

I'm lurking! Not that's anything bad about it Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

This thread is not sinking. I wonder why? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Yes the ship is pushed up with a force equal with the G force of the displaced volume of water. You will find this force not only in water but rather in every fluid. Another trick used for ships is to have most of the weight of the ship under the water so that the center of gravity is lower the the center of the force that is pushing up. This create stable equilibrium. Much like a good arch where the center of pressure is higher than the center of gravity so you are stable. I believe that Archimedes was the 1st dude to find that force but I might be wrong. The force itself it is easily explained by the difference of pressure between the top area and bottom area of a solid body that is sink inside a fluid. I remember that I failed physic once because of this subject. Here is a demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyrPbSPJe_I Can someone make it a clicky? What are you "sinking" about? edit: to add more smiles and a demonstration. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Nintendo, Joe Satriani, The Who and Elvis. Shocking isn't it? This is just a preliminary report. If you repeat what I've just said I'll denny it. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Same thing happen to me one week ago. I've downsize from 260 to 200 sq ft. Men, the 200 really felt good in the air. It felt like a real parachute. I've never experience something like that before. I was able to keep the front risers down 6 cm for almost 20 sec and the recovery speed after a 720 rotation was so big. Every time I've finished a 720 spin I could here the slider singing loud and happy. Men, what a feeling. With 4 full spins I've burned almost 1000 ft. It was amazing. Because of the speed I could actually see my heading, there was a small rectangle that remain in the same spot while all the others points were moving towards the edge. It was a blast. I had a good patten. All those 720+ rotations expose to me fast the direction of the wind and I was able to easy setup my patten. As I was in my final upwind leg of the patten around 60 ft the winds changes and they hit me from the left and tilted my canopy to the right a bit. I've made one small and fast toggle adjustment with the left toggle (down 20 cm) let it go back to the neutral position and right away begin to flare as I was at the flaring altitude. Next thing I know, as I flare the canopy makes a left turn, puts my pathetic body at almost 45 degree from where I hit the ground with my left ankle.I PLF (which might not be a good idea). After I finish the roll I check for what the hell happen while smiling. When I look over my left ankle I've lost my smile for a couple of seconds. It was at 90 degree right from the position where it was suppose to be. Wow. I've begin to touch my ankle to see if I still felt something in it. Yes. I've tried to move my toes - yes they move. Got my smile back and grab my ankle to put it back while cursing the shit out of me. No pain but as I was turning the ankle to the original position I felt something that put chicken away from my favourites meals. It felt exactly as twisting a chicken leg feels like. Exactly the same granularity in the resistance. I think that I've actually broke my ankle while PLF-ing to the right because as I begin to PLF I've heard&felt a snap in my left ankle. It was a strange and forced PLF since I had to stick my feet in the ground to build momentum for the rotation to the right, Maybe if I was just sliding in the ground things might have been better. The final result of the downsize: - 2 days in the hospital. - 1 failed attempt to put back the ankle manually (a lot if pain). - 40 min of surgery with local anaesthesia (couldn't feel nothing in the legs). And I have to say that there's no feeling like the feeling that you have when you hear the doctor saying to the other doctor: Cut some more I need more space for the screws and then you hear the noise of your flesh being cut some more. - 2 small metal plates in my left ankle. Looking back I never lost my smile while going through this experience. I've actually cracked some jokes with the doctors while operating. Most of the nurses said that I don't have the usual patient attitude that they see so much. My non-jumping friends are concerned more about that aspect of the accident. They say that me taking things so lightly is not a good sign and that I might be heading for a big one soon. Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

From what I've been told the only thing that you get rid of with a big docile canopy is line-twist cut-aways (maybe). On a docile canopy line-twists can be solved and the canopy will fly straight. So if you open high you will be able to solve them for sure. I love to open high and I always tell the others jumpers in the plane that I will open at 5500 or 6000 sometimes so they can make sure to have enough horizontal separation. I've been told that on a small & elliptical, high performance canopy if your shoulders are not perfectly aligned when you open it may induce a harness turn that may create line twists. During those type of line-twists you will be locked by the line-twists with you shoulders not aligned and the canopy will not fly straight, it will spin (losing altitude fast) and you will not able to solve the line twists. I've seen one of my instructors having this problem and he cut away fast. I've also been told that the reserve is usually a docile parachute. I've been told that pressure knots may also cause line twist and spins resulting in a cutaway (more on high performance canopy). Also landing a small canopy it's a lot more dangerous than large ones. If I'll jump with a 135 I will get in troubles for sure. I will never take a small elliptical canopy but then again what do I know ;). Also on the bright side a small canopy with WL > 1.5 will not collapse that easy in turbulence's and my 300 sq ft with a WL of 0.65 it's exposed more to turbulence base collapses. Sometime when flying above the forest around 500 ft I can feel those turbulence's shaking my canopy. A good sidekick in the preparation against malfunctions is the movie Break Away http://www.sunshine-factory.com/cgi-bin/data/db.cgi?db=sf&uid=default&view_records=1&ID=1034 I'm watching this movie almost every month. Take everything I said with a big grain of salt. For god sake I'm just a newbie. I would love to see what other more experienced people have to say about this.

Quite the opposite, I believe. Streamers and Roman Candles were the better known mals on rounds. Roman Candle it's a wrap around? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Is there a chance, when you have a bag-lock or a streamer, that the drag created will not be enough to detach the raisers from the harness? Assuming that no RSL/SkyHook is present and if the altitude allows, should one check that the raisers are detached before opening the reserve (to reduce the chance of a double)? Lock, Dock and Two Smoking Barrelrolls!

Wow, I just wake up and I got like 20 replies

Actually it does explain it. I think I get what you're saying. The torque created by the streamer drag force is a lot more bigger compared to any torque created by any drag force of jumper body because the stream drag force is located so much far away relative to the center of mass (torque of a force is T = r X F). So what's happening (if I get it right) is that when you are in a not so perfect vertical position in the company of a streamer any body movement that usually would have brought the body back to the box position now will still begin to rotate the body forward the box position but as the body begins to rotate the streamer torque will increase faster and bigger and will kill all the initial torques and bring the body again in the vertical position. It's just like saying that because the center of pressure is so far higher than the center of gravity the vertical position become stable. And can we still say for sure that the average speed in a streamer it's actually bigger than 200 km/h? I guess it depends how big the area of the streamer is. Edit to add: Actually I'm still confused because the drag force of the streamer will create tension in the lines that is applied directly to the raisers so when computing the torque of the streamer drag force we need to use the distance from the center of mass to the raisers and not the distance from center of mass to the streamer. Never mind those details