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On the ride up close your eyes and visualize a perfect exit and FF....When you get in the door relax and present to the wind.....Going to have to repeat that level kid, sorry about that-I know it sucks

Fly a solid straight heading or else arch hard and give a good wave off (a byproduct of this beyond warning others is it bleeds air speed off....you will eventually learn to hold a solid heading, shoot we used to set up and throw out if a hard opening canopy was involved and FYI: all line twists are not caused by poor body position, Reserve handle? WTF? What were you grabbing, once your weight is suspended you should be able to kick out of it. I suppose you fall down when you land also ....stick with your JM's advice....A good one can correct a lot of your problems at this stage. its about airtime airtime airtime relax kids, all you need is airtime airtime airtime and the ability to relax of course Plan your dive and dive your plan bsbs

I checked your profile and see you married Mike Smith, he was the JM/I in charge of the program at SPX Leauge City when I went thru SL/FJC in the early 1990's at over 50 years old...Sold me my first new rig ;) Hope he's doing well, I checked Wallers staff page but didn't see him, being a most excellent Master Rigger he had gear sales and was running the student program there when I had my stroke and retired.....Is he still a active skydiver? [email] bsbs

I started having problems at 10 second delays. I managed to not have unintentional turns enough so that I moved up to 15 seconds, when I had more problems. You don't need all that much time to turn unintentionally. ;) No joke....not arching hard enough is the key problem I expect. causes line twists for S/L types also...in answer; you can come off the dope rope turning because you spun coming off the strut. as far as the free fall progressions....same thing/ ARCH HARD....as your jumps build up you will develop a relaxed boxman posture and the turns will ease off, if theirs still a problem, check gear- hand arms and leg position. Keep everything in ballance...Most students I saw had just as hard a time with intentional turns..... bsbs airtime airtime airtime relax kids, all you need is airtime airtime airtime and the ability to relax of course Plan your dive and dive your plan bsbs

Its a old discipline, one of the first....unfortunatly it's needed as a learning platform, ya gotta start on the belly and work out from there...kids want to become expert in the hot new stuff nright away& figgure its easy to master without advice plus its probably not cool to be seen talking to the old fuddy duddy RW types. bet their lurking it though ;) bsbs relax kids, all you need is airtime airtime airtime and the ability to relax of course Plan your dive and dive your plan bsbs

Ahhhh your problem is turning durning a slide attempt? Don't flex youre torso, keep a disciplined boxman, pull the direction of slide arm & leg in symmetrically. (slightly) most novices make big ungainly changes, be subtle. If you can't maintain heading you have a unbalanced airflow problem, get video and see whats sticking out to far and causing the turns. Back in 1994 we had an rather small A lic type that spun on every jump, his rented container was to large-hung over one side...Only way to slow him so other novices could dock was for a D to catch him in a side dock and drop the off side knee. Ill bet you are either flexing the torso or pulling in the arm further than the leg. You should have the proper fitting gear by now but check any add on's like Altimeters or hook knives....it doesn't take much to screw your airflow up man....I've seen experianced RW types backslide because their jumpsuit was unzipped down to their chest strap. You need to get your body and mind together---most probably in your case its a unconcious flex to one side or the other or else your initiating the turn by hand....Video should tell an experianced RW type exactly where the flaw is. WORK ON IT KID AND IT WILL COME bsbs relax kids, all you need is airtime airtime airtime and the ability to relax of course Plan your dive and dive your plan bsbs

Pull an arm and leg slightly in on the side you want to slide towards, having problems? If you have those 206 jumps, a video will tell you what words cain't about your mistakes. bsbs/the grass eater