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In Scott Miller's essential skills course, he taught that by 2,000', you have already picked out your alternate landing areas and decided which one (main or alternates) you will make. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

That is while not wearing the rig, so it sounds like the length is just about right. Thanks. - David SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Hi. I just bought a used RW suit and it fits great. I am wondering how far I should be able to point my feet before the booties stop my foot. Right now, I can point my feet about 45 degrees past 90 (about 135 total) before the booties stop me. Are these legs a little too long? - David SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

I'll play. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

May 2007 at The Farm SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Nah, hang on to your retirement as long as you can. I've had these kinds of dreams for the past year and a half. Often about people that I barely know. Only a couple have involved recreational nudity. Prior to this one, the weirdest was one guy getting into a wrap really low and even though we were all yelling to not do it, he did a canopy transfer at about 100 feet. But that has now been beat. This one was just plain weird though. I didn't know who had bounced until someone told me at her memorial jump (dream begins here). They pointed out the pattern on her canopy and said that she always jumped one of two canopies. It was either a canopy with the pattern in front of me (laid out on the ground in a clearing) or some other pattern. Just to make it more like a normal dream, the memorial jump was being done into my parents' backyard. A yard that has zero approach lanes and nothing but 50+ foot tall pine trees everywhere. So there is the canopy of the deceased, a limping jumper is nearby, and all of a sudden in through the trees drops Joey Day...I mean like a rock. He didn't get up before the dream transitioned to me hanging on the outside of a car that was going really fast down the highway and I couldn't get the driver to stop or open a window to let me in. I think I was naked or just wearing my underwear. It's like Mitch Hedberg said, "I hate dreaming. Because when you sleep, you wanna sleep. Dreaming is work, you know - there I am in a comfortable bed, the next thing you know I have to build a go-kart with my ex-landlord. I want a dream of me watching myself sleep." I wouldn't mind telling Joey about the dream because I can already hear his response in my head. The other person is the one that made me think twice. I even woke up early and checked the incidents forum just in case. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

OH?! Then this person probably wouldn't want to know. (the hugs would probably feel different then) SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Is it bad form to tell someone else that you had a bounce dream about them? SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

toots SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Thanks for the laugh. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Mozilla...Firefox. Ta-da! SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

http://www.wkblog.com/tivo/2008/07/weaknees-debuts-playstation-3-upgrade-kits/ I got my TIVO upgrade from them. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

To have an entire backup of the forums for dropzone.com would be incredible. The historical value alone would be priceless. Scientists could study it and count the rings. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

+1 SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Wait. You're saying that Bolas had the forum deleted? (by the way, the forum is still there unless they deleted the database records) SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Hmmm... SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Once it is your profession. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Game on. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Heck if I know. Whenever it feels right I guess. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Be there. Hey, see if Frank will come out again. He seemed to enjoy the banter. I found this feature where you can block the chat from another player. You know, in case I get too annoying. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

yeah...right. Care to compare produced content? How many of each have you recently owned? I'll pony up. The current stable has a population of 2 Macs and 7 Win-x boxes. Those that actually "produce content": 2 Macs and 2 Win-x boxes. They're all just tools. My next computer will be a multi-tool. It will be a machine that runs Windows, Linux, and MacOS. It will be made by Apple and like all the others it will work. - David (clarification: those are numbers for the boxes at my house that get used, work is different) SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

I had an exchange with billvon about this a while back, and I don't think he would mind me posting his thoughts at that time: "I do not think that POV video is much use to a jumper reviewing a jump. He only sees his own POV (which he has already seen) he does not see what his arms/legs are doing and he does not see his motion relative to any stable reference (like a good cameraman.)" I agree with this assessment. Having said that, the reason for my initial inquiry with billvon about the usefulness of this same camera was that in practicing things like glide-angle tuning (aka. flying in partial brakes or risers), I had no real information for what settings actually helped me to cover more ground or helped to minimize sink. I could see that I was going to make the field on a long spot, but couldn't compare my technique that day with any other. You see, this camera has a nice feature that you may not have realized. It does record audio. Although I didn't use the camera beyond my initial assessment, my plan was to try different configurations and measure the descent rates (calling out the altitude). This could be done with any audio recorder, by the way. It has one other nice feature. It will fit in the external audible slots of my helmet. The only other mounting that is as minimal would be to incorporate it into a "windowed" pocket of a jumpsuit. The pocket would be accessible only from inside the jumpsuit and would have a clear plastic (poly) window to the outside. The poly only needs to be about 1"x1". I did my own experiments with the usefulness of the camera, and would rate it as "somewhat useful". The role that this camera would best fill is that of a "black box" recorder. Switch it on and forget about it. It could provide "some" information to fill in the gaps in the event of an incident. Is that a good enough reason to push it past the USPA minimum-jump recommendations? Not really. The mere presence of the camera "could" be enough to cause a young jumper to shift focus away, even slightly, from their primary responsibilities. - David PS - We are only a few years away from what I'll call "postage stamp cameras". Stick-em and forget-em. Put an array of them around a helmet and you've got your virtual viewpoint. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

Is that the 'hook' part of Velcro on your helmet? It looks like a 6"x2" strip. If so, zip up that asbestos and pray to Nomex (the god of fire resistance). SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)

In the car at 11:30, see you there. SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch)