RyanOBrian

I'm pro-packing it.. I flake it out as normal then shove the nose into the tail, and make sure I bring the slighter out nice and exposed then roll the tail... and I get the hard openings at terminal...

I have a space 170 I've been jumping for about 20 jumps now. And I've had some beautiful soft openings and some that rock the hell outta me.... I hear the canopy is supposed to be a smooth opener. It's probobly me just fucking it up somehow in the packjob... but Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the maunal? It would be helpful to look up msome stuff.

8.....finished my coach rating jumps

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who speak binary and those who don't

That is filmed at Skydive Hawaii by my buddy Lyle... Pretty classic video. He said the dog was stoked afterward. I don't think it was Pugsy's first jump

Yea there is!!!!!!! http://www.hawaiiskydiving.com/party_in_paradise_08.htm Party in Paradise 2008 James “Whitey” Whiting started Party in Paradise in Hawaii around 1979 at Jump Hawaii, Dillingham Airfield. The Party was designed as an annual event for all Whitey’s friends to come and experience the beauty of Hawaii. Whitey had moved to Oahu's North Shore from the Chicago area and claimed a low Freak Brothers number. The December 5, 1981 Twin Beech tragedy claimed both Whitey’s life and the aircraft. In 1984 a community effort to renew the Party was undertaken. Harry Clark at Genavco Aviation, Honolulu International Airport, provided his C-47 and the Party was on. Up to 100 people from all over the world would camp out on Dillingham Airfield each year. Jerry Bird, Roger Ponce and George Jicha were brought over to Hawaii to help organize and teach those in attendance. Party’s continued into the early 1990s at Skydive Hawaii, until drop zone politics interceded. The Party in Paradise 2008 will begin December 29, 2007 and continue to February 18, 2008. Since our primary aircraft for the Party will be our Caravan, the jumper numbers it can support will be smaller. The Party will be limited to 40 jumpers with a $50 registration fee which includes a Party 08 t-shirt. At least an USPA "B" license is recommended for participants. We have a limited amount of space for camping, so let us know when you/your group plans to attend. We also need to give the State names of those camping for national security reasons. Both Waikiki and the Turtle Bay hotels are reasonable close to the DZ and offer a wide range of comforts impossible at the DZ. We can easily fly 20 loads of sport jumpers each day, weather permitting. After February 18, all spare Caravan time will not be available. When sport jumpers are jumping on a load with an organizer our normal $20 tickets to 12,500' will be $25. Click for registration form. Load organizer December 29, 2007 to January 6, 2008 is Lemonhead from Canada. Our German friend Sascha Schindler will work with Skydive Hawaii on putting this first event together. DZ Bar-b-ques on Sat Dec 29.,Tues Jan 02 and Sat Jan 05 with live music on Saturdays. In the spirit of improving skydiving skills, Skydive Hawaii will host freestyle, swooping and Birdman train camps in the weeks between January 6 and February 9. Again the training camps are limited to 40 participants. Coaches will be Richard Doppelmayer, Shaun Dunn, Jake Kilfoyle, Greg Flint and other staff as permitted or required. Training camp participants and coaches will be given priority in manifesting on our Caravan during this period. Individual coaching will be available as well as group coaching. Frank promises to surprise everyone during the final week of February 9 to February 18, 2008. Amy Chemlecki will be organizing loads. All the weeks of freestyle training will now be generating fun. We will be planning a Bar-b-que event Saturday February 16, 2008. ******************************************** Here's some of the other stuff happening on Oahu during the Party in Paradise 08. Mid January will be the Sony open. Late January is the Turtle Bay open. Late January 2008 is Moanikeala Hula Festival at the Polynesian cultural center. February 7, 2008 is Chinese New Year (Year of the rat begins) The Super Bowl is Feb 10, 2008 Valentine’s Day is February 14, 2008 President’s Day is February 18, 2008 February 23 to March 2, 2008 will be an invitational event: Fluid Sky Adventures…..Island Style North Shore ‘08 Fluid Sky Adventures-North Shore is an all inclusive event organized by Clint Clawson and Joey Jones Feb 24-Mar1st. Pre registration price of $1700, $1300(w/o lodging or camping) is securable with your $200 deposit. Price will increase $100 in Sept. 1 and again in Dec. 1. Slots are limited and we plan on being booked by end Sept. Contact Joey Jones for more information Genfx@gate.net.

ha nothing like having beer farts.. on the final pass... makes them open the door haha

Remember the days... When sex was safe.... and skydiving was dangerous?

I just 3-4 times a week at skydive hawaii...look for the white tacoma

well its one of the outs

see attatched

And the fires in Waialua... Armagedon in Hawaii right now... Have you gotten any jumps in while your out here?

I think I know of a dropzone that has a ICARUS VX-39 you can rent

Not sure if it's a repost or not... probobly is but its still funny http://c.photos.cx/launchingpig-e35.jpg

I took a friend to the DZ one day for her 1st tandem... She got there and was staring at the packing deck with her jaw dropped. whuffo: are you fucking kidding me!??! What are they doing? me: re-packing there rigs whuffo: THEY REALLY USE THERE PARACHUTE MORE THAN ONCE!?!?! me :: laughing:: whuffo: I thought they were mailed new ones every day to use. You can't possibley use them more than once.

BEER!!!!!!!!!

So this is me and my buddys attempt at docking. We both have around 30 jumps. I actually learned alot from this video. It seems like we are both over-countering eachother... making it harder to match altitude. But it still is a pretty funny video. Let me know what you guys think Ryan http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2097686162113106346

your all haters...

YOU'RE SURE YOU'RE A SKYDIVER WHEN... BOC goes from meaning "Blue Oyster Cult" to meaning "Bottom of Container". You're making love to your partner and they whisper "I've never done this before" and you yell out "THAT'S a case of beer!". On cloudy/windy days you go to the drop zone anyway and bitch about the weather. On cloudy/windy days you pull out your parachute and pack it just to say that you've done something skydiving-related. You "dirt-dive", "post-dive" and critique your love-making sessions. The smell of bug spray makes you think of skydiving. Whenever a passenger in a fast-moving car, you stick your head out the window and yell "FIVE LEFT" to the driver. Whenever leaving an establishment you yell "DOOR" to all the patrons before opening the door. You don't own any clothing that you didn't get at a boogie. Every single one of your whuffo friends is to the point of wanting to kill you every time you mention skydiving. You think of Jack Jeffries, Tamara Koyn and Norm Kent as "famous". You analyze every flag you see in terms of it's too windy/not too windy to jump. You analyze every flag you see in terms of which direction you'd face to land. It's a dark sky with low clouds and you're thinking "Hop -n- Pops!". It's so windy that trees are bending over and you're thinking "Cross country!". You allow a maximum 55 seconds of "working time" when making love. You can't think of a good reason to pick up your mail for three weeks after your issues of "Skydiving" and "Parachutist" arrive. You feel naked without at least one jump ticket in your wallet. You sign your checks with your name and USPA number. You know to the tenth of a mile how far it is from your driveway to the drop zone's driveway. Every time someone's beeper goes off you look at your watch to see if it's break-off altitude. You don't remember your anniversary or your mother's birthday, but you know down to the second how much accumulated freefall time you have. You analyze sessions of love-making in terms of "points turned". You refer to your recent break-up as an "intentional cut-away". You can't remember the true meanings of the words "Stilletto" "Javelin" "Talon" "Racer" ..... You walk everywhere watching the sky. You show up at the dz even on the worst-weather days because at least you can sit around drinking beer. You can't mention the word "first" in casual conversation, at work, or ever in reference to yourself. You have your paycheck direct-deposited into the dz account. You plan your vacations around skydiving boogies. On a full moon night, you look up and think "Night jumps!" You know the dz phone number while you don't even know your own. Anytime you have sex with someone for the first time you think "Beer!" You've kissed more people in freefall than you have on the ground. Your whuffo friends just don't understand why you would want to "do" a horny gorilla. You drive a beaten-up car because you really need that new canopy more. You have no idea what is happening on the weekends in your town. You have more pairs of Tevas than you do sneakers. You catch yourself flaking the bed instead of making it The term "PC" makes you think of pilot chutes, not personal computers You name your dog "Toggles" You wonder what whuffos _DO_ with themselves on gorgeous summer weekends You look at your VCR and think, "Hmm, that's gotta be worth a few jumps." You forget to lower your voice when talking to your jumper friends in a restaurant about the weekend's lost dildos, loose legstraps and lack of penetration You refer to Weddings, Funerals, Birthdays, etc. as 'Relative Work' You wish for wind, rain, snow, earthquakes, locusts, tornados, etc. on days you have to work or have other 'Relative Work' to do. You can't imagine how anyone can go on vacation without a parachute. Your rig costs more than your trailer. You love the smell of 'Jet A' in the morning! Losing your job is a reason for celebration! Your 'work' clothes have grippers. You ware a Skydiving T-shirt and bring a six pack to a job interview. You try to convince the State Trooper that your "D" license allows you to do ANYTHING! Your log book is thicker than any book you've ever read. You stop by the New River Bridge and take a look. All the others are saying 'damn, look how high it is' and you're saying 'damn, look how low it is'. When you buy anything you calculate how many skydives it will cost. When you wear your rig on commercial passenger flights, just in case. When seeing seats in a twin otter gives you the willies. When you go to divorce court and give your ex everything as long as you can keep all your skydiving gear. When buying a house seems like a terrible waste of jump money. When you own three rigs, three altimeters, three dytters.... When you log a jump on December 25 and the fact it is Christmas doesn't enter your mind. Your six year old son can teach the first jump course. You put your arms down and back in a full track when running down stairs. You estimate your chances of pulling off a hard front riser turn when looking out any window above four stories. When you wake up with a mean hangover in a tent, the first thing you check is your rig. Then the person sleeping next to you. You find yourself mentally telling the pilot when to flare while landing on a commercial flight. Your christmas tree has more skydivers on it that an Otter can carry. Your thinking about taking all the but the driver's seats out of your car. Everytime you get pulled over for speeding you tell the cop you just made your first skydive in the hopes that he will let you go. Your favorite movie in the world is just over sixty seconds long. Your whuffo friends only call if the weather man says the weekend will be shitty. Your friends look at the sky and say, "look at all those clouds", and you say, "look at all those holes!". You wake up in the morning feeling like death warmed over, after having a few too many beers the night before, and your solution to this consists of riding in an extremely loud vehicle for about twenty minutes, throwing yourself out the door and NOT! killing yourself. You can't think of a better way to relax other than falling 10,000 feet. You fill out your packing data card in braille and try to convince the drop zone owner it's legal. You consider sleeping in a slanted plane as comfortable. You see an incredibly beautiful woman and you think, "hmm, I wonder if I can talk her into......skydiving!". Your girlfriend holds out her left hand and says the word diamond. You picture a fourway formation, look at your girlfriends hand realize the diamond she's talking about is going to cost over 200 jumps, and then, with a smile, picture your girlfriends suitcases on the porch. Your friend says "let's go to the beach", and you grab your rig. You try to convince the flight attendant on a commercial flight that you really! would be much more comfortable sitting on the floor. Your friends think it's funny to, when you are sleeping, blow a fan in your face and set a beeper off near your ear. When someone asks you where you're from, you reply with the name of your dz, not your hometown. ADD SOME MORE!!!!

We came to the conclusion that it was a packing error and loosley knotted and stowed. So when I went to unstow them I synched the knot down.

Well thanks everyone for your help. I'm glad I didn't cut away. I made the descision and it worked..... And thanks John Mitchell... I don't know why it didn't even cross my mind but I totally could have used my left toggle to do my base and final turns... I guess w/ the adrenaline I didn't even think of that. And I also like the idea to put the good toggle in my teeth. That might have worked as well. Well live and learn@

So Jump number 29 was amazing today up until I was under canopy. I pulled at 4000 and opened fine. But when I went to unstow my toggles my right toggles was tied in a knot around the guide ring. There was proboly about a foot of line between the knot and the toggle. I thought I could cut this away but let me try messing around with the rear risers a bit.So I did a steerabilty check with my rear risers and came to the descision that I can land it. I tried to get the knot undone but couldn't do it. When I got on my downwind I was pretty much out of strength on my left arm to keep using the risers.... I had to reach up with both hands to do my left turns for my base and final. For my flare I used the last of my strength and came and landed fine. It wasn't a standup landing, but I was on the ground safe.... The question is should I have just cut away rather than take that risk that I did?? Everyone at the DZ says I should have chopped... Of course I listened to them and learned alot from it. But am looking for some more input. Thanks EDIT: I was flying a Sabre 190

You'll forget about anything and everything going on in your life... all the bullshit and worries and nonsense is left on the ground.

I totally agree the days I go and can't jump I still stick around until the last load learning as much as I can on the ground.

I've never been to Kauai. But I live in Oahu and jump there. All they do in Kauai is tandems, but if that's what your planning on I say do it! Oahu has an awsome view under canopy and I can imagine it'll be the exact same there if not better