nacmacfeegle

"A friend will get you out of jail. A best friend will be the one sitting next to you sayin, "f*king awesome" And a true friend will have used his one phone call to order in pizza...

"So, anybody else wanna fess up where there experience comes from?" Well, I bust my femur doing a stoopid low turn......Quacks and sawbones told me I'd be stuck on the ground for a long time, so I figured I'd teach myself a new skill that might be useful for skydiving, and I could learn it at home. So I spec'd up a custom system based around a DC30 card and got busy editing all my pals' footage into fun mixes.....Then I got me a DV card, and more HD space. Then I got a big break and built the Brit100 film and learned a lot from some cool people (including a producer from the BBC), then I got asked to help out at World team in Thailand, and made the film for that, then I did some real world work related vids, and some tandem leaders , party tapes etc etc etc.........Been too busy to do any major skydiving projects recently ----sadly.....Cos I actually quite like messing with video and choonz, and being creative, without over amping the SFX. It can soak up all my spare time though, and its tough working long hours, and still squeezing in some jumps, and also editing.......something has to give. Am looking forward to passing on some of the love I've learned to my Texan hosts for their 120 way attempts this weekend. The way I look at it is this....the more good video there is around, the more whuffoes think "wow, I wanna try that", then the more friends I get to play with, and more money comes into skydiving .....and so the sport gets better....I know the stuff I do won't make a big difference, but its all gotta help. Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

Absolutely, all ya gotta do is show up Sam, y'know I'd be more than happy to boogie with you bro...... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

In which case, we should sort the base out first, I WANT THIS TO WORK......bust out that suit with the funny handles bro

Yeah what Paul said about e-mail flaming... As a general rule of thumb, only fight the fights you can win......And its nearly always better to try and reason things out first, face to face as it were......This is called diplomacy. Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

"Let's keep the spam out of this thread and if you don't have a link or two to post, please don't post. This should stay a resource thread." Most of the above plus computer video magazine which has gear reviews and links to piles of resources. But eh most important is the DV doctor pages which are linked above...... Couldn't agree more.... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

Aha, but in my previous life as 2 dimensional flier, I have taken 4 ways out of left side, right side, fast tails like the Jet at Vichy --AN72, slow tails like chinooks and skyvans. I've funnelled just about every combination possible..

"riding a mechanical bull " deniro voice on--You talkin' bout me?--deniro voice off... Laughed my lardy ass off too......Zennie has a habit of grinning in freefall, its one of the reasons I like to jump with him. I get a buzz from seeing my pals have a good time. Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

No problems here....Prolly a good idea, you know how to make it happen, and what works etc, so why put another variable into the mix? Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

And the CASA should iron out some of the, ermmm, issues we've had of late with the belly fliers...hehehehe... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

Whassup English Boy? Whats the odds on Nigeria dishing out some whoopass to your pansy assed pooftahs? Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

Whoohoo, I'll have a keg of Shiner on ice waiting fer ya..... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

Kinda like smurfs with attitude....

'vertical star crest recipient' Its an award for a hybrid dive.... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

And by the way folks, the video from this dive is very pretty, all the angles I saw in the hangar were rocking....Gorgeous sunset coupled with some great flying by all concerned. Well done peeps. "for those that didn't make it in or didn't go maybe we can do it again this weekend so that everybody else can get a number while they are still low" Me, me, me, me, me, me, me......Y'all know I can go fast and steady on my bodacious beer enhanced gravity accelerator...... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

Humps, jumps, beer owed right? 0:15:0 Had a wild weekend, boogied long and smiled large, with Rachill and her long ass-hair, I'll post the snaps very soon....Took Pop for his first rodeo which I filmed from my wrist mount, did a ten ton two way with Big Tim from Spaceland, filmed some cool freefly, went low, let the girls get away from me, did some cool flying with my soul brother Zennie, and fixed up a free loan canopy for the Slappie man. Drank way too much beer (I didn't think it possible), fell asleep on the couch watching footage on my camera, and slept in for work this morning.......But what the hell, I smiled most of the weekend, made a few others smile, the energy crisis can wait for me! Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

Hey Hixxman, less of this "Shapeism", you know the rule of the forums, sizeist comments are not welcome here...... As dropzone.com's 'rolling down the hill' champion I say to all you feather asses...Us fat boys gotta have some fun too...., and size is no indication of quality...according to Cosmopolitan anyway..... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

"Skymonkey introduced us to many great people, and everyone was incredibly friendly......the people up here are so friendly and welcoming" I find this at just about every DZ I visit, I'm glad you are experiencing 'the love'... Hope yall are happy at your new home..... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

"I am taking donations to the mental health recovery of Hixxx's sister" I know some good medecine for you, it comes in wee green bottles and has the label 'Heinekin' on it .... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

"usually a very stable formation" This one WAS stable till we broke the knee lock, then it all went awry......You can see Rachill and I getting pulled and kicked all over the place from my video. Not sure whether it was my bad or what (suspect it was a combination of my inability, and some rad freeflying from our 'lockers', and as it was cool till we unlocked knees, I think it was mostly down to me...), the debrief was, well brief...

"Cause that's what all the really cool people at my dz have. " yeah, right!...... Glad you escaped databse hell on Sunday and made a sweet one..... Still on for wednesay nite?.... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

Nacmacchuckle Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

I guess I owe you a 'large amount of shiner' which is fine Texan beer......If you can come over to Houston this weekend, I'll repay you..

Hey Jess, for some info on perhaps saving your delicate digits.. go here , click on the 'back issues' button, and go to 'june '96' for an article by Pete Allum called 'control your deployment'. It might help a little.......Its even got some pictures....... Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.

So Dave, y'all coming to Spaceland this weekend? And are you coming down to Sam's boat on Wednesday night? Cya D GR# 37 Remember how lucky you are to see and touch the sky; the blind may only dream.