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  1. Marisan
    And now another 4 cities. Remember the old military truism, once is accident, twice is co-incidence and 3 times is enemy action. It's not random, it's orchestrated. And now, spectators are getting in the way of police. Why? what do the police want to do. Me thinks we are looking at the British Spring.
  2. Marisan
    Ahh but you could with a trusty Kreuger Balloon Suit. The only jumpsuit with airbrakes!
  3. Marisan
    Well, now we're all fucked
  4. Marisan
    Though you did have to know how to land (and how to spot) 2 skills that have vanished nowadays
  5. Marisan
    Ahh, life in the old days. Couldn't swoop them though
  6. Marisan
    Those stadiums might look huge from the ground but they look fcuken small from 2500'
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    And the slider only comes 2/3 of the way down the lines
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    Cotty had one as well, if you remember Richard, it used to mal about every second jump, and he did all sorts to try and sort it out. I think he used it as a bedspread in the end. I watched him chop it several times.... The stratostat immediately made it redundant... Did you ever see Don Johnson under his Volplane?. Square, but with the performance of a cheapo.... Cotty used to jump it in a security piggyback with oneshot capewells, Koch fittings on the reserve (So he could chop the reserve) and a frontmount reserve as well. He tried everything. Measured the line length on my strat and relined the sled with those line lengths, multiple different sizes of slider and ,eventually, gave up and indeed converted it to a bedspread. That sled was also responsible for one jumper (Ollie) giving up the sport.
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    Watched Grant Hoffmeister's opening one in NZ whilst in freefall. It came off his back, streamed, rotated 360 degrees three times then opened. Thank god I had a (Reefed) Stratostar.
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    Ahh back in the days when combat rel ruled, men were men and there were no swoopers
  11. Marisan
    Ever go to a bar with a whole bunch of you doing the clear eye express. Never seen a non jumper with that look.
  12. Marisan
    When I was in school, the university had a Skydiving team...we'd all wear the 550 pull-ups to the local bars to PROVE we were cool! Don't you wince now thinking back
  13. Marisan
    550 cord although some of our Army jumpers bought along some PC Crown line sets. They lasted a while.
  14. Marisan
    He posted here under the name " DocPop"
  15. Marisan
    Loved the pull up cord on the belt loop. Fuck we were cool.
  16. Marisan
    The problem Bolas is not you neither is it the swoopers. It's the canopies! I consider every downsize as putting another round in the chamber of a revolver whilst playing Russian Roulette. Luigi, when he landed the 36 sq ft canopy had 5 rounds in the gun. He had no margin for error. The more you jump pocket rockets the greater the chance the loaded chamber will come up. You increase the number of loaded chambers with the higher wing loading you jump. Hopefully, when the loaded chamber comes up it will only be for you, not for someone else that isn't playing Russian roulette. Push it often enough and that chamber will come up! Just some thoughts from and old fart that has known Obelixtim for 35+ years
  17. Marisan
    I can see anything with a wingloading of under 1.1 being banned. Just think what that means: A new main, a new reserve and a new harness. I don't know what the wing loadings are on Tandems but they are sure to be affected as well. And all because swoopers won't listen. (Bolas, I'm looking at you) I've said it before and I'll say it again. The margin for error is just too small.
  18. Marisan
    Another http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4112495;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread The clock is ticking boys and girls.
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    On purpose? lisa No but it was all good. I finally got stable subterminal, progressed to terminal and then specialised in flat spins for another 20 jumps. All I can say is yippieeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Round and Round and round and rounddd and rooooundddd and woooohl round? Puke Puuke Puuuuuuuukke. Nice start! It's amazing how quickly you can count when the spin winds up. ( One Thousand, Two Thousand etc)
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    On purpose? lisa No but it was all good. I finally got stable subterminal, progressed to terminal and then specialised in flat spins for another 20 jumps.
  21. Marisan
    On purpose? lisa No but it was all good.
  22. Marisan
    I am a little smarter now and realize after loosing lets say 100 or so friends and acquaintances over the last twenty years due to various reasons in this sport that I am not bulletproof. A hundred friends in 20 years. My how the sport has changed since I gave up.
  23. Marisan
    Both of them are rent seekers just the same as your financial industry. Look where that's got you. Greed, unfortunately, always wins out.
  24. Marisan
    Except for the fact we're not sure what they want us to address. While some might assume it's canopy collisions and canopy crashes, it could also easily be cloud clearances... I think the latter is more likely as I think the FAA cares more about us possibly impacting other aircraft in the air than us injuring and killing ourselves/other jumpers on or near the ground. Personally I think it'll be everything. They won't get shirty about busting cloud cover and NOT look at wingsuiting flight patterns or canopy flight for example. If they're going to interfere, they'll do it for everything. Now we need to clean house on ALL our procedures. Do we dare assume otherwise? They're going to make sure you obey the rules. Otherwise they're going to shut you down. Either by discipline or completely.
  25. Marisan
    9 but I still did a full style series on my first free fall