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  1. TampaPete
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnfIoxNmyQk
  2. TampaPete
    grata domum Just when you thought it was safe to go online...
  3. TampaPete
    It's better with music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awf45u6zrP0
  4. TampaPete
    “… and fold up and do a toggle and jettison and always watch the horizon.”
  5. TampaPete
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCeYlY_6io
  6. TampaPete
    AM 490. They still train that way.
  7. TampaPete
    First 5 jumps: solo 10 second freefall. August 1976
  8. TampaPete
    Not eating the berries next to the road back then stems from the pesticides and herbicides used by the Highway Department not the lead from exhaust.
  9. TampaPete
    Remember, its fiction. Action fiction at that. Everyone is trying to give you literal advice of what is actually possible. You’re the writer, create the reality. Here’s my set up. Your action figure is on a small fast parachute (think Ferrari sports car), swings past the balcony and observes from above, sees the glass doors are open, grabs a front riser and spins a 720 building speed, straightens out at the correct altitude above the balcony and heads directly into the open glass doors. As his chute tangles onto the balcony above and everything else he cuts his main and tumbles into the room. Later he gathers up the chute, reconnects it to his rig, throws the mess off in front of him (see the attached video) and BASES’s off the balcony. It doesn’t need to be exact. It should be plausible and most of all it should be thrilling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe8OOD9uAOk watch at 1:00, 1:30,3:00 & 3:26. I suggest the 3:26 method. Oh, and enjoy the rest of the vid too.
  10. TampaPete
    You just before filming Deliverance.
  11. TampaPete
    Tampa usually has a turbine for the winter. Check with them. It’s a fun DZ with great people.
  12. TampaPete
    http://youtu.be/IGAeelicVdg
  13. TampaPete
    First 5 jumps were 10 second solo freefalls at 18. Jump 6 was a tandem 30 years later then straight into AFF and I’m still going.
  14. TampaPete
    At 8:28 in the first vid is that a back-mounted reserve?
  15. TampaPete
    I'm with Fool. I thought the answer was always no.
  16. TampaPete
    Be patient.
  17. TampaPete
    Maybe she should accept the teachings of her life’s advocate (Voltaire). “As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance” (Wikapedia).
  18. TampaPete
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0xa4xAZa8 Back flips are like swinging cody's on a trampoline. You push against the air the same way you push against the trampoline bed, look back and tuck.
  19. TampaPete
    I think he was hoping you were partial to drivers of blue convertible.
  20. TampaPete
    Isn’t yours the blue one?
  21. TampaPete
    These vids were back-to-back on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXT37WcZO0Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5CzMZa5oeU
  22. TampaPete
    http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/story/2012-08-19/felix-baumgartner-record-sky-dive/57148936/1
  23. TampaPete
    I watch this one often to remind myself, as you said, “never give up.” On a different note, I understand that this double mal was initiated by a back flip through the risers. Second lesson: “don’t kill yourself.”
  24. TampaPete
    Nice learning film. Why didn't the lower guy hand deploy a reserve?
  25. TampaPete
    You beat me to it. That’s my favorite by far. And this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6klvGVtw-HA And remember, that was his first ever jump. By himself, no AFF instructor. Out the door solo on jump number 1.