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To me, everything seems to be happening so slow when it goes bad. I've had a bunch of CRW wraps on video - and I would have sworn we fought them for a minute or more, when the video shows it was mere seconds. I've got a couple of spinning mals on video, and when I land I would swear I fought it longer than I did - but the video shows otherwise.. I have had several jumps where I feel like I have severe pilot chute hesitations, yet my video shows it was still reasonably fast.. When I encounter an emergency situation, my brain goes into such overdrive, that what feels like 30 seconds is like 3.. I've had a lot of videos of various CRW situations and my perception of how long the whole event took is ALWAYS WAY longer than the video proves... I know other people have an opposite reaction. Its kind of odd...

Yeah I'm the same way. Its odd - I've had lots of videos of CRW cutaways and a couple videos of my own malfunctions. Every one of them I would SWEAR the events took forever, yet watching the video it was crazy quick.. So quick I'd swear the video was in fast forward...

I have some stuff here: http://crwdog.servebeer.com/CRWdog/CRW_Info.html

Better is - seen on a CRW team t-shirt - Slow is smooth and scared is fast!

I'm thinking you need to get back on your knees and be a good pup to your teammates.. The Oka Cup is coming up soon, and you really don't want to be the person they sacrifice during the event. Its not a pretty sight..

Oh the moderator has been reading this. And after reading this thread - your poor teammates have a lot of training to do with you.. You just need to suck it up and do what they say if you want to have any hope of ever joining the big dogs... CRW pups - what can ya do with em?

Are the custom plugs better about pressurization? I wear the foam ones for the plane ride, but every time I've tried to freefall with them it was just like jumping with a bad cold - i.e. excruciatingly painful... I do have small ears tho..

Ah - its important to always have an experienced jumpsuit measurer (usually found at the dropzone) fit you up. A friend had a local tailor measure him and sent the form into the jumpsuit manufacturer. They called him up and said no way those numbers are right. He came out to the dz and I re-measured him and the numbers were completely different...

I have 7000 jumps and much prefer how 7 cells fly over 9 cells. More stable, easier to be accurate with, and generally fly nice. Better for CRW. I don't mind 9 cells, but I feel like I have far more precise control - especially on accuracy - when I am on a 7. And if you can't land a modern 7 cell (Spectre, Storm, Triathlon) that's pilot error not a problem with the canopy.

It took me 48 jumps to get off student status - I have over 7000 now and am an AFF instructor :-) As long as you don't give up and keep trying hard you can do it.. My student logbook is here - its great reading - http://crwdog.servebeer.com/CRWdog/HowCRW.html

The one thing that worries me about the two hands on each handle method is that people seem to forget to look at the reserve handle before cutting away. I do a lot of refreshers and such for people, and I let them practice whichever method they were originally taught. Had another guy today I did a refresher with - he had originally learned the 2 hands per handle method. He didn't know/remember to look at the reserve handle before chopping. In fact I can't think of a single person I've ever done an emergency review with who remembered to look at the reserve before chopping until I bring it up. It does make me wonder about the number of people who learn that method who actually remember to do that in an emergency.

It works good with other Matrixes. Not a bad canopy at all. It can fly with Lightnings - for 3-4 ways and such its fine. Big ways tend to highlight its flight differences. 10 years or so ago we did a handful of 9-12 way diamonds with a couple of Matrixes in there. They worked but definitely had different flight characteristics than the Lightnings. But if you're just looking to fly 4 stacks and stuff around they're compatible enough...

This is still the photo of the week http://www.laszloimage.com/2011/January_2011/pages/Jan_15th_2011%20050.htm

That's what I was thinking of. You had to turn i.LINK CONV off..

I think one of the guys here used to have that camera. If I remember that there is some setting on the camera - convert hd or something like that. Basically if I remember correctly, the camera would automatically convert it as that is what windows computers expected, but the macs expected hd not dv and so you had to turn the convert setting off - otherwise all you got was a blank screen... I think it was like hd-dv conversion or something like that? The setting he had to change was on the camera itself.

Are there any dropzones out there (ones in the mountains maybe?) where the packing area/buildings are 150 higher/lower than the landing area? Just curious if this could affect people just moving around a dz...

Never had the egg noodles. Only order the southern food there. There fried okra is pretty good as is the chicken and dumplings andthy have excellent biscuits. Their breakfast food is pretty good too

I like Cracker Barrell! Is anyone who is dissing it from the south? Its definitely southern cooking...

I have a large collection :-) Mostly older Triathlons and Sabres. None open particularly hard - but I feel a VERY noticeable difference in the initial snatch force when I double stow versus when I don't. The initial "jolt" is much more when single stowed. I have one Triathlon where the pilot chute is getting a bit old and I single stow that one - when I double stow I LITERALLY can feel each each rubber band unstowing. It rather creeped me out :-) I jumped a friends rig yesterday with a Pilot - his is single-stowed. I had a much more abrupt initial jolt than I'm used too, then a nice snivel. I seem to find it just slows down the snatch force, and the canopy design/pack job affects the rest of the opening. (On a different note - pilot chutes matter too. I have 23" pcs on some canopies and 27" or 28" on others.. One canopy was snapping me abruptly then sniveling - I didn't have a spare smaller pc to swap out, so I tied a knot in the kill line of the bigger pc. Basically it keeps the pc from inflating 100% - it still inflates plenty - but with slightly less snatch force which definitely helped out on my initial jolt.)

I don't do the locking stows (too scared) but PD recommends doing them all. Watch this video http://www.thepdblog.com/pdblog/2010/09/video-line-stow-myth.html

And free New Years Eve haircuts :-)

I started doing that on my canopies after a friend told me that. He was having hard openings on his Velocities and PD told him to double stow and his problems went away. I switched to doing that on my rigs and my openings improved as well.

I recollect reading in parachutist I think but maybe here ofa dropzone which did 'student games'. I remember one of the games being that the students talked down the instructors under radio and it was who got them closer to the peas. They had a lot of whole of other games that I can't remember but would lOve to remember more. Anyone know about this?[email]

I plan to edit them and give the pictures to them on a DVD. I'm not a professional wedding photographer and these are friends so I'm more than happy to give them all the originals...

I'm getting paid some but I've already spent more than I'm getting paid on goodies to do this :). And I'm Completely ok with that seeing that I get to keep everything I bought. I own a bunch of camera books ( I'm a geek - I buy books - tons pf em - for any new hobby ). I always skipped the wedding chapters cuz I didn't care about that :). Rereading them the one thing they all agreed on was that I must get a 50 mm prime zoom and possibly one other prime. They said 90 percent of the photos would be taken with it and the rest can vary. So I took the books advice anyway :). And in some ways trying out an expensive camera lens could be like trying out a new smaller parachute - don't try unless you're willing to buy cuz you invariably fall in love! Laugh. And believe me I assured them when I Agreed to do this that I had no clue what I was doing and I hadn't been to a non-skydiving wedding in 15 years so I was even a bit fuzzy about what happens in them!!!