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So does that mean they are going last at a 90 to jump run?

Where do you exit for tracking dives and why. The first few tracking dives I was on we left late approx 45 seconds after the last person exited and take a 45 degree angle of jump run. The last few we left early and took a 45 of jump run. I like leaving late for the reason that I get lots of vertical seperation from all the fun jumpers. On the other hand if you leave early there is the chance that you could run into a fun jumper, it would be real hard to do but it is possible. Thats the logic behind my choice I'm just wondering what factors I haven't considered

From the NASA article

Chemical rockets suck. Let me offer this to get you to orbit http://www.highliftsystems.com/ Now that gives me a woody Let me say this exploration is cool but never forget their are tons of resources out there in the solar system. Maybe theres enough out there for us knuckleheads to stop raping mother earth. Instead of mars why don't we go get a small asteroid move it to the moons L5 point and mine the puppy. With the material you get from that you build manufacturing facilities. Then you build your exploratin vehicles. It's more time consuming and expensive up front but oh so much cheaper in the long run IMHO. Note: NASA's first plans were to build a station in earth orbit. Then a station in Lunar orbit. Then Moon base. Then mine the moon build a linear accelerator to get material in orbit. Politics changed that to just get to the moon which pisses me off because thats putting the cart in front of the horse.

Okay I can see you took this personally . Lets go through this point by point As Wendy stated robinhood really didn't do much to even the playing field and I really don't see that the poorer districts have been improved all that much. No I'm not missing the point you really are taking this much to personally. I'm quite aware that you don't own most of the resources and power, but that doesn't change the fact that most of the power and resources are held by a few caucasians your expirience while valid does not constitute a survey of minorities in this country. I'll even go one further and say that your expirience with minority behavior and education is very limited and totally subjective. Did you also do a survey and see how many caucasians went to school on the GI bill? Have you considered any of the social dynamics involved with these desicions or did you just think that it was pureloy genetics? Once again your taking my objective statements and making them subjective. While I appreciate you telling me about your family. It still doesn't change the FACT!!!!!!!!! that minorities were treated as subhumans for centuries. You show me where in my statements I lumped all caucasians together and even better show me where I accused all caucasians and your more then welcome to call me racist......but I didn't and I think you know that. Oh yea as far as your kids being penalized, I understand your feelings but most black children are penalized daily because of the color of their skin. I don't hear you bitching about that. Is that one of those "lifes not fair get over it" type of things? or is it because it has nothing to do with you so it really doesn't matter?

No but they have been denied equal access to education. The fact that schools are funded by property taxes pretty much keeps that situation the same. Your missing the point it's about resources and access. Caucasians own most of the resources and power in this country. Therefore they have access to those resources and everthing they provide including quality education. Minorities on the other hand have very limited resources and so have very limited access to quality education. Throw in the fact that you have culturally biased tests and that caucasians purposly did all they could to destry the male psyche of some of the minorities in this country for centuries and maybe you do need a "handicap" no insult intended but I find it amusing when a white male complains about something like this. This country was stolen from one race built on the labor of another. Then both those races are treated like subhumans for 100's of years and when something is done so that the playing field is leveled who are the first people that get pissed? The ones who benifitted the most from this. As far as unconstitutional goes please don't hand me that BS those are the rules that are made by the people in power for the people in power. I personally have had my constitutional rights ignored by the authorities so many times I don't even bother to count anymore. PS I do like that reverse racisim thing very interesting...LOL

Try taking the picture using a mirror

Find a Pimpdaddy the new mindwarp makes you look like a walking penis IMHO. Everytime I see one on someone it makes me giggle it's probably because I'm twisted but thats my .02

Well actually ahhhh.....I....ahhh well I borrowed it I heard Paul Rodriguiz (sp) say it on the radio a few years ago and it usually pops into my head at times like this. It still amuses me too

Don't take it personally Dave. The only way some people can feel superior is to use racisim, sexisim etc. It's so much easier for small minds to be able to identify who their better then on sight rather then getting to know them. As I like to say why hate me for my color when you can get to know me and hate me for much better reasons. Anyway I accomplished my mission locking the thread isn't all HH did, so while the post was offensive it did serve a good purpose Yea sorry we didn't get in any jumps at Eloy together. Big SSM contingent was there so I jumped with them for the most part.

no but getting caught is especially for the pilot. A "Glory" huh? what a cool name. I wish I could have seen my face the first time I saw mine

their website is listed as http://www.skydive-pr when it's actually http://www.skydivepr.com

this http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=335872;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread might help

Nac one point Omar teaches quite differently that I thought was very important to flying docks. Use your hands for turns. This way your flying to the dock instead of turning your torso which will put you in a slightly unstable postion when you go for the grip . Example 2 people flying faced of in a sit turning 90 hand dock, 180 hand dock, 180 hand dock. using your hands for the turns allows you to stay in the same body position and fly the dock since your arms are bent 90 at the elbow you don't have to really turn your head much to see the dock. Now try it but using your torso for turns you'll need to turn. Then move your torso back then take the grip plus you either have to look up your arm for the grip or reach for the grip which means you have to compensate which makes you less stable. It's just like RW in this position I don't have to reach for grips or look up my arm I fly to the slot and take the grip.With my arms bent 90 my hands are always in my vision so my docks will always be in my vision Don't know if that made sense but I tried

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YOYO #1 I think you can move your arms foreward a bit and tilt the hands up. It's the only thing he didn't show me how to do with my hands/arms

I got extremly lucky and got 5 coach jumps in with Omar working on my sit. I also got to met HH and told him I would share so here it is. 1. Lock your legs at the 90's and dont move them (of corse there are exceptions...but to begin with lock them down). I've heard headdown people say it before "fly with your legs" well the same applies to sit. Your a badmiton birdie and the most effecient control surfaces are at the top of the birdie. 2. Fly your arms with a 90's at the elbows. This is the big one because now your hands are in position for docks without having to compensate(this also awnsers a previous post on how to grip a headdown person in a 69....cause your arms are there already there no compensation is needed) 3. Use your hands and arms to fly (see #1). Alright I'm kind of a freak cause all my movement came from my lower body, this brings up problems when your trying to dock and you try to use your legs for compensation. I usually ended up corking or backsliding in the dock. I've had a few coach jumps in the past but for sit none were even close to Omar. He watched a jump of mine on video, and before I could even get what I wanted to acheive out of my mouth he showed me on the ground everything I've been trying to learn to do sitting. It was so unreal it felt like he read my mind about everything that I wanted to fix in my sit and then presented me with the tools to fix it and sent me on my way, now all I have to do is get it in my bones and then it's back to AZ in March There was lots more but those were the main points. I went and watched chronicle 2 again and most of what he was doing in sit stand used to go over my head (yea I'm kinda slow) now I can see most of it. Concept is such a beautiful thing. Peace out

got it. I'll make an mpeg or if you have FTP capablity you can PM me and I'll send you the AVI

http://pageproducer.arczip.com/proswoopingtour/index.html go there

no it equals ASSHOLES this is one of the few things that made me ashamed to be associated with skydivers. someone actually went to the trouble to plant that corn and because it amuses some drunk assholes they destroy it. Thats pure bullshit!!!

Too funny hadn't thought about this in a while. 1. The ladies bathroom of the Flying Tomato which wouldn't have been so bad, but the stall door didn't lock and it was during Fry St. Fair which meant that everyone and their mom was trying to use the bathroom. needless to say we got a standing ovation as we exited the bathroom. Oh yea we both worked there and heard about it for at least a year after. 2 Fry St Fair 3 years later. I'm on the third floor of our house watching a band frying hard and being really silly with a bro. I notice this young lady is getting real close to me (like right in my face). I don't know her from Adam but shes kinda cute so I flat out ask her if she wants to have sex. She says yes and were of to her apartment. On the way over I had to ask her name 3 different times(I'm serious I was frying real hard). We get to her apartment and slowly get down to business when I hear the front door open. She gets up and shuts her bedroom door I figure it's her roommate. the next sound I hear is BAM BAM BAM on the door followed by "fucking open the door bitch" from a pissed male voice. I put on my undies and pants real fast look for my shirt and shoes DOH there outside by the couch. I go to the door and their still arguing him "open the door bitch" her "no go away". Next thing I know theirs a foot coming thru the door which disappears followed quickly by a hand which opens the door. At this point in time I'm frying so hard that the situation is seeming very surreal and I have no idea what the situation is between these two but I'm beggining to suspect that this guy is her boyfriend. The door opens and I giggle right over this runts head I couldn't help it. He's like five foot nothing and he has a big french knife in his hand and is doing his best to look intimidating. I do my best not to laugh and ask him what his fucking problem is. He says "you need to leave now!". I think about spending a night in jail in my condition and don't think I would keep my sanity, so I walk past him there is some chick sitting on the couch crying. I grab my shirt and shoes and get the hell out of there. I had to tell myself that it was real the whole way back to the fair.

hmmmm..... I'll have to say that it's better then mediocre/standby sex but can't compare to furniture rearinging I know you oh so well sex. Not reall a good poll. I would suggest you rethink it and try again

J5 "Power In Numbers" just ended and Blackalicious "Blazing Arrow" just started

.02 Well since Austin isn't a choice. I'd say the optimal place for you to live would be Denton especially if your still in your twenties. From Denton it's less then an hour to Skydive Texas about an hour to SDD an hour to either Ft Worth or Dallas. You have UNT and TWU and all the senseless fun that goes with 2 schools in a small town. Of course if your shop is on the south side of town then all that becomes moot unless you want to commute thru downtown Ft Worth every day. I actually thought about moving there but moved to Austin instead.

As has been stated in the forums before. performance under the same wingloading, but with different canopy sizes yields different results. My question, is there a formula for figuring out that x at a 1.2 wingloading on a 170 equals y at 1.0 wingloading on a 120 or is it more of a guesstimate type of thing