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I agree Reginald. While there's no need to be exclusive, generally jumping with the same people over and over again will yield faster results. Especially if there's a coach available to look over the footage. Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

You'll probably have more success if you don't put it up in front of the mens bathroom Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Yep, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!! But Honey...it's cold..... Performance Designs Factory Team

While I won't be doing the NC circuit (got the GA one here), I will be attending at least one of your meets. Right now I'm playing with my schedule for the year to figure out which one it'll be. See ya there Dave Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

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99% of the time it's 14500 at Skydive Atlanta. The rest of the time it's 14000. Once or twice it's been 15000. Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

LOL Screamer, sorry I missed the annual pilgrimage to Eloy. I do hope you'll come to the Atlanta Freefly Festival though. It'd be good to see you again....well.....sortof Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Brian Buckland took it. You can check out some of his other stuff at http://www.freekfly.com Blues

I am a man of my word Performance Designs Factory Team

I'd be happy to destroy that offensive stereotype if Katie and I end up making it down for the Cupid Boogie Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Tour Dates are starting to be announced.....now if he'd just release the new CD! Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

500+ fun jumps. Plan on doing the same or more this year

Tracking dive at Skydive Atlanta Halloween Festival Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Quality every single time over quantity for sure. Have a plan (even if it's the most basic of one), try and dive the plan. Watch video of your dive and have an experienced flyer look over your shoulder and teach you how to debrief yourself. Try and keep groups small (in FF'ing) for a long time, you'll learn more. Have fun

And And Contradictory statements and my guess is that in you're in over your head. For the record I've known plenty of people with well over 1000 jumps who've put people on canopies that they weren't ready for and broke themselves. If 3 people are saying what you want to hear and 20 are saying what you don't want to hear, my guess is you're going to listen to those 3. Still you've made your choice. It's not an unsurvivable one but if you're "learning to swoop" you'd have been fine (and better off) under your original choice. Be careful. Think carefully. Be AHEAD of the canopy. Know where you're going, know where others are going and make sure you can keep up with the quickly changing environment. And these are FAMOUS last words, yet I hear them often. Don't "wait to get coaching"...You could afford the 1500+ dollar canopy, you can afford to fly somewhere for coaching. Doing it now will make you a better pilot. Good luck. Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Ron, While I may disagree with their vote too, if you want to talk numbers, lets not forget about the indians Every country (that I can think of, maybe there are exceptions) has a history where they did some grave injustice. Let's not forget that and keep to the topic at hand Now, do I think Bush is a murderer: No. He has made decisions that cost lives, and while I may disagree with a lot of them, I do believe he is doing what he thinks is right for the country. Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Yep. As the canopy starts deploying I have my hands much lower on the rear risers. I realize it's still a possibility that they'll get caught, but it's unlikely that I'll have such poor body position that the risers will twist so low. I can still slide them up quickly if I need to perform evasive manuevers after opening but I've kept them as out of the way as I can after these experiences. Yeah I have one now too. It'd be much easier to rip off it's screws (good thing if your hand is stuck) than a solid alti as well. Not to mention is has a much smaller profile. Anyone else have any other techniques they use? Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Yes, on two occasions where I ended up in line twists (bad body position during deployment) I had my hands on my rears. My alti hand got stuck between the risers but I was able to wrench it out. Scarey. Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

She'd have given them to you if it wasn't one of her favorite pairs

Folks are in town. No neighbors for us! Sorry Clay. Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

In lines of spectacular, survival stories with double mals....here's one from skydiving movies.com http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1945 Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

hehe. nice. It's dorky programmer humor, but it still makes me smile

THE PROGRAMMER'S QUICK GUIDE TO THE LANGUAGES The proliferation of modern programming languages (all of which seem to have stolen countless features from one another) sometimes makes it difficult to remember what language you're currently using. This handy reference is offered as a public service to help programmers who find themselves in such a dilemma. TASK: Shoot yourself in the foot. C You shoot yourself in the foot. C++ You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there." FORTRAN You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue with the attempts to shoot yourself anyways because you have no exception-handling capability. Pascal The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot. Ada After correctly packing your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover you can't because your foot is of the wrong type. COBOL Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether shoelace needs to be re-tied. LISP You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds... FORTH Foot in yourself shoot. Prolog You tell your program that you want to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't permit it to explain it to you. BASIC Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. On large systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged. Visual Basic You'll really only _appear_ to have shot yourself in the foot, but you'll have had so much fun doing it that you won't care. HyperTalk Put the first bullet of gun into foot left of leg of you. Answer the result. Motif You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the bullet, its trajectory, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams. APL You shoot yourself in the foot, then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters. SNOBOL If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot. If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot. UNIX (The way most UNIX hackers shoot themselves in the foot.) % ls foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o % rm * .o rm:.o no such file or directory % ls % Concurrent Euclid You shoot yourself in somebody else's foot. 370 JCL You send your foot down to MIS and include a 400-page document explaining exactly how you want it to be shot. Three years later, your foot comes back deep-fried. Paradox Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can, too. Access You try to point the gun at your foot, but it shoots holes in all your Borland distribution diskettes instead. Revelation You're sure you're going to be able to shoot yourself in the foot, just as soon as you figure out what all these nifty little bullet-thingies are for. Modula2 After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in this language, you shoot yourself in the head. Assembler You try to shoot yourself in the foot, only to discover you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot. Performance Designs Factory Team

After deployment, but prior to unstowing brakes, he flipped himself upside down in the harness intentionally. I've seen people do it and hook their feet on their slider/risers to keep themselves in that orientation. I also know of at least 1 (I think 2) people who've gone in because of it due to an induced turn. Not a smart thing to do. Learn from fatality reports Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team

Ok folks....who's going?? I know I'll be at all the meets. Also plan on going to Carolina to do at least one this season. Anyone else gonna be doing this region this season? Blues, Ian Performance Designs Factory Team