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bought mine in 900$ with 50 jumps in it and year of making 2000. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Last sunday a new skydiver came to our club he's into freefly he told me that at opening he likes to grab the risers and separate them so that his side camera doesn't gets hit. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

My bet is that you are getting slapped by the risers, happend to me once and it hurt like crazy. Dunno how good this advice is but here is what I do: after I deploy I make sure that my hands are not close to the risers, after I see the canopy trying to open (spectre = snivel) and after the slider comes down is when I take a hold of the rear risers and move my head to check the area (front, left, right, back) move with rear riser until clear and then I collapse the slider, take it down and unstow the brake, sounds like a lot of time but it happens really fast. The riser slap can be very hard. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

I think you hitted the schweet spot of women learning skydiving after marrying a completely self minded close brain whuffo (every whuffo that doesn't even wants to try a tandem is that, but thats just my opinion). Skydiving does changes people, is better to meet a skydiver than to meet a future skydiver cause he/she will change sooner or later. Once you skydive and like it, you get a totally new understanding of the word freedom, debt and broke (in terms of money) and there is no way you wanna let that go and whuffos get jealous of that and want to take you to theyr wicked world of golf and boredom and if you don't comply they get pissed and then it starts... But hey am just a 20 year old kid and single (any ladies?), so what do I know? oh yeah btw, skydiving freedom = (debt)(broke) its a directly proportional thing, you can't have one without the other, it is one of the skydiving curse! "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

http://ParachuteHistory.com I think its the best resource for parachute history. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Weird, usually people calm down when the canopy opens. If it was first jump it could of been a bad briefing, bad ground school or a bad learning student or plain stupidity. But am no instructor so I could be wrong in all of them. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

14 days without shaving (don't have time for that):2:0 Trying to make a 2-way but I screwed up both exits and was flying with too much stress, gotta calm myself and fly my belly instead of flying I dunno what, unintentional freefly, I think am a natural back to earth flyer, kept doing that in both exits. Made some good landings, on the first one had to slide (10 feet slide I think) so I could reduce my speed and run it and on the second one tried to slide and run but my foot stuck on the floor and fell on my knee and hands. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

I thought everybody did it... if I don't do that to my spectre it spanks me.

Hey what about us skydivers? you know jumpsuits are uniforms "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

I agree with Lisa a 110% get yourself a 190 main. Don't do the mistake I did in getting a bad choice of main size and now I have to be 200% aware of what am doing. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

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Email PD, I have read some other posts that said that PD offers them a different size of slider. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Dude I did S/L, and I hated it. Couldn't wait for freefall. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

From inside the house: "HEY BUBBA! YOU DAMN RED NECK! GIVE ME BACK MA TOILAT SEAT" "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

It doesn't really matters if she jumps or no, what matters is if she accepts it or no. If its a no then its a problem, if its a yes then there will be demands from her, something like "I accept your skydiving, now you must accept my private spanish classes with Bubba or Gianni ." "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Best Wishes!! "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Glad to hear your friend is doing great, and that you had some free beer.

Damn whuffo. The thing that I like about skydiving is the freefall, I really don't like been under canopy. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Pic 1 "Am crushing your head! am crushing your head!" Pic 2 "Don't worry baby nobody is looking..." Pic 3 "AAHH!! that legstrap is in my balls!!! HEEELPP!! oink!" "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Skin diving and snorkling instructor, am a guide for SCUBA trips (DiveMaster) also help on some courses, University student, am in the board of director of Panama's parachute association, in the board of director of Panama's Oceanic association and do a lot of training and reading about skydiving and do some work with my dad. I have a fun busy life. Only problem is that I only get paid from SCUBA and working with my dad. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

I snap, people that don't know and see me do it, get kinda amused. Whuffos. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

If you take the course from a USPA instructor, everything should be ok, just make sure that the instructor is in teaching (or current) status. S/L-I for static line course, AFF-I for AFF training. Affiliated DZ is for DZ who want to pay for publicity, I think. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Hey Derek, Most prolly she wont get any trouble going up cause of the climbing is kinda slow (depends on the plane) if its too fast she can chew some gum, yawn or do the inverse valsalva technique (like scuba diving but inverse, hold your nose and instead of exhaling from your nose, inhale from it) and that would fix the difference of pressure from the inner ear to the outer ear, if her ears bothers in freefall she could yawn, drink saliva or do the normal valsalva (but this last one might induce some uncontrollable turns so its a no good). About her scuba diving (I know this is skydiving), most prolly is that she has some serious sinus problems that would be smart to be checked by a doctor and the other answer is that she might be doing the equalization to late or using a wrong technique. The best technique but harder one (on some people) is to learn how to control the ear muscles, so she can compensate without the need of gum or other technique (the idea of the gum and yawn is to move the ear muscles and force some air in or out the inner ear and compensate the pressure). Oh yeah and the higher you go the less pressure it will be (inverse of scuba, no pressure going in, its pressure going out), so if it bothers her at 12k it might not at 10k. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Depends of the scar, read this: Depending on the condition of the scar, it is possible to coverup a scar. It mainly depends on the age and flatness of the scar. If the surface is extremely raised, then that skin may not accept ink. As far as covering up existing tattoos, that can definitely be done. Typically a new piece is two to three times the size of the original to achieve a successful cover up. Taken from http://www.cool-tattoo.com/10.htm "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline

Dove were you jump at? about to seriously change my travel plans. "Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?" drenaline