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Ugh, am i the only one counting? ... looks so 2 more weeks.... "George just lucky i guess!"

6 or 7 weeks due to weather/winter hold. and it was a horible experience !!! "George just lucky i guess!"

well these numbers change with the experience i have (with the number of jumps i have) 500 jumps ago i was comfortable if the other group opening was at least 500m away, now it can be 100m or less and i don't have a problem. the more you're in control (of avoiding accidents) the closer the distance can be in every of this situations you numbered... well at least for me. "George just lucky i guess!"

what a question.. Sure we do want to see it ! "George just lucky i guess!"

link to spanish forum good luck with the dz, and cya at the space games... You'll be there right, or you'll let Rob get the money for the 1st place in tracking race "George just lucky i guess!"

YAHOOOO 3 and a half more weeks and counting "George just lucky i guess!"

Is this what i think it is? giantri12 is that perhaps gian carlo trimarchi??

So who's coming??? Me and jerry are already registered. Yahooooo !!! "George just lucky i guess!"

Well we don't have any ponds in Slovenia so i had to find a natural pond. Luckily we had lots of rain in the last day... "George just lucky i guess!"

i agree, nice turn. and as mentioned, try flying the swoop, meaning pull your both toggles symetricaly, or if that was a rotor that turned the canopy correct the action with other toggle. try to keep the wing directly above your head during the swoop (unless you wanna carve but that's another story). And don't do just a couple more of swoops with this turn, do hundreds more swoops with this turn. you can get toooons of speed out of a 90 if everything (height, turn ratio, pulling toggles,...) is done perfectly. squeeze every last possible meter out of a 90 turn before switching to 180. If i see right you have whole lot more potential ouf of a 90 degree turn... long swoops, and stay safe "George just lucky i guess!"

it was a great boogie indeed. wow that beech can climb !!! btw i already made a movie. it's on skydivingmovies.com (nocontrol head down over arad ... something) shunka when you'll have time can you send me the photos. melu is there anyway that we can get the video you have of us (swooping and in the air...) ? "George just lucky i guess!"

exactly, and it isn't even mentioned that while doing this (if at all) first turn with rears to the dropzone, instead of going away from the dz... i don't wanna criticize this article because it's written and it takes time to do so. but it's done poorely... "George just lucky i guess!"

about 24hrs and we're there Can't wait... have to.... jump !!! "George just lucky i guess!"

sure but 15 jumps in 4 days, that 4jumps in a day, i plan to do 30+ (it's almost free compared to the prices we're getting in slovenia) I jumped at a boogie in Spa with Rob Heron LO ( he will be in Arad too) hehe, yeah i know the guy too , but it totaly depends on the organizer,... he just works there, i think... "George just lucky i guess!"

YAAAHOOOOOO Same problem here, it's hard to drive by in a car without making an accident "George just lucky i guess!"

Is this some kind of rule in US or other countries. I mean if i'm not working and hanging out on the DZ.com my boss would be equaly pissed as if i'd be looking at some pictures of naked chicks. Not working is not working here it doesn't matter what else you do... or is it different there? "George just lucky i guess!"

What you'll do less than 15jumps it's 12 eur otherwise. i'll be there too (1/3 of nocontrol freefly team) how much are the load organizing tickets? Or is it for free (sponsored...) one more week !!! YAHOOOO "George just lucky i guess!"

you're missing the newest Atair (Slovenia) Radical... "George just lucky i guess!"

well if you don't have your 90s dialed in yet stick with them. i'm doing front riser 90s for about 500jumps with the same sized canopy and i'm not over with them by far... i don't know how many jumps you have doing this turns (how much you learned/experienced), but with my turns in no wind days i went around 200-250feets (gates are 3 feet high)and i know i can go further with the same turn. so why switching to something more dangerous and difficult if i have more to learn with this aproach i'm doing at the moment...

Carbon fibers (shell) can definitely be reshaped a little when hot (baked), and if you keep them in that position while cooling down it will stay that way. well the difference won't be much but it's noticable, at least my bonehead optik could be reshaped a little...

has anyone considered tail fluttering. this happens because trailing edge isn't loaded (grabing rear risers high, with slack in control lines). maybe grabing rear risers a little lower isn't such a bad thing in that case (especially if your risers are long enough) "George just lucky i guess!"

Well you can't really compare the swooping "corner" with the slingshot throw. because the slingshot throw, always exits the "circle" with almost the same speed it had while circling.. Swooping skydiver is not. I won't say you get more speed or not when you're little in a corner because i don't have enough experience yet. it seems somewhat logical though, but it all depends on the canopy desing a lot too. Brian g. explained it all in his latest book. what you want for a long swoop is a lot of horizontal speed. but with the turn you drop and you gain vertical speed. so you have to somehow convert that vertical to horizontal. and if you let you canopy fully recover on itself it will loose a lot of speed in the procces. if you shorten the recovery arc (by pulling out a little) you will loose a lot of speed too, but where you loose more speed it all depends on canopy design, type of turn... this is where i'm too short with my experience and knowledge so i can only guess... and i don't really know how to calculate this in theory, so unless someone here knows how to calcuate this thing, we/you can all just assume the feelings we have about speed in a turn are right... "George just lucky i guess!"

you're right. for learning to sit fly, having greater drag at legs makes them harder to fly. but it's easier to fly HD. and for sit flying it's easier to fly when you have more drag at arms, but lt gives you problems with HD. so for learning how to sit fly, people should wear baggy upper part of suit and tight around legs. and for HD vice versa. but then again it's bad if you get in habit of flying only with your arms in sit (problems with grips later on), so then again maybe it's not so bad to start with tighter suit, right after you learn the position. hmm... thinking... "George just lucky i guess!"

like Rottenmilk said, the guys that know what they are doing in the air, are ordering tighter suits because it's easier to fly smoothly. Baggy suit rocks you all the time, but it gives you that much needed balance in the begining, because of greater drag at arms/legs. once you mastered the balance in head-up or head-down and want to fly in close proximity (1-2 feet) and smoothly switch to tighter suit. by that time you'll probably know how to fly slow or fast without the baggy suit anyway... if you choose the tight suit with 20 or so head-up or headdown jumps, i think you're simply making it hard for you. and all that just because the good guys have tighter suits and they look cool. No matter how stupid it sounds but if all the good guys would wear pink suits, it would probably get cool and everybody would wear pink suit sooner or later "George just lucky i guess!"

YAHOOO !!! What's the price? for the jumps, event,... ? p.s.:say hi to everybody there. Is olav back yet? "George just lucky i guess!"