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It's the scale model Rock Dragon 24 out of the Apex shop. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Yes. My daughter. Her rig was made by Will's father, Mark (aka Tree), who also made Will's (and has made a couple others for other jumpers' children). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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He's got nothing on Will Kissner. That kid wears a rig, exits clean, and even pitches on time (at least sometimes). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Clicky... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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It also wouldn't hurt to sticky any of the other threads we've had on this topic. But then we'd end up with every technical discussion on this forum stickied to the top, and we'd be back where we started, wouldn't we? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I am almost positive Miles D has done that already. Miles was the first person I saw do that. I'm pretty sure he calls it the "McTwisty-something" because McTwisty is the 180 line twist. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Yes, they are some very good examples of a jumper getting his toggles very quickly. They don't though, show us, for example, how often any particular jumper is likely to fumble his toggles--just what happened on those specific jumps, chosen for the footage, where the jumper got the toggles very quickly. Some good questions to ponder: Can you guarantee that you (that's the rhetorical, general, "you", not the specific "traker" you) are as fast as Johnny, who has years and years of experience and practice? Can you guarantee that you are more consistent than Slim, who also had years of experience and practice? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Dude, calm down and step away from the keyboard. Throwing around random ethnic slurs that will offend people who just had the misfortune to read that isn't scoring you any points. I'm going to ban you from this forum for 8 hours to give you a chance to do something more productive tonight. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Do you know what the wind was doing during the "Toggle Training" video jumps? Those are definitely some good examples of excellent toggle turns initiated immediately upon opening. For counterexamples of what can happen if you happen to miss a toggle (and the level of jumper who can still miss a toggle for a split second during the opening), you might want to check out this video, which shows a jumper with more than 1200 jumps attempting a toggle correction on a slider down cliff, fumbling a toggle, and experiencing a cliff strike and massive injury. I don't really think the "Toggle Heading Correction During Opening" video is terribly relevant to the question of correcting slider down off heading openings. The jumper appears to have the toggles before the slider is fully deployed (which is an argument for always jumping slider up, even at very low altitudes--but says nothing about what happens slider down). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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You ought to check out the other threads on this topic, too. There are many different views on this one. I recommend reading through all of them, and then forming your own opinion. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Wow, I had no idea. Placer county repealed that ordinance? And I hadn't even heard about the NPS allowing BASE again. That's great news! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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That's an interestingly short sighted view. You're saying that an area (Northern California) with at least 2 specific local ordinances prohbiting fixed object parachuting, with several structures displaying signs reading "No Parachuting" (with a nifty red circle and slash across a parachute), and which is also home to perhaps the most famously burned BASE site in the world, has "no burned objects?" -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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WTF. Why did Potatoman (or even the other guy) not organize a 2nd set of gear and jump this sweet building himself? It can't be that hard to get another rig from somewhere... Perhaps he was unable to borrow a rig from one of the other locals? It seems from the postings here that he's not unusually popular with the jumpers in that area. Another, not too related, thought: I know that Potatohead has the "Death Rig" (converted Javelin) that I've seen him jump. I'm assuming that he (wisely) decided that rig wasn't appropriate for this jump, and lent his 'A' gear to the other jumper, deciding to walk off rather than jump the "Death Rig" himself. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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No offense meant to anyone. That was just my first recollection of many of those jumps. Can you give us a rundown on which is which? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I don't think he is. His hometown is in Northern California. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Here. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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They're both related. It's not either or. If you jump in the city a lot, you are more likely to get busted. If you are careless about your jumps, you are more likely to get busted. If both, then you are even more likely to get busted. One bust is easy enough to chalk up to accident. Two or three? I'm not sure how many busts it takes before you start saying that a pattern of behavior is leading to predictable outcomes. What's that old saying from the military? "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action" ? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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As far as I know, both the jump and the name were invented by Rauk, who has already posted to this thread, so perhaps he'll correct me if I'm wrong. Stand facing the object (full floater position). Hang the canopy down behind your back (so not between you and the object). Do a back flip and pass over the canopy. If I recall correctly, the version where you do the floater with the canopy hanging between yourself and the object is called the Steamroller (is that right? anyone know for sure?). There are loads of variations to the rollover style unpacked jumps. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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vertical separation. it prevents unnecessary entanglement, expecially when you have more height than required and limited horizontal spacing. There's a good post floating around somewhere by 587, in which he details a jump he did with Douggs and DD, which was a 3 way unpacked, and they were very surprised by the lack of separation between the slider up and down delay jumpers. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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That's a personal attack. Consider this your one warning. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Not that I doubt that this could happen, but has this ever actually happened...[/r?eply] I know of one case in which this actually happened, and the jumper was released. The punch line was that the other 2 jumpers with him (the cop didn't see anyone jump) admitted they had been jumping, and got busted. The guy who said he had just come out from the DZ to watch, and that his was just an airplane skydiving rig, got away scot free. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Vertical is fine. The center of mass of the rotating system (you plus the parachute) is well down the lines toward the jumper (because the jumper weighs a lot more than the parachute). No. The "extra" pendulum will be away from the wall, not toward it, because the center of mass of they system is out away from the wall (because you've pushed the heaviest component--your body--out there). Do it slider of/down, for certain. Using the slider gives you worse heading, and the advantage of using the slider (keeps the canopy together in wind) is negligible on a solid object (where you shouldn't be going in wind anyway, but the canopy is hanging in the wind shadow regardless). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Enough. For at least the next 30 days in this forum. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Are you speaking from experience? Can you share any GPS data or video of this? Thanks! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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It's super easy to make a new one. If I noticed any wear at all, I'd just replace it for the next time. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com