TomAiello
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That's a personal attack. Please review the forum rules, specifically: 1. No Personal Attacks. Consider this your one warning. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Damn, I embarrassingly admit that I have never seen that spelled out so explicitly. Thanks for that, it made my rant worth it. You ought to have a look at some basic teaching texts (the kind that are used in post-graduate teacher education programs). They tend to break learning into 4 stages: 1) Unknowingly unskilled: "I don't know that I don't know" 2) Knowingly unskilled: "I know that I don't know" 3) Knowingly skilled: "I know how do to it, and I think about it" 4) Unknowingly skilled: "I just do it without having to think about it" -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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What if you took that original design and photoshopped in Thor Alex's face on the grim reaper? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I was also pretty underwhelmed with the Six Six One. I did like the Fox Racing jacket, which I think actually had slightly better spine protection than my Dianese. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Have you considered using a pendulator or a public swimming pool to practice the exit a couple hundred times before you do it on a BASE jump? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Please review the forum rules regarding personal attacks. Specifically: 1) No personal attacks. Consider this your warning. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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On a skydiving web site. Be nice. The guy who owns this house isn't a BASE jumper, so it's 's pretty rude to go around dissing people for that. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Please review the Forum Rules, specifically: 1) No Personal Attacks That's a personal attack. I've banned you from this forum for 14 days. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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3rd time in this forum. Can we keep this one in the original thread, please? Thanks! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I'm pretty sure that both Apex and Asylum were involved. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Robi's perspective may be skewed by the fact that most of the wingsuit flights he sees are his own, and he's probably the world leader in maxing out the glide ratio. I'd also hazard a guess that Robi's numbers come from flights of precisely known elevation and distance, so that the numbers he has are actually more accurate than anything we can draw from aircraft flights. It depends on what sort of jumping you're doing, I think. I know many, many trackers who are at 1:1 or better. They're almost all European BASE jumpers. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Tom could you clarify? Do you mean grabbing the PC and pitching straight from the BOC as opposed to extracting the PC from the BOC , holding, and then releasing..?? Not really. I mean not flicking your wrist, so that you don't rotate the PC as it moves to bridle stretch. Typically, I see students giving the PC between a 360 and a 720 before it reaches bridle stretch. It's easy enough to see what you are doing if you just do some practice pitches in your living room (even easier if you have a big mirror to watch in). -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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The pitch methodology would probably have helped, though. 90% of the experienced jumpers I see are still using a skydiving style "wrist flick" which spins the bridle and PC around each other, greatly increasing the chances of an entanglement. To reduce the entanglement potential, you should pitch in such a way that the apex of the PC continues to lead all the way to bridle stretch. If you spin the PC such that the apex rotates back toward you, you're likely to be dumping bridle ahead of the PC's travel path. Another good way to avoid this is to use a bridle staging pocket. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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You're free to post your factual, business experiences with business entities in the skydiving world in whatever forum is most appropriate. Please remember that you must still follow the forum rules, so describing your experience is ok (and useful for others to read), but calling someone names (even if you think they deserve it) is not allowed. Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss specifics. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Yes. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Here. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Sorry. I wasn't trying to say that his web site was pro-Birdman. Just that it offers an alternative to the manufacturers official site for product information, manuals, technical articles, etc. I do think that it originally started life as the "official" Birdman web site, but that Birdman eventually decided to "hire" (I think it was all sponsorship and such, no actual cash) a different web guy to do their web site, after Kevin had the site well on it's way to completion. He then morphed it into the stand-alone, non-affiliated site that it is today. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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That's actually very common on BASE jumps, and something we specifically train students to avoid with their pitch technique. Our gear (with no handles on many PC's) also helps. The big danger is that the inflating PC can pass through the bridle, and potentially get choked off. There has been one BASE wingsuit fatality that was probably caused by this (there was, anachronistically, a hackey on that PC), and at least 3 near misses (where the jumper landed with an overhand knot in the bridle, but the PC cleared the knot and still inflated, or generated enough drag as a streamer to open the container and extract the canopy). On a skydive, obviously, that's a lot less dangerous, because of that second parachute. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I think Avery is still trying to adjust to that piece of fabric on his lines. His pull altitude may revert from time to time to it's original slider down calibration. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Here. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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PM Sent. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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It's the past, actually. What about toboggan wingsuit BASE? Picture lying on your stomach on the toboggan with the wings spread, picking up a ton of speed, shooting off the edge and straight into full flight as the toboggan falls away. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I got a short lecture on it from some of the SLC BASE jumpers a while back. It sounds like the key is to use uniform size boxes (they said 1 foot cubes) and be sure there are no gaps between them. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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You're making a disturbingly common mistake. Every canopy manufacturer measures size differently. A Blackjack "310" is actually pretty much exactly the same size as the Troll "290" that I own. Picking the canopy based on the number being approximately what you think you should be buying is silly. The numbers vary by manufacturer by as much as plus or minus 20. Saying "I'll buy canopy X because it comes in a 297, and that's my ideal size" is definitely not the way to go. I treat canopies as size groups. In my reckoning, a Flik 293, a Dagger 288, or a Blackjack 280 are all the same size, or close enough as to make no difference (or, certainly, less difference than the differences between the canopies themselves, regardless of size). Pick the canopy you want, then get the size that's closest. Don't pick the canopy based on the size. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Without further ado, I give you... Rocket the Wonder Dog I've got some of the video somewhere, I think. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com