Deuce

OK, one more for Happy Kieth.

Nah, this one. (must complete other projects.... must stop postwhoring...) More than one. Must stop....

Yeah, you missed it Sunny. Here's two more, and be patient. OK, you don't have to be patient, but I'll ignore you. (not you sunny)

Although this one captures the essence better...

I'm working on it. Here, remember this one?

I backfly the opening, throw a peace sign, continue the backflip, put my altimeter in the camera's view, track toward the DZ and dump in a track at 2500. The TM will pull higher if the spot sucks. If they don't, I land off.

Congratulations! Now, you must either get a very high paying job so you can afford that tunnel, or a low-paying job working in it. Best of luck, and thank you for your service.

Hmmmm. No. True love lasts forever. Even when someone changes and you are not in love with the person they have become, you will still love the person that they were, forever. Love freezes time. Being in love marks your life, like bouys in the sea. Think back on your life, and you will remember best those times when your heart ached to be with the person you were most in love with at the time. I have been blessed to be in love with many people. I haven't lost them, but distance, complication, and the needs of other people's love have removed them from the foremost part of my thoughts. But thinking of them is like stepping into the sunlight. It is better to love.

NIce! So I suspect I may get a chance to meet all of you at the Herc Boogie next month?

A stock camera jacket from Tony Suits is something you could get "off the rack" if that's what you really want to do. That will work fine for most casual video work. For serious camera flying, I think a one-piece suit is best, and needs to be custom fitted to the body and to the rig which is used.

It seemed to take me forever. At Byron over the summer it can take quite a while. I started in April and finished in August and I was out there every weekend.

I was bigger and heavier than all my instructors, but when they had their minds fixed on getting to a different orientation, there was no stopping them. Jay in particular has some ninja moves that seem a lot like teleportation. My favorite quote from the training was from Yong, a 90-pound South Korean AFF-IE. When explaining why not to grab her extremeties when she was spinning, cause it would only make things worse she said "My English not so good, but in spin, I am like paper, and you....like rock"

Get well soon. Busted mine a year ago almost to the same day last year. Hugs.

You did not dare because I was challenging a suitor for my bitches.

Funny thing, Andrea, the course takes a lot of the "cool" out of skydiving, and makes it scary again. I'da faked some "coolness" for a student like you, though.

I checked and they are winded out, pretty much, in Byron today. Beer tomorrow. JP

Hey, Remi. The pre-course covers some very important stuff about teaching freefall that only guys like Jay Stokes know. There is about half a day of classroom the first two days, and then practice jumps until you know you are ready to attempt the evaluation jumps, or for about half the men who started my course, the ability to take an incomplete until the skills are aquired. It is a very, very challenging evaluation. I got there Monday pretty late, for the last bit of the classroom part, and then did a practice jump. I did classroom Tuesday morning until about 10, and then did 3 practice jumps along with helping out with video on one or two jumps. Practice jumps Wednesday and then the course director told me he thought I was ready for the eval jumps and did the Category 3 evaluation jump on the reserve side with a guy who was still practicing on the main side. I passed. On Thursday I passed the Cat C main side and took and failed the Cat D eval. Took my Cat D mulligan on Thursday afternoon and passed it. There are 4 chances to pass the three jumps. I used them all. Did my ground instruction stuff on Friday morning and came home. I have learned to do some complicated and dangerous things in my life, and have had some great, and some truly shitty trainers. Jay Stokes is among the great ones.

I'm spending some time with my girls today, we're going to see Shrek2 in a little bit, but if you get by Byron around sunset, I'll have a couple of cases on ice tonight.

Honest.

Really.

I got my ass kicked.

People, please. It was a Marine Corps story. Always remember to "putch fa'art onnah chajah hannoh!" That shit is important. The five point 16 way for Biotch's 1K dive was super coolio, as was the freefly wingsuit hybrid with Shannon where she pulled a gun out of her cleavage and shot at the trackers. Great time. The tunnel time with the vonNovaks and biotch and Iwan was cool too, especially the bruiser 4 way we attempted in there. The DVD will be available soon, and my pictures will be up early next week.

Dude, you have to jump with Aubrey. But I am absolutely positive you will have to get FAA clearance first. Something about sonic booms over the mainland...

Lucky me. A gratuitous ass shot, and the package! A two-fer! It was great fun, and I'll have my pictures up by monday. I love you folks!

I really do. Orwell figured out brillliantly in 1984 that every society needs an enemy to keep it focused. Gosh, I wish I could remember the cartoon character's name, but he said "I have met the enemy, and he is us"