Deuce

Yes, Narci. I have life, health, disability, long-term disability, and the new one for keeping me in a home when I come down with Altzheimers. It's not so much for me, but for those I would leave behind. My wife has the same.

I'm with Seb and Lummy. We'll kick your asses. You're money is in California, where you can go to a boogie and not get rained on Heck, there's a good one next weekend, and the fair weather skydiving will make up for you girly drinking ability and the horrific loss the Lone Star will take from the Golden.

Deuce stumbles across the threshold of the bombshelter with his camera helmet on. PC120 on the left side, stills on top, big margarita cup gaffer-taped on the right side with the straw routed through the chin cup. He's got margarita (made by TOM) all over his chin and down his shirt, cause he's got the straw in his mouth right next to the tongue switch for the still camera. "ROW MRE YRRR RITZ!" he sprays all over anyone nearby. "HYY? IRZ MRY RDD LTT NNN?" The back of his shirt politely requests that all persons retreat expeditiously. BACK THE F*CK UP!

Wow. Three moderator responses. Note that their names are green, you and mineses aren't not. Quade got more sylables out of "airplane" than I thought possible. I used to be impressed by a three-syllable pronunciation of Jesus "Jah-HEEE-zus", but "Air - ee- oh - plane" is today's fae-vo-rite.

You bet. I know that my camera flying skills have a long way to go, my last outing was really frustrating because I just could not hang from my wing well enough. Clay shoots tandems with a C wing jacket and jeans, and his cameras are set about 25 degrees up. Yes. It's all about the student. Can you confirm what I heard about the Strong rigs keeping the heads further up?

No one is telling you folks that the "dirt landing area" is composed entirely of magnetic lunar dust. That shit is two feet deep and has the consistency of talcum powder. I toggled myself into that stuff on a night jump back in June, and I'm still trying to get it out of my gear.. Yeah, learn to land, whatever... That plane so totally rocked!

I actually have that pic, but since I was about 1000 feet below you and going about .8 mach it looks like 4 sparrows being kissed by one really bytchy sparrow

Yeah, I had experience with line-of-sight on my Hawkeye. BAD EXPERIENCE. My DZ uses Vectors. They put the tandem couple in a slight head-down orientation. I had a Tony C-wing suit and line of site and I could not get low enough to get video that competed with the other camera fliers. I could get the customers face and the TM's face, but I wasn't as low as to get the belly of the customer. Since the customer could see the other video being dubbed, they were a little disappointed with the framing. (I make it up with fluffing) I sent my Tony suit back to be modified to a D wing (bigger, attaches at bottom of arm, not as useful for sitflying), and re-drilled my gear to orient it up about 30 degrees (like the other belly down fliers). With the old set-up when I got low enough to get the framing I wanted I was craning my head back so far that I was backsliding. I want to master belly down tandem video before I progress to doing it sitfly. One of the video gurus told me I'd be fine if I went to a DZ where they used Strong tandems, cause they supposedly fall in a more head-up orientation. (He was dogging me) In order to shoot with line of sight equipment, you're really gonna have to "hang" on that wing with your neck cranked way back, or you have to do it sit. I'll get my new suit back next week, and I'll let you know if it fixed the problem. It may not, BECAUSE I SUCK.

How many tongs on that hot fork, B-squared?

Shrinking these down to pass the hot fork test is a pain. I did get the one 5 way shot as I rocketed by head-down in my freefly suit. That was about as lucky as getting a picture of a bullet going through an apple unassisted. Any quality issues are due to having been repeatedly Bytch-slapped. Blame Lisa. Go ahead, I'm hundreds of miles away. Seb can call me when she rockets past and I'll put on my scuba gear and go hide in the Delta.

Work it, Lumster, work it!

OK "Klaus from Germany from the last Herc-boogie" I'll ask him and pass that along. Last week I did a hybrid with him, me, Gareth and Mad-John in the base with two hangers and three floaters. He's an astounding flyer. When he turns final on that new canopy you can hear it a quarter mile away.

Cliff bar and diet pepsi at my desk. Workin late.

[replyAnd all men are assholes who think wallet thickness and/or penis size mean anything at all. btw, nice first post. Pleased to meet you too. Hey Lisa! Can you even read the letters on your keyboard? I can tell you typed that one REALLY HARD, and I think you might have just rubbed the little black letters right off. Here's a big JP cyber hug...Mmmmffff. Better? Think : Pink jumpsuit. Pink Jumpsuit. Pink jumpsuit.

I need one of the gurus to step in here. My site is over my right eye. The lens of my PC120 is 6.5 inches to the left of that point. If my subject is in contact with my nose, I need to shift 6.5 inches to the right to have my subject centered. If I had a top mount, my PC120 lens would be about 8 inches above and to the left of my right eye. If my subject was in contact with my nose I would need to shift about 8 inches down and about 2 to the right to have it centered. I don't see the big difference or advantage there. You have to look down instead of to the right is all it appears to me. I do see a big advantage with both stills and video up on top. To fix parallax (?) issues there (top mount) you just tilt your head down a little and you solve both your problems. You have to compromise with a side-top configuration, by looking a little down and a little to the right, like in a pre-exit door shot. My sidemount has been no issue in shooting 4-way and bigger RW.

[replyBut DZ Slut has a nice rig to it. It implies she wants nothing but pleasure in return and buys her own damn jump tickets. ....not that there's anything wrong with that.... Bwah!

Davis. No night jumping at the Byron Boogie, too much beer that needs drinking. I've just been told that the Davis night jumps are the best cause they use big light trailers to really light the place up. I want to try that next time they do it.

THREAD HIJACK WARNING Lummy, do you know if they are going to do the night jumps with the road crew lights? If they are, I'm putting that on my calendar. The landing area is supposed to be as bright as a night baseball game when they do.

I like the monkey very much. I am grateful for it's presence. Cummings appears to be a genuine badass skydiver who definitely knows his shit. From a safe place, other people will always throw rocks at the great ones. Upon seeing a badass walking down the street, it's one thing to say to your buddy at your side in a quiet voice "Who the hell does he think he is?" It's an entirely different thing to stop the badass in his tracks and demand "Who the hell do you think you are?" I tend to just admire the badass, and chuckle at his swagger. And I really like the picture of the monkey f*cking a robot.

This from "Mr. Green Hornet Helmet". That NorCal Freefly festival going to be at Davis? What days are you going to be at the Byron Boogie?

Q-dog, you feeling allright? Why are you coffin-shoppin anyway. I want to go back to Italy in the worst way right now. Those folks are the coolest. Have dinner late and then spend the rest of the evening parading around checking each other out. They answer the phone cool too. Rrrrring...."Pronto!" Have your meds checked Q, those coffins are too exciting for the worlds most boring skydiver.

I intercepted the Sebazz at the cigarette machine and encouraged him to bum until he got his willpower back. One more off a buddy is a heck of a lot less than "one more pack". Glad to hear your back at it, Sebster. Everyone I know has the hardest time when they are partying. Laughter, drink, smoke. The other time people seem vulnerable is when they are down. I had a buddy start back up after surgery, cause she just felt so shitty and smoking made her feel better. That seems weird to nonsmokers but I could tell it was true. I'll make you a deal. Every week you go without a cigarette, I'll take you on a skydive for the next five weeks. That's a block between us. And you have to come to Byron to collect. The gauntlet is thrown. The first week is short, let me know on Monday the 23rd if you made week one. You gonna do Tandems at Byron during the boogie?

I never called you a slut. I referred to you as being "slutty". There's a big difference. You still retain your high moral character, but indulged in an aberrent behavior one Saturday night with a drunken blonde field upon (or within) which you sowed wild oats that right now may be maturing into your reason to visit the west coast much, much more often Sorry I missed you and Gary Sunday, get a freakin cell phone!

Looking at your gear, I'm thinking you're probably a freefly swoopmonster. (Xaos 108) When Davis is having a freefly camp, that's the place to be. I just got on the video flyer rotation at Byron, and I'm there all day on Saturdays, after the tandems are gone, I'd love to jump with you. We have good load organization for both FF and RW. I think Byron has the best vibe, but it's my home DZ and I'm biased. If you can make it out for the boogie Sept 27, 28, 29, you won't be disappointed. There is always beer at the end of the day. Try Davis one time and then Byron. We're working on Seb to come play more often with us

Hey Seb! You know that famous skydiving chick on TV? WE JUMPED WITH HER! I have held her right hip ring! You held her left Damn! And I washed my hand. But I got it on video Congrats Michele! That beats the holy heck out of being on TV cause you got indicted! Beautiful! JP