Deuce

Ahhhh. You have never seen the Skreamer cave. When crime strikes the outer ring of the London Underground, Skreamer jumps on the SkreamPole down to the SkreamCave wearing his Skreamertights and rides off with his cape flying on his SkreamVespa. Very intimidating. Oh, and REMTARD, I made some witty comment about French Canadians at Thanksgiving, having fallen into the habit of e-sparring with you. Last night at dinner with my (French Canadian/Maine) Mother, I was read the riot act about disrespecting my Culture. Don't get me in trouble with my Mom again, Remsterre. I'll come up there.

So it can be recorded at the highest quality and look killer on your High-res 100 inch plasma television.

THe official DVD will be out later this month. It'll go an hour and will have hundreds and hundreds of clips from me, Jim Gold, Greg Gasson, Brent Finley, Wingnut, Douva and the San Marcos crew and many others. The hardest part is going to be getting it down to one hour. We got truly stellar footage this year! Stills will be up tomorrow from me. About 250 of them.

Bunch of times. It taught me what I think is an important lesson: Equipment can kill you, but only people can murder you. That will make sense to some folks, but not others.

You are the life of the party, Holmes. That exchange with you about whether or not I could sing some song was hilarious. "Deuce, I can't tell if you're telling the truth or are great bullshit artist" "Dude, I am a world-class bullshit artist, but I don't know what you're talking about" Every day you'd come up to me with a different song title.

I can think of at least one. And it had absolutely nothing to do with freefall. Miss you, dude.

Riddle me this: In the spin, I'm thinking the forces of the spin keep the wings close to the body, but the weight of the legs keep the tail inflated. Without a very conscious effort to bring the legs together, the spin would increase? Spinning on your back might bring the arms naturally back, closing the wings, but the cetripedal (not centrifugal?) force would force the feet apart powering up the wing. A quick collapse of the wing and tail with an arch should bring the jumper belly to earth quickly, but folks who haven't been there don't understand how just a little tail exposed can cause great instability.

"Forgive me father for I have sinned, it has been a coon's age since my last confession.... I have threatened death on footbal fans in a skydiver bar with Hooknswoop at my back. Everybody perceived that I was not quite right in the head, though, so nobody got hurt, so it's not a sin, right?" "Sit down. We don't have a problem" "These aren't the droids you're looking for"

I got a mini-DV tape right here, provided to me by the San Marcos crew that says: Skydive San Marcos Crew at Eloy Holiday Boogie: Jason Lamley: Freeflying flyby Jeff Standly: Skysurfing Douva: Bowling/Misc Johsh Zammit: Bowling/Moonwalk I'm saving this one for last. I'm thinking rainy-day bowling in Casa Grande with RW gripper suits with booties on is the highlight reel.

I had a hellacious spin like that out of the Cessna the first time I jumped my S3. I don't think it lasted that long though. Looks like she pulled her wings in, kept her tail out, and de-arched. Like any good test-pilot, she figured it out and succeeded, though. I jumped with her the day or two before, and in level flight she beat the crap out of my ability. Just goes to show however current we are we must always be current on our emergency procedures. Thanks for the video, it's very educational.

You're going to have to change your online name to cloudy.

The first fix is always free! They are even doing the street-pusher marketing.

Lori, what a memory you have! I bet they are selling a lot of those suckers during this storm!

I had the coolest conversation with the man, Mike McG, about publications. I will admit, I simply frame the picture payments I've gotten from the magazines. Mike told me how he gets discouraged by what the DON'T publish by him. Keep the faith people. Almost all of us are the small fish. Even the big fish get bummed about what doesn't get published. Thanks again to the editors who have gone to the trouble to publish my stuff..... JP

Brilliantly done. What a benchmark. Good job!

C'mon Mary! I'm a freaking GENIUS!

Finley and Gasson jump Spectres. I'm a humble wannabe and I jump (two) also. I keep getting in this discussion like the Spectre is a dog canopy, and then I'll be dogfighting with somebody who I'll wring out and they ask "what kinda canopy is that" and I tell them it's a Spectre and they feel all shamed or something. A loaded Spectre is extremely badass. Mine are loaded about 1.7 or 1.8 to 1, depending on my camera gear. The very worst opening I've had, with a ton of shit on my head, had only caused me soreness. Fellow camera fliers with similar helmet loads have been sidelined by other canopies. I was in a really nice editing seminar with Finley and Gasson when the canopy discussion came up. My reply was that I can do everything I want with the Spectre, can land it anywhere, and what the heck would I gain by switching? I lend my second rig out all the time because folks who try wingsuits or just want to do some casual crw don't want to sweat the 9 cell elliptical thing. I'm no canopy Nazi, and don't even check out the swooping threads. But don't pick a nine cell just because you can feel the general disdain folks have for the 7 cell people. PD, you listening? Gimme a sponsorship? Something like: Spectre! Middle-aged guys survive all the openings with tons of shit on their heads! You'll sell billions!

The relatively low number of hits really increases the likelyhood of winning. And even if you don't want a new rig, the half-off coupons have CASH VALUE, huh? I still laugh that I got to take such fun photos of such hot women, and they ended up thanking me. What a good gig.

Ev, you're a sweetheart and I'm bummed we didn't get a jump. It was very nice to meet you, and I enjoyed talking with you. As to having as much fun at Alana and Justi? You just don't seem like the open-mouth-girl-kiss-jello-shot "HEY DEUCE! ARE YOU LOOSE?" Kinda girl. But I could be wrong. Happens all the time. Before she gets all famous I want everybody to know I did the video on Alanas hundredth.

Good work!

I only have to wait a few hundred more posts, and then I'll peek.

The floor of the KingAir by the door in August , with the door open from 1000 to 14,000 feet, me doing the spot, flying camera on a tandem who is loving it. For tandems, the straddle benches are pretty easy, and for upjumping they are comfortable too. And Darius? Get back to work.

I'm thinking I'll check it about every 4000 posts, just to see if any evolution is taking place.

Yeah, geeze! Up a pound. The body fat monitor thing is a great way to keep from getting angry about being hungry and exercising hard and not losing weight. It monitors the loss of fat. So instead of saying "screw it" this morning because I'm up a pound, and getting some egg mcmuffin fix, my bodyfat has stayed the same, so it's probably just water. Hoping to be below 210 by the Friday weigh in!

Yeah, really nice, Bets!