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Disclaimer - I am not an instructor!! This is just a suggestion and something that I have seen being done combined with personal experience. Visualisation can help alot - mentally go through the "perfect" arch. I would suggest that you don't arch/practice by yourself as you can end up teaching yourself poor position. However what can be useful is getting on a creeper with your instructor and drilling stable freefall. The instructor can then turn your left/right on the creeper and drill the correct response into you. Remember drilling takes time - I am not suggesting 5 minutes on a creeper. Do it till it is second nature and that takes time. Another idea is chat to various instructors (only instructors) sometimes the different ways people have of explaining things can "click". I have heard how to arch explained in about 10 different ways - only 1 of which really clicked with me and fixed my specific problem. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Ask Shah Marriage is worth it to me. It might come with a bucket load of shit at times but the good times outweigh the bad. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

To be honest, tow launching the canopy in the first place is still the most dangerous and unpredictable part of that whole exercise, and by having a reliable cutaway set up for the cable they've actually put themselves ahead of a lot of other people who try it. He cuts away the actual parachute as well though. It changes from pink to blue Yes. Yes it does. And? It wasn't clear that you had noticed that. I was under the impression you had only seen the tow cable cutaway. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Honestly with the weather here if you have a week off and want to jump go to the US. If you get a low cost airfare and stay in a bunk house it won't take that many jumps to break even with the cheaper jumping. But even busy US dz's can have their quiet days and share of bad weather. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Ironically I think that having a restraining order against someone increases the likelihood that a gun will help. I think you are probably in a situation where you have a higher likelihood of having a violent or abusive individual force their way into your home while you are awake and giving you the opportunity to better defend yourself. For Joe average I think gun ownership does more to make the owner "feel" safe than it actually achieves in practice. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

It is a great idea. Our daughter has travelled with her best friends family for a couple of years now (since she was 12). One thing to consider is that the two girls will be living together for a week in an exciting and emotional environment. Fighting can be a problem especially if you throw jetlag into the mix as well. Some forewarning tends to remove or mitigate the problem now and our daughter is fine. Besides that I think it is more fun without parents Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

To be honest, tow launching the canopy in the first place is still the most dangerous and unpredictable part of that whole exercise, and by having a reliable cutaway set up for the cable they've actually put themselves ahead of a lot of other people who try it. He cuts away the actual parachute as well though. It changes from pink to blue Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

As a kid I used to often dream that I was "swimming" in the air. I loved anything and everything to do with flying. The local skydiving club was 1/2 mile from where my friends and I used to go fishing when I was 13 or 14. At 15 I started lurking at the club. When I was 15 I was staying with a friend who was an air-force cadet and his dad was in the air-force. One Saturday I was at the base while he was doing his stuff and the local air-force skydiving team were going up for a jump. I don't know how or why but I got invited to go up as a pax on a CASA 212. I don't think I will ever forget sitting next the back ramp and watching those guys exit

Whoosh the thread skips over a sensible factual post in order to keep the "debate" alive and well Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

retching. No way I love the looks on the audiences faces. The black guy is classic as well as the blond judge. Oh well the boredom will lift soon. I will hopefully get a jump in this afternoon. If not then I think dinner with a nice blond

thanks don't know why I screwed that up... Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

This always makes me smile. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=149_1288350746[url] Ladies please don't try this at home Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

old entertaining thread. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

25KM strips along the two coasts vs the rest of the country. Hmmmmmmm.....sounds like there's something wrong with the water along the coasts. Goobermint LSD experiments probably. Not sure about the 25km but I do find the level of exposure in the US funny. I was in a hospital room on Tuesday and there were THREE bibles scattered around. We went into an engineering closet and found a bible stashed there, in the UK it would have been a porn mag stashed in the closet That said I am happy for people to believe what they want to. I'll never try and change someone's views. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

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Nah, she knows she's free to have as much as she wants Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Why? Is Texas a racist place? This was posted by a friend a while ago on fb Racism exists in all parts of the world including Texas. BTW on a train from Birmingham the other day two old Englishmen completely laid into me. Telling me that me and my eastern European mates were completely destroying the East end and should go home Didn't have the heart to point out that was not from eastern Europe. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I like Texas and the Texans I have met have all been really nice people. Fort Worth and San Antonio were my favourites. But I've also stayed on a ranch in the middle of nowhere (our kids cried when we took them from the ranch to Orlando and wanted to go back there) I would say that religion in Texas is not as in your face as it is in Georgia and South Carolina. I do believe that Texans are fiercely independent and proud of their state compared to the other states I have been to. In other states the US flag dominates peoples homes and gardens in Texas it is the state flag. Disclaimer. I am a drifter with an outside viewpoint and my views on Georgia are formed by staying in a bunkhouse with drunk skydivers and heavily influenced by a retired hippie. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Once again I am in awe at the amount of anti-religious bigoty upon display here. You folks take the actions of one person, and then extrapolate it to the entire set of religious people/christians. Simply amazing. And even worse, some of you even express pleasure at the man's death in this manner. I'm disgusted. And the parallel could be drawn with those people who think that we skydivers are crazy for jumping out of airplanes, and then when one of friends dies from a malfunction, they gloat in messages attached to the newspaper blogs, saying things like "Well duh, what did they expect?". And we are all disgusted with such people for not understanding us, and their heartlessness at making fun of the death of one of our buddies. And here you folks are, doing the same thing. I now return this program to the stake-burning lion-feeding bigots. I don't often agree with you John, but I think you have a point. I do think the guy was misguided though. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Don't be mislead by the gear available which might be driving some of your decision making process. I am on the lookout for affordable gear and it is very tempting to jump into the 150 bracket as there is more available. Keep an eye open and spread the word and stuff will appear. There are possibly more 190's available than you think it is just they are so popular they don't last long on the market. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Yip and you can guarantee that next time the friend needs some heavy furniture moved or similar and I remind her of this I will be back in the dog box! Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

My wife is always complaining that I don't take an interest in her friends or helping her friends out. So now she tells me how her best friend hasn't been laid in a year and is feeling really down about it. I offered to help and now she is pissed off with me You just can't win... Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Yesterday on the bike some idiot in an Range Rover looked me in the eye and went regardless of me having right of way. Normally when you catch someones eye on the bike you KNOW they have seen you and will yield. I guess being Surrey he was rich enough to have someone wash the blood off the car.. No damage I was just so close I was able to count the number of flies in his radiator. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I thought that Andy Copland did a good enough job of trying to pimp himself, when did he recruit you to help? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Why not go down the driving license route? If a system was put in place where you had to prove proficiency to progress, much like the normal skydiving licenses although those are generic and include freefall. You could have basic classifications, a level of currency should be required to maintain a license otherwise you drop back a level or something similar. Another approach would simply be for USPA dz's to require visiting jumpers to have a note in their logbook signed off by the previous dz along with contact details for the person signing off. Then if something looks fishy the previous dz can be consulted. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.