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Impressing your Instructor is a good thing to try, but try and impress yourself by doing exactly what you are told to do during you ground instruction. Having self confidence will lead you to be a great skydiver. AggieDave explained it well.

YES currency helps Glad to hear it turned out uneventfull.

I'm not sure I know anyone that would jump with a nekid tandem instructor? DITTO - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

This guy evidently isn't, and has the tattoo to prove it...... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Look here. Talk to a friend of mine named Toryalai Hart. He's part owner of the DZ there that is roughly two hours by road south of San Jose, south of Jaco, near Playa Hermosa. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

I think everyone does have their favorites that match their style and fall rate, but what I said was that they dont have to be complaining about it and to adjust... Very true. It only takes one time for me to see a so called qualified camera flyer to show me he wasn't in full control, and I'll NEVER use him for video again. I didn't say I never have adjusted the fall rate after deploying the drouge. What I said was dress in a manner that will give you TOTAL control of your skydiving EXIT. Of course you can arch harder, bring your arms in or get bigger for the struggling camera flyer. But like I said, it's when the TI doesnt throw the drouge to help the cameraman when the student is small, is when things can go to shit fast sometimes, like I wrote in my post above. www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

I agree. But taking every opportunity to maximize you having total control of the skydive before you exit the plane is always a good idea. You can only wish you had more controling surfaces should the student deside to stay fetal after exiting and you only had your shorts and T shirt on. What part of the camera flyers job includes keeping your tandem passengers skydive as safe as possible? Truely putting a team (TI and cameraflyer) together for a tandem skydive is a good thing for the students all around experience, but having the camera flyer adjust their technique for every jump depending on the students body size is always a much safer thing to do. Edited to add: Never once when flying camera for years did I ever tell the TI to help me out with the fall rate by holding off on the drouge or to wear (less/more) of a suit. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

WTF does this have to do with RW? - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Maybe because guys dont want any part of going LIMP?...... Be safe. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

This usually happen because the over confident Instructor thinks the small students are so easy to exit with, delay throwing the drouge when they have exited stable, then take the small student to teminal and loose stability at a faster fall rate with much less time to react. The other is when the wining camera flyer says they'll have trouble stay with them if he deploys the drouge because he is wearing just a freefly suit.... Dress for success. If your doing tandems wear something that is baggy from your shoulders to your wrists and baggy legs all the way to your ankles. Doing tandems in your shorts and T shirt is comfortable BUT it is reducing your control surfaces alot. And if your cameraman starts wining about the fall rate get another one that is better than him. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

In my 3000+ tandems I have not even come close to a side spin, and I do not throw the drouge while unstable. Exits can take some finess and a little muscule. Exit with your arms and legs extended for maximum control, whether your presenting into the wind or diving toward the tail, unless doing flips keeping focused on the dirrection of the relative wind, then be prepared to extented your limbs, get stable and throw the drouge. It shouldn't matter what the hell a student is doing for an Instructor to get stable and be able to throw the drouge! And never blame a bad drouge throw on a student either. If your having problems with this, for god sake do NOT take any students! Get some experienced jumpers to be your unstable passenger and get your exits down. I ran into this problem at a local DZ I used to work at when a newly rated instructor was throwing the drouge to get stable, sometimes when on his back and in one case that day the drouge went in between him and his student! After telling the DZM he was unsafe and to be pulled out of the rotation, he did. But, after the DZO talked with the Instructor for about 5 mins explaining some techniques, he put him back in the rotation for taking students and that Instructor continued to throw the drouge unstable. IMO this is a pure sign of money before safety. The student pays for the safest possible Instructor he can have, and an Instructor that blames the student for the bad exit doesn't need to be taking students. BE SAFE - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

IMO, I'd say if you can walk on your 2 legs with it on your back, your not hanging from it. The other would be it having it's own supporting system or landing gear. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

First off, I'd say this comment by YOU would be concidered "out of control". We all do, and it takes a few jumps and time. You probably just need to relax is all. I would hope not.... Not God, but just a very experienced Instructor that has trained a few thousand students. I have seen some responses from some NON Instructor people on here that have no business telling you what you need to try to get over your spinning. My comment was to get you to get 1 on 1 Instruction at the DZ that will help you a thousand times more then trying to get advice from people on here, then going out to the DZ and doing solo's and possibly progressing your spin to a worst level, while trying not to embarrass yourself in front of a coach. As I said, you probably just need to relax and your spin may just go away...... Jump, relax, get video and don't worry about embarrassing yourself in front of a coach! - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Great answer! - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

How did you even graduate to doing solo's if you cant control your heading? Getting Instruction from your Instructors at your DROP ZONE and NOT on this forum is what I recommend. Too many people, with too little experience, giving too much information..... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Possibly true for some.... Some people do have the natural ability to be good in the suit though not getting to jump it as much as they'd like to. But there is NO need to sell all your other suits and stop all your other skydiving disciplines you love to do to be able to fly the S3. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

$100 bucks I bet he's GAY? - - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Your paying WAY TOO MUCH for your cokes dude! - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

I strongly disagree.... Your chioce to be good at any discipline you want is your chioce when at the DZ. Whether you do a smokin RW 4way to a 357way, a fun freefly jump, or a AFF student jump. The suit you fly is only a benefit to your ability. Buying a S3 has the benefit of a larger range, whether it's being able to stay with the student you just trained, thats "killin it" on the demo suit you just trained him on, to getting to your slot every time on a flocking dive, or maxin out your flight time on a solo wingsuit jump. Being in shape for what ever suit you choose to fly is a choice. You dont have to sell all your other suits to be in shape for the S3, or fly it with other wingsuits on every jump. Don't let your body tell you in the middle of your skydive, that your a WUSSY!! www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Something of interest to you Bon? - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

For a more successful skydive at 87 jumps, try starting with smaller ways, such as a 2 way, and build from there slowly, and preferably with more experienced jumpers. We didn't do the AZ 300way and Thailand 375way with anyone that had 87 jumps. Jump alot, have fun and be safe. You'll get there someday with determination and hard work. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

I got 5 words. BIG BRAINS AND BIG BALLS - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

And seems to be doubling as a head rest too for some...... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Thanks for making that more clear. Be safe. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com