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    PD sent me a Storm to demo for a few weeks and it came in yesterday. I have always heard people talk about packing a NEW canopy. I cannot believe how slippery this SOB is
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    thats what got me into skydiving, I was in vegas for my birthday and my wife told me that i should do the SkyJump. They were having some troubles and said it would be 5 or 6 hours. So my wife bought me a tandem jump in Eloy the next weekend
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    that is a great vid, Ive wayched it about 50 times, I did my first day of self packing yesterday. Still slow but getting better
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    I Also started jumping At 46> I did my tandem , and aff and license jumps at eloy... Eloy is the ony DZ ive ever jumped at. The instructors are Top notch and all the fun jumpers are very helpful. I live in Tucson about 50 min away. We are very lucky to live so close to a great DropZone
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    Very well put, as a newbie I wouldnt even consider posting something that i Thought or had an opinion on on this forum, I have when i first joined but wont do that again. Now i just read it to watch the skygods squabble. Dont get me wrong there are a ton of helpful and informative people on this site. Lots of good info if you can ignor the Skygods
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    Congrats, I'm stoked for ya. There is nothing better than a good day Jumping
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    I just set up a demo with PD today, What a great company to deal with, They really made it easy and I cant wait to receive the Storm and Jump it
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    So... How was the Boogie?
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    \ woohoo... wanna help me out? Always willing to help out a fellow skydiver
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    Nice
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    I Can relate to this, I also Jump at eloy and ive had 2 reserve rides in 37 jumps My last Jump was a bad line twist I had to cutaway. So Im trying to get back as soon as Possible to get that out of my head. Look me up when your at the DZ Maybe we can Do a jump or 2. My name Is Tim
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    Is the dzo a friend? If not Then F that he needs a talking to, I dont care if he runs the DZ or not... IT AINT RIGHT
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    The weather will be wonderful in eloy, sweet tunnel and great coaches. Teamrooms or bunkhouse to stay in.And other people with 37 jumps We have it all
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    http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/mysterious-ufo-lights-explained-18565#18570
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    I have spent a couple of days learning how to pack and I could not believe how exhausted I was at the end of the day. Not to mention how sore my legs were from squeezing and controlling the d-bag trying to get the damn thing closed enough to get in the container. Its not easy learning how to pack a fairly new 210. In the end, I learned a lot about packing and how much I was not going to enjoy the continued learning and fine tuning of packing. But, welcome to another fun part of skydiving Good to know, ill be packing a 230..... Yay. Shit ill just downsize to a 150 so it will be quicker to pack... Hell I got 37 jumps
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    At my DZ, the rent per jump (not per day). So technically, if I am to put the rig back on the rack, it has to be packed by a packer. Usually when I go in, I take a rig off the rack and keep it to the side. I then talk to the AFF instructors and Manifest and tell them I have it, and if someone needs it to let me know so that it can be repacked by a packer before use. They usually never need it and I get to practice packing. Final pack job still has to be done by a packer though. In short, talk to the people at your DZ, they will probably be pretty accommodating if you tell them you want to practice packing on the rental gear when you use it. The rental gear where i jump is handed out unpacked and turned back in unpacked. Im gonna find some people at the dz to help me learn to pack. I was thinking about hanging out all day not jumping just packing.
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    Ah good to see another brick like myself
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    You are all correct, learning to pack should have been a priority before now, Not to mention paying the packer at the end of the day is getting kinda pricey. I was under the impression that the rental gear had to be packed by a rigger. I just called them and I was wrong. There are alot of helpful people at the DZ i jump at who im sure would be willing to give a newbie a hand. Thanks for all your replies
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    With your experience, odds are that when you put your right hand behind you... you are actually causing some instability issue you are not detecting at this point. You may either be starting to turn or go a bit head down...or both. If you are actually pulling the hackey and holding the pilot-chute of a couple seconds you are priming the cannon for an out of sequence deployment. You recent line twist problem could very well be from doing that. I do not pull then hold it a couple seconds i hold the hackey a couple seconds then throw it, Will this cause the same?
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    Thanks for the reply, Why? what kinda problems am i setting myself up for?
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    I do not pack yet, Im still renting gear, I may be picking up a used rig here soon. Then i can really learn with repetitive packing. I took a packing class to get my A. but that doesnt mean i know what im doing. It very well could have been body position but lately when i grab my hackey ill hold it for a second or two to make sure im very stable then throw it.
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    deployed at 4000, It came out spinning, and ep's were done at about 2800. It was flying semi straight but not at all stable. I dont believe i could have flown it in
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    I know there is a ton of threads on cutaways but I have 37 jumps and just had my second reserve ride. The first was a lineover on #23 and Sunday on jump 37 i had a line twist. When it happened i said to myself "cool its only a twist" but damn i couldn't even count how many it had. I was able to kick out of 3 or 4 of them but quickly realized i was fighting a losing battle. I was disappointed that i had to cutaway on a line twist. How many of you guys have had to cut on a twist? Im still renting gear and this was the first time ive flown this chute, a sabre 230. It just seemed to come out mad.