static line

[brnnncrzy77 0]

how many people progressed with static line progression?

u werent flying, u were falling with style

[KCJumper 0]

I did...

Patrick

[rushmc 18]

Me too

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[Unparagoned 0]

I did it and liked it because it was cheap & had that unstable exit, which everyone loves. The unstable exit is amazing because the exit is fun and it is the first time you have some real free fall time.

[adamsr 0]

I did too, took about 6 months (28 jumps) but enjoyed every minute!

[JohnGraham 0]

I did too - it was an annoyingly slow progression, what with the british weather and all, and took me just over 6 months to get the 22 jumps for my licence, but it did give me the chance to get a good all-round knowledge of the sport that I'm glad I got.

[sid 1]

Yup - me three!!!!!!!!

Pete Draper,

Just because my life plan is written on the back of a Hooter's Napkin, it's still a life plan.... right?

[sunshine 2]

I did.

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meow

I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug!

[Plaedouh 0]

That was how I learned. Great progression for the small DZ or the financially tight college student. Inspired me to get the s/l instructor raiting myself, but since I moved, it's not too easy to find DZs that teach that progression.

[Dumpster 0]

I was a static-line baby, too. For me it was a jumps-per-dollar factor. In retrospect It was good for all the canopy time I got up front.

[jimmytavino 16]

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That was how I learned. Great progression for the small DZ or the financially tight college student. Inspired me to get the s/l instructor raiting myself, but since I moved, it's not too easy to find DZs that teach that progression.

that was MY situation, exactly....Static Line
It was college time.. money was tight, there were other expenses.. My 1st jump static line course including EVERYthing was 50 bucks,,,, then 10 $$ for the next 4 sl's.. all with T -10s or 28' cheapos.
I did a freefall ( 3 second delay ) on my jump # 6,,, and from that jump on.....
Yes... Most places have gotten away from staitic line, and probably just as well... as the gear and curriculum have improved, so should the training techniques.... Still my first love will always be the parachuting part... and that's about all you get from static line

Static Line works ok for military troop insertion, but has gone the way of the chest mounted reserve and the round main, in terms of state of the art skydiving.... Still I would NOT have traded those times and all the changes which I've experienced in this sport ,, for anything. I truly can feel that I'm a part of it's history,,,, and it's history is a part of me.

[bch7773 0]

I'm not only a static line instructor, but i was also a client

MB 3528, RB 1182

[flyangel2 2]

That was the only way to learn "back in my day". I was under the good ole T-10. Students did five S/L jumps before getting to do their Hop n Pop. I'm not going to tell you how many I did, but my JMs were drawing straws to tell me to quit. Lucky for me I didn't listen.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

[BigM 2]

Another one here. Only thing is, I didn't kow there were other options. Just happened to walk in to a DZ and there I went!

"When I die, I want to go like my grandmother, who died peacefully in her sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car."

[AggieDave 6]

I did SL nearly 5 years ago.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[FrogNog 1]

I was scared of heights, so I started static line two years ago. I think half my jumps were failed 15 second delays.

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Pull.

[BIGUN 1,053]

I'm in.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[sirenoremac 0]

Go static-line! graduated on jump 9 and did my first two way on jump 10! Beat THAT turbine babies!

[Amazon 7]

Yup.. I did static line...but that was a little while ago

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[Shawndiver 0]

Been there, did that, back in 1982 that was pretty much all they had!

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[relyon 0]

That's how I started as well. Seven static line jumps as a real student and a few more as a pretend student during jumpmaster training. Worked fine for me.

Bob

[Andrewwhyte 1]

I did IAD. They told me static line was old fashioned and obsolete; that was twenty years ago.

[JohnMitchell 14]

I did. There wasn't anything else back then.

We jumped from a Pteradactyl with parachutes carved from stone. The landings were tough.

[yoink 321]

SL all the way... great fun!

[Tonto 1]

I did. Of course, there was no other way back then, at least in South Africa. Had AFF been available, I would certainly not have been able to afford it.

Seems to have worked out OK though. It's been a while since someone asked whether I repeated any steps on my progression..

t

It's the year of the Pig.