Movie & results Dutch Swoop Tour 05 2005

[dragon2 0]

Held in down-under Seppe, with coaching from Jay Moledzki.

Movie:
http://www.12000ft.com/video/17.html

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[flyhi 24]

About half way through, someone on a white and blue canopy set up with a 450 and made it all the way through the zone. Was that Jay's winning distance run? He looked high in the middle of the run, but that appeared to be after climbing after entering. Hard to tell.

Also since it was the Dutch Swoop Tour, which one was Ray Dutch?

Nice video.

Shit happens. And it usually happens because of physics.

[skyedivr 0]

nice video!!! thanks for sharing!

my power is beyond your understanding.

[Spizzzarko 0]

Did you say The ZONE? That's where Ian is. I want to be in THE ZONE like Ian.

[breadhead 0]

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About half way through, someone on a white and blue canopy set up with a 450 and made it all the way through the zone. Was that Jay's winning distance run? He looked high in the middle of the run, but that appeared to be after climbing after entering. Hard to tell.

Yes, it's Jay. Unfortunately, he had a vertical extension on the entry gate, and scored 0 for that distance run. Pity ...

[dragon2 0]

It is Jay, and this is not even hislongest swoop, he did 2 like that. Unfortunately he verticalled them both because he kept pulling up his legs just before the gate

Otherwise, new unofficial world record

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[raymod2 1]

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Otherwise, new unofficial world record

This kind of comment really annoys me. A vertical earns you a score of 0 for a good reason. It's not "almost" a world record or an "unofficial" world record. As far as I know Jonathan Tagle still holds that title and he earned it by going through the gates.

[dragon2 0]

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Otherwise, new unofficial world record

This kind of comment really annoys me. A vertical earns you a score of 0 for a good reason. It's not "almost" a world record or an "unofficial" world record. As far as I know Jonathan Tagle still holds that title and he earned it by going through the gates.

True, but in this case it was not a case of 'just' coming in too high, he just pulled his legs up a split second too soon, is what I meant.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[ianmdrennan 2]

<---Gives raymod2 a happy pill

You're right, it doesn't count, but it's still cool to think how far the new record *could* have been. No harm in that.

Performance Designs Factory Team

[dragon2 0]

Oh btw, I didn't mean to say that a verticalled score would count as a record in any way, official or not. It would've been an unofficial world record however had he not verticalled and made it, since we do not have the required 16 FAI swoop judges for an official world record! We have exactly one in the Netherlands.

We do not even have 16 FAI swoop judges in the whole of Europe, I think. I know Germany has only one, too. How many are there in the USA? I think the IPC rules are somewhat overdone on this one!

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[SkymonkeyONE 3]

"almost" only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

[dragon2 0]

Hmm according to Section 5 we now need only 3 judges for a swoop record, 2 of which have to be FAI. We still don't have 2 FAI swoop judges here, but that's only a matter of time, hopefully

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[swooper81 0]

from the video you can kind of tell he did a 450 but was it a bigger degree of turn then the video showed? cause doesn't he regularly do like 720's and such?

[SkymonkeyONE 3]

Who? Jay? He normally throws an inside 450.