What Did You Learn This Weekend?

[NathanL100 0]

I thought I would start a freefly forum thingy about what people have learned over the weekend. I've always found it very helpful to find out how others have accomplished something that I'm struggling with. I.E. movement in a sit, taking docks, head down, etc... and then apply it to my problem or problems as it may be.

So, what did you learn this weekend? Good things or bad things.

Me, nothing skydiving related, but I can tell you all about limits of a function.

Base # 942
The race is long and in the end, its only with yourself.

[ramon 0]

1st lesson: I was reminded during a ball jump that getting too relaxed will cause you to change fall rate and that you have to stay totally focused on fall rate (if your big like me) to tap the ball back and forth with out sinking or floating.

"Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.", Ambrose Bierce.

[AndyMan 7]

I learned that in one weeks time I can go from having nailed my head down, back to being a flailing idiot.

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You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead.

[Zennie 0]

I learned that you don't try to follow the flight pattern of people flying highly loaded canopies on a windy day... lest you wind up in someone's back yard like I did.

I also learned not to let Levin get behind you.

- Z
"Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

[NathanL100 0]

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in one weeks time I can go from having nailed my head down, back to being a flailing idiot.

I know what you mean, sometimes it only takes me one jump to go from kicking ass to throwing poo.

Base # 942
The race is long and in the end, its only with yourself.

[PhreeZone 15]

I learned no matter if someone has 1200 jumps but does'nt freefly they probally won't know how to launch a flower out the door....

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

Parachutemanuals.com

[geanky 0]

Freeflying is like sex....the more relax you are at it the better you get

learn to fly in 3d

[Yoshi 0]

I learned that when people are getting ready to exit a mr bill out of a cessna...with the weather like it was dont hang on the strut to video..its way too cold:)

also that you can practice some fun exits even if cloud cover is at 6k...may as well learn something even if you cant get a full dive.
-yoshi

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[quade 3]

I learned that if ya go sitflying in a camera suit and somebody whacks into ya, then the weakest part of the wing is the Fastex clip. BOOM! Gone just like that in a flash.

I also learned that it's almost impossible to sit with only one wing attached. Kept spinng me like a MF.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[Kris 0]

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I also learned that it's almost impossible to sit with only one wing attached. Kept spinng me like a MF.

Umm... Aren't Quark's supposed to spin? Thought it came with the whole top, charmed, strange & bottom type of Quark thing.

I learned that I can pull a 180 from a sit to a head-down. The bad part is that I was trying for a 360. Darn, more jumps needed I guess.

Kris

Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and
Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

[ECVZZ 0]

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I also learned that it's almost impossible to sit with only one wing attached

Hi Paul! Not to be rude, but LMAO at the visual!

Last weekend I learned that if I think I should be at the DZ, then I will be! Even if it is a 5 hr round trip.

G. Jones

"I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around, the more I think it might not be a bad idea."

[ramon 0]

you might want to post that in the camera group it is probably very difficult to belly fly with one wing also...


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"Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.", Ambrose Bierce.

[Snowflake 0]

I learned that my natural trndency to ball up a bit is killing any docking I'm trying to do in a sit. It slows me down a bit and I go a little high. I need to push with my legs to stay stable not ball up and I don't mean ball I mean contracting in my sit instead of extending my legs

[thegman 0]

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Freeflying is like sex....the more relax you are at it the better you get

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Too bad freeflying doesnt last for hours.However I do sweat about the same amount when I'm wearing my freefly suit in the summertime.

http://www.freefallmaniacs.net

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[78RATS 0]

{Bevis laugh} he, he, he

-he said ball up.

Rat for Life - Fly till I die
When them stupid ass bitches ask why

[SkyPsycho 0]

i learned not to stand too close to the dock 30 ft from my hut on the water in the middle of a hurricane in cozumel...................and to leave b4 the airport gets shut down so yer stuck there with no way home.

[SweCow 0]

Last weekend I learnd how 2 point the camera during an eagel. Now maybe i´ll get something more than feet on tape

[Snowflake 0]

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{Bevis laugh} he, he, he

-he said ball up.

Man you've been in court way to long

[jumpjunkie 0]

Yeah, next time you might actually get close enough to dock on me. unlike Jim who's just a floaty big bitch!

Tubing, so easy a caveman can do it.

[hagar 0]

This week I learned how to stop a spinning sit. For some strange reason the solution was twisting my upper body in the direction of the turn. No idea why it worked, shouldn't it make me spin faster?

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[Snowflake 0]

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Yeah, next time you might actually get close enough to dock on me. unlike Jim who's just a floaty big bitch!

Don't lie I had your foot and then went high.....but explain how Jim ended up so far away from us when we left in a train and you floated the exit....must be a WTC thing
saltine or ritz it's still the same

[blazingcannon 0]

For the first time, I watched a friend biff in very hard. Explained in incidents forum re: SkydiveBurnaby.
I learned that just over the horizon of "yahoo!" lurks a world of pain.
Safety first! Yahoo second!

"Spread your legs and fly"

[Yoshi 0]

I learned that if I bump my camera helmet too hard in the plane it shuts off the camera and I miss the whole tandem dive. (SUCK!) and that dialing up my alti to get the quick shot of all altitudes for a tandem video can make the alti off more...
ahh well theres always next week:) had fun none the less.
-yoshi

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[Pablito 0]

This weekend I learned how to respect a canopy more than I used to. The smaller you go the more alert you have to be. At the same time relaxation is as important because freaking out could be as dangerous.
Experience I did a kinda low turn were all I remember is come on baby work with me. you can do it!! and the corner is freaking scary.
Cielos Azules
Pablito

"If you don't overcome your fears they will overcome you first"
Shady Monkey/6Segundos Rodriguez/AKA Pablito

[Zenister 0]

this weekend i learned that tracking really really rocks and that some smiles are worth any number of green pieces of paper

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