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Wow, you found the "Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency" document. When anti-vaxxers give themselves a fancy name and buy a URL with a '.org' domain they can post all types of bullshit and people looking to confirm their biases will eat it the fuck up! Here's a link to the original document: https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf These guys got a bit crafty trying to make it look like a legit Pfizer doc: the header has the research name of the vaccine, they're lawsuit-seekingly close to claiming that the whole thing was prepared by Pfizer on page 1, and they even put a file-path stamp on the side of the document...from that stamp, you can clearly see that it was in the 'approved' folder, so you know it is extra verified and totally good. Come on, Doctor! Put that big, multisyllabic brain of yours to use before you regurgitate this type of shit

For context, Boris is also doing this to distract from a bunch of other shitty things that he's responsible for. He's well known for the dead cat technique.

Rest in peace, Cathy. https://griceconnect.com/2021/12/the-jumping-place-skydive-center-pilot-killed-in-plane-crash/

Why is it that Jussie Smollett, a single bad actor (and an official celebrity with a legitimate desire for publicity boot), is a representative of wokeness, and Dylan Roof, a single bad actor and not even a celebrity with a legitimate desire for publicity, isn’t a representative of the unwoke? Wendy P.

Advising someone looking for a smaller sized (wing) wingsuit, I'm not sure 'don't do it because others fly a bigger suit' is the best advice. Trends (like fast upsizing) mainly started because 'everyone else is doing it too'. There let your own comfort level and progression dictate what suit size you choose. Not (unintentional) peer pressure. That said, I've flown with (and in) just about every suit on the market, and if you want to fly together, you can in any suit. But of course the bigger suits will need to always adapt downward to make that possible. Mono-chamber is the new magic word, but in general, suits with a lower cell pressure (ease of pushing the air out, so you can close a wing during rolls/transitions easier) have been the norm in acro from the start (most wingsuits pre-2015ish had very low cell pressure standard). There its perhaps a bit re-inventing the wheel, after years of pushing for harder and harder inflation. With regards to suit choice, a smaller suit doesnt always need to have a flocking purpose. I fly around 3/4 of the skydiving (and base) jumps I do in a big suit, but still grab the small suit often when learning something new, or doing creative 2 ways, as its a much easier and faster learning platform for skills (to then immediately apply to the big suit). As said, Ive flown and coached people in every suit on the planet over the years, and I don't think there is a single wingsuit that doesnt allow you to do one thing or the other. The differences are minimal, and to most a personal preference they will be loud and agressive over, for no reason. Fly what you like. I could give a lot of reasons to choose a havok, but someone who prefers intrudair or squirrel could probably do the same for the similar offerings in their line-up. So do take all the 'this brand is best' tooting with a grain of salt, and see its often people earning their sponsorship, discount or just airing their like (or hate) for brand X There's not too many bad choices on the market at the moment...and there are a lot of choices.. If acro is your thing, Id mainly say pick a smaller suit, and even if big suit acro is your thing, the small suit will come in handy for many years to come as 'old faithfull' to learn and try new things with.

For future reference - Cracker Barrels have RV slots (and better food).

Cathy, You were such a great lady. Rest in Peace.

Miss you Bob

"Squeeze risers together and reach up to untwist to bring twists down to the risers?" This worked for me every time, although the "squeeze risers together" is not part of it; it's twisting the twisted section to lower it that is the important element. Usually it will also get your body rotating in the correct way so that it untwists on its own. But by lowering the twists, you can also then reach to the lines above the twists, which allow you good leverage to get your body rotating. This is illustrated pretty well in the compilation video that BMAC615 posted above. (And in the last one shown in that video, apparently you can use your feet, lol!) The old "kick-em out" method in the SIM is pretty poor. They really should replace it with this one.

Or not to respond at all.

Still hard for me to process the loss of my friend Bob Holler. I jumped with him at a DZ in Crestview, Florida for quite awhile when he was active duty. He coached me through my "downsize" to the 115 Icarus and made me feel like it was easy, he was good that way. I can still see him pointing to my slot when I got confused and grinning at me, he knew I'd straighten it out and get there. I took a position at the Naval Air Warfare Center about the time he went to Deland and lost touch for awhile but remember well getting the news, I still have a hard time with it. BS Bob.