FlyingRhenquest

Eeh, well USPA Skydivers... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Bleh. Nothing this weekend. The DZ was flying Sunday but I stuck my nose out the door, didn't like the weather and went back to bed instead. Did knock out another 14 minutes in the tunnel, though. I think I'm going to pick up out-face carving by osmosis. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

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Well... that's bizarre. She should also do an observation from inside the otter. And then outside it, naturally, because you really don't want to land with that thing. Actually the pilot is really nice and frequently disregards my suggestion that he should do a barrel roll on the days the wind picks up and we have to ride it back down. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

So if we give him $701, will he start backing Mile High and telling the media what a terrible person Kim Gibbs is? Who wants to bribe a councilman? Or spend $5000 and terk his jerb! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I started with that technique but mostly just dearch to flat and spread out now. I still fall pretty damn fast in either position, but at least have a chance to jump with other people if I want to. I've put a lot of time in at the tunnel. What really drove wind surfaces home for me were some stability exercises my instructor had me do, flying with my hands on my helmet or behind my back. You really have to maximize your surface area if you want to fly around with your hands behind your back. Side sliding that way is kind of fun, too. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'm sure they were patting themselves on the back for getting a house in Boulder County for cheap. One has to wonder if they noticed the airplane noise when they were looking at the house. I was looking at houses on a Saturday with my room mate, so they'd have been turning loads with the otter and king air every 20 minutes. Didn't particularly notice them. I wanted something a bit closer to the airport, myself. I'd live right on the flight line, if I could. Nothing but HOAs and condo crabs on that side of town, though. I got in on a nice place in Southmoor park. 10 minutes from the airport, right on the otter's flight path on jump run, just dropped Longmont's gigabit fiber in. Road noise, the neighbor's dogs and that damned train are all louder. Fucking train woke up up at 1:30 and 2:30 last night. Then a police car going down 287 set the neighbor's dogs off. There's some other single engine plane that goes over that's a lot louder, as well, but none of them fly that late. About a quarter of the time I think I hear the otter, it ends up being someone mowing their lawn. Longmont's a pretty damn loud place, but airplane noise is pretty far down the list. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I play Dwarf Fortress a bit and the threads on Reddit are often as fun to follow as the game is itself. Case in point, this conversation quickly devolves into a baby naming conversation. If I ever have a kid, I'm totally stealing "Rocket Adventure" for their name. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I'm fine with quiet, but my room mate will start fidgeting after two or three minutes. I think I'd be fine sitting in the room in this video but a lot of people I know wouldn't last long at all in there. Perhaps it really is just a matter of your inner monologue or something. *shrug* I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Dude! Your arch is better and you're turning with both knees now! Way better! Based on how you're handling yourself, I'd guess you're feeling a bit more relaxed and confident with the air, too. Looks like you're over that particular hump. Congratulations! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Two wingsuit and one belly jump today, not bad. Still a bit on the cold side. My 2GB video files upload to youtube faster than I can type the comments in, with Longmont's gigabit fiber

It freaking snowed last night. A bit too cold for jumping today. At least, in the face of being back into the mid 60s tomorrow and mid 70's on Sunday. Should be decent wingsuit weather tomorrow and Sunday. If that's all I do this weekend, I'll be a happy camper. I'm startin' to feel like I should head up to Blackhawk and do another poker tournament, but I always get bored about halfway through those and go all in on a flush draw for the adrenaline rush. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

I know, right? If you fuck up on one of those curves, you'd be falling for quite a long time! Speaking of which, I wonder if someone could fly a wingsuit off up there! You'd think some of the 14ers around here would be good for that... I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Oooo O.o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20CLumT2Sg I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hmm and didn't I just see that Spaceland just started up a dropzone in Atlanta? If someone would build a wind tunnel there, they might start being competitive with Longmont (Except we can grow our own pot and gay marriage is legal here.) I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Probably not. It's Longmont's municipal option. They're partnering with Level3, IIRC. Verizon is in no way involved. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Longmont Power and Communication guys came by yesterday and ran their gigabit fiber to the inside of my house. I'm getting 600 MBPS up and down on speedtest.net using their Pueblo, Colorado server! Also, an obnoxious problem I had with Comcast seems to have gone away -- whenever the computer wakes up from sleeping, it would not be able to access DNS for several minutes. You could still ping numeric IP addresses, but you could not resolve the names for those addresses. I'm looking forward to uploading some youtube videos at these speeds. They were taking upwards of an hour on Comcast. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Wow, Hang Gliding's 1 in 500? That always felt a bit safer than skydiving to me, though I'll admit I didn't get very far down that road. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Learning to swim is a lot less expensive, a lot easier, a lot less scary and a lot more likely to save your life than learning to skydive. Since we're teaching you to laugh in the face of fear and you're afraid of it, go learn to swim, THEN go learn to skydive! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Well it looks like Amazon is actively working on drone development for deliveries. Anyone else think someone in a wingsuit could tackle a drone for free Amazon loot? We could be looking at the start of an exciting new branch of the sport, here! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

The more frequently the better. I notice I start getting a bit rusty if I've been away from it for more than a week. A month is as long as I've ever gone without skydiving since I started in the sport. Early on, I found that I'd do better on later jumps in the same day. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Nice, glad to hear the 15 minutes helped. For what it's worth, I think your flying at this point looks better than mine at the same point, and I have the video to prove it. Staying current definitely helps, even though it's resource intensive. My landings went to shit in less than a month of bad weather between January and February. I had to do a bunch of hop and pops to fix them. What, can I say, skydive often! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Yes. That's normal. Everyone gets that. If you don't get that, there's probably something wrong with you. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

Hmm. Might be your left leg. Check this out: https://youtu.be/lIZxDQMnHI4?t=151; you initiate your right turn with your right knee, but your left turn by dipping your hand. A couple places in that video, your left leg seems more stiff than your right one. Reckon you might be fighting that? I see the same thing a couple times in your first tunnel video. At 2:48, it kind of looks like you relaxed a little and started to get a decent arch going. Compare with my body position at https://youtu.be/5wgEgpML500?t=116. I do three turns there with brief pauses, so you can kind of see what I'm doing from various angles. I also do a slow-fall de-arch at https://youtu.be/5wgEgpML500?t=214. That's fairly unstable, but it is slower falling. If you bend your knees a bit more and bring your arms in a bit to counter the back-slide that will result from that, I think it'd help bring your hips down. If you start to find yourself in an unexplained turn, ask yourself what your left leg is doing at that point and see if you can catch it in the act! I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?

That should help. Did your instructor say where your spin was coming from? They're usually pretty good at seeing the problem. You have plenty of time to do stuff in the tunnel, so just breathe, try to relax and focus on small, smooth movements. See if you can feel the wind around you, swirling around your hips, shoulders and hands. Turn a hand to the left or right and feel the wind swirl around your palm or the back of your hand. See how that moves you in the tunnel. Small things can give you the results you want. Toward the end of 15 minutes, you might not be able to do anything other than relax and go with the flow. The first 6 minutes I put in down there left me sore for three days. 'Course I was even more unfit then than I am now but it seems like anyone I take down there always ends up making a similar complaint. It works a lot of muscles people don't normally seem to use. I'm trying to teach myself how to set things on fire with my mind. Hey... is it hot in here?