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That's just someones left over packing weight. We have about 10 old bowling balls on our packing mats for just that. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I think I payed well over $100 for my ONE C-130 jump Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

+1 on all that! Body position is key I have found out. Usually when I see things like my second opening is when I am leaning in the harness. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Its painted plastic. Don't expect to much from it and you will be happy. After a few times setting your rig on it in your trunk it will flex and paint crack. Plus after you bang your head after a few exits you will have chips in it too. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Was at the DZ when a jumper had this happen. He deployed his reserve and by luck of the draw. Opening shock relocated his right Shoulder. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I look at how much I have in the bank and my budget it that amount minus $1. Gotta be sure not to overdraw the account! Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Hey all I can say is we would be nothing with out you Lew! Miss ya too girl. Hope our paths cross this year! Would be awesome to see you! Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Lew is my hero!!!! Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Nice little article about our Professor http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1444028615/Wingsuit-helps-man-take-flight Wingsuit helps man take flight Flossmoor man skydives with team, making formations in midair The Associated Press Posted Jan 03, 2010 @ 10:03 PM FLOSSMOOR — John Kallend has learned to fly. How he does so doesn't require an engine either, except to take him up to his launching pad. The flying part comes from the clothes he wears. Particularly a wingsuit, a full-body jumpsuit with airfoils throughout that slow descent while skydiving and allow a person to soar horizontally rather than just dropping before opening the parachute. It is an intriguing way to skydive that maximizes the time aloft, said Kallend, who said his longest flight before pulling the ripcord was 3 minutes, 20 seconds. Kallend, 64, of Flossmoor, who has been jumping out of planes for 12 years and with a wingsuit for six years, said he sometimes reaches speeds of 100 miles per hour as he races parallel to the ground thousands of feet below. "The suit gives me the closest feeling I can have to being Superman," said Kallend, an engineering professor at Illinois Institute of Technology who was prompted into skydiving by a student. "He wanted to join the school's skydiving club 12 years ago but there wasn't one. I told him to start one and I'd volunteer as faculty adviser. I thought that would be the end of it, but he started one. I felt obliged to keep up my end." Since then, he has jumped out of planes 2,370 times, only once with any problem, when another skydiver collided with Kallend and their parachute lines crossed. Kallend used his feet to untangle the lines. "It happened too fast to be scared," he recalled. Through most of his skydiving days, Kallend has looked to ratchet up the excitement of the adventure, and challenge his engineering skills, by organizing and participating in giant skydiving formation events. Kallend was part of 10-member team that won a bronze medal in the 2002 U.S. National Championship for speed in putting together a formation. The team took just 12.03 seconds to exit a plane and link together into a formation. Kallend said the formations move at such rapid speed that there's no second guessing or planning once skydivers are in the air. "The only communicating you can do is wiggling your legs or giving hand signals. We do all the instructions and planning on the ground," he said. Formation skydivers have to be adept at how to change speeds and maneuver through the air. "We come out of the plane single file. The last ones out need to catch up to the others, then slow down to the same speed while the formation is formed," Kallend said. Though there's some physics involved in skydiving into formation, an engineering degree is not mandatory to jumping. Kallend said the group he often jumps with includes a truck driver, a small-business owner and a printer, among others. "They're just people who like a challenge," he said. In July, Kallend was part of a 25-person formation that set a U.S. record for number of skydivers in wingsuits. That record was broken in November when a formation of 68 skydivers, including Kallend, came together over Lake Elsinore, Calif. Records for wingsuit skydiving were just recently recognized by the U.S. Parachute Association, Kallend said. Next up for Kallend is an attempt in April at Lake Elsinore to break the world record for number of skydivers over 60 years old. He will be one of the 60 skydivers in the "60 over 60" event. Kallend helped organize the formation of 81 skydivers over the age of 40, and another with 18 skydivers over 60, both of which set Illinois records for formations. Kallend said age catches up to skydivers eventually. "Various ailments, including arthritis or cardiovascular issues, slow you down," he said. Kallend said he knew a skydiver still jumping at 84. "He parachuted into Normandy in World War II," he said. "Another guy I know from Lansing is 74. I hope to get in another 10 years." Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Have not seen anything about this but know for a fact that it is operational. Have friends down in Ocho Rios right now working. www.skydive-jamaica.com Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

like this?? Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I will take Dude #169 please. Awesome!!!!!!!! Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Try www.skyriderinn.com. last time I checked they were reasonable and right there on the DZ pretty much. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Check out the fourms at www.couchfreaks.com Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

LOL... priceless Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Maybe he is on vacation. maybe he or a family member is sick. Sometimes when I am at a boogie or traveling I dont even log into dz.com for OVER A WEEK yea I know unbeleivable. but I am curiuos if this is a case where you emailed him a couple days ago or a couple weeks ago. Most of these issues work them selves out. but looking at things the canopy has 700 jumps and I would be upset that it blew apart but know that it is what it is with buying a used canopy. Had a guy I jump with buy a used stilletto. had it inspected by a very very repitable rigger. 2nd or 3rd jump it blew in half. sometimes in this sport crap like that just gives when it gives. Give it alittle time people before name bashing and screaming please Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Or Gaffer's Tape Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I am also interested in the disks as well. I tried a search but came up empty. Would make a great winter project for me. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

When she mentioned Saturday morning on the drive to the DZ my first words to her where: " Please don't be offended or think I am ignoring you but I will not be involved in your training. I will be glad to help you if you ask me but I want you to learn everything from someone else." She knew exactly what I was saying. She tried to teach me the proper way to give her a shot one time. Needless to say she has one of her friends from work give her the shot now when she needs it. I have set her up with great AFF instructors she knows and loves as friends and our DZ family. She did ask me if I would go with her and video the jump from outside video. I even double checked with her to make sure she was sure she could focus on everything she needed if I was there. I had already booked a tunnel trip this winter and now am getting ready to add more time for her. As well as looking into another couple of trips before spring for us. Us jumping together is not an issue either. We had a friend start jumping this year was involved with the conversations on why he could not go freefly with us when he got his A license. We have plenty of up jumpers at our dropzone that will be glad to jump with her. And I am not concerned with the fact that she is invading "my" sport because technically it was her family that introduced me to it and most of our friends in skydiving have been just that OUR friends. We disscussed everything more in detail as well on the drive home last night. And she knows how I am about safety and "stupid A license ideas" She evn told me before I brought it up that she expects me to look at her as another student on the DZ and if I make an observation then I need to point it out to her. Now I have to remember that in that situation I am dealing with a student and not my wife. I also know how she has felt for all those years worrying about me when I was going thru student status and downsizing to a new canopy. But as she has seen how I have been able to handle myself in situations and my progression twords everything is slow and steady not jumping in feet first. Her anxiety for me jumping has lessened. Hell she was the one that bought me my first Velocity. I will always support her no matter what he decision is. But it is great to get some added insight from jumping couples as we move into one from the jumper and manifest. Oh yea the kids thing. Ours ar 16,17 and 18. And the 16 year old is pretty pissed that his mom will be licensed before he is. The other two think skydiving is cool but know it's not for them. Hell our 18 year old still pukes pulling into the parking lot at Six Flags. lol Thanks everyone! Please keep your experiences coming. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Well after being around the sport for 18 years my wife decided to start AFF this weekend. She has made a static line 16 years ago and done 3 tandems over the years. Now this was all just sudden. She has talked over the last couple years about getting her pilots license but decided this weekend at the DZ she wants to give it a shot. And as a couch I was watching her training from afar and she is doing well in her ground training. No jump yet because of weather yesterday but is on the book for next weekend. Now I am starting to get that pit in my stomach. I know couples that skydive together but all have met thru skydiving. My wife travels with me to DZ's and boogies almost every weekend for the last 12 years. So the idea of her jumping excites me all thou how do I deal with the what ifs. I have had some close calls over my years of jumping and now it scares me to think she might have some of them. Is there anyone out there who has had to deal with the same issues? I will support her with her decissions of jumping or if she feels like after Level 1 it's just not for her fine. I actually look forward to making some skydives together just how do I tame the other parts of watching a student that is my wife make some of the normal student bonehead mistakes without losing my lunch or freaking out. Edit add: I guess I should say that she has seen and been involved in some of the sports bad times as well. Worked medical at WFFC for years. We have lost friends and mentors. Her family (Dad and Brother) are skydivers. And she work in a trauma medical field. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Might need new risers and toggles. I had a toggle come unstowed years ago on opening and in a deep discussion with Egon (blu-skyz) at Reletive workshop he stowed my break and toggle, grabbed my riser at the top and bottom then gave it a good snap. the tru-loc came right out and the brake almost came unstowed. He told me this is another check todo that will determine if I need new toggles. On a quick brisk hard opening it is possible for them to come unstowed if the toggles are wore or "broke in" to much. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I have a nice pair of Sony that go into the inner ear. They run around $40 not sure what model but I use them for the motorcycle. mowing and gym. Even use them when I happen to travel with friends so I can listen to my iPod not them snoring. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

I say Tunnel as well. But its your personal choice on the AAD. Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

WTF!!! Looks like I am gonna have to drink more beer to offset the cost Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213

Looking forward to it again! See ya the 17th!!! Chris It's Jimmy Time!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Fast-As-Fuck/6099474213