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Pretty much every single of this prank involving celebrities is arranged before-hand, we had the same show in Italy and, it came out years later (much to the dismay of mosts lol) that they they are ALWAYS organized. a) you can't risk her freaking out and doing something stupid that would hurt herself. b) they can sue the shit out of you, in this case including getting that stupid egyptian at the end caned (literally) for it. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

If you can't teach a student without belittling them for their questions, then you have no business teaching. Stop. Especially in a sport that people PAY good money for. Especially in a sport like ours, that has the incredible power to suddenly make even the best of us feel dumb, let alone beginners. This is not the fucking army boot camp. Do what you have to do, your complain, if substantiated, is very reasonable and nobody would criticize you for switching DZ if you can't switch instructor. There are many wonderful options in florida and it's your money and your free time. One thing, though. It's a great sport with a wealth of great, fun, loving people, don't make the mistake of letting one "bad apple" scare you away. :) I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

I have that book it lost me at crabbing have no idea what that is Put that book away for now and listen to your instructors. Ground school will cover what you need to know for your first solo canopy flight, there you can ask tons of good questions (like this one) and more to get good answers. That book is great material but it's aimed at people that already know most of the basics concept, it's not meant to "replace" proper instructions from your AFFIs. In my opinion, is a great tool to use as a refresher or to go deeper after a canopy class (similar material to Flight1 101 and 102, so it's great to use them together). But not as a "standalone" self-teaching tool. At this stage, I'm afraid it would only confuse you. And the last thing you need is confusion and stuff that can get over your head. Relax. You'll be fine, you have 7 tandems, that's a lot more time under canopy (whether piloting or not...) than most people have when they go for their AFF class. The ground class is meant for people with much less knowledge than you (i.e. ABSOLUTE ZERO vs that little you already have seen), if they are fine, you WILL be fine. :) :) :) I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Wait for Battelfront and Doom to come out. I know, this could be a post taken straight from 2003, but I mean it. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

I love the "alternative" routing method, although as a rule, I only do it on rigs where the manufacturer mentions it in the owner manual. From my limited knowledge, to people that ask me about that method when they notice, I always explain why I do it and they say "check your manual, if they allow it, give it a try, if not I wouldn't do it" I have vector, so I have used it that pretty much since I started skydiving. On the Jav, I didn't do it until a couple of weeks ago, when sunpath came with the addendum and OK'ed the "alternative" method. Funnily enough, I think they issued an addendum to the addendum a couple of days ago, stressing the importance of leaving some slack, just like you said (but the video is easier to visualize :D ). Ideally, when I use a packer, it's part of my gear checks to put a finger under the bridle and making sure there is slack, or if not slightly pulling some bridle out, it takes like 2-3 seconds. I used to do it because -in my mind- it was the same purpose of leaving slack on the "traditional" method, if you grind your main flap somewhere, at least for small movements the slack should slide up and down rather than dislodge the pin. Maybe I was doing it right for the wrong reason? LoL. I didn't think about it for this issue but... HEY. If anything, one more good reason to do it. Thank you for this video. Good, quick, easy to understand, solid info. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

- Don't FUCK UP! I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Well, welcome. Between Z-Hills and Paraclete you mentioned two top notch DZ with world level training and staff. You can't go wrong either way, I'd decide based on which one is less hot in the period you're thinking of going. Or maybe if you have friends living close to either place that will help you stay for cheaper. This kind of things. One advantage of Paraclete is that it has a very near excellent wind-tunnel and, if you stay for a long time, you'll be able to progress much faster using both. Z-Hill also has iFly Orland at 1 hour and a half so that's also within driving range. So, to sum up, just do it: you can't go wrong either places, you'll love it. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Listen to your instructors. With free advice on the internet you often get what you pay for, however: frontloops, backloops and barrel rolls are meant as "confidence booster exercises" (beside of course being stability recovery drills). Yes, I was also freaked out by them when I was hearing people talking about them and I had 5 or 6 jumps, BUT -hard to believe- they are easier than it looks like, they are a ton of fun and knowing that you can instantly recover from those "accidents" will make you feel like you FINALLY in control. The only thing you'll have a hard time controlling will be your smile. I think the jump with loops and barrel rolls was the very first time I had "fun" while skydiving. So let it happen and have a blast, it's ok to be a bit psyched by it (I was, a lot of people are) but just remember that, when they take you do to them, you ARE ready for them. And there is pretty much nothing to hit if you mess them up. LOL. :) I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

While it'll be a while before I can help with any first hand experience of these 2 beasts, yesterday I stumbled upon this nice video of a head-to-head comparison of a Leia and a VK so, well, probably good starting material for the thread: https://youtu.be/hTyPopph5XE I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Pull off a "Be Kind Rewind". I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Just don't tell them and do it anyway. You're over 18 years old, right? Problem solved. Seriously, though. "Families" rarely agrees with sons, daughters, partners doing stuff like skydiving. But they also generally come to terms afterwards. The good thing about living few thousand miles from your family, is that they can only bug you *that* much about it. I talk from experience. My mom was strongly opposed to it, but hey, at 29 years old I was going to do it regardless so she could just voice her opinions, eventually she realized how happy it makes, how many new friends I have because of it, how cool it is that I coach etc., all the pics, and now I think she's pretty much on board... or at least she "likes" every pic I post on fb of me skydiving, I guess that's the most I can ask. LoL And even more pragmatically, check with groupon first and the dropzone second what refunding options you have. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

If the Skyhook does not release, you will also have a problem with a non functioning reserve PC until you have disconnected the RSL shackle. Or am I wrong? I dont know of any incidents where this had to be done. Not really. Granted we are in the realm of "freak accidents" so it's hard to come up with a correct, tested, verifiable answer, but my gut-feeling is that the reserve will extract, maybe with some delay, because the PC and the bridle of the reserve connects to the FREE-BAG, so once that bag is out, the reserve "might" (might? should? might not?) extract outside the bag without the impediment of being physically "leashed" to the bag by the bridle, which remains connected through the skyhook system, like a main would. Still that's a lot of IFs. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Well, no, not really. The Socratic "one thing I know for sure is that I don't know" does apply here. In more concrete terms: a) kid with 50 jumps wants to fly camera, thinks he'd be alright but is aware of the 200 jump rule/recommendation and tells himself "I don't understand why it's there, but there is probably a good reason, I'll wait". Kid doesn't know but he's aware he doesn't know everything. That's fine. b) kid with 200 jumps, wants to fly camera but hasn't talked to cameraman, hasn't done homework, isn't 100% sure of his freefall skills yet, decides to postpone. He understands the problem but he doesn't know how to fly a camera, or hasn't done his research yet, but he's aware of its existence and what needs to be done before trying, that's fine. He doesn't know everything but probably knows enough to make an educated decision when time comes. c) kid with less than 200 jumps, that clearly doesn't understands the problematic involved with it, changes his position and statements 4 times in 3 posts, disregards others' opinions because his mind is already made and even a post signed by both Ridley Scott and Bill Booth (or, in one word: Norman Kent) would not convince him otherwise, that flying a camera with less than 200 jumps would be dangerous AND useless: he doesn't know what he doesn't know. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Fair enough. I also didn't mention safty. The quote you used was in reply to you saying that "I will just turn it on and forget about it" is not true. I myself have be "turning it on and forgetting about it" for years. So yes it is possible. See, that's what I think you don't get. In skydiving it might be a mistake to 'turning it on and forgetting about it". Meaning, people that have done that have been bitten in the ass. Conversely, it might be a mistake to be so focused on filming that you fuck up because of it. People have been bitten in the ass because of it. So what's "right"? Technically, neither of them. Realistically, you only fly a camera when the "skydiving aspect" has become so natural that you can dedicate some of the processing power of your brain to it without letting that to affect your skydiving skill noticeably. Which means your body position, your knowledge of dive flows, your altitude awareness, your EPs are so hardcoded into you that are second nature, then you can add a camera and fly not like you "forgot about it" but like you have goddamn camera/line-catcher/handle-grabber on your head and you know how to deal with it if you need to. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

It's about the attitude, the attitude between the whole "you'll probably be fine" is very dangerous. Although, let's be honest, it's skydiving and from time to time we all need to push ourselves and do something out of our comfort zone where we have to tell ourselves "well, I'll probably be fine". There are ways, though, to manipulate what "probably" means in a certain context. Recklessly ignoring what kind of complication or risk we are introducing by saying "you'll probably be fine", now that's stupid. I usually ask tons of question when I want to try something new (tracking suit, wing suit, new canopy, winds, camera helmets, free flying), tons of question. For months LoL. But then you need to reach a point when you say "ok, *fuck it*, let's give it a go. I'll probably be fine". I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

I think the music sheet is classified, non-export compliant , material. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

In reality, I'd see a minimal CReW proficiency as a much more fitting requirement for a D-Licence/Expert qualification. CRW teaches skills that are useful and life-saving to a skydiving "expert", it teaches you to fly in a crowded landing pattern like C-D landing area often are without freaking out if there is another canopy withing 200ft of you, it teaches you to fly relative to a canopy so you don't overtake it dumbly below 100 ft because you can't trim your descent rate, it teaches you how to extent your glide better than any canopy course, it teaches you how to over float a canopy if you need to give room to somebody else, it teaches you how to get out, avoid a wrap in case shit hits the fan. And much more. Ultimately, it's a great, if not unique, canopy skill and confidence booster. Also, you are much more likely to do "unintentional CRW" than you are to do an "unintentional night jump". I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Nah, we'd still give you shit for choosing a canopy that is knowingly extremely touchy on openings without having enough body awareness to even be able to figure out you have asymmetrical legs on deployments without somebody telling you. Then, eventually, after inquiring on your jump number and finding out about your progression, we'd give you shit for flying a katana 135 without all of the above requirements. Basically, you only saved us time and for that we are grateful. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

If you're writing here safe and sound, you didn't "fail", you just have to repeat a level, it happens ALL THE TIMES. I repeated the third level FOUR TIMES. A year and a half later I was helping out other people as a coach. It's a mental game and it might take a few iterations to get it, but once it clicks: it's the best thing ever. :) P.S. You're already skidiving, most people would shit their pants at the sole thought of it, it's one of the most badass things ever, there is no reason to be "embarassed" if you freak out a bit. You still got out of that f-cking plane, which is, well, a big deal. :D I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Installed one this weekend. UPT Semi Stowless bag on a V3 Micron 310. Funnily enough, last jump with my regular bag decided to give me a nice line dump that left me quite banged up for the rest of the weekend, as in "you're replacing me with a new, modern, better one? There you go, asshole!" LOL. I put maybe 12 jumps on the stowless one, half of them packed by packer, half of them by me. What can I say? I need more jumps on it but so far, put me in the Fan Club Section. Openings are indeed way smoother. For sure it's quicker to pack, yeah. Also, it seems really well made, definitely reinforced, stiffened and more structured, etc. compared to the "normal" one (might be because my normal one is a 7 years old one, not sure if the ones they make now are also nicer). But I only have a very very very small experience with it so far. I'll keep an eye on this thread to see if more people post stuff about it. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Yes, with a minimum jump number to access it, like any other "specialty" course in the sport. Want to do the Coach Class? 100 jumps. Want to do a Wingsuit FFC? 200 jumps. Want to do the Rotation/High-Performance Approaches Course with Flight-1 (Can't remember exactly which one, 202 maybe)? 500 jumps. Etc.Etc. Want to do the First Camera Flight Course? "N" jumps. And I'll take a wild guess, if USPA was to create one today, N=200. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

I always wanted to jump a 727, just saying. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

"Why the helmet?" and shorty thereafter "it's not going to help if the parachute doesn't open, right?" I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Thanks for elaborating. I totally agree in this case, that little chapter does look exactly like something written with completely different setups in mind and does not address the current gear, setup, needs, desires, etc. You are 100% right when you point out that this is now left to the care of a good safety day instruction, a good coach examiner or course director etc. Not that this is a *bad* thing per se, if you're lucky like me to find amazing ones then it's probably no problem, but yes, I see your wish to have a "Go Pro" chapter somewhere between the SIM and the IRM, since - whether we like it or not - they are now a huge reality of the sport. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.

Uh? It does. Somewhere at some point the IRM does say something about at least a certain number of camera jumps BEFORE flying a camera near a student, so that already includes the 200 jumps minimum to fly those camera jumps. I could be wrong, but I am almost sure it mentions a specific guidelines for flying camera with a student (although it opens itself to the interpretation of being directed at outside cameras and not the coaches themselves, it would be stupid to assume the same advice is not valid for the coaches TOO, right?) My Coach Course Examiner brought the subject up for discussion during the class. The director of the AFF-I program at my DZ, when i showed up with my fresh coach ratings said that he wants "new" coaches to fly without camera for sometime before putting one on. I don't even own a camera yet, so that didn't apply to me at least for the time being, but anyway.... it's unfair to say that this is not addressed. So even before I talked to a "real" student, I was already reminded 3 times of how/why I should or should not wear a camera in my coach jumps, beside the recommendation for all other "normal" jumpers. The information is all out there, if people choose to ignore it, it's people's fault. I'm standing on the edge With a vision in my head My body screams release me My dreams they must be fed... You're in flight.