Doug_Davis

^ This x 1,000. After military and NYPD I pursued my "dream" job which was teaching white water kayaking and owning the largest paddle sports retail facility in our region. Within 3 years I loathed it. I ended up hating retail with a passion, due to spending an hour with a client picking out the right style, model, size and color kayak for them and their needs only to have them pull up Amazon on their smartphone and nickle and dime me to death. I ended up not having fun paddling, because as much as I enjoy teaching and instructing it, spending EVERY weekend (because people dont learn to paddle in the middle of the week, they are working) teaching while my friends got to spend time with their families, or tailgating, or paddling the rivers they wanted to...killed the passion in me. So as Hillson says, start off on weekends. Do it ALL day, every day, EVERY weekend, rain or shine for six months. Sacrifice EVERY weekend, as if your life (ie living expenses) depended on it. Then see if its still for you.

Ok so what kind of canopies were they flying? How were they able to do 360's over the top of their canopies without hammering themselves into the ground?

Me too. Same request. And same F111 license number.

Jay just did #147. Since you're part of the team is there a checkpoint or cut off time that if he doesnt have X jumps by X hour they quit? Or is he going through with the whole 24 hours whether he beats his old record or not?

Close. Remember the .05 in the calculation is .05 of a minute. So we take .05 x 60 secs to get 3 secs. So 2.05mins = 2:03. Either way he's got to get faster. I wonder if the error is due to to many people trying to watch the live feed? Back up now and working

I think the problem is on their end. Because it was working fine for me and now its not.

Yeah I was timing him and he seemed to be between 2:10 and 2:20. He's got to get time down to 2 mins flat to beat his last record.

Unpossible!!!!

Well you obviously know more than I do, so thanks for all the explanations. So with the 10 way teams do the judges decide on the day of competition which point to have the team build? Or does the team decide? So it becomes a measure of both speed and complexity? And do people build teams just for ten way? Because I have zero interest in 4-way or 8-way, but youre right 10-way sounds like a blast!

You are so awesome! Thank you for taking the time to do that. One follow up question. Whats the technical difference? Because what Amanda does looks pretty artistic to me. Oh and 10 way sounds like a blast! Ive never heard of anyone building a ten way team before. Does anyone still do it?

Okay so someone explain to the noob what does all this mean? Individual Accuracy Landing- Okay this is oldschool accuracy. Freefall Style- Freestyle? Like the Festi's with Animare? 4-way CF rotation 1- CRW right? 4-way CF Sequential 1- More crw right? 2-way CF Sequential Advance / Open - Smaller CRW right? 4-way FS Advance / Intermediate / Open - Standard 4 way belly RW right? 8 way FS Intermediate / Open- 8 way belly RW? 10 way FS 1 class- 10 way belly RW? 16 way FS 1 class- 16 way belly RW?!? Freefly Open / Intermediate- No idea what this would be Freestyle 1 class - Or is this the thing the Festi's do? Im confused 4-way VFS Open / Advance- Freefly right? 2-way MFS Open / Advance- Yep totally lost again here as well. Also on the schedule for the event they have some days labeled "artistic" and some other days labeled "style", whats the difference? Would appreciate either someone explaining or someone pointing me at a source to read.

So as a newer jumper and a Javelin owner I was fairly worried about this. Especially since the standard factory method of packing a Jav is routing the bridle from top to bottom directly over the pin. Having given a lot of thought to this, though I am admittedly stoned out of my gourd on cold medication as of right now, the best I can figure it the bridle is being pierced during packing, perhaps as the top flap is being closed? Old birdle? Easily pierced? You push the top flap down and into place and its just enough force to slide the bridle down and onto the pin? Because under normal circumstances of deployment, with a pin routed from bottom to top, and the PC pulling the pin from the bottom, and having slack on the bridle at the top....I dont see how it could happen. Which might be why no one has been able to recreate it? As its not actually happening during deployment but during packing/closing the top flap? Thoughts? Edit- Having played with my rig here in the office some, it appears there is definitely enough slack between the pin and bridle for the PC to pull the bridle down on to the pin, before it pulls on the pin. Oh well, I thought I had a good hypothesis.

Ok, I have visited the web site, www.phoenixmart.com read quite a bit of it, watched some videos. (A giant permanent trade-show of sorts?) (I didn't find out who is spending all the money to develop it.) Someone kick me if they think I am being too negative, but does anyone really think this is going to fly? (Pun perhaps intended.) And is it worth a big fight trying to keep a thriving business (a DZ) off the airport? Mentioned in PhoenixMart is even a "resort". Perhaps a skydive available at the nearby airport might be one of the amenities of the resort? This is going to be fun to follow. As a former multi-location retail owner, no that shit isnt going to fly. Manufacturers arent going to pay to build out and staff a full time product demonstration location when 2-3 weeks per year of trade shows, at a fraction of the cost, will accomplish the same thing. As an outdoor retailer in the paddle sports market, we traveled once a year to the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake City, UT and the EORA (Eastern Outdoor Reps Association) show in SC. And that would cover our buying and ordering needs for the coming year. Like you said a sucker is born every minute.

According to all three manufacturers..... http://parachutistonline.com/safety_training/the_rating_corner/tandem-commandments

Thanks!

If you hydrodip it can yuo tape off areas you dont want the film to adhere to? Like tape off a flame pattern and have the film coat only stick to the non-flame areas?

Did they say anything about allotted time per passenger or any additional costs per person? I have yet to see any definitive answer on how much time you can get in the tunnel or if its limited in any way.

Considering you quarter your slider after flaking how is that the jumper's responsibility? Or do you just mean reattaching a removable one? Im also curious how the PC would also the jumper's responsibility. I always cock mine after flaking and getting canopy back on the ground. Do you do it before flaking? Just curious. Why didnt you tell her?!? Or the DZO?

I was told Lobos DZ in Argentina. Dont know who the guys are though. But Im pretty sure that is their pilot in the video.

I wonder what the final outcome was for the soldier charged.

C130-s are all right but my favorite tailgates were always out of CH-47 helo's.

As a noob maybe Im wrong. But if you look closely doesnt it appear he did this? In the video, the main appears out to his right hand side a few seconds before he chops it. So either maybe he did it on purpose or it started to downplane on its on?

I will shoot you a PM.

+1 We had a double fatality motorcycle accident here in Louisville just last year. Couple on a touring bike behind a semi on I-65 bridge southbound into town from Indiana. Semi in front of them blew a tire and started shedding rubber onto the road. They hit the shredded tire, both went over the handle bars. Wife died instantly from head trauma. Husband a few days later. In all likelihood helmets would have easily saved them, as they werent traveling that fast due to heavy traffic on the bridge. I dont mind it though. Darwin's law cleaning out the gene pool.

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