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Anywhere other than here on dz.com? Yahoo Serious

Imagine the dances.... then you could overdub the music to sync up with the performance on the ground. It would be sick. Along with slow motion video like they have for the davis cup. 600fps. You know when you see roger federer in flight? Yahoo Serious

I was thinking more along the line of music or a click track for synchronicity... perhaps one conductor. These guys seem pretty damn rhythmic though ;) Yahoo Serious

I haven't been jumping since like 05-06 but every now and then I'll get nostalgic and check out some videos. It's like knowing a small child that you only get to see every 6 months. So much growth! That's really quite impressive. The sport has come along way in just a few years. I wonder how long before they are doing smoke testing in wind tunnels or using slow motion video like swimmers. They were just bringing out the in air radios a few years ago. Are they quite prevalent amongst jumpers or only used by a handful? Yahoo Serious

Yawns, swigs down some bull and out he goes. Fun loving, crazy idiot... Why not. Yahoo Serious

Some grabs from some old vids I had on my computer so excuse the res... Pastiche anyone? oops.. wrong file Yahoo Serious

I think that watching videos and trying to build up a cause / effect relational model in your head is the best way to learn how to freefly. This of course along with coaching when required to guide your “Oh, I SEE” moments. Sometimes it’s needed to open up your eyes. Building up a model where for example you just visually “know” that pushing your legs down from a sit into a stand causes you to gain speed and travel down in relation to other objects. Just “knowing” in the same way that you “know” how to fly your hand out a car window. Just “knowing” that if you angle your hand in a certain way that the wind will push it accordingly. You can visualise your hand as a wing of sorts. I’m sure most people can relate to that analogy. Once you understand(an ongoing process of refining your model) it's just a matter of training your body. Some people may disagree but I believe your understanding should surpass your actual physical ability. In other words: Knowing how to perform a manoeuvre but not being able to actually do it……..yet! POINT: YOU CAN’T GET BETTER WIHOUT KNOWING WHAT BETTER IS POINT: WATCH LOTS OF VIDEOS Those Skydive U videos sound really good. Another thing I found really helped with Freefly is learning to separate your visual and feeling awareness. Can you feel your arm for example without visualizing it at the same time? This internalizing of your visual awareness detracts from your ability to react to what is going on externally. Practice keeping your visual awareness wide with one central focus while FEELING your body. This is no rigid rule but a general rule of thumb. Sometimes when required it pays to visualize your body while flying and your brain can use the model you have built up from watching tonnes of video. You visualise your body from outside for example to tweak your body position. If you don’t know what causes what how can you make an input with any certainty of response? It’s just blind stabbing around in the dark. After a certain point the body with an intelligence of it's own requires little outside input and you will fly with little extra concentration. It has come completely habituated. Separating your visual and kinaesthetic awareness is something to think about anyway. I think that the reason eye contact works so well is it forces our mind external and we react better. We don’t get so bogged down “thinking” about our body position. What is thinking really but being aware of a representation in a sensory fashion? Your thoughts are comprised of sensations. You can learn to be visually aware externally and completely feel your body at the same time without flickering back and forth. You only need to when required. So what I’m saying is to build up a visual model and develop the judgement to know when to use it. That would be most definitely on the ground and sometimes in the sky. On the ground: Muscle memory drills – the process of relating your visual model to a feeling. This is very important and can not be stressed enough. In the sky: Docks etc. or when learning sometimes it helps to visualise your body position. POINT: LEARN TO USE YOUR MINDS EYE INDEPENDENTLY OF YOUR PHYSICAL EYE AND INDEPENDENT OF YOUR KINAESTHETIC AWARENESS One of my coaches when I was just first learning to freefly really stressed the importance of muscle memory and eye contact. He suggested that while on the ground I should practice keeping my head and eyes on one point while I monkeyd around, spinning around and getting all twisted up. Dancers and martial artists actually do similar exercises and in skydiving tradition rel workers drill it in with their creeper work. You just have to think in more dimensions – move your body in as many ways as you can while keeping your head and eyes pointed towards a fixed point. Practice it until it feels completely natural. This didn’t seem like work to me – just “play” with it. POINT: TRAIN YOUR BODY ON THE GROUND AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE – ITS CHEAPER THAN SKYDIVING AND CHEAPER THAN A TUNNEL. There is a lot to play around with and think about – a lot more than I have time for to share now and a lot I don’t know. Hopefully this can be of some assistance though. Just keep playing and be patient. I use to be always in a hurry to get somewhere without even knowing where I wanted to go. Life is more process than end product. It’s more of a journey than a destination. There is A LOT of literature out there that you can apply to skydiving. Thousands of years of evolved thought. Skydiving has only been around for how long ? Look outside traditional skydiving information and you will find some gems. Yahoo Serious

Post: Spaceland Anomaly's Free Round (8MB). Jaw-dropping. Nice flow between moves.... Unreal! Does anyone know where there are more vids of the latest top freeflying? Yahoo Serious

Well ?? Where can I find some ?? Yahoo Serious

What I found immensely helpful with headup was to grab some foam pool sausages and play with them under water. You can do mock headup on it; Arse/Sit/Stand and transitions in between and also 'hanging ten' standup forward movement. Its analogous to freefall in that it is an unstable position where the lighter parts will want to rise. In freefall your legs are lighter(simplified) than the rest of your boday and if you dont balance properly you will end up on your arse. In the pool the sausages being lighter than water will want to push your feet back up just like in the air and it requires a similar balance and pressure to maintain the position. (note it will not be exact but bar costly wind tunnel what is ?) You can emulate the drag on your arms by using a pool sausage or experimenting with floaties. To transition from your arse/back you cant just push your feet straight down you have to tuck up first otherwise your just fighting the air. You also have to put your arms out behind to get some lift and upright your torso before finally pushing down into a sit or stand. The same rules will apply in the pool and with some imagination and understanding you can see how you can practice alot of other headup in the pool. I hope that made some sense? It would be alot easier to just show you. You can do all sorts of stuff on the ground without having to pay for "20 minutes of boredom and one minute of disappointment" I met Amy Chmeleki at NOX Boogie in AUs and she said she used to spend hours and hours practicing headdown on the ground by doing headstands. Yahoo Serious

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The inventor/pioneer of freefly? A temporal entirely dependant on circumstances i.e. The first cause. How could anyone person claim to independantly pioneer, or for that matter, do, anything? Anyway.....it was probably "OLAV" if u want to make illusory distinctions. Yahoo Serious

Yeah definitely buy an official atmonauti vid.... Sorry can't be specific with an exact title but do yourself a favor and check out G flying. Some awesome footage of her "Morph"ed into a bird tracking at sunset..... Heaps of cool tarj and of course heaps o' wicked nauty..... Yahoo Serious

Not in a hey its cold out there, come sleep in my tent sort of way. nyuk nyuk.... Yahoo Serious

Not the fleetwood mac song ?? I think I know the one your talking about.... Should be listed in the credits though Dats a cool lil vid hej.... Yahoo Serious