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When flying at freefly speeds in wind tunnels, I prefer wearing under armour to prevent rashes. In warm weather (or a recirculator) I wear either the Heat Gear Long Sleeve or the Heat Gear T. For cold weather in an open air tunnel (AZ, Orlando) I wear the Cold Gear. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with under armour and I have 1000+ hours of tunnel time so I may not know what I am talking about. Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

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Is the 4way FS competition going to use the new blocks 1 & 13? Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Get a good coach. Tell the coach your experience and what you're looking to learn. Listen to the coach. I'd recommend doing two (or more), 15 minute sessions. You'll get more out of more, shorter sessions since you'll be able to watch the video, debrief, and get back in the tunnel to apply what you've learned. Have fun! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Thanks Andrea! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

The meet was great with 18 total 2way vfs teams registered. 6 Intermediate, 9 Advanced and 3 Pro. Results are posted at: http://www.gottunnel.com/nhtunnelmeet/ with full score sheets coming soon. Pro: 1st: If I Only Had a Brain (Perelman / Gagne) 2nd: Team Scarecrow (Tucker / Antalocy) 3rd: Team Ex (Kuregian / Fedotov) Advanced: 1st: Team Aeris (LaWare / Rouillard) 2nd: Disorganized (Perelman / Sarkisyan) 3rd: Joshcrow (Antalocy / Chasse) Intermediate: 1st: Vertical Chaos (Maglia / Turney) 2nd: Johnnie Malibu (Bolotin / Lafond) 3rd: Law & Order: Hung Fury (Ruggles / Sarkisyan) Thank you to all the competitors, all the sponsors, SkyVenture NH and all the staff. Can't wait for next year! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

The meet was great with 18 total 2way vfs teams registered. 6 Intermediate, 9 Advanced and 3 Pro. Results are posted at: http://www.gottunnel.com/nhtunnelmeet/ with full score sheets coming soon. Pro: 1st: If I Only Had a Brain (Perelman / Gagne) 2nd: Team Scarecrow (Tucker / Antalocy) 3rd: Team Ex (Kuregian / Fedotov) Advanced: 1st: Team Aeris (LaWare / Rouillard) 2nd: Disorganized (Perelman / Sarkisyan) 3rd: Joshcrow (Antalocy / Chasse) Intermediate: 1st: Vertical Chaos (Maglia / Turney) 2nd: Johnnie Malibu (Bolotin / Lafond) 3rd: Law & Order: Hung Fury (Ruggles / Sarkisyan) Thank you to all the competitors, all the sponsors, SkyVenture NH and all the staff. Can't wait for next year! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

The November 21 free t-shirt deadline is coming up. Get those registrations in! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

The November 21 free t-shirt deadline is coming up. Get those registrations in! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

I disagree with a lot of the advice in this thread. Get your legs wide with your heels turned out to use the inner surfaces of your legs to catch air - your inner thighs and calves. Keep your hips back and lean your back into the wind. Keep your head back to get the back of the your head and shoulders into the wind. Get your arms wide and out to the sides. Keep pressure on the wind with with your arms, but don't press them down past being straight out or you will just lose surface area. Do you live close to a tunnel? Watch a good coach/instructor sit fly at low wind speeds. http://www.liquidskysports.com/images/stories/photo_gallery/030.jpg Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Full meet information can be found at http://www.gottunnel.com/nhtunnelmeet/ Please go there for more information. Dates: Saturday, December 11th for 4-way FS and Sunday, December 12th for VFS Cost: $80/person regardless of competition class Registration deadline: First come first serve - limit of 20 teams total. Register by Sunday, November 21 to receive a t-shirt. Email NHTunnelMeetVFS"at"gmail"dot"com with the full names of each team member, their email addresses, each person’s t-shirt size, and your team name to register. Format: Same as last year, 6-round meet starting at 8:30am or 9:00am depending on the number of teams registered. There will also be discounted time available the week before the competition (12/6-12/10). Prices coming soon for that. Meet Directors: Ben Liston (FS) and Ari Perelman (VFS) Chief Judge: Jim Rees. I am trying to find more VFS judges. If you are interested, please let me know!! Teammate finder spreadsheet: Enter your info here if you are looking for teammates https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApFFDKFiX0PedHctZnRiUzRwVEtNLTR1cUJVYVB2bEE&hl=en Changes for 2010: Tunnel Instructors must compete in the Open class. Huck Jam: Please let me know if there is any interest in a huck jam after the competition is over while we wait for the judging to be finished. If the judges are really on top of it, the huck jam can be moved to after the awards ceremony. Communication: I know last year some people were confused about things and it took a while for me to find this out. Please, if you are confused or have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me! I will do my best to make this work for everyone and respond to questions. I will also get the final schedule out sooner this year. Please register early to help me get that done! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Full meet information can be found at http://www.gottunnel.com/nhtunnelmeet/ Please go there for more information. Dates: Saturday, December 11th for 4-way FS and Sunday, December 12th for VFS Cost: $80/person regardless of competition class Registration deadline: First come first serve - limit of 20 teams total. Register by Sunday, November 21 to receive a t-shirt. Email NHTunnelMeetVFS"at"gmail"dot"com with the full names of each team member, their email addresses, each person’s t-shirt size, and your team name to register. Format: Same as last year, 6-round meet starting at 8:30am or 9:00am depending on the number of teams registered. There will also be discounted time available the week before the competition (12/6-12/10). Prices coming soon for that. Meet Directors: Ben Liston (FS) and Ari Perelman (VFS) Chief Judge: Jim Rees. I am trying to find more VFS judges. If you are interested, please let me know!! Teammate finder spreadsheet: Enter your info here if you are looking for teammates https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApFFDKFiX0PedHctZnRiUzRwVEtNLTR1cUJVYVB2bEE&hl=en Changes for 2010: Tunnel Instructors must compete in the Open class. Huck Jam: Please let me know if there is any interest in a huck jam after the competition is over while we wait for the judging to be finished. If the judges are really on top of it, the huck jam can be moved to after the awards ceremony. Communication: I know last year some people were confused about things and it took a while for me to find this out. Please, if you are confused or have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me! I will do my best to make this work for everyone and respond to questions. I will also get the final schedule out sooner this year. Please register early to help me get that done! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

I can't believe there's no thread for it. Congrats to Travis, Andy and Matt for winning open freefly at Nationals again. That makes 3 years in a row! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Also talk to the tunnel. Some tunnels have harnesses specifically for this. Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

It really depends on your goals. If your goal is to get a good, solid foundation for head down in a short period of time, then go to the tunnel and get a good coach. If you want to learn head down at a leisurely pace and have fun relaxing and hanging out as well as learning, then jump (with a good coach). The bottom line is you will learn more in shorter period of time at the tunnel and spend more money in that period of time. The price per minute of coached flight time is way less than skydiving, but you spend more in a short period of time. I think the best way to learn head down is to do both. For every hour you fly in the tunnel, do about 10 jumps, preferably with the same coach. This way you can apply what you learned in the tunnel to skydiving. Also be sure to put some uncoached tunnel time/jumps in there so you can just relax and play around. Whichever way you go, ask around and find yourself a good coach. You're already spending a lot of money jumping/tunneling. It's worth it to spend a little bit more and get a lot more value out of it all. Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Awesome Amy. I'd love to finally make it out there for the next one. Are the 2way rules going to be the same? Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

nope. There's a Flyaway which is called Vegas Indoor Skydiving. Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Possble without tunnels? Yes. Would it have happened this year without tunnels? Probably not. You don't need to fly in a wind tunnel to be good, but it's a much faster and more efficient way to get good. Especially with a good coach. Look at the medal winners from the Open freefly events from Nationals: 1st place VFS AZ Arsenal - lots of tunnel time 2nd place VFS SDC Standard XP - lots of tunnel time 1st place freefly SoCal Converge - lots of tunnel time 2nd place freefly Orlando XP - lots of tunnel (both tunnel instructors) Good thought Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

From zero tunnel time to flying off the net head down in 1 hour? You must have some amazingly talented flyers. Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Whether the tunnel is 56 feet tall like XP or not, there are going to be huge problems if there is a deployment. First, you are going to shoot up and slam into the top. That will probably cause a fatality. Then the canopy is going to get sucked up through the turning vanes or directly into the fan blades depending on the type of tunnel. While this is happening, you'll be getting slammed around. I imagine the tunnel would probably stop working since the fans will be tangled with material and lines. When that happens, you'll either fall back down or be stuck up there. I don't see any part of that process being survivable. Your response didn't come across to me like you were posting your thoughts, I thought it sounded like you were shooting down what Kirk posted. That's just my interpretation though. Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

People have gotten hurt in wind tunnels by going up to the top too fast in just a suit and hitting the top of the tunnel hard. I don't think anyone would be able to survive the impact if a canopy came out. Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

I have a link to full meet results including score sheets at http://www.gottunnel.com/nhtunnelmeet/ Thanks again for the great meet everyone! Hope to see you all next time

First off, HUGE thanks to Rob and Laurie for hosting the meet and for doing so many big and little things to make the meet happen. The staff also did an amazing job of keeping everything running smoothly. Thanks to all the competitors for coming out to support each other and representing the North East! Here are the basic results. I'll post detailed results and score sheets in the next few days. Intermediate 1) Chasse/Perelman 2) McNaughton/LaWare 3) Bolotin/Lafond Advanced 1) Antelocy/Tucker 2) LaWare/Rouillard 3) Sarkisyan/Gagne Pro 1) Perelman/Shelton 2) Gagne/Fresia Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

22s in the tunnel. Pure awesome Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

Registration is now closed with 15 teams! Really important - I've made a lot of changes to the dive pool so please go to the website http://www.gottunnel.com/nhtunnelmeet/ and review them. Most of the changes are just wording intended to clarify things. If you practiced in 100% accordance with the old dive pool, you will not have to make any changes. This is just to settle a lot of confusion and questions I've been getting. If you do see something that stands out as being different, let me know because it's probably my mistake. I'm looking forward to a great meet this weekend! Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com