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Doesn't even come close! Take my warning: If you enjoyed the book, DO NOT go see the movie. They don't deserve your six bucks. Do yourself a favor and go buy 2 gallons of over-priced gas and help make Exxon execs rich. At least THEY make a product that you can get some use out of.

Yep- Got an "unauthorized" viewing of it. You better be a downright expert on the book if you think you are going to enjoy, let alone even follow, this movie. They tried way too hard with this one and basically get caught trying to make a 2 hour movie out of a book that would require the movie to be more like a week-long documentary. It's crap. Not even good just as it's own movie, leaving alone that it is a screenplay for the book. It's getting pretty bad reviews from most places and is another movie that was hyped up WAY too much. The sad thing is, there are alot of people who want this movie to be good, so they will say it is good no matter what. If you can go watch it and be unbiased, I can't believe you will think it is very good. It ranks up there with that one where he was stranded on the island and befriends a volleyball. What the heck was the name of that piece of crap?

Just getting a headstart so this thread is ready to roll.

It's like everything else you learn in skydiving freefall. The better you get at flying your body in a certain orientation, the more you will be able to do without so much effort. Yes, sit docks require compensation with the other half of your upper body, especially when learning. After you get better, you will be able to compensate with your whole body, requiring less drastic compensation from a single part. Think of it this way; when you first learn to pull, you are taught to place your non-pull hand ontop of your head to compensate because if you don't it would flip you over or cause a bad turn. But once you have some good skill, you can leave your other hand right where it is and still pull with no real effect to your stability or heading. That is because you learn to fly your whole body and compensate using everything, not just your other hand. It becomes second nature. It is about flying your body, whether it be head up or head down, and when you move your arms, the rest of your body needs to compensate for that. I usually still compensate by putting the opposite arm behind me, but it really depends maneuver I am doing. When flying a really nice solid lower body, you will be surprised what you can do with your arms. But it takes alot of practice and the place to start is opposing movements with the arms and not turning your heading. You need to stay square to your heading.

Sometimes when they are confused too.

Sweet! I was wondering why this thread popped up.

Grazie everyone!

Those are perfect for illustrating my point. Thank you. You can see very clearly in your shots that there is a big difference between "sit flying" and "head up flying." With a good solid head up position, as in these pictures, your arms are free to do other things and your stability and movement comes from your lower body, just as it does in head down. Thanks Jairo!

I change that just a bit: "go drop the Cosby kids off at the pool."

Me too!

I despise men who wear facial hair!

Oh, I was assuming the intention was just to whack it. But if you are intending to get it in the hole, then yes, you definitely can whack it too hard.

Hmmm, in my experience, one can never whack it too hard!

For every one story you have, I can tell ten. So, by your rationale, I guess I should despise car buyers. And since you despise all car salesmen because of your experiences with one, then you are pretty small-minded. That would mean youdespise me, and you have never even met me. Nice.

The ones I use are the r7 Quad 400cc. They are much less forgiving than the latest r7s in 425cc and 460cc. It consistantly outhits my Callaway and with the adjustable weights, I have strightened my tee shots up really nicely.

Even on a used car that low of interest? I could get that on a new car but not used. Hell for how much cheaper I got this thing for since this guy has to unload it or bad things would happen I could afford a point higher. I just couldnt get that low on a use car and I looked for a while. Yeah, PSECU is a damn fine credit union. It has EVERYTHING to do with your credit score. Everyone doesn't get the same rate. I have customers who qualify for 4.9% on a used car and customers who get 12.9%.

I am in the used car business and have been for 13 years. I have been lied to and mistreated by the customer WAY more than I have ever seen a salesman treat them. Last time I checked, car dealers are in the business to make money. Somehow, that gets viewed as "trying to fuck people." I can honestly say that I have never walked out to wait on a customer with the intention of fucking them over or lying to them to make money. And I know alot more about this end of the business than most, and I hardly ever see the things going on that people claim salesman are always doing. The lying and mistreating almost always comes from the other side of the desk.

That is what I actually switched from. I got the r7 Quad about a week ago and it is hands down the best driver I have used. I was thinking that the adjustable weighting system was going to be too much, but it is really easy to use and works great for countering the natural fade I have. I actually have 2 of them now because I wanted to try different shafts and loft. Now I just have to sell one! Anyone want a great deal on a r7 driver?

Anyone use or tried the TaylorMade r7 Quad driver?

Exactly.

I agree. I think this was more of a case of running into the bird as it was on another course and never saw the wingsuiter. If it was in fact an eagle, which is an assumption, and this eagle was truly "flocking" with the wingsuiter, the eagle would have it's eye on him and it would be downright impossible to "surprise" it with any movement or change in flight which would cause a collision, no matter how drastic or from what angle. IMO Although this "flocking" story is a good one and one that people are going to want to imagine, I really doubt it happened that way. I think this is simply a case of two things on different flight paths, colliding accidently because they didn't see each other.

Just trying to add a bit more to the other posts. All good info so far, I just think it is better to get that "sit flying" out of our heads and think more in terms of "head up flying." If you are sitting on the air, you are not flying well with your lower body, so the rest of your body will have to compensate, making it difficult to control sliding and fallrate. Flying a good tall position with a nice stable and wide stance will allow your upper body to more easily move and control your forward and backward movement, fallrate and docking. Flying head up really well, is much harder than flying head down. The people who can fly really well on their feet are the people who impress me. I am pretty mediocre at it and continue to learn on every jump. We all need to never stop learning and thinking that as soon as you can "sit" stable, it is time to move to head down. Heck, I was watching some jumps with Jimmy T the other night and he was critiquing his form. The boy has 16,000 plus jumps and is still trying to get better at flying and learn. Damn if that doesn't put it into perspective!

Bingo! It is head up flying, not sit flying. Your stability needs to come from your lower body with movement control assisted by the upper body. In this picture, you are flying from center mass by leaning over your hips and then catching yourself with your arms. You need to straighten that body out more, sit up tall, chin up, push down with those heels in a nice wide, stable stance, and find your stability from your lower body so that your arms can come forward in a more relaxed helpful position. A good head up position should "basically" mirror a head down position, being slightly more bent at the waist and knees, and look alot less like "sitting in a chair."

You are missing my aim here. You are the one who made it personal. I was answering your thread truthfully, not as a jab at you. My rely was meant to be a serious reply to your thread. And yes, you DO talk about it all the time!