rigga

A guestbook has been set up to remember our friend Colin Hicklin, who was lost to a plane crash in Queensland, Australia on the 2nd January. Colin was the most genuine and big hearted person that I'm blessed to have known. Messages can be left at the following URL... http://www.guestbookcentral.com/guestbook.cfm?guestbook=38362 Fly forever free mate - you lit up the lives of so many people.

Here's the top three placings in each category as I recall them... 50+ teams and a great fight to the finish - what a weekend! Congrats to all! Seniors 1st - Wizards 2nd - Spank 3rd - NRG Intermediate 1st - Optic 2nd - South Parc 3rd - Lets Get Horny Junior 1st - No Angels 2nd - Quake 3rd - Red Devils

I don't do these normally, but I'm at work and have a spare 5 mins to kill before going home... 1. Whats your name? Andy 2. How old are you? 21+9 3. Why did you decide to start jumping out of airplanes? Always wanted to from an early age fuelled by my Dad telling stories about him jumping rounds in the Army. Opportunity knocked for me when I went to Uni with much jumping and debt following soon after... 4. Are you single or taken? Married? Single 5. Do you have kids? Nope 6. What do you drive? Ford Tin Box 7. Have you ever done a kisspass? Yup 8. Where do you live? Hertfordshire, UK 9. Do you have any pets? Nope. The folks have got a fur ball that I think is a West Highland terrier. 10. How many jumps do you have? 1,475ish 11. What color eyes do you have? Brown 12. What is your nationality? UK 13. Have you ever dated someone you met off the internet? Nope 14. Favorite Movie? Memento 15. What do you do when you arent skydiving? Photography, running, design T-shirts, have a few bevvies in London... 16. Have you ever BASE jumped? No 17. If not... do you want to? One day... keep toying with the idea... 18. Do you have siblings? 2 older brothers 19. Where do you want to travel to the most? As of right now? New Zealand 20. What's your favorite color? Blue 21. Where was the last place you flew to ( not skydiving )? Brussels

altitude: 14,500 aircraft: SMG Location: Hibaldstow maneuver: Vid & stills description: Lurking a 4-way plus vid (yep, they knew I was joining them!) - got some nice pics... Take a look... ...then click "next" to view the next four pics... Before you ask, there was supposed to be four people in the 1st piccy...

Hi there, I shoot using TV - 500 with a tongue switch from these guys... http://www.conceptusinc.com/tongueswitch.htm ...which has a 2.5mm plug on it. I've found that by supergluing a small nut over the switch input on the camera (of about 3-4mm thick) it stops the jack going as deep in the socket. As a result it merrily clicks away using the settings you want rather than resulting to sport mode and you can fire off a number of shots without the buffer refresh getting in the way too much. Certainly a nicer option than re-wiring! Every day is a school day... Andy

Hi there, Welcome to the digital stills age! I bought a Canon 300D (the UK name for the Rebel) last year and was faced with the same dilemma. I use a 19-35mm lens, set to 19mm and this gives me the same field of view as I get for my 28mm fixed lens attached to a conventional SLR camera. I got my lens from eBay. I've just checked and if you put "eos lens wide" in the seach field there are a number available, mostly from US suppliers (at around the 140 bucks mark). The particular make I've got is a Pheonix. Hope that helps - have fun with this awesome piece of camera gear! Andy

Unfortunately not - got some team training duties to attend to that weekend (talk about forward planning!)

A boogie at Nethers and Hib - a cool outcome I reckon! I'll apologise on behalf of the Hib collective for the spate of voting that was partly due to a group of bored skydivers being on a winded out DZ with an internet enabled computer to hand. But it has resulted in a number of new registrations and more interest in DZ.com, which isn't a bad thing. I was at the Eloy boogie X-mas 2002 and know what a sociable bunch the DZ.com crowd are - and look forward to when its Hib's turn to play host DZ. Have fun down there at Nethers...

Top banana. It's happening on the weekend of the 20/21 Sept by the way. Laters, Plank boy.

...47 four way teams and 7 eight way teams - making 54 teams over the two weekends (I prefer the 47 teams in one weekend statistic though!) How's tricks Ivan? Are you going to the Birdman weekend at Weston in Sept BTW? Andy W.

I've done a fair bit of roaming around different DZ's in my time and keep coming back to Hibble. I live just out of London and its my choice - the journey is well worth it. Superfast planes, more altitude than you can shake a pointy thing at and some really class parties to boot. I think the recent FS Nationals and the fact that 47 4-way teams completed all of their rounds out of two planes within two days speaks for itself! Not forgetting the super slick cameramen up there... Having said that, in line with what Craig said above, I've had some pretty class times at all of the other UK dz's - Hib just has that edge for me. There's just too much fun to be had out there...

The makers have a website with on-line ordering... http://www.glassafe.com/catcrap.html Rigga

Hmmm, yup, had this problem when I first started to jump a cam suit. It was a cheap 'n cheerful second hand job and not too long back I bought a new one, made to my measurements. It made all the difference - I always felt as if the suit was flying me, now the tables had turned and I could control things as I wanted, so I reckon the fit of the suit is a pretty important factor, for me at least. For filming FS, look though the formation and aim to keep the landscape as solid as possible - the more you film, the less conscious effort it would take. On an early cam jump I remember orbiting perfectly with a spinning 4-way - I felt ill watching the video afterwards! Happy filming, Rigga

I've been dabbling with Tandem vids, and here's a few titles, reeled off in no particular order for use over ground, freefall, slo-mo and landing shots. Have fun... Rigga Jakatta - American Dream Jakatta - My Vision U2 - Beautiful Day U2 - Mysterious Ways U2 - Even Better than the real thing Robbie Williams - Let me entertain you Love Inc - You're a superstar Supermen Lovers - Starlight Elvis v JXL - A little less conversation Chicane - Offshore Pink - Real Good Time Prodigy - Voodoo People The Mock Turtles - Can you dig it? Fun Lovin' Criminals - Fun Lovin' Criminals PPK - Resurection Coldplay - Clocks Mansun - Wide Open Space Milky - 21st Century Madonna - Die Another Day Madonna - Ray of Light Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away Foo Fighters - Learning to fly Foo Fighters - I'll be coming home next year Groove Armada - If everyone looked the same Pizza Man - Happiness Leo and Bushwacker - Love Story The Hives - I hate to say I told you so Moorcheeba - World looking in Moby - Porceleine (there's plenty of good tracks on the Play album to be honest) Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Vesper Song Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californication The Verve - Sonnet

Excellent pic Lou!

Did my premier rodeo at the weekend - took a freeflyer friend of mine Laura for a ride on the back of my birdman suit - worked like a dream! Does that make me into a jumpship? There's just too much fun to be had...! Rigga

Nice one - welcome to the flock! It just gets better and better - I'm working on my backflying now and trying to get tighter vertical transitions and docks. Hot-doggin' it across the wide blue yonder never fails to put a smile on my face....!