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  1. Open! The student and rental gear is all back from sunny Sebstian and there were loads today! ________________________________________
  2. An early welcome to the POPs pack, my Brother! ________________________________________
  3. Dernnit!! And I'm not there!!! Someone give Randy a big bunch of $1's and have him rub Harry Parts for me!! Just caught up with this thread (raining in NJ) and now I'm all homesick... Luv youse guys - P. ________________________________________
  4. If anyone is in Raleigh to see Jack on Sunday afternoon, (or any other reason) feel free to come see Randy & I - we'll be having a little 50th BIRTHDAY PARTY starting at 4 pm August 6. And you'd better not think it's for me... PM for info or directions. Pammy ________________________________________
  5. Thanks, Marion. I'm leaving this weekend! Not even a chance for some farewell skydives, so I guess I'll just have to come back!!
  6. You done with my cowboy hat then? ________________________________________
  7. Everyone say Happy Birthday to Karen! We can celebrate on Friday at the game
  8. And, call me for gear! We'll be transitioning to New Jersey!! ________________________________________
  9. I'm off to manage a gear store!! My last day in the "real" M-F world of business is Friday, and then I'm off to Square 3. ________________________________________
  10. Cool - this is probably as close as I'll get to having a chance to hug everyone goodbye . I'll need to get 2 tix for me & Randy - I think Karen was wanting 2 or 3 for her fam too! PM Me what I need to do, I can't get to the DZ this week but I live in town. ________________________________________
  11. Wow - where IS everybody??? Thanks, everyone, for all the food and contributions and helpings-out and jumps and stuff at the, um, boogie last Saturday. Geez, I hope everyone's getting rested and recovering from the busy holiday. Is the Friday night game still on for the Bulls? ________________________________________
  12. I do not agree in regards to flying FS. In the fastest mantis position, you can not take grips, therefore, the highest mantis speed can only be acheived in solo flight, as in tunnel drills or when approaching a formation. A Box is also the slowest, although it is certainly a stretched out one. Mantis is only effecient for one's personal mid-range fall rate. Relative to FS, the relaxed Box will generally allow you to both perform (take grips for points) and have the greatest range of fall rate (slow or fast). Proof statements: 1) Craig Girard did not fly mantis when setting the fall rate for the 400-way. 2) It's been a long time since I've seen anyone recover from "low" by utilizing a mantis body position. If you want to fly mantis in 4-way: Agreed! Learn the body position and then your teammies will need to adjust to whatever your fall rate is. So, jumper03, I think there is time available at a camp with Chromy that some jumpers at your DZ are attending. ________________________________________
  13. You so bad. Hafta come up to NY and spank you for that! ________________________________________
  14. Pinch the gals' butts for me. Missed you guys last weekend at Perris... I'm only off Tues, officially, but Tues - next Sunday we're off to jump at Crosskeys. Yeah, vacation! (edit for being stoopid and speling thangs wrong) ________________________________________
  15. So do I have this right: Eric's new nickname is Beaver Swooper? ________________________________________
  16. mental note to self: Earplugs in the gear bag.
  17. OK, have to respond to this seperately. And no, this is not to defend any person, persons or practices at CSS, nor is it a critique, complaint or endorsement of any social functions at CSS Where is there a DZO who really does social stuff for the skydivers? Especially in the summer months when they are working 12-14 hour days? DZO = Drop Zone Operator. Pretty much everywhere I've been to jump, the skydivers make the DZ what they want it to be. At Chester - James, Sean, & the RB's do the work. At Sebastian, they have a "clan" that plans parties and events. At XKeys, the jumpers and freefly school do a lot. At Raeford - oh, you just go to the bar. (They don't really even DO anything on the that's organized on the DZ.) At West Point, it's like a club, so it is much more social, but still the jumpers do it. At Perris - same as Raeford, go to the bar. Elsinore - Rosa plans almost everything social, including some smashing fund-raising events for charities. There used to be a DZ in Wallace where the DZO did plan a big dinner every Saturday. It was great! Beer, food for the grill, sides, a cake for whoever had a B-Day; he and his wife even cooked and did the beer run, supplied ice and a big drink cooler. The problem? It got too social, the jumping day was run too slowly, it got hard to make the jumps you wanted to make during the day, so the skydivers left. It closed. Someone has to run the place so the rest of us can play. Hell, when I started jumping there were cookouts every Wed and Sat at CSS without fail, with a fire and a party that went well into darkness and involved cooler stealings, safety meetings and sometimes *gasp* partial nudity! Explosives had to be explicitly banned. The entire social make-up of jumpers has changed in the past many years. We have to work harder and longer to pay for our jumping, we have to take care of the kids, we have work-related reputations we must keep clean, we have to get some rest bacause of the first three items listed (and a bazillion others). Just wait - you'll hear your exact words 10 years from now from someone who is 2-3 years into the sport wondering why it isn't like it used to be. Carpe DZ.
  18. Yeah, I'm just chopped liver. Karen & I did no planning, Stuart and Randy did no cooking, Eric did no video or recruiting. Man, Marion, How much did you pay her? Oh, marion, honey, you SHOULD have given her more money than you did! Now we're gonna have to pay her off to stop the noise. Seriously, TF'er, thanks for rousing the troops with an email!! I vote for Saturday. ________________________________________
  19. I think it was Joey Jones who said to us during coaching once - "Our Meeker looks just like your Meeker - it's how we get there that's so different". ________________________________________
  20. We missed it too. I had to go say goodbye to a dear friend and help her on her way out of this existence. I won't say there wasn't Tequila involved . Also, Studious Fox was busy being Dr. Fox at a conference in Chicago. Hopefully we'll have her playing Pin the Tail on the Foxes at the next meet!! ________________________________________
  21. You can get most all the competition info and references through the links on the NSL website to USPA and IPC/FAI. How certain blocks are scored has been the topic of several discussions on the NSL website as well. I'm sure you can also get some info by asking to watch an Intermediate or Advanced team get judged at a CaSL meet . ________________________________________
  22. You can catch the vet jumping video there as well - there's a link in the frame off to the right. ________________________________________
  23. Hey guys - check out the NSL article on the rookie class on their website. http://www.skyleague.com/pages/news/showArticles.php?story=445 ________________________________________
  24. What kinda info you lookin' for? Hmmmm...?? ________________________________________