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  1. Lean back and fly with your back more. This will push you forwards and your back is such a big surface area you'll be able to get some lift too.

    Always try to fly with your legs and your back which is less strain for you and leaves your arms hopefully for more independent movement.

    Does take time to get the muscle memory though. Don't beast it too much as you learn very little when tired... if you can back fly then get onto some back carving which will help you when you do dynamic stuff in future.

    Welcome to the crack house. B|

  2. mr2mk1g

    I think the problem is in what market forces has led FS1 to become in practice. It's been thoroughly monetised.

    There's a cottage industry of FS instructors who, by accident or design, end up wringing every penny out of newbies for training.



    At the risk of promoting Peterlee DZ here in the NE of England... it's a small club DZ *but* the DZO has a free coached slot on each load. Some of the FS coaches also don't charge so basically you get a coached jump for just the cost of your own jump ticket... which is the way it should be done B|

  4. If you're static flying then yes. However mix it up with low speed belly carving, back carving, layouts and flares and it's much less grief on the body. When we do VFS I can do about 20 minutes a night before my body explodes but I've easily done 90 minutes in a day working on low speed dynamic flying.

  5. If you can afford the time off work go on holiday to Russia, Slovakia or Poland. You can do 10 hours, have a nice holiday, get some airline tickets, nice meals, beers, pay for coaching and it'll probably work out cheaper than the 10 hours at iFly without coaching. I got an offer last year at Hurricane Factory in Slovakia for $450/hr inclusive of all taxes and one of the Hurricane Factory D4W teams flew with me just for fun. :P

    Adam.

  7. I guess you're from the UK if you're talking about 'FF1'. Won't mean much to our colleagues stateside.

    Freeflying well is time-consuming and difficult and to be honest the way to get good quickly is to hammer the tunnel and then take it to the sky. Once you can sit fly safely then you can share with 2 or 3 people and it brings the cost down considerably.

    Also when learning, try to learn dynamic stuff (back carving, belly carving, layouts, belly and back flares) as this does help in the long-term even though in the short term it seems like a diversion to becoming a sky-ninja.

    Good luck! :)

  11. In Europe I can't think of any non-iFly tunnel that's more expensive than the iFly models (with the exception of Aerokart in Paris which has always been eye-watering). I've seen Poland (flyspot) or Slovakia (Hurricane Factory) for $420/hr for so during the year depending on the offers available.

    I did 10 minutes in Prague whilst I was away for a weekend at a wedding for $120 at the walk-up rate. This was cheaper per minute than an hour pro flyer time at iFly Seattle when visiting the in-Laws last year. That plus budget airlines (it's under $100 to fly from Luton airport to an airport less than 25 mins drive from Slovakia tunnel). Hell, if you were up for a week away doing 10 hours it's be cheaper to fly from the US...

  12. I get confused when reading the iFly patent as, to be awarded, a patent has to be a new invention however vertical wind tunnels have been around for ages (e.g. Bedford), the only extension to this was that they've been used for skydiving. This was basically how ISG won against iFly in Germany in 2010 as a skydiving simulator wasn't deemed a new invention.

    The configuration of the iFly wind tunnel is almost identical to any horizontal tunnel since about 100 years ago (test chamber, diffuser, recirculation, plenum, contraction) so that's not an invention either. Here's a diagram from NASA from 1941. Turn it 90 degrees and bingo! You've got yourself a 'new' invention.

    I'm quite surprised that ISG rolled over before trial but I guess they followed legal advice.

  14. Hahaha. So true. As one of the old timers pointed out to me when I first started jumping.. "If your girlfriend leaves you, it's not because she doesn't like you.. it's just not your turn anymore"...

    Plus all the other drama that comes with virtually living with the dysfunctional DZ family.

  16. I used a night splint that kept my foot in a gentle stretch overnight for a month and it cleared up eventually. I don't envy you with plantar faciitis. It's really sore.

    But as others point out. See a sports physio or the doc.

    Good luck

    Adam

  19. Our teammate Mick dislocated his shoulder hitting the glass about a month ago rushing for a dock then stalled and didn't recover enough before hitting the glass. This was head down with the tunnel topped out in a 14 footer about 3 ft off the net. The height had no bearing at all.

    As pointed out above layouts with the speed up can turn out nasty as can transitioning inface to outface across the tunnel. It's the horizontal speed that gets you splatted not the vertical one imho. :PB|

  23. Does anyone have any information about the defect? Was it a crack or an inclusion? Surface breaking or subsurface? I'd be interested in the failure report but I guess it'll never see the light of day.

    You could run an eddy current probe over it if it was a surface breaking defect. It might also be possible to detect subsurface flaws in an austenitic stainless but I'm unclear as to the actual material used.