Jumpmunki

does this tye in with why blood doesn't rush to your head when your head down? ...

hehe worth a try, expect an order in a few weeks !

yes, attended last years and intend to this year (trying to organise it to come to our dz) also trying to hook (pardon the pun) up with him in sebastian for 12 days in november. cheers for the idea tho

my freefly coach is a tandem camera jumper so my videos are always great even if i'm flailing around like my first sit attempt .. he's deaf, so we try and communicate the prebrief and debrief as best as possible. al doesn't do canopy coaching or anything else, i see him as a friend helping em out and he won't accept any money for it, i do my best to buy him food when we travel to other dz's so i am paying him in some way i would like to think, he's a mint guy and very very funny. it's great because as i'm learning sit i'm having to learn sign language

cross posted from the canopypiloting.com forums this post contains ranting and some views other will disagree with .. if you disagree with them post WHY you disagree rather than having a go, it might help people understand why .. ---------- ok heres the burning question from jump 1 there is emphasis on stability, getting good at FS etc.. there is always someone willing to talk to you about 8way or freeflying. i LOVE my canopy time, but it seams taboo to talk about wanting to be a top swoop competitor some day with only 100 jumps, concentrate on your fs i rememeber a guy saying to me, i did and found it challenging but got my fs1 and moved to something more relaxing... i think that skydiving is great.. but the parachuting part is the best bit.. that ground rush! just because i have around 100 decents under canopy (i say around because i jump every time god gives me a good weather day, which is rare..... the bastard ) so just because i have 110 jumps why am i told to slow down.. or to concentrate on something else..... some of the top russian gymnasts started when they were 5years old... and have a longer peak for cometition.. if i wait till i have 7000 decents before i start learning.. i'm going to be going grey and not have the pysical mobility to be able to swoop, where as if i learn (correctly i might add thru coaching and such) NOW then i can have a longer time to practice and a longer time to be at cometition level (if i get that good... i might blow at it you never know) on all of my jumps i like to have an aim.. something to concentrate on (not as intense as airspeed) but still something to think about.. and latley it's been sitflying and trying to surf more than 25 feet on my zp exe .... i don't want to rush out and get a vx 46... i want to progress in something i'm interested in and think i could really enjoy and focus on recently i've been digging around for a different canopy to my ZP exe 155 (a little too sluggish as far as i've seen) i've fronted it i've toggled it i've even biffed on it doing a 360 very low (no injury dug myself out) just to try and fly it to it's potentioal i think i'm either doing something really shit and not flying it properly OR the canopy hasn't really got the performance i want. even compared to a sabre 1 170 it's slightly sluggish on the toggles i was going to help out a mate , he was getting a different 2nd hand rig and needed some cash to help get it.. the main was a stilletto 150 so i was going to test jump it and find out if i could handle it then maybe buy it rather than downsizing. now i didn't just connect it up and then go jump it i dug around for as much info on it's flying charactaristics as possible asked guys who jump it or have jumped the stilletto, and thought i'd made an informed choise to jump it, even after i had asked the CCI (DZO) he said your b licence you can jump whatever you like.. it's nothing to do with me.. then i looked for the info and hooked it up.. repacked her correctly and then as the lift was going to be called oer the tannoy comes lift 1 kit on .. and wayne don't even think about jmping that stilletto.. over the tannoy .... in hind site maybe i should have got hold of a sabre 150 and tried to wring that out as opposed to a step up.. it would have been like jumping a 120 sabre when mormally i would jump a 170 in terms of the stillettos performance compared to my ZP exe so i'm looking out for a safire or other tapered canopy to jump and learn the fundamentals of canopy piloting. i think that by doing this i am learning progressivly but not agressivly.. you wouldn't learn to use a wood lathe carving with a screwdriver would you? you'd use the correct tool.. a chisel.. i thought about a comeback someone would make if i said that "your more likley to cut yourself with a chisel tho".. well yes you are.. but your going to be alot more careful with it and aware of what it can do than with a blunt screwdriver... i look upto you lads out there now doing it .. some getting paid, some for fun... be honest with me .. should i keep doing my freeflying pulling at 3 and then joining the pattern and landing straight in sometimes falling over or landing nowere near i want to like alot of the people i've met?.. or should i really aim to do what i want to and progress to being an exceptional canopy pilot some day? does it really mean that if you don't have X jumps you shouldn't even be thinking about how to perform hp landings and to concentrate on the freefall section of skydiving? simply because "your too young" in jump numbers? --------------

got any promotional copies of the book or the new one brian

sue can't jump coz of a dikky ticker, she's saying she would ignore the doc and do it anyway if thats what i wanted.. which is nice .. hijack over

link to where i can get it cheap?

i've done it in my freefly suit from jump 1

i actually have tears in my eyes just thinking about anything like that

will try and get some video stills on the next one, need to talk nice to my coach first hehe

YARRRRRR MATEY THIS BE A HIJACKING! i used to till it got full of idiotiotic cheats i used to hang around wargaming forums as well alot (airsoft) and w00t was a common meaning of elation ..... anyway........ cheers for the advice dudes... must get back to work maybe

i nailed my sit today held it comfortably without turning all the way down the tube! i was only turning and flopping onto my back when i moved my arm to check my alti W00T!!!!!! sorry for this pointless boast, but that jump (110) ROCKED! what should i practice now i can hold the possition? cheers p.s Woot!

Peterlee (where phonics jumps) BPA

phonics.. at peterlee ian says it's b licence for a gath... i'd get me an N vertigo if i was buying a helmet now like...

hehe never thought of spot.. thats what i'm gonna call my dog i think

here here!

TÖTEN Sie german for kill

the invention of harnessing electricity ...

just don't pay for it .... or say you sent the cash then actually don't ... yeah you'll get a negative strike but you won't pay for ummit you dont' want .... wish someone would impulse bid (and pay for) this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3666004917&category=310

if you bought a microwave for instance... and it was working but sometimes the timer went blank or it didn't beep when it finished and you'd shelled out $600 for it ... would you complain to the manafacturer that you've paid for goods that are faulty and you want it sorting out NOW ? ... i know i would.. when i pay for something i want it to work perfectly ..... if it doesn't it isn't my fault ... why should i have topay for there mistakes? ...

guilty as charged.. i use to for breakoff (when freeflying) then watch the ground and my alti.. it beeps at 3500 to remind me to keep watching my alti then i pull at 3 grand everything can fail i've only got 109 jumps right.. and i've already had my alti jam twice in that time (sent it for a service).. i didn't have an audible either so i watched around me for others pulling checked above me and did the same... it's not rocket science, gadgets are great you just have to have confidence in yourself if things don't beep when they should ...

my freefly coach said it's more fun and better practice to go unstable out the door and then spring straight into a sit possition.. get stable check alti then roll unstable again, spring into sit possition, you get more practices getting into the possition for your money ...

erm... far be it from me to say but, i don't own a cypress but surley this is airtecs problem, if the unit is still covered under warrenty then they should cover all charges incurred to the person effected. if this problem had been spotted then dear old davey dickens wouldn't have to pop his reserve, pay a rigger... pay for shipping and pay for a repack.. airtec should foot the bill ...

someone upload it to skydive movies. com ......