cybervagrant

My friend, who just showed me how to pro pack her stilleto, told me to move the pull cord under the pin before removing it to lessen the wear on the closing loop. Cheers, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

Where are talking about? It took me three years to get use to the heat here in Orlando, Florida. The best advice I can give you about dealing with it is to get outside as early as possible 7-8am and stay outside. If you do this your already outside as the day warms up and it feels alot cooler than stepping outside from a airconditioned room later in the day. If you do that the heat can feel like a hot wet heavy towel hitting you Cheers, Cyber PS The best weather here in Florida is in April. Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

In the PD manual it says you can try a smaller PC to help with hard openings. Cheers, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

Icarus has psycho packing instructions on their website. Cheers, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

Je sais, que je sais rein(I know that I know nothing). Mantis and RW is awesome. Just floating down in Boxman seems BORING. Freeflying looks OK, although the precision and coordination RW just thrills me. Cheers, Cyber P.S. Hopefully, before I do AFF, I'll be able to afford some more tunnel time to work on my Boxman. Now that I understand the basics, I should be able to make it work better. Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

As I understand it: Pulling on the front risers decreases the angle of attack. A lower angle of attack means less pressure at the nose of the canopy, which means less pressure in the cells. In turblent conditions the canopy might experience a gust of wind from behind. That is, the relative wind might momentarily strike the trailing edge of the canopy first tending to push the air out of the cells and thereby cause a collapse. By using the front risers you make the canopy more vunerable to this case by lowering the pressure in the cells. It makes a good case for airlocks, aye? Cheers, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

PD's ram air parachute manual states that using frount risers for a turn or dive in turblent air can lead to a canopy colapse. Cheers, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

I have over an hour in the tunnel in Orlando. I'm just beginning to feel confident about signing up AFF. I have learned the basics of Mantis, but am still working on improving my leg inputs and my arch. I have trouble seeing any other way to approach the sport. Cheers, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

I have over an hour in the tunnel in Orlando. What I like to do best is a twenty minute block. I go in with some other people and get ten 2 minute sessions. Debriefing is important. Plan what you want to do, tape it, then review it. If you get 30 minutes each, thats sixty together. Do three blocks of 20 minutes with other people. That's my two cents, cheers, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

I'm jealous I'm working like crazy to get my knees higher than my hips (mantis position). I hope its just a matter of stretching out my hip flexors rather than being a matter of my bone structure. All the stretching and practice arches are beginning to turn my great new passion into work. Cheers, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

On the first jump I almost toppled over in the air. It was an intense few moments while I fought to keep my self straight up and down. I've hit the water sideways off a 3 meter board. When did that my knees slammed together. It took almost twenty minutes before I could climb out of the pool. I just clung to the side and prayed for the pain to stop. It was an amazingly painful from only fifteen feet. From a hundred feet, if one escaped drowning they'd probably need a doctors attention. Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

I've jumped from cliffs at quarries and from damns in the 100' range with sneakers on hitting the water feet first of course. I recall that I actually felt the surface tension of the the water in the quarry when I hit. It felt like jumping on to a trampoline for just a moment, I felt it stretch slightly, then I was through surrounded by bubbles and water. Hitting the water feet first resulted in a very easy impact, I did it maybe 10 time that day. I'm sure such a jump could be survived from 200 and possible 300 feet. My buddy was jumping 20 to 25 feet higher than me at the quarry and going in head first

Some weight has already been suggested by a friend. She said she had to dearch so much in order to stay level with me that, "Your getting weights next time buddy." She claims she can be on her belly on the the net at 130mph. I have yet to see that, but I have noticed she has a really good upper body arch. My arch is only slightly bad really. My upper body could be higher, but its workable. My thighs tend to angle down slightly, and I also tend to tuck my lower legs in to far, past straight up. I've thought that if I stick my lower legs out more they might catch enough air to change the angle of my upper legs. Also, if I get a bootie suit, the booties might help to do the same thing. Ah well, pratice, pratice, pratice Thanks for the reply, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

I have yet to jump, but I just started going to a tunnel. My first experience about two months gave me an adrenaline high that lasted for about 3 hours. The the lucidity and and sense of well being was wonderful. Congrats, Cyber Whoops, is my ignorance showing again?

Would it be possible to have and entry for tunnel time put in the profile, so that those of us who have yet to jump but have invested in tunnel time can look like we have at least some related experience?