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  • Home DZ
    Ventania - RS - Brazil
  • License
    Student
  • Licensing Organization
    CBPq
  • Number of Jumps
    24
  • First Choice Discipline
    Formation Skydiving
  • Second Choice Discipline
    Freeflying

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  1. 3:0:0 Spent the whole day at the DZ sunday, winds were too high for us low-timer-big-canopy-renting newbies. #@#&^@!!! Rio de la Plata weather! Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  2. Daedalus, du-uh! IIRC architect of the Labyrinth where the minotaur resided. Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  3. Happy birthday! I will never forget when my JM first explained to me how the 3 rings system worked. Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  4. xybe

    Dear Dr. Laura

    [urban legend alert] Wasn't this used on the show "The West Wing" when Pres. Bartlett says a speech a lot like the letter you mention. [/urban legend alert] Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  5. xybe

    I went big!

    Kudos groovy chick! Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  6. For WYSYWYWYG (what you see is what you wish you got) SITES (as opposed to single pages) I would recommend Namo, it has templates for whole sites, it is cheap and very customizable and it does not mess up HTML. If you have the time to practice and you are after a more graphical site and not so content oriented, you could pretty much do your whole site in Fireworks only. Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  7. Is there any footage out there of someone doing a bunjee jump-skydiving combo? Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  8. Sad but true, sometimes it pays to be a pain in the ass. Some business count on your passivenes to let you end up with the short end of the stick. It's great to have a lawyer relative/friend pay them a call. Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  9. And now for something completely different, and 80's commentary. Did you know that the popular 80's song "Turning Japanese" refers to the facial expression of people experiencing orgasms? Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  10. Head Honcho: We are just not worthy! Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  11. A crime has been commited against you and they trat you like dirt... don't have any lawyer friends? Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  12. xybe

    Skydiving Satori

    Since Michele has not indluged us with her crafty prosody I could not help but give short-skydiving-storytelling a try, this is the kind of pretentious half-whuffo I am, so without further ado: The Cessna cruises lazily the end of the jump run and yet the wind is strong enough beneath the plane’s wings that El Lobo and I have to struggle to keep our balance. El Lobo is one of the coolest guys I’ve seen around a dropzone. Skydivers are a weird bunch, and skydiving instructors are no exception. Good jumpmasters have the ability to look relaxed and at the same time remain in control of the situation, El Lobo is one such person and the confidence he inspired greatly eased my anxiety. It had been seven months since the last time I looked below me at ten thousand feet from the open door of a Cessna. For an inexperienced diver such as myself this time can be a lifetime. Having only twenty-eight jumps, I ran the risk of losing familiarity with skydiving equipment and my body and altitude awareness in freefall. This is going to be both a training and an assessment jump. El Lobo is going to evaluate my skills and help me regain my sky-legs. El lobo is standing outside the cabin of the Cessna as I face him standing on the threshold between the airplane and the wind. In one smooth motion we lean outwards-inwards-outwards and then we are in freefall. El lobo seems relaxed as usual as he grabs the shoulders on my jumpsuit; I look at him, smile and take a quick glance at the altimeter on my left wrist, we are at nine thousand feet. Somehow freefalling seems ordinary after the anticipation of exiting the plane. Somehow freefalling does not feel like falling at all, somehow it is more like floating in foam, so I breathe and allow the wind to shape my body. This is as close as humans can get to flying. There is an almost mystical contradiction that skydiving beginners have to face, we have the task of keeping our bodies in a stable position while staying relaxed. Jumping out of a flying airplane induces a great amount of tension, add to that the fact that we must concentrate on being stable, aware of altitude and performing tasks and the end result is hardly a relaxed skydiver. And yet beginners reach a moment of epiphany, when everything just clicks together and everything seems to be right. When we first skydive, time seems to accelerate along with our bodies, those thirty or forty seconds of freefall seem more like ten or fifteen. But when you reach that magic moment, that skydiving satori it seems that time has stopped to let us enjoy the otherworldly experience of freefall. This is the first time we can really enjoy the skydive, a peaceful joy takes us over and we feel we cannot help to smile. Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  13. Just to comment on something that was previously said: Make shure you get thos freakin' measures right. Apparently the DZO where I got my measurementes is great at coaching, RW, etc. but really fudged the measurements. Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  14. Hi, During AFF I got routinely smacked by my Manta, I believe it was F-111. The packer really had to roll the nose on that thing for me. Also, if you are jumping student gear, you have to consider that it might be improperly adjusted which contributes to the situation. Also, as students we sometimes arch pretty hard and have a ver fast descent, this also factors into the equation. Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages
  15. Isn't it good to be back in the air? Winning the lotto isn't bad either. Still shedding whuffo-ness Check out the Hardcore Whuffo pages