bigorangemd

Great thing about my son. He now packs for me. He wanted to charge me but quickly realized that my "Taxi prices" exactly matched my packing bill! The only downside is jumping the first few unsupervised pack jobs by you 13 yr. old son makes you think at pull time. Good openings though. Just have to teach the kid the RSL doesn't hook to the three ring system!

Sounds like you are progressing fairly normally. It takes some time before you can recall much about the dive flow. Talk with your instructors about your progressions and about your stability concerns and arch!

Man, my hr and a half cost me nearly a grand. I could skydive a long time for that!

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congrats...

the next several hundred will go by a lot faster.

I hope so, it's been 9 weeks since my first AFF.

Depends on what I'm doing. Helmet for RW, nothing if I'm freeflying since I'm just starting and only jump with one other person. Jumpsuit for RW, shorts and T if not. I have a Neptune in my helmet with analog on my wrist for RW, Neptune on my wrist if not.

Did my 100th Sat. Did a 13 way round that funneled bigger than anything but was fun. Another jumper had his 100th at the same time so we did numbers 99, 100, 101 together. Great to share a milestone with a friend. Thought I had gotten away clean but later that evening the whipped cream pies with chocolate syrup awaited (SPLAT!)

I assume those of you that fly regularly must coach there because I'd go broke flying much more than that.

Not that they'll admit to.

Jaime, won't be going to skyfest. Gotta work. Paige, seeing as all I have is 3 boys, don't think I'll be adding to the ranks of the PMTS.

Yeah, the little punk wanted to know since he's starting to pack and if he keeps it up in the tunnel, would they let him skip AFF. He forgot about the whole saving your life thing at the end. And to that end he's reading The Parachute and its Pilot so he also plans to be swooping during AFF. To be 13 and know everything. I reminded him of "The great teacher" - intense physical agony mentoined several times in the book and that keep it up and he would get a lesson.

Have a 13 yr. old who has the skydiving bug. Since he can't jump yet we ran down to Skyventure Orlando to let him try it. We booked 1hr and 15 min. of total time. It was amazing to watch him progress. I had a lot of fun as well. Sure is a great work out (I know my wallets lighter!) But worth every penny to see his face.

Darn, was hoping for an extra day.

No change. 204 and holding for 2 wks.

No change.

205

Leapfrogging was a good change of pace and came in handy.

Duuuhhhh....well...gee Tennesee...I don't know.

Well Chumely.

Used to LOVE that one.

I'll be there Fri. but Eric is in Atlanta untill Fri. P.M. May come out later that weekend.

If you get shot in the ass you're on your own this time! There are somethings even I won't touch!

I was worried about that when I first put on gloves, especially since I had flunked my AFF-1 because I could not find the hackey! No problem. Did a few practice touches on the ground and never had the first problem with it.

Congrats! Taking my test this coming weekend. Was it really that easy or did you study much. Haven't had much chance to study. Again congrats.

Weeks loss: 1 lb.

Current 205

Total 11 lbs.

Talk about getting a boner!

Congrats. It's all over now.

I used to keep my laundry in mine untill I forgot one day.

Hey.

Congrats Dave. Let's jump Sat.