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Ron, I believe you are looking at a pickup team’s performance at Nationals. They may have done a couple of practice jumps the day before, but no prior training.

John Eagle is replacing Kirkby for Dubai. No seizures for Kit

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That was brilliant!!!

I vave been last diver on a couple of 12 or 13 ways out of the PAC...does get incredibly bouncy once the outside guys let go and when it is your turn to scoot out. The secret of course is to hold onto whatever you can and expect that you will be running up a 45 degree slippery floor...not going to be easy, but cool challange.....I have sailed out that door like a snake a couple of times....hehe and then there is that little hypoxia that feels as though everything is in slow motion!

Don't have 1000's of jumps but a few last diver experience from King Air (small door) on 8 ways up, skinny ass (focussed required with heavy uncles) and some awesome coaches/instructors at my dz: Couple of things I do: 1. Body surface: Bigger body surface = slower fall rate. Smaller body surface = faster fall rate. The way I achieve small surface: - close legs - point toes - arch hard - put hands on back behind rig You will still be able to control forward/backward movement by using (closed) legs and left right by using shoulders. 2. Getting to formation: This is most crucial part. Someone mentioned in earlier reply. First look where you are going. Don't fly at them directly, but rather make your stopping point couple of meters away and then move towards formation slowly in controlled manner. The last thing you wanna do is bomb your mates. This can be deadly. 3. Stopping: I put the brakes on early to be able to stop by the time I reach formation - make body surface big to brake, so wide legs, wide student arms, open hands, de-arch. Then there are things like approaching the formation, flying in your quadrant/air space, awareness of other flyers, etc. The best advice would be to talk to your local instructor.

Hi All Had my first malfunction this weekend. It was a line twist. Tried to kick it out but it turned into a spinning malfunction getting progressively worse by the second. Made decision to cut away. First I tried to pull cut-away puff with one hand, this didn't work, so used two hands. Being cognisant of altitude loss with spiraling I immediatly pulled reserve handle (no RSL installed), not waiting for correct body position etc. In my training I was taught, "arch, look, handles, right, left, arch" - so one hand on cut-away puff one hand on reserve handle. Have heard that some folks say use two hands to cut-away. Suppose each situation should be treated differently. Any opinions? PS: Reason for line twist in the first place probably was a bad body position on deployment or a shitty pack job (both me).