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What do you think this is? Twenty Questions? Thanks! That's all I needed to know. You've proven my point beautifully 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Thank you Mr. Kallend. So why do you feel Tim Berners-Lee is more deserving of a Nobel Peace prize than President Obama? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

None of the above I don't know everyone in the world. What a stupid question. Mr. Kallend, Obama was on that list. You responded 'none of the above.' You would not have picked him? Why not? Question to your second response, there is not one living person in the world you have met, read of, heard of, etc that you feel deserved the Novel Peace Prize? If so, why not? If the choice was up to you, you could not think of one person you think deserves it the most of the people you are aware of? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Mr. Kallend, my question to you still stands: Who would be your pick from that list of individuals and why? If you could choose from any person (or organization) in the world, regardless of whether or not they were nominated, who do you feel deserved a prize like this the most and why? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

This website included a list of known nominees: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/who-were-the-nobel-nominees/article1312931/ Who would be your pick from this list of individuals and why? If you could choose from any person (or organization) in the world, regardless of whether or not they were nominated, who do you feel deserved a prize like this the most and why? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Mr. Kallend, let's assume for a moment we were in a parallel universe and instead of a committee, in this particular case, you alone were the decider of who receives the award. Would you have chosen Obama as the recipient over the list of other nominees for the award? Why or why not? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

No, I'm sure you have too many accomplishments. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I think it's an even worse day for many of those who've already received the award. This has completely devalued it. There are a lot of people out there that received the award through significant accomplishment over a life's work with lots of personal sacrifice. People who've taken a lot of pride in receiving what was thought to be a prestigious awards now have to open their newspapers to find out that they're just giving these things away 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I think at the next Olympics we should hand out all the gold medals to those who just really wanted to win the most, that way none of them will actually have to compete for it. Who needs accomplishments when you have hope? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

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My personal opinion watching your video, your use of hips seems fine as it seems you have figured out control of the forward and back. Good progression so far, you're heading in the right direction. You seem to be having a heading control issue though that you are constantly fighting. It appears to me to be due to some 'lazy legs'. Your calves should be some of the most valuable control surfaces while flying on your head. Unfortunately, your calves are in the burble of your body for much of the video. A good way to gain more control surface and minimize the heading control battle is to try rotating your heels more outward. Notice that your heels are pointing towards each other for most of the video. This leads to a very bent knee, heels under you position in flying. When you rotate your heels out a little more and take them out of the burble of your body, you give more controlability and stability to your legs. Then you will have a lot more positive input in your flying. It can be a bit difficult at first to really think about getting those calves out there into the relative wind, kind of like an AFF student has to learn the muscle memory of applying legs out. But once you really mentally force yourself to spread'em more, you'll find the head down orientation easier to control. Sometimes people can do this just fine when they're doing solos and have nothing to think about but their body position, but seem to drop their positive muscle inputs the moment someone else starts flying around them. It could just be a matter of getting excited about a dock and forgetting about leg input, I don't know, haven't seen you do solos! Good luck! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I will be there doing some Load Organizing. Freefly, belly, tracking, whatever. As long as you learn some new tricks! So be there! I love freeflying I'll also bring out all my spaceballs so if you want a chance to get your photo chasing the ball, or just want to test your skills, be there! Ever turned 4 way with a vertical flyer? It's not a Hybrid, it's an Inbred! Want in? Be there! Can't find anyone to help you with what you need to know to take your flying to the next level? I'll be around every evening available for seminars on Intro to freeflying- basic to advanced, small ways to bigways, advanced tracking techniques for track dives, and more! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

.....Wait, you mean to tell me that the solution was as simple as contacting the DZO? Man, I sure wish someone had suggested that at some point in this thread. I'm sure it will all work out for you Mr. Dsaint. Good luck with your new reputation. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

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I used to be an instructor at Skydive Suffolk until I moved away. There was a period about a year and a half ago where we had what we called the "care bear" thing going on. Basically I was teaching an AFF ground course and there was one student who was soo thick, so out there, he just didn't get it. Nothing I tried could make the course material make sense to the guy. He was the first and only student I've ever had that I had to say, "hey man, maybe you should just do a tandem." And he did. He kept coming back wanting to do AFF jumps, but could never get his EPs right, he could ever remember what handle did what, etc no matter how many hours we spent going over stuff. I was too afraid to take him in the air. Even on the tandems he was stiff as a board, had no altitude awareness, and never deployed. He was just hopeless. He kept getting passed from instructor to instructor and nobody wanted to deal with him anymore, everybody was scared of him. This went on for a few months. Maybe you make the instructors feel in a way that they don't want to take you up? I don't know, I don't know who you are or what the deal is, but there are always two sides to every story. There are always more than just 3 instructors at Skydive Suffolk. But think about this, it is a weekend dropzone. That means that most of the jumpers there work during the weak. They'll come to the DZ on the weekend to fun jump with their friends. They don't want to work, teach, or any of that. They are not full time staff for Larry and are under no obligations to work for him. Just because they are licensed instructors does not mean they have to work on the weekends for Larry. When I was there, there were some days that I didn't want to work. I just wanted to fun jump with my friends. And when I came in in the morning, manifest would ask me if I wanted to work that day. If I said no, they would respect that and I would go have fun and jump with my friends. I don't care if some tandem is upset because they feel they've waited too long or some AFF student is upset over the same, it's not my business, and I owe them nothing. I have the right to not show up and work if I don't want to. I chose the students I worked closely with base on their attitudes. If a student was always out having fun, chatting it up meeting new people, buying beer to fill the beer fridge, I always went out of my way to help that student out in anyway I could. If the student was a guy with a piss poor attitude who bitched and complained a lot, then I'll just go fun jump with my friends. Putting up with some jerk with some inflated sense of entitlement is not worth my time on my weekend. I hope it works out for you, but I know first hand that the problem is not with the people who jump there. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

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I ordered some silicon tubing once in order to try and make my own. The product I got was too firm and inelastic for practical use, even though I bought the "softest" tubing I could find. Since brand name tube stoes are made from rubber, don't you think it makes more sense to by rubber tubing? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Never disagreed, in fact this is what I said in post #43 of this thread: And here in Post #45: You are just not reading the arguments. Instead you keep bashing tube stoes with no further argument than the one which has been disproven (A rubber band WILL break) by every baglock involving a rubber band. Finally! Something I can agree with! Pretty much every baglock I've seen involved either lines getting pulled into the grommets, or flat rubber bands laying flat against the lines and locking the stoe. When lines get sucked into the grommet, it's usually because part of the canopy started coming out of the bag prematurely and wedged part of the lines into the grommet. Neither of these things are caused specifically by having tube stoes. And as I've repeated again and again, that likelihood of an event (baglock) does not increase because of using tube stoes, it lowers it, assuming people use their gear correctly. I'd explain the reasoning, but I'd just be repeating something I've explained more than once in this thread. I'm sure you didn't read it. And I'm sure there is no more point in trying to explain it to you, as you won't listen. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I disagree. As I've cited numerous times, when a bag locks with rubber bands, the rubber bands do not break even though they have a lower break force. According to your reason for using rubber bands (lower break force), one might conclude to your math that rubber bands should break. But as the skydiving world knows, they don't. I disagree. It was caused by improper packing and improper use of a system component. Double stowing tube stoes eliminates their ability to roll and defeats the purpose of using them (see attached). The instructions that come with tube stoes have clear instructions on how to attach them to the bag so that they will be tighter. Saying that the baglock was the fault of tube stoes is like saying that it's a sliders fault if the packer doesn't uncollapse it. It's like saying that it's a pilot chutes failure for a container lock if the packer doesn't cock the pilot chute. Should we advise everyone to not using collapsible sliders collapsible pilot chutes because improper usage can create problems? The truth is that if you improperly use tube stoes it can lead to problems. This is true for every part of your gear. You can run into problems with improper use of rubber bands too! Would that make it the rubber bands fault? I'm not going to condemn tube stoes because some packer out there packed with them improperly. Just like all gear components, if you use it right, it will should work just fine. You're not going to get a baglock from tube stoes if you use them right just because you're using tube stoes. They themselves do not cause baglocks. I don't use packers. I always pack my own gear. I choose to use tube stoes because I respect my gear and am willing to pay a few extra bucks for their benefits. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Lots of reading here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1835946;search_string=sitfly%20exit;#1835946 And http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3269506;search_string=sitfly%20exit;#3269506 Just a quick forum search for 'sitfly exit'. Good luck

Again, nothing in that chain had anything to do with tube stoes. Nothing in that chain provides any evidence that the myth of tube stoes causing baglocks even when used properly has any truth to it. The entire incident you posted is completely irrelevant to the original point of this thread. Tube stoes were in no way involved or relevant. To refresh your memory: Go back and read through every post. You will not find one with evidence to say that simply having tube stoes will cause a baglock, where a rubber band could not have, even if used correctly. Most people use rubber bands. Most baglocks occur with rubber bands. Some people use tube stoes, some people have had a baglock using tube stoes. Using tube stoes will not increase your chances of having a baglock. In my opinion, using them properly will even decrease those chances. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I disagree, DSE posted info on a bag lock directly attributable to improper packing by someone who didn't know any better. If this packer had not uncollapsed the slider, not stowed the brakes, and not cocked the pilot chute, would the subsequent deployment problems be the fault of the slider, brake lines, and pilot chute? Or would that have been the fault of the packer? Fallacy? While a flat rubber band lay flat against the lines increasing the amount of friction in order to pull them, a tube stoe would have rolled. Surely when a dbag with rubber bands is having a bag lock (as I have seen multiple times) your argument about their ability to break goes out the window. Baglocks are not caused because a stoe that does not break, a baglock is cause because the stoe will not release the lines. Therefor the more logical (and safer) trait in a stoe is an increased ability to release the lines (like rolling off of them) and not breaking. A tube stoe has an increased ability to release the lines. Your argument about the lower break force of a rubber band does not make sense because as seen over and over again, rubber bands do not break during a baglock. While a rubber band may have a slightly lower break force, it has a lesser ability to release lines. It's as if you're saying that every time you find a broken locking stoe rubber band you deduce that you would have had a baglock, but thankfully the rubber band broke. Could I not come to the same conclusion every time I find a broken locking tube stoe? After all, they only need 25 pounds of force to break and there is 90 pounds of pull force on it if it does not want to release the lines. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Which ones? I've never known one. I've heard people say on internet forums that they've heard of baglocks because of tube stoes. When asked HOW their baglock was because of tube stoes, the general answer is "because a rubber band would have broke" which is bullshit. In every baglock I've seen, the rubber band did not break. Tube stoes break a 25 pounds of force. Pilot chute averages 90 pounds of force. Easy math. There are NO baglocks directly attributed to tube stoes. It's far too easy to look at someone who had a baglock who coincidentally used tube stoes (again, I have never seen someone baglock with tube stoes), and claim that the tube stoes caused their baglock. Reality check: Rubber bands do the same thing! They will not break and lock a bag any day! It all depends on if the line/stoe gets sucked into the grommet. It can happen no matter what kind of stoe you use! And if it happens, rubber bands WON'T break! Funny, so do tube stoes! They don't have to be, because they're actually safer. Tube stoes roll off your lines, wearing them less, and reducing your chances of a baglock. Rubber bands flop over your lines, wear them faster, and increase the "race track effect" causing uneven line deployments. He knows how to make a Racer. A system that receives a lot of criticism for it's inherent safety (different debate, not siding). Many riggers charge extra fees in order to pack a Racer. They'd rather stay away from them! Why are Racers some of the only rigs out there who use rubber bands on their reserves? Like the people who've designed Javelins, Wings, Infinity, Mirage, Vectors/Microns, Vortex, VooDoo, etc. Why do none of them use rubber bands on their reserve deployment systems? I guess what they do "runs against the best expert advice out there". Right. I'm not going to take part in an argument on whether or not racer systems are safe, but of the rigs listed above, racer will certainly be last in line when I buy my next rig. If MOST rig manufacturers find it safer to use something rounded and ::gasp:: less 'breakable' than rubber bands, what does that tell you about choosing a geometry for your stoe? What does that tell you about the industry standard? Tube stoes are safer to use than rubber bands. The geometry of the stoe is more important for safety than the slightly lower break force. Rounded is safer than flat. I have no problem with other people choosing to use rubber bands over tube stoes. Some people would rather save a few dollars than go with the extra safety. I'd rather spend a few extra bucks and treat my equipment better. If you want to use rubber bands that's dandy. But trying to claim that they're better because the guy who builds Racers likes them is a silly argument. You can recommend rubber bands for their lower expense all day long I really don't give a shit. I'd even agree with you, yep they're cheap, they don't break or roll. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook