SimonBones

Indeed thanks for the hospitality! Everyone at the Farm is very friendly and I enjoyed my weekend there. Great to meet you guys

One of the freefly compulsories in competition is a 2 way star! it is funny seeing great freeliers having trouble with that one? Have any great freeflyers had trouble with that one? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Thanks Lara you rock!!! See you at FABIO! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

It makes me seriously consider that becoming a more seasoned skydiver has nothing to do with the amount of jumps you have, but how many nudie pictures of you end up on the internet from after hours at the dropzone. Jeez they're everywhere! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Now that USPA has launched their new website, the old link to the TSA SOP on rig travel is dead. Did anyone happen to save it? It saved my ass once on a flight to Florida a few years back. I'm flying with two rigs later this evening and would like to have a copy of those pages with me again. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

This photo album was posted online of Summerfest. It got forwarded to me because I'm in it: http://picasaweb.google.com/cynapse/Summerfest2008?authkey=Kh0IDTL0NvI Enjoy! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

This isn't one of my freeflying pics, but it's soooo damn funny I had to share it with everyone. I make THE BEST faces on tandem jumps! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Yay for the Farm! Never been there before, but I'll be there this weekend

Summerfest was awesome! To all my new pals thanks for all the awesome partying and good jumps

I've got a second rig with an AAD in it. You don't mind WSing with a Velo 84 do you? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Weak in willpower. Sounds pretty simple. Nope, not too complicated. I come from a background of all sorts of family addiction bullshit and problems. I guess I've got a bunch of those "predispositions". Simple answer for me, don't smoke, don't keep drinking until I can't remember, don't stick that needle there, and stop strangling that dude. No problem. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I can't wait for airlines to start weighing passengers and make proportional ticket prices. It's been talked about and I think it's an awesome solution to the airline related part of this discussion. I don't think I should have to pay the same amount for a ticket that someone weighing four times me does. I'm responsible, athletic, and a healthy weight. Their obesity is causing increased operation costs for the airline. Their obesity causes a significant increase in expensive fuel use. Their obesity causes me to have to pay more. But I have to pay for it. Thank god US health care isn't socialized, I can only imagine how frustrating that is for all of you in the UK, especially after that story about the lady in the taxi. It is nonsense to try and say that some of these obese people just can't do anything about. All that medical condition stuff is nonsense. It's simple, if you eat less, you will eventually weigh less. If this wasn't true, than countries facing starvation and food shortages would still have magical fat people who stay fat even though they haven't eaten in weeks. Nope, they're all skinny, because they're not eating. Strange how that works! I'm not saying we should starve people in our country, but there is really no excuse for being obese and it is a drain on society and all the responsible citizens who don't take mayo on an IV drip. Yes. Repulsive. Not going to apologize for it or let someone try and make me feel guilty about it. It's wrong and disgusting. If you think I'm shallow, then go hug some morbidly obese people and tell them that it's my fault. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Sweet! I love Sonic! Who's all going to be doing the head down sequentials? 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

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I wonder how it died. Eaten alive by its protesters? It was a good idea anyway. We'll get those fat bastards somehow. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-fat-people-allowed-only-slim-will-be.html House Bill 282 was introduced in the 2008 Mississippi legislative session on Friday by Representative W.T. Mayhall, Jr., a retired pharmaceutical salesman with DuPont-Merk. Its co-authors are Bobby Shows, a businessman, and John Read, a pharmacist. The full text reads: HOUSE BILL NO. 282 An act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the state department of health; to direct the department to prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese and to provide those materials to the food establishments; to direct the department to monitor the food establishments for compliance with the provisions of this act; and for related purposes. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi: SECTION 1. (1) The provisions of this section shall apply to any food establishment that is required to obtain a permit from the State Department of Health under Section 41-3-15(4)(f), that operates primarily in an enclosed facility and that has five (5) or more seats for customers. (2) Any food establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the State Department of Health after consultation with the Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention and Management established under Section 41-101-1 or its successor. The State Department of Health shall prepare written materials that describe and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese, and shall provide those materials to all food establishments to which this section applies. A food establishment shall be entitled to rely on the criteria for obesity in those written materials when determining whether or not it is allowed to serve food to any person. (3) The State Department of Health shall monitor the food establishments to which this section applies for compliance with the provisions of this section, and may revoke the permit of any food establishment that repeatedly violates the provisions of this section. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2008. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Check out this article I found: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1973230/Fat-people-blamed-for-global-warming.html Awesome!!! Fat people really are killing the planet! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I'm wondering if a 20 year life to the Vigil will really be all that necessary. The sport has made a lot of gear advancements since 1988 and to be honest, I don't really want to be up in the air freeflying with gear that old given the standard and advancement of new equipment available today. Definitely don't want an FXC, thought at its time, I'm sure it was a neat thing to have. So buying a Vigil now or within the next couple of years and hanging on to it for 20 years... How long before you look at the Vigil as stone aged technology compared to what's new? The day will come where my super cool gear is just plain "old school" and people will say, "I would never jump a death trap like that". 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

An interesting thing about Boituva is that they have 20 dropzones at the same airport. Most of these are right next to each other, attached by the same building structure!! A crazy rash of instructors opening their own businesses led to it. When you go there it looks crazy! You don't even know where the hell to manifest! This was seriously one of the weirdest DZs I've ever been to. There is some great freeflying there though. Good people! But he's right, it's the only turbine airport. Everywhere else is just Cessna. If you're looking to work, it may get seriously in the way that there are so many competing businesses. I hear it can get a little cut throat over tandem students. I had a blast just fun jumping there. I'd probably be frustrated and miserable working there. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I leave home for Summerfest in just a week! Ready to do some sick freeflying

Without seeing you fly, my guess is that you're leaving the plane not in the orientation to the relative wind you're intending to. I see lots of people practice their sitflying by leaving the aircraft facing the tail. What this is actually doing is leaving in a backfly. The relative wind is coming pretty much directly from the prop at the moment of exit. If you want to exit the aircraft in a sitfly, then you should be leaving feet to the relative wind, which would appear to be more belly or back to earth. If you leave the aircraft feet to Earth, you are not sitflying. When done properly, the exit, "slide", and terminal should not feel very different because you're always flying feet into the relative wind. Some people have balance problems doing it because of the visual of being 45 degrees a few seconds from the aircraft. It can be disorienting. Try doing this with your eyes closed for the first couple of seconds and just feeling the relative wind. This way, the visual of being "sideways" may not throw you off balance. The same can be true for exiting head down. If you are pitched head up any on the exit, you're actually leaving the aircraft in a track according to the relative wind. And with only 300+ jumps, it may be a while before fully figuring out the whole head down thing comes. Don't stress and don't try and take it too fast. It'll take upwards of 1000 before you're turning a bunch of solid points. Fix the sit first. That's right, before you really start playing with head down exits, ask yourself: "Can I do these things on sitfly exits?" Too many up and coming freelfyers want to launch multi way head down exits when they can't fly head down in the first place with the misguided illusion that it will teach them to fly head down. Try this next time you're doing a 2 way. Try and launch a sitfly round. Grab hands and launch a round in your sit. Many freefliers never try this because they so anxiously want to move on to head down and leave huge gaps in their freefly progression. Can you launch a 4 way sitfly flower? It's not impossible... and, if everyone learns to sitfly out of the plane with their feet into the relative wind, it shouldn't even be hard. In one of the Jive Jams in North Carolina a few months ago, we were launching 4-5 way sitfly rounds from a CASA. Trust me, give it a shot! Get your sitfly solid first before moving too quickly to head down. This includes sitflying on the hill and launching sitfly formations. 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

Will definitely do a little bit of flocking. My wingsuit gets dusty! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

It'd be good to see you again sooner then New Years! 108 way head down world record!!! http://www.simonbones.com Hit me up on Facebook

I totally agree Selwyn. I'd much rather be doing artistic team stuff then VFS. The whole blocks and points thing is what turned me away from belly flying in the first place. I would however like to see competition alive and strong in the artistic field because it keeps fresh and awesome ideas and routines coming. Maybe we need to change the way that artistic freefly is judged and find a more objective way to do it. Maybe more qualified artistic freefliers need to pursue a national judge rating to do that (I vote for you). Email me when you get some camps together this fall, looking forward to it. Looks like I need to find some time to put Sebastian in my schedule. But it's soo far away! I only end up going to Florida for the Zhills New Years stuff. If you promise to keep it going through December I'll try and swing by

I'm headed out there Friday afternoon and bringing at least one friend