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lookin nice, guys!

very nice, very nice.

uhm, wait. the guy identifies himself by name in his post. am I missing something? doesn't seem like an anonymous cowardly bitch... whatever the account is... either way... to the OP... holy crap this thread is stupid. are we honestly going to skydiving competitions expecting to make some decent profit out of the prizes? it would be easier to just not train and spend that money on a new altitrack, you'd be left with extra cash that way :D p.s. you can sell your 50% off certificates on dizzy.com and get more $$ on them than the price of that altitrack. then you take that money and buy yourself the new alti. problem solved.

beautiful flying, guys & gals! really awesome to watch

define anal. there, I just had to....

Technically no official rules were broken. But I'd make pretty damn sure everyone knows about it and realizes the dangers involved. This is often one of those "you don't know what you don't know" situations. People around may think it was okay, because they know little about wingsuits or rodeos and don't realize all the dangers involved. Need to spread awareness among wingsuiters and non-wingsuiters alike, so that next time someone tries to pull this off, other instructors/s&ta's/people on the load or around the dz can immediately see how WRONG that is and take the dude aside and say "whoa there, buddy, are you sure you're doing this?" At the very least I would bring it up to the S&TA/DZO etc. This sounds like a good topic to add to our future wingsuit safety presentations at safety day, too. Might wanna show this newly minted AFFI that picture of Jeff N with the blood eyes from the rodeo gone wrong way back when... is there an electronic version of that anywhere? The one that used to be in the old birdhouse in zhills

bwaaahahahhaa. love your frequent rider card. so then some dude can be like "oh, hey, I rode andreea 10 times, how many times did you ride her?"

sounds to me like you've just challenged bodypilot1 to race ya! correction: that should be Clean Shaven vs. Carbon Fucking Fiber

My personal rule has been around 100 jumps. (veeeeery rare exceptions, I can think of only one... and even then, B license minimum). I have pissed people off by turning them down, and gotten the reply "But why? my girlfriend has less jumps than me, and she just rode Purple!" Obviously my response was "so then go ride Purple if he'll take ya!" :) My rule may be a bit stricter than what other guys use, but then again, I'm more equal opportunity here in terms of passengers, I don't just take the tiny 90 pound hot chick, I've successfully flown rodeos with a whole bunch of bigger guys, which can make things more complicated. A few considerations: - altitude awareness - my passenger needs to have jumped enough to have a good sense of when the skydive is about to be over. Alti's sometimes give innaccurate readings while on the back of a wingsuiter. Sure, I'll shake em off when it's time, but the more aware they are, the better. - experience getting back from a longer spot - passenger needs to be really heads up about deploying early if the rodeo fails early and we're still a bit far... - flying skills - and I don't mean that in my usual dirty-minded way, I just mean knowing wtf to do with the air around them. it's so much easier when your passenger is skilled enough to get up on their feet and surf on your back, isn't it? not a requirement, but better they can freefly, the better they'll do. - passenger needs to be competent enough to not grab onto my shit by accident and give me a premature - awareness during spin/tumble - passenger should be able to distinguish between a slight tumble (often happens on exit and perfectly recoverable) and a more aggressive spin (fuckin let go already!). Not gonna take chances explaining the difference to a total newbie in hopes that they get it I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting. Feel free to add to the list... Anyway, no way in hell would I ever take a pre-A student on a rodeo. Too many things that can go wrong! Why the rush, anyway? To them it'll be equally exciting to fly that first 3-way belly formation slot, everything's new at that point. We shouldn't teach them to rush into things beyond their level, it's a bad habit to have in this sport.

funny shit. "Immediately after jumping, the wingsuit flyer spreads arms and legs wide." yea, and hits the tail, too...

now I realize why I've been asking for that transparent wingsuit. it's to match my see-through underwear!

since we seem to be mentioning less innovative designs, perhaps it's also worth mentioning the one of a kind, yet innovative (or should I say sketchy?) stuff that people built for themselves... such as Lurch's HARDCASE!!! hey Lurch, did you assign names to any of your other contraptions? p.s. I'm still waiting on my transparent wingsuit :)

made clicky. good idea on Al Hodgson. though the difference between Al and this guy is Al is a world-class super bad ass freeflyer... which I'm sure comes in very handy when trying on a wingsuit. Seems to me that someone who regularly flies atmo this well will be much better prepared to handle a flat spin before it even happens. The more freeflying/atmo/tracking experience the guy can get before trying on a wingsuit, the better... the more aware he is of what the air is doing around every little inch of his body and how to counter any accidental inputs from the prosthetic leg, the easier it will be to learn... I, too, feel like it's doable, since we've all experienced the busted tailwing zipper and it's interesting how nicely current well-pressurized suits keep flying just fine when this happens. And even when the tail loses pressurization... Hey Lurch, remember Pepperell boogie, 2008? 6:33 in the video, Steve H flying in his slot, not moving a freakin inch, despite the busted legwing flapping around...

well, hey, how you doin?

I knew that was gonna come out wrong... thanks, butters...

are you tryin to say you're one of those too fast kinda guys?

I like to smoke the shit out of the big cars on my bicycle! cause I'm THAT bad ass, bitches! by the way, big car means small penis. just sayin. oh, and to the OP... SHIT EATING GRIN, yeah!

as always, I suggest we settle this dispute with a pillow fight and a cock measuring contest.

no, no, thank YOU

Once upon a time, when I was a relative noob and a poor college student with an A license and no gear of my own yet, someone wonderful on here let me jump her gear for an entire summer just because she was injured and couldn't. I think it's time to pay it forward... As some of you may know, I recently had knee surgery and I'm not jumping for the season. There's no reason for my gear to just sit in my closet and not get used till the fall. If you're a new(ish) jumper and don't have money for your own rig yet, and are lightweight and okay to jump a 150, let me know and I might be able to hook you up for the duration of the summer. Container is a Quasar II, main is a Spectre 150, Cypres was recently serviced, reserve repack was done a month ago. All I expect is that you take care of my shit properly and take responsibility if anything happens to it while it's in your possession. If you chop & lose my main, replace it... You know, general common sense stuff.

THAT sounds like a challenge flock n dock 8.0 - ball measuring competition!!

he's too small? balls not big enough

yikes, we must be talking about the infamous j-curve yea, kids - don't try this at home!! it's a nice "hold my beer and watch this" kinda thing. +1 think of it like doing a 360 with your canopy in front of someone else's canopy flying your way or in close proximity... most of the time shit's gonna be fine... except for when it isn't otherwise, spins are plenty fun to try if you have lots of clear airspace around you. but you need to be SURE that you have that airspace. cause there's only so much in your field of view once you start turning... and depending on your level of control, your turn may be more "in place" or more "all over the sky".

+1

Thank you all, for making this past weekend BEYOND AWESOME! It was so great seeing so many of you there! Definitely looking forward to the next event... hopefully without a broken knee by then :)