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    Hello,
    I want buy a wingsuit and has read here from the Shadow.
    But I can´t find them on the page from phönix fly.
    It is no longer manufactured?


    yes, it is, and you can order it with the same order form as for the Phantom2, and just request the Shadow option.

    PM mccordia and he'll help you out... if he doesn't beat me to it by posting here before I finish typing :)

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    How long is the flight time from the shadow? If it is so much smaller than in the phantom.



    it is not THAT much smaller than the phantom... it is basically a phantom with a wing mod so the wing is cut straight, with no grippers for you to hang on to. plenty of range for that suit, just like the Phantom2.

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    I try every new maneuver on the Phantom first because it is very forgiving if you do newbie mistakes in aerobatics.



    +1
    love love loooooooove my new Phantom2

    I am constantly amazed with how stable it flies and how easy it is to do all kinds of aerobatics in it. It's like it was made to fly on its back :)And it's also just a very fun all around suit that has lots of range for both beginner and experienced pilots... I'd put about 500 flights on my Raptor before I got the Phantom, and it certainly isn't boring!

    I've also recently found that if flies extremely smooth and stable in rodeos, where my passengers often try to do all kinds of things they aren't supposed to do...

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    Phoenix fly makes the shadow?



    yes, they do.
    The Shadow is basically a Phantom legwing with Acro armwings (no grippers)
    Jarno can chime in more since he's been putting lots of jumps on one (see picture)

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    You have an HD GoPro...Elias has the normal resolution/old one..
    Anything beyond 10 meters of distance is reduced to a blurry pixel hehe



    oh, no worries, the wide angle is felt quite a lot on the hd one as well... I've thrown away lots of crap footage like that with "note to self: get the fuck closer next time"

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    I known, and you're right. At the time when we arrived at skydive Spain, I had 6 wingsuit jumps. It had also been about 3-4 months since I had made a wingsuit jump, so I wanted to take things easy and not rush anything.



    and that's very good.
    glad you're approaching the discipline in a very safe manner.
    wasn't really criticizing your flying, just figured buying a different camera wasn't necessarily the quick fix :)

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    On Tonysuits with the wider sleeve, it may be possible to pull your arms out of the sleeve without unzipping. But this last one is speculation,



    I wouldn't recommend it if it has the mesh net liner like on my Super Mach. That stuff becomes fairly tacky when wet.



    the newer ones don't have that mesh, it's all slippery zp fabric, but any fabric will be more tacky when there's a layer of water between it and your skin. I wouldn't take my chances...

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    I agree. You don't see much (if anything) with the GoPro when flying at a distance, but just yesterday I bought a second hand camera



    how about just flying closer?

    nice vid. I like your choice of music... Philter goes sooo well with wingsuit flights...

  15. thanks for the very elaborate answer. good info and food for thought! thanks for sharing.


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    (1) Attempt to land as close to the shore as possible. Attempt to orient yourself to where the nearest land is and take note of fellow jumpers and where they are landing in relation to you.



    I recall someone in Hawaii saying that in the event of a water landing we should either land really really close, or further away, but not on the coral... I guess the presence of a spiky coal reef that can snag your stuff and where waves can smash you into some sketchyness you can get stuck in or get injured in could sometimes make it safer to land further out than to try to get closer to the shore at all costs?

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    If time and altitude permits, you can also begin to work on loosening your leg straps



    wouldn't loosening your leg straps hinder your ability to properly control your canopy and flare for landing? (I dunno... I've never tried it...)

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    conduct a penetration check



    hah. kinky. :P;):ph34r:
    (sorry, couldn't help it)

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    in light of the recent discussion, I chose to go out and do some actual "jumps", since the majority of the discussions out there seem to be based on theory vs practical experience.



    THANK YOU for taking this so seriously and doing all the research and sharing with the rest of us.
    That was very cool to watch. Definitely some valuable food for thought in there and interesting conclusions.


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    Robi, Chuck Blue both had some good input that didn't make it into this short video clip.



    what's the good input that didn't make it?

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    I cover this issue and flotation devices in depth(no pun intended) in the 2nd edition of my book, Skyflying Wingsuits in Motion ( release date TBD currently).



    Thanks... you talk of flotation devices and which ones to use and how to wear them (both in your book and in most threads I've managed to dig up), but that still doesn't address the issue of what to do if one isn't wearing a flotation device and finds herself in the water, without having had sufficient time to unzip everything and all that. It may be unlikely and a big "don't do", but it's still worth discussing, even if just hypothetically.

    If that's also discussed at length in the 2nd edition of your book, would you be so kind as to share the information with us, or should we stop wingsuiting until the new book comes out? :P

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    ....Yes, I'm hooked, but will take my time. Sometime after making far more wingsuit jumps than I think necessary, I will meet you up there in an X-bird.



    Hey dont worry! After only 75 wingsuit jumps you are considered an EXPERT pilot and you can easily fly the XBird....just ask the manufacturer! B|B|B|


    but hey, that's not even a BSR, it's just a recommendation... so if 200 jump BSR still gets questions of 100 jumps and feeling ready, guess what number that 75 will soon morph into :P:P

  19. It might be a good idea next time our various home dz's do water training to try a wingsuit+rig into the pool...

    I recall handwashing my wingsuit... it filled with water and was extremely heavy to just pull out of the water to hang to dry... wonder how it feels to swim in that...

    and yes.. paging purple mike... or others who flew wingsuits over the belize blue hole and landed in the ocean... granted everyone had likely unzipped everything before landing, so it might not be as relevant for the "all zipped up" case.

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    Alternatively, I could make 40 tracking dives in a row, practicing body position, leg waveoffs and two-armed pulls and be much more ready at 100 jumps (half the requirement!)



    yea, right... sooo much more ready at 100 jumps... ready enough that you'd get overly excited and forget your legstraps. that's how ready people are at 100 jumps!

    sarcasm aside... "more ready" doesn't mean "fully ready"... there is a reason there is now a BSR for a 200 jump minimum. Tracking helps, but it doesn't provide you with a fast route towards higher overall experience

    as for 140 hop n pops, I would surely hope that any wingsuit instructor faced with this situation would turn you down and kindly suggest another 140 *freefall* jumps before considering you again for wingsuit instruction.

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    Thanks for the feedback people. This is going to be a suit that will sit in the back of the locker for sometime yet. I'm very much a beginer and do not intend jumping it for some time yet. I aspire to flocking jumps and I'm hoping this will be good enough come the time i'm ready.



    if those are your intentions, why not spend your money on more jumps first? fly fly fly, get some coaching, fly some more, go to boogies... good deals will always appear... don't rush to buy something just to keep it in a closet...
    by the time you're ready to fly the suit, your opinions may have changed about what you want. no need to rush.

    just my opinion...

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    I understand there are 2 versions of the Raptor. Is this the older version? http://picasaweb.google.com/bkillillay/WSTSRaptor?authkey=Gv1sRgCI3i9vnt6b-tGA&feat=directlink
    As someone looking for there first intermediate suit I'd be keen to get some contructive feedback from people that know this version of the suit. Thanks B|



    looks to be about the same iteration as mine... i.e. one of the later versions of the Raptor (reachy sleeves, but still before the -Bird mod came along)

    I've put around 500 jumps on one... if it fits you well and is a good deal, it's definitely a very nice intermediate suit. With enough practice and experience you can do pretty much everything you want to do in it, from flocking to aerobatics and beyond.

    I'd be happy to answer any specific questions you may have...