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Gary, I can tell you my experience if it helps you out. I weigh 190 lbs too and I've been jumping a Navigator 260 from my AFF to my 19th jump. Then I downsized to 240 and made ten jumps on it. At 29th jump I begin to jump a Nav. 220. Now I got 37 jumps and I expect I will downsize to a Nav 200 in a few jumps more. It's difficult to give advice about downsize on Internet. Better get it from your DZ instructors if they see your landings. It's not only a weigh matter. IMHO flare skill and personal speed level confort it's more important. I downsize only one size (20 sq.ft. less) when I land stand-up (or at least non-stand-up but slow and secure) 5 times in a row aprox. and I get a no-wind stand up landing. I think this method it's good for me and always downsize after instructors agree with it. My advice: don´t downsize from 260 to 210 or 190. Don´t skip any step! And get advice from the instructors or experienced people that know your landing skills. I've just bought my first rig. It's a Silhouette 190, a forgiveness canopy, and I expect to jump it the next 100 or 200 jumps. Good jumps and better landings, mate PD: Sorry for my english. I hope there's no misunderstandings.

Awesome!!! Good job!!!! A possible improvement it would be a landing report based on vertical speed at landing or collisions with estimated injuries Thanks for share your job. Go on it, mate!!!

Breath deep and slowly during the plane ride. Visualize your dive and you doing all that is expected you do correctly. Breath deep at the door and smile during the dive. I just finished my AFF and the only thing I've learnt is that relax and smile is the more important novice skill. Don´t scare about be unstable. Don´t fight against the air. You're not going to win it. If you arch and relax you'll be able to get into belly-to-the-earth position. Think in relax all the time and be aware of the position of your legs touching your feet if its necessary. Force your arch as far as you can and go on smiling and having fun. You'll be OK. PD: Sorry for my english...

Is there a Spanish national parachuting association? (I have searched the Web but I can't find one immediately.) If they don't have much information in Spanish, then write some. :) If you would like to read it, there are probably many other beginning jumpers that would also find it useful. Some of the skydiving associations publish manuals online in English, like the USPA's Skydiver's Information Manual - "SIM". Get a copy of that, and translate it. Don't just run it through Google; that gives you humorous results, but usually not a correct translation. VERY IMPORTANT: Get help from some experienced skydivers and some people that speak English well. I have done a few small projects like this (one about skydiving) and I have found that if you ask someone "translate this for me" it's difficult to get help, but if you do most of the work yourself and ask them "please help me correct the errors" then more people will help you. Or, you could come to the United States and jump in Houston, Dallas, etc. :) (Yes, I know that Spanish Spanish is not exactly the same as Mexican Spanish.) You probably have already found the Spanish forum. Welcome! Buho IMHO our spanish federation of air sports doesn´t give sufficient (or any) support to skydiving. Good suggestion! If I could make the effort I will translate a manual for the spanish community. I'm surprised about the difficulty to found info about canopy control: risers, brakes, etc. for landing where you want, and people don´t talk very much about that topic in the forums. It's curious that it's more frequent to found threads about malfunctions than about canopy control. It seems that is a secret knowledge, isn´t it? Maybe I'm wrong, what do you all think about that?

Hi, Julie!!!! Te entiendo perfectamente . Los acentos no son necesarios. Don´t use the word "usted". It sounds very formal and we only use it for old people, with customers, formal situations, ..., and I'm only 29

Thx both! I need to improve my english for better understanding skydiving. It's a shame that there is few skydiving information in spanish. Now, I'm going to read the Canopy Handling Manual of the BPA. Hard reading for me... My wife understand me and, at present, she accompanies me all the times I go to jump. Well... she doesn't enjoy the 30 mins I'm in the plane and jumping but she animate me as well. She enjoys her tandem but, as she said, she has enough...

Hi all!!!! First of all, I'm sorry for my english. I'm Spanish and I've not spent very much time learning English. Recently, on July 23th, I made my first tandem jump with my wife. It was a just-married gift of my friends. I was all the winter asking and asking them for to do all together a tandem, for to probe(test) the skydiving experience. I thought it was to be another thing to check in my "things to do until die" list but NOOOOO!!!!. It was the very best thing I've done through my life. I spent 2 weeks searching in the web how safe is this sport and, finally, I decided to do my AFF course in SkyDive Lillo (I strongly recommend you this DZ if you are going to go on holydays to Spain), thinking that I was crazy for doing it. I have 4 no-tandems jumps and the next will be my aff 5th level. It's being an awesome experience. In my 3rd level I saw my left instructor laughing while I was flying alone and we went through a cloud : an incredible situation, sure i never had could imagine that I was going to live it. The last saturday i was able to fly alone and stable all the time and turn at anywhere. It was amazing!!!!. This is one of the best things i've lived. I love it. I guess I'm going to be a SkyDive addicted all my live... It's a pleasure to share our fantastic drug...