DALAILAMA

820 this year 1220 last year 1300 + the year before Best month 230 Never enough! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Excellent! I know you will love it. I am serious when I say that my foil sometimes opens slower than a stiletto or a velocity. Give me a call if you need anything else or help with packing. Good luck and Happy New Year! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

The pond in Z-Hills is cool! Small, but cool! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Rob, Sorry I didn't get back with you sooner, I had the in-laws in town. I understand your question unfortunately, not every brake setting is the same for every foil. There is no correct answer as far as exact measurments. It is completely dependent on size of canopy as compared to jumper weight, ie, wing loading. The lighter the individual, the deeper the brake setting due to the amount of input it takes to stop the canopy. I can tell you that I jump a 282 and my exit weight is approx. 200 lbs I do not have my foil at home it is at work and as soon as I get the chance I will measure the exact setting. Have a happy New Year, Greg "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

The foils are strange beasts, sometimes they wil not want to open and sometimes you wish they hadn't opened. If every parachute opened like a parafoil I bet there would be a few less skydivers in the sport. Then again there may be more! it's kind of hard to hook yourself in with a foil! Good luck with your endevors and with your openings. If you have trouble with Lowel Bachman at Paragear then try Johnny Higgins at North American the maker of the foil, he should be able to hook you up! Blue Skies! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

A russian slider is a modified slider usually twice the size of normal sliders. Instead of normal gromets built into the slider, The russian sliders use d-ring type hardware for gromets. The russian slider also sometimes has a lip which when packing the parafoil is used to completely hide the nose and block the intake of air. I have a parafoil 282 and the measurments on my slider are approximately 24" x 24" with the lip sewed onto the slider it is 24" x 48"! The measurments are correct, the slider is 2 ft. x 4 ft. I can take my foil terminal anytime and I do all the time. When I jump into demos with the Golden Knight demonstration teams, I always jump my foil. I can put my foil into any demo and land wherever I want. The openings are beautiful they are slower than any stiletto or velocity. I sometimes doubt taking it out under 2,500ft. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Swanee, Ther are alot of good suggestions on why your foil stalls on this site unfortunately the foil isn't like other parachutes and the suggestions do not exactly tell you why. I think I can help you with your problem. I have a little over 3,000 jumps on parafoils and was the team leader of the Golden knights style and accuracy team. If you look up, at your fully open foil, you can see that it is wider at the tail than the nose. The foil wasn't meant to be jumped with a split slider, it performs best with a russian slider. The smaller (split) slider when pulled up pulls the tail to the center over twice as much as the nose not allowing for a symetrical opening. The foil is also designed to open in a bit of a slow flight mode(not a stall) due to the massive nose size. (from bottom skin to the protruding top skin) If it did not open tail down (aka...in a stall) the openings would make you wish that you were jumping a round. So realistically your canopy should be in a bit of a slow flight mode. If you still don't feel comfortable about the openings, then while your canopy is flying into the wind on light wind conditions start pulling your toggles down very very slowly until your canopy begins comming straight down. this is your transition point....stall is a bad word with any accuracy canopies! Look where your control lines pass through the guide ring for the brake settings. the distance you have the toggles pulled down should not exceed this length when setting the brakes. Good luck with your foil and I hope you enjoy it. P.S. When you get harrassed about jumping it at your DZ from the jumpers jumping the smaller swoop canopies, just tell them that anyone can go fast but it takes great patients,skill, and focus to land on a 3cm. dot over and over again. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

How about FREE LOVE or one for the ladies Cheerleading Scholarship "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Whoa there wait just a minute, someone had a little bit too much haterade this morning for breakfast. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

The dogs aren't half as bad as the voices..... Do you hear them??? THEY KEEP TELLING ME TO JUMP "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Spiraling is sometimes worse than simply holding what you've got. and doing nothing. Remember if you are on a large docile student canopy and you are backing up under a light wing loading, then most of the times if you begin to spiral, you simply increase your distance from the DZ due to your downwind portion of your spiral your ground speed is increased. Your crosswind portion is still pushing you downwind and if into the wind you are backing up, then spiraling is not much difference. If you think front risers will wear you out too much then there is the option of reaching up and grabbing both outside A lines and pulling them down. It is simular to the front risers without the pressure. If you have the chance try this you can see the considerable difference in your ground speed. Good Luck and Better spots to you! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Of course! I am heading to florida tomorrow! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

KAT, Hey there remember me! Your long lost BF! I think she's going to fall for it....toh! stupid outside voice! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

drinking? I may resort to blowing things up. Badgers, that is. __ Yeah BADGER POT PIE! yummy "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Irrational is kind of a harsh word, I know everyone loves jumping and all, but to really be that addicted? I mean come on! I haven't jumped for three days and I feel perfectly...... Shut the hell up dogs! I'm trying to type!!!! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Thats funny I don't remember a camera being in the room?????? "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

AHH! True words of a single man! If there ever is any ? just ask and ye shall receive enlightenmet from the DALAI LAMA! The truth is, more men skydive because women have more restraint and self control. Men have such a thing called testosterone, and if it weren't for the release of skydiving, we would be at home watching porn all day long exercising our god given right of masterb........ oh wait thats just me! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Hey Becca, How is the roof of the place? Is it smooth or rough? "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

The 6ft. sexy blonde if you please! So sexy she will make you want to slap your mommy. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

I have stared in the face of the pain and I have laughed! I have seen the pain in action and I have watched grown men cry. I have felt the pain where others have been hospitalized because of it(joe) I know the pain, and his name is SKYMONKEYONE! BRING IT! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Yeah! and they don't let you touch the strippers there either! did I say that with my outside voice??? "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Negative! No monkeys are allowed to go to Eloy! (without me!) "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

It is a bumb ass link to a news site silly! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

[ I kind of feel like a poser. If you were able to come hang out and you didn't I would question your friendship. "Just" comming to the DZ and hanging out says alot of good things about you, like.....Friend "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

You lucky lucky basyard! YO QUERDO MI BADGER!!!! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"