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There is 675 ft of clearance from the south end of the runout to the tree line and double that on the north end. It is 100ft from the runway and 150ft from the tree line on the side. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Here are some pics of the liner as well as the pond at Raeford. It is finally in and we are waiting for the water to dry up. It will be put in this weekend and the 1 million gallons of water will slowly begin to be added by rain and pumping. The Liner was $12,000 and weighs 3,000lbs. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

After jumping the cypress, I landed and had a representative from Airtek plug it in to his computer where it showed my altitudes as well as my speeds at those altitudes. It had a graph that showed my flight path and noted the activation speed at the exact altitude of the Cypress firing. I exceeded the maximum speed at 750 ft going well over 78 mph each time. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

The data logger from Cypress is awesome. It reminds me of how dead I would be without a Speed cypress. Jumped it last year when I started my 450's. I did 4 jumps doing 2 types of turns each time and if I would have had a normal Cypress it would have fired all 4 times. SPOOKY! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

As always Al did an awesome job! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Thanks fuckers!! Love ya all! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Its a perinium you arse! and I still agree with Ian, after all he is going to father my child! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

I always agree with Ian, but as for Stu, LOCK IT UP! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Sorry about the lack of information on the initial post. I was trying to determine how many participants and see if I can get a deal on jump prices. Coaching will be by Greg Windmiller Hop and pops will be $16.00 each The course includes a 2 1/2 hour seminar There is no charge for the video and coaching for each jump. The cost of the course will be $100.00 maximum per person "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

There is going to be a canopy control / skills camp at Raeford on Saturday the 7th and 8th Starting at 8am. It will be broken up into ability groups with focus on the individuals goals for the camp. There is no minimum number of jumps to attend. The groups will be determined on the goals and qualifications of the participants. 8 am Safety and Individual goals briefing 9 am Load and manifest arrangement 10am Jump until complete Every jump will be videoed and debriefed. There is no minumum number of jumps to be done during the camp. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Try not, do or do not There is no try! I am still waiting on my letter, the mail man must be lost, he just must be! Good luck to all, I honestly wish that you all could make it.....well, ok not you Ian! LOL "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Wow....I just returned from Vacation and my idiot brother getting married! Couldn't talk him out of it! I am back from the land of dial up only to realize something that I already knew. Mr Shatalov....is mildly retarded! I just went and looked at the construction progress today after getting in from a 12 hour drive. I plan on getting a spoon and digging nonstop until the completion is at hand. I will take some pics and post them as I can, for now, I shall pass out from sensory overload! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

So I finally got tired of Jay making fun of the shorts, his has obviously been envious so I got him some of his very own! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Since the competition completed and thte weather day wasn't required, and it was advertised, there were going to be spectators at the dz to see some swooping. Owner of Pretoria Skydiving center gave the spectators exactly what they wanted......Swooping. Peter offered a $2,500 cash prize to a 2 round freestyle event and the competitors all agreed that instead of a prize use the money to pay for the jumps and it would be an exhibition event for the benefit of the spectators! Me personally I chose the GW technique which I have become extremely good at....Drinking beer, watching and heckeling! Hans Paulson leaves for the States today so when he gets back, give the meat missle a big pat on his back but watch out for his foot! Photo is attached! Stuart trains for his future job with the circus! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

speed event "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

distance "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

accuracy runs photos posted "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Sorry about the wait but can you blame me I was celebrating last night. Here are photos of the official standings for the entire event. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Since most of you are probably wondering what is the meaning of life since you have the Dalai Lama on line, I will tell you in a second. I first want to say thanks for all the "thanks" I have gotten for posting. It helped to kill my time out here, I hardly ever get on here due to all the "My penis is bigger than your penis" individuals who post on here. I only use the site for instructor information, gear and rigging and to keep up on the incident reports and of course on this one. It amazes me at how it really is. I recently was trying to find out the information on an individual who died and it was pages and pages of idiots pointing fingers, with the pathetic part being only one individual or two in all those posts sounded like they were on there out of general concerne. If this concernes you then you should check yourself! As for that I am done....sorry for the rant. To the rest of you I love you all! And the meaning of life is........... Be content with what you are and what you have, Remember, it could always be worse! It is not what happens to you, it is how you react to what happens to you, that makes you who you are! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Well it is officially over we are just waiting for the standings to be posted. We have a competitor brief in about an hour! As the great and powerful Dalai Lama predicted, the world record in distance was broken but it was only broken twice. First by Marat (Maha) with a 161m besting the old record by 10m then came Nick Batsch with an impressive GUESS???? 169.69.... You can't make up this shit! Congrats to Nick and Maha for the distance runs. I am not going to post any standings until they are official then I will see what I can do from there. My distance run was above average with around 140m I am not sure because I didn't hear the judges. I was still walking off the landing! It is pretty hard out there. The US Team went big and represented in every way they could! Special thanks to SUNPATH for donating the money to buy the US Teams uniforms OAKLEY for the sunglasses and the shoes and the backpacks CAMELBACK for the hydration systems UNDER ARMOR for the undergarmet stuff! Primal wear for the US Team jerseys! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Thanks Ian, and thank you for comming out to support the team during you and your lovely brides honeymoon! We are ready to go for the final and most dramatic event in the meet. The distance event and I predict that the world record is going down!!!!! It is hard to say who is going to do it though. Jay is looking strong as always and Nick Batsch looks strong but there are so many competitors that are capable of destroying the record especially with the winds being what they are......4-7m per second down wind!!!! I predict the current record held by Nick Batsch to be crushed by at least 4-8 different competitors....I would like to throw my name in the hat for that one but we will just have to see. It may be 6m down wind for one jumper and 5m per second for the next.... The jumpers are out and let the smoking begin!!! Chris Teague local favorite just hit a 142 meter run. Definately down wind 10-12 mph......Oh no! Jaymo just got the go to the bucket call! (TRAM) "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Just a few more jumpers and the speed event is completed. The only ones to go are the rejumps because of the timing system had a few glitches for the first few jumpers. It was down wind and cross wind conditions and a mixture of no winds. I had a cross wind push in the center of the course, which isn't the best conditions for everyone but they are my favorite. As predicted the world record for speed has been broken. It is officially now a 2.33. Considering it has taken me about 5 minutes to type this much because my hands are still shaking, can you guess who set it? "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Due to the Gayness of Hans he has declined to be Santa to protect the image of the jolly man! I guess that illiminates loud dan and big steve as well. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

rejumps out of the way, now on to speed. The winds have shifted and I "THE GREAT DALAI LAMA" predict the world records are going down in speed which is the next event and then distance! 3-5mph downwind!!! "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"

Pete Allum is representing Britily! He is in deed representing Italy this year. Sorry about not updating this after the last distance round. The winds were extremely high and they decided to go on with the event anyways. There were a few rejumps but for the most part everyone got through the event. The high score in that round was only around 128m No new world records as I predicted. I only went just under 100m and I was pretty happy with that with the wind conditions. It is the last day of the competition and the weather is perfect.....looks like I am going to have to fight back as Shannon and Nick both passed me in the overall standings after distance. Nick set another great run in the Accuracy event to pull even closer to Jay as did his distance round. Jay got under 100m or somewhere close to it in the last round of distance. My last accuracy run wasn't the best but it will hopefully keep me near the top overall. It seems as the winds don't really like us in these last few jumps as the winds were headwinds for distance at around 5-6m per second. For the last round of accuracy the winds have been pretty dead! alot of problems for everyone slowing down. As well as the wind issues the packing issues have seem to gotten the better of people. there have been 4 cutaways so far during the comp. Luckily for those today with the winds the canopies are staying pretty close to the airport. someone saw hans's canopy land in their backyard and called the cops. when they went back outside to get it itwas gone! After searching and asking for it for hours the airport posted signs and handed out flyers saying there was a 5,000 rand (about $500.00 usd) reward and it turned up in under 20 minutes! Go figure! Last night we had dinner prepared at our hotel by the owner Gavin. He slow cooked a lamb all day and it was amazing! The dinner was wonderfully thrown ending in the team manager(SGM Eitniear of the Golden Knights) being thrown in the pool! It took JC and 3 others to get him in. Stu Shoenfeld took one for the team and went in with him! We are waiting for the rejumps from the cutaways and then there will be a course change and the last round of speed. If the winds keep down there could be a new world record posted! I will keep posting for the masses! Mike Shatalov.....Will you be mine????? By the way in case anyone was wondering the current world champion and animal Jaymo has competed in 83 swooping competitions so far! This is currently my 8th total canopy piloting competition and no matter the out come I am more excited than you can imagine. "Dropzone.com, where uneducated people measuring penises, has become an art form"