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Art Sherry of the Skydive Store will be at Skydive Delmarva all weekend with demo gear. If you want to try something in particular please call 866-975-9348 or contact them through their website: http://www.skydivestore.com/ Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/405885746261385/

Please call 888-875-3540 or email [email protected] to sign up. Basic Canopy Skills Course Where: Skydive Delmarva Laurel, DE When: June 27, 2015 8:00 AM Cost: $100 per person. This does not include your jump slots. Course Description: This class will begin with 2-3 hours of ground school followed by 5 jumps. The ground school will cover equipment and canopy design, control inputs, when different techniques are most appropriate, and rules for separation and canopy traffic. Prior to each jump we will brief the objective for the upcoming jump and set expectations of the participant. Performance maneuvers will include, but not be limited to: front and rear riser turns, stalls, proper flaring technique, crosswind landings, flat turns and braked flight and stalls. After each jump, participants will gather for a group debrief with video. This 5 jump course will satisfy all of the requirements of the USPA Canopy Piloting Proficiency Card and more.

Aaron had a conflict and will no longer be running a canopy course during this event.

To celebrate the 4th of July we're having $20 jumps from 14,000 feet Thursday through Sunday and cookouts and bonfires Friday and Saturday. Aaron Stocum of Flight-1 will be here running a canopy course. More details about the canopy course to follow. Please feel to join the Facebook event page and send Facebook invitations to your friends!

I've known and jumped with the TM since he was in AFF. If I were to choose someone to take my mom or sister skydiving he'd be at the top of the list. He's one of the most humble people I know. He loves his job as a TM and has dedicated his life to it. Over the years I've watched him grow personally and professionally. He takes the responsibility of making someone's first skydive a safe and fun experience very seriously. As a new TM I know the feeling of wanting to hold on to your passenger (male or female) during the deployment. Because the risers are attached to your harness above the passenger there is a forceful feeling of them falling away from you as the risers pull you in the opposite direction. It's illogical to think that the harness won't hold them and that your arms will but there is still a subconscious reaction of wanting to prevent them from falling away from you and it sometimes takes a conscious effort to stop yourself from grabbing them. The major safety concern and the reason it is so important not to reach in front of the student is that it puts your arms in a position that they can be trapped by the student. The reaction to hold the passenger though is instinctual and has absolutely nothing to do with copping a feel whether the passenger is male or female. The OP's girlfriend's sister loved the experience of her first skydive. Her sister's public Facebook post dated 9/14/13 reads: "My father, my sister, and I went skydiving today! It was my third time, their first, and we all had an absolutely excellent time, so thank you [OP], [TM], [other TMs & videographers]! :-)" I've worked for Skydive Delmarva for 9 years now and the TM is a close friend of mine but I'm not just sticking up for my home dropzone or my buddy. I'll stake my personal reputation on saying that this TM is safe to jump with and that the issue of reaching in front of male and female students during deployment has been addressed and corrected. -Gregor Weeks

The Brian Germain Canopy Course starts at 9AM this Saturday (May 9). There is still time to sign up online at: http://www.skydivedelmarva.com/canopycourse.php You can also sign up the day of the course. The course is rain or shine. You can read more about the course at: http://www.bigairsportz.com/canopy-course.php

Get signed off for your B license canopy course requirement, work on advanced maneuvers, learn about canopy design, get softer more accurate landings, dial in your swoop and become a better, safer skydiver. Reserve your space the course by going to: http://www.skydivedelmarva.com/canopycourse.php Or call 888-875-3540. The cost of the course is $195. You only have to pay $50 to reserve your space in the course. You can pay the balance on the day of the course.

Skydive Delmarva is gauging interest for three advanced training opportunities this season: - canopy course taught by Brian Germain (May 10-11) - water training (date TBD) - coach rating course (date TBD) Please take a moment to let us know what you're interested in by going to http://www.skydivedelmarva.com/signup.php and filling out a short form. Thank you and blue skies!

This has been postponed one week to March 15.

Skydive Delmarva's Otter got new engines over the winter making it a Super Otter. This means more people per load and faster rides to altitude! It will make its debut at Safety Day on March 8th. We'll have safety day seminars for experienced jumpers on Saturday morning. Weather permitting we'll start jumping around noon. Details at http://www.skydivedelmarva.com

Chris Talbert from Sunpath (the makers of Javelin rigs), Matt from Performance Designs and Art Sherry from skydivestore.com will be at Skydive Delmarva this weekend (May 18-20) starting Friday with gear to demo. If you want to try anything in particular feel free to give Art a call at 866-975-9348 to see if he can accommodate you.

We've had a deaf jumper go through AFF at Delmarva before. Her boyfriend at the time is a regular jumper who knows sign language and helped with the instruction. If I recall correctly we used flags in lieu of a radio and everything worked out ok. Let me know if your friend would be willing to make the drive (probably about three hours). If so I can talk to the DZM and the fun jumper who knows sign language to see if we could make it happen.

I just inspected a Reflex and found that the support tapes of both the main hand deployed pilot chute and the reserve spring loaded pilot chute are sewn on the block of the fine mesh portion (as opposed to being sewn on the bias). I remember reading this post by Bill Booth saying that sewing the loading tapes on the block is not correct because it could allow the skirt to stretch below the apex thereby lessening the effectiveness of the pilot chute: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=132976 I don't have much experience with Reflex rigs so I'd like to hear from people who have more experience with them. Is what I found an anomaly or are all Reflex pilot chutes sewn with the loading tapes on the block? I'm especially concerned about the reserve pilot chute. The main pilot chute has been used hundreds of times and the owner hasn't said anything about hesitations or bad openings. The reserve pilot chute has never been used but the rig has been inspected over 20 times by several riggers. If there are no other issues with it can it be considered air worthy?

That was a fun night! Yeah we're still at Delmarva. It fits us like a glove. Kid and dog friendly (yeah we have both now) and a laid back but safety conscious atmosphere. Tracy and Martin haven't been here since '05 I think.

Hi Noelle! Some of my favorite posts were from Dan Rossi about his experiences as a blind skydiver, especially the one about the origin of "flare when you hear the crickets." Anyone know if he's still around/jumping? I also remember someone in true rec dot fashion posting long lines of nonsense to confuse his speech synthesizer

The Caribou is scheduled to arrive first thing Friday morning! Friday looks jumpable and Sunday looks great so we'll get some good jumps from her. Yeah the party might start early Saturday but the weather forecasters have been wrong before so we'll just have to see what we get

One week until the Boogie! Quick announcement: there will be a costume contest and the winner as decided by crowd applause will get 3 jump tickets. See you soon!

After realizing that the cutoff day fell on a weekend, we have decided to extend the deadline for early boogie registration through the rest of today. You can register today for $30 at http://www.skydivedelmarva.com/halloween.php Starting tomorrow you can still register but it will be $35.

Quick update - Sherry Moeser, certified massage therapist will be offering 15 minute deep tissue massage for $20 on Saturday and Sunday during the Boogie.

We have our free fly organizers locked in for the Halloween Boogie: Kate Armstrong and Laura Wagner! Whether you are a beginner free flier who has just gotten stable sit flying, or you are looking to turn multiple points on a head down jump, Kate or Laura can organize a jump for you. If you're coming to the boogie make sure you take advantage of this great opportunity. If you haven't registered yet, please take a minute to do so now at: http://skydivedelmarva.com/halloween.php Kate Armstrong: -Current member of first ever all women's VFS Team training & competing in 2012. -Summer 2011: Local freefly organizer at Jumptown in Orange, MA -7/ 2011: Participated in the initial Vertical World Record "scope out" jumps at Skydive Chicago Summerfest 2011 with 40-60 ways. -12/ 2010: 2nd place - Advanced 2-way Freefly event at the Skyventure New Hampshire Tunnel Competition, 2010 -11/ 2010: Participated in the Women's Vertical World Record event at Eloy, AZ -11/ 2009: 2nd place - Skydive City's annual Thanksgiving Day 10-way speed event competing as the only vertical team -2008: 1st Place - Freefly Scrambles at Skydive New England -2007: 4th place - 2-way Freefly, Collegiates, Eloy, AZ -2006: 5th place - 4-way FS, Collegiates, Lake Wales, FL -Tunnel time: approximately 65 hours Laura Wagner: -Organizes at Skydive Orange -Has organized at Skydive Arizona -Was on the 2010 womens vertical world record -35 hours of tunnel time

Announcement: Chris Wagner will be organizing RW on Saturday and Sunday of the boogie! Thank you to everyone who has registered so far! If you haven't registered and you want to guarantee your t-shirt size please register by 5PM tomorrow. We will do our best to estimate sizes for everyone who registers after this time. You can register online quickly and easily by going to: http://skydivedelmarva.com/hal​loween.php Registration is $30 now and will go up to $35 on October 15th. Nonjumpers can register for $15 and still get a t-shirt, food and beer.

If you're coming to the boogie and you haven't registered yet please take a moment to do so now by going to: http://www.skydivedelmarva.com/halloween.php It's getting close and we're getting ready to put in a t-shirt order. Thanks!!!

That would be awesome. Unfortunately I don't think it will ever happen. There are dropzones who get most of their business from skyride, they don't read these forums, they're not part of USPA, and they're perfectly happy with skyride.

Good news! Google apparently did listen to the complaints from me and others and removed this listing

For those of us who couldn't make the boogie, is there a way we can donate to the cause? Thanks!