ChickenSandwich

Don't forget to thank your instructor(s), who taught you to save your own life. My rigger was also my AFF instructor, so yeah, I thanked him.

Cool, huh? You see what's going on, you know what you need to do, and you just do it. The training really works. Did you check your altitude before and after the cutaway? Where you still above your "decision altitude"? I pulled at 3500 and pretty much knew immediately that I wasn't going to be able to fly the mess that was over my head. I'm sure I was somewhere around my decision altitude but I didn't check to see where I was at the time. It was a complete, natural reaction to the situation.

If you guys ever have a chance to jump a Pac 750, by all means make sure you get to the DZ. 12 minutes to 14,000. :thumbup:

When I reached to pull I dipped my left shoulder and sent myself into a spin. By the time my canopy had opened, I had line twists that had involved my slider and distorted my canopy so that I started going into a spiral. I looked up and knew that there was no way I could kick out of this, said "FUCK!!" and then cut it away. My RSL deployed my reserve before I could even pull the handle. It's really interesting that I didn't freak out when this happened. I have had malfunction dreams where I ended up in the dirt but in reality I was actually very calm about it. My thanks to Jim at Skydive Perris for chasing and collecting my gear and to rigger Chris for saving my life. Yes, the case of beer and bottle of booze were purchased yesterday and distributed. Jump 51: my first reserve ride. On edit: I dipped my left shoulder, not my right.

Thanks John. I did end up calling them to place my order. They told me that PD only offers stainless steel grommets these days, so stainless steel it is! Thanks again.

Thanks Rob. I've had a call into my rigger since Saturday morning but he hasn't called back. The lines on the canopy I have are in need of being replaced, but with the number of jumps on the canopy I have now (combined with a few repairs) I'd rather put in the newer canopy. Thanks for your help.

Hey everyone. I'm looking at purchasing a collapsible slider for a canopy that I purchased but have no idea what Para-Gear means by grommet style. Aren't all grommets on sliders the same? Thanks

Buying a tenga. http://www.tenga.co.jp/e/top.html

Yes. :shudder:

When I was at Eloy for the Christmas boogie they had a notice that their prices were going up $2 a jump. I was on the boogie pricing so I don't know how much the price is now.

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That's pretty messed up. Anyone know why not?

Please don't ask me to go to the Events page here, because the list of boogies there is nowhere near complete. Is there a complete/current list of boogies anywhere? Thanks