uberchris

youre going to be flying slow as hell already on the GIGANTIC student canopy they are going to make you fly as a student. gravity brings me down.........

were dealing with skydiving here, thick skin is an asset............ gravity brings me down.........

i almost recently died. "deat by ADD" my stupid inattentive ass forgot to route my chest strap because i was busy putting on a new tracksuit. that shit would have sent me straight out of my rig and into the ground........... luckily, my mentors always grained into my head, check check triple check all handles and i caught it in the plane...... lesson learned, ALWAYS triple check your shit gravity brings me down.........

i have a closing pin tattood on each wrist, life sized......... when asked what they are, ive given every fake answer from fishooks, to electrical contactors (im an electrician), to west african fertility symbols, etc. etc. its not worth explaining what a closing pin is to a non jumper =) gravity brings me down.........

i suppose i do see your guys point...... i think what my coach was getting at was that with low expeirence (me), landing with rears could be more dangerous because the stall point occurs much quicker and with less input........... but i understand where you guys are coming from with being prepared for when the shit hits the fan. question - i have lost a toggle on a slider down BASE jump and landed uneventfully with a combination of rears and one toggle...........would you do the same with a skydive canopy or would you use just your rears? gravity brings me down.........

weird, my recent canopy coach said youd be a complete idiot to land on rear risers alone, and that you should never do it. whats the reason that you would have to do that? if your brakes are fucked you should have chopped your canopy gravity brings me down.........

i havent heard of anything yet but ill ask around the DZ tomorrow. i jump at byron. welcome, you should come out tomorrow~! gravity brings me down.........

i too have a long torso. i bought a rig (which i have up for sale) about a year ago just to get airborne. the guy said it was fine for someone 6'1", which i am, and that was bullshit. im stoked because it got me back skydiving, and i put probably about 30-40 jumps on it, and it did the job. it hurt my inner thighs after a few jumps in a day, and i couldnt really tighten the legstraps very efficiently. so to answer your question, for function, it absolutely worked, but for comfort, i give it a 3 out of 10 stars. it would be perfect for someone around 5'9 or 5'10, but not for me........... the good news? i have a custom voodoo curv on order as we speak, BOOOOYAAAAHHHHH BITCHES! gravity brings me down.........

the people who paved the road for BASE jumping as you and i know it nowadays were called pioneers, not egomaniacs............. well there may have been some ego involved, who knows, but people who push new limits in my opinion arent always doing it for fame/glory, they are just thinking way ahead outside the box. gravity brings me down.........

"This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern Columbia Coca. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff." hey ty, you still over there off bryer??? gravity brings me down.........

stretch alot and get your floating ribs surgically removed. that way not only will you be flexible but you can go down on yourself anytime you please!!! gravity brings me down.........

where do you get the acid from? i want some gravity brings me down.........

i never really went through the gear fear thing, it just didnt enter my thought process. however, for some really strange reason, i was scared SHITLESS of the door until jump number 80. i mean really, im going to willingly throw myself out of the plane, but for some reason i just got petrified being near the door, or when i started to approach it from the back of the plane. very weird............then all of a sudden one day i found myself sitting next to it, with my leg outside the plane, staring at the hawaiian ocean, and i realized, HOLY SHIT, im not afraid of the door anymore...............it really happened just all of a sudden. good luck bro, just keep at it gravity brings me down.........

flystyle is working on something even better and from the rumors i heard its NOT going to be an outrageous price. yes its a vented BASE canopy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idSokAaz0_A http://www.theflystyle.com gravity brings me down.........

actually i had always wondered how they did that, then i met some CRW dogs at lodi recently. they showed me their setups. the bridle and kill line were both routed through the canopy and directly to the slider, so that when the slider sits down the lines the bridle and PC get sucked in. (i think thats the jist of it.........??.......) i thought it was super cool gravity brings me down.........

if youre trying to do BASE drills, either pump out a couple of jumps with a BASE canopy packed in your skyrig, and if you dont yet have a BASE canopy, buy a used raven and do the same drills with that..........then move on. to use a bigass lightly loaded 7-cell for a regular skyrig is going to drive you fucking NUTS. i bought a raven in an old javelin, just to get recurrent skydiving, and literally after about 10 jumps on that thing i sold it because it was frustrating the hell out of me. that and it wouldnt fly straight =) gravity brings me down.........

well at age 24 my parents had to flee the country, and out of NOWHERE they said, CYA....... so i left and had NO clue how to fend for myself. thats why when i have kids i will definitely make sure that they know the value of a dollar and will teach them that in life you need to work to get what you want and keep a roof over your head. i quickly learned how to support myself and after a few years of having NO money after bills and rent, i got tired of being a line cook and enlisted in the USCG at the young age of 29.......barely got in been there for 4 years now and im skydiving more than i ever have before =) gravity brings me down.........

i paid 500 for my sabre1 and 20 bux for a pocket...........its in near perfect condition. id say that it was cheap and its good gravity brings me down.........

ive only got 15 wingsuit jumps, but based solely on talking to a SHITLOAD of highly experienced wingsuit pilots at two different local DZ's, i sold my stiletto 150 for a sabre1 150 just for wingsuiting.......... im pretty sure the chances of chopping a stiletto with a bad opening are a hell of alot more than my sabre, and im broke so losing my main = BAD gravity brings me down.........

i was thinking the same thing, that it would be time to remove her completely from what she thinks is the social world, home school her, take her off of all those bullshit media sites, until she gets a little older and realizes that what moronic, clueless young people "think" of her means absolutely nothing. but then i realized, maybe her parents didnt have a clue what was going on? maybe she kept all these events inside until it was too late. think about it. one minute your daughter is fine, and the next, shes strung out on drugs an alcohol. im sure some parents who saw their kid using substances wouldnt try to "understand' why and would just attack and go apeshit.......... i know my mom did when i was a teenager. she didnt ask questions just went fuckin nuts and threw me in rehab with a bunch of old crackheads and nutjobs when i was a curious 15 yr old trying to have a good time this is a fucking bummer way to start my sunday. i need to go jump off a power tower. (with a rig) gravity brings me down.........

So you're going to quit driving cars too? And you're going to put off your dream for 18 years, because of your wife's irrational fear. Wonderful. Turn in your man card. Join the bowling league. ouch man. did you just slap someone with a bitch citation? gravity brings me down.........

i just took my very first canopy course at chicks rock, not because i thought i should get canopy training, but because i wanted to get my canopy proficiency card........ one day, 4 hop n pops and a day spent with our instructor, and i feel like i have literally been reborn under canopy. EVERYTHING, and i mean EVERYTHING i was doing (except landing and walking away) has been wrong. in my whopping 200ish jumps i was thinking i had it together because lately ive been able to land within a few feet of my target, but with severe and low input on fronts/rears.............. i have been shown a whole new world, and though ive got nothing but time and practice to go (because i suck ass), i had no idea how important the holding, setup, and entering into your downwind/base/final really was at the right altitudes/spots. we were actually shown that you need to swoop, in several stages (at least for our bigger canopies and mild wingloadings) to land efficiently. before this course i really paid no mind to the term "recovery"..... i am unbelievably excited over this new mindframe. and even though i have a million years of work to do, im actually feeling like im learning how to use my canopy in full flight to stop the vertical altitude loss, plane out, and burn the horizontal before finishing my flare. i cannot WAIT to continue to take canopy courses and do coaching, and i suggest for anyone in the OPs situation or anyone who hasnt actually taken any canopy courses: DO IT!!!! thanks for your wisdom dave gravity brings me down.........

weird, i dont recall him asking about wingloading or safety advice......... gravity brings me down.........

so good news. i purchased a universal cutaway system (i will take a picture and let you know the brand), at chicks rock this weekend. you simply replace one of the existing screws that holds the chin strap in place with a pin that is spring loaded with a cotter pin that has a cutaway handle on it. it was 25 bux, and the only mod i have to make is to make the existing hole in the helmet slightly bigger with a drill bit...............ill upload pics when i get home and modify it................seems like its gonna work perfect................ gravity brings me down.........

im pissed. the concealed cup chin and cutaway kit from bonehead does NOT work with the revolve. i dont understand why they would do this. im having a bitch of a time with an actual gopro cutaway, so im thinking of fabricating my own cutaway for the actual chin strap thats on the revolve. something with a cotter pin one one side of the existing chinstrap with a small cable routed to it that you could pull and then pull your helmet off if you really needed. this is proving to be quite a little project but im determined to make this happen with my revolve gravity brings me down.........