Rebecca-Berlin

Sorry to interrupt the round reserve challenge. Good luck with that. Just wanted to mention that my (square) reserve sold for 400 Euros today. The money will go toward 20 tickets for 8-way team training. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for your responses!

My rigger seemed to suggest the canopy had a life of 15 years.

A new Speed 170 is 910 Euros. So half would be 455 Euros.

I am selling my reserve and got this offer: Reserve Speed-170, 2003, for 350 Euros (476 dollars) Should I ask for more? The canopy has never been used. Thanks!

Today I read a fb post where a videoflyer wrote RIP Bernd. Does anyone know who she might mean and what he died of? I am assuming she wasn't refering to Bernd Schmehl, who passed away in Eloy during the World Record Attempt a few months ago.

Thanks Rodger!

Hi there, Can someone tell me how much this is worth? Reserve: 170er Speed 2000, SN: 0310, DOM 6/2003 white, 0 jumps Thanks! Rebecca

Great! Thanks!

Hey All, I am looking to sell my old main. Can someone tell me what would be a fair price? Here are the stats: Main: Silhouette 190, DOM 4/2000, blue with green middle cell, small 3 cm patch on left outer cell, 500 jumps Thanks!

Now that I have two rigs, I realize I only need one. Can anyone tell me how much my Teardrop Viper is worth now? I am so happy with the Javelin I got after the Viper was stolen, I'm going to keep it and sell the Viper.

I actually won't get the rig till the police have finished their investigations. @stayhigh: Tell your friend to keep believing. I also had a friend whose rig was stolen and then found a year later when someone tried to sell it. His story gave me my unwavering optimism.

Wow! I assumed the harness "expiration date" rules were worldwide. Are you allowed to fly a rig forever in other countries?

I notified the police today.

My Viper was found so now I want to sell the Teardrop Classic. What's a 13-year-old rig worth? I was told that Teardrops are now "valid" for an extra 5 years if Thomas Sports gives them the thumbs up, and this one is in really good condition. So whoever buys it will have to send it in to Thomas Sports and pay for the official once-over and approval. The main, Cypres and reserve have already been sold, so I am only selling the container. Thanks, R-B

The sellers left the rig at the rigging loft, where I will pick it up this week. The sellers SAY they found it in a dumpster. So according to their story, someone else stole it out of the parked car and threw it in the dumpster, where they fished it out and saved it for 2 1/2 years before bringing it to a rigger. I have not notified the police yet.

Hey everybody! My rig was found!!! 2 1/2 years later, I got an email from this rigger in Neustadt-Glewe Germany: http://www.canopy-rigging.com/ Someone tried to sell them my rig and they recognized the Cypres serial number and contacted me. Yippee!!! I'll pick it up this week.

Just wanted to let you all know that I got my USPA coach rating certification mid-January. Yeah!!! Now I have to put your good advice to use and make sure my local (German) DZ allows me to do enough coach dives to keep up my rating. The Formation Dives book is on my wishlist.

Thanks again! I ordered the IRM and am now taking a coach rating course while on vacation in California.

Thanks for the tips. This all won't start till May or June 2010. So I have time to make a plan or ponder the possibilities. I think my priority will be stable exits and 2-ways. I hope the more experienced divers are willing to be paired up with the less experienced ones. Last year I think the LO started straight off with easy 4-ways and a lot of funneling went on and few points were made. But there might be a team of teachers and LOs that come up with a group system that I will have to stick to. Don't know yet. Didn't Arizona Airspeed or Fastrax have some sort of workbook or worksheets for RW beginners?

Music pedagogy is basically learning how to be a good teacher in the discipline of music. You take courses in psychology, physiology, instrumentation, music theory, etc. and then a large part of the degree is teaching in front of others and getting their critique on your methods, and watching the others in your seminar teach and giving them critique. The professor tells you his opinions on what works and what doesn't and why. You learn how to ascertain what is stopping the student from being the best he/she can be and how to break through his/her barriers together so that the material becomes easy. I assume this is what happens in a skydiving coach course too.

"Post your 2-way drill dives" is a great thread! Thanks for the tip!

I have been given the opportunity to LO for the first time as of next May and would like to prepare. Are there workbooks with 2-way and 4-way drill dives? I will probably be working with jumpers who have just received their license and are not yet ready to be on a 4-way team. I have not taken a coach course and am not (yet) an instructor. But I have done about 480 RW jumps, almost everyone with a coach and debrief. I've been to 6 (or so) RW camps and have had a few hours of tunneltime. I also have a degree in music pedagogy, and ten years of experience as a teacher. Any suggestions on how I can be a good coach would be greatly appreciated. I live in Germany and as far as I know there are no coach courses on offer here. Thanks in advance!

Well, even if the rigger sticks to 15 years, I still have 2 more years to go on this reserve.

Great! So assuming it is good for 20 years, that means it "expires" in 2016. Or, if it's 30, then 2026. Wonderful, wonderful. And, by the way, we only need to repack our reserves once a year here.