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And if you haven't already, join the crwdogs email list - go to groups.google.com and sign up for the crwdogs list. Far more people are on there than elsewhere. I know the Freeze your buns off boogie is in Florida in January and they normally have multiple groups of varying sizes for people.

I know he is on facebook and regularly selling gear there. I have bought multiple items from him over the years and never had issues... Look for him there..

That's pretty much it! We had one good Thursday but otherwise it keeps raining! Someone needs to do a anti-rain dance!

I am not a scientist, but I do have a scientist friend who studies this stuff. I think it is partially a natural cycle, but man is definitely making it happen faster and worse. So I would go with 2.5 - some man, some natural. And if man can help slow it down, it can quite possibly save many lives..

And there are also interesting articles like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/26/east-antarcticas-biggest-glacier-is-melting-from-below-study-confirms/ I listen to these guys because one of them is a Texas skydiver (Jamin Greenbaum) and he spends a large percentage of his year flying around in C130s around Antarctica measuring the ice!

Aeroweather on the iPhone reports the TAF's for any local airports that make one. That is useful for cloud ceilings..

Here is one: http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/dallas-paulding-county/2015/10/19/accidental-child-death-under-investigation-paulding-co/74237268/ Another one where a child got access to a gun (stupid parent!) http://kdvr.com/2015/10/19/charges-against-chicago-dad-in-sons-accidental-gun-death/ And for just a general note - more preschoolers die from being shot every year than police officers http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/oct/06/nicholas-kristof/nicholas-kristof-gun-deaths-preschoolers-police/

I've definitely got some 20+, but most of mine are probably 15-20. I went with the majority since I only got one vote!

I do find this interesting. I jump Racers, and over my 10k of jumps I have had 22-23 cutaways. 4-5 on yellow, the rest on red. The red cables are CRAZY easier to cutaway on - I have had to use two hands on yellow before to be able to pull it, but the reds were shockingly easier. So much so that I have recommended to smaller females who may not have as much strength as other to get red cables because it made such an amazing difference. I don't have any of the orange cables, but most of my rigs have red cables. I will inspect them, but I have never had an issue.. My handles are all standard pillow - not sure how they are designed inside. This fatality is a scary one...

I agree! If I were in his conference I would gladly vote for Chuck..

It may depend on what kind of clocks the person might have grown up with. I only ever had digital clocks in my house growing up and grew up with computers, and I can read a digital altimeter or clock at a glance, but have to stare at an analog - and reading an analog clock takes me 30 seconds to decipher what time it is :-) As for battery life on a Viso - mine has had flashing warning low battery for over 100 jumps now :-) I find I typically get 5-600 jumps per battery change..

http://poststar.com/news/local/primary-chute-fails-in-skydive-backup-shoot-glides-jumper-to/article_e422a998-ca33-5729-9ce6-bb509d5b61a8.html Main chute fails - jumper lands safely under backup. Officials waiting to retrieve it from a tree to analyze it.. Slow news day?

Assuming I recognized I had a dislocated shoulder before unstowing my toggles - I would leave both stowed, and steer using the rear riser of my good side and just PLF. Half braked landings aren't bad and they aren't as difficult to land as trying to flare with both toggles in one hand (harder than it looks - try it!) We teach this in our FJC ever since we had a student dislocate a shoulder on opening..

As others have said - you are in Florida - you have more dropzones within driving distance than practically anyone else in the world :-) Don't put up with this - find another dropzone that will teach you well, and make sure you email the dropzone in question that you left and tell them why. This guy shouldn't be teaching students from what it sounds like...

And just as a random thought that had never occurred to me before today - you need to make sure you aren't doing CRW with non-metal ripcords. I have definitely seen lines damaged in wraps, and it would suck big time if you got in a wrap and lines sawed through your ripcord..

I own a bunch of Triathlons, have ~3000 CRW jumps, and jump at a small dz without much traffic. I sink my Triathlons in on a regular basis. It is REALLY obvious when they are going to stall and its easily avoidable. Funny enough - I did a a relaxed pull at altitude yesterday and decided to check how much altitude I lose in a half braked 360 turn on a Tri 135 loaded at 1.2 I lost 120 feet. I know for a fact I can do a deep braked turn and lose less than that. I know my stall points. And I completely agree S-turns should be avoided at all possible. but many people jump at dzs with small landing areas and 200 foot tall trees on either side. I would rather see an S-turn than a tree landing.

None of mine have RSL's, but I recently had a customer who converted a double RSL a single.. Cool thing was that the double gave me 2 singles, so I put one on the first customer's rig and installed the second on one of our young jumper's Racer. The single-sided design - as long as the ring is small - too small to go over the cable housing as in the diagram attached - works just like RSLs do on most other rigs. A Master Rigger can do the conversion.

Yep. That is what I do. Works awesome..

This is the split slider on my CRW canopy.

I have had mine for years and years.. For some reason the recording function stopped working at some point but the altimeter part has always been great.

We jumped today and the 10 day forecast is finally sun instead of flooding! I will post less soon :)

Do you not think that all of those people who died from a low turn or hitting someone on a swoop - if you asked them later - if you could go back in time would you make that turn? I'm pretty sure 100% of them would say no. That's the thing in skydiving - you just don't know. Search on dropzone.com for Booth's law - Bill Booth basically says anytime you make skydiving safer in one area, skydivers find a way to make it more dangerous. Modern AADs came about so freefall started being safer, and everyone started to be an idiot under canopy. Skydivers seem to want to maintain a risk quotient in skydiving - when one area gets safer, they start being dumber than others.. Let me ask you this - who is safer - a 5000 jump skydiver with no AAD who does small-ways under a 1-1 loaded Pilot, or a 5000 jump skydiver with an AAD who does big-ways and jumps a Velocity 90? As a skydiver who's been around a while, I can tell you - the second one is orders of magnitude more likely to die or get injured. Rookies seem to always think its the first one. Their concept of what kills in this sport is really skewed.

True - unless you are one of the unlucky ones who get taken out by a swooper. But I can tell you I see rookies all the time going on skydives that are too "zoo-ey" than I would want to go on. I make a conscious choice not to take those extra risks, which makes the odds of me going unconscious far less. Its a choice I make. Isn't skydiving about choices? And for the person who asked about the small CRW canopies that CRWdogs are swooping - they qualify too. I personally have no desire to do CRW on canopies that small, or to ever do a swoop turn. My choice. Am I really more unsafe than someone with an AAD who jumps on the 150 way head down skydives on a Velocity 86? I think I am less likely to kill or maim myself on my Triathlon 135 loaded at 1.2 doing a 4 way without an AAD than practically anyone who jumps a sub-100 crossbraced canopy. Its my choice. Others make different choices. I believe skydivers should have the freedom to make choices that are right for them. Swoop? Sure, as long as you are doing it in a separate landing area where you aren't likely to kill an innocent victim.