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You do make a good point, but I still don't agree with promoting it. In skydiving you have little time to react. Any major mal and you're done. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

There is a new show on MTV called Nitro Circus staring Travis Pastrana a world class Moto X rider. The show is funny an all, they all put themselves in harms way by doing stupid stunts. Like backflipping a tricycle over an 80 foot gap. But on this last weeks episode, I was a little put off. They were jumping from a helicopter over a lake and challenging each other to see who could pull the lowest. They even showed Pastrana getting a couple line twists as he was coming in hot on one of his jumps. Sure it's funny and all to watch on TV, but what is this teaching all the new jumpers to the sport. Is it cool to pull as low as you possible can? Am I the only one who thinks that this is going a little far? Any way, just thought I'd see what everyone here thought about it. Here is the link to that part of the show: http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/342098/altitude-abuse.jhtml#id=1605146 Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

Mine happened on jump number 12. it was my first stable free fall after a 10 second delay. I remember the packer saying that he had packed it different this time and he wanted me to know what I thought. The chute opened into a violent spin, and at that time I was on radio and the DZO was yelling "release the breaks" and me yelling "THEY'RE ALREADY RELEASED" thinking some how he might hear me from 3000 feet above. I was able to stop the spinning by pulling down really hard on the right risers, but the second I let loose I was out of control again. Finally chopped and saw that beautiful white canopy. We never figured out exactly what the problem was, and the DZO called it a "Student Malfunction". has anyone ever heard of this? More or less it was tension knots in my steering lines is what we came up with. I haven't had to chop since but I have broken both steering lines and end cell canopy lines, but both were controllable so I rode them out. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

Mine happened on jump number 12. it was my first stable free fall after a 10 second delay. I remember the packer saying that he had packed it different this time and he wanted me to know what I thought. The chute opened into a violent spin, and at that time I was on radio and the DZO was yelling "release the breaks" and me yelling "THEY'RE ALREADY RELEASED" thinking some how he might hear me from 3000 feet above. I was able to stop the spinning by pulling down really hard on the right risers, but the second I let loose I was out of control again. Finally chopped and saw that beautiful white canopy. We never figured out exactly what the problem was, and the DZO called it a "Student Malfunction". has anyone ever heard of this? More or less it was tension knots in my steering lines is what we came up with. I haven't had to chop since but I have broken both steering lines and end cell canopy lines, but both were controllable so I rode them out. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

Nice I'm on an 07' 750 but managed to do a little damage to it last month. All covered under my insurance though. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

Those are good things to be asking for, but what I meant was since not many people ask for the 2,3,4 thousand dollar gifts for the holidays, what are some reasonable priced skydiving related gifts people are asking for. I'm asking for a sweet multi purpose jump suite, and 20 jump tickets from my DZ. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

I've been getting a lot of questions from my family lately about what I want for X-mas. New to skydiving this year, and loving every minute of it I know that I'll be asking for things that are Skydiving related. My question to you is outside of asking for a new Rig, Chute, AAD, or Reserve what is on your Christmas list this year? Blue Skies and Happy Holidays Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

So yesterday me and a set of newly graduated retards had our first ever load without an instructor or coach. Needless to say we walked up to the plane and stared at each other trying to figure out the seating arrangement in the wee little 206. After thumbing our noses for a couple of minutes we came up with a brilliant idea of trying our first four way. After some strong words of caution from the pilot we had everything figured out... that was until we reached altitude. Our plan was to have two in the door with their legs out, pulling a third out hanging on to his harness, and having the forth dive after for the dock. Well what really happened was, on jump run we got the door opened, the pilot throttled back and out of sheer adrenaline I looked out the door, and with a piss poor spot of the landing area yelled "WE GOTTA GO!!!" me and the other guy in the door did a quick three count and took off out the door. I was the first out forgetting to grab the thirds harness, the other in the door yanked on the third but got no where. We soon figured out it was because he was still attached to his seatbelt. The second in the door couldn't figure out what was going on so he took his shot and jumped. the third finally figured out what was going on and with ninja like reflex whipped off the belt holding him back, and like that the other two where finally out the door. By this time there is already a couple hundred feet separating me and the second out, but we still managed to meet up for a nice dock. I'm pretty sure by the time we all landed everyone was in tears we were laughing so hard. It taught me that there is Sooo much more to be learned in this sport, and man do I look forward to what is in store for the future. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

For your viewing pleasure, the rest of that video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgKoMJ9PWuQ&feature=related Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

So after three long weeks without being able to jump, I finally got up this weekend. I did just a refresher jump, practicing the A check dive. Feeling confident I attempted another Dock. I'm still having trouble with me exits (but that's a whole different topic), which usually puts me lower than the instructor due to tumbling. so I took someones advice and turned so I could see the instructor from a side view so I wouldn't have to look up, loosing more altitude. and grabbed on to that giant beach ball, or as my instructor would say "Make yourself BIG!!" and got on his same plain. He decided he wasn't going to help me at all, and put himself into a wicked back slide. So I had to work pretty hard to get all the way to him. When I got close I slowed down my forward speed and (without reaching) got my first solid dock. Man did it feel good, and felt good to get that out of the way :) I really attribute my success to the helpful advice from you guys (and the confidence it brought) and a good briefing from my jump Coach. Thanks again for all your help, and I look forward to picking your brains some more in the years to come. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

I was fortunate enough to spend time in the tunnel at about 12 jumps, it really helps with your body mechanics, but don't think it's going to be an end all to any problems that may occur on an actual jump. A tunnel is designed a bit different then the sky, as it has walls where the air is forced up, where as the sky does not. This may not sound like a big difference, but it really does make a big change on a jump. If I had to do it all over again, I would jump first. Find a DZ with an experienced staff and try the sky for yourself. The tunnel will help you with your body position and progression, but cannot compare to that first time you become a "Puller". From one rookie to another, Enjoy the sky and learn as you go. Don't be the brown noser who has already read the book before the class ever started :) Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

I appriciate all of your expertise and will look forward to actually steping back and try and identify what exactly what I'm doing wrong, with the help of my jump coach. And start from thar rather than just doing another docking jump in hopes of "touching" the coach before we have to brake off. Beside, what's the difference if I achieve my A license on my 25th or 27th jump, when I plan on being a part of this great sport for the rest of my life. Again thanks for all your help, now lets go put it to good use :) Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

So i've got 20 jumps under my belt, on the way to my A license, but I'm having some trouble with docking. My first attempt was a complete mess, never getting closer than 20 feet from the jump coach. Second jump went a little better, I managed to touch the coach as a flew past him, but still not a solid dock. 5,000 feet comes at you way to fast :). I have been to the wind tunnel and did vey well, but when I tried to bring those new found skills out into the real world I had a bad case of the brain farts... I'm hoping you all will have some suggestions on I can either over come my set backs and make me the best plane jumper I can be. As always thanks for all your help. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

For starters I don't have my A license, I accidentally put that instead of "Student" my bad. As for the chop away, the dive started out really well, great exit good body position and free fall (which was a first) and I deployed my pilot at about 3200 feet. That might be a little low for a student, but not to bad. The shoot came out very hard, and when it opened it was spinning wildly out of control. I looked up and the back left end cell was completely folded in and so I un stowed the breaks and gave it a couple of really deep fliars Nothing... So a pulled hard right and hard left to see if it would correct itself but I was still spinning pretty fast. Right pulls would slow it down, but that was about it. So at around 2500 ft. I had to cut it away. I was very surprised at how smoothly the reserve deployed, and also at how slow and dosile the canopy really was. My dive master was pretty impressed that I was able to stand up the landing because it was only a five cell canopy. After we looked over the main shoot the only thing they could come up with is that it was either tension knots, or that when the brakes where stowed they some how looped around some of the lines and knotted tight when the canopy opened. Either way it was a great experience and in no way am I going to let that situation hold me back from getting the most out of this sport. I'm glade I got that out of the way now so maybe I'll remember to hold on to the handles next time I have to cut away. LOL. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)

Hey what's up everyone. I'm currently a student jumper outside the AFF course learning from the bottom (3500 ft.) up. I did my first Tandem last year, and couldn't stop thinking about it. So I enrolled myself in a student program about a month ago and have been jumping non-stop ever since. The weather has been kind of crappy but I have gotten a solid 12 jumps in so far. I'm currently at a 15 second delay (solo) and climbing. I've been fortunate enough to do some pretty incredible jumps including cloud punching and even had to cut away a bad main on my last jump. I look forward to getting to know all you jumpers and hearing about your crazy adventures in diving. And please let me know if you think there is something I should know to get the most out of this Awesome sport. Life is way too short not to enjoy every minute of it :)