Rstanley0312

SkydiveUranus

I indeed have been working on my belly skills. Some of my friends like to track all the time and have 1.5-2x my jump numbers. We just did some formation practice and a couple of them didn't want to join because they were afraid of messing it up. I keep telling them that's why they need to practice and just to get in there and try!! (then they ask why i hardly jump with them any more lol)

At 135 jumps I'm finally feeling really confident in docking wherever I need to dock. I don't really have to think too much like before. I kinda just fly.

I do a little backfly/sitfly practice in the air but I know I'm not really learning much without a proper coach. I'm still looking for a freefly suit before i head to the tunnel for freefly practice, and I'd rather spend my money on jumps and practicing belly for now.

I could keep going on and on, but you heard enough for now....blue skies!!

Anachronist

Weight is always going to be a disadvantage. If you can lose some (i.e. not a bodybuilder or something) that is your best bet, even 10-15lbs can make a difference.

If you are tracking with less experienced people that might be a problem too, they might not know how to fly fast with you and are just flying what feels comfortable to them. You should try leading and letting them chase you.

Everyone has a "range" per their body type, short and fat has the smallest and tall and skinny has the biggest. But they all overlap to some degree, just takes both parties flying in that overlap.

Practice will of course help but won't fix everything.

If you are interested in wingsuiting (baby bird comment), lay off the tracking and build up your belly and freefly skills. Tracking is a completely different position and basically only teaches you to start thinking "forward" rather than "down," and to pull without going into box-man position. It is about navigation more than anything else. You've learned 90% of what you are going to about wingsuiting after your 5th track jump without actually putting a wingsuit on.

Belly and freefall skills teach you how to move and feel the air stream better. The smoothest transitions to wingsuiting I've seen were competent freeflyers.

ABonito

http://www.devianprint.com/

Cheap, simple and effective !!

kuai43

This came across the FB feed a few days ago. I'm been checking here to see if it would pop up.

According to the info given on FB, it only applies to CYPRES 2 units mfgd. Jan 2017 and later.

IIRC, Airtec's notice states that, due to studies on current units, data indicates that the service life could be extended to the 5-year maintenance/15.5 year lifespan.

This begs the question.. if they're going from research on units currently in use, why wouldn't they make it retroactive to all units of the type they studied?

Oh yeah.. cash flow.

hillson

Around a 1000 with zero chops. I pick up the repack on Saturday so the risk will be higher this weekend, of course.

My L5/S1 is about 30% there at 37 yrs of age. I have focused on stretching 2-3 times a day and I workout with focus on my core. In addition I also have a bed that I think has helped a lot too. (Sleep Number)

Since I have focused this way I have some days that are stiff with mild pain but overall have been doing really well. (2 years)

There are some advances in artificial disks. I am hoping that by the time my real one is gone.... this method will be a very real option.

-rts

billvon

>Who said -I'm- angry? I think it's fucking hilarious. Personally I can't actually
>support putting somebody that unqualified into office. But I've thoroughly enjoyed
>the show.

I am in a similar boat.

In skydiving there's always the guy who will not learn. He asks 100 people if he should downsize from his Safire2 149 to a Katana 99 and 99 say "that's crazy." The last guy says "hey, do whatever you want." And he hears only that. The S+TA tries to talk him out of it, but he's just an old fossil who doesn't understand the newbie's mad skillz. His friends try to talk him out of it; he gets new friends.

Then he gets the canopy and starts jumping it. And almost immediately gets grounded for endangering other people. So he goes to another DZ where the S+TA doesn't know him and jumps there.

The above actually happened to me when I was at Brown (different canopies back then, same idea) and it was both funny and sad to watch. Watching him take out Airspeed by the mockup was hilarious. (His excuse? He said "look out" and they didn't move out of the way when he was landing.) And his landings were . . . exciting. Also somewhat terrifying.

I knew he was going to hurt himself; the only question was how. I hoped it wasn't crippling, but I also hoped it was enough for him to learn.

On the sunset load that day we got the call that we were on a hold while the ambulance cleared out. No one had to ask who it was. When we went to the hospital later, it was just a broken thumb. That wasn't big enough. We all gave him grief and he missed the rest of the boogie, which was probably for the best.

He kept jumping the canopy and eventually broke his back and pelvis so badly that they said he would never walk again. Last I saw he was sort of getting around with a walker. That was too big an injury to learn from.

A friend of his - equally foolish - broke his femur about a year later. That was enough. He learned, and when I lost track of him he had upsized a bit and become a much better canopy pilot.

Watching Trump over the past year has been similarly hilarious and sad. The guy is having a policy discussion with someone and doesn't know what the nuclear triad is - and tries to wing it. The best he can come up with was "I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me." And people took him seriously.

He claims to respect women - and then a tape emerges of him bragging how his celebrity status lets him "grab them by the pussy." But that's just locker room talk, he would never actually do it. Except for all the women who said he did. His reply - I will sue them! And people still took him seriously.

And now he's won the presidency. I predict that the right wing will gloat for a few months, then realize "holy shit, we have to defend this guy's actions for the next four years!" And at that point, the equivocating you will see will make Rubio look like a firm, decisive kind of guy. They will be in the position of defending someone who is proposing the biggest spending increases in history, and defending an alliance with one of the worst strongmen in the world. And that will be a lot of fun to watch.

So the US chose him, and for four years we will have a Trump president. Sometimes you have to let people - even entire countries - femur. You hope they don't, but you also realize that that's the only way some learn. Meanwhile we will have a real live reality show in the White House.

kallend

Rarely do I agree with Krauthammer, but this is right on:

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-not-the-locker-room-talk-its-the-lock-her-up-talk/2016/10/13/9dd5fbea-9172-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html?utm_term=.86f0087e1ba3&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

billvon

> I am voting for something I believe in... a 3rd party getting 5% + so they get
>funding next cycle.

Me too. My vote will not affect the result of the vote in my state, but I can put my vote behind a third party so that there will be more of a choice in the next election.

Iago

*********Hi jclalor,

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Trumps election night concession speech

I was thinking about this last night. I am thinking he will not concede. So, I thought, 'What happens then?'

I am guessing it would be up to the RNC to concede.

Anyone???????

Jerry Baumchen

winsor

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The GOP only has itself to blame. The primary voters themselves were warned by many to no avail. The irony here is that Clinton is weak and unliked. The Dems have no bench and can only muster very old white candidates. That is still the case really... their bench moving forward is terrible while the GOP bench is great, full of young and diverse people. This should have been an easy election for the right and they blew it bc of stupidity. The party elites screwed up by throwing all money behind Jeb!. What a shit show....... I think Hillary is really a moderate and this rhetoric was forced on her by first Obama and then Bernie. She will be staus quo with some damage. I think she is a terrible human being but not as scary as Cheeto boy. I still will not vote for either.

jclalor

***Hi jclalor,

Quote

Trumps election night concession speech

I was thinking about this last night. I am thinking he will not concede. So, I thought, 'What happens then?'

I am guessing it would be up to the RNC to concede.

Anyone???????

Jerry Baumchen

wolfriverjoe

******Yet they didn't.

normiss

Yet they didn't.

wmw999

I wonder how many votes the Republican Party would pick up if they were to announce that Trump will step down and let Pence serve

Wendy P.

JerryBaumchen

Hi folks,

In actuality, I do not know more than any of you.

However, after watching the news for the last week, the V-P debate, and pondering this; I have concluded that Trump simply cannot win this thing.

So what say you?

And I know that I could be completely wrong; hey, I'm no election guru.

Jerry Baumchen

Dos

I received mines (after being litteraly robbed by the customs) These are very cool and as efficient as expected.

The only con is that it doesn't work with the Session mount (the end nut of the mount seams to be sealed on the mount and I didn't manage to get it out in order to replace it by the schier clamp. Fortunately, I still have some GoPro 3 mounts that work just fine :)

keithbar

Who is using it ? Does it replace the knob? Or just cover the gap ? Thanks

JohnMitchell

Walking in after the jump, and in the packing area.
And a couple of our stack pics from various other times.

cpoxon

Confused?

ISG say this,

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ISG, German manufacturer of high performance freefall simulators for professional skydivers, military divisions and the entertainment industry achieved an important milestone at the European Patent Office. ISG manufactures freefall simulators in form of closed recirculating vertical wind tunnels. The wind tunnel technology was developed in cooperation with the Aerospace Department of the University Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin), Germany, and is internationally recognized for its energy efficiency, safety and design. The first reference facility of ISG opened in 2009 in Bottrop (www. indoor-skydiving.com). Since then, ISG has successfully sold and built many facilities worldwide.
In December 2014, iFLY sued ISG in Germany based on iFLY´s new European Patent No. EP 2 287 073 and claimed that ISG infringed the iFLY patent. On 19 September 2016, the European Patent Office decided that the Patent No. EP 2 287 073 is not valid and can only be upheld with significant restrictions. The newly restricted version cannot be infringed by ISG.
The decision of the European Patent Office on 19 September 2016 is in line with a number of prior decisions against iFLY’s repeated attempts to extend their original patents by applying for divisional applications/utility models. (see for example T1196/11).
“We are happy about the ruling by the European Patent Office”, says Boris Nebe, CEO of ISG. “And it shows once more that iFLY´s repeated attempts to unduly broaden their patents beyond the scope of the original application in order to catch our and our European competitor´s technologies are illicit and useless.

iFly say this,

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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- In oral proceedings, the European Patent Office has upheld iFLY's European patent 2287073 as modified. Indoor Skydiving Germany's (ISG's) latest attempt to invalidate iFLY's patents has failed. iFLY's patents covering the key technologies which make vertical wind tunnels safe, cost effective entertainment remain valid and enforceable in Europe, as they are in dozens of other countries around the world. The company confirms that it will continue to aggressively protect its industry-changing technology anywhere it is challenged.

The EU Opposition division rejected ISG's novelty arguments and found that iFLY's claims were inventive over the prior art. "This determination by the European Patent Office shows that iFLY's foundational patents are valid and can withstand significant challenges not only in the US but also in the EU," said Alan Metni, CEO of iFLY. "We are gratified that the European Patent Office confirmed that our innovations were both novel and inventive." Metni added, "We will continue to pursue complete protection over the full scope of our invention in every jurisdiction where we operate and will continue to add to our claims through the open applications we have pending around the world, including in Europe."

ISG's latest efforts to avoid iFLY's patents come on the heels of iFLY's recent decisive win in the US in which ISG agreed to terminate sales of all vertical wind tunnels in the United States during the duration of iFLY's patents. In 2014, iFLY initiated litigation against ISG for selling a wind tunnel for installation in Phoenix, Arizona. Throughout that litigation, ISG attacked the validity of the SkyVenture patents in both the District Court and the US Patent Office. Those attacks were unsuccessful. On the eve of trial, ISG conceded the validity and enforceability of two of iFLY's patents (U.S. Patents RE43,028 and 7,156,744) and agreed not to attack their validity in the future. As a direct result of the settlement, ISG terminated its Phoenix project, and agreed not to sell any vertical wind tunnel in the US through the duration of those patents - until September 22, 2024.

"Based on iFLY's necessary and legitimate enforcement of its patent rights to date, ISG and its principals are precluded from selling vertical wind tunnels of any kind for at least the next eight years in over 40 countries," said Kevin Fiur, iFLY's General Counsel. Fiur added, "Together with outside counsel, David Weaver of Baker Botts, LLP, iFLY will continue to build upon our existing portfolio and take a strong stand wherever we feel others are borrowing our technologies rather than creating on their own."

About iFLY Indoor Skydiving: Austin-based iFLY Holdings, LLC is the world leader in design, manufacturing, sales and operations of wind tunnel systems for indoor skydiving. Currently iFLY Holdings holds more than 32 issued and 31 pending patents that cover the US and 54 countries around the world. Under the brand names iFLY, SkyVenture, and Airkix (recently re-branded as iFLY), the Company has flown more than 7,000,000 people in a dozen countries since launching the modern vertical wind tunnel industry in 1998. iFLY has 55 facilities operating, with an additional 21 in various stages of construction. iFLY is continually searching for new locations in the USA and around the globe.

priyohere

well guys... my JM doesn't have any opening till mid Oct and then I am out for a month.. so guess this have to wait to May next yr :(

Meantime I plan to get some tunnel time and may be a couple of training tandems this winter when I travel south

long wait....

JohnMitchell

***Long time jumper (who shall remain nameless) two rules for life:

1. Balls don't touch.
2. Don't jump in costume.

danielcroft

Looks like Fluid Wings is wanting to get in on the "high performance, Schumann-y Planform, non-crossbraced wing" action, as well:

https://vimeo.com/180641619