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    Also tucked a paper airplane in my jumpsuit and let it fly from under canopy a couple times, also when I was a student.



    Every AFF student through instructor is going to be stuffing paper planes in their jumpsuits after reading this.

    You've opened Pandora's Box.....

    :P


    :o:ph34r: There needs to be a spitting emoticon.

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    Except my rigger's wife is old, so...pass.

    I find there's a small difference in arm position in the tunnel. It's not 100% the same, but helps LOADS with body position. It also helped me with adjusting fall rate before getting out there with the coach jumps after AFF. As someone who's only slightly more experienced than you compared to all these sky gods around here, it helped me in-between my first solo and my coach jumps.

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    ...I won the major award!!! ..."



    A major award? We all know a story about another major award, and how it caused nothing but heartbreak...:P

    Elvisio "fra-gee-lay" Rodriguez


    LMAO!!! That dude was HAPPY with his "major award."

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    [:/] I wish whuffos could see/feel what we do when we jump. Maybe they would better understand.

    Good luck, STL.



    Give her a free tandem. LOL.

    When I was a kid on a ranch in Oregon, there was a tiny little airport and skydivers would land on our property every Saturday. Didn't bother us one bit. My brother and I would RUN to go talk to them and ask them what it was like. Of course it wasn't a full on airport, it was really just another ranch and the owner cleared a runway and had a couple of planes. My dad gave them rides back every once in a while.

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    I was sailing downriver on the Columbia River several years ago, moving my sloop from Portland down to Astoria. As I passed Longview WA and almost directly under the Longview Bridge I saw a Peregrine dive and turn a pigeon into a cloud of feathers about 60 feet over our heads..... you could hear the the bird in the stoop...... and the thud asit hit the pigeon and poof.. huge cloud of feathers. It took the falcon about 30 feet to stabilize its flight with the rest of the pigeon in its talons. I REALLLLY wish I had video of it.. just amazing to watch.



    HOLY SHIT! Dude, I don't need a video; that description was perfect.

  9. I'm not the "it's-cool-to-hate-him" bandwagon that some of my friends are on. He does rock. I thought he would win from the start. I will say one thing, though. When he made that elaborate entrance last week saying, "Look at me and what a star I am," I knew that a lot of people would hate him for it. I wasn't one of them, but I can understand how someone would think him pompous for doing that. That being said, I just thought in that particular week, Danny would get more votes. I didn't think that Adam would be in the bottom two.

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    Dose anyone else get the munchies and What food/fuel do you use throughout a jumping day?

    :)



    A few hours after the last jump, I have an adrenaline crash and have to eat a bunch. I wouldn't call it "the munchies" though, because for me it's different than wanting to snack on Doritos after getting high. It's more like I NEED SOME FOOD NOW!!!

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    Casablanca is definitely in the top 10, but for that era my pick is On the Waterfront. Many critics believe it to be the best movie ever made. It's the classic good vs evil movie and my favorite by far.



    Ditto. It's one of those movies that holds up for all generations. There have been several people that I've forced to watch this and they were all surprised at how good it was.

  20. Slightly off topic here, but there are AFF courses where there's only one instructor on level one?

    She said, "I recently spun out of control with one instructor on my first non-tandem."

    Is this just a cost-cutting thing or does someone see a benefit to this?

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    I'm wondering what the actual effort vs people who give a shit ratio is. Of course, if it's worth it to him, I guess he should do it. However, I can see people saying, "Oh, that's cool," and then forgetting about it a minute later.

    What was I talking about? I forget.



    I'd imagine the give a shit factor is quite high among all the people at the Wounded Warrior Foundation and the Special Olympics who benefited from the fund raising associated with the previous efforts.



    Really? That is actually cool. And don't misunderstand what I was saying about it. I didn't mean that it wasn't an amazing feat. I meant that it was a LOT of work for little recognition. Also, the doing it for yourself factor is probably the most motivating. I was going to respond to the personal attack from someone else, but I've changed my mind. It's not worth it.

  22. I'm wondering what the actual effort vs people who give a shit ratio is. Of course, if it's worth it to him, I guess he should do it. However, I can see people saying, "Oh, that's cool," and then forgetting about it a minute later.

    What was I talking about? I forget.

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    Neither, go find a DZ where people will jump with you for free.



    This guy has it right. I jump at two places and there's always someone willing to jump with you for nothing more than covering his spot on the load (some will even be real nice and refuse that). Usually, it's the older guys who like to be a father figure and make sure everyone's as safe as possible. They enjoy teaching and making sure everyone's super safe.