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As long as you are at least a little bit height weight proportionate you should be fine. Find a Dropzone that flies what is called a turbine aircraft. A smaller, piston driven aircraft, like a Cessna 182, is going to limit the DZ in the size of the passenger simply because the cabin is so small. In a larger aircraft, it's no big deal taking people up to 260, and I've seen 310lbs bowling ball shaped women go without incident (not that I'd suggest it).

When turning with your legs, try to get your knee into your armpit with your foot flat, toes pointing out. And good job flying those exits. Always find it odd when people race to get the drogue out. Tandems are fun, eh??

I haven't noticed much neck pain... Or back pain really. Only chronic repetitive issue I've seen is your right shoulder. Every long term TI I know has shoulder issues. The big thing for me is to find the parts of the jump that tax the body and avoid them. I have the student help us get to the door, I twist my arm and use my (massive, toned) bicep to get the drogue out of the pocket rather than my shoulder. I also worked on my in plane harnessing technique to minimize effort. If you're experiencing neck pain, like others said, it's probably from deployment. Get some outside footage of yourself and see what it is you're doing, and do less of it. It's impossible to say without knowing what it is you're doing. But don't just accept that ruining your body is part of this. It doesn't have to be!

Just like full price, cash dropzones, there are good ways and bad ways to do discounted, presold dropzones. I've worked in all four kinds of DZs, and the best one for me was the well run discounted presale DZ. They are busy with guaranteed customers. Smart DZOs make up the decreased revenue with upsales and cross sales. T-shirts, altitude, video, gear rental, booking fees, etc. It is hard not to earn more money if you triple the number of people walking thru the door. Sell them shit. Decreasing pay is the sign of a lazy, greedy and/or stupid DZO. Any TI who would jump for $15 doesn't deserve a dime more.

new jumpers always complain about this. i had one tandem student who was particularly vehement in her claims that she couldn't breath. while skydiving. on her third jump i brought along a handcam. in the door she takes a big deep breath and holds it and then spends the whole freefall with her mouth closed and her cheeks puffed out, like a kid underwater. nobody has ever passed out and died because they couldn't breath, and i've never heard of an experienced jumper with these issues. from my own experiments (executed while bored in droguefall) if you point your face straight down and open your mouth wide it gets hard to breath. i have no issues breathing with my mouth closed, wide open if facing the horizon, etc. so, just do some more skydives and relax. save your worries for any of the other 80 things that can kill you :)

Has anyone done any work there? What was your experience?

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Just got my rating and am curious what advice you all have :) Tips, tricks, things to do slash not to do, things you add or remove from your briefing, etc

Jeff Bodin. County shot down on airport landing about a year ago.

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The turkey, the stuffing, some canned beets and Aunt Janice, that beastly excuse of a human you are so unfortunately related to. You stuff your face, you feign interest, you hug and be hugged. The gluttony, the family and the napping. So kids, pack up your leftovers, say goodbye to Grandma, hop in your car and come jump out of an airplane with your real family. Join us for Skydive Hollister's First Annual Turkey Day Leftovers Boogie. As you may or may not know, we're going to be saying goodbye to the Bunkhouse for the season. Don't fret, my little dears, it'll be back next year, but for now we must bid farewell to that magnificent house. And what better way to say such a tearful goodbye, we ask, than wine, women and song? Well, we know exactly what would be better than to stuff one's face with food and booze amongst family. The only thing better than such a glorious gathering would be to stuff one's face with food and booze amongst friends and family after a day of $10 slots. Forget Black Friday. I heard someone was selling a 40" HD Flatscreen Supertron 5000 for $250. Whatever. We're selling $10 skydives. Cash only. From the PAC. Friday thru Sunday. BYO women. And wine for that matter. The turkey is on us. So join us, skydiving family, for a weekend of $10 slots followed by a huge family dinner, gluttonous consumption of alcoholic beverages and more merriement than you can shake a stick at. The tl;dr version: -$10 slots Fri (12pm), Sat & Sun (9am) -Potluckish, leftover fueled dinner Sat night -Wine, Cheap Slots, Turkey, Fun

Well fellow skydivers, it's that time of the year. The skydiving season is coming to an end, the holidays are approaching, and the clouds are rolling in. It's never too early to start thinking about your New Year's Resolution, what you're going to get Aunt Margie for Christmas (or yourself for that matter), or what the hell, how about Valentine's Day? We're here to help. Skydive Hollister is putting up a one week special to help with all of the above. http://1800FUNJUMP.com/WeAreCrazy We wanted to come up with the craziest deals possible to get you back up in the air. For our Tandem Jumpers we're going to take $70 off all of our tandem prices and $30 off our video. You may have heard of our Groupon promotions, well, if you missed it here it is. We're also going to do our AFF Package for $999. Get trained to jump solo! Buy the package as part of this promotion and we'll throw in 10 free solo skydives for after you graduate, in addition to the 7 jumps with instructors that comprise our AFF course. Do the math. And lest we forget our Funjumpers. The Million Feet is back. Fifteen. Dollar. Slots. $1000, 67 tickets, 15k, the PAC. GOOD GOLLY HOW DO I BUY ALL OF THESE SHINY THINGS? Visit us online at http://1800FUNJUMP.com/WeAreCrazy or give us a call at 1-800-FUN-JUMP. Skydive Hollister's 3rd Annual Halloween Bash will be held Halloween weekend, October 29th through 31st. To get everyone out, we're going to be giving everyone the benefit of $15 slots. The catch? The only catch is that it's cash only. Not too big a deal. If you have tickets and want to use them, feel free, but it's not very often you can jump out of a PAC for $15 cash. In addition to the $15 slot craziness, we're going to be running Night Jumps on October 30th. Strobe lights, glow sticks, $40 slots, the whole nine yards. And finally, we're going to be opening up our Staff House to everyone for Saturday night to make it a little easier for you guys to come down. So pack up the glow sticks, dig out your strobe light, get your costume together and come down to Hollister this Halloween! Say goodbye to an epic season the right way.

Register today at http://bit.ly/GravityOlympics It's going to be great fun! From June 10th through 13th Skydive Hollister will be running the Gravity Olympics! With crazy Solo Events to crazy Team Events and plenty of Mayhem in between, this is going to be one event you don't want to miss! We even have some Special Events such as a Packing Race, Creeper Madness, and possibly even an Obstacle Course. The Special Events are probably going to be pretty dangerous, so bring a helmet. Without further ado, we bring you the best ideas our team of highly trained Chimpanzees were able to come up with: Solo Events -Fastest Freefall Bust out the spandex because this one's all about speed. Big Chris we're looking in your direction. We're going to slap a ProTrack somewhere on your person, and whomever gets the highest average speed on their jump will walk away with a shiny Gold Medal. -Slowest Freefall Time to get some creative outfits going on. This one is all about drag and beach balls. The jumper with the slowest average speed on their skydive will sleep that night a Champion. A slow, drag laden Champion. -Accuracy! No tuffet, no gigantic canopies, no winning by a hair's breadth. There are two portions to this combined score event - you will be dropping something from under canopy and hitting a target and then landing your own parachute on a target. Don't be a punk! Register at http://bit.ly/GravityOlympics Team Events -Farthest Birdeo! This is going to be tricky, but we're essentially strapping Skydive Hollister's Very Own GPSTrackamajig to your rider's foot and seeing how far you can fly them around the sky! -The 3-Way 3D Competition It's easy! 3 head down docks, 3 sit docks, and 3 belly docks. Fastest to complete takes the prize! -3-Way Hybrids Starting as a 3-Way Speedstar, the fastest team to get all 3 jumpers to hang will win the Gold! -3-Way Hoop Dive Similar to the Hybrid Event, this jump will start as a 3-Way Speedstar. The team that can get each jumper through the hoop twice will take first place! -4-Way Belly Jump A traditional 4-Way competition with outside video, points and judges, this event will put your booties to the test! Dirt dive and flat pack your way to the top of the skydiving food chain! Don't forget! Register today at http://bit.ly/GravityOlympics

Oh no! I work here, and one of the things that we try to get right 100% of the time is the service end, it's the easiest to get right and the most important (besides safety) to the customer. Pleasing everyone who walks through the door is the goal, but its impossible. We do our best and we genuinely do care. As far as the jumpsuits, that disgusting. We wash them every week or two, but you get one unhygienic AFF student wearing the suit around for a few hours stinking it up and it doesn't matter how often you wash them. In regards to reserve rides, everyones position is different. Ours is that it is business as usual and nothing to worry about. It's easy for people to freak out and we want them to think about how much fun they had rather than how close they 'think' they came to dying. We brush it off with our students, others may do something different. And we try, oh how we try, to make sure our instructors give our students the best service in the industry. We've 86'd more instructors than I can count for not providing the right kind of experience, from lewd comments that are business as usual other places, to just not giving a shit about the 'screaming pillow' in front of them. It's easy for instructors to forget that these people paid over a thousand dollars in some cases, more than I spent on my car, for this experience. All it takes is a smile and some small talk. Like I said, we try to get it right 100% of the time, and when we don't we try to make it right. If you would be so kind as to PM their info I'll see if we can't get it right the second time. Thanks a bunch!!

This Friday at 3pm we have some RIDICULOUS stuff planned. There was quite the debate raging internally in the Principal's Office. As is usually the case, the "which has a higher fun factor" litmus test was applied, and a decision was made. This Friday we're going to give $10 slots a try. $10 SLOTS? Yes. $10 SLOTS. Out of the PAC. Could it be true? Yes, fellow freefall addicts, soon we're going to be paying you to skydive here. But before we go that far we're going to offer $10 slots to 10k. Starting Friday at 3pm and ending when the sun goes down on Friday. How can we do this? I don't know either so don't think about it too hard. Just get here early on Friday and premanifest yourself because these are going to go fast