ShayneH

What benefit does the 7-cell platform offer over the 9-cell Petra in terms of performance? I know that most folks revert to JVX/Velo for accuracy runs in a comp. Is this one idea you have in mind for the petra-lite?

It doesn't matter what camera or what lens angle - center of frame is center of frame. As long as I sight the dot correctly, it works like any other sight.

I use a .55 lens on my video camera and the cannot kit lens and I can frame my shots perfectly without the need for a ring sight. Instead, I use a small dot of tape on the inside of my sunglasses which is low-profile, costs nothing, and works just as well as a ring sight.

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4 gear rentals/month = $100 I realized this when I was a student and took out a personal loan from the bank for $2,500. My monthly payment was around $75.

Rocky Rivero @ Mile Hi in Longmont. You'll probably pay a bit extra because you're going through the DZ, but Rocky is a damn good rigger. He's very meticulous and takes pride in his rigging. He's also recently been to PIA and UPT's factory to keep up on the latest info in the rigging world.

Most folks that I know that jump Velos swear by pitching in a track to open them.

From the video, yea. But I'm guessing that it's the pilot, not the canopy. He's snapping his whole turn pretty fast and letting off the controls equally as fast. And you can't tell if there's any harness input either.

Density altitude affects parachute openings. Try jumping a canopy at sea level vs a higher altitude on a hot day (ie colorado). Here is what the SIM (sect 5-5) says about it: I thought I had also read something by Brian Germain on the topic somewhere, but couldn't find it. However, I don't think that a thunderstorm could change your density altitude enough to alter openings that severely. Oh, and there's no reason not to charge them for a simple hard opening.

I'm assuming that you're talking about Mile Hi. If that's the case, then yes, the coach gets paid for the jump, and the DZ is not making any profit on said jump. Tipping is not expected, however, a case of beer usually goes over pretty well.

You guys make me chuckle.... According to the CDC, tobacco use is responsible for more than 430,000 deaths each year, or 1 in 5 deaths. Yet, I don't hear you guys saying a damn thing about how cigarettes should be illegal or how the $73 billion in medical expenditures and another $50 billion in indirect costs burden us. FYI.... CAUSES OF DEATH /// TOTAL /// % COMPARED TO SMOKING Alcohol-induced deaths 19,086 04.4% Assault (homicide) 16,831 03.9% Drug-induced deaths 18,443 04.3% Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease 14,681 03.4% Injury by firearms 28,839 06.7% Motor Vehicle Accidents 46,378 10.8% TOTAL OF ALL ABOVE 144,258 33.5% Before you moan about how other drugs will be a financial burden, yada yada, try doing some research to compare them to what is already legal. Your blind arguments are starting to sound like Bill O'Reilly argue about religion....

You call it dreaming, I call it scientific fact. Many drugs fall under the category of nootropics (google it), or drugs that are purported to enhance cognitive function. This has been scientifically proven. They stimulate areas of the brain that are otherwise not [as] active. Here's the main thing that bugs me though... I don't use drugs as I get drug tested at my work. Yet, have no issue with folks using. In fact, I believe it should be a constitutional right to be able to put what you want in your body. Yea, sure, there's a small percentage of drug users that can't handle drugs and cause problems. But that's the case with everything, from guns to cars to alcohol to fireworks to you name it. For fuck's sake, the President elect admitted he smoked pot, did cocaine. And he smoked cigarettes until he was in office. If you think drugs should be illegal becuase a small percentage of users cause problems, then we should just start illegalizing pretty much everything in our daily lives.

"Dopers" are weak minded, eh? Hate to burst your bubble, but some of the greatest minds/inventors were inspired by drugs. For example, Kary Mullis lends credit to the mind expanding drug LSD for helping inspire him to pioneer polymerase chain reaction, a technique used for the amplification of DNA (allowing for crime scene DNA comparison, myriads of disease cures and treatments, etc....) Richard Feynman, an overall intellect, habitually smoked pot. During his career, he revolutionized modern day physics, helped design the atomic bomb, exposed flaws of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, and wrote his theory of quantum electrodynamics, which went on to win a Nobel Prize. Sigmund Freud, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century and father of psychoanalysis, was a cocaine user. The list goes on... and that's just in the realm of scientific advancements. The amount of "dopers" who contributed to some of the World's greatest works of art, literate, and entertainment would boggle your tiny mind. As much as you want to deny it, drugs have inspired some of the greatest minds of our time, which in turn have produced works of art, literature, and pushed the envelope of scientific advancement, making your life a much better place.

Vigil has pretty goddamn good customer service as well.

IMO, the time frame in which you completed said number of jumps is just as big of a variable as jump numbers themselves when deciding which bracket of canopy pilot experience you fall into. Someone with 500 jumps over 10 years probably wont be as great of a canopy pilot as someone with 300 jumps in one year.

No. You're barely loading the pilot 210 that you bought at 1:1. Yes, the altitude density in Colorado can get quite high in the summer. But that will not be a bad first canopy. I'm assuming that you jump at Mile-Hi. They offer a 5 jump canopy coaching program that I would suggest you take. Edit: I see that you've been jumping for four years. How many jumps do you have and how frequently do you jump?

When I buy through this website, I ask the seller to ship the item to my local DZ. It isn't necessarily an issue of trust and getting the goods, it's more that I want to inspect the item myself. Often times, people's definitions of "still slippery" or "no sun damage" can be a bit different than mine. And if I'm selling an item, vice versa. I'll ship an item to their DZ, but I'll usually call the DZ and ask that they do not release the item to the individual until I give them the OK.

Awesome swoop, man. A buddy from my DZ just made a similar video of him swooping a trailer. Wish I could post it but it's on FB. Keep up the creative canopy work.

The other day, my buddy was driving me around and I heard this ad come on the radio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBqgPKC6PmA The meat and bones of the commercial start around 25s.

Nope, I read it pretty thoroughly. The question you had in your mind was masked by your writing. Just like any paper you wrote in highschool/college, the first sentance of the first paragraph should be your topic/argument sentence. Then follow by an example (and make sure to note that it is an example). ...also, I couldn't have agreed with Shah if I didn't read through the posts :/

I agree with Shah. Not everyone has a whole lot of "game," and I bet that the cup of coffee was his ticket in to striking up a conversation with you while you sat around drinking it. I also bet that it took a fair amount of confidence on his part to approach a total stranger and offer such a gesture. I recently saw a commercial for one of the online dating sites that claimed a staggering statistic (I dont remember exact numbers) of relationships are now started online. And after catching glimpses into people's trains of thought, I can start to see why. You were in a public place, receiving a drink from a public vendor. You very easily and safely could have taken him up on that offer [if you so pleased] and had the chance to better read his intentions. And if it went well, you could have arranged another date in an also very public place.

Jailbreak your iPhone.

Charlie Sheen - Winning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg&feature=related

I'm going to guess that 80%+ of the anti-homosexual movement are religious folks. I mean, the bible does state that it's blasphemy, and we should listen to the word of god: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."(Lev. 18:22) However, I too can quote the bible! "But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman, then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones..."(Deuteronomy 22:20-21) I killed my stupid whore of a wife because she wasn't a virgin. Oh yea, and to anyone reading this that isn't white: "Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ." (Ephesians 6:5) "Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back ." (Titus 2:9) ....hey, God said it. I just endorse it. ....(not really)

Here, just in case anyone has missed the point: Now, if anyone wants to address my actual point, I'm all ears. (See below)