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not reporter. i'm a novice, but not current. the reason my inquiry was so thorough and specific is that i have a friend who was asking me all these questions and i realized i could only guess about so many of the answers. i remember that falling speed is like 120 mph belly down and terminal velocity is something like 160. and tracking in delta position has a glide ratio of like almost 1.1. so i started searching the forums and found that the info was very scattered and had a lot of holes in it. so i figured it might be nice to have a post where all the info was in one place, so if anyone else was curious, when they went to search, they would have a much easier time than i did.

i'm curious about a few things. maybe some of you could provide me with a few figures on fall time, descent ratio, ground speed, air speed for a few different types of wingsuits. also, i would like to know similar figures for flying without a wingsuit, say for a person of average size, flying belly down, as well as for flying head down, feet down, sit flying etc, for comparison. also what kind of distance is covered. i'm interested in figures for average flights and record flights as well. figures can be in feet, miles, minutes, hours, whatever (or even better, all of the above) i know its a lot to ask all in one post but i was having a hard time finding it all by searching. i would appreciate this very much.

skydive arizona in eloy. sky's always blue, air's warm mid-day even in winter, wind tunnel, nice free camping and facilities, bar, swimming pool, awesome people. all in one place. and movies are free for skydiver's in nearby casa grand (shhh).

i'm new to forums and stuff, not exactly a computer whizz. figured it out though. wasn't toooo hard for me.

there. i fugured it out (i'm a little slow). and since there's supposed to be a hottie, i included one of my girlfriend and me.

here's me and my cool new haircut.

tigra, you and me should agree to agree. i'll start: you're absolutely right. for a totally comprehensive learning program, its best to just use rosetta. rosetta covers all the bases (and has an excellent marketing campaign). but as for the "travel basics", "learning in your car", "cheaper methods" that you mentioned, the best of the best of these is the pimsleur method. if you want to just talk to people in the given language as soon as possible its the one. but again, after further consideration, i agree: rosetta is where its at for the whole package, no question. as long as you don't mind dropping a pretty penny.

millertime24, by "free climb" do you mean free-soloing? you probably know that free climbing actually involves ropes and protection which usually (but not always) prevent injury when taking an 80 foot whipper. i hear downhill mountain biking has the highest rate of injury of all bicycle sports. looks sick though. skiing is fun, but i haven't done it in ages. anybody do paraskiing?

but i've actually seen some pretty flabby climbers send some sick routes on lead way better than i can.

yeah, i have a hard time with not being able to choose. if i wasn't so scattered about my passions, i'd probably be pretty good at one of them by now. as it is, i'm no more than moderately proficient at any of them. don't think i'll ever give up climbing though. especially since i'm starting to get up there in years, wouldn't want to start getting flabby.

you're right deibido, there is the option that doesn't include reading with rosetta, but i doubt most students use that option exclusively for long, which would be a detriment to their speed of learning basic conversation skills. rosetta's more bang for your buck. and more suited to people who want to do more than just converse (i.e. business, etc.). but if conversation is the biggest concern, pimsleur is cheaper and will be a quicker and an easier, more natural feeling method. and you can probably get the first eight lessons on cd for about 2 bucks on ebay. that's enough to get talking with a flawless accent to dutch people, on a basic level. and from there you can wing it for free, if your in holland. i hear the cool thing about dutch is when you learn it, you make it 60% easier for yourself to learn german later.

pimsleur method is better. i've used both. two separate parts of the brain are used to learn speach and reading. so using pimsleur, which has no reading involved, and is 100 percent conversational (no rote memorization), means that you will learn to speak and comprehend the given language at a more accelerated rate. with pimsleur, you can become totally comfortable speaking with a native speaker on a basic level very quickly, and then learn to read later. really though, i guess it depends on your needs. if you absolutely must be able to read the language, right now, i suppose rosetta would be better. both are available for cheap as cd's on ebay. especially dutch (popular languages like spanish go for almost retail on ebay). the mp3's look cool too, but haven't used them or checked their availablilty on ebay.

i figured that was a given

action parts? you mean like the wheels on your turtle?

yeah, there's lots of stuff left out, for sure. bullriding and rodeo is cool. been to lots of rodeos, but never rode myself. however, we had horses when i was a kid and i used to ride in playdays (barrels, poles, triangles, jumps and stuff.) my sister is a major cowgirl she has horses and trailer and pick-up and a bunch of pasture land. i used to be into hunting a lot. i was a professional hunting guide in alaska, where i grew up. used to harvest caribou and moose and dal sheep and bears (that part probably won't make me many friends here). it was good money earned in a beautiful environment but i couldn't stand babysitting assholes (some clients were cool though). i drifted out of it. archery is really cool, i won an oneida eagle compound bow in an archery contest when i was thirteen (one of those wierd, space-age looking compounds). but never used it to hunt, they say they're too noisy for it anyway. never got into bowhunting at all. if i ever get back into hunting for deer or moose or something (no bears), i'll probably use a bow like the one i have now, which is a traditional long bow (65 lb draw weight). but i'd like to have one that takes down into two pieces. but i have to agree, bowhunting doesn't really count as an action sport. it is a more admirable way to get your hamburger than by pulling up to the drive-thru though.