bluetwo

BIG welcome. Enjoy it here and good luck finding a ride/transport. You might also include you'd be willing to pay for some gas if someone in the area would let you carpool with 'em. _______________________________________

Welcome, welcome and enjoy the forum. _______________________________________

Congrats!! ....and welcome. Glad you decided to go big. _______________________________________

Welcome!! Enjoy. _______________________________________

Oh snap!! I've been called out?.... Ha ha! I could do it though, even if it takes years. _______________________________________

I like that idea but it seems like everybody is afraid to try anything at all. All I was asking is would it be worthwhile to get input from anyone/everyone on what main canopy will fit into what container within reason and what just wont or makes no sense to be stuffing into it. Oh well, why not just keep on doing things the hard way.... _______________________________________

2 to 1?... damn it. Ok, I can see how the ideal fit situation creates shades of gray. I just figured people change canopies, newer people buy them, there's swapping and rigs being pieced together all the time.... _______________________________________

Yeah but the French government may have been onto something, not that they were right for an absolute but.... why wouldn't the skydiving community want to compile a list of what is and isn't known to work. I think there are skydivers and maybe or maybe not riggers in particular who could start something like this. I really do appreciate the link but I am aware, as it is easily apparent from a little reading, that volumes vary enough to be problematic and that's reason enough for a yay or nay by container. _______________________________________

I think I searched pretty well and somebody delete this if it's completely worthless but it seems like a good idea for a sticky in this section would be a sizing chart for canopies and containers. I see a lot of this canopy in this container but how about a comprehensive chart that shows what canopies will fit in each container? Again if something like this exists then my bad. _______________________________________

Welcome, welcome!! You might really enjoy the freestyle kind of stuff. Enjoy the forum and the skies!! _______________________________________

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The nature of this and all message boards is that there will always be bad advice and hundreds of reposts because people want to ask specific questions about themselves or just talk about themselve in general. And that's kind of taking the easy road. The harder way would be reading previous posts and trying to relate that to the readers situation. This isn't a perfect system in car forums either. Most people don't want to sift through so many threads and posts to maybe find an answer so they ask a specific question. Haters just make things worse there too. Two wrongs never make a right. _______________________________________

I feel the same way about peoples experiences, whether they're young, old, new, experienced, good, bad or indifferent. We've all got different talents and skills and it takes all kinds. Discouraging people isn't always the answer, though we should all probably filter what we read on the internet. _______________________________________

Not to take away from anything anyone else said, and I admit I'm not experienced enough to do so anyway.... It took me 5 attemps and 3 different techniques before I learned to turn but now that I found out what works for me I can turn almost exactly how I want to (talking about only a few degrees of tolerance). My good friend and coach showed me a technique where I simply dip one arm straight down 90°, elbow still bent, straight down - where my forearm would be right in front of my face if I was looking down that is. Another coach told me this is more of an advance technique some coaches prefer not to show students until they're sure the student is ready but hey... it worked like a damn charm for me!! The other thing that is helping me imensely is the use of an RW suit I aquired, and most of the people I've talked to agree that jumpwear makes a world of difference, especially in learning to fly, and like a static line, the jumpsuit is something you can jump without later on when the skills have come along further. I'll be jumping with my suit for some time to come before I take the "training wheels" off. _______________________________________

HI!! Welcome to the site!! There's so much to read up on here... it's awesome. _______________________________________

Welcome to the site!! Enjoy, check it out, I'm sure you'll love it here! _______________________________________

Welcome to the site!! Enjoy, there's a lot of good stuff in store for you.

That's cool that you had line twists on the first jump, At least you wont be worried about those anymore. Welcome and enjoy!! _______________________________________

Welcome to the site!! Enjoy..... _______________________________________

The reality is that not all DZ's actually give a shit about their students to the degree a lot of people would like, which I can attest to personally. _______________________________________

I think skydiving will do all this and more for you! Welcome to the forum and if you really believe this is for you then happy jumping and blue skies. _______________________________________

I would spend days in a tunnel if I could. Not minutes or hours, days!! I love flying in any form. _______________________________________

Welcome. I couldn't have said it better than those three. ^^ Definitely enjoy the forums here because there is a LOT of good info and when you do the tandem just have the time of your life and if you're like the rest of us you'll be completely hooked! _______________________________________

I basically went by myself. My girlfriend talked me into going with her to do a tandem, she'd done 2 at the time and me none, but when we got there she backed out... oh well. She told me to go anyway so I did! I've been going every weekend since then and even though I'm usually the quiet one I've still managed to make friends with pretty much everyone there. I'm sure it's true that you'll make friends quickly if you want to. _______________________________________

Lets keep this thread going please!! I'm sure there are a lot of us newbies who would want to know more. _______________________________________

Welcome to the skies and good for you for just going and doing it!! A lot of understand what it's like to get totally hooked and to discover a whole other group of people. Skydiving is best and yes it costs a lot but it's so worth it. Enjoy, good luck with the student jumps and blue skies!! _______________________________________