Trafficdiver

Meat missile is a common term on the east coast, some people call it zoomy as well. Not trying to insult you, just trying to explain what you looked like in the flips. Your belly and turns looked stable, the flips looked scary. I don't think you will really hurt yourself, but every bruise avoided is a good thing. I'm surprised the tunnel guaranteed you no contact. I've never heard of that unless you are a proflyer. I personally love the fact that the instructors step in and save my ass. Sometimes in head down I'm at near max power and can really fuck myself at those speeds. Of course now they just let me Good luck.

First off. He would get fired if he backed off. It's their job to hold on to meat missiles like yourself. It's not your place, at less than 20 minutes in the tunnel to tell the instructor to back off. He's there so you won't get hurt. Want to fly without him, build your own tunnel. Secondly. Flips are by far the easiest part of AFF,which you have finished so you should know. Turning and flying stable is more difficult to learn, and much more important to learn. Don't be so quick to think you won't become a tunnel flyer. Lots of us went to the wind tube to learn to skydive and got addicted to it as well. It gets more fun the more things you can do and really helps with progression through the sport.

Most tunnels have ones you can borrow. First off, did you really try to grab a rattlesnake. That's bad ass. Secondly, good music. Thirdly. Your flying does not look that bad for so little time. Now for the negatives, you're trying to hard. Just arch (fuck the wind ) and relax. Do smaller inputs. Try to visualize keeping your hips at the center of the tunnel. That involves a certain balance between leg turns and arm turns, all while arching. Please stop with the front flips and barrel rolls till you get stable on your back. In my tunnel we don't do that in the belly flying stage. Your instructor is going to need shoulder surgery with a few more sessions like that . Then just keep at it, the tunnel involves little progressions at a time, sometimes so little you don't notice. It's very frustrating as well. I'm not sure when that ends. Anyway, save your flips and barrel rolls for the sky, or until you move on to back flying and are stable on your back. Keep at it, it's worth it in the end.

That's the best way to side slide. Sometimes tunnel rats have different names for the same things in skydiving. I would keep trying to integrate what you learn there into the sky.

Unless you are doing dynamic ff, which at 19 jumps I doubt, a 12' tunnel will do just fine. Calling SVNH a novelty is quite laughable.

That's what I do. I'll lay there and stare at the driver. They want to make sure you're stable before they give you more power, and being stable on the net is a good way to show them you're cool. Keep in mind everyone still sucks at jump 11. You will get better and the tunnel will help...eventually.

I say give it a shot. What's the worst that can happen...you fall in love with the sport and the people and end up pissing all of your money away and live in a leaky trailer. Could be worse

I think the RSL has saved many from impacting with the world. Maybe I don't get your question?

And then this. https://vimeo.com/122159755 Looks fun

Why don't you bring it into the tunnel and have them slow the air speed down. Ask the instructors to guide you on getting the most out of your body to slow down. Try to grab every sq inch of air,. I'd they say it's too tigt, get rid of it.

I no longer have snow banks in front of my house, I have snow treasuries.

To answer some confusion from a few posts up (re: the definition of a circle jerk), it's a lot like the quote above, but with more than one person congratulating himself. /end thread

Awesome man! You're starting an epic journey , just relax and enjoy the ride

I think practcing back flying on your bed would be more effective than belly flying due to your body position. I still think that neither is going to help. Once you get in the tube all that shit goes out the window anyway.

Hey man, I'm a libertarian...what you do in the privacy of your bedroom is your business....

Why are you afraid to put your name, location and stats in your profile? Want me to guess?

Im sure if I dug deep enough I could find someone talking about jumping out of a 3rd story bay window to practice PAC750 exits. Does that mean it's a good thing?

There are some fat dudes at the St. Patrick's Day Boogie in GA...I'm one of them. Really, skydiving only takes one step...

On a related note, there is a cool picture of the astronauts giving the "live long and prosper sign" in honor or Leonard Nimoy, over Massachusetts, and Im sure in a good close up of the pic you can see Orange Municipal Airport.

I don't think what you're doing is helping...although it is a really funny, really wierd mental picture that I want to forget now. You need to arch a lot to make your leg turns work correctly. Until you really get the dynamics of it down in the tunnel (which is difficult and can take time) practicing at home is a waste of time and may even slow down your progress by teaching your incorrect muscle memory. In the end you want balanced leg and arm turns. There are very good coaches in FL who can teach you this much better than your Beautyrest. Hunting deer in the Everglades sounds awesome.

See Greg, when I asked her in an earlier post if she was a psycho hose beast, you were the person I had in mind.

The scariest part of Point Break, now that I have a few jumps, is when the three dudes deploy right next to each other.

Very newbie friendly. Big big LZ. Outs for days. Very fun crowd. Lots of fun jumps. I brought two recently licensed skydivers down from Boston last year and they had a blast. I have more coming down this year. I would suggest getting your license first, as the AFF instructors there may be drunk.

Eleven years later... He probably doesn't even know, that he ever jumped any of the canopies by now. Go and revive some more usefull threads =) Both canopies are still being built? His question is still valid and this is a great place to ask. Plus, he clearly spent some time digging around. How about we cut him some slack? H When flying outside vid, I like the Stiletto because it will get me back when the last TI out the door takes us long. I found the Katana ground hungry for my taste. As stated above, it's gonna depend on your personal preferences. LOL the dizzy.com paradox. If you ask a question "Dude, that's been asked a million times before, try the search" If you search " Dude way to harpoon that thread up from 5 years ago ...hahaha" You can't win.

Come down to Panama for the boogie on Contadora. Buy a tandem. Then you can ask one of the stuntmen who did the jump if he pulled at 300'. Oh make sure to get the video package and try the Piña Colatá...they're killer.