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  1. Best way to get 3+ minutes flights from an S Bird is to be getting an R Bird (or similar) maxed out before upgrading. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  2. I think camera is your best bet too. Report back! 3 mins is pretty easy in an S. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  3. My advice is you want to invest in a Flysight to get the best idea of your performance. You will get some advice on how to set your alto...but nothing beats the raw data you get from a Flysight. Great suit eh? S Bird is in my top 3 favorite suits. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  4. This is a funny and exciting video with speed flying and of course wing suiting. I like how they added the extra dimension of a storyline (of sorts) into this instead of it just being all action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GOLm_f36bE&feature=share Congrats to the Wicki brothers! Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  5. It isn't a cheap event, but neither is skydiving. EVERY penny and then some gets spent on the event. 90% of it goes to organizer expenses and that is even with a few of them paying for their own travel - thanks guys, you know who you are. NONE of the organizers charge a day rate because this is such a historic event to wingsuiting. No one entity owns this event, it is a community event that brings people together from all over the world. Many participants are coming from overseas. The cost of the event itself is an insignificant % compared to their travel and work absence costs. And...only 12 slots left, so if you want to dish that cash out go for it! IF we happen to come in under budget we will buy beer on the Saturday night party just so we don't make a profit! For those of you that can't make it but have already purchased your registration simply find someone to buy it, send me an email with their name, email and tshirt size and I will switch it over. We don't give refunds because each registered person allows us to commit to more organizers. Excuses? I have heard them all! Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  6. 1 month till Flock n Dock!!! Only 12 slots left. The event IS capped at 100 simply because we don't want more than 10 pilots to each organizer. Avoid disappointment and sign up. At this rate we will not have door sales. Simon Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  7. Less than 24 hours to register AND get a T shirt that fits or even a T shirt at all. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  8. What are you thinking you would like to use it for? Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  9. It is a great theory if you have somewhere to go with all that energy. Too many people have boxed themselves into corners where all that energy can't be used to outfly the landscape. The danger is when you have it going on you feel like you can outfly anything, but you often can't. It's a trap. I don't think people are dying because they fly too close and hit the earth. Planning has to exist for the entire flight not just the moment. So, I personally agree but only in a very specific context. As with most statements if you take them out of context they can sound crazy. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  10. Granted I don't have anything like as many jumps on the Colugo as on my old Vampire but I still think the V-series leg pouch is the quickest way to get rid of a PC. Yes, the Colugo is easy and reliable to reach, but you have to reach further and you have to reach in a certain way. Grab-and-gone from a leg pouch can happen in a eye-blink. For wing suiting I really like a longer container so that you don't need that "up" movement. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  11. I bet they said the same thing to Bill Booth when he first played with the hand deployment. I can see a use for this in BASE but I also am a big fan of having a single deployment method. Either way I think it is good to see people experiment with options. Rarely does the first plan work but often you learn something along the way. I am seeing similar experiments with canopies that are within the leg wing. All interesting stuff but I would rather watch for now! I remember hearing that the Dyson guy did about 1000 prototypes before nailing the vortex for his vacuum. Innovation takes many paths. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  12. I added a signup event for the Camp prior to the event. This is for newbies. If you have under 15 jumps you MUST attend this. http://flockndockcamp.eventbrite.com Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  13. - We will be at SDC for at least Summerfest, maybe more. - For sure we will make it out to SoCal. ChicksRock looks like it will be at least one excuse to get over that way! Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  14. Works for me but here is the full link. I see a couple of entries already. https://docs.google.com/a/wickedwingsuits.com/forms/d/1BOdNS6pGsbIEs8RnsSbTCe-ljsJUFViSev63f2_YuKM/viewform Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  15. Wicked Wingsuits is touring the country for 2014. We will be doing First Flight Courses, Organizing and Wingsuit Rentals! If you would like us to stop by YOUR drop zone then just let us know using the link below and we will be in contact to figure out the details. http://tinyurl.com/mb3wqex The tour starts April 3rd in Zhills with Flock n Dock 10th Anniversary Wingsuit Boogie. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  16. Imagine this, headfirst, in a wingsuit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqCkICXWdWI Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  17. I don't just think different suits fly differently but different pilots fly differently and still achieve the same end result. This is art more than science. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  18. +1 Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  19. Excellent! Thanks, Jeremy! You going to either Puerto Rico or F&D 10? Of COURSE he is going to F&D!!! Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  20. S-Bird is a wonderful suit, I am biased, for the longest time I preferred the performance of an S over any of the bigger\faster suits available. Apache Scorpion is now my goto suit but it is modeled on an S. You have to ask yourself "why" you want another suit. If it is just to have another then go for it but if you have something in mind better to speak up. An S has a lot of range, it takes everything the R does but does them better. It doesn't do anything that the R doesn't already do, it just does them better. If you want to do aerobatics and back fly you should look elsewhere. In my opinion, performance on an S is directly relative to the time you put in on a smaller suit before you upgrade. Just 50 jumps and you won't get a huge leap, but 200-300 and you will get something special out of an S. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  21. Both great suits, the R Bird was my favorite suit for the longest time. Have to give credit to the Ghost3 for being a rock solid back fly suit. Wouldn't hurt to try both out. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  22. We have filled half the slots already. Some real champs have signed up both from US and Europe! If you look at the event page you can see the names. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  23. They are both great, so a few ways I would handle it. i) flip a coin ii) Go spend 30 minutes at each and just walk around checking the place out, ask a few questions but don't give too much away. Go with the one you felt the "vibe for you" at. Oh, and if you pick wrong, switch. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  24. Got Wingsuit? Got performance? Come get you some bragging rights and a piece of the $1000 pot! https://zhillsperformancecup.eventbrite.com Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com
  25. I like to do a little tease by unzipping each just a few inches at a time till I show off some thigh. I bet folks on the ground love it, I just know they are watching. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com