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  1. Do Wingsuit coach jumps count towards Coach rating renewal? 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. It would be nice to KNOW. The other document about Competition did a great job of listing not only who but what they were presenting. Would be nice if the Safety Agenda was similar. 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. Dreamers invented out past and will invent our future... 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. So excited to be going to the expo! Wicked Wingsuits and TonySuits have a few surprises planned.... 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. We will! 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. Wicked Awesome! 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. Why jump a new Wingsuit for the first time from 5k and on your back???? 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. If you are coming all the way from Germany you might fancy the next week in Deland for the Blue Skies Skydive Expo....once the expo is over we will have some wingsuit organizing over the weekend. http://www.facebook.com/SkydiveExpo 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. I think calling ahead may create its own kind of trouble. Here is how I think it could go... Me "hey I am going to visit this weekend, do you allow Wingsuiting?" DZO "sure we do...love those Wingsuits......what do you mean do we allow it? Do some places not allow it?? Why?" Me "oh....that's not what I meant.....um....er......well some places have banned it recently because of tail strikes" DZO "oh really....you might have a point there...." Then on DZ.Com headline reads "Wingsuiting banned at unnamed drop zone because Simon stirred up trouble". If we have facts we don't want to share let's just not post at all instead of this "I know something you don't know..." approach. It irritates me. Just as we know from aircraft accidents and indeed skydiving accidents it is with facts that we can make conclusions. 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. I am going to need one of those decoder rings also. 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. [reply More known tailstrikes in 2011 than known in 2000-2010 combined. You don't find that alarming? I prefer to make my opinions based on facts and I just don't feel like I have any facts on this one. I only know of 3 wingsuit tail strikes which have been over a 5 year period. I am not saying others don't happen but I just don't have enough information to mull on. Sounds like you must have a serious set of facts which unlike BASE fatalities and skydive accidents are just too secret to share. A community can't address an issue that isn't shared so it sounds like just a few of you have the burden of solving the issue, good luck. Never the less I will continue to avoid tails and encourage others to do so! 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 think it is alarmist to say n number of drop zones are banning wingsuiting but to keep the drop zone names a secret. Makes me think there is a hidden agenda. What is the big secret? 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. I too would like to know where my favorite sport is banned...I would hate to turn up and be disappointed. Can we get a list please? 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. I don't think posting this on dz.com is going to have much impact, it only reaches those that read here and in reality that is few. Maybe there should be an initiative to educate DZO and S&TA types about what they can do to help prevent a danger to their plane from loading up in the first place. This year we added a survey to review the knowledge of new renters on topics like this but still it won't stop suits getting into the hands of those unprepared to handle them. The DZ itself is the last line of defense. 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. Are there any details, maybe with name and DZ withheld but enough that we could see what the trend is. Are these major DZ's or rural? Are these new suits bough recently or bought used? If we want to make a difference we need to see the trends and address them. 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. Hi Spot, can you confirm that this course is a GO please? I have one or two people I want to send your way for it. 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
  17. Yay! What a great time last week was! Such a great gathering of folks. So so much to those that joined us for 2 jumps for the Red W. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5rSH5mDADQ 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. I like. 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. Hit the road and visit a few DZ's. Helped me find a real community. 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. I have a video also....showing ability to reach all sorts of good stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnVW24vAJZg Truth is you can't tell if I have unzipped....you can't even tell what suit I am on really. Luckily I survived. I can't recall if I unzipped a leg to let me kick of of these...I do that sometimes but not always. The line twists lasted about 25 seconds before this but I didn't want to bore anyone. Straight and level all the way, out of a Cessna 182 so not much traffic to be concerned about. 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. To me it looks like his right arm gets high up on the risers...it looks like a bit of a struggle but he is spinning up in a few G's I suspect. Is there a specific frame? Maybe I am just not seeing it. 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. It isn't necessary.....but if you have to run a bit it is preferred! I don't think this is any different between most suit designs. I have landed the R Bird which is bigger than the Intro tail a few times without unzipping. I didn't love it but it was fine. 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. Looks like a success to me! He doesn't need to unzip his arms until after getting out of the reserve twist. I hope I would have chopped a bit earlier with it diving towards the ground...but maybe he was having fun. 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. The I-Bird DOES incorporate the Escape Sleeve. In most cases you can grab not only your risers but your toggles. 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. This is an interesting situation that happened to me today....but if you like you could consider it to be a marketing tactic. I was talking to some other ski instructors today and the topic of fat skis came up. Some were convinced that a new skier should do their time on small ski's before being allowed to be on fat skis. "Fat skis make it too easy to ski well with less skill"... WOW, I couldn't believe the parallel I was hearing to wingsuiting....so when I got home I googled a few articles and it seems that every community loves to argue differences in designs, fads and trends....and there I was thinking I would get a weekend on the slopes away from the drama! http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog/_/post/5648471/do-fat-skis-increase-risk-injury http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=63911 http://www.theskidiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13305 Skiing kills...the problem is when you turn up at the resort they don't tell you that. We had 2 people die on our mountain already this season....so I always think the parallels to skydiving are very similar. I think the two could learn a lot from each other. Summer Rental special, 5 weeks for the price of 4! That is $160 a month. Try before You Buy with Wicked Wingsuits - WingsuitRental.com