5.samadhi

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  1. sweet this one is even better than your last post.
  2. So I'm sure you know that Tonysuits is run by a guy from Europe hehe
  3. I fly a very tucked mantis position always now because of shoulder issues in classic boxman position. If I want to slow down I get creative with the rest of my body (kinda hard to explain I just will to slow down and my body does something to slow me down). Front risering can inflame shoulders also so I feel where you are coming from. I have been doing daily rotator cuff exercises for years now and that is the only thing that keeps my shoulders together after years of abuse lifting weights and climbing hard sport climbs (5.13+).
  4. well we are in a race to be better than your european countries. just kidding I fly a V2 anyways
  5. just buy a tonysuit. support 'Merica!
  6. hey skymonkey the cobalt is a nice canopy...I wonder how much different the radical is?
  7. I dont know about everybody else but I close my wings until I have cleared the aircraft seems to work GREAT
  8. I either took too much drugs or not enough drugs to understand this post
  9. my advice is this: listen to jumpers with more experience than you with activities as dangerous as skydiving. It pays well to be conservative...if they are wrong and you get to 200-300 jumps and start flying camera and realize that you could have jumped on it sooner...well you havent really lost much. If they are right however, you will have gained a whole lot of safety for those 150 jumps you were planning to shoot video on. Believe me I was in your shoes a few years ago when I started skydiving and contemplated cameras. I waited and I was thankful once I did start jumping camera around 300 skydives when I realized how complicated it is and how much it adds to the skydive. peace!
  10. The only thing these videos are demonstrating is confirmation bias by many of the people posting. There are a number of factors about these clips that make it very difficult to draw conclusions as to what is happening. 1) camera angle is not perpendicular to the line of flight. 2) the flight line doesn't appear to be straight, it looks like they are turning right just after passing the cablecar. 3) the smoke is sinking 4) as The111 pointed out long lenses from far away can cause funny effects Gaining altitude from a flare is old news, you see canopies doing it at the DZ everyday of the week. So far any convincing evidence of it happening in a WS is after a very significant dive. Maybe some of the pilots were wearing flysights and we can draw some useful conclusions from the log files... Your posts remind me of some dude at a party on LSD stuck in a bad loop, not able to get himself out of it. SNAP OUT OF IT BROTHER!
  11. see now you've gone and made Billvon dole out an internet ass whooping and thats just sad that you had to take it THAT far.
  12. "lindenwood" you were asking for a good ole classic davelepka internet ass kicking and you got one.
  13. He's referring to the comment made by the Red Bull Stratos announcer that Felix was going to have 5 minutes, 30 seconds of freefall time, which "would have set the freefall record", when we all know Medusa holds the record with 9 minutes and 6 seconds of free fall time from 37,000 feet. well I personally do not really think of wingsuit flight as freefall. I guess if you count glider flight freefall then he didnt break the world record. Most people probably count glider flight semantically as something different than freefall.
  14. why dont you just make your clever point and get on with it
  15. im jumping a base canopy with a wingsuit. not sure what you mean about retracting the bridle??? I'm thinking of just flying a non-collapsible PC (make me more used to the flight dynamics of that for when i go base jump again).
  16. having not had jumped one (presumably?) you take a stance that disagrees with nearly every single experienced jumper that has jumped a camera. Don't you think SOMETHING is up with that??? Every body is not trying to 'hold down' newer jumpers from doing something cool like recording their memories...for no reason. It IS a distraction. It IS an inane debate between inexperienced and experienced jumpers about whether or not it is a distraction. Some trust needs to come in for you. Find an experienced jumper you trust and give them your theory about how a camera isn't a distraction. Then listen to them and think. They know. peace
  17. how do you get a pc to collapse without a dbag, what is the setup like??? main will be freepacked with bridle at center cell attachment point. not a CRW canopy but not using a dbag. thanks!
  18. it was uhhh...that guy...over there...yeah. can i have my 50 jump tickets now??? but seriously though thats fucked up. If you don't catch her then I am sure they will get what is coming to them sooner or later leading a life like that
  19. last weekend somebody on the 4 way dive i was filming decided to pull in place instead of turning and tracking. This had them whizzing by me while I was in freefall (a second before I was reaching for my BOC to pull). A fucking bonehead move. I had to turn and track away to the clear airspace they did not take and pull at a lower than normal altitude for me (I was fully open at 2.2k'). This is food for thought for you poster with some 100 jumps and a camera. It was a lot for me to handle with 300 jumps I'm not sure how I would have reacted to being forced to change the dive plan mid-dive because of a safety issue like that had I not had the experience of the last two hundred jumps. stay safe-ish
  20. thanks a lot tunnelfly! one last question, do you think that resetting the logger photomate to 5hz would be easier for somebody who is not VERY computer savvy....would the extra software be free??? I guess that was two extra questions
  21. what would I be getting with the 747 that I don't get with the photomate? The photomate looks great, easy to mount on helmet/lightweight/inexpensive. Looks like they are pumping them out of taiwan? Do I need to have some external software (on my computer?) to switch the photomate to 5hz. From your post then I understand if I do its done with and I can just turn it on/off and it will remain 5hz. thanks for the info, I really need some help understanding this stuff
  22. it should only ever be on the stops regardless of the position. there is no exception to placement of slider other than on the stops.