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  1. What worries me is that we are fighting the last battle. Looking into the future of cameras its going to be even harder and harder to keep them away.


    Look at things like this. How could you tell if some 30 jump wonder's glasses are cameras or not. Even more so they put them under a full face and completely remove the snag hazard argument.

    http://www.toolking.com/pov-action-video-cameras-acg25-hd-action-camera-eyewear?CAWELAID=1927218930&catargetid=1925286020&cagpspn=pla&gclid=COzJ25La0LcCFVRk7AoduwgAmA

    Camera's like this are currently cheap and the quality is not good, but in a couple years these things could be everywhere. We need to start thinking about how to spot them, how to properly explain the risks of distractions etc, when snag hazards and be eliminated.(Personally I'd love to have a camera as glasses inside my full face)

    I did buy a cheap pair of these for about 60 bucks to check out the quality. I took them to the wind tunnel to see how they worked. Its still not nearly there in quality, but I'd expect to see more and more of these on DZs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5jI4mAZa0c

  8. My favorite part of this, is that the comments section is filled with people telling him how bad of an idea it is, why he is making a mistake, there is no one there saying, good job keep it up.

    Yet he still thinks its a great idea. Not to mention the camera, which I know zhills doesn't allow before 200 jumps, same as sebastian. And I just want to see him in free fall.

    Ask and you shall receive, here he is in free fallhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h9I9O-1EUU

    He was actually better in freefall than i expected, but his landing scared the shit out of me.

  9. I think some of the appeal to zombies vs aliens is that they were us at one point.

    Might be easier to kill an anonymous alien, but killing the zombified remains of your daughter might be more difficult since there would still be emotional bonds.

    just my 2 cents on why zombies have become the soup de jour lately.

  12. I think body awareness, and having experience understanding where your body and limbs are at all times will be the biggest take away.

    As said before, in Diving or gymnastics, you are to some degree getting all your motion, power and rotation from the launch. With skydiving, you are constantly engaging the wind to create the motion. Therefore you can do it slower, (doing a maneuver very slow is skydiving is usually harder than doing it quickly) and with more control throughout the entire maneuver.

    It will take a little time to adjust to not having to huck everything, but with your body awareness, you should pick it up quickly.

  15. The benefit to the tunnel is they can really work to give you excellent form, alot of this is done with lower windspeeds and work on the net.

    This can often times feel frustrating as it can feel like you are taking a step backwards from what you are doing in the sky. I have felt that many a times, but the next time I'm in the sky I can almost always tell the improvement I made.

    If the tunnel is nearby, find local groups that make regular tunnel visits, they can help speed your progress, give you spacing and often times can negotiate for better rates. Then try and keep a regular schedule if possible, even if its only once every other month.

    Good luck, have fun!

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    1)Whats your personal motivation behind jumping out of an airplane.

    Someone doing the sex with me

    2) What factor does adrenaline in YOUR own skydives.

    Honestly, I feel its very low. I think of skydiving like intense yoga, its not so much adrenaline that's getting me to my next point, its precision and precision doesn't come from adrenaline it comes from calmness (in my opinion)

    3)What factor does pushing your skills to the next level play in your time in the sky

    Depends on my intent, some days I am there just to have fun with friends in the sky and be silly. Sometimes I am training towards specific goals and am working towards said goal.

  17. As it happens, this Halloween my friend jumped as the tooth fairy which included a tutu.

    He did 1 jump with it. I just rewatched the video, everything seemed fine, he did make sure the back didn't cover his hackey, but it worked. He also had butterfly wings on.

    So do it and post pics

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    I think there can be a pretty serious lag, at least for freeflying. I have like 25hrs in the tunnel and 166 jumps and my freeflying in the sky is much farther behind,

    Behind what? People with thousands of jumps?

    My son works in a tunnel. He has 16 jumps and turned a couple of double digit 4 ways today.:)
    I think that pretty much proves tunnel skills transfer to skydiving. ;)


    I think what he meant was that his skills in the sky are not on par to his skills in the tunnel. I also know that I can do much more in the tunnel than I can in the sky, part of that is the fact that you have restricted space so you are forced to fly in proximity and you are matching speeds to the tunnel not to the other people in the sky.

  21. I fly at SKyventure NH all the time. I would say that at 13 jumps you could get everything you need out of the tunnel instructors there. Just tell them where you are in your learning progression and what your goals are.

    Joe Winters there is one of the better coaches, Also if you jump at Jumptown or Skydive New England both have weekly trips to the tunnel that include coaching.

    hope that helps, have fun, I was in there last night. Good times.