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Jump number would be better than date and time as we wouldn't need to know how regularly they jump. For a hypothetical example: Sangi, at less than 350 jumps - may be next year, may be 3 years from now.
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timmyfitz replied to e_nevett's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Except you sangi. We know you are special, as in short bus special. -
What Kallend said is true -- your experience is a more limiting factor. I came back after 13 years off in my mid-40's; I kept jumping my big original gear until I found the perfect deal, and then downsized to it. One thing to consider with everyone jumping smaller canopies is that landing discipline is far more important than it was in the 80's at least (which was when I effectively quit). You have to at least consider the presence of a landing pattern; you have to fly in it when you're in its area, and you have to take it into account when you're not able to land in its area. Enjoy coming back And yeah -- ignore Sangi; he just likes stirring shit. Most of the other people in this thread jump a whole lot more than he does Wendy P. There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)
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I sincerely hope you are joking! Sangi is an authority on everything and a complete expert on nothing. Any advice given by him can be instantly written off! Don't worry about it. Go to your DZ, talk to the instructors there, they'll help you get current on something appropriate. Then you get to enjoy demoing various canopies from various manufactures to decide what canopy suits your desires and abilities! This is something to be excited about, not something to loathe. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."
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+1 By the way, Sangi, I don't consider myself a fossil. I still view myself as a new jumper, learning something every time I am in the air. I am still very nervous when trying something new - like last weekend when I first strapped the still camera to my head. I hope you become a fossil, and I hope I never read about you in the incident forum. But I'm not holding my breath for you - or for the OP. "We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub" "
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skyjumpenfool replied to e_nevett's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Sangi... Clearly, you're missing the point. We're not slamming the OP or his abilities here. Skydiving is an extreme sport that is learned thru a progression of varied skill sets. Skipping a step in the progression has killed too many of our friends. It almost killed me once! I got lucky. Take a chill pill, make some jumps under the supervision of a couple "fossils" and, eventually, you'll understand this. Birdshit & Fools Productions "Son, only two things fall from the sky." -
No, Sangi, a bit of legstrap excess isn't likely going to kill anyone. It might flap the rest of the strap loose and make for a painful opening, however. That said, the camera mounted on the right foot (same side as he pitches) may well kill him (and potentially someone else). Anyone who has much time in skydiving knows you don't want something on that side. A PC can *easily* wrap around a foot mount on the right side. Any experienced camera flyer (or experienced skydiver) should be able to point this out immediately.
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Thanks Sangi, Did YOU liked the video??
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Quit posting and go jump, Sangi Wendy P. There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)
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New gear, did I make a good choice? (your opinion)
mrbiceps replied to quadrevium's topic in Gear and Rigging
Your an fucking idiot sangi, I tell u the definition of boring. A 200 pound newbie jumping a 170 and making a low turn and breaking himself and spending 3 months in a hospital bed staring at the ceiling. We should be encouraging newbies to jump big slow canopies for their first 200 jumps at least. I jumped a 215 until i had 185 jumps and i regret nothing, my ankles and legs are still pointing in the same direction when i took up skydiving. -
New gear, did I make a good choice? (your opinion)
monkycndo replied to quadrevium's topic in Gear and Rigging
Listen to Sangi, he knows everything about everything. Just ask him. A big canopy can be less than exciting. But it is also more forgiving as one learns how to fly said canopy and makes a mistake. Learn how to sink it in, make it float as long as possible to get back from a long spot, land crosswind & down wind, make flat turns. Then when you downsize, it will be easier to do those same tasks, with less risk since you have those skills in your toolbox. A panic turn on a big canopy can hurt you. A panic turn on an undersized canopy can do much worse. And if you have a chance, take a canopy skills course as soon as you can. Learning good habits early is much better than breaking old habits and relearning. 50 donations so far. Give it a try. You know you want to spank it Jump an Infinity -
Here a few of mine... http://skwrl.smugmug.com/Skydiving/Jumptown-May-29-2010/12355365_7iQcc#883845404_4f9Ek http://skwrl.smugmug.com/Skydiving/Jumptown-May-29-2010/12355365_7iQcc#886185807_rP2tN http://skwrl.smugmug.com/Skydiving/Jumptown-May-29-2010/12355365_7iQcc#886185639_Hgaia http://skwrl.smugmug.com/Skydiving/Pepperell-June-2-2010/12418061_FRgg6#888671404_5Fm5P (The last one being there just to piss Sangi off.) Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork
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"I will pattent it soon when i start designing my own wingsuit" Remeber this? Seriously man, you remind me of Sangi back in the day before he started jumping. Remember Sangi? Anyway, listen more, talk less. That is my advice to your ignorant ass, there might be suits like your drawing there someday. But you obviously have no idea what the problems associated w/ building one are. Even though you fly paraglider and hang gliders, you under estimate the forces involved. Do you think you are the only paraglider/Hang glider that has an interest in wing suiting? I can count about 5 off the top of my head that have been flying and jumping longer than you have been alive, and even more that currently design wings for the top paragliding manufacturers. Like these guys (http://vimeo.com/12082759) Thats right, the entire Ozone team also fly wing suits, but they don't know anything about flying and building wings compared to you! It ain't as simple as throwing in some carbon fiber spars and extending the aspect ratio...But don't believe us Go fly in the tunnel and prepare to take over the world!
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Sangi ... classic.. you don't know what you don't know.. I've been flying paragliders (bit's of Nylon and string) for 20 years now and if my 7 hour (SEVEN) flight is mere horse play ... then bring it on Dobbin. (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome
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Future of wingsuit able to fly up?
gisellemartins replied to gisellemartins's topic in Wing Suit Flying
Jets, anti gravity devices, that's how it's prolly gonna be.. Hi Sangi when u say something to fly need to be complex and not nylon, depends for what kind of fly u want if u want powered supersonic aircraft to fly probably u are right nylon wont be good, but if u want only a wing to fly and glide i think nylon have been doing an amazing job so far, ballons are made of nylon, flexible hangliders and paragliders are made of nylon and all of them are succesfull non powered machines able to take and fly up for hours and hours. Of course there are rigid hanggliders like the ATOS from the germany company A.I.R and they fly much better than flexible hanggliders made of thick nylon. but it doesnt mean that nylon is uselles, in my opnion for the kind of fly i want for myself , take off from a montain or a plane and be able to glide and fly up for many hours wihout using any powered engine and maybe landing for me Nylon is the best material ever for it, strong, flexible and light! Lauren Martins - www.youtube.com/user/gisellemartins20 -
Sangi, could you share with us how many jumps on the CF2 you have? And what about on the other canopies he is asking about?
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I know who sangi is. He's real but he trolls for fun. Sometimes it's even funny. My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto
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Can I put a 20 on the board on Sangi?
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YAY!!! See, I can do more than troll on here! Not that fast! It was your instructors who said that, and even Sangi may have said something productive....once....maybe . Funny enough I actually read a reply by Sangi today that made me think "He's actually saying something helpful" It was about first canopies or something "Damn you Gravity, you win again"
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YAY!!! See, I can do more than troll on here! Not that fast! It was your instructors who said that, and even Sangi may have said something productive....once....maybe . To the OP, Im no expert but Im gona take the liberty to suggest something. Get on the floor in the freefall position and do 98324750 heel clicks. Maybe that helps with the legs issue. HISPA #93 DS #419.5
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Hellis replied to ridestrong's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
7 pages of replys, 157 posts. And we got one! So if we keep this thread for annother 7 pages we might get Sangi? -
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hchunter614 replied to ridestrong's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Sangi, Why don't you take a week and go back through all of the posts in the incidents forum and then look for posts by the people that the incidents are about. You'll find more corelation that you'd like to admit. I remember a saying I saw on here (although not exactly so I'll paraphrase)... "When you start skydiving you start out with 2 buckets. One full of luck and the other empty of skill. Every jump you take a little luck out and hopefully move it to the skill bucket. If your luck bucket runs out before your skill bucket is full then you're going to be in a world of hurt" Also remember that you might not kill yourself but you may kill a friend that you're jumping with. Could you live with that? -
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jayrech replied to ridestrong's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I agree we need to have fun in our sport. That is why we skydive right. Its fun. Now I havent been in the sport nearly long enough to start throwing valuable advice around, but what I can gather is, when people start going in bad things come out of it. There is a death in the sport, a family looses a son or daugher. People loose a friend(no matter how much it seems like it sometimes but we all have friends), The sport may loose more than just one person. If people happen to witness the incident( Im sure it happens more often than not) they may be driven out of the sport. Lawsuits like mentioned earlier in this forum may come about. Yes we will learn something from the incident, Wether or not it was gear related, we will always learn something from it. Now with that being said, Some times we learn a hard lesson. New restrictions may be put on our sport. Our sport is scrutinized to no end constantly. Take a look at the recent incident in Toronto. Im sure all the wonderfull media attention we are getting from it is bringing in at least 300 new Solo jumpers per DZ across canada. Now this goes straight to you "Sangi". I am a low low low number jumper. I(like many people in the sport) hates being told what to do, how to do it. This Subject hits pretty close to home for me. I didnt come out of it with a Mal, no cut away, but a good lesson none the less. My self and another jumper from my home dz where going for a hope and pop camera flight. At this point i had two camera jumps under my belt. We decided to do an exit that we really shouldnt have and caught it on tape. To make a long story short, after reviewing the video(thinking I am all hot shit had so much fun and was so creative) my DZO/ really good friend took me aside and proceeded to knock me down on notch at a time. Fuck did I hate him at the moment, I felt like an idiot. Looking at this now, It happen last summer, I look at how many cards I had stacked leaning slightly towards the fire. I was lucky, the guy I was jumping with was lucky. The biggest thing I can take out of it is, incidents don't happen from one "big" mistake. Its mostly always a culmination of various little mistakes, And my incident was sure starting to make a list of its own. Dude, I hope I get a chance to jump with you. Its a bloody small world so you never know if it will happen or not. Keep enjoying our sport as it is. Have fun with your life man, but for fuck sakes take some advice with a little more of an open mind. I like the sport the way it is, but i fear if things keep happening that could be avoided incident wise, our sport is going to change in ways we are all not going to like. Im done being all grown up, Im going to go play in active avalanche terrain! D.S 174.2 Be careful what you say. Some one might take it the right way. -
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NovaTTT replied to ridestrong's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Try thinking outside your little box, Sangi. It's not about you. It's about skydiving and the negative results that fatalities have on our sport and the potential alteration of our self-regulatory status. It's about lawsuits and liability. It's about DZs and Mfgrs being able to remain open and make a living. It's not about you. "Even in a world where perfection is unattainable, there's still a difference between excellence and mediocrity." Gary73 -
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sparkie replied to ridestrong's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Exactly. You all babble, you should have done this, you shouldn't have done this, I would have done this bla bla bla.. Yeh yeh, you people would have done a perfect save from a mal behind your PC in your warm room, you (nor me, nor anyone else) knows exactly how they're going to react to stressfull situations and even the almighty skygod with 10k jumps can fuck up on some kind of emergency.. So quit all the bullcrap and chill out with your "you're going to die, oh noes, look at your bad cutaway, look at you flying a cam at these jump numbers", I'm so fucking sick of this DZ.com bullshit! Rant out. You gotta love them 100 jump wonders No offense intended buddy, but bookmark this thread and read it again when you have much more jumps. You will wonder who this overconfident Sangi guy is
