I am INVIGORATED!
I made three jumps today after work. The weather was phenomonal. I made a couple of jumps with some low time jumpers. I don't mind jumping sometimes with newer people, I'm not stuckup. A lot of people won't "waste" a jump on someone that is still learning and can't fly real well and will probably screw up the dive plan.
So fucking what!
Who cares, it's still fun, it's all good and sometimes you can get a real funny story out of it. I jumped with this kid with only 48 jumps (I clicked over 800 last week). He was totally in awe that I was jumping with him one on one so we would come together, touch palms and then turn and do 360 degree turns and then back to palms. Simple, easy, but makes them focus on flying their body in proximity to someone, maintaining stability and fall rate.
He did pretty good, he tended to float on me during the 360's and backslide some but he flew back nice and in control.
It was kinda funny because after we went through the routine the first time, he had this big grin on his face. I knew right then that he had never docked on anyone or flew this close to someone for any length of time during a freefall. I could just tell, even in freefall, that he was just so pumped about this. To me it's no big deal but I can remember a time when me and my buddy would spend the whole dive flailing about and flying around nowhere near each other an a vain attempt to do something simple like this.
I think shit like that is kinda cool.
Now, the last dive was HOT. It was all high performance baby! I jumped out at 6000' with another guy who has a very high performance canopy like I do. We didn't do any freefall, we just deployed at altitude and then flew in formation next to each other for a bit. We even bumped the end cells of our canopy together and just started cranking turns back and forth next to each other. It was the sunset load so the sun was just touching down on the water of Lake Michigan and setting the sky on fire with the vivid reds and oranges of a perfect sunset. When the two of us landed, we come in across the ground at about 50 mph, we swooped the spectators close. He went on one angle I went on another so the flight paths ended up forming a large "X" across the ground.
The visuals were just fantastic.
There is no better way to end a day.
I made three jumps today after work. The weather was phenomonal. I made a couple of jumps with some low time jumpers. I don't mind jumping sometimes with newer people, I'm not stuckup. A lot of people won't "waste" a jump on someone that is still learning and can't fly real well and will probably screw up the dive plan.
So fucking what!
Who cares, it's still fun, it's all good and sometimes you can get a real funny story out of it. I jumped with this kid with only 48 jumps (I clicked over 800 last week). He was totally in awe that I was jumping with him one on one so we would come together, touch palms and then turn and do 360 degree turns and then back to palms. Simple, easy, but makes them focus on flying their body in proximity to someone, maintaining stability and fall rate.
He did pretty good, he tended to float on me during the 360's and backslide some but he flew back nice and in control.
It was kinda funny because after we went through the routine the first time, he had this big grin on his face. I knew right then that he had never docked on anyone or flew this close to someone for any length of time during a freefall. I could just tell, even in freefall, that he was just so pumped about this. To me it's no big deal but I can remember a time when me and my buddy would spend the whole dive flailing about and flying around nowhere near each other an a vain attempt to do something simple like this.
I think shit like that is kinda cool.
Now, the last dive was HOT. It was all high performance baby! I jumped out at 6000' with another guy who has a very high performance canopy like I do. We didn't do any freefall, we just deployed at altitude and then flew in formation next to each other for a bit. We even bumped the end cells of our canopy together and just started cranking turns back and forth next to each other. It was the sunset load so the sun was just touching down on the water of Lake Michigan and setting the sky on fire with the vivid reds and oranges of a perfect sunset. When the two of us landed, we come in across the ground at about 50 mph, we swooped the spectators close. He went on one angle I went on another so the flight paths ended up forming a large "X" across the ground.
The visuals were just fantastic.
There is no better way to end a day.
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