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Hi! Can someone tell for noobie how much strenght u need to pull toggles? Is it genrel pull or pushdown to get it turning? Thanks a lot!!

DM if you're willing to part

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/SuLFNtMr3u

I’ve got a firebird evo with an axon 190 and a reserve pd176 with a cypress if anyone is interested. I have it for sale on fb marketplace but I need it gone. Asking 5500 and I’ll ship it to you as well.

Just saw Bay Area Skydiving is selling tickets for $37 for 13,000’ starting 2025.

How much are jump tickets at your local DZ ?

So you hear of a skydiving accident and Lodi immediately comes to mind. You watch a video of a desert jump, see a tunnel onsite and think "hey that's probably eloy!"

Was talking with my childhood friend who also jumps about this project. If you haven't played Geoguessr, you're essentially dropped somewhere randomly in Google Street View, and your goal is to guess exactly where in the world you are.

So why not make a dropzone version of it! Except outside of Google Street View, you're in the air, in the hangar, in the pack room, anything that has to do with the DZ that makes it special.

I don't know when this project would be fully up or not, as the goal is to get as many photos as possible, plus other obligations as a phd student, but it might be a fun project for fun jumpers and geoguessrs to look at/play since we probably watched like 100000 tracking or angle jumps on whatever social media since that's literally what they push to us.

Please use this Google Form to upload the photos, it should require at least one. Please write the name of the dropzone in the photo still

Does anyone skydive in the winter? Does it take away from the fun? Is it completely insane? Looking to get some feedback. Also, when I say winter I am referring to winter in the North East. So, anywhere from 10 degrees to 40 degrees depending on the day.

I am asking because I booked a tandem jump for next weekend. It's supposed to be about 30 degrees on the ground. I bought some winter gear, like gloves, full face balaclava, jacket, etc but wondering if even that is going to be enough. Is it still worth doing this, or would waiting be advised?

Facebook scares me with all the scammers lately but looking for a good 170 main. Will have to go through riggers escrow. Preferably orange and black but not really that picky.

Edit: location is east coast USA Edit2: please DM your canopies to me instead of a general comment thank you.

Dropzone.com was for sale and is now down. Anyone know who bought it? Whois shows the registrar as private.

I'm wanting to go skydiving and I've been told that there is a 1 in 1000 chance that something will go wrong. not nessicarily that you will die, but that you will experience some kind of problem with your equipment. is this true?

I wanted to share my experience of how I started skydiving. This was a bit a of a childhood dream. I only got to experience a tandem 2 years ago near where I live in Germany. Since then it solidified my desire to go further into learning how to do it.

Spent the next 2 years preparing financially and by reading and watching as much content as possible about it (it's how I function with learning new things). Part of what I wanted is to do this by the beach. Things aligned and End of november this year (now) was the best time to do it. And from all places I find a dropzone in Australia (in Queensland) that fills all the criteria I had in my mind:

• By the beach
• Accomodations / Price
• Do the whole course at once in a span of 2-3 weeks

Given what I read about the value doing at least some wind tunnel ahead of time. I've done 30 minutes of wind tunnel 2-3 weeks ahead of the start of the course. That was fun and exausting. My shoulder muscles lost at least 30% of their lifting power for a couple of weeks 👀.

Fast forward to Monday, I started my ground course, mind you there was also an online course as part of this and I went through the first jump, emergency procedures, and other relevant information in my mind a 100 thousand times as I was traveling on my way to Australia (I took 2-3 weeks to go through a couple of places). The instructor was happy enough to have the AFF1 jump on the day which I did successfully. Legs were a bit more relaxed as the jump went on but overall I nailed all of it which was exhilierating.

Second day, I go for 5 jumps on the day all the way to AFF6 which went extremely well. One of my proudest jumps as I got the whole thing done in the first 30 seconds with fixing a small instability on exit with the wind pushing me to the side.

Third day, all the way to hop and pop with some instability in the beginning but managed to quickly stabilize and deploy. And failed my B-Rels 1 jump at the end because of taking a bit of time to stabilize. So that was 4 jumps again

Fourth day 4 more jumps, I decided to go for my first solo to do a proper dive exit, backflip, do a proper practice throw and get more confident in being stable when deploying, and being more aware of my altitude / time as a I fall to deployment altitude. B-Rels all the way to the 3rd level quite successfully.

Fifth day, I only do one jump, first because of the weather second because I failed my B-Rels 4 because I struggled to arch properly to be level and it also introduced instability as I was trying to do my manoeuvers and I also managed to briefly go on top of my instructor and exprinced a burble but quickly moved away. So I'm starting to take this a bit more slowly as I notice the fatigue affecting my learning and performance. Also feels like shit when I fail at a level / in a jump.

I know this is a super accelerated timeline and that was by choice because of the limited time I have here, my eagerness and how busy I will be next year, along with the jumping season in Germany only starting in April. This might be a dumb idea but so far I'm still proud I was able to do all of this while being as safe as possible. Definitely lots to learn and I do recognize that doing it this fast will not be the best way to learn but I'm doing it the way I want with the resources I have. Today I'm off from jumping to recover and also because the weather won't allow it anyways.

I felt like sharing. Feel free to roast, comment, give feedback, share your own experience. I was much of a lurker on this subreddit but I've learned a lot just reading through the comments and posts and I thought this will be helpful if not for feedback then just to share my own experience and the packed week I had starting to learn this amazing sport.

So I have the bracket on my 2X, and I want to mount my X3 in the front. I am running into some difficulty.
Does anyone have any mounting recommendations or options that don't use a 3M adhesive? Adrenaline Workshop doesnt that.

just booked a trip to indo,
anyone knows the best DZs around the island? should i take my gear or renting is okay?
Thanks in advance! 😁

What’s the jumping like at this time of year? I have time off and I’m thinking of travelling from Europe.

Will there be plenty of jumping or is it all holds for dust devils?

TIA

I’ve been wanting to get my A license for a while now, and I finally am able to invest some money into it. I was looking into an AFF course in the DC area, but I could only find one starting in March. Does anyone know of any others starting sooner? I don’t mind driving a bit.

Thanks!

Please go to the Jyro website for more information. A little of the affected serial numbers is included in the bulletin. Please get your lines on order and contact your rigger for installation. This is a mandatory repair.

Hi all,

I have recently started looking at different AFF and A courses for sky-diving. I'm from India, I realised that the most reasonable option for me is to go to Thailand and learn there. I was searching on google but couldn't find out about that is April a good time to go and learn or should I go sometime else? Also I'm mostly going solo for it so any community where I can find people who are interested in going? Any suggestions for solo learners are also welcome!

Thanks in advance!

Anybody relate to a hard opening?

Hi, My partner's birthday is coming up and he's mentioned wanting to change the look of his new skydiving rig. I know nothing about skydiving so thought I would ask here - any ideas on how I can go about customising his rig (not the canopy) for him?

We live in Sydney Australia so if you know somewhere near by even better!

Thanks in advance for any help!!

(In advance want to say it’s my opinion and I may be completely wrong)

I don’t have a home DZ and I jump at one off the largest DZ overseas. So I am starting out new, just learning the basics and still suck at most of everything.

In this forums I keep reading ‘ask your instructor, or at DZ’ and since Reddit has been predominantly my connect with the skydiving community I had this impression that the skydivers were this large group of very helpful guys/girls people who would happily help you grow the sport.

But on ground I had a very different experience. Instructor answers were civilly curt, they did answer but minimal. Also usually followed by ‘have you done coaching for this’. Even when I meet other fun jumpers, their usual answer is ‘you should do coaching for this, so and so is a good coach’. A very pay to learn culture.

I wanted to ask is this a localised experience globally? Not because it’s good or bad but just to adjust my expectations. It’s not just rig and & jump tickets cost that I have to cater for then.

Hello,

I have around 150 jumps and my own rig and everything. I used to love jumping with LOs and some of my friends. Now I never go anymore and when I do it’s always kind of boring. Me and my friend(s) don’t really have anything fun to do and just fall. The DZs I go to are rather cliquey as well so it’s usually just me and 1-2 friends who are rather new as well so we are limited on what we can do.

I spent tons of time in the tunnel the last few months which was fun and I got back flying down and progressed to sit flying. Also, I always wanted to wingsuit. But I can’t find the motivation to keep going and getting the jumps in.

I’ve invested so much time and money into this sport I want to keep going, but part of me might just sell everything and quit.

Let me know if you’ve experienced something similar or have any advice.

Can anyone tell me how many fatalities have occurred at Spaceland Houston in the past 10 years? Or where I could find that info? Thanks so much.

Humorous gifts. Useful gifts for someone about to spend a few months sitting down. Please share your ideas. Thanks!

Hi everyone - would love to do my AFF from December 27th, any place you have in mind that could be open at this period (Europe)? Thanks!

Has anyone found a design to 3D print an anti-snag/roller mount for the Insta360 One RS that would work with a Cookie G4?

The case and mount that come with the camera is destined to open and lose the camera on exit at some point and I’m looking to make one that is a little more secure.

I have seen one on Etsy that was 3D printed but figured I’d ask to see if someone has found a good design, since I have the capacity to print one myself!

Thanks in advance :)

So I came across this complete system online. The details are as follows:

Main: 2005 manufacture, around 700 jumps (Claims no wear and tear on the canopy)
reserve: 2005 manufacture, no rides
container: 2005 as well

Would you buy it? It is my first rig. And it is not in my city. How should I go about it? how do I get it inspected by a rigger? Should I contact the DZ in that area?

Can someone please guide me. Thank you.

Elsinore once had one. Perris once had one

All skydiving events are communicated through FB groups, or FB events. But FB is extremely user non-friendly these days.

There are tons of alternatives that would not require jumping through the hoops of creating an invasive social network account.

Signal, Telegram and even WhatsApp all have groups that can be moderated and used for announcements.

Why are we stuck with FB? DZOs and event organizers please share your perspective.

Edit: wow, good discussion, thanks everyone. Let me try to summarize key points so far:

• a lot of people already have and use FB for it. It is hard to motivate them to migrate. Discoverability FB provides is also great.
• the platform is free, no need for hosting, maintenance, excessive moderation etc.
• a lot or people tried alternative approaches and reported issues with them: discussions in chat groups quickly overwhelm the chat making it hard to find useful/relevant information.
• reddit or discord could have been alternatives, but that has the same issue (for other people though) that I brought up in the post: “why do I have to have yet another account and app just to do this”.
• dropzone.com/forums is still out there :)

My take on that all is it is probably impractical to try to move it out right now. Rather maybe in a few years it may move out organically due to demographics change.