Well, July 2009 has come to an end, but what a great month it was – in more ways then one!
The month started with jump number 229 on the 3rd, a pseudo coaching dive with a Christian, a jumper back from a 7 year layoff. He’d already done a recent recurrency jump with an Instructor [...]
After only getting one jump last weekend I was really hoping the weather yesterday would cooperate. Luckily by early afternoon the overcast clouds that had hung around all morning began to break up. Although we had plenty of Tandems, enough to help send the Otter up three times – not bad for a weekday – I [...]
Most anyone that knows me could tell you that one jump in a weekend is not enough to pacify me. However this weekend, a single jump did just that. I hadn’t planned on going to the dropzone at all, but at the last minute the weather changed, plans changed, and basically the stars aligned just [...]
Continue reading about Quality, not quantity – Jump #264 – Two way, 29 points!
Three years into the sport and there are lot of things I’ve figured out about the sport; and a lot i’m still working on. I can fly my body well enough I think, I can sideslide, backup, and float to get back to my slot when I need to (#243, a 3 point 11-way). I [...]
I generally don’t get to jump on the weekends I spend with my sons, but this weekend worked a little differently. This week my little sister Allie (yes, your friends might call you “Lexy”, but you’ll always be little Allie to me) came to spend the week with me. So on Sunday night after taking [...]