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From: karlm@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Karl W Maerz)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: What is this maneuver called?
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Date: 13 Jun 91 19:00:47 GMT
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>> You've made my day.  I thought I was alone in thinking having fun was at
>> the top of the list of reasons we skydive.  ...
>
>Let's do a 5-way funnel, get back together, and funnel it again !

Hiya folks,

I haven't jumped in nearly three years but I lurk out here in R.S
anyway.  One of the things that really bugged me was the skygod
attitude -- "You were *four* degrees out of rotation!!  You *screwed
up* the jump, man!!"

Frankly, turning 150 points in 4000' just wasn't a whole lot of fun
for me.  The most fun and memorable jumps I made were those that were
somewhat derisively referred to as "shit dives."  We're talking serious
rodeo dives and horney gorillas, here.  Not to mention tucking up my
legs and funneling the occasional rock-unsolid four-way.  But, hey, I
was just doing this for fun, and a pig-pile at terminal is pretty fun!
(OK, not so fun at, say, 3000')

Horney gorillas were my favorite!  The most we ever got were three
people, tried it with four-ways but somebody always got blown away
trying to lock all those legs together.

I'm sure I will be compelled to jump again in the future.  In the
meanwhile, I feel I've given up a relatively safe sport for something
significantly more dangerous when my wife made me sell my gear and
buy horses...

Happy Trails (& Blue Skies)
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