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From: brent@phoenix.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan)
Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive
Subject: No lift dive
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Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 14:37:10 EST
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I remember it took me a few dives to get into a proper
no-lift (vertical) dive. My technique is to bend forward
at the waist, hunch shoulders, arms by sides using hand
area for airbrake steering & roll control, and - most
important - tuck head forward with chin on chest.

Warning! - in a good no-lift, since you are looking back
at your feet, you can't see where you're going.
It's important to lift your head frequently to check your
distance to the formation and make sure you're not going
to drill some poor sucker flaring beneath you.

The no-lift is one of my favorite skydiving experiences.
I agree with Fred, those first few weightless seconds
are such a blast!  You've got to have a good long way to go down
before it's worth using.
It's no good either unless the formation is somewhere beneath
you and not off to one side.  You lose altitude at such an
enormous rate, that if you hold it just a tad too long you
go way below where you want to be.

The flare from a no-lift can be quite exciting. Aim to a point
some distance out from your slot and flare into a delta.
Your momentum converts to extra lift, so you can "skip"
across to your slot in a flat approach.
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