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Beautiful skies over Salado on the weekend mornings this week allowed a number of jumps before the winds became too strong in the afternoon hours. On Saturday, Daniel Renkel worked on tracking and docking with Beth on an awesome coach jump.
And, Estavan McCalley wanted to work on a coach jump with Chad, doing a looping exit, leg turns and tracking. And finally on Saturday Evan+Miller-Jones got to go up with Shelby and work on Docking, fall-rate adjustment and tracking before the winds kicked up. On Sunday, Chris Treyz got a beautiful coach jump in with Chad working on docking and tracking before the winds kicked up. And Shelby taught a FJC, with students John Todd, and Husband-Wife team Justin Beyerl and Rebecca "Sese" Beyerl getting to go up and pass their training tandems with Steve, Scott and Isaac, respectively. |
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HAVE YOU MET DZ CHAD? If you were at Skydive Temple this weekend, you may have seen "Dimple" Chad Cogburn, aka "DZ Chad" who joined the staff doing AFF and video and coaching (both free fall and canopy) Chad was most recent at world famous Skydive The Farm in Rockmart GA. Chad started jumping in August of 1998 at Skydive Houston. Chad is actually an Austin native, and a second generation skydiver. His dad was a DZO, holds numerous skydiving accomplishments and was Chad's AFF instructor. Chad's favorite skydive was a jump with his father, ex-wife and daughter, Amillia (in the oven) over Skydive Sussex in New Jersey in 2010. Chad has 5600+ jumps and 2033 tandems, 500+ AFFs, 2000+ video jumps, a number of demos (one in downtown Atlanta) and competes in swooping meets. Chad is looking forward to working with students and hopes to train someone all the way from first jump to competition level skydiving.
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DID YOU KNOW... The United States Parachute Association has published good advice on choosing your own equipment, including a explanation on wing loading and recommendations based on your experience in the Skydiver's Information Manual. If you haven't yet, take a look at Section 5-3.B and see what sort of wing loading is recommended for you. |
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| SAFETY TIP OF THE WEEK |
This week, we link to a great article on Wing Loading, and knowing when and how to downsize to a smaller, faster parachute. Once off student status, you will be looking to get your own gear. You may want to get a fast, high performance canopy, but the wiser jumper will instead get a more forgiving canopy. Jumpers just off status still have much to learn and inevitably will make mistakes -- you want a canopy that will allow those mistakes without killing or permanently disfiguring or disabling you. |
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A BLOG ABOUT WHAT'S JUMPIN' AT THE DZ
27 July 2014
27 JUL 2014
