nah, not really, we do "relative work" in freefall, where we maneuver in
freefall relative to one another , taking various handgrips, legs, hands or
combination of, to make "points". by "blowing the jump" , I meant that
somebody forgot the next maneuver and subsequently screwed up the rest of
the jump by being in the wrong place in the formation, with the wrong
handhold ... on the big jumps, where 200-300 jumpers are trying for a
record, everybody has to have the correct handhold, and be in the correct
slot, and everybody has to hold the dive for 5 seconds, one wrong hold, one
hand not making contact, and the dive has been blown, and no record... 357
skydivers in formation is the world record by the way.....and I will never
have the skill level needed for the big jumps like that... I started
jumping way too late in my life for the skills needed..33 years old for my
first jump..24 years ago..
you wrote:
>" we find you will forget a maneuver, and blow the jump."
>
>That could hurt.
>
>DW
John Robinson, Mechanician
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