Well, the jumps have picked back up over the last few weeks, and trying to balance that with work and the kids at home has been tricky – much less trying to make sure I get everything documented here! Â But no excuses, after a few posts in rapid succession this weekend, I’m hoping to get as timely about blogging as I am about logging them!
Starting back two weeks ago I had a great day jumping at Tecumseh – as I’ve been jumping out of town a lot lately, I really appreiciate the days that I get to jump back at home. Â On a Wednesday, the weather was great, and the Otter was flying! Â As soon as I drove into the dropzone I saw people gearing up so I rushed out of the car to see what the call was.. 5 minutes! Â Sure, I could make that 😉
I jumped with Rob, whom although still on student status was just knocking off the last few jumps to 25, he already had his A license card filled out, so we just went up and did a simple dive, sidedock, round, sidedock, round.. Â he is still working on staying in control of his levels, but the jump went well with four points.
As soon as I got down on the ground Manifest pointed Ben, a fresh AFF grad student my way. Â After going over his log book we decided we would be doing a Category G dive. Â We had to wait for the gear he needed to be avaible, so while he waited, I jumped the next load to go up with Dale, Jon, and a few less experienced jumpers. Â It was a fun jump – one that pointed out that the amount of fun has nothing to do with the number of points.
Once back on the ground, I went through the ground prep with my student Ben and we got geared up for the next load. He did really well, completing both docks requiring an adjustment in fallrate, as well as one swoop and dock. Â Then at the bottom end of the dive, signaled breakoff right on queue and turned his 180 and had a great track away.
After landing I thought that would be the last jump of the day, but Dale was trying to get one last load up before sunset. Â It was about time I finally figured out what was going on with my camera, it had some how filled itself with just the canopy flight (not the freefall!) from the first jump, nothing else had been recorded! Â Anyway, with the days video’s lost I thought I would test out the picture mode on the GoPro for the last jump, we ended up doing a sunset six-way full of experienced jumpers – 4 points 🙂
A great way to end the day.