Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site poseidon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!pegasus!phoenix!poseidon!brent From: brent@poseidon.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: Terminology (novice questions) Message-ID: <1261@poseidon.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:56:12 EDT Article-I.D.: poseidon.1261 Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:56:12 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:20:57 EDT References: <147@helens.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 39 >a 'Boogie' -- Is this just another term for an organized getting together of >jumpers for sport and competition? It can also be used as a verb: "I boogied on down to the formation" >a 'freak jump' -- Apparently some method of falling. Is this the >'human badminton birdie' negative arch position? A freak dive is doing CONTROLLED RW on your back. It's fun - but it takes lots of practice. >a 'dirt dive' -- I THINK this means practicing RW maneuvers on the ground. >If not, it sounds painful. Absolutely correct. A Mystery dive, on the other hand, has no dirt dive. The participants read about their part in the dive off a scrap of paper on jump run. >Could someone please clue in a novice jumper so I too will be able to toss >these terms around? Also, if you are familiar with any other bizarre skydiving dump - Open your parachute. "I dumped at three grand" snivel - What a slow opening parachute does. - A way of getting on a good load. dead spider - Someone negative arching below a formation. floater - A slow-falling skydiver. Exits first and flies UP to formations. funnel - The collapse of a formation. down the mine - ditto. trash pack - fast way to pack a parachute. Mr Bill - One jumper holds on to the other through opening. Then climbs up and stands on his shoulders. Then backloops off - everybody "Oh noooo..Mr Bill" -- Made in New Zealand --> Brent Callaghan AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ {ihnp4|mtuxo|pegasus}!poseidon!brent (201) 576-3475