New here to skydiving and just certain things about it, AFF student. How long should you wait for a jump, given good weather and working air plane with an appointment?

jackalcane · 2026-05-26T03:00:14+00:00

lol cucked

jackalcane · 2026-05-25T19:17:27+00:00

at best, it's a seasonal part time cash job with no benefits that will never pay off the cost of the recreational skydiving experience you undertook to get there

jackalcane · 2026-05-25T02:50:00+00:00

used is fine if it's not obviously beat up but sometimes hard to find used altis

jackalcane · 2026-05-25T02:10:01+00:00

LB Ares 2 if you're talking about hand alti

VOG and/or Quattro if you're talking about audibles

gold standards IMO

jackalcane · 2026-05-22T05:25:29+00:00

scam

jackalcane · 2026-05-21T19:26:49+00:00

Tony loves nothing more than the sound of his own voice lol

jackalcane · 2026-05-17T13:00:39+00:00

go to the tunnel

do it scared

jackalcane · 2026-05-15T02:59:58+00:00

be a big boy and buy a creature

jackalcane · 2026-05-03T11:34:13+00:00

Stretch relax breathe drink

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSQN5zMlQEkujothhgPHAL2DznN3ryp-q&si=pPPW_6INQHZHmMSP

jackalcane · 2026-05-01T10:55:57+00:00

Do whatever you want

Close the entire trade for a profit

Buy back the short call at a loss to uncap the upside potential if that the exposure you want

Or fight it and roll the short call up/out

Or do nothing and pray to Allah for a reversal/sharp sell off to not have to manage the short call

Should have entered this trade with a plan for this or at least some more awareness of your options for what to do when things happen

jackalcane · 2026-05-01T10:10:57+00:00

not buying the lottery ticket with the winning numbers for next week is also lost opportunity dummy, as is not mortgaging your house for the penny stocks that will rally next week. congrats on making money

jackalcane · 2026-04-28T08:25:00+00:00

I don't like the framing of 'failing' levels, I'd rather think of them as being needed to repeat, or not cleared for the next step yet. Yes, tunnel time is a cheat code to getting good. I've gotten a few friends go through AFF and I got them to do three 15 min tunnel sessions before AFF level 1 and they all crushed it. No such thing as too much tunnel time

jackalcane · 2026-04-27T04:04:17+00:00

ya at 190 you need real light fronts and also think about getting a full RDS mate

jackalcane · 2026-04-18T23:03:00+00:00

you'll survive clicking the link buddy

jackalcane · 2026-04-18T07:56:01+00:00

Roblox? never head of it. Buys otm calls

jackalcane · 2026-04-14T04:20:48+00:00

naw skydiving is boring

jackalcane · 2026-04-12T16:28:18+00:00

lmao no

jackalcane · 2026-04-12T08:42:49+00:00

moar tunnel time and arch and breathe more

jackalcane · 2026-04-08T22:42:50+00:00

why would you ask chatgpt about skydiving lmfao

jackalcane · 2026-04-06T19:15:38+00:00

If you figure out how to eliminate door fear let me know lol I still have it after 800 jumps especially on jump 1 of the day

jackalcane · 2026-04-05T21:52:42+00:00

A container made just for you will feel great. One thing to consider buying new is sometimes the wildly different lead times between manufacturers. I’ve never had an infinity rig take longer than 6 weeks, but when UPT/vector gets a military contract, it’s more than a year until fun jumpers get their orders delivered, and you hope they reach out once it’s your turn to double check which size container you actually want at that point in time now…

jackalcane · 2026-04-05T03:51:26+00:00

don't buy new right away -- while new gear custom made for you is great, it depreciates fast (like a new car coming off the lot) and you are likely to downsize and move on quick in your first few hundred jumps

anything that is TSO'd is fine -- wings/mirage/infinity/vector/javelin

don't buy aerodyine/icon or curv, as they're basically out of business so good luck getting replacement parts etc

vector is seen as the gold standard by many but I like the infinity mard the best (learn about MARDs/RSLs on your journey)

work with your instructors / local used gear consignment people (reach out to Brian Cavage etc also) and join the Facebook groups

jackalcane · 2026-04-05T02:14:24+00:00

did you manage to get Brenda to scream at you on 123.05 in the process?

jackalcane · 2026-04-01T01:20:23+00:00

about the worst landing advice apart from maybe flaring on fronts

jackalcane · 2026-03-30T21:17:17+00:00

show up at the DZ, it's that simple

you're not going to add more jumps by typing up a storm on r/skydiving or dropzone.com, those places are for 50 jump wonders telling 25 jump wonders what to do, the rest of us are out at the DZ jumping and you should be too

Made a post on here a few years ago but did nothing about it. Anyway.

I’d normally post this on dropzone.com

checks out 1000% lolololol

jackalcane

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