Jumping Journal: January 25, 2007

Butt freakin cold.  Tomorrows suppose to be even colder.  Temps never seemed to get out of the single digits all day long.  At first tonight seemed like it would be a pretty decent night for jumping.  Other than the cold temperatures it was a great night for jumping.  The slight breeze that kicked up on occasion just made it that much worse.  Fortunately, by the third jump or so I was starting to warm up and I wasn't feeling the cold quite as much.

 

Once again tonight, as usual, the theme was all about jumping late.  The inrun position seems to be handling itself quite nicely and is definitely helping the jump along.  The takeoff is where I'm having a terrible time.  The flight position seems to be pretty decent, the landing and outrun are getting back to normal once again.  If I could just get the timing down at the takeoff I would make great leaps and bounds like I could never imagine.

 

The first jump...well it was late, what else is new.  The second jump was better and the third was even better yet except for the fact that I jumped with the upper body instead of the legs.  On each of the remaining three jumps I still was late a certain degree on each jump but I was jumping with just the legs.

 

The distances tonight seemed to be getting down the hill more but not as nice as they were earlier in the season.  I would guess tonight was in the 33-35 meter range.

 

Crash