Jumping Journal: October 18, 2007
Started after sunset and jumping under the lights. Can the weather get any crazier...don't answer that!
After having "hot"(for this time of the year) weather two weeks ago last week brought rain and more seasonable and even slightly below seasonable temperature back to New Hampshire. This week started on the cold side but has warmed up ever since so tonight when we jumped it was 60 degrees out once again. Yep, the normal high for this time of the year is in the upper 50s but today it was in the upper 60s. Seems strange to be having this nice of weather this late in the year.
I got the hill shortly after 6PM, yes sunset is just a few minutes after 6PM. The lights were already on and the long junior jumper was out getting a couple of jumps in on the telebump, err 10 meter bump that is on the K25 landing hill.
I suited up and headed up the hill to join Dan and Bill jumping from the top. My first jump was somewhere around 17meters and quite solid. I love seeing that I'm keeping the solidness of the jumps even when I haven't jumped in a couple of weeks. It does help to bode well for the start of the winter seaon in a couple of months.
The second jump was about the same, maybe a little better. The third jump was the surprise jump of the evening/summer.
I headed down the inrun targeting, "I will" on driving through the heel, jumping on time, and putting in a V. I got to the takeoff and jumped. It seemed right away that it was quite a nice jump. I noticed that I was going further than normal and in fact I did land down around 19 meters. The only problem was that I was caught offguard by the jump and ended up sitting back and going down sliding on the sawdust after I had passed the fall line.
Climbing back up the stairs, Cannonball told me that I had actually jumped with the chest instead of the legs and it caused me to be more upright and to land more behind, hence why I ended up landing and then sitting down.
I think that was my first "crash" on plastic on the 25 since sometime last summer, if not the summer before that.
According the Cannonball that fourth jump was about the same as the third, other than the fact I didn't crash. It didn't seem like I was jumping with the chest but Cannonball said I was.
On the fifth and final jump of the night I decided to focus mostly on trying to jump with the legs only. This time I did turn it around and was keeping the chest down much better. I was also back to my normal 17-17.5 meter landing zone. What else is new.
It was different to be jumping on plastic totally in the dark. I have jumped on plastic during the transition of daytime and nighttime but I don't think I have ever started to jump after sunset and to be jumping on plastic when it's totally dark out. I didn't put the goggles on once the entire evening. I think this was the first time I haven't worn goggles in four or five years. The tinted goggles I wear just wouldn't do me much justice nighttime jumping on plastic. The end of the outrun is the only real concern, everything else is pretty decently lit.
Hopefully it won't be another week before I get to jump. Weather and all other concerns permitting I plan on jumping this coming Monday evening.
Crash
After having "hot"(for this time of the year) weather two weeks ago last week brought rain and more seasonable and even slightly below seasonable temperature back to New Hampshire. This week started on the cold side but has warmed up ever since so tonight when we jumped it was 60 degrees out once again. Yep, the normal high for this time of the year is in the upper 50s but today it was in the upper 60s. Seems strange to be having this nice of weather this late in the year.
I got the hill shortly after 6PM, yes sunset is just a few minutes after 6PM. The lights were already on and the long junior jumper was out getting a couple of jumps in on the telebump, err 10 meter bump that is on the K25 landing hill.
I suited up and headed up the hill to join Dan and Bill jumping from the top. My first jump was somewhere around 17meters and quite solid. I love seeing that I'm keeping the solidness of the jumps even when I haven't jumped in a couple of weeks. It does help to bode well for the start of the winter seaon in a couple of months.
The second jump was about the same, maybe a little better. The third jump was the surprise jump of the evening/summer.
I headed down the inrun targeting, "I will" on driving through the heel, jumping on time, and putting in a V. I got to the takeoff and jumped. It seemed right away that it was quite a nice jump. I noticed that I was going further than normal and in fact I did land down around 19 meters. The only problem was that I was caught offguard by the jump and ended up sitting back and going down sliding on the sawdust after I had passed the fall line.
Climbing back up the stairs, Cannonball told me that I had actually jumped with the chest instead of the legs and it caused me to be more upright and to land more behind, hence why I ended up landing and then sitting down.
I think that was my first "crash" on plastic on the 25 since sometime last summer, if not the summer before that.
According the Cannonball that fourth jump was about the same as the third, other than the fact I didn't crash. It didn't seem like I was jumping with the chest but Cannonball said I was.
On the fifth and final jump of the night I decided to focus mostly on trying to jump with the legs only. This time I did turn it around and was keeping the chest down much better. I was also back to my normal 17-17.5 meter landing zone. What else is new.
It was different to be jumping on plastic totally in the dark. I have jumped on plastic during the transition of daytime and nighttime but I don't think I have ever started to jump after sunset and to be jumping on plastic when it's totally dark out. I didn't put the goggles on once the entire evening. I think this was the first time I haven't worn goggles in four or five years. The tinted goggles I wear just wouldn't do me much justice nighttime jumping on plastic. The end of the outrun is the only real concern, everything else is pretty decently lit.
Hopefully it won't be another week before I get to jump. Weather and all other concerns permitting I plan on jumping this coming Monday evening.
Crash
posted by Ryan Crawford at 10:15 PM
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