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Strategies & Market Trends : Buy and Sell Signals, and Other Market Perspectives

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To: the longhorn who wrote (127199)	6/27/2019 4:59:27 AM
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Landing on the ground without the chute opening you would reach maximum terminal velocity of 180 mph... Yes, with lots of heavy gear ranging between 40 to 100 pounds... Landing speed is the same for both jumps, and with the kind of canopies we used there was no real control of direction so you were pretty much left for the wind to move you... you could be moving forward at about 15 MPH and hopefully landing at a lesser speed... In training during Ground Week, you would practice landing by stepping off a 6 foot platform and would be learning how to land by keeping your knees together and slightly bent, your feet together, and your head down... this technique is used to displace the energy of the body contacting the earth at high speeds, you ideally land facing the direction of travel with feet and knees together... At the moment first contact is made with the ground, you go from an upright position to absorbing the impact by allowing the body to buckle and go toward a horizontal position while rotating toward the side, generally the direction with the dominant directional speed... otherwise you could get hurt pretty badly... The landing is very important to be done correctly or you would risk a serious injury... landing was practiced a lot before any first jump... Yes, it was serious business but also great fun... When landing, you roll over and use your entire body to reduce the impact of the landing itself, your feet strike the ground first and, immediately, you throw yourself sideways to distribute the landing shock sequentially along five points of body contact with the ground: the balls of the feet the side of the calf the side of the thigh the side of the hip or butt the side of the back It looks something like this: GZ

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