Came across your video by accident and I really enjoyed it. I haven’t jumped in 40 years so I was struck by the changes. Our pull altitude was 2500 ft back in the day. Probably because if we had pulled at 35 we would have been blown to hell and gone by the wind. Those old T-10 chutes could only eke out about 5 mph forward velocity so good steering skills were needed and a good spot was essential. “Squares”, as we called the primitive precursors of today’s rigs, were pretty rare and pretty unaffordable. Your video brought back some great memories. Thanks
Thanks! I’m sure it’s changed quite a bit. I’m glad you liked the video. Lowest altitude we are supposed to deploy now is 2,500, I usually pull at 3,500. Good steering skills are still important! But yeah you can take a longer spot and make it back but it means there’s a bit more complacency with spotting as well. 👊🏻
@@PernDog Love it. It is interesting to learn that someone can be a great flyer but not a great teacher. Great way to give back to the sport we love.
Yeah and for me the learning styles portion was very interesting. Like I am a kinesthetic learner but I didn’t know that until I joined the Marine Corps-standard education was very difficult for me to sit still and absorb info
+Randy Fields thanks man I'm also a yoga teacher so that helps! I definitely want to work toward being an AFF Instructor one day...now to get up to 500 jumps!
I'm currently a paratrooper and have static logs jumped and I want to become a skydiving coach when I get out but i want to make sure itll be worth the cost of 100 jumps
My advice would be to do your AFF, get your A license, and see if you enjoy skydiving. I never jumped in the military but my friends who have said that they didn't really start having fun until they did it as a civilian. Then if you're really enjoying it look into getting your coach rating, but with the understanding that most dropzones already have coaching staff in place and it might take a while before they need someone else, and you'll have to prove yourself to the guys and gals already there. I haven't done anything but coach a couple new jumpers on my own time (it's sometimes hard to find people to jump with when you only have 30 jumps) but I got a ton out of the course knowledge-wise. I can't recommend SkydiveRatings.com enough.
Greetings from Brazil, mate! I really enjoy watching your videos and I really hope your channel goes from great to astronomic greater! you deserve the best since you have the qualities to achieve a huge channel! Hope we can jump together one day
I want to say I had about 200 jumps. I was pretty nervous about the checkout dive, because I wanted to make sure I got everything in! I probably have like 30-40 minutes in the tunnel but no actual coaching, I’ve just done it from time to time for fun. Most people in the group had more jumps than me. If you’re at 100 I would say some tunnel time is worth it. But it’s more knowledge than skill at this point, you just have to be able to chase a student and dock on them.
@@PernDog Interesting. I'm no where close to ready for it, but I've been wanting to coach and become a instructor in the future. Currently at around 70 jumps and every jump I'm still learning something. Had a minor back injury put me out of commission for most of this season :(
For the course I took through Skydive Ratings with Bram Clement, minimum requirements are to be a USPA member, have a B License, and at least 100 jumps. I had like 160 or 180, most of the guys had a lot more like 400 or so. I was definitely the least experienced. Great course though I can’t recommend those guys enough!
Hey mark. Once again i love your channel. Subscribed 2 days ago and im glued to your videos everyday. Anyway, just a query. The guys who were recording your jumps in this video are students, right? They had the gopro on their helmets. Im an aspiring skydiver, ill be doing my 11th skydive this saturday but will be doing the aff course some time soon. (Believe it or not in was half way through aff course 15 years ago and quit because of a bad, scary, failed jump. Obviously quitting the course is now my biggest regret) First thing i wanna do once i get my solo accreditation is to be able to jump with my gopro . How many jumps do i need to have under my belt before i can jump with a camera?
No that was my instructor examiner. He has over 1600 skydives. The United States parachute association recommends that someone have 200 skydives before jumping with a camera. It changes a lot about the jump, so they want you to have habits of action formed before you introduce a camera into the mix. Mainly gear checks in the airplane and altitude awareness. A lot of dropzones will not allow you to jump a camera until you get that C License. It depends on the DZ whether they follow the recommendations but I highly suggest it. Get your gear checks down and altitude awareness and don’t worry about getting that footage yet. Most of your first 100 jumps are not gonna be good footage anyway lol!
To get a coach rating you need at least 100 skydives, have a B License, and take the coach rating course. Coaches can teach the general sections of the first jump course and jump with students after AFF but before they get their A License. To be an AFF instructor you need to have held the coach rating for at least 12 months or have 500 jumps, with at least 3 hours if documented free fall time.
I'm laughing at the visual, not at you. Just the thought of A license student under that canopy had me 🤣. DZO... " How did your student do?" Coach... " So the exit went well he was nice and stable. He did make all his points and have a nice on heading deployment. But... DZO... "But what?" Coach... "Aaaaahhmmmm" Meanwhile a flight for life is just lifting off behind you. By the way, congratulations it's a hell of an accomplishment. 👍
It's standard procedure, bro. You don't want to be in close proximity when deploying your parachute. Canopy entanglements get real nasty real fast. Either way your student rig will have an AAD to pop your reserve if you forget and start getting ground rush. Check with your local DZ about it.
He isnt a instructor man. Not only is it not his job to make sure you get a parachute above you, he isnt trained to. He isnt there to teach you how to skydive, he`s there to make you a better skydiver.
Came across your video by accident and I really enjoyed it. I haven’t jumped in 40 years so I was struck by the changes. Our pull altitude was 2500 ft back in the day. Probably because if we had pulled at 35 we would have been blown to hell and gone by the wind. Those old T-10 chutes could only eke out about 5 mph forward velocity so good steering skills were needed and a good spot was essential. “Squares”, as we called the primitive precursors of today’s rigs, were pretty rare and pretty unaffordable. Your video brought back some great memories. Thanks
Thanks! I’m sure it’s changed quite a bit. I’m glad you liked the video. Lowest altitude we are supposed to deploy now is 2,500, I usually pull at 3,500.
Good steering skills are still important! But yeah you can take a longer spot and make it back but it means there’s a bit more complacency with spotting as well. 👊🏻
I love being a coach, jump master, ans skydiving school instructor.
So great to help people become skydivers and watch their progression.
Looks amazing! I'm thinking about doing this in a few years when I'm a bit older. Love to see videos like this!
Thanks for the upload! Flying out for my coach course at Z-Hills tonight!
Awesome dude have fun and enjoy the nice weather this weekend
PernDog thanks brother, I’ll tell Bram I saw the video
@@justinheartcarson Bram is a legend dude, when I took the course he said he had more than 6,000 tandem front rides. All evaluation jumps. Insane!
PernDog all done! Again, thanks for the upload it was a really nice tool to prepare for the course 🙂
Thanks for the video. This is the motivation I needed to sign up for the couch rating course. Stay tune!!
Awesome man glad you’re into it
PernDog follow up: got my couch rating course and evaluation jumps! Thanks Pern!!
That’s awesome. How did you like the course?
@@PernDog Love it. It is interesting to learn that someone can be a great flyer but not a great teacher. Great way to give back to the sport we love.
Yeah and for me the learning styles portion was very interesting. Like I am a kinesthetic learner but I didn’t know that until I joined the Marine Corps-standard education was very difficult for me to sit still and absorb info
Thanks for uploading this, im doing my evaluation jumps tomorrow
Yeah buddy have fun 🤙🏻
Very awesome video I want to eventually do the same thing so this is awesome to get a glimpse of. Love your edits too man
Thanks man I appreciate you watching!
Great Video! I am just starting to look into skydiving and I am trying to learn about all I can!
Thanks Mark hopefully you find some useful info here!
you're going to become a AFF I for shure you are a great teacher.and have a personality that keep a person relaxed.
+Randy Fields thanks man I'm also a yoga teacher so that helps! I definitely want to work toward being an AFF Instructor one day...now to get up to 500 jumps!
PernDog i could use some yoga.in im hi strung as a person.i have a couple weeks of vacay im coming to ur d.z this early summer
+Randy Fields nice we will have to do a jump together! Also I'm working on putting some yoga vids together for the channel
PernDog i have some vacation.. left and a friend that jumps at ur dz frequently so i have a place to stay.i need to get out of cali for a break.
+Randy Fields nice!
inspired for life now!
👊🏻
I’m a couple jumps away from my A license. That bad weather broke my heart for you.
It’s cool we got it done. Good luck working on that A
great video
Thanks
How much did it cost you to become a coach?
Story of the DZ. Winds ruining everything. That looked more than 18 gusting 30 bro. That looked more 30 gusting 42. Blue skies!! oh and BEER!!
Beer was had all around lol. Yeah it gets gusty sometimes!
I'm currently a paratrooper and have static logs jumped and I want to become a skydiving coach when I get out but i want to make sure itll be worth the cost of 100 jumps
My advice would be to do your AFF, get your A license, and see if you enjoy skydiving. I never jumped in the military but my friends who have said that they didn't really start having fun until they did it as a civilian. Then if you're really enjoying it look into getting your coach rating, but with the understanding that most dropzones already have coaching staff in place and it might take a while before they need someone else, and you'll have to prove yourself to the guys and gals already there.
I haven't done anything but coach a couple new jumpers on my own time (it's sometimes hard to find people to jump with when you only have 30 jumps) but I got a ton out of the course knowledge-wise. I can't recommend SkydiveRatings.com enough.
PernDog dude that's totally rad, thanks man! Great vid here as well!
Thanks I really appreciate it
Greetings from Brazil, mate! I really enjoy watching your videos and I really hope your channel goes from great to astronomic greater! you deserve the best since you have the qualities to achieve a huge channel! Hope we can jump together one day
How many jumps do you need to come a coach?
Jesus, man, you gotta install a cutaway for that beard.
Ride the lightning.
How many jumps did you have at this point? Any tunnel time? I believe the minimums are 100 jumps and a B license?
I want to say I had about 200 jumps. I was pretty nervous about the checkout dive, because I wanted to make sure I got everything in!
I probably have like 30-40 minutes in the tunnel but no actual coaching, I’ve just done it from time to time for fun.
Most people in the group had more jumps than me. If you’re at 100 I would say some tunnel time is worth it. But it’s more knowledge than skill at this point, you just have to be able to chase a student and dock on them.
@@PernDog Interesting. I'm no where close to ready for it, but I've been wanting to coach and become a instructor in the future. Currently at around 70 jumps and every jump I'm still learning something. Had a minor back injury put me out of commission for most of this season :(
"The student pulls a cross braced canopy... Grounded! :D "
Right lol...this was such an awesome course, I had a blast!
I want to become a instructor for tandem jump You suggest me how to be🙂
How many jumps did you have going into this
Nice vid by the way
I think I had about 220 jumps...lowest in the group for sure. Most had 400 jumps or more.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Nice video, thanks! What preconditions have to be met in order to start the coaching curse? B- or C- licence? Or minimum jump number?
For the course I took through Skydive Ratings with Bram Clement, minimum requirements are to be a USPA member, have a B License, and at least 100 jumps. I had like 160 or 180, most of the guys had a lot more like 400 or so. I was definitely the least experienced. Great course though I can’t recommend those guys enough!
Hey mark.
Once again i love your channel. Subscribed 2 days ago and im glued to your videos everyday.
Anyway, just a query. The guys who were recording your jumps in this video are students, right? They had the gopro on their helmets. Im an aspiring skydiver, ill be doing my 11th skydive this saturday but will be doing the aff course some time soon. (Believe it or not in was half way through aff course 15 years ago and quit because of a bad, scary, failed jump. Obviously quitting the course is now my biggest regret)
First thing i wanna do once i get my solo accreditation is to be able to jump with my gopro . How many jumps do i need to have under my belt before i can jump with a camera?
No that was my instructor examiner. He has over 1600 skydives.
The United States parachute association recommends that someone have 200 skydives before jumping with a camera. It changes a lot about the jump, so they want you to have habits of action formed before you introduce a camera into the mix. Mainly gear checks in the airplane and altitude awareness. A lot of dropzones will not allow you to jump a camera until you get that C License.
It depends on the DZ whether they follow the recommendations but I highly suggest it. Get your gear checks down and altitude awareness and don’t worry about getting that footage yet. Most of your first 100 jumps are not gonna be good footage anyway lol!
What are the steps to become an instructor after getting A licence ??
To get a coach rating you need at least 100 skydives, have a B License, and take the coach rating course. Coaches can teach the general sections of the first jump course and jump with students after AFF but before they get their A License.
To be an AFF instructor you need to have held the coach rating for at least 12 months or have 500 jumps, with at least 3 hours if documented free fall time.
@@PernDog thanks a lot man..this will help ✌️
All the info is on USPA.org in the SIM
The coach is flying a sabre 2 150, and the student is flying a sub 100 cross brace... 🤣🤣🤣 Beer!
Well he is an instructor examiner with thousands of skydives so...
I'm laughing at the visual, not at you. Just the thought of A license student under that canopy had me 🤣.
DZO... " How did your student do?"
Coach... " So the exit went well he was nice and stable. He did make all his points and have a nice on heading deployment. But...
DZO... "But what?"
Coach... "Aaaaahhmmmm"
Meanwhile a flight for life is just lifting off behind you.
By the way, congratulations it's a hell of an accomplishment. 👍
I got you man no worries!
She resents you having fun without her.. you can hear it..
7:28 - you'll make e great coach - student doesn't track, well fukc him its my life... seriously??? wouldn't want you ever coaching me
It's standard procedure, bro. You don't want to be in close proximity when deploying your parachute. Canopy entanglements get real nasty real fast. Either way your student rig will have an AAD to pop your reserve if you forget and start getting ground rush. Check with your local DZ about it.
He isnt a instructor man. Not only is it not his job to make sure you get a parachute above you, he isnt trained to. He isnt there to teach you how to skydive, he`s there to make you a better skydiver.
Nah I'm actually there to play Johnny Utah lol