George Ruiz
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May 23, 2004
11:47 PM
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Today I suffered a overfly caused by a Peregrin my # 1 team is gone(birds flew into the clouds).
While thinking what I did wrong I realized that this year Ive had three overfly caused by predators .
For a total loss of 45 birds.
The clouds were dark and it looked like it would rain on all three occasions.
I know I should not fly in these conditions and in the past I would wait for better weather.
It was then I realized I had become addicted to the roll
and like a junky I needed my fix for the day (looking at the birds perform in the air)I just had to have it.
I guess its true that to much of anything is not good!
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Dale Calvillo
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May 24, 2004
6:24 AM
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George,
I totally feel your pain Bro, that DEVIL in the sky is messing with us over here too down the 605 from you and we are all feeling it, I havent lost my whole kit though, out of the 24 that were in my #1 team I now have 15 barely the min. to compete in the WC, I lost 3 of my best Sat. morning and boy did that hurt I could only imagine what your going through losing the whole team at one shot. Being addicted to the roll is what we all are a bunch of of roller junkies but like I tell the wife she knows were I am at and not at the chee chee bar with the homies LOL.
Give me a call George.
Yours in the sport!!!!
Dale
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
77 posts
May 24, 2004
3:00 PM
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Ditto on what Dale said, bummer deal. I live here in so cal too and I can tell you that the last week or so of this low pressure and unstable air with inconsistent breezes has created a lot of updrafts and rising thermals. My older teams have all skied out on me after working down low for about a half an hour. A couple of days they went plain out out of sight but weren't up there long. The key I think is that you have paid attention to the conditions that contributed to your losses. Though we can't control everything, sometimes ya just gotta look to the weather gauge and to the sky and say no, not to today. It's hard man, I can tell ya first hand, but after a few times of refusing to open the door you will feel better about it. Hope some of them make it back, it kind of cleared up a bit here as a write this.
Brian.
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Mother Lode Lofts
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May 24, 2004
5:05 PM
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I'ts a bad feeling looking into an empty kitbox,been there also,Jan before last I lost most of my oldbird team,all were between 2-6 years old and all were in the team for a good reason,Brians right though we have to have the disipline not to open the door if it's not right,but oh short our memorys are LOL,I was able to hold back this year though,I did have one problem this year though and lost two old birds,one came back the next day.
Scott
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Zinger
24 posts
May 24, 2004
8:42 PM
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You guy's think you have it bad?..lol..You should learn how to fly your own body (skydiving) and then you will really know how hard it is to stay grounded..I had a student that was just signed off to make his own choice/call on his own jumping, I was sitting and watching people land in the 10 to 15 mph winds when this student asked me why I was sitting and I told him because the gusty winds, he called me a sissy, I said "a sissy with 1,600 jumps more then you, Think I know what I'm doing, your released to make your own choice,so make one" he jumped, I sat and watched him break his leg in 3 places..lol..some people just don't listen and need to learn the hard way that is painful and exspensive. Those people make me lol.. If in doubt, keep it on the ground.
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I can Roll when I Skydive so I know why they do it. It's great FUN.
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