The Good . . . .

I'm finally making this current. Since my Colombia trip, here's some sh-t that's happened:

The Good

- I'm on the Ozone website now. Check it out here. Since it's not mentioned, I must give action photo credit to Loren Cox.

- I bought my flight to Europe. I'm fully committed. Now I just need to make sure I can get a car!

- After some prodding from friends, I now have some of my acro stuff on YouTube - it's not everything I've done, but most of it. This is from towing I did last weekend where I nailed some transitions - super important for comps. On the first day, I actually did a tumble-helico combination that was just sick, but this PPGer Ryan didn't have his camera set yet - SUCKS! Here's a compilation video of stuff I did last year, with some beautiful music by Thievery Corporation.

- This morning I got an email from Matt Gerdes (Ozone Team manager) with a shipping notice . . . . I'm FINALLY getting the FLX. Should be here by month's end. I'm really glad it's coming as I'll get a few months to train on it before heading to Europe. With enough practice, maybe I'll be doing this in 2008.

- Chris Santacroce and the O'Connors have talked since last year about having a spring acro "comp" in CA, similar to WOBL last year. Most of the acro peeps on the West Coast know about it and hopefully they'll come. Maybe the Point boys will show up but I doubt it. Nothing's set but the weekend of May 3-4 is being penciled in.

- I bought a practically new Aerodyne skydiving rig (3 jumps only) for a great price: Icon Sport container, Pilot 150 main, Smart 135 reserve, and a Cypress 2. Even though it REALLY hurt to fork over the cash for this, I need to remind myself that it'll pay for itself in 5 years or less, depending on how many times I jump per year. By having my own gear, I can buy 50 jumps in bulk, making Lodi cost only $13/jump. By having to rent, I'll pay $35. And plus, there's all that pride of ownership and piece of mind crap.

That's all I can think of flying-related for now.

Expect to see The Bad in my next post.