Skydiving Video
I spent the weekend (mostly sunday) skydiving back in Belgium. Did 6 jumps & had great fun. I worked a little on precision & orientation during freefall. (Trying to answer this question: "Ok, I jumped out, I'm falling, green means down, blue means up ... But where the hell is the airplane I just jumped out of ... ?"). My third jump was great. Immediately spotted the airplane, flew in the axis for a few seconds then practised tracking perpendicular to the jump run axis. I finished the weekend with my first video jump at sunset. It's cool to see yourself tracking, even if the track itself is not that great. I learned a lot from that, thanks for the vid, Sam !
In case you're wondering why I spend so much time tracking in the air it is *not* because that is an essential skill for base jumping. ;-)
On Saturday we met at Jo's place to discuss about the trip to Canada. We kinda have similar goals in mind: climb the classics. I'd like to do some really long routes & Jo'd like to get on some steep waterfalls.
It seems we got most of the gear covered, especially if I buy a new rope & an avalanche transceiver.
Clothing is another matter, at least for me. I still climb in my 15 year-old skiing trousers which have become a patchwork of crampon-inflicted holes.
The winter swimming season has started, meaning the local swimming pool is open from 6.30 to 8.00 am, making it far more convenient to combine a good swimming workout with life on the corporate treadmill. I'm planning to check out my new Polar heart rate monitor tomorrow morning. It comes with a nice online training program, Polar personal fitness.
Currently I'm doing 2km 2 times a week, I want to get that up to 6km every week. I'm not sure which heartrate zones I'm training in but I'll find out soon. I've learned that you can't just take your running heart rate zones & apply them to swimming. Apparently your heart rate is lower in water than on land.
In case you're wondering why I spend so much time tracking in the air it is *not* because that is an essential skill for base jumping. ;-)
On Saturday we met at Jo's place to discuss about the trip to Canada. We kinda have similar goals in mind: climb the classics. I'd like to do some really long routes & Jo'd like to get on some steep waterfalls.
It seems we got most of the gear covered, especially if I buy a new rope & an avalanche transceiver.
Clothing is another matter, at least for me. I still climb in my 15 year-old skiing trousers which have become a patchwork of crampon-inflicted holes.
The winter swimming season has started, meaning the local swimming pool is open from 6.30 to 8.00 am, making it far more convenient to combine a good swimming workout with life on the corporate treadmill. I'm planning to check out my new Polar heart rate monitor tomorrow morning. It comes with a nice online training program, Polar personal fitness.
Currently I'm doing 2km 2 times a week, I want to get that up to 6km every week. I'm not sure which heartrate zones I'm training in but I'll find out soon. I've learned that you can't just take your running heart rate zones & apply them to swimming. Apparently your heart rate is lower in water than on land.
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