Last week I was attending a Canopy course with Scott Roberts from Team Fastrax. Scott just got married in Iceland with Kolla and choose to hold he’s honeymoon vacation here in Aars teaching Danish skydivers how to swoop.
The skill level of the jumpers have been from 150 jumps to 3000 jumps but Scott have managed to keep everybody including him self busy all day. The jumpers that really have moved there skill level is Morten leth, Mads Jensen, Kim Larsen.Seeing what they were doing before the course and how they land now is a big improvement. Morten and Kim is now making a 270 turn and Mads is getting a really good 90 with lots of speed and a sweet flare.
Webber, Basse, Claus and me have all been changing setups initiating turns and and getting lots of speed in our canopies. I was only harness turning before and now i have changed to front riser then harness and my speed is so much better now. My only problem is just to get the gate right due to the new setup and getting used to the new recovery arch and the sight picture that now is a lot lower than it used to be.
I like the way Scott teaches he sees it all but only points out the important stuff but still remembers what you also did wrong and that’s in my opinion a good skill. There is always something new to learn and Scott is for sure having both the skill level and the competition experience to give us a lot of hints and good tips for competing.
