Two solo jumps - turns & stopping turns

I got on the first two loads today, then the wind picked up. Pretty gentle winds on both my jumps. Jump run was right along the runway, heading about 240 degrees. Exits started 1/2 mile before the airport and .3 miles before the airport.

I wanted to work on turns, and stopping turns. I also have this odd rocking motion going on. Rocking head-to-feet, lengthwise along my body. Bill Hanrahan said that I should relax more, then work on my feet. I need to figure out what my neutral body position really is. This helped on my second jump.

Both times, I was across the street from the camping area when I opened. I wasn't really able to ever get over the 6 prior to entering my landing pattern.

On the first jump, I kept going toward the 6 until I was a little low. A tandem was pretty much in front of me, so I just did a shortened landing pattern and landed nicely right in front of the big hangar.

Pretty much the same landing on my second jump. This time, the canopy kited a little after I landed until I pulled in one of the brake lines.

Jamie had a tandem cutaway on the next load. I rode with him to the farm to retrieve the main. Since the winds were kicking up, it seemed like something useful to do. Learned a little about the malfunction he had (tension knot that caused the canopy to go into a hard right turn).