Relatively New Tailpocket Design

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I saw a tailpocket on a rig when I was in Italy recently that I thought was superior to any tailpocket I've seen yet. It was a former student of Space, a German named Peter G., who has been doing test jumps on an experimental BASE deployment system that allowed him to do jumps from 18 meters over hard dirt. His gear setup seemed very well thought out, especially with Space's input.

Here's the tailpocket description:
With most freestow tailpockets, the lines are stacked in figure eights, frequently with the figure eights getting smaller as the stack of lines rises. (The getting smaller part is to minimize the stack of figure eights from looping with each other by falling into each other, and has been suggested even in Poynter's manual in various line stack systems).

Anyway, as anyone who has experience with stacking lines, especially sailors, lines can easily entangle with themselves. Peter G. had dividers in his tailpocket that separated one stack of lines from the others. So you start out with the first figure eight just as normal. At that point, a flap was brought down on those lines. It was split in the middle so in fact this single flap was a single flap divided into two. The lines were then routed through the divider in the flap(s), and then another figure eight was coiled onto of this flap(s). Again another flap was brought down and the cycle repeats. All lines coils are separated from each other. What's more, the material of the flaps was stiff enough (but not too stiff), to prevent the lines from coiling around the flap, and causing any sort of hangup. In case you're wondering, each flap was sewn into the top of the tailpocket.

This tailpocket is the most impressive gear advancement I've seen in a while.

Looks like a death sandwich without the bread - Steve Deadman Morrell, BASE 174

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this sounds familiar, I think I remember reading something about this a couple of years back on BLiNC................

I will see if I can dig it up.............