front riser

[Zep 0]

This is sort of a cross post from General skydiving, If the moderator feels it is out of order feel free to delete.

Due to an arm injury I can no longer hold a sustained front riser pull on my Safire 2 loaded at 1.5
Is their any way I can lighten the pull pressure without taking the canopy to far out of trim ?

Gone fishing

[darkwing 5]

I think not.

-- Jeff
My Skydiving History

[Zep 0]

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I think not.

Short an to the point, Thanks

Gone fishing

[Jeffrey 1]

Hi Zep,

Yes there is a way. In short, you're Rigger or preferably a rig manufacturer could put a guide ring at the top inside of your front riser. Bar tack a piece of 9/16 type 1 to the bottom inside of your front riser. Thread it through the top guide ring, attach to a colored toggle that is secured by means of Velcro or tuck system at a mid section channel.

The trade off is that you will have to pull your front colored toggle twice the distance, but the energy required will be substantially less.

Jeff

[crazydiver 0]

Yeppers. Ask your local crw dogs about 2 to 1's. They are built a little bulkier and different for crw, but ask them. They will give you the plusses and minuses.

Cheers,
Travis

[darkwing 5]

My first post "I think not" was based on a hasty interpretation that you wanted to re-trim the canopy. There are, as mentioned above, other techniques for reducing the necessary force to pull down the front risers. They are simple and effective at a 50% reduction, but if that isn't enough you might have to get really tricky.

-- Jeff
My Skydiving History

[twnsnd 1]

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Due to an arm injury I can no longer hold a sustained front riser pull on my Safire 2 loaded at 1.5

How about turning the other direction for a while?

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