Do You use Packing Mat... Weight while packing?

[Kid_Icarus 0]

Just wanted to see what people are using.

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[indyz 1]

I never use a mat, and I only use a weight if the floor is slippery (like tile or wood) or the canopy is really big.

[skymama 37]

I like to tie my rig down in our packing tent. When I went to a boogie recently, I knew I wouldn't have a place to tie it down so I brought a big Tide bottle filled with sand. I felt like such a dork bringing it until I had to start chasing it down all the time because everyone else was using it too!

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because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[piisfish 140]

sometimes a mat, sometimes weight, sometimes a hook in the ground, sometimes nothing.

but I try to protect it from the sun as much as possible.

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[Conundrum 1]

I tie my risers together and use a weight

[Dumpster 0]

No weight, no mat, and the rig stays put.

Easy Does It

[skygod7777 0]

i usually use nothing. sometimes, if there is a weight around i may throw it on there, but for the most part, none of the above.

later

[Kid_Icarus 0]

Just curious if everyone's DZ has weights or mats available.. and or accessable?

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[BillyVance 35]

I only tie my risers together to keep the lines even. Works for me...

Billy

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[AndyMan 7]

I don't use either.

If you pay attention to your posture and stand up striaght, you don't need one.

Most people lean forward, which puts too much tension on your lines and your rig pulls forward.

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[piisfish 140]

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Just curious if everyone's DZ has weights or mats available.. and or accessable?

not at mine, you have to bring your own stuff...

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[tigra 0]

We have a lot of weights available, but if you want to use a packing mat, your bring your own. We DO have indoor packing on padded wrestling type mats, though, so its not like you are packing on grass or a dirty tarp!

If I'm packing for myself I use both. Pretty much all the cash packers use weights, some even use carpet remnants to get that last bit of air out of the canopy.

[skymama 37]

The last time I was at the dz, someone I don't even know picked up my rig and placed it on theirs to use as a weight while I wasn't in the tent. I found out when I went to get my rig to jump it and was a little freaked out when it wasn't where I had left it. I was pissed!

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[chopchop 0]

I use Packing Jason.. but if he ain't around, Packing Nick..

Worse comes to worse, I tie my risers together and do it myself..

chopchop
gotta go... Plaything needs a spanking..

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[cderham 0]

I usually use a packer

Chris


Edit - Cause Chop Chop beat me too it

[tigra 0]

That's just RUDE!

[wingnut 0]

i use neither.... i can see a mat if you are into the packing style where you pull your rig twards you to stow thelines, buti only pullmy rig about 6 inches afteri laymy canopy down to getthe first locking stowm after that i "walk" my d-bag tot he rig as i stow the lines..... only time i'll use a weight is if the acking surface is super slipery or i'mpacking a huge canopy........

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[Sheenster303 0]

I've never even seen a packing mat before.

I'm so funny I crack my head open!

P.M.S. #102

[bch7773 0]

i usually tie risers together and use a weight. Especially when im packing a manta 288.


best weight ever: while on a demo, we had to pack before we left... and of course we didn't have any weights... so we got the local kids to sit on our rigs while we packed em... they were fighting for the privelage of being our dead weight

MB 3528, RB 1182

[Chiquita 14]

I use a packing mat but of a different nature. If I am packing for other people or tandems I have a mat I use to lay on the canopy to get the air out. That way I can start another one while I wait. Plus it makes it easier on newer canopies.

But to keep my lines straight I just tie the risers together and it generally doesn't slide, for me any way.

Chiquita

"Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity"

[AggieDave 6]

I pack sans weight, mat or tieing the risers together. I consistantly have soft, on heading openings and I walk my bag to the container instead of draggin the container so I don't really need a mat to protect my container.

That's when I pack for myself. For the past while I don't pack for myself, Morgan packs for me.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[bobsled92 0]

Weight and packing mat
(It's going to be a long time before I sent $6,500 on a rig, gotta take care now)

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[Peej 0]

If i pack in the packing area at my home dz i normally use one of the weights that are lying around, otherwise i keep a screwdriver in a pocket in my gear bag, it makes a great packing spike if i'm at a boogie or at a dz where you pack on grass.

If i'm in a hurry and can't find either, i'll happily pack without.

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[bob.dino 1]

I just tie the risers together if I'm packing on grass. On a slippery floor, I'll use weight on top of the tied-together risers.

Our DZ has a stock of jumper-provided weights, and carpeted indoor packing areas. Grass is available for when it gets busy.

The professional packers, in their separate air-conditioned room (!), use carpet remnants to get air out of the tandem canopies.

[BGill 0]

i like using a weight cuz i prefer having the lines over my shouldvers rather than holding them at the waist. weights are usually provided, but if i'm strictly packing for the day and its real busy like packing for a team or something then you gotta use whatever you got. no time to wait around for a weight.

i used to tie the risers together but realized i pack on heading openings with or without them, so i quit doing that because its just a waste of time. and time is money in the packing world