Hookin-The-Katana

[hkf 0]

Love my Katana so much that I had to re-write a classic from the Lion King;


Hookin-The-Katana what a wonderful Phrase
Hookin-The-Katana aint no passing craze
it means long swoops for the rest of your days
it's a cross-brace free Velocity
Hookin-The-Katana........

[ACMESkydiver 0]

You so silly....

~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

[SkiD_PL8 0]

ROFL that is great!

Greenie in training.

[PhillyKev 0]

I'm very proud of the fact that I have no clue what tune that should be sung too.

[headoverheels 334]

I'd be interested in hearing about your experience on the Katana. I find it to dive quite nicely with a hard front riser carve, but to be really fidgetty (not smooth) when doing small front riser moves. For instance, just gently steering up high with fronts, the canopy sorta bucks around. Same for a long very slow front riser carve for landing. I've jumped the 107 and the 120, with exit weight of 177.

[billvon 3,115]

I haven't had the bucking you described - I've tried a 107 myself at about 1.9 to 1. Very nice front riser carves, even without a lot of input. Long recovery arc, which makes swooping both easier and safer.

[hkf 0]

I've noticed that recently, never noticed it at first but went back to sabre for a while after a shoulder dislocation. When I came back to the katana I noticed the bucking (almost like it's trying to pull the risers back). I noticed it more in double fronts at the end of a high turn, but also towards the end of a long carving turn. I think it's the ultra light front riser pressure which meant I was using more front riser than usual. I have reduced the amount of front riser, and increased the amount of harness input which seems to have solved it.


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[hkf 0]

Just noticed my experience is under opposite circumstances to yours, I will also add that all the jumps where I experienced it where in the last week at the same dropzone and it was always at about 100-200 ft coming over a little ditch which could have been setting up some turbulence. I did not experience it at all on any of the previous 150 jumps or so on the canopy

[RevJim 0]

You do realize now that this will end up being sung, quite badly I might add, on about 5 thousand year end videos, right?

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[headoverheels 334]

Yeah, I also used more harness to "fix" the problem. No problem on harder carves, just the smaller ones.

Thanks for the tunes.