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trond65

Advice on main with clean openings

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I'm jumping a Sabre 3. Every 25th jump or so, I experience line twists, presumably because one side opens before the other and the chute starts turning. I'm considering swapping the Sabre for something else, but are there any mains on the market today which have proper, clean openings - like the non-elliptical parachutes of old days?

Of course it might be down to my packing skills, but it seems that whatever I do, flaking, not flaking, rolling the nose, not rolling it... these things still persist. Any advice? A fellow jumper recommended the Jyro Crossfire; anyone agree?

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I used to get line twists from small to large on a regular basis on a Diablo 170 which is known to be a very twitchy canopy.  The pilot chute looked like it was shaking during deployment so I got a new pilot chute.  I  got a stowless deployment bag which stopped the deployment bag from dancing back and forth while the lines pull out.  The stowless bag gets the canopy out out of the bag pointed straight ahead and into the air quicker, reducing the time for weird things to happen.  Lastly, during deployment I keep my legs, knees and feet together and straight and fight during the process to keep my toes pointed straight into the ground.  The line twists have gone away.

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