ManBird 0 #1 September 8, 2004 Recently, some people asked me about pitching one-handed with the S3 and BASE PC pouch. Thought I'd share on here, as well. Newbies, cover your eyes. From full flight, reach for the handle with one hand and simultaneously raise your right foot up higher than your left, like your making a left turn. Pitch hard and return to full flight until you're under canopy. Easy. Before you say, "WTF? What kind of advice is that?", please read THE DISCLAIMERS: Only do this if you have a lot of S3 experience, a BASE PC pouch (with a good number of jumps on it), and want to start sucking it down an extra 400' - 500' or so. I have yet to do wingsuit BASE, but I've done this pitch a lot on skydives. I plan on using this pitch in BASE, as well. Don't do this with your 6' bridle and 28" PC from the BOC. Use the BASE PC pouch. I wouldn't try this with anything less than a 9' bridle and 32" PC on a skydive (I use a 10' bridle and 32" PC). On a BASE jump, you're obviously going to use a bit larger PC, and probably a 9' - 10' bridle. To practice it up top, try flying with your legs in a left turn, and your right arm wing completely shut down. Play with the body position until you can fly straight like this. It doesn't take much. You save a LOT of altitude this way. Even my Katana 97 only loses about 250' vertically with this pitch. I get much better heading this way, as well. I think it's something about the way you drag the canopy along without being under it, if that makes any sense. I've seen video of Robi pitching like this, but I don't know what his "technique" is. I happened upon it by accidently reaching with one hand and sort of instinctively corrected with my legs. There goes."¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pbla4024 0 #2 September 8, 2004 What's your wingloading? Fido Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevin922 0 #3 September 8, 2004 How are you accurately determining how many feet you loose on deployment? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SBCmac 0 #4 September 8, 2004 ManBird... I do a one arm deployment as well... I too just started doing it instinctively to remain in full flight. I have 70+ ws skydive jumps and 4 BASE wing suit jumps. I have noticed that by doing this on my BASE wing suit jumps that I barely loose altitude on deployment and have great on heading performance. Even when I was skydiving, with a saber 135, it led to great openings with great on heading performance. The funny thing is that I just kind of do it and haven’t really reversed engineered all the details on how I do it. I’ll take my next few jumps and analyze what I’m doing and do another post… BTW… I’m jumping an S-3 with a BASE pc pouch… When skydiving I use a Sabre (original) 135 and with BASE I’m jumping a FOX 265 (vented). :)… SBCmac Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ManBird 0 #5 September 9, 2004 QuoteHow are you accurately determining how many feet you loose on deployment?Staring at my Neptune through the whole deployment (worn sort of over/on top of my thumb so I don't have to rotate my arm). "¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯" Click Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
