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i belive this is the same situation that caused me to have to cutaway my vengeance. on opening, the slider slamed down over the toggles, unstowed one toggle and locked the other one in place, i tried to clear both toggles, but could only get the bottom part of the locked toggle out. luckily for you this happened on a lightly loaded canopy flyingy straight, (and not a somewhat heavily loaded elliptical spiraling towards the ground) definetaly get the slider stops installed, it takes five mintues and it is the best way to prevent this from happening. as far as pulling the slider down behind your head, its a personal choice, but at this point, its not going to make any differece in performance. although if you DONT get the bumpers installed id strongly recommend pulling the slider down, as jumping without the stops and the slider up, is belived to be linked to one recent fatality.

i used to have waaay too many strider knives, sold them all to get through aff. i had at one time or another 2 MH's 3 MT's 2 GB's 3 AR'S 2 SA's MG MSC 7.5 3 D-9s (one totally custom) but of all of them the only one i miss is the D-AL i loved that knife attached is the remnants of my knife collection, of all the knives that i used to own i think the best value knives are spyderco and swamprat.

i can say that my vengeance went quite a distance (almost a mile) when i chopped it. people who saw it said it kept its shape for a good bit of time before it deflated.

I went to the US academy of parachute rigging www.usapr.com probably the most expensive of the schools out there, but from what ive seen and heard, and my experience its the best. (and also the longest) its run my Sandy Reid, owner of Rigging Innovations in the USAPR loft which is in the same building as the RI manufacturing facility. the loft is HUGE it has around 15 sewing machines, a massive vynil packing table, and enough room to easily hang two tandem canopies. they have the biggest variety of rigs to work on ive ever seen. from an old NB-8, to the first saftey flier square reserve, to the latest H/Cs from the top manufacturers. and tons of softies! during the course your constantly busy, always learning something or working to improve your skills. they dont just teach you the bear minimum of what you need to know to become a rigger, they make you into a GOOD rigger! my class consisted of 6 people ranging in experience from 100s to zero (me) reserve packjobs, one guy had never even SEEN a square before, let alone packed one, but if you have the determination, they can teach you!

in this case yes a bigger canopy will always be safer. i say in this case because the person still has not come to the realization that THEY fucked up. the only way to fix their problem is to first admit that they have one (kinda like an alcoholic) about 175 jumps ago, i almost broke myself pretty bad, i hit the ground while my canopy was still in a dive. i hit the ground ankle first, then laid out onto my stomach and bouced about 5 feet back into the air, then flared, and somehow stood it up. i did this on video, infront of the 4 best swoopers at my DZ, the only person i had to blame was ME i fucked up. when i got back to the hangar one of them asked me if i thought maybe the funky winds had anything to do with it, i said no, I fucked up, I jumped when i wasnt fully with it (had other things on my mind) I got low, and it was completely my fault. it took a big strong smack in the face from the unforgiving planet earth to make me realize that i needed to pull my head out of my ass and stay on my game. how many broken bones will it take for this person to realize?? this person made a concious effort NOT to flare, they obviously have a severe lack of canopy control skills, knowledge of how their canopy flies, and they suffer from poor decision making, so, anything that will slow their decent to the hard unforgiving ground (even if they are going backwards) can only help at this point. listen to what Ron says, he obviously knows his shit.

the more wind the easier it will be to lanuch (well sometimes when its really windy they love to launch themselves) the best way 1) Light wind Launch Lay the kite out, leading edge upwards. It's light wind. It's not going anywhere. Walk back to the handles, give a decent pull and you're away. 2) medium wind launch Just like the light-wind, leave the kite facing upwards, but as you walk back to the handles, hold on to the lines. Keep some tension on the lines(if the kite starts to really take off, LET IT GO, its better to look like a jackass running after it then having to get somebody else to wipe your butt cause your kite cut your fingers off!!), so that the kite is held in shape. Permit the kite to drift downwind rather than let it launch. When you reach the handles, just launch for anything stronger then a medium wind, id suggest parking the kite on something to launch it, the best thing ive found are those big orange cones, theyre nice and slick, nothing to catch on and as soon as the center cell hits it the kite deflates (although one of them big orange ones with the blinkers on it would really do the trick for a bigger kite!!) if the wind is strong enough that youd get faceplanted if you launched straight downwind, launch at the edge of the wind window. (at an angle) ive found that the bigairsportz kites take a little more time and a little bit more of a tug (were talking seconds here) to fill with air and lanuch then other kites, since their construction is much more robust, but this reinforcement also allows for operation in MUCH higher winds then youd ever even think of being stupid enough to fly it in

shweet, bring it to freezefest and we can have kite races across the frozen pond!!!

JUMPTICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!

dude i need SOMETHING to hold my pants up so i dont have plumbers crack when i bend down over the packjob.

woah, do you mean you had a cypress fire?? did you have your reserve ride in eloy jumping with dusty sometime in november?? if so i think i saw it, that was LOW. how long was the canopy ride? 30, 40 seconds???

yes but my knees are a hell of a lot more important then adding a handfull of jumps to the life of my canopy

ahhh BS!!! i was outside all day today getting my ass handed to me by my traction kite, and besides a little windburn and hella sore muscles im ready for some more tommorow.

oh you mean slap and tap in a medly of dischord? if you want to hear a GOOD bass player, find out who victor wooten is!

why the hell would anyone go to see them anyway. primus SUCKS!!!

ahhhhh, sharp phil, i remember him from my days on Bladeforums! his website: http://www.philelmore.com/index.htm and the thread on BF which started this whole guide: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=180400

i would say pocket slider, when i worked at sq3 we put one on a sabre 190 that was smacking people left and right, since then its been VERY soft VERY reliable openings.

yeah, too bad you suck at packing, kidding!!! remember HAPPY FOLDS DAMMIT happy little folds!!!

without a doubt get the p-124 aviator. http://www.rigginginnovations.com/products/aviator.html its kickass! its comfortable, its square, its bulletproof (hell id take it to terminal!) and most importantly (since ya know theyres not too many burning planes falling out of the sky) its COMFORTABLE!!! its not as easy to pack as a softie, but definetaly not any harder then a sport rig. (not too different either)

well maybe you wouldnt have been so damn cold if you didnt make us go to 10k!!!!!!!!!!!!!

daves a pussy!!!!

ill be there, but prolly just to pack/teach a packing class. besides, i have no freebag anybody got a rig i can borrow

i ordered a landsurfer form big air sports, i should get it soon, i expect it to be pretty powerful since its a lot bigger then any of the ones ive flown before. (35sqft compared to 15)

where the fuck else am i supposed to mount my cameras!!!! seriously though, i didnt wear a helmet for a long time, i still dont like wearing them, but now i consider it a necessary peice of gear, more so then and altimeter if anything it WILL help save your hearing(if only slightly)

no, the majority of injuries and deaths lately are due to low turns, most of which were not intended as speed-building maneuvers (i.e., get homeitis, avoiding obstacles, turning to get into the wind)

NO. Not at all, eloy SUCKS i was there a little under a month in november, and although i did get my ticket and get to jump with some of the best freefliers in the world (although i can do that at home too) it still kinda sucked, it was cold as shit the entire time, and my teamroom was dirty as shit and everything has a layer of dusty dirt on it, and when it does rain all the dust turns to muddy shit! but i have to say the bent prop kicks major ass and the chef there rocks! (the bent burger and the breakfast burrito were worth the entire trip)