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  1. darrenspooner
    I have a Sabre 2 150 and have done about 40 jumps on it. Openings are horrendous, all over the place, one time resulting in a mal and cutaway. I've done 7 demo jumps on Pilot 188 and 150 and they were far far better on opening, but not quite as nice to fly. I mean, I don't know anything with my jump numbers and I don't do anything other than straight in landings, but my Sabre feels zippier, turns better and swoops longer (not that I swoop, but flares for longer). If the truth be known, I'd feel safer with a Pilot during opening, but safer with a Sabre 2 once its opened.
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    See, that's the thing about being a new dad - consolidating fatherhood with skydiving. Doesn't work very well. Babies bounce well, get him a big hankie, he'll be okay.
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    I took a whole vial (8 injections) of novocaine or whatever they squirt in your ballbag. I had excruciating pain through the whole procedure - felt every cut, yank and burn. Then waddled home. Balls as black as oil and as big as oranges. Felt like I'd been kicked in the bollocks by a horse for 7 days. Jumped again after 9 days. Just be careful when you tighten the legstraps.
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    reverse s-fold it. Kneel on the label, grab the underneath where its folder, hold it up against your chest, fold it in half keeping hold all the time, roll it up, shove it in the bag, thenstick the rest in. I found it much easier too if I used a pull up on the mouth lock.
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    Wow, I bought my wife some knickers
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    I'd dump you. Disgusting habit. I'd see you chugging off
  7. darrenspooner
    Thanks folks. I had the canopy checked out by PD, and it was apparently fine. Done about 10 jumps since then. All over the place. The only way I can feel confident is to grap the risers as I'm starting to sit up and pull them apart. Really focussed hard on body position, jumped it when its been packed by other people (including senior rigger), tried all the packing tips, no predictability. I spoke to two others recently who corrected the same problem by pulling the slider into the centre of the pack job. But no joy with that either. I will do another 20 jumps then change it for a Pilot if its not any better (I demoed a few jumps on a Pilot of the same size with no problems).
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    Sorry folks, I posted on this a couple of times before. I'm persevering with my Sabre 2, but the openings don't seem to be getting any more predictable yet. Its easier to pack, so its bedding in okay. For those of you who have had erratic/squirrelly/diving/turning/scay openings on your Sabre 2, do they settle down after 50 jumps or so. If not, what did you do that worked? Seem to have tried everything.
  9. darrenspooner
    There are several strings on this if you have a search.
  10. darrenspooner
    Throw Cherie Blair out (the british prime minister's wife)
  11. darrenspooner
    Get a boy dog for her.
  12. darrenspooner
    Hey, come to the UK. I've taken up fishing
  13. darrenspooner
    Now that's more like it. Keep 'em coming folks, I'm bound to win with some of these
  14. darrenspooner
    Oh no man, doing this naked will put you off each other for life.Read about Pavolv's Dogs. We just do this on long boring road trips or when we're both drunk and have square dinner guests. Come on folks, you can't be telling me we're the sickest. Let's be having your most horrendous eitherors.
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    Now that's a thread that'll beat the Skyride thread. Hang on, I gotta post this to m wife
  16. darrenspooner
    Yeah, tell me about it. Two kids under three and an exhausted wife. You fill in the gaps
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    No, we're psychologists
  18. darrenspooner
    Come to think of it...
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    I play this game with my wife where we ask each other a question, and see who can be the sickest. Such as - Would you rather run the queen down in your car or smash a child's teeth in with a toffee hammer, or Would you rather eat ear wax or a bogie, or Would you rather fight Alien or Predator, or Would you rather have your teeth pulled out or your nails pulled out, or Drown or burn to death, or Bite one of your own fingers off and eat it, or bite one of your partner's fingers off and eat it ??? Any good ones out there? Remember, the sicker the better
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    Yeah, and I moan because the drunk students make a noise at the bus stop outside my home on a Friday night!
  21. darrenspooner
    Your wife can't be, because mine is. Just need to get her packing for me now!
  22. darrenspooner
    Jeez, I wish I could say "my dad packs his this way". When I told my Dad I did my 100th jump he called me a fucking idiot and didn't speak to me in a month"
  23. darrenspooner
    Jeez, you could fit a dozen donkeys in those stowed line loops. Did you feel it jerkin' as it litfed off to full stretch?
  24. darrenspooner
    Whenever I considered this, and considered smaller canopies, I always told people that "I'm conservative, fly the canopy like I drive my car on ice, NEVER turn low", and I got the same response everytime - "that's what everyone says...there are only 4 types of sydivers - those that have had a mal and those that are going to, and those that have turned to low and those that are going to". Just be sure that when you do turn too low or do something above your ability that your canopy will forgive you. I'm the last person that shouldbe saying this because I'm jumping a higher wingload than I should be (CCI is cool, checked me out, and so on). Just be careful. Also, its not just you that's at risk if you make a mistake.
  25. darrenspooner
    Thank you. Someone that looks at the literature.