CrazyL

Thanks for the compliment. Simple yet effective. Glad that my last post was taken as advice. Really i just felt the need to share with all yall a little bit about how Crazy Larry does it. Someone long ago said 'keep it simple' I listened.

Talk to it, caress it, cuss it, beat it, stuff it, cuss it, stuff it, etc... Then pay a packer for a few jumps till the 'new' is worn off while at the same time observing others who make packing 'look easy' and attempt to learn from them. If you'd like pro tips and tricks and would like to learn tom pack that slippery thing yourself. Go Big and schedule some time with me. I should have you 'getting it in the bag easier' within 8 hours of training broken up into 2-3 sessions.

Ya so either way you wish to convert, the best place to start is the manufacturer. If I read your post right ,that would be Relative Workshop. They would have all the proper parts for the conversion. Call them,they'll hook you up with the right stuff for the rig.

yellow looks great on black!

You make me laugh!

Ya SAR, go for it. The more buddies you can entice to help you the better. It's out there! As a longtime jumper there are things that I practice on each and every jump. Pulling is of course one of them. In hopes of preventing incidental removal of gear while skydiving I made a choice in what happens when i put gear on 'no matter what'. Here's a few of my 'no matter what' scenarios. 1. The Harness: Put the harness on completely before getting on the aircraft. Regardless of distractions watch the harness while putting the rig on, legstraps are easy to get right. The chest strap on the other hand is easy to get wrong. Watch the webbing being threaded through the chest strap properly EVERYTIME. ( Do not watch anything else during these moments).Do not walk around with the cheststrap undone(bad habit if you do). 2. Goggles around my neck all day except when being used. 3.Alti on my wrist all day. Goggles and alti will always be there if i'm wearing them. 4. The Helmet : Good habit is to fasten the helmet to my head everytime i put it on, no matter what, while at home ,dz,on aircraft, walking to aircraft, showing it off, fitting it to my head etc....Bad Habit is to put the helmet on and not fasten it except just prior to sporting activity. Sorry to hear of your loss. Keep your chin up! Check out the Bonehead Illusion. Larry

About 'Line Dump'. Does the following analogy work for the line dump scenario: On a main d-bag a rubber band stow breaks or releases out of sequence between the locking stows and the first stow to release. Q: Will the d-bag accelerate more rapidly causing a hard opening due to the above scenario?If so , is the bags rapid acceleration in part the cause a hard opening? Is this scenario 'urban myth' or 'real'?

Will keep an eye out here at the Ranch in Ny for you bro! There was a fella in San Marcos that had gear stolen a couple of years ago and the thief called the DZ some time later to sell the ' Savelin' (Javelin) and when the thief arrived at the dz , so did the authorities and the gear. Homy got lucky, I hope you will too.

Misrouting a cheststrap is easy to do, just look away as you thread the chest strap.I have a rule for threading the chest strap. PAY ATTENTION, LOOK at the webbing and buckle, WATCH the webbing as it is being routed properly, LOOK and WATCH during this one simple step to donning the rig EVERYTIME without fail. Do not be distracted while routing cheststrap. Do not look away until the end of the webbing has been routed through the buckle and cinched. It's also easy to stow brakes improperly by doing just the same sort of thing. While rigging, it is easy to get distracted. There are definate parts of rigging that I will not allow distractions, the world can wait.

To All: I have a couple of real stories to share here.1 Jumper unhooked RSL tucked it into mudflap. Deploys main,has 2 out and wonders how/why. Figured that somehow the RSL pulled reserve pin during main deployment. 2. Just today @ the DZ, I saw an RSL on Jav routed to the outboard edge of the main riser. Low and behold, it was also exiting between the reserve risers on the outboard side. If RSL were activated could cause reserve front riser to be pulled from container by lanyard before pin is pulled disturbing reserve deployment sequence and damage to the reserve front riser due to friction of the lanyard and ring sliding on webbing. 3. Rental gear/packers. Have caught 3 similarly misrouted RSL's during the past 4 years at the same DZ without even trying. I attribute it to lack of education of the various equipment and/or lack of caring about the job being done. I educated each person involved in each mishap, 2 of the packers still did'nt learn much and got pissed. Have seen a few RSL shackles hooked to the 3 ring assembly as well. Would like to see the RSL system made more idiot proof.Would like to see an approved method ie. an attachment point for disconnected RSL shackle to connect to. Use it properly. Have a educated and solid reasons why not to use an RSL bfore having it removed. Don't remove RSL because Joe Coolio does'nt have one.

I have been jumping my Sabre 120 with dacron lines with an intentional 180 of the link on the front risers for the past few years. The canopy gets an average of 40 jumps a year the past few years. I use it for CRW downplanes among other things. Having seen a few main assemblies done with a link twisted and/or lines in the wrong order on the link and having had the same question as you, i;ve been doing my own experimaent over time to see if there is detriment due to a link being 180'd on the front riser. The advantage of the link being 180'd on the front riser causes the dive loop to turn and face outboard making it less prone for getting my CrW buddies feet in when they put their feet below my slider and in between the risers. My reaction time getting into and using the diveloops increased while doing CRw. So far damage is negligable on the line,no lines cross nor have friction wear due to link being 180'd on the front risers.

Getting into swooping. When a young jumper approaches me with questions on high performance landings aka hookturns, my usual reply is 'hookturns are the highest cause of death among skydivers, why do you want to do that?'. I myself am a hookturn whore. I like to top off a bitch'n skydive with a big fat hookturn too. Does'nt mean I like to tell others the how to's. I will coach many parts of skydiving, am very reluctant to teach the most deadly part of this sport to anyone. So yes, I do hold jumpers back from 'the most deadly part of the sport'. Have been told at several dz's 'you are the example for the young jumpers'(not in a good way). By doing hookturns i'm not a good example to the young ones, I also have no instructional ratings, which makes me a fun jumper. Have done many coach jumps as the coach. On coach jumps I tend to fly my canopy approach similar to what i'd like the coachee to fly. A portion of a coach jump includes canopy control each jump. Skydiving is still my hobby, even though i work in it daily. I will do hookturns only to entertain myself, to entertain others is a side effect. Have competed in swoop events in the past. Competitions became more hazardous for me. Partly due to swooping to impress others. I could care less if anyone sees or is entertained by one of my crazy aerial stunts. Part of the reason why i land the way I do is for those few fleeting moments of bliss that i feel from performing such acts. Don't do as I do. You could be killed!

Contact the manufacturer. Don't 'help' the rig to be comfortable yourself. Allow the makers of the gear an opportunity to assist you.

Be aware that adding padding to between the person and the harness if done , must be equal on both sides. If padding is on one side there will be a very possible turn in the canopy due to the harness.

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yes, suitable meaning .8 to 1 to 1.5 to 1 max.

Nope. I can only assume that you put the sand in a bag and wrap it with tape...ect. But if you already have something that works, why should I reinvent it? I would not have asked if I knew the answer.Quote For the really good spotters you could use pea gravel from the pea pit and the spotters job is to return the peas to the pea pit.

Of course I give a look silly. [: of course no there has never ever been an issue or "close calls" I guess I was more just implying I've never given "5 left" or "5 right". Maybe once for fun, but the pilot just laughed at me.*** You make me laugh, hehehehehe. Have had that happen to me too. Have had the pilot tip the plane and not turned it too. Several good posts here to get you going on spotting.I was a static line student and jumped out of cessna 182's for the first 200 or so jumps. Jumping manta 288 and goliath 320 mains, round reserves in some rigs. Had to make it to a small landing area with tall trees surrounding 3 sides, powerlines on the 4th side with a house and big tree in the yard, and a swamp nearby with deadly snakes in it.There were 2 alternate fields you had to dedicate to above 1,000ft. The school taught spotting very well. On jumprun the pilot yells "door". 1.Open the door 2.place your head outside the aircraft, 3.look down,4.locate landing area 5.look for other aircraft, freefallers, and parachutes, and listen to pilot commands. 6.Attempt to aid the pilot in navigating the aircraft to the preplanned 'spot' to 'jump'. 2,3,4,and5 pertain to every jump. 1 and 6 pertain to you if in the door and first out. If youd like to know more let me know.

I'm no Aff instructor but a student getting burbled by an instructor should be part of the flying portion of the course in my opinion. The student that posted here had to use there training for a reason unknown to them at the time. Student reacted properly due to good training and caused a boost of confidence for the student. Well done.

Hehehe removing patch may void the TSO. Poor flight suit logo. May it find a new home. Are you the Pink Panther Barbarian?

As a matter of fact, yes. I do partly enjoy sharing knowledge as well as packing, maintaining, and jumping my a@#$%s off. Surfing too. This Dz.com is a funny thing. When i go to the DZ i hear and talk about this site. When i go surfing, non of this comes to mind. Living in the moments of sheer bliss. Crazy Larry

Quoteas well as installing connector links and AAD. I'm going to make a statement here that is in no FAR's or manuals that makes since on assembly/repairs/alterations. To all who post here feel free to criticize. ' Any rigging that can or may cause a catastrophy should be done by a Master Rigger and/or the manufacturer of the equipment'.' Such as the assembly of parachute components, replacing lines, installing AAD, retrofit AAD pocket, removing/adding RSL, sewing on H/C and canopies'. I learned this from an old rigger, it just made since. When i worked for him, he assembled gear i inpected and packed, as a senior rigger. Good ethics I thought.

yes.

Thanks. I'm not one to waist time. I'd like to think that my posts to this thread is not a waist of time. I like to help jumpers make since out of skydiving and the gear we use.

There is no real interest in this subject, why did you people lead me to believe there was interest. I waisted more time writing info to meet your needs and no f$#$%^&*rs care to respond. DONE dont ask .