Linas120

What are you refering to as "too much"? Eg. 4-6 rolls, 6-8, or....? Of course, the ways people roll their canopies' tails might differ - I've seen some very tight and loose ones - and that also could affect opening characteristics. Thanks for sharing info, btw

Has anyone of you, Katana jumpers, had a cutaway from it? For the purpose of education, could you please share the details of these incidents: the cause, canopy size, W/L, lessons learned, etc. Thanks a lot.

The rush of downsizing never starts when you have 9 jumps. There simply are too many things to learn and flying smaller canopy definitely is not on the top of that list. When you will have 500 jumps and say that you don't feel any rush about downiszing, it would sound much more credible. Just wait now. What drives people to downsize you will experience after your first high performance canopy jump

Well, for me personally it is interesting to see that a lot of you guys have started physical activities after a broken femurs so quickly. 3 weeks after surgery is nothing talking about a time that is necessary to at least partial femur recovery. The only thing that holds the pieces of the broken femur at this time is the metal plate, rod, or this weird looking apparatus, which is sticking out to the surface of the leg (in cases of very complicated bone injuries). When I had broken femur 4 years ago, I had to spend 3 months walking with 2 crutches and no load for the injured leg at all. In total, it took me 5 months to fully recover and be back in sport again. The metal plate and 12 screws were removed from my bone something like one year later. Now I don't feel any consequences (such as pain, any kind of discomfort, etc.) of the injury at all and the only things that remind me of it are x-ray photos and zipper-like scar on my leg. Therefore, I could advice from the personal experience that there is nowhere to hurry with recovering fom such injuries, because otherwise the consequences might be felf throughout the rest of the life.

No cutaways in 850 jumps. Knock on wood.

There are good and bad matters related with the downsizing. As for the good ones - they vary from jumper to jumper, but the bad ones - in my very personal opinion - are rather common: 1. Downsizing too early 2. Downsizing drastically (190>119) 3. Downsizing only for the purpose of showing off (the jumper does not really feel confident with the smaller canopy, but s/he stick to the idea that the downsize will contribute to his/her reputation as a skillfull skydiver) 4. Having a very significant EGO, but pretty low actual skills of canopy piloting 5. Following the logic: the increase in the number of jumps should be directly proportional to the increase in wing loading (no. of jumps does not always correspond to the individual's skills) 6. "All guys in our DZ jump small canopies, therefore I need one either" type of thinking That's what I think of this issue.