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  1. Canuck
    Nice lookin rig, but fire your rigger. Seriously, I wouldn't pay for a pack job that came back with that many wrinkles in it... Canuck
  2. Canuck
    A little on the low side coming out, and then late on the toggles - your flare stroke starts about 4 feet off the ground. Good job on the recovery - well, right until you wiped out a second time Props for being modest enough to post it. Canuck
  3. Canuck
    If you want a fullface, think about a Bonehead Mamba instead. IMO it's the best fullface helmet on the market. Can't say for sure if your glasses will fit under or not, but in most cases they do with flip-up visor helmets (unless you're sporting some gigantic specs). I believe they're cheaper than the Havoc, smaller, lighter, and way less dorky looking. Canuck
  4. Canuck
    To each his own. I went the other way - started out with a Flat Top Pro (vanity purchase - guilty as charged) and then went to the FF2. I do way more jumps with just video than with video/stills, and find the FF2 set-up with the side mounted camera much more comfortable and easy on my neck the FTP with the top mounted camera ever was. I've not noticed any reduction in the quality of my video, but I do wear my chin-cup really tight. Also, I do 75% of my jumps out of a 182/206, and I really find sitting in the plane with it on and getting into various exit positions MUCH easier with the FF2. So, all told, I don't at all feel like I've "cheated myself" by not keeping my FTP. Maybe one day I'll go back to one (or more likely an Azimuth), but for now, I am very happy with the choice I made. Canuck
  5. Canuck
    Price. And really nice paint. Other than that, it's pretty much an exact copy. About the only difference is the closing latch. Canuck
  6. Canuck
    Yeah...thanks for that...but the point wasn't to find an alternative flat top to the Flat Top Pro, the point was that very few people fully use the capabilities of a Flat Top Pro, and would be just as well off using any one of the "consumer line" video helmets available (i.e. FF2, Optic, etc.). Canuck
  7. Canuck
    I'm actually really suprised that Bonehead is still selling the Goldmember, or at least for that price. When they put it on the market, there were all the rumours floating around that the stroboframe was being discontinued, leaving the Goldmember the only real option out there. That having not been true, I have no idea why anybody would buy a Goldmember. Now, if they start calling it the Goldmember Pro, then nobody will think twice about dropping the extra coin. Of course, they would also have to double it's size to make that fly... Canuck
  8. Canuck
    You can get a stroboframe for WAY less than $95 - like about half. Try an online photo place like B&H. Only Paragear has the audacity to charge $95. Canuck
  9. Canuck
    You're right, there is no comparison. The Flat Top Pro is a far better helmet for heavy duty set-ups (i.e. multiple cameras, flash unts, etc.). But if all you have is a video and a still, or even worse, all the people I see with nothing but a small PC video camera on top, then you have just made a vanity purchase even worse than getting a cross-braced canopy to do straight in approaches under. Just becasue it says Pro on it doesn't make you one... The FF2 is a nice alternative. Small, secure, lightwieght, half the price, comfortable, etc. Canuck
  10. Canuck
    Something else to consider...one day you might decide you want to get, for example, an AFF rating. Having a solid base in flat flying skills is absolutely essential. A couple of my bros who have very, very few "arching jumps" as they call them and have had a very difficult time trying to do tandem video, flat fly coaching, etc. nevermind AFF. Both are well over a thousand jumps now, and both wishing they had taken a bit of time earlier in their skydiving to develop some basic belly skills. Canuck
  11. Canuck
    True...but I gotta say, even a ProTec is cooler than a frickin ski helmet!! Ski helmets look soooo gay! My teamate still wears a ProTec, and he's badass. If you got the skills, it doesn't matter what's on your head. Now, if he was wearing a ski helmet, I'd quit the team. Get a ProTec: they're light, comfortable, provide excellent protection, lots of colors to chose from, and are easy to mount shit to (dytters, cameras, etc.) Canuck
  12. Canuck
    It really makes no sense to jump a reserve smaller than your main. If a 230 is as small as you're comfortable with, then you definitely don't want to be under a 218 when the shit hits the fan. As a pretty good rule of thumb, keep the reserve AT LEAST the same size as the main. Now, we're talking about some big canopies here, so I'm sure you'll be just fine. This is more for advice to the original poster. Canuck
  13. Canuck
    You will find the front riser pressure as high, if not higher, on a Crossfire 2 as you do on your Safire 2. So there goes that. Find ways to work the front risers of your Safire - it's do-able, assuming some of your body weight is due to muscle... Canuck
  14. Canuck
    Sent you a PM. I'm deffinately not going to start giving price quotes in this forum - that's deffinately too much like advertising!!! Canuck
  15. Canuck
    Or a Canadian dealer, which I am - I just try not to mention it on here as it seems kinda like advertising... Anyway, now that it's out there, any other Canadians who would like help ordering a 2KC product, feel free to drop me a line. Canuck
  16. Canuck
    No doubt about it, the FTP is an awesome helmet, but it really is bulky, as are pretty much all of BH's products. It probably has to do with the one size shell fits all to keep production costs down deal. Mine easily could have been 2 inches narrower, not to mention an inch or 2 less in height. Compared to the Wes helmets or some of the other customs out there, there is no way you can say the FTP isn't a big helmet. Awesome...but big. Canuck
  17. Canuck
    I believe Atair is very good about giving out the specs for their linesets, in fact, they may even be available on their website. With the specs, you should be able to easily find a good rigger who can make you a set and and do the install. Ballpark price: $200. Canuck
  18. Canuck
    So um...when you show people their videos, do you tip the TV on its side so the picture looks right? Seriously, having the camera on it's side obviously helps keep the whole thing lo-pro, but it must make getting good shots even harder... Canuck
  19. Canuck
    The Sigma tandem is being piloted by someone with at least 500 jumps...
  20. Canuck
    I'll be there for the first week anyway, and would be happy to talk with you about whatever. Jason Peters always runs a canopy skills camp during the Invasion too, where, for very little money, he will video and debrief every landing you make for two days. You should definitely consider taking it. Canuck
  21. Canuck
    Not even close. Maybe it came out sounding wrong. What I mean to say is that I have priorities in skydiving. At the top of that list is revenue jumps, because I plain and simple can't afford this shit - without them, I might as well sell my rigs. Then comes the team, because, well...teams gotta train. Then if I have spare time and cash on my jump account, I'll gladly jump with anyone who wants to. The point of the post was simply to indicate "going up with a newbie" and providing coach services are not the same. Or at least not in my experience (on both sides of the equation). So if we're going to talk about charging for a coach jump, let's make sure we are really talking about a coach jump... Canuck
  22. Canuck
    You know, you get what you pay for... "Going up with a newbie" and actually carrying out a coach dive from beginning to end are two completely different things. Coach jumps take time and carry responsibility. You want a coach jump - that'll be my slot plus 15 bucks. You just want to go do a jump with me, and I'm not busy doing an AFF, tandem video, or team training, and I feel like "going up with a newbie", then I'll cover my own slot, show you the video, and give you a couple pointers for free. Canuck
  23. Canuck
    There are some very thin lines out there (HMA) that will handle the opening shock. That's not the problem. Trying to get 53 cells to inflate evenly and systematically so one side of the canopy doesn't spin itself around the other side is the problem. And 45 km/h is not particularily fast by skydive canopy standards. For skydiving applications, either 7 or 9 cells in various sub-cell configurations seems to be the magic number for deployment reliability and flight performance. Canuck Canuck
  24. Canuck
    They did. It was called the AR11, and I think they tended to open like shit. I believe they were only in production for a year or two. I'm sure companies other than Aerodyne have tried it too. I remember Icarus had a prototype 11 cell (or 33 cell if you want) cross-braced canopy a couple years ago that never went to production. Canuck
  25. Canuck
    That mother fucker has got no soul Lengthen your brake lines. Anybody without enough experience to figure that out by himself shouldn't be jumping anything that highly loaded. Canuck