Tracking Pants

[caribadive 0]

I am looking for tracking pants. Can anyone recommend some manufacturers?

[porpoishead 5]

levis, and a good coach......... if you can't track correctly, there's no magic pants............well green tight ones worked for peterpan, dont know who makes em though

if you want a friend feed any animal
Perry Farrell

[caribadive 0]

Why do you assume I have tracking problems, because I asked about tracking pants?

[porpoishead 5]

I didn't assume anything, just wrote my opinion. on the matter of tracking pants.

no offense intended, seriously

if you want a friend feed any animal
Perry Farrell

[hjumper33 0]

I got some birdman pants as a present and they are really fun to track in, but really they are only super useful if..
1. You are tracking all by yourself and just want to see how far you can go.
2. You are base jumping.
3. You are on a bigway track and like to surf burbles and need a quick way to catch back up.

If using them to try to stay with a tracking dive, they actually take more skill to keep with the group because you are constantly trying to adjust your fall rate. If you really want to fly, do a lot of jumps, learn to track in whatever you are wearing, and then get a wingsuit.

[havensiangst 0]

The new pants from www.phoenix-fly.com kicking...buy 1 size bigger than you usually wearing..buy a tight jacket(rainjacket/sportjacket/shell jacket) and put a bungy from thumb to thumb and you flying...
good luck!

[jakee 1,347]

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Why do you assume I have tracking problems, because I asked about tracking pants?

The Pants and Jacket from Phoenix-fly are pretty much the gold standard for high performance tracking.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[mbondvegas 0]

Agreed. I have both the PF Suit and the Birdman Pantz. The Pantz are better to fly with others who wear RW for FF suits. The PF Suit is too high performance to play with other who don't have the suit (IMHO). But...if you just want to fly balls to the wall...you can't beat the PF Suit. It is also a good progression program for moving to WingSuiting.

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[Naptown 0]

People don't wear tracking pants just to track away after a 4 way jump. Pants (with the jacket) are close to beginner level wingsuits.

[adamtippie 0]

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levis, and a good coach......... if you can't track correctly, there's no magic pants............well green tight ones worked for peterpan, dont know who makes em though

I would have to agree with this statement, that is great that you want to invest your money into some "tracking pants" but you should really learn to FLY YOUR BODY not a "suit"

[kingbunky 3]

i have absolutely no experience with tracking pants, but if you do a search in the BASE forum (i think it was there) for 'smoke pants' you'll find a cheap alternative to manufactured tracking pants.

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[SlipstreamBRO 0]

I know you're a D license jumper and I am only a B. But what is the purpose of a wingsuit if we are only to "fly our bodies and not suits"? That's a pretty ignorant statement.

To me you are assuming that someone who wants to use these is a novice tracker...The PF pants/jacket (which I just made my first jump in yesterday) GREATLY improve the distance once can cover and also make it so that you are in the air longer without being under canopy. So, to say that you should fly your body and not a suit is pretty closedminded. Some people got into this sport to fly. So, the Suit is a natural step toward that and wingsuits. Even a person with 100 jumps can realize that.