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cosmicgypsy

Articulated vs not

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Hi gypsy,

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advantage to an articulated harness



IMO comfort. However, and here is where I agree 100% with Bill Booth, I am not a believer in upper chest rings; just the lower hip rings.

IMO the upper chest rings will put the reserve ripcord too far around your body, reducing the safety element of ease to find when you really, really need it.

Jerry Baumchen

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hackish

Every time i see a legstrap repair on an articulated harness i know that the cost of that option paid for itself.



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Ringed harnesses might be easier to repair, but all those extra stitch patterns require more time and labour to manufacture.

Light-weight skydiving rigs bottomed out about 1990, when small ZP canopies became practical, but before ringed harnesses came into fashion. Adding 4 extra rings increased: cost of hardware, cost of webbing and cost of labour.
The worst was Strong's tandem student harness with hip rings: comfortable for students, but prohibitively expensive to sew with 6 stitch patterns radiating out from each hip ring versus one stitch pattern on a conventional (non-ringed) hip joint.

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What I mean is that fully articulated harnesses make it far easier to replace only a section of the webbing when the pilot decides to downwind it on the taxiway. If not it's often a complete harness and while manufacturers have been very kind with the pricing for me it is still often a $500 mistake or a $100 mistake if they were articulated.

-Michael

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Hip rings are more comfortable when stuffing large skydivers into small airplanes.

Chest rings increase flexibility if you are Dale Stewart (ballerina come skydiver who was 7-times solo, artistic, free-style, free-flying champion), but for the rest of us are mainly fashion statements.

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