now this is interesting ??

[sky-pimp 0]

any one have any coment on this ??

go to skydivemovie.com and look at the 'newest videos' and Speedbag lockup.mov ?????

YeHaaaaaaaaaaa

[koppel 3]

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I like my canopy...


...it lets me down.

[Samurai136 0]

can you make it an WMV file?

"Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian
Ken

[bob.dino 0]

http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=3508

[hookitt 0]

My Quick Time player is all uptodate but it won't play that .mov file.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[MB38 0]

AAC, Stereo, 32.000 kHz
H.264, 320 x 240, Millions

All it needs is Quicktime 7.

I really don't know what I'm talking about.

[pilotdave 0]

Yeah, been getting lots of complaints about this one not playing. Not sure why... I ran into the same problem on my laptop yesterday. Upgrading to the latest quicktime player is all it took to fix it.

Dave

[hookitt 0]

Yep... I thought I had the latest quicktime but looked at the About Quicktime under Help to see that it was the previous revision.

It works now.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[linestretch 0]

won't work for me either. It's all updated but no video....just audio.

Would love to see it....any chance of someone converting it to a MOV file?.....something easier to view?

my pics & stuff!

[dorbie 0]

Maybe someone could send you a Betamax tape of it.

[pilotdave 0]

I'll see if I can convert it to something else tonight unless someone else does it before me.

Dave

[sid 1]

The video is of an "on the floor" attempt at extracting the canopy from a speed bag using the same kind of technique that can be used with a "safety stow and loose pouch" bag. The speedbag is specifically designed NOT to work that way. It utilizes ALL of the forces involved in a cutaway situation.

Jumpshack has an article on their new website (still under construction but viewable here) http://www.jumpshack.com/portal/content.asp?contentid=751 and have uploaded a real time reserve deployment on skydivingmovies.com here http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=3521
There are some people resistant to the speedbag because it doesn't work like the older bags, it just takes a little understanding. I know a rigger who still jumps with shot and a half capewells because she doesn't trust the three ring system. It just takes time, and some are a little harder to convince than others. I am NOT and I repeat NOTgetting into a debate here because it's been thrashed to death on gear and rigging. As someone who has done a few intentional cutaways on the system, and has one on my personal sport and tandem rig, I trust it completely. I'm out........ (so don't bitch at me or debate me here, I mean it )

Pete Draper,

Just because my life plan is written on the back of a Hooter's Napkin, it's still a life plan.... right?

[pilotdave 0]

.WMV version:

http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=3523

Dave

[linestretch 0]

pretty funny...


thanx dave.

my pics & stuff!

[darnknit 0]

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The video is of an "on the floor" attempt at extracting the canopy from a speed bag using the same kind of technique that can be used with a "safety stow and loose pouch" bag. The speedbag is specifically designed NOT to work that way. It utilizes ALL of the forces involved in a cutaway situation.

i gotta tell ya, i've got over three hundred repacks and i have never seen any other deployment device lock up "on the floor". i mean you gotta unpack 'em to repack 'em. i am not the most experienced rigger in the world, but i definitely believe there is a potentially lethal snagpoint on the current design of the racer speedbag.

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There are some people resistant to the speedbag because it doesn't work like the older bags,

i gotta agree with you on that one.

pulling is cool. keep it in the skin