Chest Strap

[atsaubrey 0]

On my last 3 jumps my chest strap has ended up in front of my chin after deployment. I haven't adjusted the harness and a friend told me it was the legstraps slipping and I should press down the frictions adaptors when I crank them down and before I exit. I have done this and it doesnt seem to be helping. Any other ideas on why this is happening, and how to correct it. BTW I have an adjustable harness.

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[skybytch 265]

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I should press down the frictions adaptors when I crank them down and before I exit

How are you stowing the excess legstrap?

I had an issue with my legstraps slipping. I was stowing the excess by folding it a couple of times, passing it under the elastic stow and then tucking the bottom part of the folds into the legpad. Problem was the top part of the folds were so close to the legstrap hardware that it was not able to sit flat against the comfort pad - it was cocked up (from the bottom) a few degrees.

As an experiment I changed how I was stowing the excess - now I pass the excess through the elastic stow and then fold and stuff it all into the leg pad. This allows the hardware to sit flat against the comfort pad.

Seems to have solved my problem - my leg straps haven't slipped at all since I started stowing the excess this way.

[DShiznit 0]

I've had the same problem as of late, and the friction bar looks brand new. Maybe I should change the way I stow the excess.

Thanks!@

[atsaubrey 0]

I dont roll or fold them at all, I just slide them straight into the leg pads. This leaves a clean, straight shot into the pads. I dont feel them slipping, or nitice the slipping. Is there anything else that could be happening?

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[elfanie 0]

I know that this isn't going to be very helpful or constructive...but did want to share that my husband (also considered a "big boy", although getting smaller all of the time) is getting a brand new custom made container for that very reason. In fact, he ended up with a chest strap burn on his chin from getting wacked in the face by his chest strap.

I'll be reading this thread with peaked interest...

(oh, and he checked his leg straps and noticed no slippage/loosening once on the ground...)

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[skyyhi 0]

I have had problems with the student gear when it has the "color-coded" stitching on the adjustment on the MLW. This is where the adjustment would slip on me. . .no slippage on the leg straps. Caused a nasty burn on the chin one jump. . .

Hmmmm, interested to see how this gets solved. . .

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[NightJumper 0]

I say buy a custom rig form a manufacture that specializes in big guy rigs and uses type 13 webbing that is less likely to slip!

[bsoder 0]

Aubrey, have you been measured for a container at any point? The problem I have is that the container I'm jumping has a 19" harness, while my torso measures 22". For me, what that means is that everything gets shifted around up higher in the front - the rings are basically on top of my shoulders and the top of the chest strap is right at my armpits, mabye even a little higher than that. The only thing that I've been told can help a little is to make sure your legstraps are really tight (which it sounds like yours are.) That harness is probably too short for you. You should get measured and see what your torso measurement comes out to.

Edited to add: I had my rigger talk to RWS about moving the chest strap down a bit, no luck, it involves too many changes to the gear.

[nightjumps 1]

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I have an adjustable harness.

1. After you've placed the rig on the ground to adjust the MLW, does it have you chewing on the chest strap on the very next jump, or does it appear to work its way up over a series of jumps?

2. Is the webbing on either side of the MLW adjustment (within the range of adjustment) considerably shinier or smoother than the rest of the webbing?

3. How old is this rig?

[bsoder 0]

Also, adjustable doesn't mean infinitely adjustable - the location of the chest strap isn't adjustable against the size of the harness, for example. You may just be too big for the adjustable harness as well - I had that problem on the student gear - the chest strap was too high for me on that as well, and it had the adjustable MLW.

[rjf98 0]

Some of the student rigs we are using (the adjustable javs like the ones darcy is talking about) were causing the same problem with a couple of other students. The three rings were on the top of their shoulders and the chest strap came up so high on opening it caused the radio to smack them in the mouth.

This sounds counter intuitive, but. I adjusted the harness shorter. That's right shorter. It pulls the front of the harness down, and moved the chest strap and three rings down with it. After that they were fine. The didn't need to sinch up the leg straps so tight, and it pulled the container higher on their back so their PC would be more in the small of the back rather than on their butt.

Might want to look into it.