Just when you thought skydiving can't get any better, along comes the Katana. I now have about 150 jumps on a katana 107 loaded at about 1.6 to 1. I'll still go on any load just to get another canopy ride. I've previously jumped Sabre 2 120, Vengeance 120, Stiletto 120 and Spectre 97. I expected the performance to be similar to the Vengeance, but it was in a different league. The riser pressure is light, and can be held down at will. It generates great speed in long carving front riser turns and has an awesome bottom end to finish the swoop off. Many times it's made my Protrak flatline as it plains out for the swoop. Initially after a soft snatch I would get thrown around a bit on opening, but found that it was sensitive to body position, after I started really flying the openings it has been consistently on heading.
This canopy is so cool that I had to re-write a song from The Lion King;
Hookin-The-Katana what a wonderful Phrase Hookin-The-Katana aint no passing craze it means long swoops for the rest of your days it's a cross-brace free Velocity Hookin-The-Katana........
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I now have about 150 jumps on a katana 107 loaded at about 1.6 to 1. I'll still go on any load just to get another canopy ride. I've previously jumped Sabre 2 120, Vengeance 120, Stiletto 120 and Spectre 97. I expected the performance to be similar to the Vengeance, but it was in a different league. The riser pressure is light, and can be held down at will. It generates great speed in long carving front riser turns and has an awesome bottom end to finish the swoop off. Many times it's made my Protrak flatline as it plains out for the swoop. Initially after a soft snatch I would get thrown around a bit on opening, but found that it was sensitive to body position, after I started really flying the openings it has been consistently on heading.
This canopy is so cool that I had to re-write a song from The Lion King;
Hookin-The-Katana what a wonderful Phrase
Hookin-The-Katana aint no passing craze
it means long swoops for the rest of your days
it's a cross-brace free Velocity
Hookin-The-Katana........