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    According to your description Kirk´s RDS is interesting me seriously. Is it a one-handle system?
    Would anyone be kind and post some pics and contact info.



    Here's the Para Concepts RDS for a JVX. The JVX requires the flaps on the sides of the slider. One for a Velocity or other canopy wont have those. The full RDS is a little bit of an older picture when I had the stainless rings on it. The new alloy rings are shown in the other pic.

  3. I'd like someone to tell me why they think the PEA sliders are better that Para Concept's.

    I can see one lesser quality feature just by looking at the pictures - the rings.

    Kirk was using the thinner stainless steel rings like PEA appearantly is using and searched long an hard for a better solution. He came up with the alloy version that was released last season. I have probably 400 or so jumps on each style of ring and the new ones are definitely better... Mainle because they're lighter and thicker.

    Why is thicker better? -- Less line wear. I'm probably going to get 50% more jumps out of a set of 350 HMAs just because of the new rings.

    Kirk overengineers everything and really put a lot of thought and research into this. The rings are machined in Germany and then spend a crazy amount of hours in a tumbler in his loft working out ANY edges.

    IMO, it's doubtful that there's a better RDS out there.

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    And what about Neos?
    Did anybody measure it against VX/JVX or Velo of same size in sticker?

    P.S. I own Neos-89 and waiting for Velo-79.



    I have no idea about the size difference, but that's going to be a huge jump in performance and speed for you. The Neos isn't quite in the same league as the Velo/JVX. I only put a handful of jumps on a 98 Neos when I was regularly jumping a 111 Velo and it still felt more docile to me.
    You're going up in canopy performance plus wing loading, whereas I only went up in wing loading and down in canopy performance (I hope that makes sense)... So be carful with that transition.

  8. I jump only Deepseed gear (Swoop pants, Freefly pants, Freefly top and Camera top)... I've never jumped one of their suits with grips, but I came across a Deepseed sponsored Australian team that was and they looked to be really nice. The main reason for the FF suits with grips is for VRW. They are much smaller than your standard RW grip and shouldn't have any effect on your freeflying. Jumping an RW suit, on the other hand, will greatly effect you while freeflying... Especially while sit flying.

    In my opinion... Go for it. The suit will only be more versitile if you want to use it once in a while for RW... And you will not be dissapointed with their product. They build a great suit at a great price!

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    I agree that RDS machined slider rings do wear the lines quicker and that the old teflon base slider rings on PC RDS are smoother.



    I agree that the stainless version Para Conceps was using probably wore the lines a bit more than the origional teflon ones.

    I just hooked up a set of the new ones Para Concepts is using... Kirk is a nut when it comes to only putting the best thing he can find out there. These things are considerably thicker than the stainless ones but about half the weight. They spend like 40 hours in this new polishing machine he bought getting all the rough edges smoothed out. I'm diggin them. :ph34r:

  17. Well, I called CSC earlier today and they're cool with rescheduling it to July 19th.
    Sorry Karl, I really won't be able to get up there at a early enough time to set up the course and get things going at a decent time. If someone else wanted to set things up (I doubt that'll happen) I could be out there by 8:30 or so, but I already called CSC and told them about the change after seeing no responses before I left for work this morning.
    Derrick and Karl, I hope that you guys can somehow make it. I hoped to not inconvenience anyone. Please pass this along to anyone else that should know and might not get here to see the schedule change.

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    After much deliberation between myself and Dan Raymond (not really), we came to an agreement on a NEW SCHEDULE:

    Saturday, May 10th, at Skydive Chicago
    Saturday, June 21st, at Sky Knights
    Saturday, July 12th, at Chicagoland Skydiving Center
    Saturday, August 9th, at Skydive Chicago

    I hope that this works for everyone...



    Does anybody have a problem with changing the date of the Hinkley meet from July 12th to July 19th?
    Dan was going to be in charge of setting up for this one, but as most of us know he's moved out of state and I'm taking care of it.
    I know Derrick wanted to make it this one but the date wasn't the best for him either... Anybody object? I'll give you guys till Monday night to speak up, otherwise I'll change the date.

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    Do you find that the added step of reeling in the bag and p/c is hazardous in traffic? I know in comp situations, it's a dedicated pass and only 3-4 out at a time, staggered opening altitudes, right?




    I make it a common practice to be in the saddle by 2800-3000 ft. After I open I point myself where I want to go and start pulling my RDS off and keep looking around. If I do see someone else under canopy flying towards me I can make light turns with a little harness input or a light pull on a rear riser.
    It usually only takes 15-20 seconds to pull it down, roll it up and stuff it in my RDS pocket.

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    I'm talking about the slider only here, the full RDS (p/c and bag) will only be used for training/comp purposes, but I'd like to take advantage of the removeable slider all the time, but I'm worried about the time it will take to re-attach it after the jump



    If you're going to remove the slider you might as well fly with the full RDS in my opinion. Reattaching the slider is the only time consuming part of the process. I almost always jump with mine. If I'm jumping hard and want to save time I'll take off the bag and pilot chute and hook them to the canopy and throw the ball-bungee and rubberband on my container.

  23. We're up at East Troy on June 21st... Who else is coming? Troy can't compete because he hurt himself, but he's coming to help out. Macino got sucked into the tandem world and forgot how to swoop, so he's not going. Henry and I are definitely going to be there though.