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a low chest strap sounds comfortable, but when i talked to some manufacturs they talked about the risk of falling out of a harness with too low chest straps. and there must be space for my cut away handles... hmm i have no idea how a comfortable and safe rig should look like. one advise was to get a rig with a regular chest strap below the chest, and a loose support strap above the breasts, just to stop me not falling out of my rig. anyone tried that?

I thought maybe if I want to cut something that is wider than one line. I.e. a bunch of lines, a riser or something else. Maybe like something like this: garm fighter

I have never tried a comfortable rig. Which is the most comfortable rig for women?

I´m thinking about what kind of knives I want. I´d be glad to hear what you have chosen and why!

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700:1 bag lock

I´m digging both the song and the base video too, here are the lyrics in urgish: In faro hardon, haya gato haya gato in fra horido, haya gato haya gato in shori fargon, haya gate haya gato in sha horido, in fori se din dje Adela djanni dacote, adela djanni deside adela djanni dacote, arome daya ka In raki hardon, haya gato haya gato in fra hordio, haya gato haya gato ri saki fargon, haya gato haya gato in fra horido, in fredi retrin de Adela djanni... Some of the words translated to english: faro: far away hardon: pride horido: horror shori: sure djanni: together arome: many fra: tall saki: property fargon: vanished

I think it depends on what kind of coaching style you like. Go there, do some jumps and just hang around and pay attention to how how different coaches take care of other skydivers at your experience level. If you got a video of yourself, ask one of the coaches when they not busy if they would like to take a look at it and give you advise. Then you´ll find out if you like the way she/he gives feed back. One thing I would like is that the coach who is serious, have enough time to give good feed back and plan the jumps carefully. Think about what you are looking for in a coach, I´m sure you´ll find one at the festival

If I try something new, I can have an anxious feeling about not knowing what to expect from the situation. It can be a very strong focus or just an excited feeling. If it´s a normal jump, I feel just feel more concentrated, in a nice way. I think it´s interesting how the nervous feeling changes to a relaxed focus the more I jump. The first jump was full of so many new sensations that it was impossible for me to handle them all. I can feel how I getting more and more out of every jump, I can feel the wind better, I get more control of what happening around me, I can think more about my body position, about my breathing and take in more things about what´s happening. In a couple of hundred jumps more I think I´ll experience the same kind of jumps rather different from now, in more ways than just improved skills.

less than three weeks left!! i had so much fun last year, i´m so excited to go there again. the an-26 is really cool

I would pay for the re-pack if the mal could have been packing related. I think it´s nice to do for the friend who maybe got in trouble because of me. I also think it sends a message that 'I pack your parachute so carefully that I expect the risk of a packing related mal function is going to be small enough to take the risk to pay for the re-pack when it happens'.

You pack your friends parachute. If your friend get a mal which doesn´t seem to be related to body position, would you pay the re-pack?

They can be fun to use as toys and be better references then just a skydiver. I.e. if you do a pylon race the tubes are good to use for the pylons. You can make nice pictures (maybe for a sponsor). Somehow, it increases the feeling of flying instead of falling, I think.

Not yet (600 jumps)

On a pull out the pilot chute is inside the main container, on top of the bag. When you want to deploy you pull a pud, which is connected to the closing pin. The container opens and the pilot chute can get out and take air. The pud is located on the bottom of the container.

When a gear check is done, I want to be sure that everything I want is checked. Sometimes different people do different kind of gear checks. Maybe they have thought about their routine very well, but it might not be compatible with my routine. I ususally do five checks: after packing, before I put the gear on, before the airplane leave the ground and before exit. If I jump with people who I haven´t talked to about how I want my gear checks, mostly I prefer to do it myself. It´s my gear, my life and my responsibility to make sure my gear is okey before I jump out. Another thing is that I want the same routine every jump. Maybe I just have a bad memory, but if I start do things in another order than I usually do, I tend to forget if I really have checked everything, and have to do everything in the whole routine all over again... Sometimes I do like a gear check done by someone else. If my gear somehow is messed up, i.e. the line to pilot chute has come loose, I ask someone else to fix it. (but I still do my regular checks) Or if I have a team mate behind me who knows exactly what I want to be checked and what I don´t want checked. Or if I just feel like have someone else to double check me. I also think it´s good to try to evaluate the gear-checks: Are they reliable, neccisary, efficient, easy to remember and to do right? Should I check something more at some point? I update my routine now and then.

How much line slack do you leave from the last stow to the links when you put the bag into the container?

You got the pilot chute in the spandex pocket, just like normal, but of course the pilot line must be short enough and the pilot must be folded the right way. Instead of a pud to pull the sprint (as on a normal pull-out) you pull the sprint by taking out the pilot chute and thereby pulling the pilot line on which the sprint is. When you have pulled the sprint you throw the pilot chute (as on a normal throw-away, but the container is already open).

How do you deploy your crw-canopy? Ordinary pull out/Throw away/Russian pull out/Other? What are the pros and cons of these deployment methods?

You´ll find good advise here For example they write that it sometimes can be good to know how to turn it off: *If it´s on in the morning (give you a new 14 hour interval) *If you take the cypres in a car and travel over 50 feet altitude change (save battery) *If take-off and landing altitude are different(to not confuse it) *If you had it in elevation split mode (to reset the altitude difference And here is one of their advise how to turn it off: Look at the link, it might help you, good luck

It´s not for freefall, I want to be able to do CRW more easily with heavy guys, even if I have the same size of canopy as they have (like if I borrow one of their canopies). I´m a rookie at crw and don´t want to make things more complicated than they already are.

I have jumped with 33 lbs extra weight, but I would need more. I would like 66 lbs weights, but together with my rig and equipment (22 lbs) it means that my equipment weight ¾ of my naked body weight. almost me twice! I get the feeling that wearing weights isn´t the same as actually have that weight as muscles and bones (since they kind of carry themselves), wearing weights somehow means that I have to carry more weight then my body is built for, trained for and used to. What are the risks about wearing weight? It´s not the increased wing loading aspect I think of, I can use a bigger parachute when I jump with weights. It´s about any other aspects of weight-risks.

My rigger cleans the cutaway wires when I repack (2-3 times/year). I have never thought of doing that more often before, maybe I should, but is that needed? I checked my wires now, they didn´t seem to be dirty at all (after 4 months). Or are we talking about dirt that I can´t se with my eyes? I flex the three rings when I change to another canopy, which I do rather often at the moment. And I flex them if I just waiting for the sun to start shining if I have nothing else to do. Or if I realize that I haven´t done it in a couple of weeks. I don´t count the days though.

Money, well I´ll try to get some kind of scholarship when I find some interesting schools. If I get someone else to pay for me it doesn´t matter if it´s expensive, if I have to pay it myself, I want some cheaper alternatives. So, some of both.

How did you choose your university? I´m thinking about making an exchange year in the US but I don´t have a clue how which school to choose, all I know is that it has to be close to a nice dropzone.