Hi, I am not a big expert in canopies yet, but have jumped a handful myself and Sabre2 170 was my first canopy. I might be biased myself since this was my first canopy and I positively loved it. Made over 100 jumps on it, had several line twists and one brisk opening on pretty high altitude (at about 8000 feet). But the message I wanted to tell is this - I learned a lot when trying to pack it and maintain perfect body position. I fought off heading openings assuming that canopy is perfectly OK and altering my pack job. Believe me, everything is because of your own hands (or those of packers) :). By the way, I had a cutaway on my 2-nd jump after completing AFF and it was a packer's job! They are great people, but they also get tired. After working my way to perfect openings and trying other canopies I say - close to a perfect all round canopy. Maybe your had some manufacturing defect. Now I am trying to tame Crossfire 2
