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I do what the moment requires... Some times if I'm a little short I may go into brakes so I can make my starting point before I start my turn. Other times I need a little rears before I start it. Depends on what you have to do to make the gates... As for practically I think that starting in brakes does kill your airspeed but if you turn a little higher you can dive for longer and achieve the same speed. Optimally I like to be somewhat close to full flight though.

Come now... Just take out the right bracket: ] backspace over it in the address bar :)

I have to use Mini Risers with my current canopy to pull the slider down behind me. As for BASE its a silly thing to offer and I don't see the point. I do know people who use PD Reserve slinks for BASE.

So far I've: - Fly a wingsuit - Master all freeflying (only to the point where i can dock in all body positions.) - 1,000 jumps or more - Learn how to swoop like an eagle - High Alti Jump - Jump Kjerag or similar big wall - To stay safe Done a few of those :) My main ambition is to stay safe and keep jumping a LONG time.

My guess is that a heavy jumper under a larger -M reserve would also run the risk of this defect. The forces acting on a canopy are roughly the same during opening wingload to wingload as there are the same number of attachments and lines. I could be wrong though... I sold mine and got a PD the week of the SB. Partially because if you look in back Parachutist magazines prior to the SB there are a series of reserves that blew up operating "outside manufacturer limits". Pfft.

Considering I only have a couple of jumps with it and my comparison of recent times is the Blackjack, I don't think I have ample experience to say whether or not it inflates faster than a non-composite Ace or Mojo.

How many people swear by them? I've only made one jump on a Blackjack. Any stories of how they effect slider up openings? What about the normal vented Fox?

If you are a good talker you can likely get out of anything. Some friends and I were caught after a jump on a big building and we got out of it because we were very cordial with the management. Likely you will just be charged with tresspassing.

I've got over 100 barefoot jumps and I love it (even on highly loaded canopies). My main concern with it is landing somewhere where there is sticky stuff. I wouldn't even mind landing on concrete like that, granted my feet are kind of hard. I'd be warned of walking back and stubbing your toe on something. I've seen some nasty stuff where people stubbed their toe on the runway

Do you use the harness to get out of the dive? I'm interested in trying that.

I start from just about 700 ft usually. Optimally its very slow starting with possible faster portions as it progresses depending on my altitude. I don't do very much with harness until the bottom end to help line up with the gates and I do major corrections with rears. I imagine I could start it higher but most of the time I am pulling on the riser as hard as I can by the bottom.

I've done 140 or so jumps with contacts in (with no goggles from 0 - 14 second delays and only once had a problem. The one problem was on a 13 second delay where i lost one contact. I noticed everything got a litle blurry on opening. I don't foresee having a problem on a delay as short as that.

No difference. I took it stowed from 300 ft a few times.

That would be the same in pack volume as an Ace 280 right? Thanks

I've put several jumps on an Ace with the upper and a Blackjack without. The Ace had a much more powerful flare. It was really impressive. Almost felt like I was jumping a crossbraced

Anyone else on dz.com going? Any freefliers from afar going?

Most other drop zones in my experience do Thanksgiving related festivities. CSS has a big Thanksgiving boogie usually. Most dropzones at least jump and do some type of dinner thing.

Sounds a bit like skydiving eh

Well you can get a pound of green beans which keep for a year for about $3. I'm not certain but I think that is cheaper than Maxwell House.

There was no option for: I roast my own and grind it. Roasting is mad easy and cheaper too.

I have about 200 jumps on tracking Pantz. I have used them (the BASE and Freefly versions) both on solo and group tracking dives as well as lots of free fly jumps. My freefly suit now is birdman pantz and a long sleve tshirt. All around I think if you need a good pair of freefly pantz they work out. As for tracking them to the max I can get an 83 mph avg fall rate which is pretty good for my build. However, they are quite expensive and if you just need something to better your track then I'd look for the smoking pants article in the BASE forum. Those out track the track pantz and they cost about $12 to make.

Damn that was a hard opening. And it opened with no pilot chute. Must be a magic rig...

As I've said before and I'll say again... The only bias in the media is that which makes it money...

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BASE698 of course :)