Elpnor

Bring that crap back! Start a webpage, sell advertisements, make oodles off narcissistic skydivers who post their stuff for free! It would be nice if there was one video page where we could watch videos and second guess everyone's decisions and start epic rants about it.

I like looking at people's videos from different dzs, but most videos you see on youtube and such are either the epic redbull productions, or grandma doing a tandem. I've looked at vimeo and subscribe to the teem channel. Anyone out there know good sites to see videos, or how to find your typical fun jump vids people take? Am i the only one who misses skydivingmovie.com? It's nice to see all the zoo jumps and watch people at different levels of ability, besides the swoop gods

How heavy are you and what is your fall rate? Were you having consistently hard openings? And how much more altitude is your slider eating up? Ive been thrilled with mine so far, but I've only put maybe 10 jumps on it and I haven't seen anything but good results so far.

Really? they don't look like they'd fit, but I'll try it.

I finally jumped my dome slider today. Huge improvement. Three ff jumps, all 130 mph or so openings, all soft as a high pull. I'm thrilled. Any big guys out there experiencing hard openings might want to look into it. Same sized slider, but more surface area, and it cups the air a bit. Opening seemed about as long, maybe a touch more. The other problem I have is the slider coming down over my toggles on a standard riser. No one makes the pilgrim hats for normal risers. I wished they did. I'm thinking about having a local sew shop make me some.

So PD is sending me a dome slider. I am surprised they make them. I thought it would be more likely that they'd try a larger slider. But first they are going to have a test jumper jump that sized sabre 2 with what my loading would be. Some poor schlub will have to put on like maybe 40 pounds of lead and take it to terminal, and hope it's a nice opening. I hope I don't make him shorter. I'm very impressed with PD on this one, and look forward to softer openings with my one cup brassiere of a slider

I just looked at my viso 2. It says fall rate was 134. Fast, but not ungodly. I was doing a sitfly and had transitioned to belly and tracked away from the guy I was jumping with. I flattened out for maybe 4 seconds before pulling. Wing loading is 1.25

I don't think it's the trim of the lines. This is a fairly new sabre 2 with maybe 30 jumps. Not all openings are hard, but most are hardish. The reason a dome slider is appealing is it would seem to give more surface area for the air to push up against, but not allow a the lines to spread out more that a significantly larger slider would. I think the main cause is larger body, faster speeds, equal more force on the lines and that just shoots the slider down. I need that little piece of life saving fabric to hang up there for a moment and give me some love.

Does anyone know if someone still makes dome sliders? I'm having hard openings, and need to slow them down a bit. I've read all the info out there that I could find, including John Leblancs bit, and I don't think it's my packing technique. It's happened when I pack, and a packers pack job as well. I'm kicking around getting a bigger slider, and I've contacted pd about it and am waiting to chat with them, but I thought I'd try herd wisdom as well. It's a sabre 2 230. I'm a bigger guy with a faster fall rate, but not horrific. I double wrap all my stows, and replace the locking stows that show even a little wear. I have 700 jumps, so I don't think it's body position.

Depends on when youre going and what your goals are. I love both eloy and perrris, but I wouldn't go to eloy in september. Its still bloody hot. If all you want to do is get in massive jumps, Ive never been weathered out in eloy the two times Ive been there. Perris, sometimes. But Perris is also an easy ride to a lot of things to see, whereas eloy is a bit secluded. If you want to add some sightseeing to your vacay, I'd go to Perris. Both are a couple of the busiest dz s in the world and are fantastic.

So which company is doing the balloon jumps this year at eloy, and how often are they available? I was thinking about running down there for my bday, and wanted an idea of my chances of some silent freefall. I love skydive az in the cold months

Anyone ever double wrap the large silirings for the locking stows? I've never had one in my hand and have no idea the length or the elasticity of one. But I do like my locking stows to be solid. Regular large rubber bands seem to fray and break too easily.

When I was in fl getting my aff, the wind tunnel helped a lot with the fear. The wife will love it too. Sounds like a nice couples vacation for a weekend. Let us know how the story unfolds. You've put in so much effort so far, it'd be a shame to let a temporary emotional block stop you. The only naysayers I'd listen to are your instructors. If they were to give you a heart to heart that they don't think youve got the ability to learn, then I'd rethink it. Otherwise, make a plan and make it happen

I enjoyed reading your story. I think you can beat this, and it's worth a shot for the joy that comes with skydiving, and doing something with your wife. Fear is amazingly powerful. It developed as a means for our survival and is rooted in our reptilian brain. The cerebral cortex came later and usually loses out in a fight between the two. The trick to overcoming fear is desensitizing and increasing your skill. Everytime you visualize skydiving, youre getting borderline panic attacks and reinforcing that fear. I've totally been there. I think your best bet is going to a wind tunnel. By getting some confidence in your ability to fly your body in a windstream you'll take away a good chunk of the fear away. I'd also develop some physical ability. You didn't say how you lost the weight, or what kind of shape youre in. I'm a very large guy with weight issues that have always plagued my skydiving. Doing half ass yoga gives me more confidence and increases my ability to jump. Also, the first jumps are the hardest. I didn't start to feel less terrified until maybe the 9th jump. One other resource is a fear app. Surf city makes good ones. It's a self hypnosis deal that I think would help. Don't give up! You've done the hard part by dropping the weight. I'm rooting for you, big boy.

Thanks Ian and Dave. It's nice to know those bands are replaceable if my g3 develops this problem down the road again. But since I don't want to have a helmet that worries me, I'll return it to chutingstar and get a replacement.

So my new g3 helmet is being a bit schizoid on the latch. When I close it, sometimes it shuts tight, other times it seems to be in place, but if I put a finger under the bottom lip, I can open the visor with only marginal pressure. Is this a common g3 problem? It seems likely it would still stay in place on a jump, but I've never had this issue with my g2. Any easy fixes? Thanks all

Anyone jumping a g3 without the mouthpiece material? Does it really matter? I have a new g3 and it isn't as comfortable as my g2. I have a huge head and thinking about the aero xxl instead. I want to attach a grellfab chin mount, and the one on the aero seems more sturdy. I'm too tall to have little pointy things on my head like the cool kids do. Anyone want to chime in on aero vs g3 or chin mount on both would be appreciated. I'll leave my visor sticker on for a bit while I contemplate life's difficulties.

Thanks for the video Justin! I've been reverse s folding practicing a lot lately, and it's working pretty well. I can't really put my knees on the folds, or the fabric squirts out, but my technique is getting jumpable. I'm still a bit torn on where to put my knees on the label. Above the grommets, below, or on, although on seems a bit dumb. Anyone else have a vid out there?

Really? The reverse s fold is standard in Denmark? My ancestors are smart people. I'm going to do a youtube search for Danish pack jobs and see if I can find one. I'd add proper line stow tension to your list of critical items in a pack job. I was blase about my stows before, but now I'm finicky about them. I always double wrap and replace the locking stows when they look damaged. Thanks for the post

230 sabre 2, upt vector, riser covers. The rsl is on the right side, and my left riser is the one that broke, right at the three rings. I say broke, not failed, as I learned that they are intended to brake at a certain point of shock the theory being better riser failure than dead skydiver. I think it likely that if that riser didn't break, I'd be kaput. As it was I drove to the hospital to check for internal damage. I missed two months of work and felt like I'd been in a car crash. I really can't think of any reason for the hard opening other than packing error. I wish they had a way for the grommets to stick to the stops until the parachute opened. There have been many ideas, magnets, rubber bands reefing the slider to a line and such. None have been practical. Which brings me back to the point of this thread. Anyone else reverse s fold out there?

I single wrapped the two inner locking stows, and double wrapped all the others. I did have a skyhook, but I was semi unconscious and pulled the reserve handle before the cutaway. I had half a parachute flapping over me. I then cutaway and got under my reserve. It wasn't pretty, but it worked. They were the full size risers in excellent condition. I'm super tall and weigh 250. I told you it was a hell of a hit. Grabbing my pilot chute is not the stress free moment it used to be.

No idea what caused the hard opening. It was a monster. Broke my left riser and knocked me silly. I was vaguely aware I should cut away and pulled the reserve. I regained some focus, realized my mistake and cut away. I have watched that video, and all the info out there on hard openings. One possible culprit is I single wrapped my locking stows, since they were tight with the thickness of the lines, the first two anyway, and double wrapped the rest. It's conceivable I had bag strip. I double wrap all of my stows now, and replace stows even if they show a bit of damage, especially the locking stows. I always push the slider against the grommet stops before I close the bag, so a creeping slider doesn't seem to a likely suspect. I've got my rig on the floor right now, and plan on making sure my knees are above the grommets.

I'm a big guy that's not so good on my knees. It's hard to do all the knee manipulation required for a typical pack. I can do it, but often I end up with a squishy mess shoved into the bag. The reverse s fold gives me a cleaner pack job with a smaller volume in my d bag. As long as my slider is in a good spot it's a much better solution.

Thanks for the post! That makes me feel a bit better about it.

I've seriously considered using a stick to push into the slider just before the last fold to make sure the fabric of the slider is where it's suppose to be. I've had one walloping hard opening with normal pro packing, and that was enough.