Hard opening ruined me.

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Very nice video. Thanks for sharing it with the
rest of us.

Notice that by the time you looked up,

1) the slider was already all the way down.
2) although the canopy had totally expanded
to its full span length, the center cells were not
inflated & the canopy appeared flattened.

This suggests a case of bottom skin opening,
which occured because the slider had lost its ability
to generate drag and remain at the top of the
suspension lines. So the slider did not slowdown
the canopy expansion the way it was supposed to.

This explanation is part of a pet theory of mine about hard openings

http://www.pcprg.com/sliderdragcancel.pdf

Finally you mention the opening lasting about 1.2 sec...Im thinking that the canopy opening itself
lasted probably 0.5sec or less.

J

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In addition to the comments above, don't forget the important role that body position at deployment plays.

I deploy my Triathlon 160 from full wingsuit flight.
I got no bruises, pain or what so ever...

Roger that. I am willing to bet you have good body position when you do. I have deployed in a full track before ( I jump a wingsuit modified rig and hope to do some wingsuit jumps in the future) just to see how the rig works and had no problems...but I was concentrating on good body position when I did it. None of this goofy semi-fetal head down crap.

Just burning a hole in the sky.....

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"By the time you are 40, you will feel every fucking one of them every time you get out of bed. "


Can I get a ,"YOU NAILED IT!" ?

and not only will you feel every one of them when you're 40. you'll feel every one of them that happened in your 20's when you're 40. How may skydivers have neck pain????

linz

All of this (and thanks to bill booth for more info) is why I cut the spectra off my new Sabre2 (I know I could have ordered it differently) and put dacron on it. And once I packed it as the manual says I have sweet on heading soft openings. Even softer with the dacron

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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The large majority of hard openings in my experience are caused by a lack of slider control during packing.

Lots of different advice on this thread, so I'll repeat this one, which I think is the first thing for you to re-examine. When you quarter your slider, make sure it is even between the lines and the slider stops are all the way down. When you cocoon the canopy, make sure the slider stops are all the way down. When you are laying the caopy down and getting air out of it, make sure the slider doesn't move. When you put the canopy in the bag, make sure the slider is all the way in there. I check and recheck the slider more than any other thing when I pack. It makes a real difference on openings.

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