ihavearrived 0 #1 October 22, 2005 Okay I am new to this. I only have a couple of tandem jumps...(vacation trips) I'm sure I will learn about this in AFF, but , what is a tension knot???? Thanx Alan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #2 October 22, 2005 Quote I'm sure I will learn about this in AFF, but , what is a tension knot???? Thanx Alan I've had one. It resulted in a hard spinning malfunction that I had to cut away from. It's when the line stows don't clear cleanly from the D-bag and one or more loops from one stow traps loops from another stow or something similar. It can also, in most cases, cause line twists, lots of them. Not a lot of fun to deal with."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ihavearrived 0 #3 October 22, 2005 AAHhh! OK! Thanx!!! I can picture it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #4 October 23, 2005 QuoteQuote I'm sure I will learn about this in AFF, but , what is a tension knot???? Thanx Alan I've had one. It resulted in a hard spinning malfunction that I had to cut away from. It's when the line stows don't clear cleanly from the D-bag and one or more loops from one stow traps loops from another stow or something similar. It can also, in most cases, cause line twists, lots of them. Not a lot of fun to deal with. Billy, what you're describing is a bag lock. A tension knot is a knot in the lines, I think this is a picture of a tension knot: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Photo_Submissions/Malfunctions&image=reserve4.JPG&img=&tt= (there's definately a knot on there somewhere ) ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EvilLurker 2 #5 October 23, 2005 You get a tension knot if you twist a line so that it has "tension" in it, then when it goes slack, it wants to twist on itself and loop. When this happens, it can loop around itself and get a loop trapped in it when the slack is removed. That's why you chase your steering lines out and insure they're untwisted when you pack. Take a piece of any kind of rope or line, stand on one end and twist it up, then release the tension and watch, you'll get the picture real quick. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ihavearrived 0 #6 October 23, 2005 Thanx, I have been skimming through skydivingmovies.com and have seen tension knots in the description but wasn't sure what I was looking for in the video. Thanx Alan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #7 October 23, 2005 QuoteQuoteQuote I'm sure I will learn about this in AFF, but , what is a tension knot???? Thanx Alan I've had one. It resulted in a hard spinning malfunction that I had to cut away from. It's when the line stows don't clear cleanly from the D-bag and one or more loops from one stow traps loops from another stow or something similar. It can also, in most cases, cause line twists, lots of them. Not a lot of fun to deal with. Billy, what you're describing is a bag lock. A tension knot is a knot in the lines, I think this is a picture of a tension knot: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/gallery/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=Photo_Submissions/Malfunctions&image=reserve4.JPG&img=&tt= (there's definately a knot on there somewhere ) Maybe I wasn't clear enough. It was not a baglock. Somehow the lines got tangled up after clearing the bag and I had a big knot and line twists several feet long... I have stowed my lines a lot more carefully ever since."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
