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While bags and line excess seem to be thoroughly covered by answers so far, I want to share a packing technique that helped me reduce the occurrence of line twists to zero (well, zero in 300-400 jumps since I've started using this technique - nothing is "absolute zero", of course). Note that this technique does its magic mostly for wingsuit and tracking jumps and for canopies with ZP that starts getting gritty after 200+ jumps, especially on the tail end of the center cell which you grab when you cocoon the canopy. However, I believe it is good for no-forward-movement deployments and new ZP as well. At some point, I started getting long hesitations when flying wingsuit and sometimes even when tracking. I would feel the bag leaving my back, then my shoulders would get a gentle tug, and then... nothing. Nothing for long enough that I'd start worrying if it's going to open at all. (What seemed to be "eternity" during deployment later measured to "just" 1-2s on video, but still, this is not a normal deployment.) I would continue flying while trailing something behind my back. Then it would open, eventually - but bad. As a result of these hesitations, I was getting line twists quite often and sometimes even hard openings. I have pretty much standard arsenal of wingsuit-specific gear choices on my rig: 9ft bridle, 30-inch PC, dynamic corners. Nevertheless - horrendous hesitations. Pulling from full flight or slowing down - same thing: bad openings, frequent line twists. So after being thoroughly puzzled by trying everything imaginable and nothing working, I finally started investigating. Mounted camera facing rear and started hunting. Finally, I caught it red-handed: the canopy gets to line stretch (at which point I would feel a slight tug on the shoulders) - no problem there - but then it stays there in cocoon, fully closed, not inflating, with cocoon just dancing in the wind, PC collapsed and not stretching the lines anymore, cocoon oftentimes rotating, and lines dancing in the burble like crazy. A-ha! No wonder that line twists would ensue after such a dance. Moreover, the slider, staying inside the cocoon, sometimes would start moving from wild shaking and as a result, a hard opening would occur. So I realized that due to angled extraction and canopy somewhat sagging between the PC and the rig, the cocoon has a good chance to stay closed for a while, especially if the ZP fabric on the cocoon's apex and the twisted "lock" is no longer slippery and springy. The air hits the bottom, flat part of the cocoon at a small angle, the apex gets little pressure and the cocoon simply has no reason to fall apart - until it is shaken enough that is does. But then it's too late for good opening. So I started packing in such a way as to leave a large opening in cocoon's apex - and voila, the problem instantly disappeared. No hesitations, no line twists, no hard openings. Basically, you simply wrap the packjob by the tail not on top of the lines, but a few inches lower. The slider is half-exposed this way. On linestretch, the first thing the air "sees" are 2 things: slider and a large "mouth" of the cocoon which opens the cocoon instantly. Slider catches air immediately, gets pressed against the stops and ensures good, staged opening. Quickly exposed nose firmly sets the opening direction, and ensured immediate, firm coupling between you and the canopy, allowing you to easily follow the off-heading opening, if that happened due to bad body position and packjob. The initial tug is now satisfyingly firm and the whole opening sequence is shorter (initiates faster), but not hard. The technique shaves off probably 100-200ft of unnecessary soft "falling into pillows" part of deployment which just robs you of altitude for no real benefit. I believe that tightly closed cocoon is not good for no-forward-movement openings as well. Most of the time, it opens fast, but sometimes the tight apex prevents air from entering, with unpredictable openings as a result. I've never seen anyone packing like this, but then again, nothing is new under the sun, maybe someone else came to the same technique independently. Anyway, just wanted to share something that helped me eliminate the problem which kept me puzzled - and twisting - for quite a while. Hope this helps. Yuri Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Does anyone know a free or cheap Mac app to trim/split 60/120fps videos from GoPro 2? QuickTime does trim/split, but saves only at 30fps. Just trying to slim down the footage for archival purposes, no fancy editing capabilities needed. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Thank you, antonija, for amazing detective work!

A friend of mine destroyed his CX-100 on a water landing. He sent the camera to Sony but they said they're not going to repair it (too damaged), and so didn't even examine the internal memory on which he recorded the jump. He then disassembled the camera and found out that the internal "non-removable" memory is actually a tiny removable stick. The stick is labeled "Sandisk 8GB" and is almost the same size as micro SD card, but slightly wider and has 10 pins instead of 8. Anybody know what kind of memory this is and if there's an adapter to read it? I'd be up to disassembling my CX-100 and swapping the stick in attempt to copy the footage if I only knew that I'd be able to put the parts back together. Any idea on how difficult CX-100's assembly is? Or, if anyone wants to do this with your camera, he'll give you his for spare parts for free, if you can get the footage out. Thanks! Yuri PS. The footage WILL be worth the effort! Lineover (possibly, double) on a low pull WS BASE jump, with 2 bursted cells as a result. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Why didn't you clean that Guano shit in the other thread? Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

I saved your threat just in case. As well as Jeff Nebelkopf's and some others. Wow, f10ckers don't want to fly so bad that they want to kill the messenger! Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

And look at this wobbling, feet-in-the-ass piece of shit with several thousand of WS jumps among less number of people that made it to the eyes of millions of people on TV: http://vimeo.com/3723973 Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaaha Man, it's good to be not affiliated with anything and just say what you think. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Look at their great exits - straight-into-flight, low-AoA, quick&safe separationg from the aircraft - and after a few seconds they're already in tight, efficient formation. Compare this to f10cking "i'm a drogue who's going to hit the tail" or "i'm falling out like a piece of shit" type of exits we see in the f10cks... 2010. F10ckers finally learn how to properly exit from aircraft wihout hitting the tail and looking like an airplane poop. Many kudos to Robi, Andy Farrington, Clint Clawson, Jon DeVore, Mike Swanson, Miles Daisher (hey Miles

Where did I say that? Your silly attempt to put the words in my mouth I never said is extremely juvenile, Mr. Bent Legs. I'm a relentless mocker of a piss-poor flying falling (aka f10cking) that is constantly shoveled in people's faces online, in magazines, and even TV as "flying". I've never said anything bad about group flying where a decent level of flying is exhibited. I've always praised it, although personally I'm not interested in it at all, except for rare magic flights when I'm racing with several like-minded pilots. Your stubborn defense of ugly bent-legs falling in wingsuits is striking... I guess you want to feel forever young and you like the feeling of bent knees so nobody can say you're stiff like rigor mortis Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Here, I corrected it for you. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the FUTURE of Forward Flying Formation (F^3)... and the death of f10cking. This is what I've been talking about for a long time and f10ckers couldn't understand because they have the brains the size of chicken's. Put some ashes on your head, you f*cking f**ckers and LEARN from this video! This is how it's done. This is real flying - group flying. Realize that the hundreds or thousands of WS jumps you've done with your feet on your ass were all a stupid waste of your time. You learned precisely nothing. You learned how NOT TO FLY. Realize that you're a fucking idiot and change your life. Start FLYING! Are these talented pilots with large WS experience? Yes they are. But you can do similarly awesome flying if you haven't wasted your precious airtime falling like a piece of shit from the sky. Are they fully maxed out? No. But they're flying decent, only doing little sacrifices during the restructuring of formation. When they're in their positions, they fly without making any stupid compromises like we see in f10cks when ALL participants stupidly, with no apparent reason, hold their legs bent at the same 45 degree - or worse - angle and fall down more than they move forward. 2010. To fall in wingsuit with your feet on your ass and swept armwing becomes so silly that only diehard f10ckers who got their panties in a bunch attacking Saint Yuri can do it. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

No, you can't. You can't see that you actually broke the original poster's [partially linked] formation to fit The Stupid Grid. You can't see that you're totally ignoring the fresh ideas about taking the group flying to the next level (actually, ground zero level, since f10cking is not flying at all, it's a group wobbling) and suggesting to believe in Grid specifically designed to bring giant quantities of fresh f10cking meat to the hands of Tonysuit/F**ckU gang like in God. F10cking Olympics: it's not about running to the finish line faster and faster... it's about bringing the finish line closer and closer. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

I'm already a Professor at my very own Pure Fucking Magic University (PFMU). Currently, accepting applications from young female students for the following courses: 101A. Does size matter? An intense introduction to high performance. 101B. Does shape matter? Think outside of the cylinder. 101C. Can performance be increased without leaving the couch? PFM at work. 101D. Z-Device: principle of operation, activation, usage, maintenance and cleaning. Long hands-on sessions one-on-one with the Professor. (due to high demand, however, we cannot guarantee one-on-one... group sessions are quite common) 101E. Positioning Z-Device on various parts of your body. Unorhodox Kamasutra. 101F. Z-Device poetry. When you can't stop thinking about the magical device. Send in your application now with a brief essay about yourself and why you are interested in joining PFMU!!! Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Are you saying that if you unbend your legs and start flying with others instead of falling, the fun suddenly disappears? Are you saying that the jumpers in that video, although they have no problem staying relative, land with sad faces because their legs were straight? "Why are you so sad? Didn't you have fun?" - "Waaaaaaaaa, waaaaaaaa, he didn't bend his legs.... he moved forward instead of falling down.... that was a waste of a jump... i'm crying... waaaaaa" Are your lower legs connected by strings to the corners of your mouth so when your legs are bent, you smile, and when you stretch them, you frown? Maybe, f10cking is not only mental, but also a physical disorder? Or, Professor Of Bent Legs, sour grapes start flying into your mouth once you straighten your legs? Your behavior on this forum in general and in this thread in particular is remarkably juvenile. Your math skills are good but your attitude towards others sucks. Jeez, that's what f10cking is about: defending piss-poor performance instead of improving your flying. With no reason whatsoever. F10cking: having a wingsuit and NOT willing to fly. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Are you saying that if you unbend your legs and start flying with others instead of falling, the fun suddenly disappears? Are you saying that the jumpers in that video, although they have no problem staying relative, land with sad faces because their legs were straight? "Why are you so sad? Didn't you have fun?" - "Waaaaaaaaa, waaaaaaaa, he didn't bend his legs.... he moved forward instead of falling down.... that was a waste of a jump... i'm crying... waaaaaa" Are your lower legs connected by strings to the corners of your mouth so when your legs are bent, you smile, and when you stretch them, you frown? Maybe, f10cking is not only mental, but also a physical disorder? Or, Professor Of Bent Legs, sour grapes start flying into your mouth once you straighten your legs? Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Awesome flying! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-SzwCD7qd8 2010. The year of REAL FLYING. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Look who's talking. You used to ridicule anyone who used basic (and sometimes not so basic) physics in wingsuiting... what happened?! Times change, huh? Or they started to teach physics in aerospace schools after that Mars rover crash due to metric-imperial fuckup? Coming up next... Matt replaces 10lbs of cameras on his head with 10lbs of accelerometers, Pitot tubes, gyroscopes, GPS'es, and computers to prepare his B.S. thesis. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Yes, most of the time it's like falling into pillows. In fact, sometimes the openings are so soft that if I keep the leg wing open and pull from full flight, I don't swing forward past the point where the relative wind hits the leg wing from the back side - the aerodynamic force on the open leg wing is stronger than the deceleration caused by the inflating canopy. It feels weird to continue to fly while the slider is starting to slide down.

You don't know any better how to fly to a good spot for opening other than keep flying falling downwind with your feet on your ass? Jeez, I guess in each and every of hundreds of thousands of f10cking pictures there were "tail wind, high seas, and a bad spot", because they all pretty much look like this one. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Correct. Flocking is not about buzzing big walls. Cheers to you for being astute enough to understand the difference. It's obvious that the "is NOT about" refers to the title of the post, i.e. "f10cking is NOT REAL FLYING". We all can be slow sometimes... or not astute enough. Even if these guys were swooping clouds on a skydive, they'd still be REALLY FLYING and having no problem staying relative. F10cking, essentially, is a mental decease of falling instead of flying, for no apparent reason. For example, the guys in the attached picture, with hundreds, if not thousands, of wingsuit jumps each, all have their legs bent at the same 45 degrees and upper bodies at positive pitch angle, falling down more than they move forward. Why? Because they don't know any better. The thought of unbending their legs and starting moving forward more than down just never crosses their mind. F10cking is about not being astute enough to understand what real flying is about. And you're a long-time patient. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

http://www.allezbase.com/home.html watch "Ready To Go" That's what f10cking is NOT about. Yuri Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

When doing a gainer, everyone momentarily passes the moment of infinite D/L. But it takes the eye of a hawk and the reaction speed of a cheetah for the photographer to capture that perfect "king" moment like we see on that picture. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

The kind of exit that everyone dreams of doing! Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Those magic grapes I fed you must have been sour. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio

Thanks for answering The Question of the Universe, DSE. I must admit: of all operators in the world, I'm the dumbest one. Case in point: ok, I understand that some sensors have non-square PAR, but obviously the software (usually supplied by the camera manufacturer) that uploads the raw data from camera and converts it to video viewable on a computer, takes care of that. At this point, pixels become square. So one would expect at this point that no matter in which PC-compatible format you save the video (by "PC" I mean personal computer, not necessarily Windows/Mac OS/Linux/whatever), it'll maintain that. Just like with still pictures. You upload them from camera and you see them perfectly aspect-ratio'd and no matter in which format - JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, etc. - you save it and no matter which site you upload them, you never have to worry about aspect ratio. Pictures are never mis-aspect-ratio'd. But you take a video that's playing perfectly aspect-ratio'd on your computer and upload it to youtube, boom! - you see some weird distortion. In this time and age, why we still have to fight this stupid thing? Once the video is in the computer, it should maintain aspect ratio no matter how you massage it. There must be some Mafia behind all this to make stupid people like me suffer and search for answers to the question of the Universe from professionals. Android+Wear/iOS/Windows apps: L/D Vario, Smart Altimeter, Rockdrop Pro, Wingsuit FAP iOS only: L/D Magic Windows only: WS Studio