As it worked for me too, putting the nose too far away will get some off-heading or hard openings. The idea of the 2-stage opening is that the 3 center cells will inflate under slider, slowing freefall down. Then, at the already lowered speed the outer 4 cells will be inflated. If you try to put the nose too far inside the packjob you can get too much air NOT into the nose, but into the tail and into (or under) uninflated outer cells, causing 1-stage opening without pre-slowing freefall speed down. It will be really hard... trust me... The same thing may (and will) happens, when you try to grab the risers.
Tail rolling is important for first stage of opening, more and much tight rolling will make snivel longer.
I've got one of my most hard openings when i touched the riser with camera box mounted on left side of helmet.
A'm happy with CC105 (about 300 jumps @ 1,75) now i'm waiting to get a new CC95 just in a few weeks.
