Good video but would have been good to see how you placed the bag in the container and pulled it together, as well as stowing tbe pilot chute. But good video apart from that
Such a lovely man! As master rigger for so many years, he's a well of science, always keen to share experience with all of us. He IS the ultimate skydiver!
It's not big at all. How small? It's 34 square feet (approximately 3.16 square meters). To put it in perspective, that's almost the same size as a standard queen-size bed sheet
Ok, when will you fix the JFX2? Had to chop it twice due to tension knots in less than 150 jumps. First time with a brand new canopy with 13 jumps on it. Know two more people from my Dropzone with two chops on the JFX2 due to tension knots. Although at a slightly lesser rate. Size 104 (mine wl 2.2) seems particularly prone for the occurrence as one of the other pilots had the 104 as well and chopped twice although at a very different wingloading.
Leia flies great but lines lasting around 300 is bad joke. Do some tests with non cascade lineset. I would love to have in my Leia Xaos like lines, easy to replace, long lasting
After 1900 jump on Xaos-27 I bought Leia last year. It flies great but lines are shit. Around 300 jumps on lineset after doing 1000ish on Xaos lineset makes me wondering if I should sell Leia and buy new good-old Xaos. You could do some Leia test jumps on Xaos like no cascade linesets that would last at least 600-700 jumps and offer it for general public
Yest, the easiest way is to have both canopies on their set of risers and in a canopy bag. That way it is quicker and you don't have to undo re do the soft link every time
Amazing, has been years i ve been wondering why a skydive canopy manufacturer does not use vents on their projects, amazing resource. It looks like an amazing canopy, specialy on openings, only thing i would concern is the canopy reaction on a opening with line twists.
Why in the fizzity fuck weasel is he landing w/ a tail wind? Please excuse my tiny brain and mere 20 years of aviation experience, but I thought landing INTO the wind was the safest most pragmatic way to land ANYTHING! Especially a high speed hot shit canopy like that. Yeah yeah, sometimes we are forced into downwind landings due to the landing area we’ve been given, but dude hade a golf course with what appears to be a litany of options. It’s so ridiculous to me that I assume I must be missing something. Please enlighten me 🙏🏼 BSBD 🎉🤘🏼
Ensure the canopy is completely dry as damp can cause mold on the canopy. Store unpacked in a stash bag in a cool dry spot away from direct heat and sunlight.
Nao eh por nada nao, mas PQDs jah faziam isso nos anos 70s... soh que, claro, os paraquedas nao eram tao velozes (entao claro que nao chamavam "speed" nada 😁), mas a ideia de user o paraquedas com Skis nas montanhas jah era usada desde os anos '70.😊🤘 👇👇👇 In the late 1970s, French mountaineers began launching parachutes from steep mountains on foot (ground launching)[3] and with skis. Modifications to these parachutes evolved into larger, easier to launch wings now called paragliders, and parachute ground launching remained largely forgotten. However, advances in material and parachute swooping events inspired a new generation of pilots in France and America about 20 years later. Foot-launched parachute slalom course competitions known as blade running (or runner) competitions started in the Western United States in 1996 and continue with the Blade Raid since 2005. An American team of stunt parachutists expanded the sport, making stunt videos skimming mountain slopes in the Alps from 2001 to 2002. One team member opened the first 'Ground Launching School' for foot-launched parachutes in 2004 in California, US.[4]
To elaborate on the above....1995 Snowbird Utah, First Blade Running test...1997 Big Mountain, Montana actual ground launching used in competition as the weather grounded the chopper. AIrblades were used to create gates down a double Black Diamond Ski Slope. Course length over 3/4 mile long with a 12 gate course. Co-producer with BJ WORTH and myself being the competition course director for all Blade Running Events including the Red Bull Blade Raid. Team Extreme, Jim Slaton, Clint Clawson, JC Colclasure, and Luigi Carni set up the expedition to Mount Eiger. They used a helicopter to launch to tackle the mountain while flying in close proximity from top to bottom. They also competed as a team in the Pro Blade Series, Perris CA during the summer months at Perris of which I was the competition director and co-organiser with Jim Slaton. Red Bull Blade Raid picked up the tab in 2002 on Elk Meadows, Utah on the first fully sponsored Blade Running event of which ground launching was a bad weather plan B...
This video is incredibly annoying. It feels like the viewer is constantly interrupting this man’s work. I had 5 chops from tension knots. Thank God I figured out how to eliminate them.
