Top 5 Plate Carrier Mistakes 

Mistake #6: blurring your face out when operating in your plate carrier. Makes it extremely hard to see and operate properly.

More non-black hoodies and shirts please. Lets get some slate greys and mustards up in this b.

This is perfect really hoping for some more regular videos like this. Also, the website update! Have been wondering when it would come and it looks amazing.

the first video that actually help me set up my plate carrier, thank you!

Great info. Super helpful. I wish I had this available when I was looking for my first plate a few years ago.

Great breakdown. Perfect amount of information and focus.. I really dig that gear storage design!.

Great points all around! Can't agree more when it comes to cable management, it's critical and guys forget about it all the time.

Whoever filmed this did a really good job, kuddos to the quality work y'all do!

Very good tips...ill check my plate and see if i made any of these mistakes...thank you

Outstanding video and Explanation..... Good Job. Thank You

The explanation of the exspander wings was a lightbulb moment for me personnaly so huge thanks for the vid cause i was afraid i was stuck gettin a a third molle cummerbund in the size 2 just to fix my small issues of almost to tight etc. Keep up amazing work and thanks to everyone at spiritus systems!

The wing adaptor is an awesome idea.👌

Cheers for the updates.

Very informative video. Well done.

Great breakdown. Perfect amount of information and focus.

Good video. Getting my PC just like I wanted it was not easy. I am a fan of the "travel light so I can travel fast" school, but as I have grown older, this has turned into, "well, at least as fast as I can". Weight and bulk add up fast.

Great video as always

love the intro

I thought there was some pretty good tips in this video. Especially when they showed how difficult too much stuff makes going prone, getting back up again and the interaction of gear in vehicles a real chore. Regarding snagging hazards: It's also important to remember how your rifle's sling fits into the dynamic of all of that kit. Being able to sling or unsling one's weapon reasonably quickly is an important thing to learn and practice. That was also an excellent point about keeping the drawing area above one's secondary holster clean. Good stuff! 🫡

Bro. Those Hilux are looking so good. Probably the nicest I've ever seen actually.

Excellent vid! Keeps the new jacks from learning these tips the hard way! Any chance you guys have build instructions for those wooden gear lockers? Ideal design

For cummerbunds, there are also some that are a hybrid between molle and stretch

Gear Efficiency: a sign of the thoughtful Hoplite.

Great info.

My #1 mistake with setting up my plate carrier was setting it up how I set up my flak jacket in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. A lot has changed in the ergonomics, structure, and utility, of kit and I had to adapt to it. First thing to go was the pistol holster on my chest lol.

Don't forget to tether your compasses and stuff to your carrier so you don't yard sale it while moving. I also use mechanic's wire to tether my light, and ATPIAL, to my boom stick. Get selfish, no freebees for others.

The tube-style cummerbund is definitely worth it. Those FirstSpear tubes are no joke. Last forever.

thank you for your help

I couldn't believe when we went to pre deployment training, people wore their carriers low over their stomach. I knew proper wear so I had mine higher where it should be protecting lungs and heart. 4 of them seriously laughed and said look at him his whole lower half is exposed! The stupidity I swear

I really dig that gear storage design!

Thank you!

That's a nice caatail antenna ya got there.

I think the top reference of the plate carrier height isn’t the sternum, but the clavicular notch… the sternum is the center of your chest where the breast bone connects the ribs.. just to minimize confusion.

This video should be mandatory concurrent training for soldiers 😂

Honey wake up new spiritussystem video just dropped

I got myself one of those coyote plate carriers it works great. I also have a ferro slickster

I get issued a Crye Plate Carrier. I've found it hard to get truly comfortable with it due to the cummerbunds lack of flexibility, so I now use Ferro Concepts ADAPT Cumberland's with a Warrior P/C, which is far lighter and allows me to actually breathe whilst having the P/C snug enough to stay in one place. This is especially important when also wearing soft armour underneath. As far as wearing side plates, it's easy enough to add them with the Crye side plate bags whilst still being able to use the Ferro elastic punches for mags or whatever. It's a Mish Mash but it's effective, light and works well for me.

What type of radio was that? Great tips thank u.

It's very interesting to watch this video from Ukraine. We have fundamentally changed our views on military equipment. This particularly applies to body armor and plate carriers. I think you might have missed mentioning the importance of a significant amount of Kevlar in this review, which can save you from the shrapnel of Russian projectiles

Great vid. May I ask what mic you use? Your vids have excellent sound quality for voice. Asking for a friend (RU-vidr)

I can’t wait to have all my friends look at me funny while I explain this to them in person without the context of demonstration

I sewed tubes onto my elastic cumberbund. I feel like Oppenheimer, theory will only take you so far...

the vest on the second rack looks pretty nice, what mag carrier does it use?

Curious as to why there aren't more co.panies trying to make elastic cummerbunds with tube adapter

Great info, you have RSF vs RBF .. resting sad face.. lol great delivery though appreciate the info

Molle/elastic hybrid cumberband pleaaaassseeee!

In your cable management section you had a flexible antenna. What is the information on this antenna so I may check into it?

I'm gonna need some more info on those gear lockers :) what's there dimensions ?

Feel like you missed a 5 option on the cummerbunds, which is elastic with a molly band over it. For a bit of extra weight can the best of both. Don't know if an equivalent MTV exists on the civilian market but I did like using them. Were kind of pain to don once you loaded it up.

What are those cut-outs on the right side of each top shelf for?

7:03 Ive been "under-loading" mine 😆 Trying to carry 200+ with no placard.

We need a taps upgrade kit restock!

Will your mk4 and 5 placards fit crye jpc 2.0

Do you guys have blueprints for the gear lockers in the background?

What about for military IOTVs

Mistake #1 putting on a micro rig. Be a man, lbe or macro rig Mistake #2 non detatchable backpack/backpanel. The purpose of a pack is to carry stuff and be able to access it. Mistake #3 wearing it in the wrong spot Mistake #4 thinking your muscles/fat levels determines your plate size. Hearts and lungs dont grow/shrink with muscle mass/fat. Do the correct measurements of your heart and lungs Mistake #5 wearing a black/multicam black/splatter/ig hype pattern. Camo is dependent on your environment, and black is unnaturally dark

Great Video, great explanations, i hope one day someone on youtube will use a not so generic size person as their model, as 5'10 dude at 275 its hard to find someone talking about this style of wear and sizing. ,

Thanks for this video. I was wearing my PC upside down this WHOLE TIME!

Can we get the coyote brown jsta pouch back in stock plz

What type of camo is that green multicam?

want that antenna

this video quality is awesome, how did you record this?

Should I move my taser off my carrier or move it back to my belt?

where we should attach side plates? as much as possible to the front to maximize front protection area or on a middle of cummerbund to protect our sides of body, leaving a empty area bettwen front plate and side plate?

Love it how y’all talk about fighting loads and then show a pc with 3 mags. Fuckin lol

I use a standard 10x12

Does anyone know of a company that can taylor make frag mitigation sleeves? I bought swimmers plates from Spartan Armor and they don't currently make the sleeves for them.

Are the plans for those gear lockers posted anywhere? I have seen some but not with the clothes hanging rack behind it.

I heard the rear plate is allowed to ride slightly higher to be as close to your occipital bone.

MY BOY NATE

Are you planning on restocking the motto hoodies?

I noticed my plates sit very loose in my lv. I have 10/12 plates in a size lg. is this why ?

What type of antenna is that?

i think the first mistake people make when buying one of these, is they dont realize how heavy they are to begin with, with just the plates inside and when an when not to use a PC, cause there's only 3 scenarios i can think of when i would need my PC

What is the brand or plate carrier on the Far left the OD Green one?

the only challange is cable management on a MCR, PC is pretty easy hiding cables

When will the larger Fanny Sack be released?

About mistake #3 Im suprised that you didnt mention another solution, that is to have cummerband with molle and this quick release system but on the back of cummeband, use elastic material

what jeans ya got on?

At 8:41 it looks like the plates almost 2 inches below his collarbone. Isnt that too low?

We want a spud placard!

Yes because this is something that you need to know in life!

I’m 11 inch nip to nip 17 sternum to belly button so should I do 11x14 plates

Get some.

I still use my Eagle Industries MARCIRAS. It's old, but it works.

....at the cummerbund sizing part....you talk about your cummerbunds , yes? because there are more variants out-there

#2 is the one I see most people get wrong. Most lay people have their plates way too low. They need to be up high enough to protect the ascending aortic arch.

Does your LV-119 integrate with the Ferro assault cummerbund?

0:48 what plate carrier is this?

whats the dark camo plate carrier he has to the right?

Wish I would have watched this before I ended up with too small of a plate carrier

I didnt kno u could mess up the plat size that bad 10x12 seems standard, ride height #2 is adjustable

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I set my avs up just like a CCT I saw and it's perfect for me tbh

so, based on mistake #1, where can I find a plate measuring 11.75" x 15.875" ? - oh, and a carrier to fit it in? I guess I naively thought plates and carriers came in standard sizes.

Why did you guys delete the 1-hour video of Adam ?

1:17 "heighth" is not a word.

Did he say heidth?

Is Spiritus ever going to make a carrier in small?

When he was measuring himself, I (who didn't know how to correctly measure someone for a plate) went "He's gonna do nipple to nipple, isn't he?". XD and damn if he didn't lol