WEBVTT 00:00:05.973 --> 00:00:09.901 I'm gonna remove my knee - again putting my hand in place, 00:00:09.901 --> 00:00:12.957 to make sure that this first S-fold that I did doesn't move. 00:00:12.957 --> 00:00:17.534 I'm just gonna roll what I've just done on top of it. 00:00:17.534 --> 00:00:20.706 Once there's some pressure here I can remove this hand. 00:00:20.706 --> 00:00:23.739 Again, I'm not struggling with this pack job right now. 00:00:23.739 --> 00:00:27.975 This is a pretty new canopy - I think it only has ten jumps on it maybe. 00:00:27.975 --> 00:00:34.028 So, it's brand new. What I'm gonna do is, I put my knee here... 00:00:34.028 --> 00:00:36.008 [coughing] excuse me. 00:00:36.008 --> 00:00:44.967 for a little bit of support. I think it also allows me to keep that fold from sliding out: 00:00:44.967 --> 00:00:49.737 that first S-fold. 00:00:49.737 --> 00:00:53.556 Now we can clearly see that the canopy is close to the size of the bag. 00:00:53.556 --> 00:00:55.445 I'm just going to slide the bag over it. 00:00:55.445 --> 00:01:02.345 I'm gonna slowly lift each side of the bag, and pull this flap underneath. 00:01:17.973 --> 00:01:19.885 Like so. 00:01:21.816 --> 00:01:29.610 With lots of practice, and a good shape to work with, that parachute goes right into that bag. 00:01:30.486 --> 00:01:34.734 Going to hop onto the other side here. We take a look down those lines. 00:01:34.734 --> 00:01:40.631 Even after working with that pack job and doing the double S-fold and getting it into the bag, 00:01:40.631 --> 00:01:43.778 the lines still look good. There's no slack in those lines. 00:01:43.778 --> 00:01:49.371 I know that because there's no slack in those lines, everything that I've done in that pack job 00:01:49.371 --> 00:01:54.766 during the flaking, during getting the air out of it and everything else, and putting it into the bag, 00:01:54.766 --> 00:01:57.363 nothing's changed. 00:02:00.088 --> 00:02:04.531 So once that canopy's in the bag, I like to set it up on its end. 00:02:04.531 --> 00:02:06.717 I bring this flap over. 00:02:06.717 --> 00:02:09.356 Instead of stretching the rubber band to the grommet, 00:02:09.356 --> 00:02:15.383 I really make sure that this grommet comes all the way down to that piece of tape, or the base of that rubber band. 00:02:17.397 --> 00:02:20.882 So, pushing that down here. 00:02:22.349 --> 00:02:24.908 Getting that rubber band through. 00:02:25.376 --> 00:02:31.221 I use large rubber bands, not any tube stows or anything like that. 00:02:31.829 --> 00:02:35.723 And I put two wraps on it - and I'll show you what I do. 00:02:35.723 --> 00:02:38.801 You see something that I just did that really helps me out: 00:02:38.801 --> 00:02:42.726 I reach as far down as I can, comfortably without stretching myself. 00:02:42.726 --> 00:02:47.925 And I bring all of that - any extra slack - out right now. 00:02:48.171 --> 00:02:53.669 And I make my stow, and I put two wraps on there. 00:02:56.314 --> 00:03:04.076 Because I have two wraps on my stows - whether they're through the grommets "locking stows"... 00:03:04.076 --> 00:03:12.069 or on the rubber bands on the side - I don't need to have really really long stows. 00:03:12.578 --> 00:03:16.855 Inch and a half to two inches long is what we would recommend. 00:03:16.855 --> 00:03:23.155 Because we have proper tension on those stows, we don't need to have a lot. 00:03:35.190 --> 00:03:41.554 Some people put the bag in between their knees like this. I'm going to do it like this. 00:03:41.554 --> 00:03:45.305 Whatever it is, I just don't like dragging my rig that much. 00:03:45.305 --> 00:03:53.606 So I walk my canopy or my bag to my canopy. 00:03:55.853 --> 00:03:59.608 Making nice even stows all the way down. 00:03:59.608 --> 00:04:01.738 There's no spaghetti in between there. 00:04:01.738 --> 00:04:12.710 There's a little bit right there. That's gonna come mainly from the cascades of those lines. 00:04:14.940 --> 00:04:20.742 Now there comes another rubber band on there. I'm gonna finish this up. 00:04:20.742 --> 00:04:23.889 Put this last little bit of line in there. 00:04:23.889 --> 00:04:33.179 I recommend anywhere from twelve to eighteen inches from the top of these lines here to this stow. 00:04:33.179 --> 00:04:41.216 A little more is OK. Much less than that is going to be some problems. 00:04:41.216 --> 00:04:50.855 We could if we wanted to put a single wrap here, but I really wouldn't. I would leave about this much excess. 00:04:50.855 --> 00:04:55.892 Twelve inches isn't necessarily enough if you're packing a tandem rig. 00:04:55.892 --> 00:05:03.650 But eighteen inches might be a little too much if you're packing a normal sport rig. 00:05:03.650 --> 00:05:08.035 So it kind of depends on the size of the parachute; the size of the container... 00:05:08.035 --> 00:05:12.069 but, general rule of thumb that we all pretty much go by 00:05:12.069 --> 00:05:16.572 is twelve to eighteen inches from that last stow to the top of those risers. 00:05:16.572 --> 00:05:21.102 There's a lot of variables that go into that, like the risers and everything else, 00:05:21.102 --> 00:05:26.375 so if you shoot and aim for twelve to eighteen inches that's good. 00:05:26.375 --> 00:05:35.399 If there was ever a stow that we could afford to have looser it would be the very last stow. 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:40.637 The one that's going to be pulled out first during the deployment. 00:05:40.637 --> 00:05:45.732 The reason behind that ... basically allows that bag to get out off your back, 00:05:45.732 --> 00:05:51.067 out of that pack tray, and into clean air 00:05:51.067 --> 00:05:57.970 without holding tight, if we wrap it super tight we can experience the bag rotating. 00:05:57.970 --> 00:06:02.970 which can give us off-heading openings; possibly even line twist. 00:06:03.031 --> 00:06:07.465 Basically, openings that nobody wants. So. 00:06:10.448 --> 00:06:16.861 So if there was one that we could do, it would be... like if I were to stow these lines right here... 00:06:16.861 --> 00:06:26.138 I would probably just put them in this large rubber band as a beauty stow or something of the sort, 00:06:26.138 --> 00:06:33.366 which doesn't do anything except for keep it nice and neat when I put my canopy in the bag. 00:06:33.366 --> 00:06:36.595 So that's pretty much the pack job that we went over. 00:06:36.595 --> 00:06:40.170 A few of the things that we need to remember for the pack job: 00:06:40.170 --> 00:06:42.264 Proper line tension: 00:06:42.264 --> 00:06:50.422 We achieve that by getting something on our rig to weigh it down, whether it's a sand bag or a bowling ball... 00:06:50.422 --> 00:06:54.251 if you're packing outside and you put a stake in the grass and you wrap your leg straps around there... 00:06:54.251 --> 00:06:58.137 something like that, allows us to give good line tension during the pack job. 00:06:58.137 --> 00:07:03.187 Making sure that that slider is down on the stops and quartered equally on all parts. 00:07:03.187 --> 00:07:07.515 Don't pull it forward to the nose; don't pull it back to the tail. 00:07:08.687 --> 00:07:13.230 The tip of putting your finger in the centre of that slider and pushing down: 00:07:13.230 --> 00:07:19.045 that pretty much gives us the slider position that we're looking to achieve. 00:07:19.854 --> 00:07:27.029 I don't do anything with the nose in my canopies, and I don't roll my tail really hard. 00:07:29.228 --> 00:07:33.931 The mindset that I think of when I put the parachute in the bag is getting the parachute 00:07:33.931 --> 00:07:38.570 to the approximate size of the bag, and then sliding that bag over that parachute. 00:07:38.570 --> 00:07:43.938 You don't have to struggle with it. You saw that it was pretty easy even though it's a brand new canopy. 00:07:43.938 --> 00:07:46.792 We could still get it in there. 00:07:47.004 --> 00:07:52.906 And then double wrapping large rubber bands gives us the most consistent openings. 00:07:52.906 --> 00:07:57.810 Because we have two wraps on those rubber bands, or on those stows, 00:07:57.810 --> 00:08:02.973 we know the line stow is secured; we don't need to have really long stows. 00:08:02.973 --> 00:08:07.750 So, an inch and a half to two inches from the rubber band to the end of the stow. 00:08:07.750 --> 00:08:11.002 Eliminating any sort of spaghetti that goes on in there, 00:08:11.002 --> 00:08:15.766 and twelve to eighteen inches from that last stow to the top of those risers. 00:08:15.766 --> 00:08:20.185 If we can achieve those things, we're going to get the most consistent openings on our parachutes. 00:08:20.185 --> 00:08:24.434 Which are going to give us the best skydives, and the most enjoyable skydives, 00:08:24.434 --> 00:08:28.758 that we can get. So, good luck guys. 00:08:28.758 --> 00:08:34.220 Hopefully you can practice this, and find a technique that works well for you. 00:08:34.220 --> 00:08:38.220 And blue skies.