PD Sabre2 Pro Pack by Nick Grillet - Part 3 of 3
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0:06 - 0:10I'm gonna remove my knee - again putting my hand in place,
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0:10 - 0:13to make sure that this first S-fold that I did doesn't move.
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0:13 - 0:18I'm just gonna roll what I've just done on top of it.
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0:18 - 0:21Once there's some pressure here I can remove this hand.
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0:21 - 0:24Again, I'm not struggling with this pack job right now.
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0:24 - 0:28This is a pretty new canopy - I think it only has ten jumps on it maybe.
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0:28 - 0:34So, it's brand new. What I'm gonna do is, I put my knee here...
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0:34 - 0:36[coughing] excuse me.
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0:36 - 0:45for a little bit of support. I think it also allows me to keep that fold from sliding out:
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0:45 - 0:50that first S-fold.
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0:50 - 0:54Now we can clearly see that the canopy is close to the size of the bag.
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0:54 - 0:55I'm just going to slide the bag over it.
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0:55 - 1:02I'm gonna slowly lift each side of the bag, and pull this flap underneath.
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1:18 - 1:20Like so.
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1:22 - 1:30With lots of practice, and a good shape to work with, that parachute goes right into that bag.
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1:30 - 1:35Going to hop onto the other side here. We take a look down those lines.
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1:35 - 1:41Even after working with that pack job and doing the double S-fold and getting it into the bag,
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1:41 - 1:44the lines still look good. There's no slack in those lines.
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1:44 - 1:49I know that because there's no slack in those lines, everything that I've done in that pack job
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1:49 - 1:55during the flaking, during getting the air out of it and everything else, and putting it into the bag,
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1:55 - 1:57nothing's changed.
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2:00 - 2:05So once that canopy's in the bag, I like to set it up on its end.
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2:05 - 2:07I bring this flap over.
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2:07 - 2:09Instead of stretching the rubber band to the grommet,
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2:09 - 2:15I really make sure that this grommet comes all the way down to that piece of tape, or the base of that rubber band.
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2:17 - 2:21So, pushing that down here.
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2:22 - 2:25Getting that rubber band through.
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2:25 - 2:31I use large rubber bands, not any tube stows or anything like that.
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2:32 - 2:36And I put two wraps on it - and I'll show you what I do.
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2:36 - 2:39You see something that I just did that really helps me out:
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2:39 - 2:43I reach as far down as I can, comfortably without stretching myself.
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2:43 - 2:48And I bring all of that - any extra slack - out right now.
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2:48 - 2:54And I make my stow, and I put two wraps on there.
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2:56 - 3:04Because I have two wraps on my stows - whether they're through the grommets "locking stows"...
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3:04 - 3:12or on the rubber bands on the side - I don't need to have really really long stows.
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3:13 - 3:17Inch and a half to two inches long is what we would recommend.
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3:17 - 3:23Because we have proper tension on those stows, we don't need to have a lot.
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3:35 - 3:42Some people put the bag in between their knees like this. I'm going to do it like this.
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3:42 - 3:45Whatever it is, I just don't like dragging my rig that much.
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3:45 - 3:54So I walk my canopy or my bag to my canopy.
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3:56 - 4:00Making nice even stows all the way down.
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4:00 - 4:02There's no spaghetti in between there.
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4:02 - 4:13There's a little bit right there. That's gonna come mainly from the cascades of those lines.
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4:15 - 4:21Now there comes another rubber band on there. I'm gonna finish this up.
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4:21 - 4:24Put this last little bit of line in there.
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4:24 - 4:33I recommend anywhere from twelve to eighteen inches from the top of these lines here to this stow.
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4:33 - 4:41A little more is OK. Much less than that is going to be some problems.
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4:41 - 4:51We could if we wanted to put a single wrap here, but I really wouldn't. I would leave about this much excess.
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4:51 - 4:56Twelve inches isn't necessarily enough if you're packing a tandem rig.
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4:56 - 5:04But eighteen inches might be a little too much if you're packing a normal sport rig.
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5:04 - 5:08So it kind of depends on the size of the parachute; the size of the container...
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5:08 - 5:12but, general rule of thumb that we all pretty much go by
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5:12 - 5:17is twelve to eighteen inches from that last stow to the top of those risers.
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5:17 - 5:21There's a lot of variables that go into that, like the risers and everything else,
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5:21 - 5:26so if you shoot and aim for twelve to eighteen inches that's good.
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5:26 - 5:35If there was ever a stow that we could afford to have looser it would be the very last stow.
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5:35 - 5:41The one that's going to be pulled out first during the deployment.
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5:41 - 5:46The reason behind that ... basically allows that bag to get out off your back,
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5:46 - 5:51out of that pack tray, and into clean air
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5:51 - 5:58without holding tight, if we wrap it super tight we can experience the bag rotating.
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5:58 - 6:03which can give us off-heading openings; possibly even line twist.
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6:03 - 6:07Basically, openings that nobody wants. So.
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6:10 - 6:17So if there was one that we could do, it would be... like if I were to stow these lines right here...
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6:17 - 6:26I would probably just put them in this large rubber band as a beauty stow or something of the sort,
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6:26 - 6:33which doesn't do anything except for keep it nice and neat when I put my canopy in the bag.
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6:33 - 6:37So that's pretty much the pack job that we went over.
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6:37 - 6:40A few of the things that we need to remember for the pack job:
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6:40 - 6:42Proper line tension:
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6:42 - 6:50We achieve that by getting something on our rig to weigh it down, whether it's a sand bag or a bowling ball...
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6:50 - 6:54if you're packing outside and you put a stake in the grass and you wrap your leg straps around there...
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6:54 - 6:58something like that, allows us to give good line tension during the pack job.
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6:58 - 7:03Making sure that that slider is down on the stops and quartered equally on all parts.
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7:03 - 7:08Don't pull it forward to the nose; don't pull it back to the tail.
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7:09 - 7:13The tip of putting your finger in the centre of that slider and pushing down:
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7:13 - 7:19that pretty much gives us the slider position that we're looking to achieve.
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7:20 - 7:27I don't do anything with the nose in my canopies, and I don't roll my tail really hard.
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7:29 - 7:34The mindset that I think of when I put the parachute in the bag is getting the parachute
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7:34 - 7:39to the approximate size of the bag, and then sliding that bag over that parachute.
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7:39 - 7:44You don't have to struggle with it. You saw that it was pretty easy even though it's a brand new canopy.
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7:44 - 7:47We could still get it in there.
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7:47 - 7:53And then double wrapping large rubber bands gives us the most consistent openings.
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7:53 - 7:58Because we have two wraps on those rubber bands, or on those stows,
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7:58 - 8:03we know the line stow is secured; we don't need to have really long stows.
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8:03 - 8:08So, an inch and a half to two inches from the rubber band to the end of the stow.
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8:08 - 8:11Eliminating any sort of spaghetti that goes on in there,
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8:11 - 8:16and twelve to eighteen inches from that last stow to the top of those risers.
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8:16 - 8:20If we can achieve those things, we're going to get the most consistent openings on our parachutes.
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8:20 - 8:24Which are going to give us the best skydives, and the most enjoyable skydives,
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8:24 - 8:29that we can get. So, good luck guys.
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8:29 - 8:34Hopefully you can practice this, and find a technique that works well for you.
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8:34 - 8:38And blue skies.
- Title:
- PD Sabre2 Pro Pack by Nick Grillet - Part 3 of 3
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Nick Grillet of Performance Designs packing a Sabre2 135 - Part 3. If you have any questions about the content in this video, please contact PD via email at support@performancedesigns.com
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- 08:43