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Come on people, let's be honest. That goes especially for all of you that just started.

I voted "Yes, after I had jumped a solid object". I didn't give much thought to my DBS after my first couple of jumps on my canopy, in which I had an ugly backward surge on a jump using the DBS (vented canopy). I did the next 80 jumps in shallow brakes before I decided to try deep brakes again at the Potato bridge. Although I didn't actually adjust them, the reason for that is that I found that the factory setting was (I'm quite certain) optimal -- ie, zero forward speed but without opening issues.

Edit to add: Deep brakes are now my default setting for slider-down jumps.

CR's canopies have customized DBS from the factory.

Mine were dead on and did not need additional adjustment.

I skidived the canopy a lot to test them.

I'm very happy with my ACE. I think it's the bomb and I can't see myself going vented any time soon.

Also if you are getting a CR canopy please get the Z-po foreskin.

Same with myself with my FLiK. It's been dialed since day one when I got it. I'm still experimenting with my Rock Dragon. If it's off, it's not off by much. But I need to put more jumps on the Rock Dragon to know for sure.

I voted "Yes, after I had jumped a solid object" too. It was my first BASE canopy. Just some 220 sq.ft 7-cell "for base or CRW". Then I found that the speed after opening is too high I made "temporary" brake loops, even deeper than previous settings. I tried it a couple of times for slider down and then made it that way. The jumper whom I sold that canopy uses that - "my" - deep brake settings for slider down too, for sub-terminal he uses the brake setting which were created as the DBS for slider down and which i refused to jump that time. But I didn't replace them. ) He said since the time he started jump it on sub-terminal his opening became to be better. Now the difference between two loops are not so big (earlier it was way bigger and both loops were much lower). Now then I jump MDV Troll I just use deeper brakes for slider down and another one for slider up. The difference is not big. I just use the canopy without customizing it because i'm really happy with its openings.

No. My deep brake setting was deemed excellent by a pretty meticulous jumper named Tom A.

Funny story:
I once watched Tom take a down-wind landing into the water in Twin with a radio and his cell phone in his pockets because he wanted to finish marking his lines while researching a new brake setting.
That's devotion. (Of course most of us would have jumped it out of a plane...)