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Never heard of it, but I assume from the name that it looks like this:

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(ooh, pretty ascii art)...

 

All I can say is that I recently saw a very experienced freefall cinematographer using this method in Norway. I believe he was using it to slow down his openings cuz he was jumping some pretty big cameras.

Don't know the details of the pack job or who started doing it first, but it did seem to be effective.

be interesting to try on my next tall A climb...

I'll try to get some photos later of the Omega folds if you are interested. I'm not a clamper but it would be clamper friendly.
I like it because for me it:
a. Gives big access to the nose to speed up the opening or slow it down.
b. Gives a lot of "control access points" when folding.
c. Fills the tapered BASE rigs better by being tapered (important on Velcro rigs).
take care,
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Here are the fotos from the weekend at ITW. Feel free to ask me any questions.
Take care,
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Nice! I'd love to see pics from the side on a S/L jump -- it looks like this packjob might avoid the angular momentum issues I've seen with the more traditional packjob...