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I have just bought a Vampire V2 and started practicing from aircraft in preparation for BASE. At the moment I am going in for the pull by reaching back over my container and working my way downwards to the toggle. But its not as fast as the direct pull I used on my S3.

Some people are saying use the BASE pouch. However, I have several thousand skydives and all my BASE jumps using the BOC. I am worried under stress even with practice I will cock it up and go for the wrong place.

So my question is who uses what?
Cheers, Simon

The only guy I know of that uses the BOC is Yuri. Everybody else I know are using the BASE pouch.

its no sweat with the base-pouch...do pcrp when you jump with it and before....
othérwise...if you think in stress you do the wrong action then it is maybe not the right time to start with this ws to base

So you are pretending you don't know me now.......

If you're worried about finding the toggle quickly then you need alot more (100 or so WS) jumps before you consider the suit for base.

skydive.
pull high.
develop muscle memory.
wait to BASE jump the suit.

or

push it.
have good insurance.
hope you never need it.

if you have to ask, you probably already know the answer. you just wish you did not.

Hi Simon,

Seriously, use the BASE pouch, it's really well placed and makes deployment much less stressfull. Skydive it handful of times and you'll be convinced.

Gus

Cheers for the advice folks.
Going to try the pouch thing.

Cheers meekerboy,
I was in the same position, started out on GTI, once I got the V1 I didn't want to change from BOC. You will be fine with practice. I was convinced when I had trouble finding the handle on a couple of skydives, only cost me 2-3 seconds but at 300 feet, that's deadly.

If my memory serves me right, Outrager even switched to the pouch, but I wonder alot if he even needs to deploy at all?

YMMV
Later
Blair

Hey Meekerboy, I know exactly what you mean and that's the reason why I still use BOC. I made jumps from Brento to practice the Base Pouch and sometimes my hand went to the BOC. I'm so used to it.

To be honest I had one time a pulling problem which ended in an unbelieveable low pull and two broken bones. Anyway, you probably know where I still place my PC.

Why not just pull high on the first couple of base jumps? If you reach at 500ft and go for the wrong pouch then you have more than 2 seconds to get the right pc out and still be open high enough to flare.* That's even if your wings are closed and you're accelerating downwards during this time.

On the first jump on my V2 I only had 1 jump out of a plane and around 50 practice pulls on the ground. Wasn't a problem and I kept my hand on the handle(toggle) for about a second to reassure myself right before I pulled. Watch your balance if you do that though.

*not applicable if you're a fatty