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Ive been researching SL and came across this video... do you think its the wind or because he is so far away from his pc/attachement point.

http://www.youtube.com/...re=player_embedded#!

s/l attachment was a couple feet to his left, tensioning his left riser and resulting in a left 180. the toggle blowing may have had an imput on the off too, or possible a result from it.

There is no wind... Im just retarded :)(

Forget all the CWY, double/single strand, surgeons knot, hold the PC, hold the bridle. Put the PC between your, legs, teeth behind your ear bolloxs

Basics of any static line or PCA. Stand in line with the PC and/or container, nothing complicated about it.

And he did not freefall it because?

Pilot chute was too far away from the jumper. The canopy was pulled out at a significant angle.

Having the S/L attatchment way left would actually put more tension on the right riser, looks to me like the offheading was to the right. Either way a foolish thing to do, no sense packing symetrically if you yard the canopy out sideways.

The canopy looked like it had already rotated a lot before it even got tension on either side.

Back in the 1980s, jumpers used to have huge very heavy pilot chutes. Throwing the pilot chute to the side (since it would stay there and inflate there due to inertia) resulted in all sorts of weird openings.

The S/L offset on that jump is similar to jumping in strong winds from the right, the PC drifts left, opening is offheading to the right.

thanks for catching my typo haha...thats what i meant foo!