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Hi all,

First post here, I guess. I'm a skydiver interested in ordering a Tube 3 tracking suit from pressurized. I was wondering what your experience has been ordering from them, how you like the Tube 3, and if you have any comments about their sizing. They just have S M L XL whereas Phoenix Fly custom-fits their tracking suits. I think the Tube 3 is a better designed suit, just a little blank with regard to the sizing.

I will base jump eventually, but not for a year or two most likely. Thanks!!

My friends Tube 3 is a work of art in terms of construction. A lot of thought has gone into the design. And whatever your regular clothing size is, be it S, M or whatever, go with that.

Yeah..you'll need many skydivings on it before taking it into base...
Not so easy to control it in the beginning, quite nervous...but it's a killer!

What would really interest me is how the Tube 3 compares to the previous Pressurized suits, especially the TS 1, which is the first one they made.
I'm jumping a TS 1 and I'm definitely going to switch to Tube 3 sometime.. just wondering if i can expect a big increase in Performance (with the right amout of training of course)

Tube 3 has bigger air inlets than TS1..So. it is gonna work faster on subterminal tracking, much faster than TS1.
These air inlets are preformed and stiffened, just like the ones from wingsuits! - a best design!

Saw a brand new one fly off Yellow Ocean.
The jumper had not yet flown it enough to
really max it out but the suit looked really
nice and definitely had lots of potential.

Okay, so here's what they sent me for some details on the sizing:

S 162-170cm height
M 170-178cm height
L 178-186cm height
XL 186cm height and up

XL is +3cm diameter on the legs vs L

Specific measurements for L and XL:

L pants: 110cm length
XL pants: 112,8cm length

Jacket shoulder to wrist:
L: 70,6cm
XL: 72,6cm

They said the waist is no problem.

I'm not sure if these measurements were taken on a person or not, but should give some idea of what the sizing is.

If you need advice, you can always send them your measurements and they'll tell you what size you should order.

I might do that, they seem pretty busy though. I think I should get the L jacket and xl pants, but dunno if that messes up the balance of the suit. They answer their emails well though I think they're also busy jumping.

I jump the TUBE2 regurarly and the performance of the pant is really good. The jacket works okay but the inlets are not that well designed. This is fixed on the tube3 jacket however. I've also jumped that suit and it performed really well. Been filming alot and comparing the pressurized suit vs the phoenix stuff. The name does not lie, with clean exits the tube is pressurized after 1-2 second from leaving the cliff. Several of my friends whom are extremely good trackers jump phoenix-fly and the will outtrack anyone here any day, but they still tell stories of the phoenix pants losing pressure from time to time. They inflate slower as well. But I am super excited to see the new stuff I heard rumors about from phoenix-fly. Hopefully they come with airlock inlets like on wingsuits, absolutely no reason making tracking suits without them.

If you're going to be down in California at all, I've got a size L demo suit you can try on and jump and will have some stock suits in multiple sizes arriving around the end of May/early June.

I'm in the SF Bay Area and Lodi/Acampo.

Contact Stinkydragon on here, he will sort you out.

stinkydragon? sounds sketchy...........

What? I'm good at sorting people out. I'm an artist.