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Stay away from stuff stored near car batteries, multiple salt water landings, or owned by Australians.

What if u buy new and its faulty theres no forced rigorous checks etc in base jumping like skydiving gear...u roll the dice with half these dodgy managacters out there lol..your the test pilot .....ps I'm not being serious but fuck buying new expensive as shit just to jump that pussies bridge....a raven would he overkill Haha

Have you considered the Rook by Apex BASE? A lot of bang for the buck.

I think a grand is worth the 18 year difference

I've seen a parachute as old as 40 years still in good condition ..then theres shit used by an "Australian" that's only few years old and fucked ....Haha but yeh common sense here hey..like think about that bloke that used old shitty risers and learnt the hard way...

If you pick up that rig, you could definitely still pick up another newer used container for under a grand.

Rooks are in short supply these days. Building them as fast as we can but they move quickly.

Not sure what size you’re after but we’ve got a couple of stock 280s moving through production now. $2,700 gets you a full kit, brand new, built to your measurements.

Used gear will be cheaper, just be sure to have a qualified rigger or manufacturer check it out. Most used gear can benefit from a little tune up between owners.

I'd be looking for a 260, any of those in the queue?

Is age much of a factor for containers? I was offered a 2014 Blackjack with under 20 jumps but the container is a 2000 Perigee Pro sized to fit me. (the container I want but that's pretty old)

The effective service life of a container is almost infinite, if it's treated well. Honestly, I think that sounds like a really good set up at a good price.

If you just want the BJ but have to buy the whole system, shoot me a PM. I'll buy the Pro from you (or work out some kind of trade for another container, if you want).

RE: a qualified rigger check it out
Could you explain which riggers are unqualified to inspect gear?

RE: a manufacturer check it out
Are all companies qualified to inspect gear?

Pretty much exactly what I had in mind. Apologies for any confusion, thanks Tom!

.... That way you can bang out a bunch of jumps (and potentially thrash your gear with beginner mistakes like water and tree landings)....

In my opinion canopy skills are near the top of the skills needed as a precursor to getting into the sport so tree and water landings that damage gear should not be an issue for well prepared students of BASE. Not saying it won't happen to experienced canopy pilots, shit happens and we'll all most likely end up in trees at some point, just that its not something that a competent canopy pilot should be too concerned with at the Perrine if you are not doing anything too stupid.

How much do you weigh? Curious as to why you were jumping such a small canopy...

dont worry about the landing in no wind its the down winder and yeh id always err on the larger canopy size if i wasnt sure which one....shouldnt be jumping in windy shit anyway so shouldnt be an issue.....not a headwind especially i stupidly did it once scared me enough to never do it again ill climb down shit now then ever do that again,,,,,i say this but u will prob see me on the fatality list one day for doing it hahaha...

Yeh and the wind also does fuckdd up things that u cant see...have a lot of broken bones from just underestimating the wind and anothers times I've had the wind turn...and of u check the wind factor in the gusts to.....if u really want to get scared of rotor ..wind direction and when it gets gusty etc fly a paraglider ...wont see me on them cunts anymore come to the conclusion there gay as fuck and dangerous as shit....but learnt alot

done alot of paraglider gayness myself but my issue with paragliding is people see it as safe as its not so fast and extreme looking as base...its a sketchy sport that kills alot .. the worst part about it is even when your not being a dickhead u can all of a sudden get a collapse etc...all my flying was coastal ridge soaring so reserve is useless at the majority of the heights i fly///i dont even have one on my small wing ,,,there just sketchy ive never been able to relax on one and launching the cunts is even sketchier....if the wind raises a couple of knots its enough to pick u up and throw u back like your nothing...flown one backwards a fair while after launching....flown one backwards into a tree aswell.....got rid of them kept my speedwing and still use that but i got another flogged paraglider for cheap as and its use is to go on my base rig fly it up to height and fuck that death trap off....hopefully i dont find it after .....it is the shittest condition paraglider ive ever seen ...was sold as ground handler...ill be scared till it gets me high enough to use the parachute....but yeh if i ever died ill be pisssed if they call it a paragliding death....stacked my speedwing badly years ago and the news wrote paragliding accident,,,wankers made me look like a paraglider pussy ..it was a speedwing cunts not gay paraglider.....lol

Paragliding can be excellent training for some aspects of BASE, just the same as skydiving can be.

There is a lot of wind and weather knowledge (especially how wind interacts with terrain) that skydivers just don't need to have (and mostly never learn).

In the same way that skydiving can be "BASE-lite" for practicing things like openings and tracking, paragliding can be used as a "BASE-lite" to learn about a variety of topics, especially micro-meteorology, in a less deadly environment, where mistakes are more likely to result in positive learning experiences rather than critical injuries.

You got this lol

https://youtu.be/7vam4Qu-P04

Also I've stated previously in this thread, I do not sky dive. Some of the FJC's allow paragliding experience in place of skydiving so that's what I did.

Be careful with that.

Just as skydiving misses some really important things for BASE, so does paragliding. The two sports are complementary (meaning they each provide some good knowledge), but they do not _replace_ each other.

As a paraglider, for example, you have zero experience managing openings (something skydivers have a ton of experience with). The opening sequence is by far the most critical part of the BASE jump. Statistically, the vast majority of critical and fatal base accidents occur either during or immediately after the opening, and involve a mis-management of the opening sequence. That's something that skydivers are preparing for on literally _every_ jump, and for which paragliding, ground launching, and speed flying give you exactly zero preparation.

The same logic applies to packing (good experience skydiving, but no experience from paragliding), micrometeorology (good experience from paragliding, but virtually none from skydiving) and a host of other topics.

Don't view paragliding as a substitute. It's not--it's a complement.


Viewing skydiving as unnecessary also greatly handicaps your progression. Very few BASE jumpers don't dream of big wall jumps, and skydiving is one of the very few ways to gain the terminal free fall skills for that.

I have a friend who took the paraglide-speedfly-BASE pathway, and he is really bummed that he really can't (with any degree of safety) join in the big wall european trips. It can be frustrating to be an experience BASE jumper and know you have to go back and do "remedial" skydiving training if you want to play with your friends.