WEBVTT 00:00:06.226 --> 00:00:10.662 I'm Nick Grillet. I'm going to show you guys how I pack a Sabre 2. 00:00:10.708 --> 00:00:14.039 Pretty much the same pack job whether it's the Sabre 2, Stiletto... 00:00:14.077 --> 00:00:22.472 anything made by Precision, Icarus, PD, Aerodyne...you name it. Pretty much pack everything the same. 00:00:22.472 --> 00:00:25.886 First thing that I do, I like to weight down the rig. 00:00:25.886 --> 00:00:30.761 One of the important things is to have proper line tension during the pack job. 00:00:30.761 --> 00:00:35.038 I've got my weight here on the risers. 00:00:35.038 --> 00:00:39.445 Whether you're packing in a hanger, or on grass, tarp... 00:00:39.445 --> 00:00:44.025 figure out a way that you can secure the rig so that you can get some good tension on those lines 00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:45.842 to keep 'em straight. 00:00:45.842 --> 00:00:50.560 Start by picking the steering lines up and laying them on my index finger. 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:55.169 And then grabbing those rear risers in between my index finger and my middle finger. 00:00:55.169 --> 00:00:58.926 And in between my middle finger and my ring finger I pick up those front risers, 00:00:58.926 --> 00:01:02.366 and I walk up the lines. It's basically a continuity check. 00:01:02.366 --> 00:01:07.593 It allows me to make sure that the jumper - if it wasn't me - 00:01:07.639 --> 00:01:11.169 didn't flip through the lines or anything on landing. 00:01:11.169 --> 00:01:15.888 So I give it a quick check, make sure the steering lines are clear - which they are. 00:01:15.888 --> 00:01:19.150 The C's and D's - which they are - and the A's and B's. 00:01:19.150 --> 00:01:21.034 Then I throw it over my shoulder. 00:01:21.050 --> 00:01:24.092 It's comfortable for me to throw it over my shoulder as opposed to just holding with my hand. 00:01:24.092 --> 00:01:26.394 It's all personal preference. 00:01:26.409 --> 00:01:35.614 First thing that I do is grab the C's and D's and A's and B's and give the canopy a good shake left to right. 00:01:35.614 --> 00:01:40.699 It's essentially the same thing as if you were to start on the ground and do a flat pack. 00:01:40.699 --> 00:01:46.990 What it allows for is the canopy to lay flat instead of being bunched up... 00:01:46.990 --> 00:01:54.710 from any air that might be in the canopy, or any wind that may be out there... 00:01:54.741 --> 00:02:01.236 that this jumper was struggling with while he was picking up his canopy. 00:02:01.313 --> 00:02:07.815 So, once I do that, I'm just going to go...I'm going to start and do a normal flake job just like anything else. 00:02:07.815 --> 00:02:12.364 Sabre 2 happens to be a nine-cell, so there should be nine of these cells that I'm going to count out. 00:02:12.364 --> 00:02:17.384 Not too concerned about where the cell's gonna place when I'm actually flaking. 00:02:17.394 --> 00:02:20.499 I'm more concerned about the line attachment points here. 00:02:20.499 --> 00:02:24.152 Up here by the slider. Those are what I really want to have equal. 00:02:24.152 --> 00:02:31.356 So, I'm just going to go through...one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. 00:02:31.356 --> 00:02:34.750 Flatten those out a little bit, get some air out. 00:02:34.750 --> 00:02:38.776 I can see that all these line attachment points look good. They're in place, 00:02:38.776 --> 00:02:42.021 so that I know that the canopy is going to be easy for me to pack. 00:02:42.281 --> 00:02:45.577 I secure it between my legs - again personal preference. 00:02:45.577 --> 00:02:48.563 Some people don't even secure the nose. 00:02:48.563 --> 00:02:51.511 I find especially starting packing up. So, starting packing... 00:02:51.511 --> 00:02:55.395 Uh, it's easier to keep stuff under control that way. 00:02:55.735 --> 00:02:59.410 I'm just going to lift up this slider, and I'm going to... 00:02:59.410 --> 00:03:03.431 There's a pocket that's kind of created, between the A line and the B lines. 00:03:03.699 --> 00:03:08.149 I think everybody has learned from any packing class that they've taken... 00:03:08.149 --> 00:03:14.736 that the canopy goes - the canopy material goes to the outside, the lines go to the centre. 00:03:14.736 --> 00:03:20.306 I'm looking through here and seeing that my line attachment points are pretty much lining up, 00:03:20.306 --> 00:03:23.146 and that's what I'm trying to achieve. 00:03:23.146 --> 00:03:27.586 So I work my way through the pack job, pushing the material to the outside, 00:03:27.586 --> 00:03:31.055 keeping those lines to the inside. 00:03:31.055 --> 00:03:35.201 Helps because I have longer arms. Move down to the stabiliser and these steering lines. 00:03:35.201 --> 00:03:41.297 I'm not going to mess with them right now. I'm basically just going to clear them out of the way. 00:03:42.577 --> 00:03:45.832 Get every last one of them in line. 00:03:46.602 --> 00:03:49.682 Because it's a nine-cell there's five lines here. 00:03:49.682 --> 00:03:53.483 Line attachment points that I need to deal with. 00:03:55.474 --> 00:03:57.544 Stow that there for now. 00:03:57.734 --> 00:04:02.210 This just gives you a better idea of what it looks like from the packer's point of view. 00:04:02.570 --> 00:04:06.870 So, as I reach my hand down in there you can see there's all these line attachment points. 00:04:06.870 --> 00:04:11.572 Are pretty much in line. I'm just going to reach my hand into that open fabric here. 00:04:12.622 --> 00:04:18.391 Push the canopy fabric to the outside while trying to keep these line attachment points to the centre. 00:04:18.391 --> 00:04:21.025 I'd really like to have these line up as best as possible. 00:04:21.795 --> 00:04:24.898 I just put my hand on the outside to lay those nice and flat. 00:04:24.898 --> 00:04:27.116 We look into the next one here. 00:04:27.116 --> 00:04:31.123 And we can see where all that material is. We know exactly where we're going to put our hand. 00:04:31.123 --> 00:04:34.893 We can see the line attachment points. Gonna put my hand in there. 00:04:35.793 --> 00:04:39.304 This is why I put my hand on the top side on the outside of the pack job. 00:04:39.304 --> 00:04:44.367 It helps me keep those line attachment points in place. 00:04:44.367 --> 00:04:51.581 And if we just pull that stabiliser off to the side a bit, you can see that everything's nice and neat in there. 00:04:52.761 --> 00:04:56.061 Once we go further on it gets a little more challenging, 00:04:56.061 --> 00:05:01.335 because the...any taper that may occur. Any elliptical ... 00:05:01.335 --> 00:05:04.820 These are the steering lines. I'm not worried about them; I'm just getting them out of the way. 00:05:05.250 --> 00:05:08.822 Here's four. Those are the really easy ones to find. 00:05:08.822 --> 00:05:12.366 This fifth one is over here, hidden, on the stabiliser itself. 00:05:13.066 --> 00:05:16.236 Want to make sure that we find that every time. 00:05:16.236 --> 00:05:23.208 Grab all of those together. I like to just keep my hand on the five line attachment points while I do this. 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:31.470 And I go back. Material's to the outside. All these line attachment points are towards the centre of the canopy. 00:05:32.770 --> 00:05:35.812 Then I straighten out those steering lines. 00:05:35.812 --> 00:05:39.175 Everything is good here. These are all in line. 00:05:39.175 --> 00:05:44.507 I'm just going to lay the stabiliser on top. If you have snaps on your canopy this is where you'd connect those. 00:05:45.557 --> 00:05:49.612 And then I just allow that slider to go back into position. 00:05:50.398 --> 00:05:52.478 As I work the other side. 00:05:52.650 --> 00:05:55.930 That's basically one side. I'm going to do the exact same thing to the other side now. 00:05:56.700 --> 00:05:59.748 Kind of pull up that slider grommet so that I can see in there. 00:05:59.773 --> 00:06:05.933 Material goes to the outside of the canopy. I keep my hand on here to keep those line attachment points to the centre. 00:06:07.213 --> 00:06:12.733 And again I work my way through the canopy. Like so. 00:06:13.768 --> 00:06:17.448 You notice I'm kind of leaning away from the rig. I'm keeping the line tension. 00:06:17.448 --> 00:06:20.490 I want to make sure that there's not any slack in my lines. 00:06:20.490 --> 00:06:23.096 It's very important. 00:06:23.096 --> 00:06:27.400 These are the steering lines. Just gonna take those out to the side. 00:06:38.333 --> 00:06:42.233 So, basically I've done the flaking that I need to do. 00:06:42.233 --> 00:06:47.270 Doesn't take too long. Fabric to the outside. Line attachment points to the centre. 00:06:47.270 --> 00:06:50.994 Now, a couple of very important things that need to take place. 00:06:50.994 --> 00:06:54.313 I need to make sure that my slider grommets are all the way down on the stops. 00:06:54.313 --> 00:06:58.184 If they're up here and I'm starting to roll the tail up, there's a good chance that 00:06:58.184 --> 00:07:01.379 I'm going to experience a hard opening becaues the sliders aren't in position. 00:07:01.379 --> 00:07:05.957 You see a lot of people pull a slider out here and make a pocket in the lip. 00:07:05.957 --> 00:07:10.819 All that does is when you pull the slider that direction - whether it's toward the tail of the canopy... 00:07:10.819 --> 00:07:15.261 or towards the nose of the canopy - you end up taking some of the slider away from the sides here, 00:07:15.261 --> 00:07:18.810 and whichever direction you're pulling it from. 00:07:18.810 --> 00:07:23.948 So if I'm pulling it towards the nose, I'm pulling it away from the tail and from each side. 00:07:23.948 --> 00:07:30.810 The best thing that you could do is take your index finger and push it straight down in between that slider... 00:07:30.810 --> 00:07:35.781 until you feel some tension on that. That ensures that your grommets are down all the way, 00:07:35.781 --> 00:07:38.038 and that your slider's pretty much in position. 00:07:38.038 --> 00:07:43.876 After that I just kind of clean it up a bit, and make sure that there's equal parts left to right, nose to tail. 00:07:46.956 --> 00:07:54.147 Also, while I'm here, I can see if my risers are straight. If my grommets are lined up, I know my risers are straight. 00:07:54.377 --> 00:07:57.614 If my grommets are offset, I know there's something going on behind me. 00:07:57.614 --> 00:08:00.093 I don't need to turn around and look to fix it. 00:08:00.093 --> 00:08:04.055 I can just do whatever I need to do to straighten it right here at the slider. 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:08.360 Once everything's in position, I'm going to go through one more time, 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:14.093 and just make sure that this nose hasn't got tucked awry, or pushed in or anything. 00:08:15.943 --> 00:08:19.123 I don't do anything to the nose. I leave it just like that. 00:08:19.563 --> 00:08:24.012 Some people push it in. That's fine if that's the opening that you desire. 00:08:25.052 --> 00:08:30.702 Some people roll it. For starting out - for teaching people how to pack - I don't do anything. 00:08:31.182 --> 00:08:34.825 Once you have your canopy, and you're making the jumps on your canopy 00:08:34.825 --> 00:08:39.598 if you wanna experiment with your pack job, see what makes a difference... 00:08:39.598 --> 00:08:44.141 and try to find an opening that you like the best, go for it... 00:08:44.141 --> 00:08:50.252 but know that we've done a lot of testing as well - individual skydivers, and everything else, 00:08:50.252 --> 00:08:55.753 and we've found that keeping the nose straight gives us the most consistent opening.