PD Sabre2 Pro Pack by Nick Grillet - Part 2 of 3
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0:07 - 0:10So, once everything is in position, I'm ready to pull up the tail.
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0:12 - 0:19If you're packing a canopy that's built here in the United States, most of the manufacturers...
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0:19 - 0:25either put a piece of tape on the tail here, letting you know that it's the centre...
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0:25 - 0:29Performance Designs has a warning label there.
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0:29 - 0:34There's a lot of different things that the manufacturers do, but we want to make sure that we have the centre of the tail.
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0:35 - 0:37I'm not going to pull this up really far up the lines.
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0:37 - 0:41I'm gonna keep it pretty low down there on the slider.
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0:41 - 0:46I'm gonna grab one side at a time, and I'm also going to put my knee... lift my knee up,
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0:46 - 0:56and just kind of pull that tail around my pack job, as opposed to letting it roll that pack job open.
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1:06 - 1:12There's seams on this tail, which make it really easy to line everything up.
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1:15 - 1:20I find the two seams down here - it's kind of tough to see because it's a yellow canopy that I'm packing.
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1:21 - 1:25But there's a stitch line right here on both sides, that I'm matching up with my fingers.
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1:25 - 1:28I just pinch it together, to keep it from going anywhere.
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1:28 - 1:36While I do that I keep as little of the tail on the lines themselves as possible.
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1:36 - 1:42The more I pull up - I see this a lot - the more you pull up here,
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1:42 - 1:45the better chance you're going to get damage around this area of the tail,
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1:45 - 1:47as you put more and more jumps on your canopy.
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1:47 - 1:53One of the things that I do, that I think helps my pack jobs a lot, is at this point right here
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1:53 - 2:01I'm pulling down and away from the slider. The tail itself is putting some tension on those grommets...
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2:01 - 2:04making sure that they're seated all the way down on those stops.
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2:04 - 2:09And it allows me to - putting tension on nylon material allows me to have something to work with.
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2:09 - 2:16So, I'm gonna grab a little bit at the top of the slider here, and down on that seam that I've never let go of.
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2:16 - 2:22And I'm gonna start folding it. About two-inch folds, and I do two or three of them.
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2:22 - 2:25And that's about it. I don't need to roll it any more than that.
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2:25 - 2:30The more I roll that canopy, the more distorted the inside of this pack job gets.
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2:30 - 2:33The better chance for off-heading openings, or funky openings.
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2:35 - 2:41Before I lay the canopy down on the ground, I do something that really helps me once I am on the ground.
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2:41 - 2:51and that's actually laying this - walking my shoulder up to the base of the canopy, where the lines and the canopy meet,
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2:51 - 2:54And setting it there. I'm actually gonna let go of the tail.
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2:54 - 2:57So right now the tail is probably starting to get loose and unwind,
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2:57 - 3:03I'm gonna take both my arms and I'm gonna take the material down and away.
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3:03 - 3:09Not pushing really hard, but I want to put some pressure on there to keep some air out of it.
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3:09 - 3:13It just helps me lay down the pack job.
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3:13 - 3:21And it saves the time from me bending over on the pack job, trying to get the air out of the canopy.
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3:21 - 3:29Once I do that, I just come back, find my tail, and just make sure that that roll is back in place,
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3:29 - 3:31and it hasn't come undone.
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3:31 - 3:37Now I'm gonna lay this down. People laugh, but I lay it down like I would lay down a kid going to bed.
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3:37 - 3:40If I slam it down, that child's gonna wake up, they're gonna start crying.
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3:40 - 3:46If I slam my canopy down, it's gonna squirt out everywhere and everything that we just did right up here:
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3:46 - 3:50the flaking of the canopy...was useless. Might as well not flake.
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3:50 - 3:57So as I do this, I'm holding the slider grommets and putting some tension away from my rig,
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3:57 - 3:59so that my lines are nice and taut.
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3:59 - 4:03I don't know if you can see it from there, but there's no slack in those lines. That looks good.
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4:03 - 4:10So, I'm laying the rest of the canopy on the forearm, and I'm just going to set it down nice and gentle.
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4:11 - 4:17By setting the canopy down like that, we know that our pack job is basically the same...
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4:17 - 4:19that it was when it was over our shoulder.
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4:19 - 4:23You slam it down and let it squirt out, who knows what it looks like in there.
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4:26 - 4:32I take the chance to kind of take a breather, a rest, and cock my pilot chute,
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4:32 - 4:37Kind of square up my bag a bit - make sure it's not inverted or anything else.
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4:37 - 4:39Get that flap so that it's facing down.
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4:39 - 4:42Ready for that parachute to be put into the bag.
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4:42 - 4:47I also cock my pilot chute there - I cock my pilot chute a number of different times throughout the pack job.
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4:47 - 4:55Basically it just gives me a chance to recuperate and get ready to put the canopy in the bag.
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4:59 - 5:06Something that helps me out a lot is putting my knees on the grommets, and pushing down on them
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5:06 - 5:12and I'm also pushing away from the rig a bit. Again, line tension is very important.
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5:13 - 5:20By anchoring my knees here, it allows me to put some tension on the top skin of this canopy,
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5:20 - 5:24which allows me to work with the nylon in the parachute.
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5:24 - 5:32The mindset that I take when I'm putting this canopy into the bag is more of getting the canopy to a shape...
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5:32 - 5:37that is easily controllable; that's approximately the same size as this bag.
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5:37 - 5:42If I can get that, then I slide the bag over that canopy.
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5:42 - 5:49If we think about trying to push the canopy into the bag, we're gonna wrestle and fight with that all day long.
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5:49 - 5:53Nylon material is slippery, so when you push on it this side, this side pokes out.
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5:53 - 5:57I'm sure we've pretty much experienced that at some point.
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5:57 - 6:05So I'm putting my knees here as an anchor, which allows me to push the canopy material taut,
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6:05 - 6:12and squeeze the air out of it. I'm not doing anything to my pack job while I'm doing that either.
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6:12 - 6:17I don't want to do really fast. I'm gonna work with one side of the canopy at a time.
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6:17 - 6:21I'm gonna use this double stitch line on this canopy as my reference line.
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6:21 - 6:25Not too worried about what's going on over here. I'll get to that.
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6:25 - 6:30I'm gonna focus right here. I basically cut this centre line and the end of the canopy in half,
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6:30 - 6:38and I try to get the top skin and the bottom of that together, so that I'm pinching it with my hand up here.
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6:38 - 6:41Then I fold it up underneath.
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6:42 - 6:45And this is my technique. It works really well for me.
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6:45 - 6:49I've tried a number of different things, giving me the best openings, the most consistent.
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6:55 - 7:01Notice my knees are still on that slider, keeping it in place. Hasn't moved.
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7:01 - 7:04The top skin is nice and taut - easy to work with.
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7:04 - 7:08I've never laid my entire body down on this parachute.
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7:09 - 7:16Unless you're packing something that's well over two-hundred square feet, I find that I can do this style,
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7:16 - 7:21and this technique on every single size.
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7:21 - 7:27I'm gonna replace my hand, or replace my knees with my hand.
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7:27 - 7:31I'm gonna make sure that I'm pushing down with my hand before I do it,
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7:31 - 7:35because I'm pulling away from the rig right now with this hand.
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7:36 - 7:46If I were just to hop off, my knees would take the tension off of the slider, and the topskin of the canopy here,
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7:46 - 7:51and it would pull everything in that direction, which would basically ruin my pack job.
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7:51 - 7:56So I want to make sure that when I'm having something nice and taut, that there's always
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7:56 - 7:59an anchor point down here.
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8:01 - 8:05Notice I'm not struggling. I can take all day to do this.
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8:05 - 8:13There happens to be a construction tape right here that I'm just gonna lay my shin across,
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8:13 - 8:21and I'm gonna let go my hand at the top part of the canopy. I'll get back to that and clean that up.
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8:21 - 8:24Right. Now I'm just focussed on this bottom half.
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8:24 - 8:28I get the canopy slider grommets - I can feel them all in my hand here -
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8:28 - 8:34and I'm going to make a little bit of a S-fold right there. Just like so.
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8:34 - 8:36Cleaning that up, making that nice and tight.
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8:36 - 8:40I'm gonna put my knee right back on top of that.
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8:40 - 8:45My lines still look good - there's still good tension on my lines - and I'm setting my knee on it.
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8:45 - 8:50I'm not pushing down so hard that I squirt the canopy material out either direction,
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8:50 - 8:53but I'm putting enough pressure on it that it's not going to move.
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8:53 - 8:58Now I told you that I'd get back to this top part of the parachute. I'm gonna do that.
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8:58 - 9:04I'm going to reach underneath so that I can lift the entire canopy up, right here,
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9:04 - 9:07and I'm going to bring it up and rest it on the top of my knee.
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9:07 - 9:11If it's a larger canopy it might even go up onto my thigh.
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9:11 - 9:16All I'm doing at this point is just rolling some of that material under.
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9:18 - 9:23Looks pretty good. Again, the mindset that I'm taking is to get the canopy
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9:23 - 9:27to the size approximately the same size as this bag.
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9:27 - 9:30I can see right now that I'm pretty good.
- Title:
- PD Sabre2 Pro Pack by Nick Grillet - Part 2 of 3
- Description:
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Nick Grillet of Performance Designs packing a Sabre2 135 - Part 2. If you have any questions about the content in this video, please contact PD via email at support@performancedesigns.com
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- English
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- Duration:
- 09:30