slider off or slider tied down? which is better?
slider off or slider tied down? which is better?
If you are doing loads of different jumps with 1 rig and constantly changing it can get a pain to keep taking your slider off but personally I say reef for the jump you are doing. Luckily I'm in the position of having 1 up 1 off so I don't have to change them but even when I only had 1 rig I took the slider off.
Pure personal preference though.
Craig
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-19-01 AT 12:31 PM (PST)[/font][p]I do enough switching that I prefer to leave the slider on and tie it down.
This has two advantages (for me).
1) I don't have to open the links (and potentially screw up my lines--but you should know how to do a full line check so it should never become life threatening).
2) The slider cross connects the risers. This could be useful if you were wildly unstable on deployment (potentially keeping you from flipping through the risers), which is highly unlikely, or if you blew a three ring or riser on deployment, which I have personally witnessed (but again, which seems to be avoidable by standard inspection of your gear).
I'm going with Craig--it's pretty much just personal preference.
--Tom Aiello
tbaiello@ucdavis.edu
How bout some details on the blown riser/3 ring release. That sounds interesting. Was this a gear malfunction or a bad configuration???
M.B.
Though it is slightly more of a hassel to remove and return a slider on and off of the same rig, and there may be an increased opportunity for rigging errors, I feel, and almost all jumpers I know agree, that there are distinct advantages to removing the slider all together for 'slider down' jumps. For packing, It is cleaner and more simple to not have the slider tied down to your risers. But, most importantly, I feel, and most jumpers I've discussed it with agree, that you get distinctly better on-heading opening performance with the slider removed. This is because you get better riser seperation during opening and initial loading with the slider off.
So, though it is personal perference there are good reasons to remove the slider instead of simply tying it down.
I put a similar question on a while back and Space commented on the risk of breaking your neck during an unstable deployment by not removing it. While he din't expand on it I presume this relates to an unstable deployment on your back slightly head high. Any comment Space?
This is the first time I've heard that opinion (slider off gives better heading than slider down).
Does anyone else have views on the subject? Or technical information?
--Tom Aiello
tbaiello@ucdavis.edu
I personally enjoy the view of my canopy with no slider on.
But then again, I have one rig with and one without.
Yo !
I believe that removing a slider improves your glide and landing perfomance a bit (accuracy jumpers use a split slider for that reason). I do not believe that removing a slider affects on-heading perfomance, though.
It is a personal preference. Removing a slider has minor benefits, but when you jump a lot of different objects these benefits may not be worth the hassle. I always velcro my slider down, mostly because i'm lazy - but if you think about it and multiply 10 minutes by 1000 pack jobs... Life is short! ;-)
bsbd!
Yuri.
Last year in Norway a Austrlian who shall remain name less Who gained a rep for being one hell of a fast packer who does not tie his slider down ,he is not shore if he packed it slider up or slider down and it traveled up but he had one slow opening and this was off Eagles Nest 200ft plus.
Just leting you know being in a rush to pack can bite you and jumping Eagles Nest 7 times will bite you to wont it Yuri.
bsbd feral
You also have to bear in mind the increased possibility for rigging errors if you have to re-rig the slider on every jump. I've never jumped with a slider, so I just leave it off, but as you say, if you were switching it frequently, it might be better just to tie it down.
Michael
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