What is the one piece of Body Armor you cannot live without ?

***mknutson*** · March 30th, 2011, 03:57 PM

What is the one piece of Body Armor you cannot live without ?

Mine is my full face helmet from SixSixOne

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**Greenmachine** · March 30th, 2011, 04:50 PM

My Hanwag Boots - my feet touch the ground on every jump!
I wear a protec helmet on almost all BASE jumps and have yet
to ever thump my mellon in 262 BASE & 3300+ SKY jumps but
I did break a foot bone once and that was in combat boots...

**cdunaway** · March 31st, 2011, 02:12 PM

My Crispi boots. For the same reasons stated above. Beef up the landing gear!

**speedphreak** · March 31st, 2011, 09:33 PM

I know it's probably the wrong answer to a thread like this, but I don't wear protective gear, except for a helmet from time to time so I have someplace to mount my camera... :P

**airdog07** · April 1st, 2011, 04:43 AM

http://www.enemyforces.net/firearms/mp5sd.htm

**base428** · April 1st, 2011, 07:59 AM

Full face helmet. Normally, the longer you BASE jump, the more protective gear you wear.

**Greenmachine** · April 1st, 2011, 08:15 AM

So Mick used to ground crew for Carl ?!?

Ha ha ha ha

**angryelf** · April 2nd, 2011, 11:27 AM

The sheet of ballistic plastic I have integrated into my container. Will it prevent me from breaking my back? Who knows-hope I never find out. It does add some rigidity to my rig (which eases my movements affecting pin tension), makes me feel better about slamming my back into something hard. Goes with me on every jump.

**base570** · April 3rd, 2011, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by angryelf

The sheet of ballistic plastic I have integrated into my container. Will it prevent me from breaking my back? Who knows-hope I never find out. It does add some rigidity to my rig (which eases my movements affecting pin tension), makes me feel better about slamming my back into something hard. Goes with me on every jump.

Interesting... can you post some pics?

**airdog07** · April 3rd, 2011, 09:43 PM

sheet of ballistic plastic
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is that in case you get shoot from the back in downtown Detroit or some other big city, sheet of Lexan or what ever, if you land on your back it well crack and make a Sharpe point if it crack(depend on how thick it is too) but no it well not protect you back from a fall and also it well make it little hard to to a PLF. use one of them supper foam well be better I think for back of container.

**Oink** · April 4th, 2011, 05:41 AM

Helmet guarding my teeth and toilet paper guarding my pants (you never know...)

**angryelf** · April 4th, 2011, 03:05 PM

No pics at the moment, my rig isn't handy. It's a 1/4" (5mm for you non-standard folks) sheet of flexible plastic that came out of an overly tacticool back pack I was issued that I cut up for spare parts because it was ridiculous and sold on the pretense that lots of buckles, snaps and dumb stuff were somehow desirable for combat. It's the same material that kneepads, MX chest protectors, etc are made of (Not Lexan- but; "high impact injectable plastic"). Anyway: it's fairly flexible, it makes the rig feel like a rig (and not a bag of fabric), it doesn't impede jumping (or PLF-ing), eases body position changing pin tension and makes me feel better about tree landings or being impaled on the church steeple next to one of my local objects (from the back anyway). It's way more comfy than a chest protector. I simply cut it to fit the slot between the backpad and the inside panel of my rig, taped the edges to ensure it can't cut or wear on the crossed webbing of the back of the harness and inspect it often.

It's not a groundbreaking BASE development, it adds weight, I don't recommend it to anyone but I like it and it works for me. Like several other things on my rig (Cobra Buckle chest strap, Reserve Slinks+Slider retainers, etc.) -its not standard but it works for me.

And lastly-I don't wear it for protection from inner city gang bangers. I take cover and shoot back.