I don't skydive or have a parachute or something either. I just love parachutes, so why not watch it 🤷‍♂️😅

I wish I did

jeti117 Maybe the youtube gods are telling you that you need a parachute!!

Don’t have one? Go buy one, it guaranteed 100% Made By Chinese, selling it by real Americans

Same, but I wish I did

That's how you know you deal with competence.

Well said 😊

Kev Bail nah you just practice to the point where you can’t fail

And your back up should always be packed by a certified rigger so even if your main messes up your most likey good very rarely do people have both fail

Just remember- you are the final Quality Control test subject. How well did you the job? If you go SPLAT!, you goofed.

@@larrystuder6378 Thank you Larry, I feel so much better now ☺ Blue Skies!

Have a rigger watch you pack. That’ll go a long way.

I am dying😂😂😂

I agree

Much appreciated! I've taught the same parachute packing course using the same shtick for a few years now ... it's based on feedback from students to tightened up the essentials and clean up the jargon.

@@paratechies338 It is nearly 3AM 3 years after you posted your reply here and I am done watching your video. I have NEVER watched someone pack a parachute(correctly) and was always curious if it was as easy or more involved than the clips in movies of people just rolling them up like sleeping bags. Now I know. I won't ever be a parachuter. Unless it is a last step to saving my life from a failing plane.(obviously at that point it is not my chute and it has been pre-packed for just such an emergency). Flying planes seemed easier for me to get a grasp on than this. lol. If I were ever in need of folding a parachute in some bizarre scenario tho, now I have at least seen it done properly once.

It's satisfying...the word you're looking for is satisfying.

And now if only I could apply these methods towards my life.. "Structured" "Balanced" "maintained" "fluffy" "prepared" ECT...... ECT...... ECT.... .. .. . .

Skydiving isn’t that expensive it’s less than $300

zach what about all the gear that’s like $8000

Worth Every Penny, dude!

Tandem=$210.00

Hey Blake where do you jump?

@@SkydiveVibes from high up

Right on! Ebay and videos is the way to go!

hahaha

Still alive?

Blue skies buddy, at least for a short time lol

Any word on if this guy is dead yet?

There’s always a back up packed by a professional! No worries AT ALL

You will be attaced to a tandem instructor that has done this hundreds of times and knows every thread and sew. They dont just wad it up and give it to someone after a jump. The reserve is packed by a licensed professional. And must be repacked after a certain time.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

you should never roll up a tent or sleeping bag, you'll get creases in the fabric will cause premature failure, especially to the waterproof tent fabric ;-) Tents, tarps & sleeping bags should be STUFFED into a bag :)

you just ruined years of perfect tent packs.. thanks..

lovetheNorml apparently they weren't perfect ;-)

im just stuffing it in the bag for now on... :)

How did packing his main work out?

No response for 4 years, I think she's single. Not sure if that's good or bad

Man I don’t think we should trust anyone else folding your own parachute. Let your bf do his thing.

Not sure I’d trust anyone else to do it right...

and it's time consuming

@@aceman4403 Yeah I hate having to wash my own dishes and do laundry!

Dude i got my skydiving license 2 years ago an i still have a problem with it 😆 its nessisary though because you don't wanna be the only person at the drop zone that can't pack lmao

only squares do it this thorough

How did u survive the jump

@@walexkinopapy9598 emergency shoot…5 times. After the 5th I quit…

size matters...lol

100% agree. Some have to learn to crawl before they can... stand pack(?)

I don't mean stand packing. You can deflate your canopy on the ground without lying down on it. PD has a good video on this on their channel showing how to pack a Sabre 2 150.

There isn't a lot you can do wrong. Even though he was tucking in things here and there, once you start squashing it down, things move. We had a perfectionist packing his chute. It took him forever, even got his iron out to get out the wrinkles. [Joking] and he still had a malfunction. I was pretty quick at it, but I still did a flat pack. Somehow got it in the bag with a lot of punching etc. And I never had a fail, just a small line twist. So don't be to worried of being perfect, but don't be blaze about it. Anyway, I haven't jumped for a while, but your video makes me want to jump again and pack your way. Seems more comfortable then crawling around the floor. Thanks

That was my question, how important is each step, seems very complicated, would love to know what causes them to fail/have issues and how much of that is due to making a mistake in the packing process. The analogy I got was this is akin to sewing and making your bed, two things I'm not that great at, best I stay grounded!!

reflecting on my life. not regretting

Locking stows

@@davidsakal449 Thanks. I have since heard them called mouth locks at our DZ. Blue skies!

Zero is about right ;)

Tiny packing errors happen frequently, resulting in line twists, line-overs, steering handles that get stuck or just a rough opening. Twists are usually easy to remove during the jump, line-overs depend a lot, all you can do is pump the steering lines a couple times and hope it solves.

Bill. The slider slows down the opening of the canopy so it doesn't inflate too quick and cause opening shock to the skydiver (we are falling at 80 - 120 mph when we open the canopy). Skydive and Base canopies are similar but there are fundamental differences between them. The base canopy are larger and have less "cells" - they are designed to open more reliably and be more docile than a skydive canopy. All skydive rigs have a reserve - base rigs do not have a reserve as you open lower than a reserve can make any difference. A skydive reserve is packed very differently than the "main canopy' that you see on the video - a skydive reserve is "flat packed" like a base canopy. Watch the packing video for a base canopy to see what i mean.

We'll pack it or pay a packer if we're lazy. If it's good weather we usually jump as many times as it's possible to pay for a spot in the aircraft.

fluid wings and performance designs

Im buying the best damn parachute i can possibly buy my life definitely worth more then 3k

@@davidp4270 I think if I were to put my life in this situation on purpose, cost would not be a bargaining point. lol.