Skydiving Gear - What's inside a Skydiving Rig?

[@SkydiveVibes]

Comment below 👇👇: Did you learn something new? What?

[@brunomadama9370]

sorry to say no... but I'm a rigger you know... you are doing a good job, thanks for that. your spoken English is one of the few that I can fully understand

[@SkydiveVibes]

@@brunomadama9370 Haha That's alright! Thanks. You surely know a bit more than me. ;) I am no expert, I am just passionate.

[@brunomadama9370]

@@SkydiveVibes Hi Cat, you are much more than a just passionate, you're doing a superb job with your video. you transmit an incredible serenity to the new skydivers ( also at the oldtimer like me I have to say)

[@Striker744]

What Brand or Reserve are you using? Love your channel. Thanks for the service. Merci infiniment.

[@Striker744]

Sorry Catherine, the answer was in the video. Merci.

[@nowornever1073.]

I dont know how you do it!?!?! But you are the best out here on youtube! You save lifes! I hope you know that! Thank you so much for al you hard work. Thank you all the way from Amsterdam, The Netherlands

[@jimday666]

The 3ring system is badass!

[@christiancody158]

Always happy to see you showing topics and getting others to learn. I would like to point out that the spring loaded pilot chute is actually not to make the reserve open faster. Due to the area the pilot is extracting from, the spring is to fire it out into clean air outside of our burble.

[@SkydiveVibes]

Good point. Thanks for sharing! ;)

[@wagnervalle4772]

Fantastic demonstration of the 3 ring system. Enthusiastic level 1 here! Thanks a lot.

[@lizardkeeper100]

Thank you for posting this. I'm an engineering student who is board with all this social distancing during the summer and decided that I wanted to see what a skydiving rig is designed like. now I want to go skydiving

[@SkydiveVibes]

Haha great! Engineering in what? I am a mechanical engineer. ;)

[@iMPRE7ed]

Very cool that you showed how those two emergency handles work

[@fernandoprevi3435]

Explained very well, thank you!

[@SkydiveVibes]

My pleasure!

[@ArtML]

I think this video should be shown to all AFF student :)

[@shrebus]

You are so good Catherine!

[@alvinjwilderphotography190]

Great demonstration, thank you!

[@QrshiQ]

I have been looking around for a demonstration of how the rings system works and I was not satisfied until now, thanks for the video.

[@SkydiveVibes]

My pleasure!

[@mgphotography3074]

Just to clarify @ min 10.50 of the video (cutaway release cables) Obviously the lenght of the cables is not equal but if you notice, also the part in excess over the risers 3 ring's locking loop is not equal as you can see in the video 'cause of the RSL presence. The excess of the RSL side riser (in the UPT Vector is the right one) cutaway cable is a little bit longer to avoid the RSL riser release before the other one (left) during a cutaway in order to prevent a reserve pin pulled with the other riser still attached. Anyway a very clear and well explained video like all the others one.

[@SkydiveVibes]

Thanks for the clarification. It makes sense. 😉

[@mgphotography3074]

@@SkydiveVibes I've started to repack parachutes since I was 12 and now I'm 54 ...no more repacks but still in touch with the sport and his evolution. You're doing a very good job.

[@dr.e.r.blomgren]

Thanks Catherine for a wonderful video, once again. Still very new to the sport, I appreciated diving deeper into the bowels of the reserve canopy! Simple yet precise. Would also love to know the differences in canopies as well as packing between the main and reserve, which make the reserve so reliable but also its trade-offs (to the main). Edw.

[@SkydiveVibes]

A canopy video is coming up. ;)

[@dr.e.r.blomgren]

@@SkydiveVibes That's good news! Thanks. Edw.

[@JayDee-xj9lu]

When you showed the yellow plastic 3 ring release line it reminded me of a incident at the club many years ago. It happened to a student. He was under canopy at around 1000 feet and the right riser suddenly detached. He went immediately into reserve procedure, it opened at 500 feet, and he landed safely. Upon inspection it was found that the yellow release cord was short and when the risers stretched it release the riser. Scary stuff.

[@marcfauve6971]

That is a super idea

[@SkydiveVibes]

Hope you learned smtg!

[@marcfauve6971]

well I all ready did a procedure, just after a simulation before a repack. But it is a good revision and super nice for little birds. We don t see a dissection of a rig that often.

[@airbornemike380]

What a great and informative video. Thanks.

[@paulrose5282]

Thanks for the video Catherine, I'm still brand new to the world of skydiving. Its given me a better understanding of how the reserve system actually works. 😊Blue skys🤙🤙🤙

[@SkydiveVibes]

Glad you learned something new!

[@courtg47]

Thanks for the video! It was fun and informative to watch. Didn't know that there's a spring inside the reserve pilot chute. Love the new intro too. I'm going to the DZ to finish my AFF tomorrow (2 more jumps), wish me luck!

[@SkydiveVibes]

Good luck my friend! You'll do great!

[@alejandrofernandez3655]

It´s a pleasure to find this kind of explanations, thank you for sharing, in this moment i´m learning how to pack a new parachut and this information is really good.

[@SkydiveVibes]

Great Alejandro. I might do one on packing too. ;)

[@pudthewhacker]

Another great and informative video!

[@vancityr6485]

Love the new intro!

[@007Variable]

very satisfied as well!! thank you!!

[@PrestonDurnford]

Thanks for making these videos!

[@abdulfargool4112]

Great video!🤩

[@michaelwilliamsd.o.5006]

Ha Ha .... you almost said it! I’m so proud!

[@charles-emilelabrie6366]

Love the new intro! Looks really good!!

[@SkydiveVibes]

Thanks. I got some help!

[@ChicoMillion]

Thanks for showing that, not nearly so mysterious to me now!

[@SkydiveVibes]

Glad you liked it. What would you like me to talk about next?

[@savionics7923]

Well explained

[@IgorKhrupin]

In Poland it was an accident with AAD. The cutter located on the top of reserve canopy, not on the bottom. After cutting it not completely cut off the line. After that skydiver was not able to open reserve canopy even using handles. So, my instructor suggests using the containers with an AAD cutter, which located under a reserve canopy. Will try to find info about this accident, but no guarantee. Please ensure it with your rigger.

[@SkydiveVibes]

Interesting. This might have been an older rig because I think most of the systems out there have there AAD at the bottom I think.

[@Kossi85]

Thank you for the Video! Ist White impressive how many neat little gadgets are combined to make our sport safer...no overengineera just plain physics! Even the Reserve bridle is much thicker and I assume it's also to helps deploying much faster ,as it has more drag! I'll double check with my rigger next time I see him:p

[@stopspinskydiving]

Excellent video, 🐈! Thanks for the shoutout!

[@SkydiveVibes]

It's my pleasure! Thanks to you for the clip!

[@jimday666]

Pin that comment!

[@ericcrittenden2166]

excellent video.....

[@word20]

What is the difference between canopy and parachute? is these two things not the same?

[@SkydiveVibes]

Yes, they are the same. ;)

[@YannCamusBlissClimbing]

I learned everything! I only did a tandem jump... What impresses me is that if you cut away too low you die! No real safety on this!! But since you have your hands on the toggle to stir the canopy, nothing can really happen to the cut away system during that time...

[@razor75250]

In the navy, only a master rigger was allowed to pack/servuce a reserve chute. Also, if you and I were both riggers, we weren't allowed to do our own reserve. The packing card had to be signed by another rigger...I've only had one malfunction and the reserve worked perfectly!!!!!!!

[@kensegel5909]

Thank you for that video :)

[@SkydiveVibes]

My pleasure!

[@Rob-cc8uz]

Love the channel very informative, would love less jump cut editing tho

[@SkydiveVibes]

Working on that. Thanks for the feedback!

[@DaniloBuzar]

Hey Catherine, how is it going?! First of all, thanks for make and share this video!! Its very useful for our security in skydiving!! A time ago I've asked you about translating your videos in portuguese, but unfortunatelly I couldn't do it in that moment. But this video in specific is a content I believe my friends in Brazil would like to watch a lot. So, could you authorize me to download, translate and share your video with them? Thanks in advance!

[@SkydiveVibes]

Hey Danilo, sorry for the late reply. Could you simply translate it and I'll add the closed caption to the original video here? ;) Thanks!

[@Stallker20]

Why cut-away and reserve handles are the same color ?

[@SkydiveVibes]

You can always customize your handles when you buy new. It turned out that used rig I got had those handles on. I am practicing my emergency procedures with locations of the handles more than their colors, but I admit that having a slight difference could be a plus. ;)

[@navjeetsingh8722]

Good vedio mdm ji

[@theo3888]

Well if you mistaken the handles in air you'll probably end up with an entangled reserve and main

[@SkydiveVibes]

I mistook their names, not their function... Fortunately. ;) Also when you wear it, it's not the same as the muscle are used to do the procedures.

[@dawn158]

Know your gear, it is your best friend. Practice your reserve drills, no matter how many jumps you have. Buy your rigger a drink , when you need to use your reserve, as a thankyou. What is that container? I have been out of the sport for a while.

[@steffen3382]

I had no idea the reserve closing loop goes through the freebag and inbetween the pack of the reserve canopy. Must be a nightmare to pack and pull?!?

[@brunomadama9370]

not so difficult, in the vector rig, before putting the canopy into the pod, you pass a bodkin t-bar through the upper and lower gromet, then you put the canopy into the pod that will then be crossed by the bodkin t-bar and you use it to rise the pullup cord through the canopy

[@SkydiveVibes]

Surprising right! And yes, it must be hard!

[@jimday666]

master riggers have a toolcase with every special tool they need to repack your reserve.

[@bilal8531]

I big fan of you sister

[@MrTicky4]

Would have been a better video to unpack the reserve canopy. You'll see it's not connected to the deployment bag. You just lose the pilot chute and deployment bag and they land somewhere else where you can hopefully find them and hopefully undamaged

[@MartinAston00]

Well... it has 20k views:.. that’s 20k more people that now know a parachute is not just huge nylon umbrella in a backpack LoL

[@shanewilson9428]

I wish the guy in my neighbourhood knew that

[@evanbbfkf5887]

Anyone ever put a tiny gps on their main so it’s easier to find if cut away?

[@MdLiton-pg9he]

❤❤❤❤,i's my dime

[@jasonjulaton]

I never knew it was a spring.

[@dirkdiggler3605]

I dive into my Mrs, that’s about all I need 😲😲👍🏻

[@fishmut]

Not sure I like this reserve , I have seen much easier ones that don’t seem to have all these mechanisms for it to open up when needed the most , hopefully this is never needed . 👍

[@bullhippo9023]

Nothing like someone telling you something that they think and may not be right in regard to life support equipment. Some people need a keeper.... if I sound pissed , maybe I am ? What you think you know will kill you or someone else.

[@michaelstratos7803]

I’ll never trust anything like that to save my life when I know for a fact many many times they have failed people ...

[@davemojarra2666]

Here?

[@Slippergypsy]

i dont think the sound level difference between the intro and the rest of the video could've been any further off...scared the shit out of me

[@007more7]

Who eles is tired big mouth got to repeat every thing over an over