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Dialing in a custom DBS

There’s a lot of information and discussions out there on how to locate your custom deep brake setting (see Asylum / CR article, or search on basejumper.com), and why that is a good idea if you jump solid slider down … Continue reading

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Brake Line Release Toggles

This idea of mine has been in circulation for some time now and I’ve been handing out the plans and measurements. So here now the polished (not handdrawn on a napkin) documentation on how to build my brake line release … Continue reading

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Counter-twisting method for dealing with linetwists

This has been out there for a long time I guess, but just recently found its way to a greater audience via Youtube and Facebook (eg. Cris video here, Yuris video here), and its being teached in multiple FJCs. Since … Continue reading

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2016

I’m getting lazier every year, so my videos are getting shorter. So heres some of my most fun and memorable moments from 2016 cut down to just under a minute. Thanks to everyone involved! https://vimeo.com/205594983 Music: “Sunday” by Golliwog from … Continue reading

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Throw it as you mean it

I’ve written about this already 5 years ago in my second post on this blog, but since more video material accumulated in my collection over those years, I thought its worth a more extensive video, so here we go: https://vimeo.com/183051913 … Continue reading

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2015

After only a few jumps and a longer brake in 2014, 2015 was again a blast. Thanks to all the jumpers, pilots, drivers, groundcrews, and especially to Andi, Stephan, Mahle, Ferudun, and all the other event and boogie organizers. https://vimeo.com/148858375 … Continue reading

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Breakcord

I just got a new roll of 80lbs breakcord and I tried to figure out if temperature and humidity had some effect on its breaking strength. I’m talking about the standard 80lbs cotton break tape (MIL-T-5661) that we use for … Continue reading

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Cutaway Handles

3 ring systems on base rigs are rarely used under load, I suppose for the majority of jumpers, me included, it’s mostly used for switching canopies and the occasional planned water landing, where in both cases theres barely any tension … Continue reading

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Harness construction

Recently two manufacturers published service bulletins as reaction to damaged harnesses found in the field (links at the bottom of the page). There has been a lot of fuzz about this on facebook and the forum, so for those that … Continue reading

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GoPro anti-snag mounts

If you don’t know why an anti-snag mount is a good idea for BASE or skydiving, read this post first. Here some links where you can buy anti-snag mounts Cookie Fuel roller mount luron01’s mount Hegan mounts Homemade anti-snag mounts … Continue reading

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Snagpoints

This has been bothering me for quite some time so finally I come around writing something on this. In the past 4 years we had 2 confirmed GoPro fatalities (BFL #158 and BFL #206). What troubles me the most with … Continue reading

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Softhousings

With a properly manufactured, maintained, and correctly assembeld 3 ring there is practically no chance of an unintentional cutaway. The obvious reasons for such an unintentional cutaway would be a getting the release handle snagged on something, a broken loop … Continue reading

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Pin orientation

A more detailed view on the happy/sad pin orientation that I briefly mentioned in the pin-locks post. Thanks to Todd from Apex for pointing this out to me. Since I had a hard time wrapping my head around the whole … Continue reading

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2013

Weather sucks so I found some time to through all the footage that I got from 2013 and put together a small video. Thanks a lot to everyone that jumped and traveled with me last year, to everyone that contributed … Continue reading

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Pin locks in detail

Since there was way more feedback on my last video than I expected I want to go a little bit more into detail. The described scenarios and pull orientations will most likely not happen in a slider up/ terminal environment, … Continue reading

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Pinlocks

Pretty much every rig design out there has some issues that at certain pull directions the pull force increases. This ranges from a little additional force that has to be applied to pop the pin, up to that the pin … Continue reading

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Treelandings

Depending on where and what you jump you will end up in a tree eventually. I think there are very few jumpers that have more than a few hundred jumps and didn’t land in a tree at least once. Landing … Continue reading

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2012

I didn’t only do tracking jumps in 2012, so here’s all the other fun stuff! (with small bits of footage that was left from winter 11/12) https://vimeo.com/58776605 Music: “Addicted to freedom” and “Make it right” by Aintuse facebook.com/aintuse Edited with … Continue reading

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Tracking 2012

Some jumps with my tube 3 I’ve done in 2012, nothing groundbreaking, but fun big times! http://vimeo.com/58258777 Music: “100 Reasons” by Father And Gun www.fatherandgunhc.com facebook thanks to Rise or Rust Records www.riseorrustrecords.com Edit and effects done solely with open … Continue reading

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I like PCA’s

Throwing newbies off the bridge and having fun on low stuff. Thanks to Aintuse for letting me use their song. https://vimeo.com/52537714 Music: “First song” by Aintuse check out their Facebook page.

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Vents, close up

I borrowed one of those tiny HD cameras to play around with. It seems like there is just no image stabilization at all built into that small thing, so the videos are pretty much unwatchable, but a few stills are … Continue reading

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960 RPM

http://vimeo.com/46570556 GoPro’s can take quite a beating…

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Kemaliye Cable Boogie 2012

Short video off an absolutely epic trip to Kemaliye (Turkey) in June 2012. https://vimeo.com/45135990 Thanks to all the jumpers, organizers and everyone else I met there, it was awesome! I hope to come back next year! Music: “corona” by minutemen … Continue reading

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Visiting Austria

Due to recent events I found it necessary to put up some general information about jumping in Austria, I added a new page that can be found here and in the top navigation bar. Please repost, retweet, or link to … Continue reading

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Brake line release toggles

I recommend the use of release toggles for slider up jumps, Adrenalin and Apex are selling mature release toggle systems, both work fine and risk of a premature is low to nil, with the Adrenalin version being my personal favorite. … Continue reading

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Rigging up for handheld and thy bridle

I know, this maybe seems like a no-brainer for some of you, but over the time I have seen so many jumpers handle their gear in very awkward ways when rigging up for a handheld or staticline jump ending up … Continue reading

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Ultra low freefall

Before hucking yourself off something really low, there are a few things you should know, most of them are described in the two PDF’s below, read them! Knowledge is one thing, the required skills another, so I cannot stress this … Continue reading

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Fall 2011

After fucking up my knee I’m grounded, so I had time to do some video editing. Here’s all the fun stuff from fall 2011 that I didn’t already post (here or here), October till December compressed in roughly 2 minutes … Continue reading

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Low speed deployments

Quite a while ago I found this video on the apex site, and liked the idea to see how different canopies pressurize during low speed openings. So here is what i got, all canopies loaded with approximately 86kg (jumper weight … Continue reading

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CWY Staticline

This is the CWY staticline system I use. I don’t have a clue who invented it in the first place, but discussions about it on bj.com date back quit a while, so its rather old and a lot of people … Continue reading

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