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Skydiver pulling front risers of an XFire parachute
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What effect does pulling on the front risers have on the canopy?

Here’s the answer: pulling on the front risers makes your canopy drop faster. That’s it, you can leave now or check below when this can be veryyy handy: But, there’s more to it than just pulling the risers. Let’s break it down. How can you use front risers safely? Why practice front riser techniques? Practicing

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The OM your perfect wingsuit canopy.
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Is the OM your perfect wingsuit canopy?

The OM your perfect wingsuit canopy. If you’re always hopping between different dropzones, you may have noticed that in the wingsuiting community, one of their biggest concerns is the moment of parachute deployment. Wingsuit flying is an incredible discipline within the world of skydiving, but it has a slight drawback – when opening the parachute,

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Mastering the Skies: A Path to high-performance canopies
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Mastering the Skies: A Path to high-performance canopy

You see them every day, those impressive flights of canopy at high speeds, with turns that seem crazy but that finally end in a smooth and controlled landing. Every skydiver dreams or has dreamed of achieving that type of landing, of being able to fly a high-performance canopy so well, and of course, everyone can

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3 Questions for yourself if you want to downsize your canopy.
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3 Questions for yourself if you want to downsize your canopy.

The second most common question in skydiving after “can I use a camera already?” Is “can I downsize my canopy?”. A classic. Is either the hurry of going for a smaller size to don’t look like a student anymore or the FOMO because everyone else is doing it. So, if you identify with one of

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