This basic skill will also apply while using the toggles for a deployment
Important and needed, is knowing how to turn and flare the canopy effectively Jumps using the LRM (line release mod), a basic canopy flight skill that is What is most important is that something has to happen immediately. The risers and I do not criticize that at all. Many BASE jumpers will always make their plan A going for Skill to be in your toggles every time without fail. Anything you can do with the risers, you can do WAY better with the Reason I tell people about developing a For-Sure-Toggle-Grab is because theĪdvantages of using the toggles are HUGE. Going for the toggles, whereby their plan B will then become going for the Well, they can have the toggles released just as fast or faster than it wouldĪ jumper has developed this skill they may want to consider making their plan A Toggles for sure every time using muscle memory (without having to look). The term means that through practiceĪnd time, a jumper has developed the skill to instantly have their hands in the Requires skill and proper technique, which takes practice to develop. Is just something I made up many years ago while teaching BASE to act as aĭescriptive label for one of the requirements necessary to use toggles upon May want to consider developing a skill that I call a For-Sure-Toggle-Grab. Should develop the skill of grabbing the risers and have plenty ofĪlso teach my students that at some point in their BASE jumping career, they Teach students to start out making their plan A using the risers. To you getting hurt or killed, whereas in that same situation using your Know this, in some circumstances using the risers can be directly related
Skill in using the toggles or prepared the toggles while packing, then The risers can be the very thing that injures or kills you. Not require specific set-up and preparation like toggles do, but I do not Offer a jumper is that they can be groped, requiring less precise
Lock themselves in after full pressurization. That much sooner can make the difference in being able to clear it or not. Malfunction sooner, such as a line over or tension knot. Hands during the last stages of opening, you can start trying to clear a Pressurizing, it can spin around 180 degrees in less than a second. If this is done while your canopy is still Snap turn with very little altitude loss. Simultaneously push your other toggle all the way Keep pulling the toggle of theĭirection you want to turn to all the way down. You have gone past the brake setting release point. Of time elapsed, and the least amount of horizontal distance and verticalĪre pulling both toggles down, be conscious of when you know for sure that Obvious huge benefit is that you do not sink into possible danger.Ĭanopy upon opening is done using a specific technique with the toggles. You have both toggles in your hands, you are WAY better off than withĬanopy every bit as quick as with risers, you can turn much faster andĮasier on a dime (with little to no horizontal distance used), and the You have a way better chance of escaping any given situation upon The For-Sure-Toggle-Grab, then as soon as you have the toggles in your hands, Toggles as your Plan A for a heading correction. Plan A on every jump is my toggles, my plan B is my risers, and my plan C isĪny line(s) (preferably a rear outside line the steering line would be ideal).Īre some main points that I believe in on the subject of using risers or Order to be using the toggles safely as your plan A, two conditions MUST beĪ jumper has met the two conditions I mentioned above, then they can consider Will agree that the most important thing to avoid an object strike is thatĬorrective action must happen immediately upon opening (to me that means within Least know the real pros and cons of the options they have in front of them. These situations for their entire BASE career, that is fine I would never I have always taught that it isĬompletely a personal choice and if a jumper chooses to only use the risers in Persuade anyone to start making toggles their plan A instead of risers. Serious injury at least 5 times that I can think of while writing this. Probably been the critical factor in me being able to prevent my death or This applies whether you made up that technique yourself or Use during a BASE jump, you do so at your own risk. Any and all techniques, methods, styles, knowledge, etc.
Most of my thoughts contained in thisĪrticle were derived from a personal desire to develop and use the mostĮffective techniques to help me survive BASE jumping. Its intention is only to inform you about my thoughts on this subject. Use the risers or toggles, you can have an object strike resulting in serious Subject of how best to correct an off-heading opening comes down to a personal