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i have been hammered by hard openings a few times. Especially bad when I had a PC9 on my head. Strong 170 (copy of saber1) even had a pocket on slider and got my ass handed to me. Got a Big Air Sportz Lotus Max night and day difference in openings. Tried a Katana but to ground hungry and wasn't jumping enough to be proficient under that wing.
The highest performance canopy at the time when I started was a PD sabre; I had a sabre 170. Funny how people were soo afraid of zero P fabric at that time. Then the Stiletto came out and u had to have 1,000 jumps just to demo one, started with a 150, then 135 and ended up with a 120. At the end was jumping a velocity 102, was a rocket ship with my 2.3:1 wing load. Man those were some good times. Witnessed some gruesome deaths and injuries though... lost some friends to the sport too, still losing em, had to go to another funeral this year.
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