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- Hi. So we're here with the new Genie Race 4 from Gin.
It's an aerodynamic racing harness.
So we've got the big fancy inflating tail.
The big change for the harness is that the intake
actually runs in through the nose.
This is reinforced with a wire, so it's,
it's quite robust in there.
I think it's lightanol, or something like that.
I'm not entirely sure, but there's two vents.
One fills up the nose,
and the other runs through this tube on the inside.
So this runs from the nose of the harness
and the inside of the pod,
all the way through to the back of the harness.
It's, it exits up into the back pocket
and then the, the tail gets filled in from there.
So it's a very clean, sort of low profile harness,
the back protector's also new.
So overall the whole thing is, is quite slim.
It's not very deep.
And the protector runs quite a long way from,
from the front all the way up to, to the back.
It thins out as you come up with the back
but then you've got your,
Your rucksack in the back there as well.
And on this side of the harness,
we've got the anti-G, just tucked in there,
ready to pop back.
So I've got a reserve under the cockpit area.
The other big thing with the harness, we've got the visor,
keep the wind off, keep the noise down.
Massive, massive flight deck.
There's a big pocket underneath the flight deck.
And there's also another massive pocket
underneath the seat as well.
The other thing you'll notice is I've swapped the ends
with the brummels.
So I don't use the brummels on the speed line.
So I actually come up to a knot on the riser,
and then I lark's head over the knot.
And so I adjust the length of the line in the pod.
So these things are, are out the way.
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- It's quite an easy harness to set up
in terms of getting it set for you
and adjusting it in flight.
There's only one real inflight adjustment
and that's from the chest strap.
And this has like kind of a two to one buckle,
Three to one buckle strap thing.
So you've actually got a pull quite a lot of strap
to make a difference on the, on the cinch.
Okay.
So it's quite sort sensitive when you let all this out
you've got the maximum width and the maximum kind of
rock a bowl, rock and rollness, to it.
The other neat thing were on the side of the harness.
So these poles,
they run right from the base of the harness,
all the way up here.
And they keep the flight deck
And whatever's in the pocket off your, your lap.
Lot of structure in the harness,
It's very, very stiff, very sort of plated.
So you get quite a lot of contact with the wing.
You don't get a lot of yaw, so much,
as with some of the, the less structured harnesses.
When I was first flying this glider
I was flying it with the original lightness
and a lot of lead under the seat
to kind of make the weight up.
And it's just a horrendous way of flying.
So this is much more the,
the kind of thing that you want for,
for this kind of glider.
The speed bar blocks.
Again, they've got the, the ratchet pulleys,
and these make it super, super easy
to kind of hold and adjust
just that little bit of bar.
If you just wanna tweak one side
slightly more than the other.
When the pulleys are out,
they'll only turn one way
and you can hear the ratchet click.
You've gotta release the tension
before it'll slip back.
Just as the tension comes off,
the rope will slide on the pulley.
So you will need to check the rope periodically
for a little bit of wear, but,
but these make it so much easier to use the
bar in-flight to just even everything up
Comfy. Great, love it.
Slim.
It doesn't pack down small and it's not light
but you know, that's, that's not why I bought it.
I bought it cause it was aerodynamic,
And you know, it's out of the ones that I'd seen.
This was the one that tick,
kind of ticked all the boxes for me.
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- [Male Speaker] Cool.
Can you tell me about the alternatives in this class?
Why, why, why did you not choose the other ones and
and what, what, what, what was your short list?
- So there were four on the short list.
So I had the Gin,
I had the Woody Valley,
have the Kortel, and had Ozone's EXOCEAT.
With the EXOCEAT,
they changed the length of the pod.
And so for the, for the harness structure
it's the same size, of small, medium and large.
So where I'm a little bit taller
I'm just gonna wind up poking out the back.
So I could get like a long enough pod
and I can make the thing fit
but I'm just gonna be poking at the top.
I, I didn't really like that idea.
It also had these big metal bars that you kind
of stuff into the harness.
And again, that just seemed like structure.
So again, you want it stiff, but that stiff?
So with the, the Woody Valley,
it seemed very bulky underneath
and around the, the kind of the back of the harness.
So it had a very deep profile.
With the Gin,
with the new style of protector,
That that depth is very, is very small.
So your frontal area,
when you're looking at drag is, is very, very slim.
You're very low profile.
So I, I kind of preferred this
over that.
And the Kortel is very, very comfortable,
and it has this wonderful kind of support all around the
the kind of lumbar region, the hips,
but it, it just,
it's just so fussy on the inside.
I just thought it was gonna take me forever to get,
to get it set up and to get it dialled in.
Whereas this has been just simple, you know
there's a couple of straps you pull them till they're tight,
you got a better pressure behind the knees,
you pull two more straps in,
and it's, it's kind of done.
It's, there's just less faff.
It's, it's very well made.
I'd seen the Genie, like, 2 and
and that looks, looks incredible.
So I, yeah, everything I'd heard.
So it just made me think this
was gonna be the, worth the weight.
So it's, it's kind of proved to be.
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- So this is ideal for pilot flying high aspect two liners.
This is competition pilots,
pilots looking to race,
pilots looking to ring
the max out of their, their aerodynamics,
to get that last half point on glide.
If you are always on the bar,
if you're always pushing into wind,
if glide really matters
and you are flying at speed all the time,
this is the harness for you.
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