- Hey do you want to know how to control
your canopy, once you land it,
and avoid looking like that?
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When the wind is spiking up after your landings,
well it can be tricky to gather your canopy
and avoid having it flying away with you.
Well in this video I have a pretty neat trick
that I've learned, well stay tuned,
because I'm sharing it with you right now.
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Ah, those windy days.
Where you need to adjust your landing patterns
many times during the day
and actually you end up being caught in a high wind draft,
and then you can barely make it to your landing zone,
and then you gotta figure out a way to gather your canopy.
So this is why I want to give you guys some tips
on how not end up in that situation.
So without any delay,
let's dive into the tip that have for you
to control your canopy once you land it.
So once you land your canopy, what you wanna do
is turn around, still having your toggles in hand,
and at that point you grab your rear risers,
those are the ones that the toggles are attached to,
of course you may already know what are the rear risers,
but when you turn around
and you have that spinning to your risers
it can be hard to locate them.
So simply grab the risers that are attached to your toggles,
Then using strength, you want to pull the risers
down to your knees while backing up a little bit to help,
and that will cause the canopy to collapse
and lose it's lift.
At that point you still have
both of the risers in your hands
so you want to take one of them
and go in the opposite direction fast, with it,
and then do the same thing in the other direction.
That way you're folding your canopy on the ground,
and at that point you simply walk towards it
to remove all the tensions on the line
and then you have a folded canopy on the ground
that cannot take up with the wind anymore.
So that's a pretty neat trick, actually.
It's a great tip to avoid being dragged
by your canopy on the floor,
or having it swirl in the wind
while you're trying to bring it down.
Cause this could leave you with a lot of line twists
to deal with at packing,
and if you're not packing yourself,
you might have your packer looking at you, like,
"Really?"
So let's watch it another time,
so that you understand it better.
As you're landing with your toggles in hand,
you want to turn around, grab your rear risers,
bring them with strength, then grab one of the risers
and go in the opposite direction with it,
and same thing with the other one.
Walk towards your canopy, and you're done,
it's not folded and it won't lift up.
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Now let me know in the comments below,
have you ever been in a situation
where you've been dragged by your canopy,
or had trouble in high-winds?
And do you actually train to kite your canopy in windy days?
That's something that I've not done yet
but I think it would be a good idea to do
whenever we cannot jump because of the winds.
That's a great time
to maybe play with your canopy on the ground,
make sure to have people around you
in case that something goes wrong,
and make sure to be briefed by an instructor before,
but that could be a great exercise
to better understand your canopy.
Naturally, while I'm talking about it,
I'm wondering if that could be a good video idea.
Knowing how to actually kite your canopy safely.
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and on that, love you guys,
keep jumping, stay safe, and blue skies.
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