Less Packing, More Jumping!

Hi everyone! Jill here. Spending the winter riding in snowy (finally!!) Colorado is making me homesick for BASE jumping and the warm desert. Reminiscing about the summer and fall jumps I've made. Here's a short of me doing unpacked jumps around Moab.


For anyone who is unfamiliar, unpacked jumps are those where your parachute is already out of your container. There are a few different types; rollover, TARD (totally awesome rapid deployment), TARD over and game over. There are also new styles being created whenever a jumper decides to get crazy and try something new. In this video you'll see me doing a few rollovers and a TARD over.


The rollover is executed by standing with your toes at the edge of the object, you then drape your canopy over the edge and let it hang below you. With a solid push, you do a slow front flip over your canopy, keeping tension in the lines. You pendulum under the canopy as it fills with air to inflation.


The TARD over is a combination of the rollover and the TARD. A TARD is done by holding your carefully looped lines in your hand along with the parachute at the base of where the lines connect to the nylon. You then jump flat and stable while tossing everything above you. What differs in the TARD over is the jump. Instead of jumping flat and stable, you do a slow front flip only releasing your parachute once you have finished flipping over it.


Hope you all enjoy my Moab daydreaming! Click Below for the video.
Less Packing, More Jumping!