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Indirect Control
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Indirect control is a technique used to promote a staged deployment in slider-up BASE jumps. Together with direct control, indirect control acts to prevent the slider from descending until the canopy has come to line stretch.
Direct Control
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Direct control is a technique used to promote a staged deployment in
slider-up BASE jumps. The purpose of both direct and indirect control
is to prevent the slider from descending until the canopy has come to
line stretch.
Slidergate
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Some people have sewn a regular tailgate to the trailing edge of their slider and refer to this as a slidergate. This is not a slidergate.
Vertigo and Consolidated Rigging introduced the slidergate as as little
loop on the trailing edge of the slider. The idea is to larkhead a
rubber band through it and then take a bight out of the steering lines
and wrap the rubber band around it. Note that it’s just the steering
lines, excluding the center C- and D-lines that you would put in a
tailgate.
Tailgate
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Early in the development of BASE-specific canopies, it was noted that
the rear corners of the canopy frequently “inverted” themselves during
slider-down openings. Most often, these tail inversions would clear
themselves before the canopy was fully inflated. Sometimes, however,
they would develop into a lineover malfunction. Tail inversions are the
mechanism by which lineovers can occur more frequently in slider-down
jumps than in slider-up; the tailgate was designed to prevent them.
Slider Down or Slider Off
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Slider down or slider off has long been a point of debate within the
BASE community. The fact is that there is no right or wrong choice, but
there are right and wrong ways to execute that choice. If you take it
off, be sure of your rigging. If you leave it on, be sure to properly
secure it.