Object Avoidance

Course Outline

Day 1: Deep Brake Settings Customization

Introduction:  30 minutes

BASE Skills Progression:  Lecture, 30 minutes

Deep Brake Settings:  Lecture, 30 minutes

Reasons for customizing DBS, process for finding custom settings

Brake Adjustment:  Practice, 45 minutes

Practice session on brake adjustment process

Unpacked jumps:  Lecture and discussion, 30 minutes

To allow back to back loads on the student’s own canopy for DBS customization

Unpacked jumps:  As appropriate to conditions, Rollover, TARD and TARD over.

DBS customization:  Repeated unpacked jumps, adjusting the DBS between loads.  Student performs brakes-set flight and riser turn drill to evaluate brakes and stall point.  This usually takes around 5 jumps.

DBS installation:  2 hour

Installation and bar tacking of custom DBS (as a third setting on the control line).

DBS use:  Lecture and discussion, 30 minutes    When to use which brake setting and when to re-evaluate customized settings

Day 2:  Object Avoidance Techniques

Post Opening Priorities Review:  Lecture, 40 minutes

Object Avoidance Techniques:  Lecture, 45 minutes    Riser stall, toggle turn, double and single riser techniques

Hanging Harness Practice:  30 minutes

Object avoidance drills:  Floater jumps with correction, repeated until perfect (can take upwards of 20 jumps), students are encouraged to experiment with different techniques

Day 3: Object Avoidance Drills

Hanging Harness Practice:  30 minutes

Object avoidance drills:    Floater jumps with correction, repeated until perfect

Intentional 180 off headings (packed) with correction, repeated until perfect

Students are encouraged to experiment with different techniques

Day 4:  Running Exits and Cliff Jumps

Running exit practice:  1 hour

Pool session, running exits from board until students can exit stable at a full sprint

Running exits:  Handheld go and throw, stowed with delay, downsloping run

Running exits from launch plank on bridge, usually around 5-10 jumps to perfect

Cliff jumps:  Cliff jumps from legal cliff exit points with running exits.

Topics are frequently presented  in other orders, especially when responding to weather conditions to  take advantage of jumping windows.