{"id":21068,"date":"2020-04-16T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.flywheelsites.com\/?p=21068"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:39:09","slug":"gear-checks-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/blog\/gear-checks-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering The Art of Gear Checks With Dan BC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gear Check advice for Licensed Skydivers\" width=\"565\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aosme0-bYgI?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For licensed skydivers, our sport is the epitome of self-reliance.&nbsp; The <a href=\"https:\/\/uspa.org\/\">United States Parachute Association<\/a> recognizes that part of taking responsibility for yourself is making sure your gear is ready to jump before you put it on.&nbsp; Doing a good gear check is step one.&nbsp; Make sure you have a process for consistently doing a gear check and do it before every jump.&nbsp; On this video <a href=\"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/\">Skydive Perris<\/a> General Manager <a href=\"http:\/\/danbrodsky-chenfeld.com\/\">Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld<\/a> reviews why gear checks are so important and demonstrates his process.&nbsp; DO TRY THIS AT HOME!!&nbsp; It&#8217;s important to get proficient at doing your gear check.&nbsp; The best way is to practice doing them while you&#8217;re at home.&nbsp; &#8220;Learning&#8221; to do a gear check only when you&#8217;re ON a jump simply isn&#8217;t enough. Practice at home so by the time you&#8217;re getting ready to put your rig on, you&#8217;ll be great at doing a gear check!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a great read from <a href=\"http:\/\/danbrodsky-chenfeld.com\/\">Dan <\/a>covering topics such as this and more check out his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playing-Win-Greatest-Skydiver-Conquering\/dp\/1616084464\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1302806428&amp;sr=8-1\">book<\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playing-Win-Greatest-Skydiver-Conquering\/dp\/1616084464\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1302806428&amp;sr=8-1\">Above All Else<\/a>&#8221; by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playing-Win-Greatest-Skydiver-Conquering\/dp\/1616084464\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1302806428&amp;sr=8-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a list of skydiving gear manufacturers and their recommendations you can also check out their homepages by clicking on any of the manufacturers links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunpath.com\/\">SunPath Products<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/rigginginnovations.com\/\">Rigging Innovations<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/uptvector.com\/\">United Parachute Technologies<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/miragesys.com\/\">Mirage Systems<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyaerodyne.com\/\">Aerodyne Systems<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flyfirebird.com\/fb\/containers\">Firebird<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocityrigs.com\/\">Velocity Sports Equipment<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/skydivewings.com\/\">Wings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For licensed skydivers, our sport is the epitome of self-reliance.&nbsp; The United States Parachute Association recognizes that part of taking responsibility for yourself is making sure your gear is ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":25396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,125,62,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afflearn-to-skydive","category-dan-brodsky-chenfeld","category-safety","category-skydiving"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27040,"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions\/27040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}