Saw an angel do that over the weekend. The rail completely snapped off on impact, the bottle hitting the guy in the neck as he dove.
Gadget said:
makes you wonder about the sanity of people willing to perform dives like that while holding 4500psi air systems.
Good job the marker took the brunt of the damage rather than the bottle reg.
which is exactly what the 07 ego/SL74 frame/rail is designed to avoid, the air tank/air system is the potentially most dangerous part of a marker....the ego frame is designed to distort whilst keeping the air system secured to the frame and thus reduce the chance of the air system coming away from the marker.
another affect of this is that the frame will take the impact and not damage the rest of the marker.
if you dive like a pudding...expect to damage something, from the look of it and reading the replys that was one hell of a face plant....he loosened 3 teeth and was concussed (prob spelt wrong)