Jumpers should drive forward and fly their slot with respect to the set up jumpers or clone. The grips will come together when everyone in the formation does this. Sometimes a jumper drives too far forward and blocks off the slot for a neighboring jumper, as shown in Fig. 1. The advantage of this is that a closed formation exists at all times, provided no grips are lost. The disadvantage is that jumpers tend to forget about flying the formation once they dock.
Jumpers tend to forget to keep their legs extended.
They start to look around and backslide. This in turn loads the formation and makes it more difficult for the next jumper to dock. By far, the biggest disadvantage of this method is that no jumper is in his slot until the last jumper docks. As each jumper docks, he picks up his grips, but he is not at the proper distance and orientation from the centerpoint until the star is complete. This phenomena is unique to the star formation.