Each jumper docks and takes one grip and then presents a grip to the next jumper to dock, as shown in Fig. 5. The formation resembles a table more than a star. An early version of this is the build it as a U method. Only one set up jumper is used. Generally, the U tended to be built uphill, as this is where jumpers came from, if the star was the first point.
Jumpers also tend to look toward the open end instead of the fall rate setter or clone jumper.
The second set up jumper eliminates these problems. Another advanced, but not quite perfected, technique is to fly at a predetermined distance from a base formation. A small star is built to be a setup for the large star set up jumpers. The same number of large star, set up, jumpers line up directly behind each of the base jumpers at a specific distance, as shown in Fig. All other jumpers then plug into their slots.