Adjusting Backpack Hip Belts

Video Transcript

"If you have tried changing the straps in your backpack and your backpack still doesn't feel right, you still feel like there may be too much or too little weight on your shoulders, there is too little weight around the hip belt, you can also make an adjustment on the hip belt and you can change the distance in between the shoulder straps and the hip belt. Down here there is basically a peg and then there is three different holes and different backpacks might be different, how many holes you have, but what you can do is basically you take that ring out and you take the peg out and you can move it up to the second hole or up to the third hole and that will give you more kind of give, it will move it up but what you need to do in addition to that is if it just held on by these it would be kind of sloppy, it would be like it was hanging and so what they do in order to make it more sturdy is that there are these straps right here that is connecting the belt to the actual frame of the backpack and so you can actually go back behind there and unloosen these straps and then when you position it where you want it to be, you can tighten those straps again. Something else that will happen is that these straps can loosen and then the waist belt will be really floppy and then it won't give you the support that you need so it is real important to keep these straps tight."