With the nifty seat that pad that I snap to my belt and the longer spike length makes it more useable for me and strapping it to my side with a stretchy belt makes it very portable. My son called my old Sabor climbing stand a widow maker, he says the Nifty seat is a short version of a widow maker. Every time i have flopped over backwards with mine, i could not believe that I had done that to myself again, until it was to late. When using a nifty seat check behind you, to see what you could fall on. The last time I fell with mine, I was sitting leaning my against a tree with my feet on my down hill side, which makes it higher and more comfy. I blew on my deer call grunt, then followed that with a fawn bleat, two way call. Then here he came and with determination, a coyote came running across the open field. when he got closer, he started circling me. When he was behind cover, I turned to keep him in shooting position. As he got to my more uphill side and my back was no longer against the tree, here comes my feet again and down I went. The coyote yiked, spun and ran out to the field. While I was still on my back, he turns, runs back for a second looked, smiled a bit and casually trotted by.