What were you using as a weight on the parachute? How did it do?

We didn't actually make the parachute --- someone had left it behind. (From the carefully drawn circle on the fabric and the strongly stitched threads, I suspect a mother made it for her kid.) The weight was a bolt, but I don't think the whole thing was designed all that well. Maybe the fabric was too heavy, the wind too hard, or the bolt too heavy/light --- it fell pretty fast. We left it behind for the next person, though....