Thanks, I went out and hiked around with it connected both ways. Weaving the strap through the three bar sliders (and I also connected one of the other three bars into the belt matrix) it was a little sloppy. Hooking the three bar slider together and running the compression strap through seemed to ride okay, but I think it will be a pain when I need to manipulate the compression strap. I'm going to see if Kifaru can/will make an extension with a three bar slider on each end that could attach to the belt pouch matrix.