Idiot's First Cutaway

[@LordBlob1]

the opening of that reserve is the smoothest thing i've ever seen

[@daniematthee775]

Like wipeing your ass with silk :)

[@DeansVideoClips]

Reverse Psychology - if he said he was smart everyone would be calling him an idiot.

[@yosour6733]

touche

[@patrickswayze2596]

How does that even make sense?

[@patrickswayze2596]

It’s always amusing that people like you two who feet have never gone any higher then a trampoline has such opinions on a subject you clearly don’t know fuck all about! Do you even known why he was called an idiot? Any actual skydiver would be cringing at this video

[@wh2471]

Obviously people are so strange

[@WayPastCrazy2525]

@@patrickswayze2596 ... Kinda a little harsh there on your reply. How about CALMLY explain what us idiot ground-dwellers don't know.

[@RatpoisonX]

Calm. Steady. Precise. I don’t see an idiot here. You’re safe and a beautiful landing with it. Awesome job!

[@TSweetwon]

No, he was an idiot. He cutaway a perfect parachute. He did not remove the twists as I’m positive he was taught how to. Bicycle kick your legs, place hands on rises, pull apart the risers, kick your legs and pull risers apart until line twists are removed. Takes 10 seconds on average. This guy is an idiot and anyone who says differently is someone who has never jumped AND doesn’t know what they’re talking about

[@ScoutSniper3124]

3 attempts to clear the fouled lines, decision point no hesitation, and a fine approach and landing. Well Played Sir!

[@wadepires5789]

I don't see it that way. Line twist is a common problem. I try to emphasize to new students that they only have 2 chutes. Before you cut away, try your best to fix the problem. In this case I didn't see any effort. The chute almost corrected it self. With very little work, I see no reason that chute should of been tossed as non flyable. A child could of given more than this guy. An idiot,? Can't say. Surly not someone I would of wanted watching my back in Vietnam. Zero effort.

[@wadepires5789]

@N/A Sounds like you jumped once or twice! I'm 62 last month and started jumping at 17 in the military. This, as you said, would take under 10 seconds to correct. This isn't even a problem, just a very common issue. Every time I had to do a cut away I really dreaded doing so. Human error always creeps into my mind. This guy would of wished he had this kite to fly if he had, say a tight streamer with his reserve. I was above my son who had a nice tear in his chute and as he dropped below a 1000 feet I knew he made up his mind to fly that one in. He hit the pit so it was as he said, flyable. This guy would of cut that away in a second. He needs to Take the AFF course again. It might save his life someday.

[@suasponte8363]

Over 60 secs.....yeah awesome job!

[@mrcrowley8889]

Not everything is Vietnam lol

[@koekie7003]

@@wadepires5789 he paid for the 2 chutes so he's gonna use the 2 chutes lol

[@seanmowery137]

James don't beat yourself up. You set your hard deck and stuck to it. Mad props

[@indyjons321]

I must say, that is a BEAUTIFUL reserve chute.

[@georgejacob3162]

I once saw a video of a tandem with line twist cutaway and go to reserve. The instructor was SO cool he just said to the student 'I didn't like the color of the main chute!'

[@bippy201]

George Jacob now that is funny😂😂

[@olivierb1284]

@@georgejacob3162 link me that video please haha 😆 I wanna see that

[@georgejacob3162]

@@olivierb1284 Sorry mate. I can't find it now. From what I remember it is two guyd.I think the instructor is a bald guy and not wearing a helmet. He is wearing a wrist camera. The skydive is in Australia. I think the main chute was pink and the reserve chute was yellow but I may be wrong about that.

[@TheFireGoose]

Your beautiful

[@MrAllAmerican1000]

When wing suiting, and you have line twists on opening, as long as it is "there and square", you can use your wings to untwist you. Look up and figure out which way you need to twist, figure out which direction you're facing and which way the wind is coming from, figure out which wing you need to stick out to get you to spin in the direction that you need to spin. When you stick your arm out, you'll begin to twist, when you rotate 180°, then stick the other arm out, because it will keep the spin going. It'll get you out of line twists in a Wingsuit so easily! I call it the weathervane method. 😁Also...from the squirrel people, if you have a normal, soft opening, immediately look up and grab your risers and try to keep yourself from twisting up. That has helped me immensely! I have not had line twists since I started doing that. WinX 210 (cuz I'm old and phat)

[@marksmith9176]

Never question the pilots decision to cut away. Well done

[@Damian-Church-NZ]

Unless he had no reserve chute 😅

[@gregoryrl89]

I don't think the title should be "Idiot". He did what he thought was right and is still alive

[@socalicouple]

Robert Gregory exactly, he is ALIVE HE DID IT RIGHT

[@VeteranAviator]

Robert Gregory first off, nice avatar. I was a PJ until a few years ago. I think “idiot” is correct for two reason; #1 the guy thinks he is stupid for deploying when he is unstable, never sacrifice altitude for stability. #2 the guy has no idea what the proper technique is for a line twist. Thumbs down, grab risers, pull apart, kick out like hell. He kicked for half a second, making progress, and stopped. Going from military free fall to civilian skydiving the one thing MFG does better is emphasize the EPs paying particular attention to technique.

[@karimpaulrifaat3443]

et jolie

[@SOLDOZER]

@@VeteranAviator Dude was serious low altitude and still did not have a working canopy. You are a maroon.

[@KevinDice]

Hopefully you know this by now, but there is a line twist technique that could have fixed this in about 10 seconds. Kicking with a wingsuit is less effective because the drag of the leg wing works against you. Twist the risers with your hands so that the line twists are moved down below the level of your hands. This creates separation in the risers above your hands which you can then use to manually undo the twists. Blue Skies!

[@jbfrost02]

Kevin Dice Appreciate it. Yeah later I realized that if I would have stretched a little more I could have easily grabbed where the lines started to separate and untwist them from there. It only had 13" risers.

[@phutton88]

​@@jbfrost02 you're talking about something different. squeeze risers together and twist them so all twists move downward into the risers.

[@MrWadsox]

That's nothing. I knew a guy who found himself in the same kind of trouble, untangled the lines, and finished his tax return before he landed safely.

[@mikefinley4367]

Works sometimes but not always, appears to be a possible A license with few jumps, did well all things considered and saved the DZ any bad publicity.

[@craigcrissman4651]

@@mikefinley4367 "A license?" Bro the dude is a wingsuiter, he should have the experience to deal with line twists by now

[@FAA-DPE]

Textbook job you lived to jump another day I'm so glad you found that awesome main canopy

[@ThomasGrillo]

I think you did the right thing, by jettisoning the mains, and going to reserve. By the time you detangled the mains, it might've been too late. Thanks for the video.

[@TSweetwon]

It wouldn’t have been. He didn’t make any attempt to clear the lines. As someone who’s jumped a couple times, it’s clear as day.

[@davidkolotkin8265]

Having completed 1-4 AFF I think he did everything very well! Clean cut off, back to a quick free fall with a reserve pull. Landed and is alive to talk about it! Congratulations!!!

[@pondponder]

Nice job hanging on to the cutaway line or whatever the heck it's called. Its good to see this. I was flat on my back unable to reach my brakes during my malfunction and cut away. The DZ crew said nothing was wrong with my chute. I didn't jump there ever since.

[@Gladki007]

Good advice I got from experieced wingsuiters, NEVER unzip your legwing before you have a good canopy over your head. It will make it pretty much impossible to kick out of twists, it turned out ok for you but apparently pepole got hurt when theit reserve also ended up in linetwists but the trailing legwing didn't allow them to kick out of them. Glad you are ok!

[@topher_512]

I thought that too at first, but I think he unzipped his leg wing so that he could try to kick harder to get out of the twists.

[@davidjacob-angelazrael3915]

That is good to know, as i am going to school at spaceland houston for my class "D" liscense as for the "wingsuit"

[@SkyHigh8800]

The cutaway of SHAME!!! Had to do that once on a tandem. With a wingsuit, use your arm wings to do barrel rolls as your canopy flies to untwist. Learned that trick from the master Jeff Nebelkofph

[@CB-wk9ts]

Well handled. Cool as a cucumber! Amazed how fast the reserve deployed!

[@dodgyrogyskydive]

If you are having trouble clearing the twist, hold your risers together and twist the twists down into your riser(clockwise in this case) and they will come out on their own. Standard procedure on tdms. You'll be amazed how well it works.

[@LT_LAZER]

No panicky shit, he tried to get results but was aware of being on the clock. The transition to reserve was smooth af. No idiot detected. Good job and glad you were able to retrieve your canopy.

[@esuohdica]

Can't say you didn't have a good go at fixing it! Good call

[@philo4422]

I had a very similar issue last week, which ended in a cutaway, mine like yours looked easy enough to solve, but I just couldn't get any momentum to get the canopy turning. I did read a good article after by Maxine Tate called 'Line Twists - Nuisance or Malfunction? which gives an alternative way of getting out of twists by using both hands to twists the risers in the same direction as the twists in order to bring the twists to the risers. You can then reach above the twists to get some momentum and get the twists out. Clearly in the video's in the article it looks really easy. Glad you were okay though, and the only person there was you so you made exactly the right call.

[@genogeno1234]

Yes, I was trained by Maxine last fall during her canopy course, and her method works like a charm.

[@TheChrisGoldsmith]

Great video and superb decision making. I had my first malfunction 30 years ago (fast opening, broken lines) on jump 59and remember it like it was yesterday.

[@SOLDOZER]

Was that in Vietnam grandpa?

[@TheRealCowlick]

To all those disliking because they think he called someone an idiot: read the fucking discription...

[@Amir-zr5nd]

Thank you for sharing! What you did, made you walk away after landing … I would call it Smart's First Cutaway.

[@mysterjd34]

That was done amazingly. It's gotta be hard to make that decision, even when you know you absolutely should. It's trusting your life to your absolute last resort.

[@jjohnston94]

The landing looked softer than jumping off a curb.

[@jbfrost02]

jjohnston94 haha it was

[@Pr0xy_xx]

Literally the smoothest opening of a Reserve ever, and the title is "Idiot's First Cutaway"

[@transilvaniak8485]

That looks to me like a light twist that could have been kicked out. Having the suit and a low pull played against you, but is good you played it safe and you are sound and at it again. Enjoy your flights man!

[@jeanb2206]

Good job buddy ! You tried without persisting. Then you applied the security proceedure to stay alive.

[@oldmate86]

I had this exact same line twist mal and I regret chopping it. The best technique is to squeeze the risers together t get the twists out. It works so much better than trying to kick them out.

[@RichardBehiel]

Oh man! Glad you're safe. Not to be a critic, but I've had worse line twists than that and kicked them out in a few seconds. When you see a line twist or two, get kicking ASAP! Put your weight into it! Grab those risers and pull them apart, lean into it! A few seconds of struggling and then you're set. You only want to cutaway if it gets really bad and you can't get it unstuck, but you should give it a few solid seconds of full struggling. Not a time to be casual! Still, props for sticking the hard deck. Glad you're safe.

[@jbfrost02]

Richard Behiel my hips weren't level and I was pretty crooked in my harness making it pretty tough to kick properly in first place. it worked out in the end. no regrets

[@davidjacob-angelazrael3915]

I will take what you said in consideration as well as lean into it and start kicking and pulling those risers apart. I am in school at spaceland Houston going for class D license for wingsuit and I've only done two tandem so far. Monday this week coming up I go for my first solo jump as I'm held on by my instructor for stability as I go over the hanky grab twice then at 7000 ft lock on altimeter and then at 6000 feet do my way out and then put my left hand in front and then reach back with my right hand and pull chute and then go back to freefall position as arms back at 90 degree angle until parachute comes out and catches me till I then do my SSS check. At is my level right now skydiving so I have a long way to go.

[@nucleargaz1]

You did good, cos you are alive!!!

[@Wrahns]

Agreed, from my military para course I remember my instructors always yelling to kick and PULLLLLL those risers apart. I think you did well none the less, you did as good as you thought you could and got away from it really cleanly. Smart, far from an idiot.

[@jichnun]

Pulling them can sometimes push the knot upwards, usually bringing them together will get the knot down twords you so the canopy is easier to control and kick out the twist

[@1bloodnovski]

Thanks for uploading, a lesson learned for all

[@mike004692]

Good executed cut away, you tried to kick the twists out and made a good judgement at a safe enough altitude to deploy your reserve , well done.

[@Charlie_Foxtrot_]

That was beautifully done, bro. Calm, cool, and collected but rightfully frustrated.

[@louisdisbury9759]

Yes I had the same thing happen on a training jump,deployed at 4000 feet so plenty of time,managed to kick out,but a massive bollocking from the CI for not cutting away,but I remembered something another Instructor had told me,if you have the altitude try kicking out,you have the time,Met the CI later in the bar he said well done and bought me a pint,happy days.

[@colin1818]

Thinking about having to cut away definitely makes me think a brightly colored main parachute is the way to go. I imagine a black or green one might be tougher to find if you're rummaging through the woods looking for it after the fact. But bright orange? Seems like that'd be a lot harder to miss.

[@darrenr1194]

Well atleast if he had to cut the second one it'd be easy to find

[@goodgoof577]

@@darrenr1194 he would be dead 💀

[@evandadon8604]

@@darrenr1194 if he cutaway the reserves? I don’t think he’d be going to look for it 😂

[@garyeberle3414]

Old post but it's shocking to me how he was able to, and allowed to learn how to fly wingsuit while being unable to demonstrate and clear the most basic twists talked about before the first jump of any AFF student... He was wasting altitude by just taking his sweet time unzipping, just to barely try afterwards to untwist them, his priorities were out of wack. Then he was right next to, and over that runway way too long! I'm glad hes alright, but hope he had a good ground debrief with others about line twists. Learn from mistakes, we all do, and become a safer skydiver then before. Glad hes alive without further problems

[@SOLDOZER]

$1000 you have never done a jump in you life, much less know anything about twists.

[@jacobibarra6254]

I think he handled that just fine

[@e.d.johnson8535]

I had a tandem malfunction ( tension knots). I didn't want to loose the main. I flew the mal to 2500 ft. made sure I was up wind and on the wind line. I then cut it away landed safely and recovered the main and freebag. I was told the DZO was giving a play by play of what I was doing.

[@pdbordelon]

You did a great job in my opinion. Beautiful cutaway and good decision making. By your spare chute packer a case of beer!

[@PaleBlueDotCitizen]

Next time stick a wing out and untwist yourself. Your canopy was flying straight and level. Don't unzip your wings, use them to untwist yourself. I've done it many times, it's very fast.

[@aiiron]

PaleBlueDotCitizen what do you mean by don’t unzip your wings. Wya are wings?

[@llleonidus]

Aaron j he means he shouldn’t have unzipped his wing suit and used the wing on it to propel him self out of the line twists

[@Delta2-4Gaming]

Yeah but when you start that twist is it easy to stop that twist? Jw not being rude

[@DavidDaVinci]

Great tip

[@DylanoTheWizard]

@@enzo2023 he didn't get the twist out above the decision altitude, he did not hesitate to follow reserve procedure, i see nothing wrong with the cutaway.

[@MOMOMOMOMOMOMOMOM]

Very clam and professional landing

[@TacoMyrick]

At least it was flying towards the DZ. Great job man!

[@bae313]

You lived. A successful jump.

[@NoOne-ck9tz]

Hope you found your main. Good save.

[@lauriewestall1437]

You walked away ? Well done bud good safe jump . You just couldn't get that last kick . Good drills !

[@kaizze8777]

watching these videos brings back memories

[@TheDemetan69]

Not an idiot cutaway, you did it because you thought that was the best choice at this moment. That was a good jump ;)

[@Paiadakine]

Good job. Sometimes you have to kick a little at a time to get rid of line twist.

[@jumpmasterjm]

Here's why you couldn't get out of line twists. You had your legs out in front of you with the wingsuit on, and they were acting like the tail on a weathervane, keeping you facing backwards due to air pressure on them. Next time put your legs together and straight underneath you, not out in front. You'll be able to get out of line twists. Similar situation with passenger's legs if you get line twists on a tandem jump.

[@jeffstepp-ou8re]

Had many line twists never had a problem kicking out of them.

[@vizzuleyes]

I don't see why you see this as an idiots cut away. Your alive and did great.

[@NeoMorphUK]

Twisted lines suck because you feel you can untangle them eventually and you don’t want to go hunting for your cutaway canopy (they ain’t cheap). So good decision there. I had one canopy that was so badly tangled that it was forcing my head forward so I couldn’t see what was up. Wasn’t a square though… was a para-commander round.

[@RAYTHEONGAMING]

Only thing I see wrong was how long the decision to cutaway took. A good friend of mine died 12 years ago in this exact same scenario at this same height. Sadly his reserve tangled as well and he didn't save sufficient altitude to work the problem. Glad you made it

[@jbfrost02]

My hard deck for making decisions was 2,000 feet. When I hit it, I cutaway. Dont know what you would recommend for a hard deck....3,000-4,000ft lol. Most folks dont deploy till 3,500ft

[@johndunstan7003]

The same thing happened to me during my training. I decided to cutaway. My instructor wasn't happy, claimed it was unnecessary. The following day I had a streamer. This time he praised me for my quick cutaway.

[@rdsonsteam5667]

Do u have to pay for the lost parashutes in cut away??

[@johndunstan7003]

@@rdsonsteam5667 No, they are always retrieved.

[@magnusmollergren5638]

This guy is not a idiot. Well done!

[@jamespaterson9703]

Beautiful canopies!

[@SALSAPARATI]

I think it was a beautiful day to do anything, anything!!!! he s his own hero!

[@justtowatch111]

I bet that second chute was the best, prettiest thing you have ever seen!. Way back when, I had a streamer and spent 5 seconds whacking the risers open to get air up into the chute, it worked but if it hadn't, boy would I have been the idiot, the dead idiot probably.

[@untamedtv9554]

After your 3rd try couldn’t kick out of it. Not an idiot done well walked away good jump. Keep it up!

[@allenbrininstool7558]

You stayed very calm!

[@beyondoff-road1663]

Great video though I don't think the skydiver was an idiot. But I do get the self-deprecating humor.

[@marcopagliacci]

there aren't idiot's cutaway, just safe choices :)

[@vjanand4271]

marco pagliacci d

[@BRC21]

marco pagliacci d

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

I've seen that twist happen too many times! There's just NO way I'm taking a chance like that. I look back now at my bungee jumping and wonder how I did even that! (I have acrophobia and learning to pilot an aircraft and enjoy flying, which helped that fear, but didn't eradicate it; as I age, I sense the value of longevity a lot more!!)

[@lavbarbudito5524]

Perfectly good procedure. Good work!

[@OrganicGonzalez]

Great recovery, u tried to save your shoot but nice and smooth cut away

[@pccoder]

I was going to ask if you found the canopy, but then read your description above. Great job not panicking.

[@topher_512]

I think you did fine. The bonehead thing to do would have been to keep trying to regain stability after burning through your intended pull altitude.

[@aidenwrenn5342]

Learning to battle twists is much easier under a round canopy. I’m not saying bring them back but when I trained I jumped rounds at first. Whenever I got twists on a square I was able to deal with it bc I’d done it under a round a good few times.

[@bradrushton6129]

If your chute fails, you have the rest of your life to fix it. I nice way of looking at it

[@LawtonDigital]

Dude, I'm pretty sure you owe the whole internet a beer. As for the slow speed malfunction, it looked like you handled it well and gave yourself plenty of time under the reserve.

[@paulocesaralvarengaalvaren9881]

VERY GOOD PROCEDURE, YOU DID VERY WELL ,!!

[@MrDorf007]

2 thumbs up for saving your 2 handles.

[@amus835]

was planning to take the AFF course but I will wait for parachutes to be more safer. or may be will never do it.....i have seen too many videos of canopy twisting

[@jbfrost02]

It's safer than riding in your car

[@amus835]

thanks for the reply...one more question please .canopy twisting and hard openings...is it in our hands or we do not have any control over it...i have seen horrible neck and rib fractures and plus canopy twisting issues..

[@jbfrost02]

@@amus835 it is in your control. Several factors are involved. How you pack your parachute will affect the opening. Having proper body position when you deploy your parachute has a large impact on whether you have line twists or not. This is why I called myself an idiot in the video. I knew my body position and stability were horrible (while wearing a wingsuit which exaggerates mistakes), and I deployed my parachute anyways, thus causing the line twist. If you watch the horizon as I deploy my parachute, you can see I was turning. Line twist are easily dealt with and nothing that should keep you from getting into one of the funnest things you'll ever do. I just didn't kick long enough each time to clear the twist. Plus later I realized I could have reached the risers just above the twists and just spun myself out of them very easily. Each make and model of parachute opens differently. For my parachute I jump all the time when I'm not windsurfing, I prefer one that opens slow and soft. Some people prefer parachutes that open quicker. It's all preference. Starting out you'll have large beginner parachutes that are soft very slow and give you plenty of time to do everything. After awhile you'll get bored it'll take so long to get down. Anyways get into and your instructors will give you all the tools and confidence to deal with any issues you might have. Blue skies

[@amus835]

@@jbfrost02 awasome thanku sir...then large parachutes sounds good for me😅..will be travelling to states in coming months for AFF...would be fun🤘

[@rad1930]

I wouldn't call him an idiot, well done sir.

[@rzr2ffe325]

Good chop. Stuck to your hard deck. I saw someone almost die because they too long messing with a bad main

[@roysphilip8946]

Hello Sir, I'm glad you're safe! Can I please post this in our private skydiving group to show them how my first cutaway was.

[@jbfrost02]

Yes sir, no problem

[@GreekPolitics]

He saved his legs with thos cutaway

[@longstrike124]

That's a really cool chute!

[@wizard4207]

Very good. In due time, which you will have, because of the good decision making skills you show here, you will learn to get out of something like that easier. Good job!

[@res1492]

Where's was the swearing?....The screaming?.......The praying to God? Fuck that, you would have been able to hear me on the ground Well done Bro!!

[@jbfrost02]

res1492 haha that's funny

[@res1492]

:)

[@julianducros8952]

What if the reserve's fail?

[@ivo.d]

had the same issue with a Jojowings Sonic. No autorot but twists didn't want to untwist, so 500m (1700ft)-> cutaway

[@SKYCHICK__]

I'm glad you're safe but I have had line twists worse than those and kicked out. I don't understand why you weren't able to get out of them. Keep your knees in the breeze! BSBD! D23360

[@giokakhiani]

what if second one gets stuck as well?

[@jbremerman4690]

That is one bad ass canopy

[@jbfrost02]

Gravity Junky Thank ya

[@helpthem5639]

How is this described as an "idiots cutaway?" Top pros with hundreds/thousands of jumps with no malfunctions have daily thoughts about this scenario and don't fully know how they'll react. He's alive.

[@wadepires5789]

Top pros with hundreds of jumps with no malfunctions have daily thoughts of this scenario?? Are you fucking kidding me. Who the hell is this. Obviously you never jumped. Don't come back with some bullshit story either. Your stolen valor if you do. There's not a day that goes by I don't see some type of issue while jumping. Line twist being common . I don't know anyone that would of cut that chute away. This idiot or very inexperienced diver did the wrong thing. This chute wanted to correct itself. Just needed someone to coax it a little bit. You comment is about as stupid as this clown was tossing a flyable chute to the winds. If you think he gave any effort, I can understand why you think he's a hero.

[@AndTecks]

@@wadepires5789 Whoa guys, you got a lvl.100 badass over here. Genuine question, is it hard going through life being a piece of human garbage? Please don''t beat your kids/wife (If anyone was ever so unlucky to get stuck with you) because someone called you out on the internet either. You sound like that kind of person. lmao

[@wadepires5789]

@@AndTecks Nice thoughts. I agree with you. I'm no good and apiece of shit Ect Ect. I think I'm going to hang myself after watching Tom and Jerry. As you say I'm all alone in life with no friends. Never had any! Why me? Nah..... What I really want to say is FUCK YOU!! What a moron.

[@downtown4279]

@@AndTecks no I think he's just someone who knows about jumping more than you do, considering you didn't say anything about it id say that wouldn't be hard.

[@barblargh]

I was with you the whole time, good EPs and everything, except for the flyover over runway right before landing. Planes can sneak up on you like you wouldn't believe, and there was no need to cross it so low.

[@jonathansalgado9194]

You are alive. You succeeded.

[@davidjacob-angelazrael3915]

You did good as you tried to save the main chute, and your reserve pull you did awesome as meaning you lived😆😆😆😆👍👍👍👍. I bet that was an adrenaline rush alright!!!!. I am at Spaceland Houston going for class "D" license to "Wingsuit" as that's my goal and "Tracking" balloon suit as my life challenges. Keep up the good work😆😆😆😊😊😊👍👍👍 btw jump 4 on me I had same situation you had happen to me in this video here. I was higher than you were though as 5,200ft, as the ball over as a ball over my head as i smiled 8n pencil position towards earth very fast, and I said to god, we are going to do this shit, as get out alive together, well I am still talking to sir, and amen to that. My situation happened at Spaceland Houston, and jump 7 I landed into a 3' ditch, lol. They considered me a liability after that even though I walked away unscathed, so I took up Kitelandboarding too full blown extremes, as too like a skydiving landing approach literally, lol, as I do know how to fly you know, lol😊😊😊🧚🏼‍♂️🧚🏼‍♂️🧚🏼‍♂️👍👍👍 like the rest of us that fly in the world🌞🌞🌞😊😊😊🧚🏼‍♂️🧚🏼‍♂️🧚🏼‍♂️👍👍👍

[@wildeyestudios5]

Can anyone explain why he couldn't undo the line twist? It seems he was trying well but it wouldn't work. Wasn't he pulling the lines apart well enough or was the wind counter twisting him? I had 3 line twists in my aff and could sort them all out properly but I'm also afraid of this scenario where you can't undo the twist

[@jappiemoto]

Looks like a pretty good cutaway to me

[@vdadalto]

In my perspective he've tried correctly to solve the line twist (maybe neet to pull the rises apart ;-) ). I would do the same if I were unable to solve the twist, probably a little earlier, but definatelly I would cut away.

[@urgedmoon]

some say that canopy is still out there gliding away and away...

[@barry4713]

When in doubt chop it,good stuff mate

[@1laforees829]

Where can I find a video of parachuting without the fish eye lens?

[@loveamerica587]

I have to ask you could clearly see the cords are tangled with the shoot is wide open. When that happens are you Coming down too fast or is that you can’t control it? I’m obviously not a skydiver

[@jbfrost02]

With a canopy that large and that type of malfunction, I wasnt coming down any faster than normal. The issue is if you cant control/fly the canopy, you are also unable to flare for landing making it dangerous and unable to choose your landing area

[@Gixer750pilot]

You live you learn

[@fujimatosa]

How many jumps do you have today? How many cutaways do you have today?

[@feynthefallen]

If I had been in the same situation, I would probably have opted to stay with my discarded parachute instead of going for the airfield. The price of a taxi is a lot cheaper than a new canopy.