In skydiving, both main AND reserve malfunctioned

2023-10-01
The main AND the reserve parachutes got tangled around my leg. I was falling with no parachute while my leg was trapped in all ropes. I was never able to free my leg.
I cut away first and then pulled the reserve but I guess that cutting away almost did nothing.
Almost after the first spin I was not seeing anything. Everything was spinning so fast that I felt I'm going unconscious. I almost closed my eyes and went for the pull.
As soon as the main got away, the grip around my leg was so tight that there was no way to free the leg. I just tried grabbing on the lines to find which one is going to stop the canopy from rotating and making it a little stable.
I was upside down all the way down to the ground. When the reserve opened, I was still upside down because of the main wrapping around my leg.
I fell to ground on my back while one leg was in the ropes and hands grabbing to lines. No flare!
It was almost like falling a second story balcony! Luckily some grass helped me. But my whole body is sore.
I actually gave up a few times thinking there's nothing else I can do and I'm just going to die. But looking down and seeing that I still had altitude and time made me to try more and more to finally get something to work.

[@FlightEagle]

What an amazing instructor. There is nothing that fills the pit of your stomach with despair than watching your student have a malfunction in front of you and not being able to do much. This instructor was searching like an eagle to find his student, then followed them down to render assistance (also executed a precision landing to be near to them). So proud of this instructor - they are a credit to the skydiving fraternity.

[@jeffstepp-ou8re]

I completely disagree, you could see this student was in trouble, he should have got control of him before deployment. Epic fail. Good thing the student survived.

[@FlightEagle]

@@jeffstepp-ou8re You must have watched a different video than the rest of us. Given the single JM and the turns practice, this was most likely an AFF Stage 5 jump. The student likely has at least 5 jumps under their belt where they demonstrated controlled freefall flight. This is supported by the context included at the beginning of the video. The JM had good reason to believe the student was capable of carrying out the turn and likely also thought they'd be able to recover when the student's control started to waiver. The JM had 2 seconds from when the turn had obviously developed into an uncontrolled spin to when the student chose to deploy their main (1:35 to 1:37 in the video). You can see the JM attempted to grab the student BUT the spin was too fast for the JM to safely and successfully intervene. While waiting for a safe opportunity to grab the student, the student deployed. I see no safe opportunity to intervene by the JM and stand by my original comment. Wonder what experience you are backing your comment with?

[@jeffstepp-ou8re]

@@FlightEagle I know what experience I have, so when I say the instructor should have noticed that even though he showed control on previous jumps, this student was losing control and should have intervened quicker. And I was probably skydiving before you were in grade school.

[@JorgetePanete]

it*

[@VulcanicYT]

@@jeffstepp-ou8reyou make yourself seem even stupider at this point

[@techtinkerin]

Dude lived more in those 5 minutes than most folks do in a lifetime 😂

[@davidjorgensen877]

In that kind of situation there's no time to think about what's happening. Your whole being is devoted to working the problem knowing that you're on a VERY tight schedule.

[@itistheway6893]

And probably shat himself more than most people do in a lifetime

[@pucker672]

@@davidjorgensen877 That guy wasn't working on s**t. They might as well have thrown a deer out of the plane.

[@grayareas7008]

a little harsh, just a student doing student things@@pucker672

[@davidjorgensen877]

​@@pucker672 An AFF student with major stability and awareness issues that set the whole shit show in motion. But if you read the description, he never stopped trying to free himself. Unfortunately, inexperience limited his chances of success and, in the end, it was dumb luck that saved him. I bet he never opens unstable again, though.

[@Korpenko]

The parachute didn't malfunction. The skydiver did not open it properly... Happy that he lived to show it.

[@MarkHittGuitar]

Correct, someone didn't pay attention to too many things, including the deployment technique of a reserve.

[@jeffstepp-ou8re]

Exactly, both the student and instructor screwed the pooch here. Never deploy on your back, unless it's an absolute last resort.

[@mykelpoole4201]

Correct. Poor body position at deployment time. But the AAFI can't control everything. Glad this student got lucky. Great job taking care of your student. I've had to follow a few bad ones down back in my day. It's tough on an AFFI seeing a student get a helicopter ride after they land.

[@alexxela754]

Someone did make a bad and wrong decision when they told the student was ready for this solo dive…

[@_Kayla_]

@@alexxela754 the video said they did the exact same jump with no incident beforehand which makes me think that they had to redo that AFF level. Looks like stage 4 or 5. This is just a case of someone panicking and going against everything you're taught.

[@FollowFunk]

I kept thinking “all that beautiful land and he’s gonna hit the road 🤦‍♂️”

[@countcock5694]

not sure why that warrants a face palm emojii

[@FollowFunk]

@@countcock5694Cause it would be quite a shame.

[@countcock5694]

@@FollowFunk ok, my bad. Just used to psychopaths on yt who poke fun at serious accident vids.

[@DeWellstein]

If his name was Jack, he would have hit it 100%

[@giannavanna6561]

@@DeWellstein DAMN

[@OneSkiWonder]

As a test pilot once told me, "if ejecting isn't an option, do your best to fly until the ground stops you. It's not hitting the ground that hurts you; it's the speed and angle that you hit the ground that can hurt you... or save you." Never give up. And all things considered, after a double malfunction, a broken pinky being the worst of your injuries makes you an extremely lucky person. Blue skies!

[@Ripen3]

Its not hitting the ground that hurts you?

[@soosh9852]

He's making a point that sometimes hitting the ground is catastrophic, while other times it can be relatively innocuous; if you find yourself in a situation where you're going to hit the ground in some uncontrolled, unintended way, you must stay calm and figure out ways to mitigate the situation to the best of your abilities, because you might still be able to change the tides from catastrophic to innocuous. This mindset is an important part of any aviation training. @@Ripen3

[@pnwbox]

@@Ripen3 he means you can hit the ground but if you can get it in a semi controlled state with a decent vertical speed, you can probably live

[@ashhawk2346]

​@@Ripen3 Exactly what he said.. (well.. you didn't quote him fully) You literally just watched a video that proves his statement..

[@Ripen3]

@@ashhawk2346 seems like a complicated way of saying "land on the ground, but not too hard"

[@ozone7]

This one turned out to be one of those unexpected gems we sometimes find among all the streamlined crap here. A rollercoaster ride from the real world, unedited and raw. Thanks!

[@MikeHarmon1]

I was just about to say this. So happy you survived, unreal that you walked out of the ER in those conditions. This does show how long you can have to fight. Also thank you for the description of thinking to reach up and just try to get a steady glide! Great tip for students!

[@CP-xt5ux]

A guy skydiving solo for the first time realizes that both of his parachutes won't open as he plummets to earth and begins to panic... then he sees another guy rocketing up towards him from the ground below with a big fireball beneath him... as the guy rockets by he yells at him, "Do you know anything about parachutes???"... and the rocketing guy yells back, "No, I don't, but do you know anything about propane barbecues???"

[@ICTBKco]

😂

[@jonkaminsky8382]

🤣😂

[@derrickrr5516]

Yuk yuk

[@BostonBuzz]

Wait, that's funny?? I don't even get it......

[@DontFuckWithTheOcean]

That’s fucking hilarious 🤣 🤣 BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌🏼 THAT WAS TOOO PERFECT 🤣 💀

[@Birdman953]

Back in 1972 I decided I wanted to go skydiving. Went to our local club, went through the instruction-on-the-ground training, harness training and malfunction training. Did my 10 static line jumps, loved it. At the time jumping a TU triple blank. My first 10 second freefall, I pulled my ripcord (the old metal cable with swaged locking pins through cones and nothing happened, the cable was stuck! Used both hands and basically forced the ripcord to work, now opening in a head towards the earth attitude! The chute opened and all was well. As a newby, I told my instructor what happened, he checked out the rig (clubs rig) and just about shat himself! The pins were all bent! From the on I checked my own rig and eventually bought my own Para Commander (long before squares were developed). I eventually changed over to hang gliding in its inception. A great sport which has evolved to this day! Keep flying, no matter what you fly!

[@AlbertoLepra]

When I took the skydiving course, in 1980, we also jumped with the TU, and I'll tell you something curious that I don't know if it was applied in the other skydiving clubs, the student who jumped had to fold the parachute that the next student would use. You can imagine that I kept an "eagle eye" on whoever was folding the parachute that I would use, obviously that's what everyone did. We didn't allow him even one extra wrinkle or fold, hahaha. Cordial greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay. Cuando yo hice el curso de paracaidismo, año 1980, también saltábamos con el TU, y te cuento algo curioso que no sé si se aplicaba en los demás clubes de paracaidismo, el alumno que saltaba debía plegar el paracaídas que usaría el siguiente alumno. Te puedes imaginar que vigilaba con "ojo de águila" a quien estaba plegando el paracaídas que yo usaría, obviamente eso hacían todos. No le permitíamos ni siquiera una arruga o un pliegue de más, jajaja. Cordial saludo desde Montevideo, Uruguay.

[@Possiblechange]

Or you could just not jump out of an airplane anymore…If humans were meant to fly we’d have wings

[@AlbertoLepra]

@@Possiblechange If we apply that same criterion, humans should not swim, since if they were meant to swim, we should have fins.

[@norrecvizharan1177]

I mean, it's loads safer than driving a heavy metal vehicle at high speeds on a road filled with other people driving the same rigs or heavier, not all of whom are paying attention or are even capable of focusing correctly. No need to worry about anything other than the parachute itself somehow going wrong, but even then the backup usually tends to work right. And this case also proves that it's fully possible to survive even when that goes wrong as well.@@Possiblechange

[@LarsLarsen77]

No it's not safer than driving at all. You're experiencing months or years of driving risk in a matter of a few minutes.@@norrecvizharan1177

[@HubrisSucks]

An old-school skydiving line - "Keep pulling handles and lines 'til blood fills your goggles." Good job saving your own life. It wasn't pretty, but sometimes life hands you a shit sandwich. You made it work. Congrats on walking away from something that was rightfully scary as f*ck. I hope you bought a lottery ticket that day, because (not that it helps, but) this is literally a one-in-a-million occurrence. As others have said, you followed your pull procedures and pulled when you got unstable, at the correct time. There will likely be some Monday-morning "armchair instructors" (read: don't have a rating, or think too highly of themselves) commenting and saying "You should have done X," or "This was your fault- if you had done Y, nothing would have happened." Ignore them. As an AFF-I who had my first cutaway at jump 39 under a spinning/diving main, I had similar commenters from the ground. But one AFF-I pulled me aside and said, "Did you die today?" I said "No." Them: "Did you follow your EPs (emergency procedures)?" Me: "Yes." Them: "Then f*ck them. They weren't there, and you saved your own life. That's all that matters." Now, as an AFF-I, it seems to me you followed your EPs - and when you got unstable, you got fabric over your head (which is what we tell students at your level). Unfortunately, you got tangled in the lines - and at these speeds, that means a really bad day no matter what your level of experience. You kept fighting until you landed, and saved your own life. Damn good work. I know you've said on other threads you don't plan to continue - and no one will blame you. But did want to tip my hat to you, and tell you you've seen one of the worst mals a jumper can have, and lived to tell about it. In >1000 jumps, I've never experienced anything that hairy, and most never do. If you decide to continue, given your body position and other fling, I think you'd be a great skydiver. Some tunnel time would cure a lot of confidence in freefall. Regardless, good luck!

[@S-1-2-3-4-5]

❤❤❤ Thanks! I wish I could hug you

[@justinian420]

He should definitely continue. He’s unlikely to ever have another mal worse than that. Besides what else is there to do?

[@jeffstepp-ou8re]

Don't pull while on your back...this was caused by the jumper, not the gear...most skydiving deaths are human error.

[@marcosavila8215]

@@jeffstepp-ou8re ohhh yea great advice

[@jeffstepp-ou8re]

@@marcosavila8215 skydiving is like learning to swim..the more you panic the worse it will get. I always told students never kick or pull while upside down, unless you're unable to flip back over or you're below 3 thousand feet...when i learned skydiving i was on my own. No AFF instructor to save me.

[@divindave6117]

ARCH, ARCH ARCH !! glad you are OK man. I know for a fact that getting out of control as a newbie is a terrifying experience. It happened to me 30 years ago. Study this video over and over with your instructor about every single thing that happened and learn from it. Going forward, you'll be a much better jumper because of this.

[@benstone5650]

I didn't have the benefit of AFF in the early 80's. After a 3 second fall on a static line, you did the same count without a static line. As you said, we were told arch hard.

[@divindave6117]

@@benstone5650 I did the static line method too, 1991. My instructor drilled it into me before each jump to arch arch arch. It was jump 9, 30 second freefall that I got outta control and went tumbling. It scared the holy beejesus outta me! LOL. :) Thank god I was plenty high enough to recover. I'll never forget that jump as long as I live.

[@benstone5650]

@@divindave6117 LOL! I think that we all had a similar experience. I was out of control for at least 30 minutes…..or so it seemed.

[@vincecavedog3219]

Sometimes when you look for adventure you get more than you bargain for.

[@KD-hb8zi]

My first freefall I got into a flat spin that I couldn't stop. I was near Portland, OR and all I could make out was Mt. Hood flashing by every second. I just pulled anyway. Major line twists but made it okay. I wrote in my logbook, "Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, Mt. Hood, dump." Man, those were the days.

[@RsKD34]

I'm glad you're okay! Thank you for sharing this experience that makes us even more responsible for our activity. I hope you get back on the plane soon.

[@mikelastname]

Never gave up! What a great effort. Hope your pinky is OK, man. 25 years since I last nearly died and I still think about it every now again with a big grin and experience the joy of being alive all over again.

[@alotafhindi7485]

Not today, death!

[@briancolangleo2486]

This was NOT a malfunction. This was 100000% jumper error. His uncontrolled spin followed by him pulling his chute while upside down is what caused the main to "Malfunction" the way it did.

[@jeffreyatvars148]

Student needed hands on still

[@chrisjeaaalbertos3802]

So what you're telling me is you don't know what a malfunction is. Stop trying to act tough if you don't even know what you're talking about

[@briancolangleo2486]

@@chrisjeaaalbertos3802 I've jumped out of a plan enough times to know what a jumper induced error looks like.

[@EvilKen01]

So happy to see you didn’t have any major injuries!! You kept it together and saved your self!!

[@SteveBrosig-dh3xz]

I jumper for 24 years, had 5 functions and one with both deployed, cut the main away and watched the main follow my reserve risers and clear, had to raise my legs to get over the power lines, did a cross wind landing, in a plowed field that was muddy due to a leaking utility water line, no broken bones, wasn’t my time to check out, THANK YOU JESUS, Blue Skies…..

[@game19809]

Wow incredible, glad the student was OK. You are an awesome instructor too

[@keley11]

Excellent instructor, stayed with him the whole time ❤️

[@marcosavila8215]

yah he already payed him thousands of dollars why you think its extraordinaire the instructor being a instructor or worried- - - - that's what not makes sense

[@dovanice-rn6et]

​@@marcosavila8215who cares about money here?

[@tomce]

@@marcosavila8215 Instructors don't get paid thousands of dollars buddy

[@chrisfs150]

Its funny I was thinking almost the exact opposite He didnt gain control of his student He didnt open with his student He didnt follow the student under canopy He took nearly 2/3 minutes to get to the student upon landing under a mal... He fked up bigtime.

[@chrisfs150]

The student however did do a pretty good job in that situation..

[@skyclimber3934]

Glad you made it! Thanks for sharing the video, watching and learning from it could save someone's life.

[@ginolatino6046]

Arms too far forward caused him to extend his legs to compensate. Being too flat caused his instability. We used to call that potato chipping. His hands should be next to his ears, not out front. If you can easily see your wrist mounted altimeter, your hands are too far forward. God job surviving. Good job posting this so others can learn.

[@mattwoodford1820]

We still use the phrase "potatoe chipping" but more to describe that stalled position just before you get on the angle when flying angle/tracking/atmonauti jumps

[@marksmith9176]

Never give up, well done young man.

[@zzzzxxxxxz6017]

I’ve never skydived and knew he messed up by pulling his parachute once that spin started, it looked like his legs got tangled. He definitely panicked at the wrong moment

[@Steve-jf3hf]

Hi, wow that was incredible to watch, must've been so scary for you, really well done for managing to control as much of it as you could, and so very pleased that you're ok. Hey hope that little finger is ok again now as well !👍🏻👋🏻👋🏻🪂

[@briantabor9111]

Wow! Great job staying present in the moment and keeping your wits. During training, I had alot of trouble spinnning and had to pull mid-spin like you did. Thankfully mine opened without malfunction. I hope you keep at it. You survived a tough one and should be proud! Kudos to the instructor for staying on it and getting down quick to assist.

[@jarillon5614]

When the position becomes unstable, you must arch and straighten your legs. The stable position then returns by itself. This happened to me when I was first starting out. Never panic!

[@fodank]

He didn't have a malfunction. He threw his drogue chute while upside down and spinning and the shrouds got tangled in his legs. Stabilise first, then deploy chutes. The reserve chute tangled in the main. This was not a malfunction. A clusterfuck, yes, but not a malfunction.

[@pucker672]

I didn't see malfunctions, I saw a student freak out and tangle himself up in his own risers. He was unsteady, he freaked, and he deployed the parachute all around himself. Who knows what he did to tangle up the reserve. I was glad to see the instructor decide to dump air and follow the student.

[@seanrichard1741]

So thankful you walked away. Incredible work at staying cool and fighting until the end. This could have ended very differently. Weather you jump again or not, please know you have the fighters spirit in you and that will get you so far in all aspects of life. Blue Skies brotha!

[@S-1-2-3-4-5]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@jeffstepp-ou8re]

@@S-1-2-3-4-5 Glad you're ok...I hope you don't give up skydiving, this is a very rare situation..just never kick you legs..if you go out of control hit that big hard arch, if you're flat spinning pretend your hands are on a bike handle and turn the opposite way of the spin, while holding that arch...i had a malfunction on my 16th jump that shook me up a bit, but I moved on and made many more jumps until I got too old and fat...blue skies my friend.

[@olegpryadko749]

Great job handling that! Thanks for sharing!

[@LarsLarsen77]

I'm sure as soon as you started spinning you thought "Hmmm, I better pull now and get as far away as possible from this pesky instructor who's trying to save my life right now."

[@muratylmaz8198]

so glad your still alive… you got some protection on high places but still never open the chute unless you are stable … cheers mate thanks for sharing

[@hpAndromeda]

Man, I am so happy to see you walk away from this. I just got my solo license this summer and had to pull on my back once which was the right decision and I was lucky that it opened very nicely. Well done buddy saving your life. I hope you continue. Cheers.

[@sandyzeatyahoo]

Please never dump out on your back. Belly to earth. FS and FF we all know this. I've been jumping 15 years.

[@pucker672]

@@sandyzeatyahoo Yeah, the whole problem was pulling on his back. Not the right decision.

[@hpAndromeda]

@@sandyzeatyahoo With respect, I think sometimes experienced skydivers forget what it means to be a student. Of course, getting stable before pulling you could help to avoid a lot of problems that could happen by pulling unstable. But getting stable is easy for you and experienced jumpers, not for a student. Students may try until the end of their lives to become stable! That's why we have a 5-second rule for students to pull no matter what if they are unstable for 5 seconds.

[@sandyzeatyahoo]

@@hpAndromeda Yes I hear you 😊 I think the comment I made was me trying to put the point home not to dump on your back. We all care about each other in this sport and yes your right about students.

[@chrisjeaaalbertos3802]

@@sandyzeatyahoo Wow you're sooooo cool dude. Jumping for 15 years and forgetting the pull priorities, that is embarrassing....

[@isaacmont3623]

That was scary. Im happy he was ok. Thanks for posting.

[@chip5801]

Damn could of ended really bad! Thanks for posting this. Don’t let this set you back in your skydive path! Blue skies!

[@Gladki007]

Good job on fighting to the end! Glad you walked away from that unharmed, you are very lucky!

[@tims6744]

i pulled on my back on my first prcp and had a streamer for about 12 seconds from 3500ft. then i looked at my altimeter and the line that was wrapped around it cleared and it opened up beautifully. didn't have a long canopy ride that time. nothing like this one though, that had to be some scary shit.

[@instant_mint]

Absolutely terrifying. I don't know why this got recommended to me but I watched the whole thing and god that was bad. So glad you made it alive and hope healing is going well 🙏

[@steelrat5604]

the beauty of sky diving - no matter how bad things go, you ALWAYS come back home.😂

[@notme8121]

I think u handled it like a pro. I got into spins while learning too. Good job man !

[@skybruecken]

Great Work❤️ Stayed with him💪🏼

[@ginocastro5107]

The canopy was fine! The bad position on opening set the stage for the lines' entanglement to his legs and body. He was lucky the lines didn't go all around his body and harness locking the reserve completely! And thankfully he stopped the spinning before contact with the ground. That spin looked nasty when it was going and he wouldn't almost surely survive an impact with that spin going under a square canopy! Hopefully he got up and jumped again on the same day! Nothig the instructor could have done since he was already out of his hands and panic pulled! Remember the "banana" position in any unstable flop. It will always get you back to stable freefall. Try for fun high and you will see! Glad you lived to jump again buddy! Blue skies!

[@yunchenghua7871]

Glad you are safe, all the best. Blue sky.

[@CP-xt5ux]

One of my aircraft maintenance engineering instructors at BCIT said, "Why would anyone want to jump out of perfectly good airplane?"

[@tonyjohnson7290]

I had a guy ask me that question a long time ago. He turned pale when I told him that the cessna we were jumping was not "perfectly good" 😅 and that we kept the door open all the time and were happy when we got above 700 feet... i swear that plane kept us on our toes lol. It had so many hours on it that as soon as everyone was out, the pilot shut off the engine and dead sticked it every time. Damn good pilot, but too many rolls of duct tape on that plane😂

[@eresmathias8058]

Thank you for sharing. You have courage, survived are full of courage for sharing this. It wasn't your fault. The wind. You did amazing.

[@michalgucwa5190]

Shit man that was fking scary :O You did good job - I am glad you are ok!

[@bernardanderson3758]

Thank God for saving his life and a speedy recovery

[@trentdozier6149]

I don't think it is fair to say that both the main and reserved malfunctioned when from my perspective in this video that's not what happened. Rather you pulled your cord while completely unstable and basically upside down which cause it to get tangled around your body. I'm guessing you pulled it out of fear which is totally understandable. If you decide to return do some tunnel training to work on stability and try to stay calm. I highly suspect all this happened because you were panicking

[@gregbrittain673]

Priorities of skydiving 1. Pull 2. Pull at appropriate altitude. 3. Pull with stability at appropriate altitude. Obviously and ideally number 3 is what everyone is aiming for, however, if unstable and you feel there is no chance of recovery then pull. During my AFF I pulled on my back at 10k as I was spinning so fast I thought I was going to black out, it happens. Stability issues are to be expected during training, he done the right thing.

[@leftsurface007]

totally agree@@gregbrittain673 - Pull once, pull twice, pull reserve - if in doubt whip it out - Never sacrifice altitude for stability ;-)

[@Lvideo36]

@@leftsurface007 Had to learn this (luckily in a soft way) while doing my AFF in the last 2 months. I had a low altitude practice jump at 1200m (4000feet). I didnt stabilize fast enough and chose to stabilize before pulling. In the end I pulled at about 750m (2500feet). The main instrcutor had a serious talk with me and forced me to repeat the jump with proper pulling altitude.

[@MU5H]

Exactly my thoughts!

[@Rageagainstthe666]

Unbelievible! You are a lucky man!

[@kerberjr]

I'm guessing you're done skydiving. You should consider getting back to it. It is so much more fun once you have your A-License. If you decide to go back, I highly recommend getting some wind tunnel time. Tunnel time will help teach you control and stability, plus gives you a big confidence boost. I had difficulty with my fourth AFF jump. I did 30 minutes of tunnel time and passed every jump after with ease and with spare time to play. Glad you're ok!

[@ale.salas.m]

Same here. The wind tunnel time was invaluable

[@robertmuckle2985]

Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane...has never made sense to me...and I'm a former competitive hang-glider pilot, who has witnessed friends die!

[@AirsoftKeksTV]

As someone who has both licences, isn't the death rate of hang gliding way higher than parachutes? Or was it the accident rate? Modern parachutes are way safer, I saw plenty of accidents with hang gliders from collegues but never a single one with parachutes. The reserve on a hang glider is more or less cosmetic, given that most accidents happen on takeoff and landing, while parachutes nowadays open themselves when you pass out etc. (and lets not forget how the AFF lesson shown in this video has two instructors with you at the start, while learning hang gliding is pretty much "go figure it out yourself" especially when you get towed by an airplane for the first time 😂)

[@johnppg]

Bless him.. Many more Good jumps.. Blue Sky’s.😎👍🏻

[@RNAvirus]

At first I thought this was the instructor posting the video. Then i read your description. I am guessing this was maybe your 7th skydive? You did what you were taught. I remember being told that at anytime i feel no longer in control then pull. Hindsight is always 20/20. You did everything you could do and walked away. Many people on here might be going hard on you, ignore them. I just qualified for a B license, zero cut-a-ways; I will probably be freaking out at my first high speed malfunction. I know i would not remeber to discount the RSL is I was wrapped up. You had quite a bit of fabric over your head. And it was enough to save your life. I hope you jump again. If you come to Chicago check out CSC.

[@williamvasilakis9619]

Thank God you are ok. It was frightening to watch this. I prayed you were ok. Please be careful.

[@MegaDeansy]

For a while I thought he was gonna land on a road !. Incredible he survived, delighted he did !

[@user-fv5yo5fi5c]

Whoa, what an incredible outcome for such a possible tragic event. Cheers guys, so happy to see everyone was okay

[@FrEeWaY7k]

glad you made it out, and happy to see someone stopping to check

[@thomasaltruda]

No one seems to mention that the problem was self induced when he drops his knee at 1:32 and enters a spin. All he had to do was arch, relax, get stable again before pulling in a spin..

[@pyme495]

I remember doing the carnival ride tumble in the sky one day 30 years ago. After about the fifth flip, I figured screw this, I'm not gaining any altitude with these gymnastics, pull and hope for the best (yeah, not the best plan of action, but when you're falling at what feels like Mach Jesus, out of control, your mind tells you to do those things 😉 ). I pulled just as I was going inverted again. You know how things happen in slow motion when you're in a car wreck, and everything is clear in your mind? I remember vividly my feet, touching ankle to ankle, going perfectly through the center of the two sets of lines as they unfurled, like a football splitting the goal posts. I continued my backflip, the canopy unfurled, and other than a smooth half-twist in both risers, everything was good. I tested everything, and if I hadnt known that I just deployed upside down, and watched the canopy starting to deploy while my feet were pointing straight up at it, I never would've known anything was from different from a normal jump. Rode it down just like any other jump, uneventfully. Over beers later, the jumpmaster told me he was hanging out the door screaming "Arch! Arch!". I laughed and told him "If I could've heard you, I would've screamed back, 'if it was so easy, don't you think I would've done that four flips ago?!?" 😅

[@vampiresforesl]

The parachutes didn't malfunction. This was user error. You pulled the main chute while in the wrong position, while spinning.

[@Ellie-vv5tw]

Wow! I’m always in awe of anyone that jumps out of a plane, their shute fails and they walk away with their lives!

[@foroparapente]

Dude, I need a drink now. Well done both of you.

[@MW-jm8qb]

I’m confused… what happened in the first clip that was cut off immediately after the chute opened ? Then on the final clip, both main and reserve failed, but the failed reserve slowed him down enough to survive ? A little more explanation would be nice for those of us that aren’t parachuting experts.

[@blueskyguyvideo]

Well done. Did what you had to ...sometimes it doesnt work out quite as you hoped. Glad you're OK Hope you keep at it.

[@coachrobvelhagen]

Good save Buddy!

[@avro-vulcan]

only from all the war movies I can know that itbis a big no no to open during a spin. usually stallone or van damn or swartzeneger or even tom cruise are able to stabilize close to the ground and landing safe

[@joek6791]

On my second static line jump some years ago I was first out of a stuffed beaver, ended up hanging on the outside of the plane for a long time , left foot on the wheel before getting the tap from the jump master to go. Ended up in an out of control free fall from 3000 Ft and got the reserve out at less than 1000 Ft. After landing in a corn field I found the static line to the main shoot fully intact, it was never clipped off to the aircraft explaining why the go sign to go took so long.

[@HCFRfirefighter525]

As a fellow skydiver, glad you’re alright brother. I’ve seen several videos of jumpers deploying their PC in crazy body positions, and it’s led to some terrible malfunctions. I thought to myself, all that green and your going to land on the damn highway? Glad you didn’t bro. You definitely owe the DZ a case of beer for that first and the rigger a bottle of his choice for the reserve.

[@JorgetePanete]

you're*

[@askarielad]

Damn buddy. Glad to know you’re ok

[@nolanm270]

This will be a very good learning experience for you, I hope you plan on staying in the sport. So glad you are okay !

[@savagex466-qt1io]

Iv had dreams were my rig goes through my legs like that. I still cant belive some people base jump and do a flip and then throw there rig through the bottom of there legs ! Crazzy ! And a super " No feeling " . God be with you both !

[@Chance-ry1hq]

This wasn’t a parachute malfunction, this was a panicked student pulling when they were spinning upside down and out of control. Very poor instructor, panicked student. Very lucky to survive this tragedy. If you want to learn to skydive, I’d find out who this instructor is and avoid him like the plague.

[@davidswanson5669]

I’m glad you lived to see the next day. I hope you’re living well.

[@jonathanjuanola8054]

Nice job from everyone 👍🏼 Never stop the fight 🤜🏼

[@edledskal9147]

Bro, I can’t believe he fractured his pinky 🤕. I hope he’ll be able to skydive again one day. These kind of accidents cause a wide range of injuries and death but this poor guy might have survived but now he has a long recovery❤️‍🩹. I wish him and his little digit the best……

[@edledskal9147]

I realized after that “little digit” might come off wrong. I meant his pinky.

[@TheLongjohntim]

If at all possible head for the trees, pine trees are the best. Do not go for the water the impact from hitting water will most likely knock you unconscious and you'll drowned.

[@Mario456SS]

Courageous fight man! ... An inspiration!

[@valveman12]

I am very happy you are fine. That was scary...

[@shabixshabix9756]

excellent instructor, stayed with him the whole time. you don't abandon the battle.

[@KLm912]

On the contrary, he is responsible for this incident in the first place. Way too many mistakes. Read my comment above for details.

[@gouda2872]

@@KLm912 I haven't been through AFFI course but I do know they drill spin stoppage over and over and over again. I went back and slowed it down and by the time the instructor had already watched him pull and then a few seconds later he checks alt and the instructor is at 6.3. So the spin was around 7-8kish. The student had time to correct but he felt the spin, out of control and just pulled it. The instructor should have seen the spin coming. He was dipping his right knee pretty hard.

[@user-rf4oz1sc8e]

Ууух! Вспомнила свой единственный прыжок, это было 9 лет назад, и парашют был другой, попроще. Зато эмоций сколько! Адреналин зашкаливал. При просмотре тоже нахлынуло😅 второй раз так и не смогла, к сожалению😢 хотела, но....

[@BurninatorTheTrogdor]

Hell yeah man! That was intense!

[@hectorjohnson2595]

learnt that one the hard way thats for sure , Bravo to you mr instructor , glad he was ok in the end ❤ - i cant remember how many cracking openings i had on my mark#1 Sabre but damn i had some sore neck more ofeten that id like to admit , used to suck my head in sholders up like a turtle sometimes 😁

[@royhi1809]

YOU ARE LUCKY TO BE ALIVE! ANGELS WERE WITH YOU ON THAT FALL!

[@puppergump4117]

The angels should focus more on the children who are abused than random people jumping out of the sky

[@Kriistall7]

He saved his own life. Angels aren't real

[@puppergump4117]

@@Kriistall7 That's stupid. Don't be close-minded to any possibilities or you're simply being misleading. If you want to be certain of your knowledge, make a study on potential metaphysical activity and its correlation with positive outcomes. You'll find that religion has a place in turning refugees into a strong power.

[@ItsTheByrd]

I've been tandem skydiving 3 times, so no training solo. I don't know exactly what went wrong or what they train in these situations, but I would think you should try and get stable before you pull your chut, as long as you have the time for it. When I see him facing up and having his hand ready to pull the cord, I was like nooooo, but again I have no training, so I don't actually know.

[@dennisash7221]

It's been some time since I have been under canopy but in all situations the one thing that you need to practice when you are doing extreme sports or any dangerous activity are emergency drills, and practice them again and again so that when something happens that you don't expect the last thing you do is panic. I noticed early in the dive something happened and the response to it was not standard. My advice, go back to basics and spend more time on basics like recovering from a spin. Good that this ended without injury but panic will kill you need to practice and practice more. Get back up there, it's like riding a horse the best thing to do after you fall off is get right back on.

[@trying3841]

Glad he is ok!

[@humanoid31]

I would not be caught DEAD, doing a stunt like that! One slight deviation and "SPLAT!" Lights out! 👀😰😲😱💫

[@jalnaidu3088]

It was scary watching you fall, i guess how much worried your piolet and friends must have. god bless your saved.

[@rmgf1005]

That's why I won't jump out of a perfectly good airplane !!

[@seaweb11]

Broken tail bone for me 2nd tandem. Some scetchy place NE of SanFran !😢

[@louisdisbury9759]

I'm trying to get my head around how he exited the Aircraft very unstable uncontrolled exit which disoriented him and then a hand comes from nowhere and attempts to stabilize him but by that time he's lost his arch and spins then started to tumble and while tumbling deploys his canopy what fool cleared him to jump in the first place he's very lucky to be alive, gotta be one of the worst AFF jumps ive seen, You would never get away with that in the Uk and I doubt weyer that guy will ever jump again.Ps the Instructor needs. some retraining as well he should have stayed with him and stabilized him.

[@jackbloznowski5429]

That was some amazing filming.

[@Chupe1766]

Glad you survived. That looked extremely scary.

[@michaelb2388]

It just goes to prove the old skydiving saying "never go skydiving if you don't know what you're doing"

[@user-eo5vc4vs7m]

Fantastic, unique 👌 -- I don't know worlds to say YOU my Congratulations ✌✌✌✌✌↗️↗️↗️🙋‍♂️

[@fredMplanenut]

Well done in getting through it. Now when you jump, just think "nothing can be that bad again".

[@garyengelman7867]

I lost a main 3 times in military HALO but thank god never a reserve. Looked like his main spun open at the last, could not see for sure. VERY LUKEY

[@michaelcarmean4906]

My Father Owned One Of The First Skydiving 🪂 Schools In America in 1964 I Grew Up With This @ 10 Years Old… This Was His Lucky 🍀 Day

[@alexguitarman100]

It's nice that I can watch this safely behind my computer... in my home...on my chair.

[@leelaural]

glad you made it.....be careful....a nice jig saw puzzle can be fun and entertaining....

[@neil7813]

Wow. Glad you're ok dude.

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

I mean that was on the skydiver. The main chute failed because he pulled it while upside down. But I am happy he is alright.