Chest Strap not correctly set up = VERY SCARY SKYDIVE

[Freddefallskarm]

Check gear before entering the plane. Check youre friends 2. Keep youre eyes open at all time lock 4 error i youre gear then you find those simple errors. You was just lucky don´t do it again.

Rock on!

[katyu16]

Gear check, gear check, gear check...then in the plane...do it again. Do the rings turn? Pilot Chute cocked? Chest strap? Leg straps? Cypres? I don't care if you checked it...CHECK IT AGAIN !!

[willsworthy]

u know how many people died that way? a friend(girl) in lodi died that way.you fly out of your rig-for those who dont know.

[OskarStr]

But my chest strap was closed

[OskarStr]

I had this last weekend too while flying headown^^

[Star13570]

That's the closes you can get to flying too bad I'm afraid of heights XD really sucks.

[alun101]

me too - but have 40 jumps now - you're so high fear of heights isn't a problem

[moviestarrmike]

how is sky didving? good fun or bad scary? i want to try it!

[t0winthiswar]

incredible.

[AerotechMan101]

Amazing, but after you do it a few times (say 200+)

You get bored and start BASE jumping, that's fun too :)

[punisher17011990]

wait...and when u have done some badass base´s u will start thinks like jumping with no parachute and hope that ur friends going to save ya.

[gsxr4evr]

I'm totally going to try that

[godOWN3D]

@moviestarrmike First few are scary but fun - then when you get rated to jump with your mates - loads of jumps you have will have you laughing so hard yo are breathless - then you get a wingsuit after 200 jumps and the fun starts all over again - after 500 jumps you get bored again and start BASE - then you start wingsuit BASE - it just keeps getting funner

[guitarguru1191]

@godOWN3D aw dude that sequence is like my plans for life...when i turn 18 i'm doing aff, then 200 skydives then wingsuit then base then wingsuit base. :D

[BENebuchadnezzar]

@moviestarrmike it's both

[ShiekUrBooty]

Ha...we've pulled the same "horny gorilla" exit off of 182 many times.

Good thing the dude caught the unfastened chest strap!

[godOWN3D]

@ShiekUrBooty That was a Wagon Wheel exit not a horny gorilla :)

[ryandsucks]

So how did he remedy that situation? Did he thread it through mid-air, or just do a crossover grab of the main lift web and deploy?

[rehabboy01]

aahh, skydiving! a very LIBERATING experienced. I wanna do it again!

[SapceMonkeyMexx]

YIKES!!! Did You re-route your chest strap in air or at all??  Scary shit, glad you're OK!! This was at Mile Hi right? (dumb question, I recognize the Otter and the DZ)!!

[rrr1sportrider]

Had that happen to me once because I left my stap to loose.

[traceecart14]

stop at 1:03

[TheClodfather]

Holy hell! Is that the curvature of the Earth or just a fish-eye lens?

Total respect to all those who enjoy skydiving. But it scares the shit out of me. It looks fun and I kinda want to try it, but I always second-guess myself, haha.

[bannana221]

try a vertical wind tunnel first?:]...it basically simulates a skydive.....without the risks

[jeenyus720]

its a fisheye

[BizzloJoyish]

I wanna fuckin' sky dive so bad.

I'm goin' next summmerrrr!!!

[Eivind9]

looks funny to me

[MASTA007i]

Only 1 in 3 people make it to th ground.

[funkiestmama]

what, the other two just float into space?

[MASTA007i]

Something like that

[moggiemorgan]

lol

[mgallegos94]

dude thats a lieif it was thatevery one would be dying

[OneSkiWonder]

I believe what he was saying is that only 1 in 3 survive. I saw a guy at the local drop zone have this problem, he deployed, his chute opened and he got flipped out of the harness and fell 3,000 feet to the ground without a parachute.

[MASTA007i]

Did he die?

[OneSkiWonder]

3,000 feet man, not 300... yes he died. He had a pretty nice bounce when he hit.

[MASTA007i]

You saw that...live?

[OneSkiWonder]

The dude in the vid no, the guy I talked about yes, I was on the ground waiting for the plane to land so the next group (me included) could go up. One of the other jumpers had a helmet cam and got it on tape. No I won't upload the video or send it to any of you as it is not my place do disclose such an incident.

[MASTA007i]

Damn, thats awful. And, did you still go diving?

[OneSkiWonder]

Yea I still jump, I am a risk taker but I take only well planned risks, for one thing I check every inch of my equipment before every jump. The other thing when we jump, we all have "Blood Upon the Risers" blasting in the back of the plane on the way up. :) It's the crazy guy in me coming out.

[MASTA007i]

No I mean did you proceed to jump after the guy fell?

[OneSkiWonder]

At that drop zone no, we had to stop while the accident was investigated. Most of us went to another drop zone and kept jumping there.

[MASTA007i]

Wow you a crazy dare-devil man. Somebody falls and you go ahead anyways Wow, I could never do that. How is it anyways, ya know jumping off?

[OneSkiWonder]

First few times it scares the crap out of you. But after a while it doesn't feel like falling any more. I could take you up, put a parachute on you and toss you out of a plane, that might be a better answer to your question. :P

[MASTA007i]

Don't you get like some freakin crazy "butterflys in your stomach"?

[OneSkiWonder]

When I jump now? No. My first jump I didn't start getting nervous until we were at about 10,000 feet. Not that 9,000 feet would have been any better with no parachute. 13,000 feet I had the butterflies. BASE jumping seems to always bring me butterflies, jumping off a cliff just isn't natural. Go figure it's not any more unnatural then jumping from an aircraft but it sure feels like it is.

[MASTA007i]

Is it fun?

[OneSkiWonder]

Ok, could we like steer away from stupid questions? No offense but would people pay money and put thousands of dollars into something that wasn't fun?

[MASTA007i]

I don't know, I was just asking a question,damn--which you didn't answer!

I just don't get how falling & risking your life is fun...

[OneSkiWonder]

Ok... Maybe this will answer it, I would rather skydive then have sex. It's more of a rush, the rush lasts longer, and there's no sticky mess to clean up.

As for risking our life, skydiving is actually safer then driving a car. 99.9% of all accidents are personal error (example: chest strap not done, parachute packed wrong, opening too low, etc...). Once you get a trust in your parachute that scary feeling goes away and you feel the "Woot that was awesome!" feeling when you do it.

[MASTA007i]

Really, is that so. I don't think it's safer than driving, considering You can't exactly survive a fatal parachute accident, however you can likely survive a car accident. I don't know, I guess I'd be just to scared to do it...

[OneSkiWonder]

lol, no you can't survive a "fatal" skydiving accident nor can you survive a "fatal" car accident, if something is "fatal" it means someone died. You can survive skydiving accidents, your talking to a skydive accident survivor.

[Gaollenaer]

You're partially right..

Skydiving is not safer than driving a car per se, but it has one thing in common with driving though... you can do it either just as unsafely as you like, or take precautions so that there is less risk of serious/fatal injury.

[Kopihucky]

Skydivers get a bad rap.. we are not the dare devil junkies TV makes us out to be. There is no falling sensation.. none of the stomach in your throat like you get from a roller coaster. It is scary the first few times but you get over it. The butterflies are there on the ride to altitude sometimes but once you let go its way too late to be scared since you are beyond the point of no return.

[MASTA007i]

It's a waste of life in my opinion...

[Kopihucky]

so is walking down the street, driving a car and breathing our polluted air. I guess you would say the same for formula 1 race car drivers and people at the drag strip? People die doing things.. but it's not as 'in your face' as skydiving. So maybe thats why it has the rep it does.

[MASTA007i]

Yes that's right. It's like staring death in the face. Your only a parachute away from your ultimate demise.

[rivetgeek]

Two parachutes actually.

[PotatoGunsRule]

Maybe that is it man, "skydiving being in your face"....but I think people are not sure about their souls/keep their balls in their purses! LOL.  BTW, my 4th jump is coming up...I'm going solo this time. Take care dude.

[rivetgeek]

SItting on your ass playing video games and getting fat is a waste of life.

[XxXalimarXxX]

Fuck you it is lol

[LeonSKennedy828]

@rivetgeek What do you have againgst people who play games? :/ Ever heard of live and let live?

[specialj007]

whats that song & who sings it?

[cjh329]

"only the good die young" Billy Joel

[THESPOCK]

Christ what a zoo dive.

[Zalohuw]

i really want to get into skydiving but i dont know how... any advice no how would be great

[poulton94]

Go to your local airport and ask for a pamphlet/brochure!!!!!!

go wing suits!

[flop963]

OK i have a couple of questions on skydiving. How long does it all last? what does free fall feel like, when ur chute gets deployed can you actually feel how fast your falling? and finally.. can you breath with all that wind hitting against your face? someone please help me and answer theses questions.

[victory2323]

The typical skydive is from 10,000 feet which equates to about 40 seconds of freefall..give or take (u fall to 5,000 ft. It doesnt hurt a bit when the chute opens. I had no idea how fast we were falling under the chute...i was enjoying the view. And yea u can breathe just fine while falling. Go for it...ITS A BLAST..U WILL NOT REGRET IT :)

[flop963]

THANKS! once im 16 (very soon) i might be going with the army cadets so hopefully i get taht opprotunity.

[linusthepinus8er]

I also have a question. When you go on rollercoaster and the rollercoaster drops down a hill you get whe here call butterflies which is the funny feeling in your stomach when you freefall. Is that the same when skydiving because you are freefalling? If anybody could reply it would be a great help :)

[TheHomicideRocker]

I don't get that feeling when free-falling. It's not like when you're at the top of a roller coaster and then the bottom drops out from under you. During a normal jump you're obeying the law of gravity at all times. :)

[linusthepinus8er]

Ohhh ok now I understand. Thank you a lot

[godOWN3D]

Me too

[Infernostr1ke]

You'll get butterflies on your first jump before you get out because of nerves, but once you're trained (either AFF or progressed to freefall on RAPS) you don't feel that - its entirely different from any other falling sensation.

You can breathe fine in Freefall, you'll only hurt from the deceleration if you're solo and the straps aren't tight enough and if you're solo you can freefall as low as 2,600 feet.

[godOWN3D]

@linusthepinus8er - When you jump from a plane you're already moving fast because of the forward speed of the plane. There's usually so much happening as you exit that you don't get that feeling. Chopper jumps, or balloon jumps on the other hand - they give you that feeling the first few times - everything silent as you fal away and then the wind sound comes back - its awesome fun!

[linusthepinus8er]

@godOWN3D yeah i went skydiving a couple of weeks ago. know exactly what you mean! it was the best experience of my life too

[williamshockey88]

I know someone who jumped, said it was an "AIRgasum"

[Bohn2]

Hay rob what number jump was that one.did you feel that you were going to be ok or is there a contingency plan.scary stuff glad your ok.

[bblackburn98]

hey one of my jumps before i got my license my leg straps loosened up all the way to the end in the plane, when i jumped i didnt feel my gigantic student rig on my back. when i pulled my rig was a foot at least higher on my back i could barely reach my toggles, that is something u live and never do again. it just wasnt my day to die.

[cpuk7]

i jumped here... makes me feel safe haha

[oskar5]

hehe^^

[zwumpuklen]

I did my first jump there :)

[zwumpuklen]

Dude, that's at Mile Hi Skydiving in Boulder isn't it? :)

[eXciton900]

oh man this is soo scary! horrible!

[RussellsParadox]

...how did he recover? Did he re-connect it? Something tells me that's not quite as easy as, say, the child safety strap thingie on a shopping cart.

[houseofherbie]

It wouldnt be that hard to do whilst in freefall. You could probably even get away with it undone as long as you hold on for dear life at pull time.

This is the reason for flightline checks.

[Edunk]

He won't do that again.

[lolnonamelol]

scary