April Fools Day Malfunction

[paulomsilva]

that's un intentional malfunction for the movies and pictures about parachute malfunctions. You can download that pictures on the website of the brasilian parachute confederation

[Writer5591]

Well, that was a waste of $20.00

[CercleParaLuxembourg]

nice reserve opening though…

[peterliemberg]

You may want to rethink chasing your freebag (5:39) from under your last parachute... Though it sucks when you lose it, it may suck even more if it turns your reserve in the same ball of shit you just cut away from. Unless you jump with 3 parachutes, of course...

[Cricket202]

@peterliemberg true that... I chased down another jumpers free-bag to help him out.. and caught it in my lines.. put a bunch of drag on 1 side of my canopy... would for sure NOT do that again.

[chripspoe]

April fools? Are you saying someone tampered with his shoot as a joke? If i made it to the ground id beat some ass.

[beardedswine]

i wish my droppy was in the desert. there's so few outs here you can easily lose your main, and you can't really mess around trying to catch your free bag. looks like fun good work anyway lad

[beardedswine]

should have chucked eye of the tiger in the background, just for a long fight scene

[Catapultandclingfilm]

ive seen something similar before.... (the mal that is) it happened to a bloke that had it packed into the dbag (everything done as normal etc) and when stowing the lines, someone kicked one and looped it around the dbag.... you cant tell anything is wrong until opening

[Hollyweed1]

he even tries to catch it along the way... god damn you!

[paulhayes1]

Nice hook turn on the reserve! Strange but definitely had to be a packing error.

[TheDeerSlayer1973]

land it in the pond and save the repack cash for stiff drinks?

[vannilesoep]

preventing your main to drift too far away from your DZ is your motivation on hanging onto something you an't land and waste 9000 feet? That could have been 9000 feet that you may have needed very badly, if you'd experience issues with your reserve.. Good to see you landed okay!

[poopsmut]

I must admit, you've got style busting a front flip between cutting away and pulling your reserve!

[lookus69]

5:40 Great when trying to catch the parachute! XD

very big balls dude!!

[poopsmut]

@lookus69 That was the freebag. Often the hardest thing to find, short of dropped handles

[alexsimutz]

awesome pack dude!

[eviljake330]

I had a similar mal over Moab a couple weeks ago. I wish I would have ridden it out as long as you did, I might still have my main. Instead, the Colorado River has it. I did recover the freebag, so was able to get a re-pack and use my spare canopy. But that's $2k I didn't need to spend.

[fishnest]

nice one :) where is this dz ?

[TrackStar828]

Can someone tell me how much it costs to have to cut away your main chute and use the reserve about? H

[drummerdude05]

@TrackStar828 If you hold on to your handles, and can recover the main canopy, and reserve freebag it's pretty much just the cost of repacking the reserve.

[charshakh]

what? is the other jumper on reserve too?!!

[bacord18]

Hook knife would have been great! One line replacement is cheaper than a reserve repack and/or losing your main/freebag.. Way to stay calm though.. Thanks for sharing!

[godfathermikal]

wow that sucks!



[weightman572]

day one week one!!! no fourline check its not that hard now the lines probably stretched ,canopy damage its the simple mistakes that often hurt

[eocsnesemaj]

nice work staying calm and just chilling with it till u got low enough to get ur stuff back..Hope u got it all back. Also really really weird 1 line malfunction?!?! :S

[subacute]

longest malfunction I have ever seen, I made a sandwich half way through it. Did you get all your shit back?

[greendreamism]

Intention

[dks13827]

Nik, you have a supercharged life, which is great !  :)

[dks13827]

This is in Eloy.

[Boomstick17]

Is this Eloy?

[FlyGoodtime]

Good work man. Nice cutaway

[jsbickell]

good job navigating back toward the DZ and working with it. you must have been pretty tired by the end of that experience and almost caught it with you feet Daniel! was the canopy okay when you found it? i couldn't really understand exactly was going on, but i saw your left strings wraped around your right strings. i haven't seen that yet. could you share a little more detail for us please. Thx J

[noserider207]

i highly doubt that happened on deployment, most likely during packing.  Good job not dying.

[MojoGraphicDesign]

No hookknife? :)

[tazzdiver]

Do you have hook-knife?

[katyu16]

Looked like you almost caught your freebag with your feet !!

[Hollowmannl]

@katyu16 Imagine what happened if his freebag or main got entangled in his reserve..