Landing - Caty's face plant with rear risers.MOV

Canopy: Stiletto 97
Wind loading: 1.3
Wind condition: 3-5 mph (levation: 500 ASL)
My risers were twisted, but the canopy flies forward. I decided not to use my reserve (It just had a repack on Jan 27 2011... that's my luck! I had two reserve rides so far - 1300 jumps. Both of them happened within two weeks of reserve repack), but I don't want to use my toggles for landing (just in case if they got stuck on flare..). I have practiced rear riser flare up high with all the canopies I owned including this one, but I have never done it for real.
I leveled off the canopy, it was very nice. But I forgot that I shouldn't put the canopy to near-stall like I always do when flare with toggles. It was flying great and fast until I accidentally stall the canopy.... Thank God that I was already on the ground. If I didn't stall the canopy at the end, I could have run it out. I didn't have time to PLF, but the face plant was pretty funny. If this happens again, I know what to do and probably will be able to land standing up....

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Sports

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• skydiving
• skydive temple
• stiletto 97
• rear risers