Parachute malfunction and reserve ride

This is a video from a great skydive I had with my brother and a friend about 2 weeks ago.
Only problem was that my main parachute did not open properly and spun me around violently. So I cut it away and pulled the reserve parachute.

Watch my other videos as well...

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• skydiving
• freeflying
• freefly
• fun
• parachute
• malfunction
• reserve
• ride
• action
• sports
• cutaway

[Lytwyl]

Way to cutaway and end up with both of your handles! Nice! Did you find your main and freebag?

[teutorunner]

Yes, I did find everything :-)

[MooChooser]

Maybe its just the camera angle, but were you not able to look at the canopy at all?

Did you have twists up to the back of your neck?

[teutorunner]

Must have been a couple of spins, but not to the back of my neck. It was quite apparent to me that the canopy was bad, so I concentrated on the handles. As you can see the spin slows right before I released the main, so the main might have recovered after all. No way of telling now. It was "only" my second cut away, so I didnt take time to look around much ;-)

[MooChooser]

Hi,

Just wondering how many jumps you have.

[teutorunner]

Close to 1000..... in a very long time (not many jumps per year)

[notjsb]

Fark dude slow it down some. You got lots of time.

Glad your ok

[DHdynamite]

@mrgirth717 wait for the cypres my ass, those germans may be smart but ill save my own ass thank you very much

[Eddy8777]

Scary...I would be too terrified to even deploy my parachute AT 4000 FT... I live in 10th floor apartment building and I’m scared to look down from balcony...whoever does this is either brave or he doesnt care about his live or both..

[ruledbyzeppelin]

that is some old school head down :-P

[EviLBoCkEr2k6]

That takes major skill and a cool head :p Good job man



[Catapultandclingfilm]

@mrgirth717

and spend ages grounded while i wait for a new cutter....and the bill for the cutter....no thanks

[sparkie66]

yikes, almost the old "foot in reserve lines" mal eh!?

Next time if high enough try to get sort of belly down mate. I can understand the nerves that come with a cutaway when not that current, but this could have been bad.

[84velo]

You might consider checking the canopy first, as you had tons of time. Secondly, it's a good idea to get stable after the cut-a-way before you fire the reserve. Again, you had tons of time. You were lucky you didn't get tangled up in the reserve lines.

Blue Skies. Be safe

[LaurenNP36]

haha looks like fun. im only 12 but hopefully ill do 1 in my whole life... xD

[deanjfk]

in regards to the comment. " let your cypres do the work for you. Your insane its there for when your not able to PULL, allowing it to do0it for you is silly.

was this with RSL ? Blue skies !

[mrgirth717]

pull red, get stable and wait for the cypres do the the rest