Skydiving Crash

My painful attempt at skydiving

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• crash
• skdiving
• pain
• painful
• ouch
• bounce

[carpetfactory]

femur is not a verb... but, seriously, were you ok? I didn't see you get up.

Did they teach you a PLF?

[PayneLessCreations]

Yeah I just had nasty road rash and the wind knocked out of me. Luckly I did try to "run" to the ground which most likley saved me from 2 fractured femurs! The place I went had a very bad track record of having first timers have fatal jumps...I was not aware of this at the time, I only found this out after. I was young and trusting so I did not ask alot of the questions I should have. At least it was a lesson I was able to learn from.

[PayneLessCreations]

The video just would not have been as funny had I did that!

[terrymccully]

looks like you pulled too early.. he was getting ready to tell you to flare and you went before his mark... typical ground rush effect

[and1c]

More speed built up for landing is BETTER usually..

Too many 'internet' skydivers who don't know what they are talking about!

The turn was WAY too low.

The guy on radio was dangerously bad, but more forward speed gives more power to the flare.

As the flare was done much too high (and not quite finished I must add) this student (a heavy student by the looks of it) was still trapping near the ground.

[flyboy8501]

what the hell was the instructor doing having a student turn so low?

[mckx5]

Mmm Landing with a tail wind... Is bad! Mkay!?

[TheeAthis]

You do not belong in this sport. Give it up before you kill yourself.

[keeponwishin]

Probably should have had a jumpsuit on. Would have saved you from that "road rash" affect. It looks like you may have caught your arm on the step of the plane...

[shakemenoodle]

least ur not dead :)

[flyandjump68]

what a load of crap, the jumper flared before he was told too simple, jumpers fault

[freeflyva]

Not half as bad....as if you had put the toggles back up....

[jinjatube]

Look, it's simple - 'skydiving' is the part BEFORE the parachute is open, and after you leave the plane.

This was an IAD. There was about 1/2 second between jumping and deploying, so there is no skydiving to talk of. What this is is just a bad, inexperienced, parachute landing. You weren't trying 'skydiving' and you didn't understand parachute dynamics, or you froze and forgot what you had learned, (happens).

What you really clearly weren't doing was 'skydiving', at all, at any point.

[MoonUnitAlpha]

@goingtoeatpizza- There is a potential for sure. The instructor needs to be on the ball and managing the PC and bridle very well. To the best of my knowledge there has not been a tail strike caused by IAD in western Canada where I jump and the number of IAD's performed would be in the several hundred thousand range for sure. This is how I did my first jump back in 1990. The malfunction rate with an IAD is much better than static lining which is one of the reason I prefer this method.

[goingtoeatpizza]

@MoonUnitAlpha it just seems like great potential for a tail strike