Skydiver Survives Mid-Air Collision And Impact With Ground

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At 2,500 feet, my jump partner flairs his canopy causing it slow down rapidly. I entangle with it and he cuts away. Unable to fly a ball of nylon effectively, I impact a cornfield breaking my pelvis, back and neck causing instant paralysis. As I lay waiting for help, spinal shock begins to set in paralyzing my diaphragm and breathing on my own becomes impossible. Rescue breathing is performed as I lose consciousness. Paramedics arrive and I'm med-flighted to UW Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin where I awake days later after surgery and begin life as a quadriplegic. It's taken me four and a half years to be able to watch this video.

Stupid Hurts

Edit: I did deploy my reseve; it's the blue ball of nylon tangled in my lines.
Edit #2: The creepy frames at 3:31 were caused when the write head on my DV camcorder skipped from the impact preserving the previous recording that I was taping over. The image is of the ex-gf and myself in the basement of our old house. It is not a sex tape; guys do not tape over sex tapes.

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[srvfan42]

1:28 ahahahahaaa nice one xD

[evilferris]

Thanks. I'm surprised how many people don't get that joke.

[MagicTsukai]

What he did wrong was not cutting away his tangled main chutes before deploying his reserve parachutes. Most likely due to panic.

Cutaways don't involve knives nowadays. It's just a cord pulled to release the main chutes.

Got to be careful everyone~

[evilferris]

i did cutaway my main chute. The connected RSL device automatically deployed my reserve which is the blue ball of nylon you see tangled with my chump partner's canopy.

[evilferris]

Next time read the damn description.

[NH4NO3CH3NO2]

This is quite intense to watch and hear, what could have been your last moments. Happy you're alive man.

[Ares Romans]

im happy your alive

[johalieb1]

I'm sure if the guy made mistakes he had plenty of time in his hospital bed to review them. Clearly he's a clear headed person. He had to watch this vid you know in order to post it. I dont' think he needs this gratuitious comment and neither do we. It is not helpful...sounds like you just want to be superior and right to a person who paid dearly for any mistake he might have made. YOu are acting like a pretty shitty stuck on yourself person fyi..this is a real person who's in a wheelchair now

[johalieb1]

hate know it alls who know nothing, not even the data available to them

[johalieb1]

got it too but it's so goddamn ironic or tragic it doesn't seem funny to some of us, that's why.

Im so glad you were skydiving with trustworthy friends. You were remarkably calm yourself in making them pay attention to your breathing and to breathe for you, pinch your nose etc. I hope you are adapting well to your changed life and am sorry this happeend. Yet, it is a great video on it's own merits. Probably educational, if not in the least how skydiving partners should behave in an emergency

[MMaster Marc]

wow! Glad ya still breathing! great friends ya got there.

[manuel ramirez]

 brutal!

[attractivue]

You have to be the bravest person I've ever known! YOU DIDN'T SCREAM AT ALL!

[sgfan93]

No, he became magically un-paralyzed after he hit the required 3 years of paralysis.