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my first skydiving malfunction @ skydive san marcos

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Uploaded by on May 10, 2008

i was deployed at 4,000 feet and didnt want to pull my reserve until i absolutely had to so i tried to fight this one out for about 20 seconds. one hell of a landing too!

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  • I wonder how many canopies Farmer McNasty gets in his field every year. lol. Good show!

  • i am not sure which farmer you are talking about since i was just visiting, but i can tell you that my canopy and freebag landed across the street there and the owner of that property actually got my canopy and me and gave me a ride back to the airport!

  • Hey man, great vid. Do you have a Stevens Cutaway or did you just pop the reserve immediately after the cut? The landing reminds me of my first reserve... The reserves just don't seem to flare like the mains. Nice vid...

  • thanks a lot for your comment, I am jumping an older racer, and the reserve on both my cut aways had me under a full canopy within 500ft of pulling the reserve pin; and that is at subterminal. i may catch a lot of shit for having a Racer, but no other system has a faster reserve without the use of a skyhoook (or the like). As for landing, my second one was perfect, it just flies like the old f1-11 7 cells, and not like my sabre2!

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  • You must jump at Skydive San Marcos, haha. Don't come on here bashing when you reek of just-off-student-status. He did a great job of trying to clear the mal before deciding to chop.

    ...Who the fuck PLF's? Haha.

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  • i think reserves are only good for getting you down alive and in one piece. i had my first cutaway over a year ago and I didn't have much of a flare on my reserve, either.

  • what jump number was that for you?

    

  • @Brilejr lol :D very nice of him :D so u bought him a case of beer? :)

  • Ya, the value of a parachute is way more than a life. And I know how much they cost too. What's with calling people "stupid?" GEEZE!

  • I had a bad line twist about 4 jumps ago....it freed itself and it was a good thing....I was forced so low into my harness I couldn't even raise my arms! If I had started to spin cutting away would have my only option.

  • Looks like you handled that quite nicely. But holy hell, you must have panicked when the reserve deployed with yet another line twist! I'm glad you pulled it through though! Keep uploading your HD wingsuit videos!

  • And in a wingsuit... Talk about the adrenalin rush on that one.

  • Damn, way to ride it out and stay calm,,VERY nice.....very impressed..

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