iLoveSkydiving.org » skyhook http://iloveskydiving.org Aerial awesomeness. Served fresh, daily. Fri, 17 May 2013 19:31:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Intentional Cutaways. Many, Many Cutawayshttp://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/intentional-cutaways-many-many-cutaways/ http://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/intentional-cutaways-many-many-cutaways/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 11:50:18 +0000 Melanie Curtis http://www.iloveskydiving.org/?p=7495 Cutaways are a strange thing… we don’t want to have them, but we also want to know all about them so we feel prepared if and when we ever have one. One way to prepare is to do an intentional cutaway on a system with a tertiary reserve like the one in this video, which [...]

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]]> Cutaways are a strange thing… we don’t want to have them, but we also want to know all about them so we feel prepared if and when we ever have one. One way to prepare is to do an intentional cutaway on a system with a tertiary reserve like the one in this video, which shows all sorts of different malfunctions. Hey, I figure if we can’t actually have all these mals to prepare for, at least we can watch them on video and see them handled well. Good stuff. We got this.

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]]> http://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/intentional-cutaways-many-many-cutaways/feed/ 0 Friday Freakout: Skyhook Cutaway Saves Skydiverhttp://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/friday-freakout-skyhook-cutaway-saves-skydiver/ http://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/friday-freakout-skyhook-cutaway-saves-skydiver/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:50:46 +0000 Andrew http://www.iloveskydiving.org/?p=6230 Having a collision in freefall after a cutaway is a really bad problem to have. Luckily for Brett Newman his Skyhook worked as advertised and saved his ass from a nasty collision after a cutaway… by only a few feet. Timing is everything, and the Skyhook delivered as promised. In case you didn’t realize just [...]

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]]> Having a collision in freefall after a cutaway is a really bad problem to have. Luckily for Brett Newman his Skyhook worked as advertised and saved his ass from a nasty collision after a cutaway… by only a few feet. Timing is everything, and the Skyhook delivered as promised. In case you didn’t realize just how close this really was, watch it again… and maybe once more for good measure.

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]]> http://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/friday-freakout-skyhook-cutaway-saves-skydiver/feed/ 3 Cameraman Cut-Away With Skyhookhttp://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/cameraman-cut-away-with-skyhook/ http://iloveskydiving.org/view/videos/cameraman-cut-away-with-skyhook/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:10:06 +0000 Andrew http://www.iloveskydiving.org/?p=1055 After trying to clear tension knots on his JVX 86 and losing nearly 2,000 feet in altitude, this cameraman chops his main and – thanks to his Skyhook – has his reserve deployed in a split-second. Do you use a standard RSL, Skyhook or nothing at all… and why (or why not)?

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]]> After trying to clear tension knots on his JVX 86 and losing nearly 2,000 feet in altitude, this cameraman chops his main and – thanks to his Skyhook – has his reserve deployed in a split-second. Do you use a standard RSL, Skyhook or nothing at all… and why (or why not)?

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