Skydiving Student Hits Plane... JUST LET GO!
This skydiving student is fine, just a minor bruise to his ego. In the wise words of Tyler Durden from Fight Club… “JUST LET GO!” Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Backflying Turns To Terrifying, U...
Backflying can be relaxing, but on Tim Gray’s 17th jump, his first attempt looks nothing short of terrifying! It’s like a mix between the coolest theme park ride of all time and being stuck on a merry-go-round feeling sick. Unfortunately for Tim, this flat spin resulted in broken blood vessels in his eyes, face, and... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Skydiving Student's Low, Low, LOW...
Maintaining altitude awareness is a good thing. Having an instructor that saves your ass is even better, especially when you’re flopping around on your back and then you freeze at pull time, like deer in the headlights. Before watching the very last second of this video, take a guess at his deployment altitude. Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: AFF Student's Pilot Chute In Tow
I’m not exactly sure how many jumps this AFF student had prior to this one, but it doesn’t matter, a pilot chute in tow is a scary malfunction for any skydiver. You know it’s a bad situation when you’re instructor screams “oh fuck!” The unstable deployment surely didn’t help, but it seems the bridle got... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Opening Parachute Hits Instructor...
Sometimes when a situation takes a downward spiral, you’ve got to take matters into your own hands. One of these skydiving instructors keeps his hands on the student. Good call. The other instructor takes a set of lines to the face instead. Not such a good call. Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Skydive Instructor Hangs From Pla...
Seatbelts are a great idea when you’re taking off in a plane. Not so much when you’re exiting a plane. This skydive instructor forgets to unbuckle his seatbelt before exit, and ends up hanging from the plane as his student exits alone on his first (unplanned) solo jump. We all make mistakes, and the key... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Oh-No Hop-n-Pop!
This is pretty much what you don’t want to do on a hop-n-pop. BUT, what she did do right is get a parachute out over her head and landed safely. Primo, numero uno, most important thing. Great. And here are some tips on how to improve: 1) get further forward in the door so you’re... Watch Video »
Jump No. 9: Badass Freeflying Student?!
You’ve heard of the term “100 jump wonder.” But what does jump #9 look like for a skydiving student who also happens to be a tunnel instructor? Something like this. Not bad for jump 9! Imagine what his 100th jump will look like. Now he just needs to downsize and start swooping by jump #12... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: AFF Student Spins Like A Top
As students, we’re all taught to arch, ARch, ARCH! Unfortunately that doesn’t work so well for this guy. He ends up on his back, spinning like a top. Or maybe he just couldn’t wait to start back flying. After all, it was his fourth jump (AFF Level 4). How did you fourth jump go? Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Premature Opening On Lucky Skydiv...
Word on the street is there’s been a new addition to the Style series. Now after the left turn/right turn, they’ve added a deployment move during the backloop. Or maybe Ken just had an unlucky premature opening on his 13th jump. Either way, don’t try this at home. Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Student's Bag Lock... To Pull or ...
“Hmmm. I’m sure there’s something I’m meant to do in this situation? Arch harder? No, that’s not it. Something to do with ET? No, wait, EP… that’s it!” This guy is a model student, right up until his d-bag is bouncing around unopened and he forgets anything about Emergency Procedures. Oops. Almost 8 seconds later,... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Y...
Ever heard of a “very-last-SECOND” gear check? It’s not like a typical gear check that happens before you climb out. No, this one happens in the door and is usually performed by a friend who sees your d-bag and lines trailing out of your container. It consists of someone yanking you back in the plane... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Student's Toggle Fires. In Freefa...
What do you do when your AFF student’s toggle comes unstowed in freefall? Do nothing? Watch it flop around like spaghetti? The instructor in this video had a pretty sweet (slash scary, slash dangerous) save, and managed to unstow the other toggle on deployment. Luckily it worked; the student had a nice on-heading opening and... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Student's Parachute Rips In Half!
Let me know if you think there’s anything wrong with the story behind this mess. Both of these skydivers were turned away at a DZ for wearing a camera with less than 20 jumps each, so they found another DZ that didn’t ask. The “cameraman” attempts to backfly on his non-freefly friendly rental rig to... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit... WOO-H...
LMAO! This reaction is priceless. Lesson learned: Pulling low as a student BASE jumper leads to a “shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit…” moment, followed by a Homer-esque “woo-hoo!” Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Scary Bridle Wrap Chokes Skydivin...
Ever wonder why you’re taught to throw — not hold on to — your pilot chute? Yup. This is why. Listen to your instructors. They know stuff. Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Student Cypres Save WITH Instruct...
Aside from this kid looking all sorts of awkward in freefall, this instructor should be fired. There’s no excuse for both a student and an instructor losing altitude awareness. The last alti check seems to be at 0:37 by the student and at, umm, never by the instructor before the student pulls his main and... Watch Video »