Meanwhile in Russia, a fun jump starts off at 16,400 feet in the middle of winter, with the temperature at altitude hitting -58 F (-50 C). The goal was to transition a 3-way star into a horny gorilla, but it quickly turned into an uncontrolled meat ball, resulting in a premature opening at 9,000 feet due to a loose BOC. One of the other jumpers panicked and deployed when he saw the premature opening (insert palm-to-face emoticon here).

Premature openings and long canopy rides from 9,000 feet suck, but long canopy rides in freezing temps suck even more. They had to spiral down as quickly as possible to avoid frostbite.

Freefly-friendly gear is important, including a tight BOC to avoid premature openings like this.

A toggle fire causes line twists for this skydiver as he deploys his main parachute, followed by more line twists on his reserve parachute after a cutaway. Luckily he wasn't flying a small reserve and had plenty of altitude to kick out of the line twists on his reserve.

While climbing out of the plane, one of the skydivers rubs his rig against the door frame and accidentally pops open his main pin. Their not-so-smooth exit causes the d-bag to come out of the container while the pilot chute is still in the BOC — a horseshoe malfunction — and the d-bag bounces around and gets entangled around his legs. The parachute catches enough air to deploy, but the pilot chute is still in the BOC as the canopy opens. Luckily he had a clean cutaway and reserve deployment, and nobody got injured from this incident.

This incident could've been avoided had the jumper rotated his rig inwards towards the center of the door while climbing out of the plane, which is a good habit for all of us to follow to avoid rubbing your rig against the door.

It almost seems fitting that an inflatable whale would be involved in a "zoo dive," but the end result is a hard premature opening once bodies start colliding. Watch the slow mo to see what caused the premature opening — a pilot chute was bumped by one of the skydivers' hand as he was ejected from the flailing whale.

Don't get me wrong, jumping with inflatables is fun, but it's usually best just to let go instead of fighting to hold on with a death-grip just so you can be be "last man standing" with the inflatable.

A 20-way formation skydive quickly escalates into a canopy collision and entanglement at break-off.

According to this skydiver, there was a (brief) entanglement and his cutaway handle got caught on something (bridle, lines?) when they collided, resulting in an unintentional cutaway.

A staggered break off can help provide separation with larger groups, as well as properly tracking to get separation and clear airspace.

This video starts off with a close-ish opening to another canopy due to lack of separation a break-off. After fumbling with his slider and steering toggles, this skydiver finds himself in a spinning malfunction due to a stuck toggle. He loses altitude awareness while continuing to fumble with his toggles instead of cutting away, but eventually fixes the malfunction below 1,000 feet and has a bit of a rough landing.

Loss of altitude awareness can be deadly, so it's important to set your cutaway hard deck and stick to it. That means not just relying on the final "beeps" of your audible altimeter to make a decision when you're low, but also setting your hard deck altitude in your mind so that you can rely on your visual altimeter to make a decision in an emergency situation.

There are those unexpected moments when you suddenly yell "WTF!" out loud. This is one of those moments. One minute he's coming in on final approach for landing, the next minute he's winded, gasping for air, laying on the ground in shock from a 30 foot fall (give or take) due to a collapsed canopy.

WTF, right?! There can only be one answer: air gremlins!

A skydiving student has difficulty regaining a controlled, stable body position shortly after exiting the plane. As he deploys, the pilot chute wraps under his body, causing a pilot chute in tow.

According to the person who submitted this video, instead of the student pulling his reserve, he "waited for the pilot chute to work."

Watching this video will make your palms sweat (or make you feel sick), but luckily the student was saved by his AAD (Vigil 2), which opened his reserve just under 1,000 feet. Phew!

This is what it looks like when an off DZ landing goes wrong. Really wrong. This skydiver hits power lines and gets stuck hanging from the utility pole.