A high speed collision on a tracking jump is a scary thing. As a result, one of the skydivers was winded from the impact, panicked, and prematurely deployed their parachute mid-skydive, narrowly missing another skydiver on opening. This incident should serve as a reminder to NEVER bomb a formation or cut people off, and shows why it's so important to come in on level from the side of the formation before taking your slot/dock. Repeat after me: "level, slot, dock... level, slot, dock." Please play safe out there people.

If you're going to tell a really lame joke, you should expect a close call or carnage to follow. Annette O'Neil narrowly misses the KL Tower and lands with line twists like a boss!

Anette just so happens to be the resident expert at ExtremeSports.About.com, so she knows a thing or two about air sports.

Kicking out a few solid line twists feels good. Having a low cutaway and an open reserve by 650 feet feels even better.

I'm all for fun surprises, but when a jet flies under a skydiver flying his canopy... not cool!

This is the result of miscommunication between ATC (Air Traffic Control), the jump plane and the jets doing a flyover demo at a nearby Nascar race. Prior to jump run, the jump plane was told to hold by ATC due to the flyovers, which lasted nearly 15 minutes. The ATC then cleared the jump plane, and after properly spotting with no signs of the jets in the airspace, they jumped.

The end result was a close call at 1200 feet.

Wow, talk about an unfortunate series of events which leads to a bad situation.

A wingsuit pilot does a skydive with his BASE rig and pulls low — well, low by skydiving standards. On opening, a tension knot on his rear-right riser sends him spiralling towards a lake, which luckily broke his fall compared to impacting solid ground. However, keep in mind that he's in an unzipped wingsuit which is filling up with water. Luckily he doesn't drown and makes it back to shore — with all of his gear no less.

For what it's worth, this incident occurred in Russia.

Line twists and cutaways suck, but line twists on a reserve canopy suck even more. There's always debate and personal opinions about whether or not to use an RSL, but I know that I'd prefer to have a reserve canopy over my head as soon as possible — even with line twists.

Do you use an RSL/Skyhook or choose not to? Let us know in the comments below.

Ever wonder how we get so many crazy-scary malfunction videos for our weekly Friday Freakout series? Here's a behind-the-scenes look into our secret Friday Freakout Factory, where some of our best Friday Freakout malfunctions are made.

DISCLAIMER: We made this spoof video as a joke for a film festival. None of this gear was used for jumping and nobody was harmed in the making of this video. Please read the disclaimer at the beginning of the video, listen to my explanation at the end of the video and use common sense. The end.

Two skydivers collide at break-off as one of them blindly tracks away on his back at break-off.

Fortunately there wasn't a lot of distance between them to generate more speed and a harder impact, but it does serve as a reminder to turn 180 degrees from the center of the formation at break-off to clear the airspace behind you before tracking away.

This has to be one of the most terrifying skydive malfunctions I've seen in a while, and our friend Marcos dealt with the situation incredibly well! We now have more info (and HD video) about this incident:

Marcos had a hard pull and his pilot chute was still stuck in the BOC when he pulled his reserve (it was not a pilot chute in tow). As the reserve deployed, the steel rapide link on his riser breaks, causing his reserve parachute to malfunction. Luckily he didn't cutaway before pulling his reserve — he was able to manually deploy his main parachute to add more fabric above his head. He fights the spinning malfunction all the way to the ground and after a seemingly hard landing, he stands up and gives a thumbs-up to a concerned driver passing by. What a trooper!

After speaking with a few riggers about this incident, it sounds like both soft links and steel rapide links are still commonly used, but here are a few benefits with soft links: they never bend, they never crack, there's no barrel to loosen up and they're twice as strong as rapide links.

Just some food for thought and worth discussing with your rigger.

Glad you're still with us Marcos! Stay awesome and stay safe.