This attempt at CRW escalates quickly into a canopy wrap and double cutaway, both of which are not fun. If you're new to CRW (canopy relative work), it's probably a good idea to get advice from an experienced CRW dog instead of discussing it with your new CRW buddy on the ride up to altitude. If you choose the latter option, at least make sure you both have matching canopies... and don't forget to send us the footage 😉
A CRW jump escalates quickly into a messy wrap! If you're going to gift wrap yourself with your friend's parachute, the least you can do is bring the gift back down to earth with you. Unless you have to cutaway and lose both canopies... then you're both sh*t out of luck.
This skydiver managed to get himself out of a sticky situation, literally — his jumpsuit booty got stuck on the step of the plane! As they say, "always blame the booties." 😉
After hanging underneath the plane for nearly 30 minutes, he frees himself by cutting off the leg of his jumpsuit with his hook knife and lands safely. He chose to go straight for this reserve due to the plane's low altitude.
When you get an off-heading opening and fly straight towards the cliff with line twists, I'd say that's the perfect time for your cat-like reflexes to kick in on a BASE jump gone wrong. Nice save mate!
Something tells me this wasn't part of the plan. What starts off as a controlled traverse quickly escalates into a high-speed zipline across a rusty cable with bare hands. Ouch!
If there's anything worse than having a malfunction/cutaway in a wingsuit, it's having to kick out lots of line twists on your reserve.
I have to say I've never seen a malfunction like this before. In this particular incident, a broken slider stop is what caused the slider to get stuck. Click here to see what that looks like.
Note to self: you can't be a toggle jockey with a BASE canopy and not expect to land in the trees, or land in the river, or break your ankle on some rocks. Then again...
Well that was silly. I think he forgot all the cardboard boxes :p
With a pilot chute in tow and the ground approaching quickly, James pulls his cutaway followed by his reserve, but the RSL gets snagged, causing an entanglement on opening.
Some of you may point the finger at the RSL as the sole cause of this incident — however, historically and statistically, RSLs have saved far more lives than caused issues.
Others might point the finger at emergency procedures; some of us are taught to go straight for the reserve with a pilot chute in tow instead of cutting away before pulling the reserve.
Do you jump with an RSL? What are your emergency procedures?
Thanks to Skydive Jurien Bay for sharing this video.