dterrick 0 #1 July 18, 2003 Show airing now, narrated by Stacy Keach, and guess what they opened it up with? Yup, a bad AFF dive. Lots of camera geeking, dude's stable until pull time and then it appears as if he cuts away his main and goes into a tumblefuq on his back and pulls reserve. (I'm confused enough already but the 'reserve' is multi coloured to add to it) ...then flys it into high tension powerlines and gets dropped after the flash and spark of contacting the wires (must have melted his lines). Did I miss something on the incidents forum? Did "they" just make this up for shock TV (pun intended)? -Dave off to kill brain cells at Rudy' pub Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend (Lennon/McCartney) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jib 0 #2 July 18, 2003 I think they were talking about it earlier here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=573272#573272 -------------------------------------------------- the depth of his depravity sickens me. -- Jerry Falwell, People v. Larry Flynt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #3 July 18, 2003 I believe I have this video on my comp in my collection. Seems to be real. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SBS 0 #4 July 18, 2003 Just saw it...did you notice the practice touches??? Where did the jm think he was going to go to pull when he let him do his practice touches on his cutaway? That was pretty messed up... -S_____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
b1jercat 0 #5 July 18, 2003 Man I just watched that! Pretty wild stuff, He could'nt have found a worse landing hazard. hope he lived. blues skies jerry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #6 July 18, 2003 I usually watch Real tv reruns on (whats soon to be) the Spike channel(no its not a porn network) they usually have waht I would consider a good balance of good and bad of our sport! all they can do is air what the receive they show alot of BIGWAYs with an otherwise uneventful jump! I have seen the clip your talking about I bilieve it was on real tv,too!My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bch7773 0 #7 July 18, 2003 I just watched it from skydivingmovies.com, and that narrarator and the student are so freaking strupid and wrong when they comment about the tape!! Idiot student is busy geeking camera, and so main side instructor guides his hand to his hip... student reaches up and pulls cutaway handle, then drops it. Instructor pulls main chute ripcord at about same time. Narrator: He yanks the cord, his chute opens, then it breaks away! Thats right, his freaking chute rips off! Me (screaming at computer): Well, duh! He cut it away dumbass! He yanked the wrong fucking cord! Student: They train you for all kinds of problems... I don't think they ever trained me for what happens if your whole chute disappears. (laughs) Me: You dumbass! YOU cut it away! (slow-mo shot of student pulling the cutaway handle) Student: I deployed the chute... the next second the chute was going away. Me: You didn't deploy crap!!! All you did was cut away a good main. (after student takes a long time to pull silver) Narrator: His reserve chute FINALLY opens. I understand hes a first jump student, but surely when instructors got him on the ground, they told him and showed on the video how he pulled the wrong cord! What pisses me off so much is that he tries to make it sound like he did nothing wrong, that it was all the parachutes fault. AND fox goes right along with him!!! Why couldn't have fox just said, "He got confused and pulled the handle that cutaway his chute" ?!?!?! ok I'm done [/rant] MB 3528, RB 1182 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
