My best jump yet.

[spinmaster 0]

I know, if there’s not any picture or video, the rule is it didn't happen. Well, you going to have to take my word on this that it did happen.
I did one jump on Sunday morning. As usual, it was a roll out of bed, put the baseball hat on, and drives 90mph to the DZ kind of day. And as usual, I wore the hat on the ride to 14.5K where I always proceed to stuff in my jump suit or t-shirt. Today, it was a beautiful, clear, and worm enough day to start with a t-shirt and shorts jump. So the hat is in the t-shirt and out the door I go. Great fun jump. At 3.5K I pull, and right as I am stood up…out goes the hat from the top of my shirt. That’s never happened before. Well, I get under the canopy, grab the toggles, give them a good pull, and look in the last direction my favorite hat had flown off in for one last look at it….and there it is falling at the same rate I am under canopy about 50 feet aft of me. I do a hard 180 causing me to lose altitude relative to the falling hat. I flare a little to slow the decent rate down. Do a few minor directional changes a close on it. And as I get to about 10 feet realize there is now way this is going to work. I’m closing way to fast. As I go by it I put out my right had as far as I can just hoping to hit it and….
Wham….I COUGHT IT. IT WAS IN MY HAND!!!!! First pass. Less than 10 seconds after deploying. I’ve never done anything like that before. What an incredible feeling.
I hope everyone else had as rewarding a jump this weekend.
Blue Sky’s
Dan

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

That would make a great video !! No chance of you losing the reserve p/c and pilot chute after a mal
Let's go play chicken with a planet !!

[freeflir29 0]

Nice catch....I haven't tried it yet but I hear that empty beer cans also have a decent rate similar to a canopy...."Here I come to save the BOOBIES!"

[skydiverbrian 0]

Nice! Too bad you didn't get what would have been a "million dollar" video. Save this story for around the bonfire -- the alcohol will help sway any doubts.
Work sucks. Let's skydive!

[drenaline 0]

great caught!
wait, first time you do that? = beer! (I think am an alcoholic, oh well bbl gonna drink some beer)
"Life is full of danger, so why be afraid?"
drenaline

[rgoper 0]

kewel story! Richard
"Gravity Is My Friend"