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QuoteThe jumper in question did not pull that low on purpose, apparently, he had trouble with his hackey. So you can't really call him an idiot.[/replAy] At what altitude did he INTEND to deploy? I can't imagine him searching for the hackey for 30 seconds (from 3000 feet). Or was it a hard pull?

Just like all Racers .

Can you describe them in detail?

Yeah, that plus was the car loosing over 115 feet per second in altitude ...

Can he reach the handles...?

Is that OPENING or EXIT?

This one is not too high either... : http://www.ruexp.ru/photo/albums/userpics/10001/%CA%E0%EC%F7%E0%F2%EA%E0-34.jpg

I don't have o video of this one, but here is the thread this quote was taken from (there are some othe low pull videos and pictures there): http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1063439#1063439 and here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1613703#1613703

There was even a lower pull in the past. From Yuri: "The ultimate wingsuit low pull award belongs to Den. He nearly landed a wingsuit a couple of years ago, impacting at line stretch with his slider still stowed in a C-line rubberband. If you have a chance, ask Den to show an impressive Terminator-style x-ray of his titanium lower back. The only way to beat this is to land a suit without a scratch ;-)"

How about...... this week, if possible

What was the exit altitude, opening altitude, and how LONG were the rings held during the actual live jump?

Is there a VIDEO anywhere???

From Jumpshack: http://www.jumpshack.com/portal/content.asp?contentid=590

Is it an Eclipse rig?

What kind of mal?

Was this like a standard color pattern on Wonderhogs back then? Were you allowed to choose custom colors at all?

There is actually a vidoe online (somewhere, skydivingmovies.com?) where a jumpmaster goes THRU the lines of student's inflating canopy...

Think about it: the bridle wraps VERY TIGHLTY around his wrist (creates a knot that can not be cleared). The jumpmaster is pulled UPWARDS by the pilotchute (80 lbs or so of force). The main pin and bag is pulls and the canopy inflates right in his face. He falls into it (with the bridle still knotted on his wrist). The student jumper cuts away the "malfunction" and leaves the jumpmaster wraped in the canopy. Possible...?

Check the pull time in the video ...: http://www.almgren.net/sky/aff/affl3-vids/AffLevel3_sm_jump-only.wmv

More from Greg Gasson: "This is something I wrote a few years ago for Parachutist and Jason Bell used it as a basis for his article on my "chuteless" jump. I think it appeared in the April 94 issue of Parachutist. Joe Jennings reshot the stunt on 35mm film to be used in his upcoming video called "Good Stuff". The Madness to the Method Strangely enough it did not seem unusual the first time I jumped out of a plane without a parachute on my back. You probably think that I am psychotic, but I will try to convince you otherwise. In October of 1991 I met Mike McGowan who had just moved to my home DZ, Skydive Arizona. I had a video of myself hanging upside down from the legstraps of my rig by my feet. Mike liked it enough that he wanted to get some footage of it for his video "On the Fun Side". After he finished up the video he asked me to start thinking of something for his next project. My original idea was to jump out of the plane without wearing the rig on my back and then put it on in freefall. So I called up the FAA and asked them if I need any paperwork to build an experimental harness. They told me as long as I was a master rigger and was the only one jumping the gear that I didn't need any. The next few months I kept running through the stunt in my mind and it just seemed to be lacking something. Then I was going over it again and thought of a twist to the stunt that would really raise some eyebrows. What if I did not put the rig on at all but instead deployed the main while holding onto the rig. Now that I had an image of what I wanted the stunt to be I had to figure out how to do it safely. The first thing I needed to do was to design a harness that could be concealed under my jumpsuit. I went over to Bob Sprague's and he and I spent about an hour discussing various types of harnesses and what we came up with was very similar to a climber's seat harness with extensions that could be run up through the sleeves of my jumpsuit. The harness was built out of type 7 webbing. At the end of the extensions I put a large 3-ring. The 3-ring attached to both of the B-12 snaps on my rig which made an even load bearing point for attachment. I did not want to attach it to just one side since it would probably cause a turn after deployment. Since I was attached to the B-12's I needed to be able to cut away and deploy my reserve. I made some modifications to the rig to do this. The best way to keep the rig stable in freefall would be similar to an AFF dive with the rig as the "student". For the first attempt I wore another rig so that we could get an idea of how the jump would go. My partner in crime was front float, the rig was center and I was was rear float. The exit went well and the rig was very stable in freefall. At 7000 ft I reached for the pullout and deployed the main. The opening was fine and the rest of the jump went without a hitch. Now it was time to do it for real. I felt like a first jump student all over again. I got some very strange looks from out-of-town skydivers on the ride to altitude who didn't know what we were doing. Ready, Set, Go!!! We exited without a problem, leveled out and geeked the camera. My fall rate was a bit slower without the weight of the rig on my back. At 7000 ft I deployed. The opening was nice and soft. I kicked my legs up and put them through the legstraps up to my knees. Since the harness is attached to the B-12's and runs under my jumpsuit I had to take off the left side of my jumpsuit so that my left arm was free. When I got my arm free I reached up with both hands and grabbed the harness under the cutaway and reserve handles. I pulled myself up so that my legs were all the way through the legstraps but my body was still outside the container. I unthreaded the lateral adjustment on the right side of my rig so that I could lift the back of the rig open and squirm into the rest of the harness. Not too bad for the the first try. On the second jump the right brake line unstowed on deployment so the canopy was spinning to the left. No problem. Since I'm not in the harness it is easier to hang all of my weight on one side in order to slow the spin down. Then I just unstowed the left brake and all was well. We made several more jumps without any problems. I met Derek Thomas from Sun Path at the 1993 World Meet in Eloy and he was very interested in the stunt I was doing with Mike. I asked him if he could help build a rig with better modifications than the one I had built. So we sat down one afternoon and I showed him what I had done to my rig and asked him for his suggestions. He came up with a much cleaner method of cutting away and deploying the reserve than I had designed. It's great when you can talk to the owner of the company directly. I also met John LeBlanc from PD who was kind enouhg to let me borrow some canopies for the stunt. In order to get footage of me climbing back into the rig I jumped by myself with the rig on, then climbed out of the harness container and then back in again. On the first jump with the new Javelin I did not loosen the legstraps enough. When it came time to climb back in I could not get my feet through the legstraps. The previous jumps I was barefoot to make this part easier but it was to cold to jump without shoes. I landed outside of my container hanging from the legstraps. Fortunately I was prepared for such fun. I was using a PD-235 7-cell. I landed in full flight with no flare and did a PLF. Now this was a great jump to add this to my NSTIW (no shit there I was) stories. We made seven jumps where I climbed out then back in again. We made thirteen jumps where I exited without the rig on my back. On two of the jumps I had such soft, slow openings that I am convinced that I could have hung on without using a harness. So for this particular stunt I was out of my harness twenty times. On the stunt for the "On the Fun Side" video I climbed out of the harness ten times. I've got about thirty jumps now with my body completely outside the harness container. Don't worry the next stunt will be better than this one. Blue Skies"

From Greg Gasson: "I had a harness on underneath my jumpsuit that attached to the B-12 snaps on my Javelin. There is an article describing the stunt in further detail in the April 94 issue of Parachutist." and "Sun Path made special mods to my rig so I had a cutaway handle and a reserve handle on the legstraps for my rig. I am a master rigger and I consulted with three other master riggers, the DZ owner and the S&TA. As for the FAA I called them before doing the stunt and asked them if I needed any special paperwork for jumping an experimental harness. I was told that since I was a master rigger and if I was the only one who was jumping it then I did not need to get any paperwork. I may be foolish, but I'm not stupid."

Hi BKR, It was posted here on dz.com. Can't find it now... I am NOT not saying it was one of you rigs (sorry if it came that way).

I heard (here on dz.com) about a rig that was sent to the customer with a full twist in the MLW !!!

http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/content/wingless1.wmv and http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/Videos/2006-3-11_bob_hoover.avi