This gave me a sick feeling in my stomach when I looked up and saw it (this is not me but the same thing happened to me). http://portfolio.iu.edu/dschnaib/gile_spinner.wmv I packed a little lopsided which is what caused it - I didnt think it was near lopsided enough to cause this but the thought did enter my mind when I put it on my back. I wasn't to thrilled on the idea of riding my reserve down since I just got it repacked like 2 days ago and luckily I came out of it just like this guy did and ............................... my landing was super soft and nice and gentle and everything and Im glad to be back. The video looks worse than it really is. Its scary as hell but that can't kill you unless you let it. You just chop your main and pull your reserve and your fine. So it wasn't really dangerous just freaks you out when your see your canopy like that above your head. I intentionally wore my FTR hoodie and jumped with it and had my friend take a few pictures of me comin in but he was about 100 feet away from me so I'm not sure you'll even be able to tell. They are still on my friends camera and he is gonna send over to me in a little bit and then ill post em on here.
The reason it happened to be today I jumped is because if I didn't go today I would lose currecy on my license and have to do gay recurrency stuff. So I just made a real nice easy jump not putting anything into the equation that could hurt me.
My leg still isnt in a condition to jump like a bunch of jumps every weekend and I probably won't make another jump for a month or so to give me leg some more time to get better. It will be 6 months from my crash that shoulda killed me in 2 days.
Ive been riding around 30-35 miles everyday for awhile now and my leg really is getting quite strong its just the bone that needs to finish healing 100%. I can even run for a couple minutes at a time now.
If you never heard about my accident and want to know what happened read this
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...light=accident
Pictures of the surgery that was done to my leg
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...hlight=surgery