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He stalled his canopy by deliberately over pulling his rear control lines. This is pretty common practice and is great fun. You then release the rear control lines and the canopy should re-inflate fine. The problem here is his slider. That’s the blue rectangle of fabric you see about 1:34. It usually sits at the bottom of the control lines after the canopy is inflated. Before the canopy inflates it sits up at the top of the lines near the canopy, and it’s job is to slow the inflation speed of the canopy down at the time of deployment to reduce the shock on the jumper, otherwise the opening shock of getting of getting pulled from freefall speed, say 120mph, too quickly would injure the jumper. The problem with his rig is there are no stoppers at the end of the control lines. They’re normally plastic tubes that sit between the end of the lines and the slider, and their job is to stop the slider from sliding too far down and jamming the control lines. So when our boy here released his control lines to reinflate his canopy from the stall, the lines got jammed by the slider and wouldn’t return to normal, so the canopy remained stalled. So he’s got maybe 10-12 secs until impact at this point. Our boy did all the right things from then on- he pulled his cutaway to get rid of the jammed rig (kudos for keeping hold of the cutaway pad, you can see it in his hand, the yellow thing, they’re expensive!). Once old rig was off he dumped out his reserve and landed sweet as a nut. What he then hopefully did was take his retrieved canopy off to the riggers and get them to fit some slider stops.

@briangetsaround4851 thanks for that mate, made absolute sense reading it so appreciate the time explaining.

@@joespencer9442 no worries 👍

I am guessing you were a student a year ago and have since learned better, but just in case, you are not a skydiver, most skydivers collapse their slider, and then sometimes pull it down and tuck it behind their head. You do not need to do this, but the canopy does fly better with less air resistance You also get rid of that annoying sound the slider makes.

@@Shibu11229I’m currently a student and I appreciate you answering this. I was too embarrassed to ask.

@@jwprimetime9795 Anytime but try to ask all the questions to any possible to any instructor who will listen. It may save your life one day but it will definitely make you learn faster.

@@Shibu11229 jump 10 on Sunday. I went out to lunch a few days ago with a few experienced guys from the DZ in Zephyrhills. I used that opportunity to ask every question that had been running through my mind. And they said the same thing-never hesitate to ask anything no matter how small! As far as getting over the “door monster fear”-they said that one I’ll have to find out on my own!! 😆

@@jwprimetime9795 never heard the term door monster but lol I remember the fear I had as a student on the plane, which went away as soon as I exited the door. I do remember that the more I learned about my rig and how it works, the less I feared. Once you know how to do a thorough equipment, preflight safety check, the fear will go away. Congratulations on jump number 10! How many more jumps before you do your low altitude exit?

Both main and reserve come out of the back. The main is packed on the bottom and reserve on the top (in separate areas)

@@ashleyberk7491 ok thanks, i was just wondering because sometimes it looks like they are wearing some king of pouch around the belly area, do they carry 3 chutes sometimes?

@@ashleyberk7491 also im guessing the reserve can not be packed by yourself and has to go to a special place?

@@wigzme2717 it has to be packed by a rigger certified to pack the reserve and also has a tamper seal after packing so you know it hasn't been messed with 👍

@@ashleyberk7491 ok cool thanks, its something ive always wanted to try but been wayyy to heavy, i recently lost a lot of weight and im not far off their 86kg max now, thing is im a really tall guy and with my muscle mass im just not sure if i will manage the last 10kg :) i have to say watching these vids doesent help either haha!

@solo xi why unpack and repack ur reserve when u can unpack it so much quicker