Back in March of this year I mis-routed my bridle to my parachute and jumped off the Twin Falls bridge. My mistake nearly ended my life. please watch the video and learn from my mistake. I snapped into action the moment I noticed that it was taking way to long for my parachute to open. I reached back trying to find the bridle thinking I had a pilot chute in tow. When I didn’t find anything I started elbowing my container. I got the parachute above my head on the 2nd elbow hit. I hope you all learn from my mistake. Enjoy.
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Do not worry guys. It is water at the bottom, he would have lived either way like in gta.
do you think a contributing factor is that base jumpers are mostly weed smoking complacent types?
The problem is that you jumped off a perfectly good bridge.
I learned my leason.
don't jump off of bridges.
I wonder how hard he hit the water, luckily this guy new his shit.
Can someone explain how he didn't die?
It needs balls to upload that! Thanks for preventing others to do the same mistakes.
Remember kids, turn off your phones before going basejumping
Was distracted packing a chute by YOUR PHONE…. oh, where to begin…
Great save ,!!!
The number of people who have been DISTRACTED by their cell-phones is now, numbering into the thousands! I don't know of a worse invention! Auto accident have killed hundreds, "selfies" have killed hundreds, and there is concern over phone addiction, it has been studied and the AVERAGE person picks up their cell-phone 200 times a day. That kind of dependency is sick!
This generation in a nutshell: "was distracted by my phone…"
Good job on thinking fast and saving your life mate, still prevention is the best cure in this case
Glad you're still around weirdo.
Quick thinking saved you! You're so lucky.
Okropne
My add in the paper would be………….Free chute hardly used,I'v gone right off base jumping…….fook that 😉
Bro that's some of the craziest shit I've seen. Talk about remaining calm under pressure. People talk about 4th and goal…hitting with a full count . How about 30ft till instant death!
what was the phone about? telemarketer? lol
Nice save!
That may be the craziest BASE video on Youtube. Serious mistake, but holy shit do you have some incredible skills being able to recognize that and react so quick.
woulda been one hell of a belly-flop. Am-I-right!
God is watching over you! Might want to thank Him! Outstanding reaction….glad you are OK.
You reacted really good glad your okay and thanks for sharing!
what do u mean near death? when i jump into water i dont call it near death
holy fuck my dude. i cant even begin to imagine how many chemicals were firing in your brain
love to you my friend excellent way to use it to teach others… job well done
I'm glad you made it. Stay safe!
Do base jumpers even bother with a reserve?? If you had one, would it have deployed in time?
your phone almost cost you your life…. Put it down next time …
wrr
Holy shit my man. You are a lucky duck I will say that. And I thought pilot chute in tow was my biggest fear this one takes the cake. And elbowing the container??? on like a two second delay plus taking a sec to figure out your rig is totally fubar like HORRY SHEET!! Your hard fucking core dude. Blue skies
tricky tricky!
Hi, Karl, very good reaction – well done. Did you have the emergency procedure (elbowing your container) anticipated as part of a mental training , so that you were prepared basically to this situation, or was it a spontaneous reaction? A former flight instructor of mine was right by saying: "Fly the fucking procedures!"
props on your emergency procedures a lot of people would have went in. fuck dude its bad enough people driving and texting fuck your phone man. im not hating on you but phones are the top distractions in peoples lives these days. again props for your high level emergency procedures because you were out of time. hardfuckingcore.
thanks for sharing, happy that all went good for you.