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I had the coolest two-way-DZ.skyhook-main-entanglement-cutaway-Burking in the history of the Dropzone.com Holiday Boogie.



WTF did you do Deucey???????? lmao



I didn't tell you?

No shit there I was, thought I was gonna die. I had gone up with Fireflyr to photograph him in the Relative Workshop Tertiary rig doing an intentional cutaway. You gotta open fairly low at Eloy, so I was cranking my way into position below and behind Jaime pretty fast when I see him click his heels telling me he is going to chop. CHOP! goes the main, clickclickclick, and his reserve opens in line twists and I'm thinking "YAY! He's going to chop the reserve and go for the belly mount!" As the line twists clear (this takes about two seconds) I hit something.

Whatthef*ck? Over.

I look up and to the right and there's this jellyfish eating the right side of my canopy. Jellyfish? I ask myself. No. Because I was higher than the last times I have photographed intentionals, the chopped main is entangled with my main. I flare my canopy, and it flares OK, but when I let the brakes up, it is doing this diving-spinning-bowtie-stalling thing that I don't think I can land. For a second I wonder if I can pull it out of my main and let it go behind me and pretend it never happened, but that had lots of fatality potential so I chopped.

As I went into freefall for about 45 seconds I could see the car I was going to crash through. Not even a cool car, either. "California man dies crashing through Yugo" I could see the headlines. Anyhow, I had just called my rigger out by name when I got a good reserve and landed it without incident. Incidentally, the red tie-die Wings rig has a blue reserve, and the blue tie-die one has a white reserve.

Here comes Burk. Argh. I'm now two for three on DZ.Holiday Boogie Burkings.

"What happened?"

"I was filming a skyhook cutaway and the chopped main entangled with my main and I chopped"

"You get video?"

"Yeah"

"I can't wait to see it"

In the landing area, apparently it looked pretty cool.

McGruff the Crime Dog says "Don't photograph cutaways from above!"

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As I went into freefall for about 45 seconds I could see the car I was going to crash through



Dude... I know why Brian was mad and you and burked... if you had a 45 second freefall after a cutaway, you opened way too hight to start off with! lol
Remster

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Here comes Burk. Argh. I'm now two for three on DZ.Holiday Boogie Burkings



But Deucy..ya didnt hear what Bryan said to me as we were standing there watching!:P



Something like:

"Betsy, I don't get it. Why do you keep inviting that meathead back here? You think he's going to downwind that reserve to up the ante on last year?"

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"Betsy, I don't get it. Why do you keep inviting that meathead back here? You think he's going to downwind that reserve to up the ante on last year?"



:D:D:DNow I would have paid big bucks to see that.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

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When the Performance Designs people give you a T-shirt in exchange for telling the story of how a short-bus-window-licker missing most of the vowels in his chromosome chain can survive despite his best efforts to endanger himself, you are doing pretty good.



Nice story JP, BUT...... :P I was at the PD tent when you got that T-Shirt, and I am thinking we need an honesty check here............ Your choice if I continue, but it will cost you :):P

Eloy rocked. Was only there for 4 days and got a mere 25ish jumps, but I will be back next year for sure...... Just got home after a mammoth 24hr travel marathon :S

Edited to add: unless you got 2 T's of course....
"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
David Brent

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WOW I had line twists? cool I must have missed them!:P
Neah,I had a little more than a 90 left but nuthin' serious,I'd of chopped and gone to the bellymount,but I was already in the hole for a main and reserve pack.
:)So what are we gonna do next year?
~J
"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
"There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act"

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Thanks for sharing. Looking at skydiving pictures with everyone smiling brings a smile to my face.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey

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