The GREATEST Skydiving Story I have ever heard.

[LawnDart21 0]

While standing around the ole' bonfire I heard quite possibly the greatest skydiving story ever, that shows what our sport is all about. The names and location are withheld to protect the innocent......LOL Anyways, here it goes:
After a competition 4way jump a few years back, the 4 way team tracks away and the videographer deploys his main. After settling in under canopy, the videographer looks down and sees the reserve out on one of his 4Way team. He says aloud to himself "Ha ha, fuck you!" He's now all smiles, when he pans left and sees another reserve out from a second team mate. He takes a fit of laughing and yells out "Ha ha, fuck you too mother fucker!". Totally amused, he scans the horizon, and sees yet a third reserve open under him from his team. He thinks, "Huh? What the?" as his laughter turns to suprise but he's still amused by what he sees. At this point, he starts feverously looking for the 4th member of his team, and sure enough he spots a fourth reserve underneath him. 4 cutaways from his 4 teammates on the same jump. To that he yells out to himself "Well, fuck that, you ain't gonna leave me out of this!" and he cuts himself away from a perfectly good canopy and deploys his reserve and lands uneventfully. After much laughter and celebration as the team walks back to the hangar, a shaken DZO stops the videographer and says "You just cutaway a perfectly good parachute, are you fucking crazy?" To which the videographer replies "I am part of a team, if they go, I go", and with that, he walked away.
That, to me, sums up what skydiving is all about, loyalty to each other above all else.
"I live to EFS"
Tom

[Sebazz1 2]

"If one goes, we all go................................."
Damn good story.............Sebazz............

[SpeedRacer 1]

That's fkin nuts...
Hey send it into what's his face, the guy writing the book.
Speed Racer
"Fill your hand, you son-of-a-bitch!"

[TheMarshMan1 0]

hahahha...that is great! I insist you desist. You leave me no recourse.

[n2skdvn 0]

team work at its greatest!!!!
It's not the fall that kills you, it'ssudden deceleration syndrome.

[lummy 4]

What he forgot to mention is that they all had Cypres fires :) JK....
Cool story
Make up your own ending,let me know just how you feel....

[LawnDart21 0]

I actually know "Team Cypres Fire" pretty well, if your referring to Natiomals a few years ago.......lol.......this wasn't them, although, I'm sure it must have looked the same from under canopy!
"I live to EFS"
tOm

[AggieDave 6]

That was a cool story! Unification is the key to success in many a organization, especially sports. Although, that was a bit intense..."Give me one ping and one ping only..."

[PhreeZone 20]

Ah yes... the raining of the freebags....
Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud... ~ Bush

[jtval 0]

thats pretty funny. the camera man, (if this really happened) must be a funny S.O.B. to do that with out hesitation!
and a cool guy to talk to
getting high is fun, but coming down is the best part
JT

[Jonno5 0]

I wonder if they all had the same packer?

[ChromeBoy 0]

So I guess the point is one of the jumpers had a cutaway and the rest of the team followed. The cameraman figured it out and followed. It was not just the cameraman...they are all team memebers?
Kachink,
ChromeBoy
-Mirage G3 Unisyn-

[PhreeZone 20]

Uh... no.... 4 mals on the same jump and the cameraman had to join his teammates. And who said the camera man is not the 5th member of a 4 way team? Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud... ~ Bush

[canopycudler 0]

that is great!! and a reminder about what life is about...
Busses here don't work. I am an asshole.
...Tina

[Beerlight 0]

Good joke/story........But, nobody in their right freakin mind would/should chop a good canopy..........

[skymedic 0]

I've seen it done...on more than one occasion....
marc
BSBD

[n2skdvn 0]

and who said skydivers were in their right mind for jumpping out ot airplanes?
It's not the fall that kills you, it'ssudden deceleration syndrome.

[PhreeZone 20]

I've considered doing that on many occasions.....
Whats a better end to a screwed up skydive then a reserve ride?
Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud... ~ Bush

[lummy 4]

I do think that you are supposed to have another reserve if you plan on intentionally cutting away, aren't you?
Where's a danged cutaway cop when you need one?
Make up your own ending,let me know just how you feel....

[skymedic 0]

Yes, Lummy, you are....but that doesn't mean it wont happen......
marc
BSBD

[skydive4play 0]

Where i work, we have a saying, "Your'e dead until you pull"
Lead Follow Or Get The Hell Out Of The Way!!!...

[harro 0]

I dont know if this story is real or Myth, but it came from a reliable source :
4 way team vid work at work as usual when something caught his eye and he reflex caught it.
One of the 4 way lost his Alti and vid caught it.
The guy I heard this from has seen the vid.
Best catch I have heard of.
Harro
Freemind, freesky, freebeer, freefly, freesex

[QuickDraw 0]

Does that give you salvage right's to it ?
..Billions of people living out their lives..Oblivious..

[harro 0]

aparently the comment from camer was :
"..if I haven't go enough to do, I have to start catching your loose gear!!!"
Freemind, freesky, freebeer, freefly, freesex

[QuickDraw 0]

Perhaps we could start a new discipline here Sweeping
Clearing the sky's of cut-away's, lost student's, helmet's, and bird's.
Alternatively we could prey on the weak like vulture's plucking gear off of people, a sort of CReW smash and grab
..Billions of people living out their lives..Oblivious..