Cutaways/Reserve rides..Who's the king of Chops

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Ok fun poll but open for dicussion.
Had my 3rd reserve ride the past weekend so thought it would be fun to find out who's the daddy when it comes to cutaways

.CHOP WOOD COLLECT WATER.

[milehigheric 0]

None as of yet...touch wood.

[shropshire 0]

as a % of the number of jumps may tell us more.

3 in 1600 aint' all that bad ......where as I've had 2 in 300ish

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[obelixtim 150]

2 in 4000 jumps. but I have about 20 intentional cutaways, so they don't count.

I know a guy who has 34 chops and reserve rides, in about 10000 jumps, but he doesn't mess around with anything, any doubt and its gone.

We told him to apply for another A licence after his 25th chop.

My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing....

[skydiverek 63]

Billy Weber has over 500 cutaways (intentional)...

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Maybe should add: Intentionals don't count. Genuine malfunction induced rides only

Edit: CREW induced rides also count.
I was speaking with the local CREW kids "chopped @ 650ft agl" Hardcore

.CHOP WOOD COLLECT WATER.

[Joellercoaster 6]

MrsCoaster is a couple dozen jumps from making it to 1000 with no reserve rides.

Ssh!

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"I'll tell you how all skydivers are judged, . They are judged by the laws of physics." - kkeenan

"You jump out, pull the string and either live or die. What's there to be good at?

[chuckakers 426]

8 whacks in 5,000 jumps over 27 years.


1. Horseshoe after pulling p/c through a camera wing.

2. Multiple broken lines on an Excalibur.

3. Spinning, line twisted Stiletto.

4. Rigging error of mounted flag.

5. Cut away by another jumper during freefall (stupid shit didn't even hang on to the handle).

6, 7, & 8. Spinning, line twisted Velo. Yeah, I know - body position. Guess I'm getting lazy in my old age.

Chuck Akers
D-10855
Houston, TX

[piisfish 140]

5 rides but only 3 cutaways :-)

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[skydiverek 63]

1 ride, no cutaway.

[oldwomanc6 60]

1. Mae West, no cutaway--hand deployed reserve

2. Floating pud--terminal reserve opening

3. Pilot chute over the front of canopy/wrapped around a few lines--cutaway

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[beowulf 1]

Over 2300 jumps and only 1 cutaway due to spinning line twists.

[justme12001 0]

1745ish jumps 0 reserve rides on a sport rig
2 tandem reserve rides
1st was a tension knot,
2nd was a line over

[TSISK 0]

I had 2 by jump 34 but not 1 since

[adamqbishop 6]

3 for me in a little over 2200 jump , none in my 1st thousand but all from my 97 SPINLETTO You can check them out here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUGUVWlsuK0
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Faster, Faster, Faster
Till the Thrill of Speed
Overcomes the Fear of Death

[airdvr 210]

in the middle 80's a friend bought a main canopy from a company called SpaceCoast. Interesting checkerboard design that used to mal regularly. We'd all go out on the deck on jump run to see if her canopy was going to open.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[mchamp 1]

I know a guy back at my old DZ that had 30 ish unintentional cutaways and that was ONLY on his tandems alone, mainly tension knots, not sure of how many on his sport rig. He had around 8,000 ish jumps.

@oblixtim: not sure if we're talking about the same guy or not!

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[Amazon 7]

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Ok fun poll but open for dicussion.
Had my 3rd reserve ride the past weekend so thought it would be fun to find out who's the daddy when it comes to cutaways

I have only had 8 chops since 1972.... with 3 of those being on belly warts starting at myfirst chop on my 5th jump... 2 on Blast Handle equiped TracII piggyback rig for 5 in the old days with Capewells total...

3 chops with 3 ring rigs in the 2000's.

Pretty much all of them can be attributed to packing excellence

[Rick 67]

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Pretty much all of them can be attributed to packing excellence

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4 chops in 1100 jumps I also have done some excellent packing

You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early!

[Longbow1415 0]

5 in total.

Dropped a handle, old front and back rounds in 1987. Handle floated over shoulder...couldnt find so chest reserve at terminal !

Canopy collision at 1000 feet over Dunkerswell early 90's, cutaway at 800feet. Brand new rig, reserve packed at factory.

Two line twists on a Stilleto 120, both cutaways as rotating against my kick, make a decision and go for it.

Testing a student static line rig that had problems...it did.. got off it.

[obelixtim 150]

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@oblixtim: not sure if we're talking about the same guy or not!

Grunta?....

My computer beat me at chess, It was no match for me at kickboxing....

[faulknerwn 38]

21 in 8200 jumps :). Some were crw, most of the rest were spinning ellipticals.

[Amyr 0]

Wendy i saw one your cutaways on true TV the other night it was really neat to see you on TV right after talking to you in messages putting a face to a name!

[councilman24 37]

An old time jumper that was around for a few years after I started claimed to have 39 and stopped counting. I believe him. These were all on rags or PC's with his chest mount pop top and older reserves. A lot of these weren't traditional (now) cutaways but canopy transfers with the front reserve. He only ever had a few jumps on ramair piggy back gear.

He's also the rigger who packed me a 1400' reserve total.

He used to pack his PC in about 5 minutes, total. He'd stretch it out as he took it off and then pull the sleeve down, stow the lines and put in his conventional back container.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[Kimbo 0]

First reserve ride was on Jumps #2,025. The second was on #2,036. both were hard pulls, so I had nothing out. So I've not had any cut aways so far.