hooking it in...

[sgt_ludy 0]

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In my limited experience opinion, I would suggest double fronts first. Then 45's, 90's, 180's and so on.

And when first attempting 180's etc. you should be planing out with enough altitude to maybe even need a little double fronts to keep the speed induced by your turn up for your landing. Then bring it a little lower very slowly untill you have it mastered.

thats how i went for it. on my first jump that day i was a little too high, so that i had to go for double front riser. still was too high, already had much better 180 landings, so i decided to go lower, and -WHAM-. i wanted to initiate the turn after hcecking the altitude, saw another canopy i hadn´t seen before, waited to see where it would go, and than decided to initiate my turn. may have been 3to 4 secs later than i originally wanted.

blue skies,

ludy

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in reply 2 "damn, i think i was really lucky. i´m still walking and the pain is no problem. my lesson learned is, that when i´m swooping i have to be focused at least a 100% on my final approach. i should have waited for all the other canopies to land, and than start my swoop. the impact was harder than anything i´ve ever experienced. "
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Happy healing
Good on you for posting your incident here. Your story is an often hushed up blocked out reality for skydivers. We all make mistakes ..some are just better at hiding it.

I wonder if you realise just how lucky you are. A few more feet ???
Some less diplomatic viewers may think you are also unlucky for putting your inexperienced self in such a position.

Too many good skydivers have injured themselves for life due to one little landing incident.

At 300 jumps you are very much in the ' immortal' zone. It doesn't hurt until after you hit.


When HP ZP's first became popular (say 10-15 years ago ) their unfamiliar performance levels were responsible for a large number of landing injuries and deaths. This was because people were used to much slower landing speeds.
The good guys made it look easy , the less skilled made it DANGEROUS ..........and not only for themselves.

Perhaps you can in future take some of the advice posted here that encourages you to slow down a bit. You can easily run into something or some-one by going too fast for your abilities.

That doesn't mean you can't ever go faster... it just means that you really should get your ambitions more in line with your abilities.

If you really want to excel at this sport you can't afford to make too many serious mistakes such as going too fast too soon.

Learn well slowly then speed up once you've mastered the basics. This should be common sense in such an inherently dangerous sport such as skydiving.
Many well known skydivers have busted themselves up by learning the hard way.
Many more have kept themselves well by doing it right.

Hopefully next time you'll take the time to learn ZP-HP properly from responsible tutors.