Landed with a broken line... OUCH!!!

[kuai43 7]

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You could always do the spit test.

Not very scientific but it seems to work.

What is the spit test?

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According to your thread and your experience level you did fine. When you know you will hit hard with some forward speed trying to rool is probably the best way to avoid the worst. In a case of a down draft or a high rate of descent with minimal forward speed then rule # 1 is to try to land foot first, both feet together and hope for the best.
But as an experience skydiver and a DZO my first question would be why this happen?
I think the best way to deal with a lot of difficult situations in our sport is by ovoiding it in the first place, so that way you don't have to deal with it at the end.
Then my next question will be how long since the maintenance was done on that main (reline), or did you open head down?
Since you never mention a hard opening I would suspect either a problem of rigging if the reline was new or the DZO wait too long before doing that reline.

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According to your thread and your experience level you did fine. When you know you will hit hard with some forward speed trying to rool is probably the best way to avoid the worst. In a case of a down draft or a high rate of descent with minimal forward speed then rule # 1 is to try to land foot first, both feet together and hope for the best.
But as an experience skydiver and a DZO my first question would be why this happen?
I think the best way to deal with a lot of difficult situations in our sport is by ovoiding it in the first place, so that way you don't have to deal with it at the end.
Then my next question will be how long since the maintenance was done on that main (reline), or did you open head down?
Since you never mention a hard opening I would suspect either a problem of rigging if the reline was new or the DZO wait too long before doing that reline.

My opening was normal. i was in a standard belly down position. nothing weird... it just ... broke. The opening seemed normal. I might have mentioned it earlier, but i've had sofer openings... but i've had harder as well. I wanted to question the DZO but, i was just glad to be alive... and also my foot hurt like 3 bitches on a bitch boat!