Highest Number of Jumps Before 1st Cutaway?

[nerd137 0]

I'm curious about this. Now, I'm pretty sure there was a thread on this topic a while back, but I can't find it! (If anyone else can, please post a link for me.)

If that other thread was just a figment of my imagination (totally possible), I'm really curious to hear from people who did a totally obscene number of jumps before having their first cutaway or still haven't had one at all.

[nerd137 0]

...I should probably define "obscene." Let's call it 1500 jumps or more.

[kevinwhelan 0]

I know a few people with way more around 3000 that have never had a cutaway

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[JGarcia 0]

Well, I wouldn't call it an obscene # of jumps, but my first cutaway came on my 1606th jump... If you want, you can go here and read about it.
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[ryoder 1,590]

I know a guy who had over 3000 jumps w/o a reserve ride...then he started doing tandems.

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[ccowden 0]

I had just over 2300 before my first cutaway. Line twists on my Velocity. The amazing part was that I had more than 600 tandems too.

[Zep 0]

Over 3000 jumps an not a single cutaway due to a malfunction

Gone fishing

[hottamaly 1]

I had about 1600 jumps before my first and only mal. The pilot chute came over the leading edge and then back through to pinch it off on the left side.
I at first thought I had a line over.

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[KindredSpirit 0]

Are tandems more likely to have a mal?
Did I just hijack this topic?

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[sdctlc 0]

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Are tandems more likely to have a mal?
Did I just hijack this topic?

The joke when I got my Tandem rating years back was "It is not "IF" but "WHEN" you will have a tandem chop" SO I think there is some level of belief that tandems will get you a function more often. With the size of the canopy it seems the two most common functions are line overs from sloppy packing and tension knots probably also from sloppy packing..
To put another twist on it, in the lst 5 year snapshot of my skydiving time, I have 3 tandem functions and 1 (a spinning mal) on my sport rigs. Maybe there is something to do with it. Each Tandem function was from a DZ packer, not my own pack.. I blame packing and sloppy packers trying to get the extra $10

Scott C.

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[hookncrater 0]

I met someone with >10,000 jumps and reportedly no cutaways. I didn't ask her if she'd gone straight to silver though. I didn't want to jinx her.

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[nerd137 0]

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I met someone with >10,000 jumps and reportedly no cutaways. I didn't ask her if she'd gone straight to silver though. I didn't want to jinx her.

Wow! That almost seems unbelievable.

[Vertifly 0]

At 2300ish right now without a chop to date.

It gets difficult to be in the air that long without a problem. I dislike the idea of thinking I'm getting too comfortable. Never underestimate in this sport imho.

[Zep 0]

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It gets difficult to be in the air that long without a problem. I dislike the idea of thinking I'm getting too comfortable. Never underestimate in this sport imho.

Talking about getting to comfortable. I hadent practiced EP's for a while an maybe getting a little blazé,
trusting the fact that my canopy always opens nicely (sometimes end cells closed, but thats my packing)
When yesterday it bite me, It opened with a fast right hand dive an took four revolutions before I could
straighten it up to level flight using the back riser, (I didnt reach my hard deck)

On my next jump you can guess what I did, Practice EP's.

As Ive always maintained, People do start to get comfortable till they get bitten.

Gone fishing

[aj4218 0]

Someone's bound to know his name but I'm pretty sure there was a French accuracy jumper who put over 10,000 jumps on the same Stratocloud without a mal.

I remember seeing a picture of him quite a few years ago and he jumped into his 70s I think.

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

Ex-Golden Knight Neal Beverly went right at 5000 before he took his first ride. He chopped a Sabre with a broken control line even though he could have easilly landed it. Reason? He was getting his tandem rating and needed an actual cutaway to get the rating.

[Luminous 0]

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and only

That mean you quit? or should you have put 'so far' after that?

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