dunesurfer

I guess I would be an old fart here, I am 40 AND a noob as well :) Ted

Could you folks in the know please post your thoughts on what brand and model of container are best for freefly? Also I would like to know which ones to avoid also :) Ted

Awesome pic :) You got my vote.

The beer will be going there with me on sunday, coronas no less

Scottbre said same about bridle above....I just assumed this caused the prob as it was only different thing I recall doing on this rig. i am not sure what container make it is, as I am still a noob, many look the same to me I am going back to the DZ on sunday, and plan to discuss it with one of my aff coaches and the rigger to try to figure out just what I did so as to not REPEAT it

Hi Fudd I haven't been up since it happened. I am going back up this sunday as this is the earliest I can get back out to the dz again. This rig had a very long bridle and i tucked some of the excess into the pouch with the pilot I feel very lucky to have responded to the problem properly and feel a total jack*ss for the stupid mistake, but I am going to look at this in a positive light.... I get to keep jumping

I had my first reserve ride on friday, on jump #40.After mulling it all over through the weekend, I realised 2 things: 1)I am fortunate to survive my own stupidity 2)Following my training played a large part in living to jump again I mis routed the bridle causing it to foul the pilot chute, giving me a pilot chute in tow. I tossed out the pilot at 4500 and about 6 seconds went by without feeling the usual drag. six turned to 10 and I am still on my belly. about 11 sec into this I invert feet down, look up to see nothing over my head and feel my speed increase. I was taught "touch the handle or pull the handle, cut away" even if you dont see anything out. I pulled red, pulled silver and was under the reserve at approx 2700 ft. I saw the main float away from me, out of the bag. If not for following what I was trained to do by my instructors I could easily have turned this into a fatal error. Reading the other posts here on similar situations reinforces for me that I reacted properly under the circumstances, and gave me a chance to learn from my ignorance instead of paying for it in a big way

There is one called "Speedstack" you can buy at GNC stores 18 oz. for the same price as one red bull, and it works much better....actually half a bottle of this one usually does it for me

I can't come up with quite as impressive a list, but My father was a drug trafficker and I breed and raise snakes