...so first of all he wasn't paying attention to altitude. then, when his instructor tried to get him to pull his ripcord he jerked his arm away. then, when the instructor tried frantically to get his hand to the ripcord, he resisted and went for the release.
I expected him to say "yeah, before we jumped the instructor went on and on about a bunch of crap. i was too busy staring at this one chick's rack to pay attention, but i'm pretty sure he never explained what to do in that situation. thank god i got one that had two parachutes in the 'parachute holder'. i believe that's the technical term for it, a 'parachute holder'."