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Last thing everyone!! Fly safe, never give up, big love and blues skies from Colorado Sky Fam!!

I appreciate your enthusiasm for life and am infinitely grateful as well that you didn't add to the DZ's incident record. Bless!!

Love it Joe! And fully agree with the message. I am friends with this jumper through the Dropzone but we have a special relationship as we both got our a license the same day and we have neighboring A License numbers as a result. I am grateful for him to be alive and wanted to share with him a sentiment that shows that I care about him. I know he would greatly appreciate it. We never know when our day is going to come so I say we should celebrate every day we got. And for those whom are upset with the notion are entitled to their beliefs. I know my buddy will stand right next to me and say let's celebrate. And I will add one last thing. It's not to hype the fact that he had the incident or to put shame on any skydiver whom wasn't so lucky in outcome, Rest In Peace to all of these divers, but to celebrate the fact he fought and won and was able to wake up the next day in his bed and in good health. I will celebrate it over and over again!!

Sure yes I acknowledge thats what you should do because hey wtf else are you gonna do. But some aren't so lucky and able to get out of looming death. I think it's ok to celebrate that he was given the opportunity through will power and luck to live another day. To celebrate life. Because without it none of us would be jumping.

I have asked him and he is in the best spirits he could be. Happy to be alive everyday and stoked to still be skydiving. Ive since jumped with him.

To all whom replied to this post I am super grateful you took your time to read and respond to my inquiry, no matter how you feel about it. I appreciate your input either way. For everyone whom is curious and I know you guys and girls are, I will tell a bit more about what happened in this incident. Also, before I tell the story I want to note that he is super grateful to be alive and told me he has a new excitement for life every day he wakes up after the incident. He also grabbed a rental chute right after the incident and when and jumped again because he said he didn't know if he would ever jump again if he didn't. And lastly, I have jumped with him again since the incident and he is praised for fighting to the very end and not giving up and saving his own life. What happened was a group jump breakout at 5.5, deploy at 4 all was normal up until his main didn't come out which was determined to be a pin lock. I'm not sure if he cutaway but not sure if it would have mattered in the situation since his main wasn't out. Im pretty sure the correct move would be a cutaway though. Anyways, he deployed his reserve which he said took a good amount of time to come out and when it finally exited his container his main pilot chute bow tied his reserve is how he explained it. So im assuming the pilot chute wrapped around the middle of his reserve and was stuck of some part of it. He was in a hard spin at this point with multiple line twists and adding more because of his hard spin. He fought it to the last second and was able to grab his bridal and get the pilot chute out of his reserve enough for it to open somewhat but still had 5 or more line twists and this was at 50 ft once it finally somewhat pressurized. On landing he grabbed his risers as high as he could and did a pull up to try and flare as best he could and ended up walking away with no injury.

Hey yo my skydiving friends!! I am writing this because I am wanting to know if there is a slang phrase that is used for someone who has a brush with death while skydiving but ends up completely uninjured? Or for someone whom gets super lucky and has an opening that is extremely low due to malfunctions, well below hard deck. And I am being serious here please don't post things like "Dumbass".. I had a friend save his own life recently while having a double malfunction and he fought to the very end and was able to get his reserve opened fully at 50 ft. I wanted to make him a helmet sticker and wanted to reach out to the community for ideas on what to write. So I figured their may be a slang phrase thats used that I haven't heard or that I'm just not thinking of that is used for such low openings or brushes with death..