Hello,
here is the info to my object strike:
The cliff strike happend at the waterfall (exit #1) in the famous swiss valley. For all that don't know it: it has a huge overhung which should avoid almost all strikes. The strike was my fault, because I pulled ca. 2 sec. later than I should have done to have
the canopy open at the best overhung. The position at opening felt quite stable.
The harness is a little bit too big (even though is was made to fit me). This is why I sometimes get the riser in my face. It was the same in this jump. While opening the riser hit me. But this time my glasses fell down because of that. I even managed to catch them but after looking up I saw that I had two line twists and the canopy was heading
to the wall. I immediately threw the glasses away and thought that I will never get out of the line twist before hitting the wall. Thinking about how to solve this cost me 1-2 valuable seconds. While getting out of the line twists I hit the wall at least two times. From all I know I kicked away from the wall with both foots and the V-Tec of my FOX 265 definetely safed my ass in this situation. Somehow I got it managed to get away from the wall (probably by stalling the canopy away) and landed safely. The jump only resulted in a headache and my own basic
questions about my future in BASE jumping.
I think there are many exits where it is only a matter of time, when you get a cliff-strike. I will not do that kind of jumps anymore. Maybe only direct bag jumps when I really need an on-heading opening, because I think with that there is only a very low risk to get an off-heading and another strike again. But thats only my personal point of view. I hopefully don't find an excuse for that and change my mind ;-).
Cheers,
#928
