newbieforever

Do you feel pressure or drag, in any particular area? Do you tend to turn in one specific direction? In freefall or under canopy, do you tend to drift to one side? It seems that there wasn't a problem,on the previous jump. well, I didn't really look at my alti ,if that's what you mean by altitude aware while dealing with the line twists. However, I knew I was not falling and my fall rate had decreased, like it is under an open canopy so while I was kicking, I didn't look at my alti, though I was conscious about my altitude.

yes, I was not on a group jump, but, on my ride up I let the instructor in the plane and the jumpers know that I was pulling at 4500 feet. And also there was this dude from New zealand who was plannin on pulling at 5K, So I didn't wana pull above my designated altitude and cause some nforseen accident. though I should probably have....

I'm a new jumper with 17 jumps. Today I went for a jump after a 16 day hiatus. I'm so frustrated with my jump today that I was pondering why do I even jump when I'm not having fun out there. So pl. I need some words of wisdom and some pointers/advise that will put me in the right mind set that I was in when I set out to learn to skydive. So this is what happened today. I was doin solo with a floating exit (exit altitude of 13K), tumbled and immediately got stable, checked alti, I'm at 11K. Now I start to spin slowly, I relax and give opposite input and I do not see any change. So i arch hard and the spin starts to grow fast and fast. As the spin was getting faster I was thinkin to myself "this is it". Now I'm spinning so fat and I remember looking at my alti and it read blury (8.5K). I'm like "what is going on" why can't I stop this spin, toe taps and arch no change I'm still spnning out of control, I immediately remembered reading on some thread that track out of spin. I track and still spining. I was just wishing I get to 4500 feet so that I can pull the PC and get done with this. at around 6K I start to feel a lil disoriented after spinning from 11k to 4.5K. And I pull and get a line twist and start kicking and it took good 10 -12 sec of kicking to fix the line twists. Did my checks and boy was I glad to be under a clean canopy. I really feel frustrated, that after finishing my AFF I'm still having stability issues, I feel terrible about myself. I should be moving forward instead I'm still having issues falling stable. I really want to do well, learn it right, always apply the right things learnt. I was wondering has anyone experienced this?. How do you overcome from a bad jump? I'm just afraid, I'll mess up my next jump as well.