Jimbas

Maybe a dose of reality will help you - You lost confidence? Where did you get this confidence in the first place? By making 3 jumps that went well, with two of them being harness-hold jumps from exit to opening? Get real. It's not like you have 100's of jumps and could not get stable or depploy your own canopy, you're a STUDENT and what you did was learn a lesson. Your buddy makes it look easy? All that means is that your buddy hasn't been unstable yet, who knows how 'easy' it will be for him when he finally loses stability for the first time. You jumped, you tried, you lived. Move on with your training. This won't be the last set back you have in skydiving, so nut-up, listen to your instructor and get on with the re-jump. You only partially failed in that you didn't remain stable. Your instructor dumped you out when she had the chance, but for all we know you might have dumped yourself out before pull time if she didn't (that's a hint to remember your altitude awareness, no matter which direction you're facing, pull time is pull time, no exceptions). No offence to others, but fuck the tunnel. Get back in the plane, and make a real skydive. You know what you need to do, so just do it. Keep in mind your instructors also know what happened, and will train and treat you accordingly. Most of your jumps have been fine, build on that, and just get on with it. Best answer on the whole thread. Cheers!

You are totally right about only listening to your instructors. But I wasn't trying to get technical advice about what happened. I was looking for people who had experienced the same thing I did on there AFF course. And how they handled it afterwards.

Okay you guys convinced me, I'm gonna try and book the windtunnel for next weekend. And maybe I'll do my stage 4 the next day.

I just printed out your logbook and started to read it a bit. My God, this actually makes me feel better knowing I'm not the only one struggling with my freefall.

the windtunnel sounds like good idea to practice my arch. I found one on the internet that is close by. Do you guys suggest that I do this first? My stage 3 was actually not that bad. So I know I can arch if I set my mind to it. And suggesting I need to relax more sounds logical. But when you just a noobie like me it's hard to relax. All this adrenaline pumping in my body makes me a little tensed up. If you now what I mean... Thanks for the advice!

Hi guys, Last weekend I did my AFF course stage 3 & 4. In the morning I did my stage 3 and it went pretty well. I had a good arch so both jumpmasters let me go. Opened at 5000ft and did a nice landing. In the afternoon I did my stage 4. Just the same thing but this time with 1 jumpmaster. I did a really good exit but after 10 seconds for some unknown reason I pulled up my leg. So I started to spin all over the place. I saw sky, ground, sky, ground, jumpmaster, sky, ground, jumpmaster, etc. I tried to arch but it just didn't work. At 8500ft my jumpmaster deployed my chute while I was going down on my back. The shock it gave to my body was really intense. My body hurts like hell (shoulders, back, arms and even the lines burned my hip and my face a little.) I had lines twisted so I kicked them out and then I landed. (I had lines twisted on my stage 2 too. I'm actually getting used to this malfunction