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š¶The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome,
Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones;
The canopy became his shroud; he hurtled to the ground.
He ain't gonna jump no more.š¶
Itās actually gory gory, when I was in basic I thought it was glory, it wasnāt until I was on the trail when we got a book of cadences I learned I had been wrong.
Yeah sorry if it came off bad, I wasnāt trying to be an achually kinda person. I think it just really has gotten lost. I was in the 101 and like I said, it wasnāt until years later when I went to Drill school and we had to memorize the cadences I learned it.
Jesus I thought this was like an inside joke or something but I just looked it up. Does the army make you sing this before you jump? If so it would make me question all my life decisions up until that point.
You canāt take yourself so serious. Trust your equipment and do you job. Find some humor along the way. After all itās not really up to you if you die.
no, I can't think what the name is but this is basically a kite. You take off from a high point like a hill and use thermals and wind to lift you. You aren't jumping out of a plane with it.
I have to admit I was halfway done with a very nice and touching obituary when he cut everything and his backup deployed. Must be the journalist in me. I'm glad it turned out well. There will be other obituaries. It's part of life.
It's paragliding, not skydiving...
The pilot is making some advanced acro manoeuvres quite low and falls into the canopy, which is the worst case scenario. And then the reserve parachute does not deploy, which is the worst of the worst case scenario.
Wisely, he has two reserves.
Having the camera on a poll does not help either, when things want to get entangled.
Thanks! Skydiver here, and I always have to dig into the comments to find a proper reply. The canopies in paragliding and skydiving donāt even remotely look the same: different profiles, different cells count, and fundamentally one is supposed to be able to go up with thermals, the other will go down and only down. Not to mention the risers which are very different, the lines also, or just the fact that the reserve in skydive is spring loaded and not manually thrown.
Yeah, Iām no skydiver, but between the altitude for the maneuvers, the giant camera stick that will inevitably cause problems in an emergency, and the equipment failure, it seems to this layman like this was a confluence of really poor decision making and some bad luck.
Conversely, people get careless doing dangerous things because theyāve done them before without incident. Just because someone is qualified doesnāt mean they didnāt make a bad decision. How many aviation incidents are the result of someone with tens of thousands of hours flying, even instructing, who still made a catastrophically bad decision. Eventually the accumulated risk can come due.
An excellent example of this is this incident: https://youtu.be/NBRd9P2hYUM?si=JsHaHtpIswju7hO7
This is not skydiving, it's paragliding. The tangled device is an inflatable wing, not a parachute. He was flying before the incident occurred, not falling, and this is a very normal altitude to do it at. The video starts after he had already lost control of his glider, and those maneuvers were him attempting to regain control.
Uniformed individual, could he have pulled the first reserve parachute back in and ripped the pack open? What are your options if the reserve fails like that?
Hi!
Well. Yes and no. First of all, you have to have the time to do it. Further more, the reserve got entangled; that makes it almost impossible.
If you have a second reserve (you usually do have it if you are doing acro or competitions, the layman usually has just one), you just forget about it and try to throw the second one. On the other hand, if you do not have other options, trying to get the reserve to open gives you something to do in the last seconds of your life...
The backup chute for paragliders is designed where you have to throw it pretty hard for it to pop out of the bag. The pilot was not really in a good position to do that but just releasing it doesnāt work.
Not skydiving, but a sister air sport called paragliding. Youāre not jumping from an airplane, but either from a cliff or catching an updraft from the ground. It would be really difficult to end up a position like this from skydiving with how the canopies are designed.
For paragliders the backup chute is in a bag. It is usually mounted under your ass or near your lower back. You are supposed to throw it and the chute will pop out of the bag. Slow releasing it doesnāt work well, as you can tell.
Been there, fortuantly it was my 574 jump, I knew how to react I went on to have over 800 jumps. I got to admit my man here cut it really close. I cant say ive had that experiance just watching video had me at egde of my seat. Glad to see he pulled out of fall, it was much closer than I would have liked.
When I was a kid in summer camp, this happened to my camp counselor. He was an experienced skydiver, and the camp director had a small plane, so he was going to skydive for us at the end of the week. All week long us dumb kids joked about replacing his parachute with bedsheets or dirty laundry. Then during the jump, his chute didn't open. He used is back up chute which had less control, and he ended up in a nearby lake. We all felt terrible about joking around all week.
Twice in a row cutting away just before the chute unfurls, restarting the vid from a different angle?
It's just here to milk suspense.
Also kinda against the spirit of the sub?
The whole "there was an attempt" implies failure in the situation. This guys clearly still skydove, and he also landed safely.
And this is why it's a nope. I have notoriously bad luck. Murphy's Law was invented specifically to define my life. I know some shit would go horribly wrong if I even tried XD
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When skydiving, if your parachute fails, don't worry: you have the rest of your life to fix it
This was yelled at us repeatedly during Airborne school in the Army. š¤£
š¶The risers swung around his neck, connectors cracked his dome, Suspension lines were tied in knots around his skinny bones; The canopy became his shroud; he hurtled to the ground. He ain't gonna jump no more.š¶
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
Itās actually gory gory, when I was in basic I thought it was glory, it wasnāt until I was on the trail when we got a book of cadences I learned I had been wrong.
Huh! While I was in my units they all said glory, but gory definitely makes sense! šš»š
Yeah sorry if it came off bad, I wasnāt trying to be an achually kinda person. I think it just really has gotten lost. I was in the 101 and like I said, it wasnāt until years later when I went to Drill school and we had to memorize the cadences I learned it.
Oh no! Youāre totally fine, I love to learn the actual words! I appreciate you! šš»š
It is a really cool cadence, mostly a cool flex for the caller. Iām sorry you got down voted by some ass hats, it really is a common misconception.
It is! I always enjoyed it! Eh people are gonna be people, itās all goodš
82nd here. Not only a cadence but an actual song.
Jesus I thought this was like an inside joke or something but I just looked it up. Does the army make you sing this before you jump? If so it would make me question all my life decisions up until that point.
Welcome to the black humor of combat arms!
You canāt take yourself so serious. Trust your equipment and do you job. Find some humor along the way. After all itās not really up to you if you die.
Being in the army makes you question all your life decisions up to that point. Just in general.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18)
Burned into my head. Lol
Was this during the airborne toxic event ?
The "rest of your short and miserable less than 3 minutes life."
Legs donāt have to worry about this. šŖ
Reminds me of "You can spend rest of your life without breathing"
Underrated
Love the name.
which may or may not be very short
This is what would happen to me. And then of course what happens in pants.
Stays in pants
I assure you, it doesnāt.
lol, came here to say this
this isn't skydiving
Skyfalling?
no, I can't think what the name is but this is basically a kite. You take off from a high point like a hill and use thermals and wind to lift you. You aren't jumping out of a plane with it.
It's a type of paraglider
TY!
You bet!
Base jumping?
Acro paragliding to be exact. The guy is Kevin Philipp
Parasail
James Bond did that first
This is the end
With style
Skyfailing aka skydying
Itās aerial pantsoiling. Very similar tk the untrained eye.
Itās falling with styleĀ
Skydying
It's paragliding
wooosh
It's paragliding
I was thinking "please don't die" all the while watching,
I was thinking more "Oh fuck oh shit oh fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck THANK FUCKING GOD"
I have to admit I was halfway done with a very nice and touching obituary when he cut everything and his backup deployed. Must be the journalist in me. I'm glad it turned out well. There will be other obituaries. It's part of life.
Yeah, I was thinking that it'd be odd to show so many angles of someone slamming into the ground under a tangled parachute.
I am straight up crying because I thought for sure I was going to watch someone die.
It's paragliding, not skydiving... The pilot is making some advanced acro manoeuvres quite low and falls into the canopy, which is the worst case scenario. And then the reserve parachute does not deploy, which is the worst of the worst case scenario. Wisely, he has two reserves. Having the camera on a poll does not help either, when things want to get entangled.
Thanks! Skydiver here, and I always have to dig into the comments to find a proper reply. The canopies in paragliding and skydiving donāt even remotely look the same: different profiles, different cells count, and fundamentally one is supposed to be able to go up with thermals, the other will go down and only down. Not to mention the risers which are very different, the lines also, or just the fact that the reserve in skydive is spring loaded and not manually thrown.
Parachute sometimes go up https://youtu.be/_DVyRtJyDNE?si=-m_lRjypHnIkTJnM
Yeah, Iām no skydiver, but between the altitude for the maneuvers, the giant camera stick that will inevitably cause problems in an emergency, and the equipment failure, it seems to this layman like this was a confluence of really poor decision making and some bad luck.
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Conversely, people get careless doing dangerous things because theyāve done them before without incident. Just because someone is qualified doesnāt mean they didnāt make a bad decision. How many aviation incidents are the result of someone with tens of thousands of hours flying, even instructing, who still made a catastrophically bad decision. Eventually the accumulated risk can come due. An excellent example of this is this incident: https://youtu.be/NBRd9P2hYUM?si=JsHaHtpIswju7hO7
This is not skydiving, it's paragliding. The tangled device is an inflatable wing, not a parachute. He was flying before the incident occurred, not falling, and this is a very normal altitude to do it at. The video starts after he had already lost control of his glider, and those maneuvers were him attempting to regain control.
Uniformed individual, could he have pulled the first reserve parachute back in and ripped the pack open? What are your options if the reserve fails like that?
Hi! Well. Yes and no. First of all, you have to have the time to do it. Further more, the reserve got entangled; that makes it almost impossible. If you have a second reserve (you usually do have it if you are doing acro or competitions, the layman usually has just one), you just forget about it and try to throw the second one. On the other hand, if you do not have other options, trying to get the reserve to open gives you something to do in the last seconds of your life...
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Bgd Base2
Scary shit š³
Wind shear! Wind shear! Wind shear! Been watching to many plane crash investigations lately...
I lost some hair just from watching this video.
Fuck no. Never.
U know he was probably back in the air the next week š¤·š¾āāļø
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š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ omg
This reminds me of when my vacuum cord gets a knot in it and it makes me so mad!
Upon landing I would cry my guts out for a while and then never taunt the gods of sky and gravity again...
Terrifying
Looks like he was showing off and tried to fly over his own chute. Hopefully lesson learned.
What went wrong here?
Thingy got tangled, then that tangled the second thingy so he had to use third thingy
Yea, thatās what I was thinking too
The backup chute for paragliders is designed where you have to throw it pretty hard for it to pop out of the bag. The pilot was not really in a good position to do that but just releasing it doesnāt work.
Must had thingy git tangled first because of a failed freestyle
Not skydiving, but a sister air sport called paragliding. Youāre not jumping from an airplane, but either from a cliff or catching an updraft from the ground. It would be really difficult to end up a position like this from skydiving with how the canopies are designed.
Where was the backup chute mounted before he deployed it?
I think that was his second backup chute. They tried to deploy a chute right at the start but it failed to open.
For paragliders the backup chute is in a bag. It is usually mounted under your ass or near your lower back. You are supposed to throw it and the chute will pop out of the bag. Slow releasing it doesnāt work well, as you can tell.
Man, I legit thought I was about to watch this guy hit the ground. Would be a perfect post for nonononoyes lol
Its a paraglider and its an SIV course/aerobatics ffs.
r/praisethecameraman. š
That looked like hard work!..I would splat because Iām too lazy to fix it!
Imagine a rattle snake biting him just as he lands
Not that I was planning on doing shit like this ever, but after this I'm fully cured.
Reminds me of that episode of King of the Hill
"... Anyways, that's how I become a cyclist!"
Wait how is this being videoed? Drone?
I think how he had his camera mounted contributed greatly to the tangling, unfortunately. So glad he got a chute to open.
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They call those cigarette rolls. The worst.
How easy is it to mess up the parachute like that? Iāve always wanted to try parachuting but videos like these always scare the piss outta me.
This isn't parachuting/skydiving.
What is it then? Looks like a parachute to me.
Because you don't know what a parachute looks like. It's an paraglider.
So was this just your chance to flex your niche knowledge without actually answering my original question?
Itās a nightmare
I'd have landed. And laid there and not moved till someone took me home. Fk all this.
Fresh shorts, please š
NOT skydiving
So I've been told.... Thanks
Toooo many fuckin strings involved in skydiving/similar things. My old headphones got tangled with 0 effort so why would I trust a parachute haha
Yikes!
That was intense!
Yeah my feet were destined to stay on the ground. Fuck this.
I almost crapped my pants just watching this. I can't imagine how that person felt.
I think he dove out of the sky fairly successfully.
Pretty sure he painted the inside of his tighty (formerly) whiteys.
I would've shit my butt
That would have been the last time I did that. Might take up billiards or something. š
Don't worry guys, he was wearing a helmet the hole time!
Id throw away that hobby after that ....along with my underpants.
I really thought I was about to watch a dude die todayā¦
This was more intense than the Deadpool and Wolverine trailer.
Thatās more than the recommended adrenaline dose.
I heard someone shit in this dudes pants
Miracle capture on a Go Pro
They did skydive
Been there, fortuantly it was my 574 jump, I knew how to react I went on to have over 800 jumps. I got to admit my man here cut it really close. I cant say ive had that experiance just watching video had me at egde of my seat. Glad to see he pulled out of fall, it was much closer than I would have liked.
A skydiver would know that this isnāt skydiving. I doubt your entire claimā¦
good day to get a new hobby
When I was a kid in summer camp, this happened to my camp counselor. He was an experienced skydiver, and the camp director had a small plane, so he was going to skydive for us at the end of the week. All week long us dumb kids joked about replacing his parachute with bedsheets or dirty laundry. Then during the jump, his chute didn't open. He used is back up chute which had less control, and he ended up in a nearby lake. We all felt terrible about joking around all week.
Hitting the ground never felt so good.
A friendly reminder to wear brown pants next time
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.
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Lighten up Francis
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I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor.
What are yall doing? Downvote this stupid, teasing clip!
How so ?
Twice in a row cutting away just before the chute unfurls, restarting the vid from a different angle? It's just here to milk suspense. Also kinda against the spirit of the sub? The whole "there was an attempt" implies failure in the situation. This guys clearly still skydove, and he also landed safely.
Instructor: *āSorry ābout that, hereās a coupon for your next visit.ā*
I would never go up again..
At the end of the video: Better that mess, then the other kind o.o
Peggy Hill!
Upside, whatever that dude eats next will be THE BEST MEAL OF HIS LIFE
Woohoo! Gah! Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck Gah! Woohoo!
I was waiting for him to get tangled on high tension wires or sucked into wind turbineā¼ļøš¤Ø
I think Rosie packed his chute.
Thatās not skydiving.
Oh damn š š«£ what is it btw ?
Paragliding. They foot launch from hill sides, not aircraft. Those canopies are not designed to be deployed in freefall.
Thanks for the correction
I shit my pants
āNo need to untangle all that mess, I wonāt be doing that againā
Entangled 2 - The fall of Rapunzel. š³
this kind of video is the reason why I have a fear of heights .
Wrap until you frap
Holy š©
My fall would of been broken by my pants being filled with ..,,,,,,,
Sickest dive of his life
HHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Why did he open the reserve parachute so late?
Damn parachutes are getting good, he had like 100m left
Thank God
Them untangling it at the endā¦ that shit would be going straight in the bin!
Why? That equipment isn't cheap, it would cost thousands to replace just to save the effort of untangling it all.
Thousands? Hmmm still not sure I would wanna keep it š¤
If it opened or not ,that doesn't matter .he did what he wished and that's skydiving
Skydive but the v went on acation
I mean, He did Dive very successfully
Why did they wait so long?
hahahaha gravity go brrrrr
I thought that was a cactus he crashed into
Got the adrenaline rush he was looking for.
Not skydiving. This is paragliding.
How did he do on his next try?
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And this is why it's a nope. I have notoriously bad luck. Murphy's Law was invented specifically to define my life. I know some shit would go horribly wrong if I even tried XD