Friday Freakout: DO NOT PULL LOW - Wingsuit Pilot Can’t Cutaway, Lands With Line Twists 

"Smite"

Bravo

Amen

And THAT, shall be ye final AMEN {side note: do not EVER jump with this dude} !!!

@Reee Flex You’re not a skydiver, are you? I can tell.

@@themomentalist 95% of the people watching these videos are not skydivers, but they watch a few videos or MAYBE have done 1 tandem and think they are experts.

@@themomentalist Please explain your logic.

@@t.wadegonder1288 Haven’t a clue, my comment was posted a year ago and the comment that it was a reply too seems to have been deleted 🤷‍♂️

@@themomentalist Was this skydive hawaii?

If you gotta land hard, a freshly plowed field is about the best friend you could hope for.

no words for that...

@@TrTriTrippin I was like, "wow dude, prepare to eat shit, but you can do it ;8" Then somehow he had done it. The scale Fd w me so I couldnt' tell his land speed.

Yeah I think I would have chopped. Great canopy skills. Probably a BASE jumper.

Like a pro lol

​@@herobo123456 Havent you got a lego movie to watch instead of acting like you know better?

@@brightdaygaming5692 lol right.. Im surprised the pilot didn't wasnt doing more butterfly kicks, and trying to hold some space above the twist though.

That's what I was thinking.

yup and what's up with him buzzing by the people opening

carpe diem depends on whether it was planned or not but I feel ya. If wasn't expecting to be buzzed I'd be pissed.

I'm at 90 jumps with no knowledge of wingsuit flying, and when I saw the line twists I thought pulling while turning was possibly the contributing factor.

carpe diem no fun

A MARD (Skyhook) mmmmmight have worked...not sure, but the skyhook test videos show a skyhook getting reserves out , during a spin, in 1.8 seconds (fully inflated reserve). Since his main was "there & square" I too would have ridden it to the ground, but if it was diving line twists, and a skyhook in the rig, I'd go skyhook...but really, I personally wouldn't pull that fucking low. I try to pitch @ 4000', all the time (flying a Strix these days). Not a base jumper, just Capt. Safety Dork. Also got the Wingsuit Cypress AAD last year...I gotz all the safety b.s., and I'll probably be killed from a hard opening neck snapper or aorta tearer... but it'll be fun up until that point ;-)

@@mikeferguson4816 A tear of the heart, & you're to blame. You give wingsuits a bad name 😲😂😂

@@KeepinYouUp07 Hilarious! Well done!

@@mikeferguson4816 haha thanks. Stay safe sky brother

he was wingsuiting too close to other parachutes .. if something went wrong he could have killed somebody else .. so its not even about the line twist thats fine .. it just shows he is not addequit in solving that problem .. nice landing though... :-)

People keep thinking the turn occurred before deployment, what nobody seems to get is that the turn was a result of the deployment. I had a long delay due to the PC and Bag falling into my large burble (flying an X3). but yeah I get why people would watch the video and think whatever. D29399

no disrespect on my other comments here. i'm uneducated with the rules, but even to me things didn't look favorable for the others under canopy. that's why I've asked questions.

TK Hinshaw thanks for posting despite the risk of shade from keyboard warriors. Helpful to see how stable line twists are landed when too low to cut. Plus the flybys were cool on their own.

I’m curious too...what canopy was this? How long a bridle and how many inches was the pilot chute?

@@amalekited Its my go to Spectre120. Standard mirage g4 bridle & PC. There are better systems out there, but I still jump the same stuff to this day.

i need a video of this

@@bermchasin ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PzqT-fTJDqE.html

Yall crazy jumping out of planes looks so fun.

@@nonethelessfirst8519 and expensive

Thank you for explaining this.

If the guy is bigger and faster than you?😆

he was trying to unzip his wingsuit. sometimes that takes a sec

@@geekdiggy Yup. can't torque those legs when you're wrapped up like a mummy!

@@geekdiggy That makes sense. I commented earlier about just staring at the twists, and even commented how he's advanced enough to use a wingsuit, but not advanced enough to try and stop the twists. I haven't jumped in almost 10 years, so I totally forgot about the wingsuit.. wings. lol. I still stand by what else I said though, who the hell tries to pull apart/kick out of line twists by separating the top of the twists? what are you going to do, unwind the canopy? Pull apart the bottom.

@@beavis847 At that point he was to low to undo the twist. so he settled for trying to control the top with what he had and make it so he landed in the field and not a tree.

I've never seen a modern fun jumper using a round reserve. Is that a thing ??? 2000 jumps, 2 cut aways. I have thought of a round reserve before.

Amazing not just good or very good but amazing lol fuck off

Geeking for your friend's cameras isn't always worth it.

and dont open your chute mid turn

jordan williams hooah!!!!!!

+Sarah Gerber You have got to admit though that skiers are annoying! lol

+Sarah Gerber This has nothing to do with divisions between sports, this is all coming from a safety perspective. What Tk did in this video put not only his life but the lives of every jumper on that load at risk. Period, end of story. This sort of thing would and should get you grounded, license revoked, not too mention the ass whipping you could take from the people you could have killed. Simply reading the reactions to comments by this arrogant prick, you should be able to ascertain that he has no regard for the people around him, no respect for the dangers he imposes, and ABSOLUTELY no respect for this sport or the rules that govern it. If his daddy didnt own the DZ and he pulled that shit anywhere else. He would get jacked up by the DZ, the uspa and the jumpers he could have killed. Guarenteed

That was a rear rising (piloting) but commands landing (he grabbed the commands lines without unstowing them).

@cameraflyer Thanks

I don't know how serious your question was, but to answer it: Probably not much more expensive than driving motorbikes. The initial license including ~25 jumps (depending a little bit which country you are in) will cost you round about 2.500 up to 3.000 US$. After this, every jump will be around 25 US$. But - of course - you need equipment, which will probably cost you round about 5.000 US$ initially (buy a used rig, a suit, an altimeter, a helmet and so on). Instead of buying you can also rent euqipment until you found something that fits your needs and sizes, but this will add another ~25 US$ to each dive. It's no cheap hobby, but after having received your license and your gear (which might cost you less than a motorcycle license and a good motorbike, depending on the motorbike you want to get) 100 jumps per year will cost you around 2.500 US$. Taking into account how much money people spend on their motorbikes, gasoline, insurance, wheels and other stuff, it's not more expensive than many other hobbies... And you are right: It's much safer than driving on a street. Also statistically. You have much more backup (malfunction handling, reserve chute if you cut away your main chute, automatic activation device for the reserve, altitude) than someone driving a motorbike and you have (by far) less external and unpredictable influence that can get you hurt or killed. Go for it! ;-)

woseba - Vertical Pilot such a good reply

My training and gear cost me roughly $10k that was with a brand new Glide rig, PD optimum reserve, M2 AAD and a used PD Saber 2 Canopy.

That’s exactly what I did! I got hit by a car and said fuck that! I started skydiving and flying Wingsuits. It’s much safer.

Sometimes your canopy can be flyable with line twists, other times if you have a higher performance canopy, it can go into an immediate down-plane and be impossible to both control, and kick out of, AND be at a much higher rate of descent. BUT if you have line twists, and a functioning canopy, especially if you're too low to cut-away, then by all means, you can grab the rear risers if your steering toggles are locked up, and steer using just the risers, and even flare the canopy.

@@beavis847 Cool, thank you very much. I'm starting AFF this Fall, learning as much as possible beforehand.

Jamel Ling line twisting could be caused by many factors but it’s possible.If he had enough altitude he could cutaway and pull the reserve.

No, he said he deployed straight. Shit got caught in the wing suite burble. That started turning him and continued into the line twist. Lucky his risers were pretty even.

What? Its inexperienced and stupid divers that would have died in this situation. What he did was perfectly safe. Unreal how many people here think this was anything but a tangle caused by a chute opening. His biggest mistake was the late pull, PERIOD.

yes

Explain this a little more. I am always worried about line twists ....

@@surfbug1 OK see how he tried to pull apart the twist from the parachute side (Top of the twist) instead of from his harness (Bottom of the twist) He is trying to spin the chute to untwist which wont work. He needs to untwist from his harness and spin himself and let the chute fly stable. it is easier to twist his body in the harness than they chute full of air. Bottom up.

No you don't :-) Maybe read how the knowledgable people explains the jumper is a big fat fuck..

Lazy bugger. All is explained in writing - above and below. Don't litter, but pic up all the invested words others contributed with!

Golf all you want. I got my parachutes.

TK is a dumb fuck. No one wants to jump with him and his own employees talk shit about him. If it weren't for his daddy owning the DZ, he'd have been banned a long time ago. I'd never get on the same plane as him. Don't really have to worry about that though, since his family owns a tandem factory and doesn't believe in "fun jumpers". Not that anyone would jump at their "business" anyway. They're a bunch of rude ignorant fucks. They like the harass and embarrass students when they PLF.

benc1978 you can even hear that he's a moron. "fucking line twists bro"

well thats not nice...

it's the internet.

I'm not that experienced a skydiver, but it looked very low to cutaway since you drop back into freefall for a few seconds. I'd personally rather have risked landing with twists than try to get the reserve out.