klingeme 0 #1 October 1, 2007 United Parachute Technologies is looking for Skyhook testimonials. Please send us an account of your Skyhook cutaway story, and we will send you a free t-shirt!! Please send to [email protected] before 1 November 2007 in order to be eligible. Please be sure to include your name, shipping address and t-shirt size. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeNReN 0 #2 October 1, 2007 I would very much like a Free T-Shirt but do not have a reserve ride on a skyhook equiped rig could I do a testominal after watching the several video's of skyhook deployments to get a Free T-Shirt?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #3 October 1, 2007 Yeah, I've been jumping a skyhook-equipped rig for almost 4 years and I've only had a cutaway at my rigger's house. Really not worth writing about...the reserve didn't even come out. How's this for a testimonial?: http://www.skydivingstills.com/gallery/3302238/1/183499573/Medium. I can say that I was impressed to watch it! Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeNReN 0 #4 October 1, 2007 I am extreemly impressed buy that pic of a skyhook cutaway... only a Free T-Shirt could impress me more Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
klingeme 0 #5 October 1, 2007 Nice try guys, but I think only "in air" cutaways count for this deal.Mark Klingelhoefer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NewGuy2005 51 #6 October 1, 2007 How about I provide a T-shirt in exchange for a Skyhook equipped rig? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeNReN 0 #7 October 1, 2007 OK OK....no Free T-Shirt how about some pull-ups or other swag?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bch7773 0 #8 October 1, 2007 what about intentional skyhook deployments? MB 3528, RB 1182 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyninja 0 #9 October 1, 2007 How about watching someone else's skyhook deployment after cutaway from about 500 feet above?Why don't you just play 'chicken' on the railroad tracks? It would be a cheaper way to toy with death, I'm sure. CWR #2 - "You SAID collision!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brains 2 #10 October 2, 2007 Hey mark, i think the guy at skyfest 2006 should get one for having three parachute rides in one jump!! I will never forget watching that video and listening to his story. Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
klingeme 0 #11 October 2, 2007 Quote Hey mark, i think the guy at skyfest 2006 should get one for having three parachute rides in one jump!! I will never forget watching that video and listening to his story. No Comment...... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brettski74 0 #12 October 2, 2007 QuoteI will never forget watching that video and listening to his story.[Wink] You forgot the link to the aforementioned video for those of us who may have been living under a rock for the past little while. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiverek 56 #13 October 2, 2007 Quote Hey mark, i think the guy at skyfest 2006 should get one for having three parachute rides in one jump!! I will never forget watching that video and listening to his story. First reserve malfunctioned??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
980 0 #14 October 2, 2007 Quote Quote Hey mark, i think the guy at skyfest 2006 should get one for having three parachute rides in one jump!! I will never forget watching that video and listening to his story. No Comment...... This makes me wonder how many interesting stories there are connected to the RWS/UPT skyhook demo rig? I remember laughing my ass off at JPs video of Jamie's intentional cutaway on the skyhook demo rig, showing pretty much exactly what you would expect to see, until JP flies into the cut-away main, it entangles with his main and then he has to chop also! That was Eloy Holiday Boogie 2004. please do share these entertaining stories! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
corvettedude 0 #15 October 3, 2007 3 skyhook assisted rides last year in Missouri. E-mailed "ya" DeegsIt is possible to get all A's in school and still flunk life~Percy Walker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
klingeme 0 #16 October 3, 2007 Quote Quote I will never forget watching that video and listening to his story.[Wink] You forgot the link to the aforementioned video for those of us who may have been living under a rock for the past little while. I shot the video, but will not be posting it. I'll tell you what I saw. A perfect main opening, flew to the cutaway area, signaled to me he would be cutting away, and I OK'd the cutaway. He cutaway the first main and the reserve (2nd main) deploys. I see a reserve almost fully inflated (great deployment) but as the last cell was pressurizing, the reserve (2nd main) cuts away. Then, a couple seconds later, the tersh is deployed. We get to the ground and he says he did not cut away the 2nd main (first reserve) but the handles are all pulled. It was definantly my most exciting (it freaked me out) SkyHook video I shot that summer and I shot a lot of them. Mark Klingelhoefer United Parachute Technologies Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
upndownshop 0 #17 October 3, 2007 Does it count if someone with the Skyhook demo group had a cutaway, so 2 of the 3 had to chop?. Thus noone noticed the actual SH demo because everyone saw the real malfunction, and turned their heads away, thinkning they saw it.Leaving one poor bastard looking for 2 mains?Mark got beat by a girlllllll!!!J Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
klingeme 0 #18 October 3, 2007 Quote Does it count if someone with the Skyhook demo group had a cutaway, so 2 of the 3 had to chop?. Thus noone noticed the actual SH demo because everyone saw the real malfunction, and turned their heads away, thinkning they saw it.Leaving one poor bastard looking for 2 mains?J J, This sounds like a conspiracy for one company to sabatage another companies demonstration of their product and we all know that that would never happen....... Quote Mark got beat by a girlllllll!!! I guess that makes two of us.Mark Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
upndownshop 0 #19 October 4, 2007 Quote J, This sounds like a conspiracy for one company to sabatage another companies demonstration of their product and we all know that that would never happen....... No that was really really bad packing from a paid packer, at the WFFC, that rig did not get jumped till SD LI. I could never figure out the mal from the way she was describing it. Later that year I saw a mal video and asked her to look at it. She claimed that it was the same as what she had during that jump Get this, It was a "cross over' or "side way" step thru! The rig was passed between the front and rear riser on one side then packed!! It took 39 years in the sport to see something like that, then I saw it twice in one year!! Mark got beat by a girlllllll!!! Quote I guess that makes two of us.Mark DOOH!! I should have thought that out a bit longer before "posting", (in more ways than one) Correction; "That makes 4 of us." Recently heard, the "Isle" was walked for the 4th time a while back.UUPT could make a fortune with a Bloopers SH video! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
klingeme 0 #20 October 4, 2007 Quote DOOH!! I should have thought that out a bit longer before "posting", (in more ways than one) Sorry, but I couldn't resist. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KellyF 16 #21 October 4, 2007 Hey Mark, do you guys have to dial a "9" or something to call outside of the building? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
