This is Ken Shroyer. What you posted is accurate. People can calculate the speed if they want but it was a main reserve entanglement with little or no inflation - feet first spinning - a streamer. I went on to jump at Perris and was on the 10 way speed star team "The Clutch" which took 2 silver metals at the Nationals 83 & 85. I used to buy a keg a beer each year to commemorate the occasion. Even to this day I reflect on what happened that day wondering not only how I survived but why I didn't sustain any injuries. Some may doubt the truefulness of this account but I have nothing to gain by embellishing what happened. I have no answers, it simply did happen as related and it is what it is.
