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  1. Skydiving is much less dangerous than most of your daily activities. I stress safety twenty-four hours a day. "Everything" is dangerous out of context. Skydiving is a very safe sport made dangerous by people who get ahead of their training and abilities. I see people constantly putting themselves in very dangerous situations while skydiving and laughing about it later. If skydiving is dangerous to you, it is because you are making it so. Current training programs and equipment are in place to keep us safe. It is the individual who makes skydiving unsafe not the sport itself.

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    On 3/20/2019 at 3:13 PM, jacketsdb23 said:

    Relevant post by Dan BC after this accident:

    It is with great sadness that I feel it necessary to bring these skydiving safety issues up again. A couple of weeks ago I had two friends tell me that on a jump they looked up at their parachutes which weren’t working properly, actually heard my voice in their heads telling them to “Cut that crap away!” and cut away immediately. They both landed safely and wrote humorous posts about it. This past weekend I had two other friends look up at their parachutes which weren’t working properly. One cut away too late, one didn’t cut away at all. We’re very lucky to have one of those of friends still with us. No funny posts this time.
    How is this possible? I’ll tell you. Please, please listen carefully.
    Most skydivers, probably you, make these two mistakes first:
    1) Underestimate the potential risk involved on any given jump
    2) Overestimate their ability and readiness to handle that risk

    Understand this; SKYDIVING IS NOT A SAFE SPORT. It is a dangerous sport that can be done safely. To do it safely you need to expect everything that can go wrong to go wrong on each jump.
    -Expect that something is wrong with your gear when you do a gear check. -Expect to have other jumpers close to you on opening. -Expect your audible and visual altimeters not to work. -Expect to have a hard pull. -Expect to have a malfunction. -Expect other canopies to be coming at you.
    How much would you be looking for air traffic if you knew other jumpers were close to you on opening?
    How sharp would you be about altitude awareness if you didn’t have any kind of altimeter?
    How hard would you pull on the first try if you were expecting a hard pull?
    How much would you practice your emergency procedures if you knew you were going to have a malfunction on the next jump?

    Many Special Forces soldiers from the US and around the world train at Skydive Perris. They are experts in risk and readiness. All of them practice their EPs every morning for about 10 minutes before jumping. Do you? Are you more prepared than they are? I seriously doubt it.

    The Red Bull skydiving team members are close friends of mine who I knew as young jumpers. They do dangerous jumps. I worry about them, but I know they understand and accept the increased risk and they do all they can to prepare for it. Do you truly understand the risk? Are you prepared for it? Are you really?

    Being prepared means anticipating emergencies and having made emergency decisions before the emergency happens. You need to decide NOW that if you ever deploy your main, look up at it and aren’t 100% sure it’s good, you are going to cut away immediately. Bad canopies generally get worse and executing your emergency procedures only becomes more difficult the longer you’re under a spinning malfunction.
    Expect a malfunction so you’re not surprised. Being surprised will slow down your response. Take a breath and calmly and immediately execute your EPs.
    Don’t just know your EPs, be great at them!
    The first step of any EP is “looking” for your handles. Look first! When you’re under canopy, especially a malfunctioning canopy your handles won’t be in the same place as when you’re wearing your rig on the ground.
    Most skydivers, probably you, make these two mistakes first:
    1) Underestimate the potential risk involved on any given jump
    2) Overestimate their ability and readiness to handle that risk

    Coming to you with much love towards our community and sport, and insane frustration when we’re complacent. Please share. www.danbrodsky-chenfeld.com

    More about safetly:
    https://skydiveperris.com/b/so-youre-a-baddass/
    https://skydiveperris.com/b/the-question-to-ask-when-choos…/
    https://skydiveperris.com/b/what-is-the-most-dangerous-way…/
    https://skydiveperris.com/b/our-enemy-is-complacency/

    I disagree. Skydiving is a very safe sport. It can be made dangerous by poor training, poor ability, poor decision making, equipment malfunction and so on.

  4. Has anyone dealt with Parasport customer service? I sent them a defective altimeter at their request. I have had no communication with them since they confirmed receipt of my altimeter. They have not answered any emails since that day. Has anyone had any previous experience with Parasports customer service good or bad? Thanks.