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    please, as much advice is given to you in this forum (with the best intentions), listen to your jumpmasters/instructors...not us. when you are free to jumpmaster yourself, then all this other information may come in handy. too much information from too many directions while you're still on AFF can be detrimental to your learning right now...



    Trust me that I do and will always listen to my JM's they know what they are doing, I do use the advice in these forums to know what I want to ask them about.(I usually show up with a list of questions ;)) I am after all trusting them to show me how to keep myself alive, best to listen to them:D

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    If you cutaway first, you risk entangling your reserve with your main risers, which are still attached to you, since your main container never opened. I was taught not to waste time with a cutaway, if it won't separate me from my malfunction



    Thats something to think about because I would probably have cut away hoping that it would pull free. maybe I need to study up on this particular mal a bit more.

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    And yes, ask AFF instructor about the hook knife... Ask if you can carry one on your student jumps. If you know you can defeat the mal you will kill the nightmare.


    thanks I will do that, if I can't have one on student status I will get one as soon as I am off it. I am usually level headed in an emergency(which is why I don't understand why this dream bothers me so much) and don't think I would go chop happy but it does sound like a good idea to have one.

  7. I would ask about it because I am so new right now I would want to know if prehaps I had things wrong but I would let the person know that I am new and just trying to 'figure things out'. I do realize that some procedures are really only ment for students and novices, as you become better you may do things differently.

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    It's normal for everyone. I was sitting around with a group of jumpers last week and we were all talking about our skydiving nightmares. Everyone of us has had several. Face it, jumping out of a plane is not the most natural thing to do. In fact it's one of the most unnatural things to do. It violates the survival instinct. We overcome that instinct with our knowledge, training, and gear. But going against a basic human instinct is bound to cause your subconscionse to say WTF???


    Good to know that other skydivers deal with this also. Tommrow morning I am going to jump nerves or not, I feel I HAVE to or be haunted by this thing, never jumping again just isn't an option.

  10. You can't read too much about malfunctions, unless youre reading about them in a non productive manner.
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    Thanks to be honest until this dream malfunctions only mildly bothered me because I had read so much about them I figured I would know what to do.

    OK, I probably gave you more information than you were looking for. I'm only a novice skydiver, I hope I help.
    are you kidding you can never give me too much info ;) all help is greatly appreciated

  11. I am going through my AFF course and am at level 5. Over the last week I have had two really bad nightmares, well really only one but I had it twice.
    I dream I am in freefall and go to throw my chute and it gets caught on my ankle. I try to shake it lose and nothing. I try to pull it free with my hand and only tumble around making it worse, finally I hit my cutaway and reserve but the main is there to stay and the reserve gets tangled up. I see the ground rushing up at me, then I am on the DZ watching what I know is me bounce. both times it was so real I just knew it was really happening.
    I have tried to go do my level 5 three times now and can't go through with it...yet I know I have to.
    Has anyone else had a simular experience and maybe some advice? My husband tends to think I am reading too much about malfunctions.

  13. Yes skydiving is addictive, but one of the coolest addictions you can have:D and dont sweat the nerves, I am going on level 5 AFF and I am nervous every time just a little less so each time.
    ***"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
    -- Mark Twain

  14. Hi there! Welcome to the forums and to skydiving. Hope to see you around.
    ***"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
    -- Mark Twain

  15. Welcome to the forum, and yes skydiving is quite addictive I have found that out myself only recently still being a student (on level 5 AFF) but what better way is there to spend your money or your time? So far I have found nothing that compares to the thrill of freefalling, of course I am sure it will be even more fun when I really learn to fly!:D

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    It's a lot of pressure when you have to worry about performing certain things in the air while only having jumped a few times! Think about it. So just stay as focused as possible and just think ahead to when you graduate and can jump on your own.




    Thanks I like hearing from other newbies as well as the 'old hands' because the newbies are not far from where I am at now. I keep telling myself that all of this work and stress is for the final goal, the time that I will be able to fly with confidence alone.
    I don't think I am going to stress clearing level 5 on the first try, if I do great if not I am just going to work on body position and relaxing, if I get that right I will go on and try to do the rest of the things I am suppose to do.

  18. *** Sounds like you are comming along quite nicely!
    Help me out here: I was trained on the Dope Rope, but what are you expected to do in level 5?
    ===============S. Smith================
    as I understand it after being released I have to do 360 turns and forward tracking. I guess checking for control, funny I am clumsy as hell on the ground I just thank god there is nothing to trip over up there;)

  19. Some of you may have read my earlier post that I did my level 1 and it didn't go too well. I redid my level 1 and it went great and I am now fixing to go on level 5. I am a bit nervous because although I passed my level 4 I didn't feel that I had very good control. I keep having to correct unintentional turns and couldn't stop where I was supposed to. I also felt like I was bumping around like a cork in the surf. my instructor said it was because I was so nervous that I was tensing up (I am having a lot of trouble relaxing during freefall) but unlike my first attempt at level 1 I didn't get tunnel vision one problem and forget everything else. I just said to myself okay you got to work on this and went on. I did land in the parking lot, but n my defense I was on a brand new chute, which my instructor said flat sailed (whatever that means) and there was no wind. Okay enough with the excuses at least I didn't hit a car:P
    ahhh well maybe level 5 today if it doesn't rain;)

  23. good luck on your 100th jump. Hope you have a better day. and yes in skydiving as well as in life iun general it would be nice if everyone would respect the fact that we are all different and like different things...thats one of the things that keeps life interesting;)

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    LMAO......Mine was awful too flygirl. I have it on video, ugh!!!!

    Have mine video taped too..Now that I have calmed down a bit, when I watch it it looks kinda funny, me moving my arms up and down like I did it looked like I was really trying to fly.
    I have never appreciated the support on here more than I do now. I know I can do this, no one can feel this right about something and be wrong. just the thought of never flying through the air again is so depressing that, I would almost rather die trying than to go back to wasting away on the couch.
    btw I would also like to thank fast eddie who came to get my butt and and everyone else at the DZ who was so supportive. It seems to me that skydiving attracts some really cool peopleB|