Hi everyone, this is my first post here but since I'm the passenger on the first video and some people seems to freak out about it, I felt I had to clarify a bit. At that moment I had 30 jumps under my belly and I was already CoP A. I paid a tandem jump to my father (who jump right before me) because he's the one who gave me my first tandem jump at my 24 th birthday and I though it would be great to jump with him and do a tandem about one year after my first jump. Although I know I wasn't an expert of freefly or anything at that stage, I had a bit of experience in 2-way and sitfly and I though that a "normal jump" would have been cool, but a "different" jump could be great ! I talked about it with both the tandem master and the cameraman (who I both know quite well because I did some of my training with them) and we decide altogether to do a 3-way sitfly. We reviewed each step of the jump together (from exit to separation and opening) and went for it. I'm absolutely sure they would NEVER try such a jump with a first timer and they knew at that time where I was in my progression and took it into consideration. I strongly disagree with everybody who call him a "vidiot" without knowing anything about the people in the video. Since I understand some peeps don't like to see things they consider risky happens, I think a bit of moderation and thinking would be welcome. I would never approve anything dangerous and personally, I still consider myself as a very conservative skydiver. But that one was as prepared as it can be and I felt totally safe with these two birds with me. At last, skydiving will always be a matter of ratio fun/danger for me, and I think communication with higher experience jumpers is the key to reduce to the max those dangers. It's great to see that so many people are willing to give advices to avoid tricky situations and potentially deadly manoeuvres, but let's face it, without anyone pushing the limits now and then, the sport would still be the same as it was 40 years ago. I hope my second post won't bring up such a polemic. DaN ps: I'm sorry if my english sucks ... but I don't really care :)
