Islander-O

The old Wall Street rule says "Have a fact - buy, have a rumor - sell"...

Well, I have 17000+ jumps and I had to chop my mine canopy around 40 times. I have mixture of fast spin and, nearly, relaxed low speed mals. I have done 9000+ tandems and I do nOt disconnect the RSL when I jump tandem. I know that the fear of broken riser(s) is widely spread among Australian TM. I have experienced hard openings (believe me they were hard one). I saw video (analog camera) of one tandem hard opening: frame #1: deploy bag lift off; frame #2: the slider on risers. Even at that time neither risers or canopy were broken. I scared to think about a hard opening that causes a riser destruction! If a riser can be destructed by the opening shock, maybe better to look into the canopy design or the packing manual? I agree that CRW is total different issue. If it is not, I would prefer to have as many chances as I can on my side and RSL is one of them...

Yes, maybe skydiving scenes in 1991 Point Break were not the best, but they perfectly conveyed the spirit and adventure of skydiving.
Soon after Point Break was followed by Terminal Velocity, Drop Zone,
Dead Center (maybe I missed the name) that were stuffet with skydiving but the spirit was missed. In 1994-95 I worked in Autralia. Drop Zone was realised DZ expected similar to Point Break effect but it did not happen.