It's awesome that: 1. Other instructor grabbed the bridle. 2. Student was so aware and calm that he was able to help the situation.

That AFF student is the man! first jump, kept flying belly to earth while unscrewing the instructors helmet cam. Damn. quick thinking and great flying.

It's a good thing that instructor kept his cool and didn't lose his head. In more ways than one...

Legend has it... his helmet and camera lived on.

That’s was awesome for a level 1 or 2 student to have that awareness and calm. Great for you!

Wow! Quick thinking by all three of them. If that chute had come out, it might've broken the instructors neck.

Great job staying calm and assessing the situation. All three of you handled that well.

Вот сколько раз думал, что камеры должны быть встроены в шлем. Не должно быть выступающих частей.

When I skydived, you could not wear anything on your helmet, frap hat, suit or body that was likely to snag on lines. Anyone wearing a helmet mounted camera had to have cracks and snag points filled and streamlined. Wearing a camera required clearance from the CCI to allow people to jump with a safe system. GoPros bolted to helmet or wrist are not safe from line or bridle snags; this video just proves the reason why those precautions were/ are valid. The AFF student was lucky and yes bravo, he was very situationally aware. The instructor with the GoPro bolted on his his is negligent and as proven, dangerous (not to mention lucky). And this goes for anyone with a GoPro line and bridle snagger bolted to the helmet without anti-snag precautions. Have a proper, safe streamlined system to house your camera. Or simply hire a camera jumper with the proper gear. There is no point in having the latest ADD, RSL, hot canopy and all the cool and groovy gear, when videos like this, and thousands of other videos show jumpers have no idea of fundamental basic risk and how to mitigate it. For all of you whoop-whooping and high-fiving the jumpers in this video, stating how awesome they are; the instructors placed the student in a dangerous situation that is totally avoidable and never should have occurred.

Wow the AFF student was so calm and the instructors new what to do. I would skydive any day with the 3 of them. I am still a student skydiver and loving it.

What a great save by the student. Excellent situational awareness.

its about time they invent a camera that is anti-parachute entangling. Seeing so many videos on youtube - so clearly a very common occurrence.

Great job handling the problem however it seems a bit irresponsible to have instructor on right wear a camera. The student did as he was supposed to and it is not the first time and no surprise that it resulted in a snag, It should at least be a snag proof camera system

AGAIN! flight instructor excellence. From ALL the vids I've enjoyed here, I'd have no qualms trying this for the fact that I would KNOW I was in great hands! Well done, gentlemen!

Left side held the bridle after the pin was out until right side hucked his helmet, that was badass I thought; student aware & all 3 cool as cukes, wow👍

Student was rly aware... good job!

The instructor did stuff up wearing a GoPro on that side of the student but dealt with the entanglement very calmly. He let go and dropped both elbows, stayed close enough to not pull the bridle and allow the student to give a helping hand. The other instructors actions gave all a good chance to help it end well. That student has to be given high praise for staying so calm and being switched on enough to see what was needed in a high pressure situation. I would definitely jump with him! I hope he went on to be a good jumper. Well done all!!

Awesome footage! Hats off to the Reserve side JM who held the bridle and bag in the container while the main side JM was busy.

Awesome display by all three guys!!

Wow,.. that was close! High speed malfunctions can be unforgiving and fatal. Good reaction by the student, because that could have been a gruesome scene.

Ramon MedeirosGreat job, for both instructors.Kept the student controlled, and avoid an out of sequence deployment, until the problem have been solved. Great jog guys!!!

hhhhhhhhhhhhh I wish they showed us the view from the flying camera

Bravissimo l’istruttore che è rimasto stabile mentre si sfilava il casco!!

Good and quick thinking on instructor’s part.

Wow! Great job getting that helmet off.

3 guys doing things perfectly. Student remaining calm, maintaining his body position and trusting his instructors while earth is approaching fast. Instructor Grabbing bridle to prevent deployment with the other instructor attached Other instructor wasted no time in "saving his gear". Quick check if he could fix it and decisive remedy by jettisoning the helmet without sacrificing altitude.

Team work at its greatest!!!is all i see here🙌

I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be a pass. I'd LOVE to see the footage from the offending camera, I wonder if it remained tangled & survived? The look on the instructors face (who may have lost his camera) was priceless as he watched it sail away.

Quick thinking by the instructor!

I have actually a Z1 helmet made in Italy for last seventeen years . And it is very difficult to take it off. Specially, to open the front shield due to that tiny black release button. They should do something about it for sure.

The issue isn’t that the main side instructor is wearing a camera. He was in a good position during the pull sequence too. Fortunately he was able to untangle the bridle in a timely manner but that should not be his first option. If your camera gets entangled reach up there like a big man, and break off the camera. It is by sheer luck that he was able to untangle it. Instructors should also have a means of jettisoning their helmet in instances like this as well. A $300 helmet and/or a $500 GoPro is a small price to pay to save two lives. The roller mounts are nice because they have a lower likelihood of getting snagged on something, however, they can’t be ripped off if something were to happen. I like the old school adhesive GoPro mount. It stands a slightly higher chance of getting entangled if a bridle comes across your helmet but it’s easy to just rip that thing off if needed. Edit: just noticed in the slowmo that the instructor DID chop his helmet. Incredible head up work on his part. He has obviously rehearsed his emergency procedures in his head for an event like this!

That parachute just robbed him!!

;ost important question, was the helmet and camera found? And is there footage?

So that's why I got a helmet in my head during my Sunday walk... Should have been possible to break the GoPro of freeing the bridle?

I would pay to watch the footage from the second camera!

Thank you 😘😘😘😘😘😘

Side mount, side mount, side mount. Those top-mounted GoPros are killers-in-waiting. Because they mount on the curve of the helmet and don't require a flat plane to bottom-mount onto, they tend to sit farther forward than the older cameras which were mounted more on the absolute top of the helmet. And great job by the student. It was his action that finally pulled the camera off and freed the bridle. His awareness and cool under pressure are commendable.

Legend said the camera is still hook in this parachute.

If it wasn’t for the second guy holding the teal there preventing it from coming out while it was still stuck on the camera, it wouldn’t have ended pretty. Thank goodness for that second guy.

the student could have got the bridle caught around his arm after the instructor released his helmet

That's the best GO-PRO add ever !

If that helmet though stayed attached to the bridal, wouldn't that create scenario similar to a line over with the bridal? I know you can land if your bridal and pilot chute are wrapped over the main, but with the helmet weighing it down, I imagine that would create a line over scenario and make it unflyable.

Did you ever find the instructors Hemet and cam

well said Norman

Good team work!

impressed by the student's keeping calm .. great job. it shows a bad Idea having a camera mount on the right side of the student.

Was GoPro recovered? Purple how cool 😎

Isso acintece com frequência. Deveriam proibir essa forma de de instalar câmeras, deveria ter uma proteção em volta da câmera para que isso não aconteça.

That wont be the last time something gets caught on the camera mount.

I wonder if the student had to cut away ? Did the camera & helmet stay snaged and cause issues with the students main after deployment? If it did stay snagged i would imagine he would of had to cut away cause of the weight of the helmet pulling down the canopy ?? I NEED ANSWERES !

For people that rely on lines some much you guys have a boat lost of snag hazards. Do you have standardized hand signals?

Great job managing it; all three were spectacular. However, helmets with no quick release are foolish in any situation, IMO. Full-face helmets with no way to quickly release the helmet don't belong on any instructional jump (again, my opinion). At the least, use a side-mount camera. And don't float so high on the student. ;) Again...great job. Super impressive student, and thank you for sharing the video.

Fuck man ! I'd hate those situation where you have a split second decision to make with no opportunity to try again or step back …

That "instructor" is a menace.

Why don't they make an enclosure for the camera that is smooth like a plastic pimple on the helmet?

Fuck, that was great presence of mind by the instructor to release his helmet....

That would be an interesting statistic - How many people have needlessly died or been injured in the vain pursuit of taking a great selfie or video?

Great job done by all. My question is, "Did the student pass this level?" I know this is a dangerous situation and with the smaller and smaller cameras, more and more of this will happen. Think about what you are doing prior to doing it. Have a "PLAN"..... Better to have a plan and not need it than need it and not have it.

you are stay cool...nice Job

Deveria ser proibido câmeras com quinas expostas para capacetes de PQD

never dived /13 days n counting for my first/ i say shit happens , so glad to see the instructor say fuck the helmet and camera(money) before another life

Very nice

Why we need Sony and Contour to come back with good quality & less of a fowling hazard cameras

Jumper did a fine job!

Reminds me of the time I was jumping and my friends parachute got wrapped around my Johnson and almost ripped it clean off.

Close to a serious incident. Cool minds at play that day.

So that’s what scared me the other day when that black thing hit the ground and went into a million pieces

камеры должны быть встроены в шлем. Не должно быть выступающих частей.

Yeaaah what a tension!!! Good bye cam!!!!

Lots of little lessons to learn in this game

Is this an auto A license!??

Why I jump snag free, make a camera cowl from fibre glass etc.

Instructor👍 student👍👏👏👏

That falls under the category, "Shit Happens"!

Yes, you can always get another helmet and a camera

Yes

This changed my DZ over night. All AFF on the right, no cameras. Fortunately he cut away his helmet ok when altitude was burning fast. This could have been a fatality very easily. If you want camera, get a camera flyer. That's what we do.

Genau dieses Problem habe ich auf mich zukommen sehen. Die Ausbilder verstanden das nicht. Wie man sieht, geht es schneller wie man denkt.

Got him in the gopro!

Good awareness by holding the bridle till he got the bridle off the camera.

Two words.....Roller mount

lesson learned

I wanna see the gopro footage from the flying helmet 😄

Imagine walking about and getting hit by a helmet falling from the sky 🤔

Welp, there goes that camera. Not to mention the helmet.

Great job for the instructor. Wise decision on such short notice :)=

LOOKOUT BELOOOOOW!

👍👍👍

I see a need for a helmet with a streamlined camera compartment. If thats not a thing already someone should get on that pronto. "I want 5 ideas on my desk by 6. NO! Make that 6 ideas by 5!"

Sorry about your helmet and camera bro.

That instructor was smart... Had he went tumbling.. Both of them would be tangled up. So he goes right for the helmet. To remove it. While holding the pilot chute line..

Dude -that coulda taken your head off

Kind sucks cause it was just barely looped on there in hindsight. Great quick thinking skills though

Bet he don't wear that camera anymore

Now that student owes that instructor a new helmet and new head cam.

good job recognizing the issue and u taking off the helmet - not much time to play around

No helmet cutaway? Mmmh

To bad, the camera might have break and the instructor had to spent his money to buy another one for himself

The pilot helmet. 🥴

Student save the teacher..!