Bro, the instructor opened his canopy before the student did 😂 he said “I ain’t dying tryna save this fool”

Buddy wanted every last foot of that jump

Skydiving fact: if you make a stupid mistake… you have the rest of your life to fix it.

The best part about these videos is that they can never really be too long

Man .... ! what a stress for the instructor....

The groan from the instructor, said it all!

It's funny that all you need to do is arch and yet under stress you forget about it.

The student's mistake aside, this is one of the most stunning and impeccably shot skydiving videos I've ever seen. That pass through the clouds @1:04, almost didn't look real. Like it was CGI. This was breathtaking to watch.

It's a good video for students but also all future AFFIs. You can see how fast a student can get away from you and how AFFIs really need to stay in that slot to do that bottom end sequence.

Best cloud fly-through I’ve seen! That reach backward has to have messed up many stable descents!

Thank you for posting. Half way through Spaceland's STP program and feel really confident. This is a good reminder that just because you had a few good solo jumps, doesn't mean you're a pro

That was sketchy. I'm seriously rethinking becoming an AFF-I. I'm a new instructor and have had a couple of saves already. It's so stressful sometimes, but very rewarding also.

He panicked. The worst possible thing you could ever do during free fall. Helpful advice for future AFF's; if you ever find yourself in this situation, don't worry about trying to get stable. Pull anyways. Deployment might be a bit uncomfortable, but you won't put yourself in a deadly situation with a low altitude deployment.

I had the pleasure of Jumping with this instructor, before he was an instructor, and I was only on jump #40. I never met him before that jump and he s Always one of the nicest guys at the DZ, and extremely trust worthy. Great video, keep up the good work

I hope he carried on with it after this, it’s a harsh learning environment, but fortunately it was all good.

That time you're browsing the internet and notice yourself launching a tube exit on KZfaq!!!! Glad everyone landed safely.

it starts to get pretty real when you see the instructor pull the chute and you’re looking like a turtle upside down 🤣

DAMN>>>>> what a learning lesson. Thanks for sharing!

Meh nobody pulls anymore. It’s so overrated

This student got stable, and that so under the worst circumstances. Well done to him. Yes, he lost the situation for a moment, but he didn't open inverted. Hats off to him. I think he shat himself, but he did well.

That's my home DZ, close call, glad he made it!

Sometimes it is SUPER HARD being a skydiving coach !!!

1:07 proof that clouds is not solid at all😂😂

That AFFI sigh! Lol!!!

Wow, that was close, seconds away from disaster.

Thank you for this. Good lesson on mistakes that can happen. I paid for extra wind tunnel time to practice my rip cord pulls with stability. I found for me pointing my tum down slightly made a world of difference. But that’s for me.

Did he receive a 30 day suspension for low-opening? I received a 30 day grounding, for just that (70s); managed to stable out and open at 800 ft. Shoe almost came off from the head-down opening; got back to the packing bench, clenched it seems like forever; I already had it in my head, "I'm self-grounding". DZ Manager walked over, asked if I was OK, and started to . . . . , but I told him faster. He did ask me to show, and pack student rigs for that month, for a fee; each pack got me a 5K ft jump, didn't need to pay for quite a while. C-13218

This sort of happened to me during my student training. I think the difference was that even unstable I kept trying to pull the pilot chute even as I got unstable. Never give up!

interesting how people want to fight the air not just use it, then you realise how little you have to do fall stable, then you stop even thinking about it

He was so focused on the advanced that he forgot the basics

honestly the guy nailed the save imo... looks so much fun, hope do go later this summer!

Nobody: Student: gonna try HALO

That dive was going well too... bummer Anyone else see the reserve flap open up?

Thanks for the pop ups at the end. Couldn’t see his chute open.

Quite freaky that he started spinning while trying to pull his cord.

USPA just needs to make it mandatory for students to spend at least 20-30 mins in a wind tunnel before start solo/ coach jumps. It would def prevent situations like this. He could have practiced pulling all he wanted in the tunnel with 0 risk.

A really good learning experience for both! Hopefully the instructor upped his game after that jump.

i lost sight of him after instructor's chute-pull, thanks to the onscreen banners of similar video suggjjestions - thought he was a gonner for a while!

Which Camera model was it filmed?

🤣🤣🤣 That instructor gave up. Said, "Grounds coming up fast, you're on your own!"

Putting the AFF student through a cloud, you're brave for putting this on here...

Wow that was nerve racking to say the least ! Thanks for sharing

Jumps are really expensive nowadays. You gotta get as much free fall as possible from every jump. Looks like Z-hills. There's a tunnel just south of Tampa on I-75.

instructor got 5 years older after those 5 seconds.

Imagine jumping from like 40000 ft and remembered that you have grabbed your school bag instead of parachute!!

That yellow chute down far opening was God sent

Jeeez, that was super scary!

Imagine they just come out of the clouds and then suddenly their only a 20 feet till they hit the earth

Been over 20 years since I did my AFF. We had auto rip cord pulling devices attached too, that would fire if no one pulled. Question, when he first went to pull, why did he stop and take his hand away and try to re balance? Surely at that point you just keep on with the pull?

Awesome! Now I know who to stay away from at ZHills

What was that white water vapor stuff you guys punched through? 😂

The classic pull vs pull stable! The answer is always PULL!!

Student was performing stunts like pro until the deployment failed, then panicked like a puppy.

I have no idea about parachuting, but why isn't that release over the shoulder instead of the lower back area?

Looks like the instructor is under canopy at 1.6k? And then student finally deployed their main? So, milliseconds later and he’d have an AAD fire and a two out scenario, no? No bueno for a student.

Its crazy how 1500ft early up he tucked and flipped into a good deployment position with ease but when he started spinning he paniced and wasted valuable time doing the stuck turtle when he could of done the same maneuver and recovered stright away

YOU GON MESSED UP A A RON

Almost Friday Freakout material

For all the messing around I was looking for an impact dust cloud.

You have to open no matter what, does not matter if you are spinning without control

Good for him that he was still on AFF student status. He probably didn't have to pay for the reserve repack like he would have on a true solo!

Thank God for AFF

Whoa, that was close! I SCREAMED, "BETTER PULL IT!" 😱😱

Don’t know much about this sport, but does the parachute 🪂 opens by itself at certain level? And is it so difficult to open?

Man that was too close. I watched a static line student bounce about a month after I finished AFF. It definitely f'ed with my mind on my next jump.

Maybe back to fifteen second delays for him. I use to be an instructor in the seventies and it made me laugh watching it. A very familiar sight and not just from students. Some of our early attempts at rel work didn't look too much different!

I got 206 jumps but the last one was 25 years ago, haha! I just couldn't progress with the relative work and finally hung it up. So, some experience, but not compared to the AFF instructors who've got thousands of jumps! So, I comment/ask with all humility & respect. At 1:19 the student attempts to deploy, becomes unstable and ultimately flips over onto his back at 1:24. As I recall, students generally deploy at 5,500 ft and fall approximately 1000 ft every 6 seconds. So maybe the instructor can allow 12 seconds for the student to recover and deploy before he moves in and pulls the students rip cord? You know, give the student a chance to prove he can save his own life. At 1:33 in the video, it appears the student has his hand on his rip cord and within the same second the instructor deployed his chute. At this juncture the student is well below the instructor. Looks like the student totally got away from him. It appears the instructor deployed before the student but hard to tell as links to other video's pop-up & overlay the main video thereby blocking the view. That "arghh" the instructors makes under canopy suggests to me that he himself was scared. That he almost lost a student! Anyway, should've the instructor docked on him the moment he flipped over and assisted him in regaining stability.

If I wanted to visit my parents that lives 10 miles away this is my technique

Did anyone else laugh uncontrollably for no apparent reason when he hit the clouds?? 😂

You don't need a parachute to skydive, you only need one if you want to skydive again

Looks like he was relieved when he finally pulled the parachute

When I pause it right at the pull it looks like his right knee is dropped and his left knee is raised. Is that what caused the initial spin?

That must have been super scary

Dumb question I’m In Aff but was that the auto deploy? Or him pulling main

That was.. terrifying.

Never realised this could happen, scary moment 🤣❤️

That was intense... Instructor: "Pull. Please, pull ! Dude, pull !! WTF, Pull !!! Pull, SoB, pull, pull !!!!" 8D

Yeah that was an AFFFI student deployment intensive car unit. AFFFI needs to be anitcipatdd with a slot for the end sequence with low altitude percentage.

Miss those days

It looks like an AAD fire. I can heare the instructor yelling "pulll" 😱

I’ve add the same thing happen to me. Accept my student never pulled and he had a AAD foreign deployed my chute at about 1.8k feet

why is the cord behind yur back

I saw the dudes yellow parachute at the very end around 1:43 holy crap very dangerous!

Scary shit. I'm hapy Both of You are ok.

okay so the instructor can fly like a drone.

Holy shit.. the end of that video was crazy

That "AahhGhhhh" at the end was worth a million words. what's a "2 out"?

just a question that comes to my mind, what if you open a parachute straight after jumping from a plane? it may seem a stupid question but i just wanna know what could possibly happen

magnifique le passage ou l'on voit le parachutiste en bleu rentré dans le nuage à 1:08 superbe image ! mais alors ?? c'est bizarre après sa sortie il arrête pas de monté et de descendre ....il est comme pris dans un tourbillon de pression !???? wahouuuuu quelle frayeur j'ai eu pour lui car il va dans tous les sens, il est impossible pour lui de tirer sur sa manette !

No one mentioning how this instructor flies around amazingly well.

Amazing,,,,,

Dude was avoiding eye contact 🤣

Holy shit... That was almost AAD altitude 😳 1.6k?? D:

Semi delta position?

I was really scared I thought his parachute didn't work, that guy really needs to learn to skydive, number one if he didn't it can't be a chance of a lifetime, second you're flat on the ground and you're dead 1:19 😨😱

I want to hear the debrief. :-)

Glad he’s ok im doing my aff 2 Saturday.

Those circular tanks... Z-hills?

I'm curious as to why you need to pull the cord from behind you instead of making it long enough to pull from the hip connected to a harness?

I wonder why the instructor didn't shout at him. 💀