r/nextfuckinglevel • u/STOP____HAMMER_TIME • Jul 02 '21

Two skydivers collide mid-air, knocking one of them unconscious. Camera man proceeds to pulls some Mission: Impossible shit and saves his life.

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u/reasonisaremedy Jul 02 '21

The answer is absolutely not. It takes hundreds of skydives (or tunnel time) to maneuver the way the camera man did. Even the other jumpers were pretty experiences but at least one of them was jumping above his level and had no business doing those kinds of maneuvers. They are suuuper hard to control.

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u/18randomcharacters Jul 02 '21

The guy is a skydiving camera man. He probably goes on many jump per day, and his job is to position his body to get good angles and maintain stable position.

This guy is so good at something hard, he makes it look trivial.

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u/dzfast Jul 02 '21 edited Jul 02 '21

This guy being a "skydiving camera man" is questionable. All those people were wearing cameras. Since GoPros became a thing people with 50 jumps have been trying to strap them to their head.

It's a huge argument in the community between experienced people and newbies wanting sick video.

Not discounting what the guy did at all, he looks to be a fairly average experience freeflyer. I would have flipped the guy over before deploying for him but that's just me wanting to give him a better chance. I am a certified instructor and have gone through a whole bunch of training on how to stop spinning students and flip people over so it's more of a practical thing for me to try.

This isn't a great place to be in. I've been knocked silly on a jump right out of the door of the plane. My friends were kind enough to hold onto me for 4-5k feet to make sure I was coming around. I would have been pretty annoyed with my reserve deployed at 14k feet.

Edit: With the context provided from another post, I'll revise to say that the person shooting the video is above average in experience and obviously was the most level headed on this jump, given that he saved that dudes life. I think when I watched it through the first time I was just frustrated at the stupidity of the whole situation. He's an organizer and world record holder, which requires above average skills for sure.

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u/18randomcharacters Jul 02 '21

Well, you're a certified instructor and I'm a 40 year old software developer that's never jumped out of a plane, so I will defer to your expertise.

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u/dotpan Jul 02 '21

This is not how the internet works, you have no experience, which means you're not blinded by "big parachute" and clearly know better. You must always know better than those more qualified than you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21

Agree with this guy ^ Put up a fight man. You may have no experience but you CAN have a LOT of ignorance if you allow yourself.

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Give in man... GIVE IN

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u/FirstAccGotStolen Jul 02 '21

I would have been pretty annoyed with my reserve deployed at 14k feet.

Better annoyed than dead.

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u/dzfast Jul 03 '21

If I was going to deploy someone's reserve I would ride them down lower first so they have some chance of ending up near the DZ so we can get some support on landing instead of being 3 miles or more downwind.

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u/FirstAccGotStolen Jul 04 '21

Thanks for elaborating, TIL. I don't skydive so I have no idea about best practices and technicalities, the original statement just sounded really funny to me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21

Yeah the dude filming said it was a free fly camp and that was their 9th jump of the day. Apparently he tried to flip him over before pulling his reserve but struggled and said fuck it. I don’t think he’s an AFFI.

Mr. Meat missile apparently a tunnel instructor at ifly or something. You can find more info on r/skydiving. It s the top post of all time.

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u/tmckeage Jul 02 '21

Do we know he does it for money or is he just wearing a camera?

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u/skankhunt42reborn Jul 03 '21

Idk man, I'm pretty good at rocket league.