before he has to pull the rip cord. if you don t pull your chute in time, you re going to hit the ground. that will make it dangerous. simply jumping off a bridge isn t insane enough for alex so he decides to make things a bit more interesting. i tried to do a front flip half twist into a back flip for my first jump at like 5:00 in the morning. i was barely awake and just not coherent with myself. alex s fancy flip work costs him more time than he can afford. he can t deploy his chute in the four-second time limit. and now he s deep into the danger zone. he just died. the ground was coming up really fast, and i was like freaking out. i just threw my pilot chute as fast as i could. but it isn t fast enough. alex hits the ground traveling more than 100 miles per hour. when i hit the ground it was lights out. i woke up about 15 seconds later on my back floating downstream in a daze about what had just
knife, which he wouldn t have been carrying that day if it hadn t been for his friend brian scott. the day before, i went to the pro shop and bought him a metal hook knife. and i think allen had a knife that was already in his rig. it was kind of like on his harness right here. but it was plastic. and i bought him a better knife. just a present to my buddy the day before. with his knew knife, allen finally frees himself of both chutes. now, in freefall, he has fewer than ten seconds until impact. we were under 1,000 feet. then i saw a pilot chute come out and that was it. he had pulled out at about 700 feet. with little time to spare, allen coasts to a landing, completely unscathed. luckily, his reserve chute deployed. even though he was so close to the ground. we all gathered at the ground, and he was just laughing and carrying on. he was back up in the air that day. allen is just my hero.
another flier s wake. i started to see zach slightly move backwards. i went, oh, no. don t do that. he s dropping like a bowling ball and slams right into the back of bland s legs, sending the base of the stack into a free fall. it s a scary moment, but bland recovers quickly. scotty burns, with his camera still rolling, dives to check on his friend. i flew over next to him and gave him an okay signal. he had a big ol smile on his face and kind of a look like what the heck was that? and i know what he interpreted as a smile was a grimace, but that i said ouch. bland is hurting, but he has a bigger concern. i didn t know if my gear had been damaged. my pilot chute or some other part of my gear could have been opened at that point and i might not have been aware of it. i could see from his face looking straight at my face that nothing else was wrong. so at that point, i knew i was okay.
if you don t pull your chute in time, you re going to hit the ground. that will make it dangerous. simply jumping off a bridge isn t insane enough for alex so he decides to make things a bit more interesting. i tried to do a front flip half twist into a back flip for my first jump at like 5:00 in the morning. i was barely awake and just not coherent with myself. alex s fancy flip work costs him more time than he can afford. he can t deploy his chute in the four-second time limit. and now he s deep into the danger zone. he just died. the ground was coming up really fast, and i was like freaking out. i just threw my pilot chute as fast as i could. but it isn t fast enough. alex hits the ground traveling more than 100 miles per hour. when i hit the ground it was lights out. i woke up about 15 seconds later on my back floating downstream in a daze about what had just happened. having survived the terrifying impact, alex s nightmare is really just
if you don t pull your chute in time, you re going to hit the ground. that will make it dangerous. simply jumping off a bridge isn t insane enough for alex so he decides to make things a bit more interesting. i tried to do a front flip half twist into a back flip for my first jump at like 5:00 in the morning. i was barely awake and just not coherent with myself. alex s fancy flip work costs him more time than he can afford. he can t deploy his chute in the four-second time limit. and now he s deep into the danger zone. he just died. the ground was coming up really fast, and i was like freaking out. i just threw my pilot chute as fast as i could. but it isn t fast enough. alex hits the ground traveling more than 100 miles per hour. when i hit the ground it was lights out. i woke up about 15 seconds later on my back floating downstream in a daze about what had just happened. having survived the