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 beginning. i was in about six inches of