Friday Freakout: Confused Skydive Student Pulls Wrong Handle, Loses Main Parachute #AllTheHandles

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We all have good days and bad days. For this static-line progression skydive student, it was just one of "those" days — he got a little confused and pulled his cutaway handle instead of his main parachute handle. Ooops.

Then, instead of going straight for his reserve, he deployed his main parachute, which didn't stick around for very long before the RSL deployed his reserve. Double ooops.

*insert sarcastic tone here* If you're ever itching to pull all-the-handles, just remember it's 1) main 2) cutaway 3) reserve. And if you find yourself with a pulled cutaway handle in freefall, do yourself a favor and just go straight for your reserve. Your instructor will thank you.

We all make mistakes. Live and learn. And smile :)

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[PaleBlueDotCitizen]

Nice cutaway, I like that there was no hesitation before chopping, not even to wait for a malfunction!

[USMA]

The way he looks at the bit of string in his hand, up at the instructor, and then back down to his hand just made me laugh so hard.

[natural]

he cut away early because he had a premonition that his main was going to malfunction and so avoided the drama beforehand

[flyinwithfrank]

When he looks at the string in his hand I completely expected a bunch of picnic items to come streaming out of his pack!

Thanks god someone thought about this and made the reserve impossible to cutaway.

[Alvarezgn]

At least he knows his priority. PULL no matter what! lol

[aaronboyd]

Rules of Skydiving:
1. Pull 2. Pull Stable 3. PULL ALL THE THINGS!!!

[romanticdonkey]

Any jump you survive is a successful jump in my book.

[najadahe]

THIS GUY IS AMAZING! HE PULLED EVERYTHING! NOT TAKING ANY CHANCES!

[Rezo]

I'll tell you what, that kid has awesome stability in freefall.

[carnivalwrestler]

The expression on his face when he realized what he'd done was priceless.

[Heikki_Finland]

Lot of stuff coming out. At least he took good care of the handle and didn't drop it.

[patrickswayze]

Hey!, , point is he kept his composure, didn't panic, and had plenty of altitude to correct his mistake!
I call that a success in the fact he deployed, landed, and hopefully learnt a REALLY valuable lesson haha

[callsignblaze]

I can’t stop laughing at how confident he was in pulling that cutaway. Even scarier that this looked like a hop and pop.

[keff]

Love the way he put cutaway pad into his left hand before the pull lol brilliant 😂😂😂👍👍

[Loxodonta_africana]

He was just checking if everything was working the way it should. Check your gear, they said...

[brianstayton]

Looks like the instructor had a fun deployment!!

[mfetto]

here.. we have to thank whoever invented the current system
it work, it gives one chance after another, it saves lives
THANK YOU! you made skydiving safe

[MapleMooseActual]

His RSL popped before he pulled his d ring, but he looks so calm and cool, like even hands the cutaway over to his other hand.

[awesomesaucer]

I had an instructor that said "if I go in, I want my tombstone to say "he pulled all of his handles"" This is not what he meant lol