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From: cjackson@adobe.COM (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
Subject: Re: my first reserve ride (don't try this at home!!)
Message-ID: <15541@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 91 21:32:50 GMT
References: <1991May22.195426.17798@ge-dab.GE.COM>
Reply-To: cjackson@adobe.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <1991May22.195426.17798@ge-dab.GE.COM> coleman@sunny.dab.ge.com (Richard Coleman) writes:
}It's funny how something as simple as finding your ripcord can become
}a problem when you can't spare the time to think about it.  Has anybody
}else every had this problem?  Of course, from now on,  I will make sure
}to do practice ripcord pulls.  I now understand why they make you do
}so many of these during AFF training!!

Indeed.  I haven't jumped in a while, but I always did some practice
pulls before each jump and always had a trick or two in case I couldn't
find the thing.  I used one such trick once.  I was jumping with
thick gloves, and come pull time I couldn't see my handle and couldn't
seem to find it.  I was pulling high anyway so I gave it three
somewhat leisurely tries while glancing at the altimeter.  I then
took some advice I'd once got from an instructor -- I slapped the
outside of my thigh with my hand, slid the hand up my thigh to my
waist, and the handle slipped right into the palm of my hand.
A trick like that one can save you a reserve ride and repack.
-- 
Curtis Jackson @ Adobe Systems in Mountain View, CA  (415-962-4905)
Internet: cjackson@adobe.com	uucp: ...!{apple|decwrl|sun}!adobe!cjackson

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