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Posted: 4/23/2016 8:41:01 AM EDT

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The Australian Navy paratrooper reportedly suffered a broken pelvis and delayed the match between Sydney Swans and West Coast.

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:42:23 AM EDT

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Proof that God hates soccer. Hope he recovers.

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:45:12 AM EDT

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Aussie rules football

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:46:39 AM EDT

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Some rigger has had a really bad week. First the Humvees now this guy.

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:47:58 AM EDT

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Aussie rules football

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Proof that God hates soccer. Hope he recovers.

Aussie rules football

You mean rugby?

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:50:10 AM EDT

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https://youtu.be/oQ0q6f87V88

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:50:24 AM EDT

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You mean rugby?

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Proof that God hates soccer. Hope he recovers.

Aussie rules football

You mean rugby?

no

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:51:53 AM EDT

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Proof that God hates soccer. Hope he recovers.

Aussie rules football

You mean rugby?

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He means soccer.

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:51:58 AM EDT

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better video

https://youtu.be/cSjxX2Rn4rw

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:53:35 AM EDT

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Can people who know about parachutes analyze why that happened?

He was coming in pretty fast, but was it a non-fully deployed chute, or a last second change in the shape of the chute that seemed to happen (a wind gust?) that doomed him?

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:56:00 AM EDT

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Aussie rules isn't soccer or rugby (either code). It's another thing entirely that's actually really cool to watch.

They play it on a cricket oval. Which is very big.

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:58:25 AM EDT

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Comin' in HOT!

Posted: 4/23/2016 9:59:10 AM EDT

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Came in hot

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:03:35 AM EDT

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I almost nailed Dick Cheney on a demo jump in '89. We jumped into a small soccer stadium and it had been raining all morning. The field was like a lake, I came in hot, flared late and "water skied" right at him. I stopped about 4 or 5 feet in front of him and his detail jumped in front to protect him. Kind of funny and he clapped.

BTW that was probably some of the coldest I've ever been. It was a timed jump, waiting on him to exit the building so were in a holding pattern at 10k AGL for over about 45 min. It was March and about 35 degree on the ground. I was sitting in the hell hole of a Huey B model and it had to be about minus 50 at that altitude and wind speed. I got so cold that I formed a C with my right had so I could pull my rip cord if my hand froze. I contempated just saying fuck it and falling out....

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:05:45 AM EDT

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Looks like a low hook turn and had an end cell closure. That's fine at 500'.....it's not fine at 50'. I've jumped a bunch of stadiums and winds get squirrelly going over the lip but once you're inside it's usually GTG. That's why guys pull these low hook turns. Occasioanlly though you'll get some cross winds and they can bite you hard that low.

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:06:07 AM EDT

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That wasn't the rigger.

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:06:09 AM EDT

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I almost nailed Dick Cheney on a demo jump in '89. We jumped into a small soccer stadium and it had been raining all morning. The field was like a lake, I came in hot, flared late and "water skied" right at him. I stopped about 4 or 5 feet in front of him and his detail jumped in front to protect him. Kind of funny and he clapped.

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^ made me chuckle, i can see it happening

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:06:58 AM EDT

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I almost nailed Dick Cheney on a demo jump in '89. We jumped into a small soccer stadium and it had been raining all morning. The field was like a lake, I came in hot, flared late and "water skied" right at him. I stopped about 4 or 5 feet in front of him and his detail jumped in front to protect him. Kind of funny and he clapped.

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It's a good thing he wasn't holding a shotgun

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:13:59 AM EDT

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I almost nailed Dick Cheney on a demo jump in '89. We jumped into a small soccer stadium and it had been raining all morning. The field was like a lake, I came in hot, flared late and "water skied" right at him. I stopped about 4 or 5 feet in front of him and his detail jumped in front to protect him. Kind of funny and he clapped.

It's a good thing he wasn't holding a shotgun

I will say that he was extraordinarily well informed on our gear and mission. He knew shit about radios that commo guys didn't know...really liked being around troops as well. Those were the days when POTUS and SecDef actually loved America.

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:42:41 AM EDT

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Can people who know about parachutes analyze why that happened?

He was coming in pretty fast, but was it a non-fully deployed chute, or a last second change in the shape of the chute that seemed to happen (a wind gust?) that doomed him?

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Micro-burst.

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:48:11 AM EDT

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That's odd. I always thought gravity worked the opposite in the southern hemisphere?

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:51:57 AM EDT

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The last guy came in hot like a boss.

Posted: 4/23/2016 10:56:59 AM EDT

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Can people who know about parachutes analyze why that happened?

He was coming in pretty fast, but was it a non-fully deployed chute, or a last second change in the shape of the chute that seemed to happen (a wind gust?) that doomed him?

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He made a turn on his approach about stadium height, increasing his speed, maybe on purpose maybe not but it was low turn. Before his parachute could recover to steady state flight, he caught a rotor from the stadium across the front of his canopy. That stalled the right side of the canopy causing the left side to fly around in front and as it re-inflated it turned right - too low for him to recover from the turn.

Each time you turn a ram air parachute, you act as a pendulum underneath and swing out to the side and swinging back underneath, each swing increases speed and descent rate. You must recover from the pendulum effect to steady state flight before you flare for landing.