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So, nine years ago today, I had one of those life changing experiences. During my first solo skydive, the winds changed in mid-jump, almost tripled in speed, and I had a partial parachute collapse. I hit the ground, hard. I broke my leg and foot in 13 places. I was originally told I'd never walk again without a brace or support of some sort for
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My.
Goodness.
You should write scripts for TV shows... that was so descriptive that I felt myself cringing with that weird feeling..... grossness.
Strangely enough, I actually have a friend down in Melbourne who had a similar thing happen to him. I think he was on a tandem jump though, and I'm not too sure what caused the problem, but he also broke his foot.
But I've never heard him describe it so... graphically! 😳
There's actually a very handsome gay guy here in Australia, who has a YouTube channel (which is very funny), who had a complete failure during a skydive. He landed with NO parachute - and survived. ( https://www.youtube.com/user/bradguytv )
Of course, he suffers from MAJOR PTSD and all the accompanying visions of near death.... the poor bugger!
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