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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xqz5OKspq0

Yikes. Good thing it was off something freefallable.

LOL!

That's more like a go and throw, but its your buddy doing the throwing for you!

Some refer to it as a "soft" assist. Saw somewhere a guy doing this to his newbie student so he gets the "feel" of freefall without having to hold and/or throw the PC.

http://www.facebook.com/...p;type=3&theater Lika and Karr had the same video long time ago

meh, it's A85, pretty good HH object, just me and my friend have a conversation, that i giving greetings on cam for his gf and jumping, and he just holding PC, but he fucked up :)
Stay safe

I know a guy who doesn't feel he is ready to freefall things, so he has some other guy "soft assist" him off of everything.

There were lots of stowed Jumps from this object, not only HH. So there is enough height for "soft assistance" like this. Nothing special in this situation.

hey man you wanna FFA me off of the top platform on FB this weekend? im just not feeling deploying my own

i kinda 'get' the idea, but it lets people build a habit of not being able to fend for themselves.

The danger of this is not height related. Usually, the assistant waits for the first pin to pop and then lets go of the PC. But if he overholds it for just a little wile, you get partial line stretch, with nothing pulling on your canopy from either side, until you build up enough speed. During that time your packjob can get a bit messy
I know of at least 2 object strikes related to this, and a shit load of offheaders