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Hello, I need pictures of the following malfunctions on BASE jumps;

*tension knot
*slider hangup
*wall strike
*Lost/broken control line
*PC in tow
*line twist

Fortunately I have not yet had the opportunity to film one of these close-up.
If you have any grabs or stills I can use for my own reference I'd appreciate it.

Keep an eye on the ABA site as Ingrid, Ken Millers better half, got some awesome footage of Louis Sabier with a tension knot at the KL tower. I watched it happen first hand and it was totally gnarly to coin a phrase. The knot itself was big, involving ctrl/D/C(?) lines. Unfortunately we didn't get a photo of it.

Big respect to Louis for landing it un-injured

Bolle Brazillia!!

Stay safe

Neil

 Maybe we can get Blair700 to stop by here with video of his first McFukkin' McLineover...scary shit.
I can only hope to handle it as well as he if/when I'm caught in a similar situation.

NCbase4

p.s. Don't worry about it.

Johnny Utah's Bridge Day malfunction video is probably the best video ever made to identify and rectify BASE mals. He showed it to the Bridge Day crowd last year and will probably release the video soon.

I've got a lot of info on mals at:
http://www.bridgeday.info/malfunctions.html

I have that video. I got a copy from Johnny in TF. I have it on VHS but I was hoping for some JPEGs.

I'm writing an article on the subject and I need good reference photos.

heya
ive got some video of my lost control line(s) and a broken bone as out come.

its videoed by myself backwards,let me know if you want it.i dont think youll get really good grabs from it(old sony pc-2) but let me know if you want it...

by the way im still looking for somthing to tekst a video whith,as i made this "blair which project" in the 2 hours on the cold ground(in danish,sorry what were i thinking on,if im unlucky once more ill rember to speak in english) untill my gf finaly reached me.funny shit to watch/listen to AFTER the acsident,but deafently not fun to try

Dexter,

I have that video on my computer and I can pull stills from it. If there are any shots in the video you want a jpeg of, I'll be happy to send you some. [:(|)]

Johnny

www.johnnyutah.com

dude - a few days ago i watched a guy have blown control lines froom a 220ft freefall - 1 second delay - i can see how easy it is to make a misjudgment with only 5 seconds to deal with it! - as i have said before on this board - PLEASE GET MORE CANOPY EXPERIENCE BEFORE YOU BASE!!!

its priceless!!................. and not easy!!!

I say this time and time again as i see so many people wanting to BASE but have no real understanding of the skills they will need!!!!!......... please get the skills first!!

Here are some interesting jumps from Bridge Day 2003 that may be of interest to you. Enjoy!

Excellent, thanks those are great shots.

I know someone has looked up and seen line twists while they were jumping a camera.

Johnny, there were quite a few shots of jumpers blowing brake lines. One of those would be cool.

Thanks for all your help guys!

Will this help??
Later
Blair

Here you go bro.

I sent this plus some more shots in full file size to your email.


johnnyutah101@hotmail.com
http://www.johnnyutah.com

How about a line twist in the cave?

I'd imagine you found little humor in that...

yuck

Thanks to everyone who contributed pictures, I really appreciate it. I have everything I need except an offheading opening (preferably close to something solid) and a tension knot.

The article will be made available as soon as it's completed.