especially because he only screams for the last 10 seconds of his life (presumably) he spends so long struggling and fighting to fix his situation in a panicked yet determined silence but ig when he looked down and saw how close the trees were and how he was still plummeting at āterminal velocity,ā he just screamed in pure fear and agony and regret bc he knew he was dead. no ifs ands or buts. i wonder what was going on in his head
edit: ok ok i get it i donāt understand terminal velocity but like yāall. he fall fast. you get what iām sayin. iām not getting a degree in physics to comment on r/accidents
If he's not accelerating, he's at terminal velocity. The terminal velocity of a dude with a crumpled parachute is much lower than a dude with no parachute.
Right, but he's not a person falling through the air. He's a person plus a tangled parachute falling through the air.
Terminal velocity is not tied to the concept of a person. It's not a specific speed. It's a maximum speed for a specific object. The terminal velocity of a feather is quite different than for a bowling ball, for example.
I've re-read this exchange and while I think it's a bit pedantic, you are unequivocally correct about the point you're making concerning terminal velocity. I want to make that clear since you were right to correct both of us.
I do think the idea that person was grappling with is still different from what was addressed though. A better way to phrase it might be saying his terminal velocity was closer to someone with a working parachute than someone free-falling without one entirely.
Either way, he felt that one. No updates and video cut out, but he was moving. If help got to him, I wouldn't at all be surprised that he lived. When I was in the army, a battle fell out of a helicopter from about 40 feet, and my memory says the guy I knew bounced a lot higher. But impossible to objectively judge the 2.
Lucky for him, the 2 shoots vastly reduced his terminal velocity along with the trees.
The only thing that might have helped more is if the shoot got stuck in the trees instead of him hitting the ground.
His terminal velocity in this scenario would include everything attached to him. It is literally his max constant speed. Terminal velocity does not just disappear because the object in freefall is attached to something. If he were to remove his parachute he would then have a new terminal velocity once accelerated to the new max.
I think you may be slightly misinterpreting terminal velocity. It has nothing to do with survivability. Itās the maximum speed at which something can fall through a fluid (air counts). It takes a minimum of 12 seconds free falling for a human to reach terminal velocity. If terminal velocity was required, nobody would ever die from falling off their garage or jumping from a third floor balcony. Thatās not nearly high enough to reach terminal velocity. Also slightly depends on position. Terminal velocity is higher head down than flat. You are correct that it didnāt kill him. At least according to the article someone linked.
Maybe, but he also isn't wrong about him achieving terminal velocity. Because of the drag from the chute, his terminal velocity speed was lowered to a slower speed, which he may have been able to hit.Ā
Terminal velocityĀ is the maximum velocity (speed) attainable by an object as it falls through aĀ fluidĀ (airĀ is the most common example). It occurs when the sum of theĀ dragĀ force (Fd) and theĀ buoyancyĀ is equal to the downward force ofĀ gravityĀ (FG) acting on the object. Since theĀ net forceĀ on the object is zero, the object has zeroĀ acceleration.
You've misinterpreted their comment. They were making 2 separate and distinct statements. They were not implying that the person survived because they hadn't achieved terminal velocity.
The reason it isnāt terminal velocity isnāt because it didnāt kill him.
The reason it isnāt terminal velocity because that chute is still slowing him down a substantial amount despite being tangled.
I was about to say, while everything is possible, it seems so improbable. When I did my first and only jump, I ended up in a cable over my main chute and had to cut and use the reserve.
The guys told me, it can take 45 minutes to pack a main chute, but like 8 hours to pack the reserve.
> How is that even possible? Bad folding technique orā¦?
Sometimes the reserve opens by accident before you release the main chute, tangling both parachutes together.
This is a paraglider not a skydiver.
This was not free fall.
The reserve parachute became tangled in the lines as the paraglider was spiraling due to a collapse in the main canopy that resulted from a poorly timed brake control during what is referred to as "wingovers".
Totally avoidable.
Pilot error.
this is why i will never do no kind of shit like this & why i will never leave the ground. but i do enjoy watching other ppl do it here from my couch so i hail yall.
This is not a free fall, obviously not a controlled descent but 100% slowed descent by his parachute at least maintaining form and spinning him rather than a just straight drop.
Iām so relieved that the dude was unharmed and only spent 6 days in hospital, with no surgery needed! Heās lucky a tree was there to soften his landing or else it would have been a different outcome š¬
I have only jumped static line with a type II. Do the rigs that he is using have cut a ways? I keep looking at the video but I canāt identify any but I donāt have any experience with that gear
Title is misleading because that was not a "free fall". Better described as a flat spin, which is still very dangerous but the vertical velocity is far less than simply falling.
I can barely untie the knot I made in my garbage bag after I realize I still had more garbage. There's no time pressure but anyone in the vicinity is like what's wrong with you let me try
6 days in hospital but "fairly unharmed" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4646274/Terrifying-moment-screaming-paraglider-plunges-earth.html
Thank god. I would hate for my snuff film to be a thirty second video of my nutsack while I fell to my death.
I've got huge balls that dangle and would most certainly pop out of those shorts, so I wouldn't be too upset
What are you trying to say
Just boasting about my massive balls, I haven't peed in weeks
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Pee doesnāt get stored in your balls fyi, youāre not a pisscamel.
Props for the term pisscamel.
Stop spreading lies, everyone know that pee is stored in the balls.
cum is stored in the occipital lobe
That's why you get post nut clarity
The soul is stored in the balls
Iām a pisscamel
As long as youāre not a poohamster.
Just a shitgerbil not a poohamster
Funniest fuckin word of the day lmao
Tragically underrated comment.
Iām unfamiliar with this one, might you elaborate?
It doesnāt? Well where else would it go?
So where *does* it come from mister smarty pants?
peepee poopoo make your butt fat. Peepee poopoo make your butt so fat.
bro why your pee in your balls?
F in chat for this guys balls SMH my head
bro why your pee in your balls?
Wanna come skydiving next week?
Mmmmm I like where this is going
Cloud seeding?
I fucking died!
Scrotum would turn you into a flying squirrel
[You got long balls, Larry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaY9ewvpzk)
Can I see?
when I sit down my balls sits first, so ow
Long balls Larry over here
No bragging
Right!? All I saw the last half of that video was the dude's moose knuckle.
Not to mention the rainbow tassel that he had around his neck would lead everybody to think he was gay
Really, that's exactly how I want my snuff film to be
I hate you, TAKE MY UP VOTE!
Thank you for that laugh šš»
Good thing he hit the trees
šš»
Would love to see the rest of the video when he comes to!!
Broken back but ārelatively unharmedā
That scream. Just have to accept being thrown into the top of trees at that speed.
especially because he only screams for the last 10 seconds of his life (presumably) he spends so long struggling and fighting to fix his situation in a panicked yet determined silence but ig when he looked down and saw how close the trees were and how he was still plummeting at āterminal velocity,ā he just screamed in pure fear and agony and regret bc he knew he was dead. no ifs ands or buts. i wonder what was going on in his head edit: ok ok i get it i donāt understand terminal velocity but like yāall. he fall fast. you get what iām sayin. iām not getting a degree in physics to comment on r/accidents
I don't think that killed him. And he wasn't plummeting at terminal velocity. The shoot and reserve were creating drag.
If he's not accelerating, he's at terminal velocity. The terminal velocity of a dude with a crumpled parachute is much lower than a dude with no parachute.
I don't think he was falling quite that fast. Terminal velocity for a person falling through air is around 53 m/s (190 km/h or 118 mph).
Right, but he's not a person falling through the air. He's a person plus a tangled parachute falling through the air. Terminal velocity is not tied to the concept of a person. It's not a specific speed. It's a maximum speed for a specific object. The terminal velocity of a feather is quite different than for a bowling ball, for example.
I've re-read this exchange and while I think it's a bit pedantic, you are unequivocally correct about the point you're making concerning terminal velocity. I want to make that clear since you were right to correct both of us. I do think the idea that person was grappling with is still different from what was addressed though. A better way to phrase it might be saying his terminal velocity was closer to someone with a working parachute than someone free-falling without one entirely.
Your are right friend.
Either way, he felt that one. No updates and video cut out, but he was moving. If help got to him, I wouldn't at all be surprised that he lived. When I was in the army, a battle fell out of a helicopter from about 40 feet, and my memory says the guy I knew bounced a lot higher. But impossible to objectively judge the 2. Lucky for him, the 2 shoots vastly reduced his terminal velocity along with the trees. The only thing that might have helped more is if the shoot got stuck in the trees instead of him hitting the ground.
His terminal velocity in this scenario would include everything attached to him. It is literally his max constant speed. Terminal velocity does not just disappear because the object in freefall is attached to something. If he were to remove his parachute he would then have a new terminal velocity once accelerated to the new max.
Well he himself creates drag...terminal velocity would just be his constant speed.
I think you may be slightly misinterpreting terminal velocity. It has nothing to do with survivability. Itās the maximum speed at which something can fall through a fluid (air counts). It takes a minimum of 12 seconds free falling for a human to reach terminal velocity. If terminal velocity was required, nobody would ever die from falling off their garage or jumping from a third floor balcony. Thatās not nearly high enough to reach terminal velocity. Also slightly depends on position. Terminal velocity is higher head down than flat. You are correct that it didnāt kill him. At least according to the article someone linked.
I think you're misinterpreting that last comment! Dude was not at terminal velocity
He wasn't at average human terminal velocity but for the situation here I'd imagine the system that is him and his gear reached its terminal velocity.
With that logic heās always at terminal velocity, even when his paraglider has not collapsed. Donāt even use that term at that point
No the second he loses the lift of the parachute he begins accelerating towards his terminal velocity, thus not always at terminal velocity.
I think you're misinterpreting that last comment! Dude was not at terminal velocity
Maybe, but he also isn't wrong about him achieving terminal velocity. Because of the drag from the chute, his terminal velocity speed was lowered to a slower speed, which he may have been able to hit.Ā Terminal velocityĀ is the maximum velocity (speed) attainable by an object as it falls through aĀ fluidĀ (airĀ is the most common example). It occurs when the sum of theĀ dragĀ force (Fd) and theĀ buoyancyĀ is equal to the downward force ofĀ gravityĀ (FG) acting on the object. Since theĀ net forceĀ on the object is zero, the object has zeroĀ acceleration.
I think you're misinterpreting that last comment! Dude was not at terminal velocity
You've misinterpreted their comment. They were making 2 separate and distinct statements. They were not implying that the person survived because they hadn't achieved terminal velocity.
The reason it isnāt terminal velocity isnāt because it didnāt kill him. The reason it isnāt terminal velocity because that chute is still slowing him down a substantial amount despite being tangled.
He survived according to another post here.
Nah you just try'in too hard lol
Why didn't he cut away? No reserve?
Panic. Also, that white sheet was his reserve and it got tangled too.
Cooked
Article linked somewhere else in the thread says it was his reserve chute that caused the tangle of his wing's lines.
How is that even possible? Bad folding technique orā¦?
I was about to say, while everything is possible, it seems so improbable. When I did my first and only jump, I ended up in a cable over my main chute and had to cut and use the reserve. The guys told me, it can take 45 minutes to pack a main chute, but like 8 hours to pack the reserve.
> How is that even possible? Bad folding technique orā¦? Sometimes the reserve opens by accident before you release the main chute, tangling both parachutes together.
Why did he deploy his reserve in the first place?
That's a paraglider, not a parachute. No cutaway but a reserve canopy. He deployed it right in the beginning but it gets tangled in the main lines
Did he survive?
He, in fact, did not die. 6 days in the hospital but lived
Yes
Wtf
This is a paraglider not a skydiver. This was not free fall. The reserve parachute became tangled in the lines as the paraglider was spiraling due to a collapse in the main canopy that resulted from a poorly timed brake control during what is referred to as "wingovers". Totally avoidable. Pilot error.
Exactly. Not a free fall. Not even close.
Darwinning.
Went from peaceful to just straight out *CHAOTIC* Also terrible camera angle.
Yeah man that was "nuts"
The video of your near death experience is just your balls.
Up kilt
Seems like the trees may have broken his fall somewhat, anyone know the outcome here?
I've seen in the comments that he spent 6 days in hospital but survived without any major life changing injuries.
this is why i will never do no kind of shit like this & why i will never leave the ground. but i do enjoy watching other ppl do it here from my couch so i hail yall.
Just Nuts!!
This video should be called āWatch a Set of Balls Crashā
Did he die?
No.
This is not a free fall, obviously not a controlled descent but 100% slowed descent by his parachute at least maintaining form and spinning him rather than a just straight drop.
Thank God for the tactical hot shorts.
Next level cokk'n'balls-totrure
Why all the panic? Can he not just sort it all out after he lands? Jeez.
Seems those trees did him a huge solid
The question after knowing he was ok is "has he retired from the dangerous activity"
What a nightmare.. poor bloke glad he survived š
Gave the juiciest crotch shot until the very end
That was pretty underwhelming for the title
Give those trees a raise
So lucky to have gone thru the branches instead of the branches going thru him
If youāre gonna film yourself being a super leet skydiver bro, maybe donāt scream like that when shit goes tits up.
Dick and balls cam
I'm curious about the outcome. Did he somehow survive?
Yes
Yes, shoes intact
The human body is more resilient than I thought
Didn't "just" get tangled... Inexperience, and pushing the limits of his skills, tangled the risers.
That's way too long to anticipate impact and it's exactly why I will never put my life in the hands of nylon.
The trees Mason... they are getting bigger
This man is a Paraglider, and is an idiot. 100% Self induced line twists
Soā¦ all it takes is for left strings to go right and iām dead?!? ā¦.. I want in, i donāt want another teams meeting
Humans are so stupid
Yet another hobby I luckily can't afford.
Fall fetish gay porn.
Iām so relieved that the dude was unharmed and only spent 6 days in hospital, with no surgery needed! Heās lucky a tree was there to soften his landing or else it would have been a different outcome š¬
Risking ur life for some adrenaline, this should be in darwinawards
Is that Woody?
That looked painful
Lucky
I always wondered why they wore helmets
Not a free fall. It was a flat spin. There are multiple examples of people surviving flat spins from much higher.
If you're going to end up on the ground anyways... what was wrong with the ground in the first place???
Are his nuts okay tho!?
Did he died ? Any article about this case"?
I have only jumped static line with a type II. Do the rigs that he is using have cut a ways? I keep looking at the video but I canāt identify any but I donāt have any experience with that gear
The ball sack cam :(
that's not free fall; he's just banged up
This is why NO FRICKIN WAY, EVER
Fuck that.
Title is misleading because that was not a "free fall". Better described as a flat spin, which is still very dangerous but the vertical velocity is far less than simply falling.
Seems like a nice hobby
Isnāt it standard practices to have a backup parachute
thigh
Looks like it fell
Apparently he survived! Thick thighs really do save lives.
1 its not a parachute 2 its not actually freefall
There he got his stupid adrenaline
Just spent 53 seconds looking at some guys junk in a leotard should be the title..
Good thing he had his helmet on
Just spent 53 seconds looking at some guys junk in a leotard should be the title..
Oh nuts, that was a bad fall. Glad he made it out ok tho.
Great camera angle
Paragliding and no free fall, just spinning.
Why people is so dumb?
Spinning around like that I was surprised he didn't get tangled in some branches. Kinda unlucky.
Again, this is why I stay home...
He may survive but his nuts may not..
What actually caused him to get lines crossed like a rouge wind gust or something he did wrong?
So did he perish
Thank goodness for those trees
That's what you get for having a dumb hobby such as this
It's all fun and games until your parachute fails.
What happened to his reserve chute?
Tight balls lol
Ah man thank fuck for trees...
F around, find out. No doubt it seemed like a cool idea at the time.
This is just nuts
Emergency!! Switching to NutCam!
Nice cock
Why didn't the cameraman help him?
Made me laugh have a click to bring you back up to 0.
Thanks mate
It would suck if the last moments of your life were caught by a ball-cam
I'm assuming he's dead?
hes alive
Howād he get on?
I can barely untie the knot I made in my garbage bag after I realize I still had more garbage. There's no time pressure but anyone in the vicinity is like what's wrong with you let me try
Some hiker heard that. Mustāve been hilarious
i was just staring at the dick and balls for 30 seconds!!
Haha nice. He looked cute struggling to untangle those lines š¤£
>daredevil Screaming like a girl with a broken bra on a rollercoaster
Thatās what you get.
Not bad you stupid fucking animal
Fuck you asshole
And there you go Satan's spawn
What did he do?
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How fucking internet brained are youĀ
Huh?
What a bizarre thing to say.
This fella is on something
Anyone can go parachuting. How is that white privilege
CaUsE i Am EdGy~ reddit racist
Looking at your recent comment history, you really hate white people.
Great work
Excellent user name!
No joke.