Cutaway #1 skydive #221

I got a bit comfortable on my new parachute too quick and stopped packing it as well. Opens fine. Well if you don't do much to a pack job then you don't see most of the parachute. I suspect I brought in some shit and after fishing my bridle out shook my canopy up and laid it down. Leaving potentially a rat's nest of lines tangled in my packjob.
I have at least 5000 packjobs. I know what I did.
After watching my buddy deploy I followed suit, normal at first then an aggressive dive left. My first thought is toggle fire, not that, tried to stop the turn with riser, nothing, pop the toggle to release tension and free my tension knots. Nope.
I put my hands on my handles as I practice, pause a moment to check my alti (2.2k ft.) Chop, clear that handle and then pulled my reserve. My rsl was not connected and so my reserve handle did not clear and I put it in my shirt. Cutaway handle went In my pants.
I had packed this reserve about 3 weeks ago and so now my first save is my own life.

I have been joking about how I'd rather chop than have hard openings like im used to on early 90s parachutes. Well my 92 vector and 92 raven worked great I was open at 1500. I yelled at my buddy to celebrate and went to find my gear.
Parachute is recovered but my freebag may need to be replaced.

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