CReed2121

What do you think of Kansas and why do you hate it?

Nope

Well, to better explain the situation, your first few times skydiving, you have your back attached to the chest of your instructor, in what is called a tandem dive. And the instructor is actually the one wearing the parachute. He said afterwards that it was probably the fault of whoever packed the parachute before the jump, because when I pulled the ripcord, the parachute deployed backwards which slowed us down a bit, but not nearly enough. He then had to release the main parachute, and we had to hope that the backup (our only other option) would work, and thankfully, it did.

Afterwards, my instructor said that in his almost 10,000 jumps, he had never had to use the backup parachute before.

Honestly, this is one of those things that I've been asked the most, and my usual response to this is simply, nothing.

Being told the parachute had failed to open correctly didn't seem frightening at first or anything, my mind just kind of went, "Oh..."

I couldn't quite grasp the concept that I've got one more try with the parachutes, and if that fails, I won't survive this fall.

Will do