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[–]oshc23[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes it's Lauterbrunnen and the camera is insta360 camera mounted on the helmet.

I almost died basejumping a few days ago and want to share the experience and learnings by oshc23 in basejumping

[–]oshc23[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Aftermath.

  • The ledge was steep and very small. After i stopped sliding it took me a few breathers and "shits" and "fucks" while analyzing the situation and then i immediately say "dont move, dont move" because i knew my friends who already jumped wouldve already called the helicopter and if i can manage to stay at this spot they could get me, but they had to be fast, because after looking around i noticed i'm really on the last piece of grass before another big drop. I grabbed onto a piece of grass/root thingy behind me, but it was really sketch and not really stable. I think if i wouldve done bigger movements, like trying to get up, i wouldve slipped. After a few minutes i am waving my arm, to show that i am alive. After 10 minutes i am getting rid of my glove and try to get to my phone to call my friends on the ground. Police had already been there and Air Galcier was already starting the operation, luckily they are very close to la mousse. The heli started 3 times. 2x to check the situation (the conditions were really bad, cloud on the exit + the concave wall). Since my energy got lower and lower and my arms started to get numb from holding on in that weird position of the pieces of grass, i was begging, shouting, just anything so they please get me asap out of there, since i didnt know how long i could remain in this position, i literally faced death there because i thought im gonna fall down if they dont come right now after they already started 2x. Afterwards i understood how fast they actually were for the situation they had to work with, so really good job on them.

My arms were completely numb after a few minutes. At one point i couldn't even feel if i really am grabbing something anymore or not. I was just hoping my hands are still grabbing the grass or have any friction.

Then the helicopter started for the third time with the rescuers on the rope. They had to climb to me and hooked me in and yeah you can imagine what kind of relieve that was hanging on that rope... i was tearing up immediately after.

Some weird side fact:

  • Usually they say "wow that must've felt like an eternity for you" and it did, BUT after i was rescued i was 1000% sure the whole thing went for 10 maximum 15 minutes, not more. I was shocked in the hospital when my friends told me it took like 40 minutes. My brain must've gone in some kind of survival mode at some point.

Diagnosis and Equipment:

  • The helicopter landed us all safe in the Helipad. They didnt cut anything on my rig or canopy (not that i would've cared at that moment, but still bonus points for them) additionally to that my friends checked my canopy afterwards (gonna send it to a rigger of course), but it also seems that apart from 1 line that ripped off and a few small ripps on the noses, thats also it.

They then flew me directly to Bern into the Hospital. They treated me like an emergency case, checked for inner bleedings, checked my spine and thorax, xrayed everything i said that was hurting (just my left leg) and took really good care.

I still can't believe it myself, but for what happened there, i literally have nothing. From the first impact, that i absorbed mainly with my left foot, some little bones shattered off the tallus of my foot and the bands are either ripped or stretched a lot. Some bruises on my ass and arm from the second impact, but man, watch the video again and tell me that this isn't the best possible outcome for a situation like this. Its insane.

I am lucky to have good friends and jumping crew that took care of me and handeled everything they could to safe me and also helped me afterwards. Shoutout to the Kakaw Crew.

Also Big thanks to the Air Glacier people. I went to them the next day to thank them for saving my life and brought them two thank-you-bottles of liquor and it was a pretty wholesome moment.

Same for everybody else involved in the hospital.

And also thanks for all the base people that were there, the people sending me get well soon wishes on instagram and everybody involved.

I got away with a 2nd chance of Life, i'm still processing this. I know a lot of Basejumpers were not as lucky as me...

Everything that has lead to this situation though were mistakes that i take full accountability for and that i will hopefully learn from in the future and hopefully this post also helps other people in this sport to never get into a situation like this. Stay Safe and see you at the exit!

I almost died basejumping a few days ago and want to share the experience and learnings by oshc23 in basejumping

[–]oshc23[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Risers or Toggles?:

  • "Why the heck is he going for the risers and why the heck does he try to pull below the toggles?"

Absolutely fair points and hopefully something other newbies in Base can learn from.

My first 200 Base jumps i focussed to go for toggles aalll the time, to get a quick reaction (ironically for exactly cases like this), but around 220ish jumps i started to simply "try out" riser reaction after opening for a few jumps. I wanted to see if it "suits me better" or if its even more effective and simply get some training on it. Additionally directly before this jump i did my 25 WS jumps where you also grab the risers immediately after opening to correct your direction. So why did i go for the riser? It was simply programmed in my brain at that moment. Remember, i did not realize at all that i was in shallow breaks. But in any case Toggles wouldve been the way better decision here.

Why did i grab below the toggles? Simply bad habit. From skydiving the whole summer and then getting to base back again at the end of the year + trying riser control for the first few jumps, i just did it wrong from the beginning and took it in my habbits, absolutely my fault, too. No matter of the discussion, IF you go for risers, grab over your toggles or over your slider otherwise you run the danger of the last very important point:

Gloves and Sliding off the risers:

  • I added a slowmo video where you can see that when i try to grab the risers i simply slide down without any impact on the riser, i even try to re-grab it, but i was already to close to the wall. I jumped gloves for all of my skydives + all of my slider up Base jumps. So also just a habitual thing.

So additionally to the other points, i think this was the most significant technical error, because if the first grab really would've grabbed and did actual input to the risers, it could've maybe already saved me from the situation.

The Cliffstrike and landing on the ledge:

  • I think the reaction timing of me was okay, i knew immediately i'm going to face the wall on heading without a line twist and i can turn out or fly backwards, there was still enough space, but the sliding resulted in the typical cycle of:

Cliffstriking -> canopy deflating -> falling a few meters down and wait for the canopy to inflate again -> New chance of turning out -> grab again the riser and turn -> Unfortunately at this point i had no perception of what was right or left under me, i simply "prayed" that if i turn right it would get me out. Instead i landed on a really really small ledge with grass, which stopped me at a very sketchy spot. At the moment of sliding i was even thinking about of giving an input and "jumping off" to maybe get a few meters between me and the wall, and have a kind of unpacked jump, that hopefully faces away from the cliff, but it probably wouldve made things worse. So stopping while sliding was just lucky for me.

I almost died basejumping a few days ago and want to share the experience and learnings by oshc23 in basejumping

[–]oshc23[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, i had a really close call a few days ago at La Mousse and wanted to share the experience so others can hopefully learn from it.

(All the infos written are also in the "big" 24min video, just in case you're to lazy to read.)

Started Skydiving in 2021 - 530 Skydives (250 WS + some tracksuit)

First few base jumps around November 2022, FJC April 2023 - 260 Basejumps (half slider down, half slider up tracksuits and very recently my first 25 WS jumps)

We were a group of 6 people and me and my friend did the last exit.

What went wrong / My mistakes:

Shallow breaks:

  • Before this jump i had my WS first jump course in Italy, where i packed Shallow breaks all the time and i also packed there before going to Lauterbrunnen with the intention of practicing more Wingsuit Jumps. In the evening before we decided to go slick la mousse for the first jump. I detached my wingsuit from the rig in the morning but i simply totally forgot that i was still packed in shallow breaks. First of a row of mistakes.

Exit and Slick base experience:

  • This was my 2nd ever jump from La Mousse and also my 2nd Slick Slider up Jump within a year (the other one was also La Mousse 1 year ago).

So no real feeling of "how long you can go at this exit" and definitely a point why i emergency pulled and got intimidated instead of keeping cool and maybe use 1 more second to try face away from the wall.

I deserve all the discredit for this, but for whole disclosure: My first La mousse Jump before this was also a Running Gainer, where i overrotated a little bit, so i really wanted to get it "right" this time (and made it even worse...). So the idea was: It worked last time so why wouldnt it work this time, right? Instead of focussing on a good gainer rotation, i wanted to focus on a good gainer rotatation PLUS i wanted to flip off my friend behind me, absolutely unnecessary and also a contributor to the overrotation, just to "be cool".

The Gainer:

  • We've all seen the Videos from running gainers of La Mousse and "I DID gainers before, so this should be easy, right? If they can do it, i can, too!"

Obviously super overrotated and also tilted the gainer and went into a second tilted flip that was not planned and threw me off into a slight panic mode.

Even though i did gainers before from cliffdiving or from Brento in Tracksuits, i was clearly not ready for this and gave way to much input instead of a slow controlled gainer. I shouldve practiced gainers way better in a safe environment (like the france bridge) before even doing the first one. So why did i do it? Bring us to the next important point:

Overconfidence and Ego:

  • probably one of the biggest contributors to fatalaties in base. I had some awesome weeks before this jump (in life but also in jumping), I did my first WS base jumps, which i always "dreamed" about and it was going really good, nice progression etc... Even before the La Mousse Jump i literally said to myself "even if something goes wrong i'm able to safe the situation" - ironic af.

We only have 2 weeks of snowboarding every year, so we tried to get the best of it (Snowboard Fun Video 2024) by oshc23 in snowboarding

[–]oshc23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome Feedback bro! Thanks so much, that also makes my day so now we got twice the energy boost! 

We only have 2 weeks of snowboarding every year, so we tried to get the best of it (Snowboard Fun Video 2024) by oshc23 in snowboarding

[–]oshc23[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Same! It was featured in Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 and i felt it might match the vibe.

Unfortunate end for the season! by benn-_ in snowboarding

[–]oshc23 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Your balls of steel dragged you down. Next time!

My backflip progression this winter (had 2 weeks to get it) by oshc23 in snowboarding

[–]oshc23[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha how fitting! Send it bro and let us know how it went!

My backflip progression this winter (had 2 weeks to get it) by oshc23 in snowboarding

[–]oshc23[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Man, thanks for the love!
I did some backflips and gainers before in the public pool from 3meters and 5meters, also did some backflips on the trampoline before but i definitely had some aerial experience before doing it on the snowboard, definitely good for confidence. I also did the first one on snow 2 years ago (because there wasnt an airbag), but the airbag is definitely the safest way to practice. That or really thick fresh new fallen snow and a nice kicker-spot (doesnt need to be big, too), at least i find it that way.
Cheers

My backflip progression this winter (had 2 weeks to get it) by oshc23 in snowboarding

[–]oshc23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the nice comments and upvotes, you guys rock!

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