- In this video, we are doing a recap
of the top 10 videos from Skydive Vibes
that were the most popular in 2019.
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Hey there it's Catherine Bernier from Skydive Vibes,
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2019 was an amazing year and amongst the 47 videos
that I did put out during the year,
10 really stood out being the most popular of last year.
So I wanted to do a countdown of those 10 videos.
Number 10 with 6800 views,
you guys did like the canopy piloting exercises:
master your skydiving canopy.
So the goal with that video was just simply
to share exercises that are already stated
in the skydiver instructional manual,
and you should have done those exercises
as part of your skydiver's formation.
So the goal was simply to share them with you
and give you an idea of how to do them,
so let's see a small clip from it.
Now let's talk about rear risers input.
We are talking about the same things
which are turns, spirals, stalling, and flaring.
But at any time when you do rear risers input,
you want to still have your toggles in-hand.
So let's say you have your toggles in hands,
and then you can still grab your risers
and pull on them.
Another tip, you'll find that pulling the risers
is a little bit harder than simply the toggles.
When it's time for you to grab them,
grab them like this.
Turn your hands backward, and you grab your risers,
and then when it's time for you to pull,
simply give a little input on the wrist,
and then after that you're gonna have more strength
to pull them down.
Of course you'll see that you don't need
to give that much input
before feeling your canopy reacting to it.
So just give it a little bit of input
and feel what it does with those different exercises.
Tim Hortons.
I've seen that they are coming down to the US,
so have you seen some of those in your area
here in the US?
Canadians are coming.
Number nine, jumping with world champions:
Airwax, skyvlog number three.
So this video was actually a skyvlog
of my experience of doing a free fly camp with Airwax.
So Airwax is actually the world champion in free fly.
So Greg and Carine was invited to our drop zone
and I was able to jump a full four days with them.
And it was a really great experience.
They were so kind, so talented.
It's amazing to be training with them.
And so here's a small clip of that video.
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Number eight, line twist malfunctions: skydiving safety.
So this video was made to give you tips and tricks
on how to get rid of line twists
but also how to avoid them
because most of the time they are induced by you.
Mostly by buddy position at opening and or packing,
but this was a great overview of what you can do
to avoid and minimize the risk of having line twists.
Here's a small clip.
So now that you have those line twists,
how can you fix them?
So first you always wanna be aware of your altitude
to make sure you have the time
to get rid of those line twists.
Then, before engaging any movement
to try to fix those line twists,
you wanna make sure that you've stopped spinning.
So try to balance the spinning movement the other way around
so at least the spin stops,
then you'll be able to take the time
to fix those line twists.
A typical tip that people are giving
is to spread the risers apart
and then kick your legs to make you rotate.
The best example we can give is
have you ever played on a swing?
Have you ever played to twist yourself up?
So this is the same principle.
How did you twist yourself on the swing?
It's basically the same technique
that you wanna use in the air to untwist your lines.
So this is the usual tip, however, there's another tip
that skydivers are starting to talk about
which is way more efficient.
What you will wanna do the next time it happens
is that you grab your risers and pull them together.
Once they are together,
you want to spin, in the other sense, your risers.
What will happen is that as you can see on the video,
the spins from the line will go down on the risers,
and when they are at that level,
it's easier for you to then unspin those,
because once all the twists are down there,
you will start to easily rotate yourself
and then get rid of those line twists.
It's also a great tip if you're not really able
to kick yourself to put you into a spin,
so then by twisting your lines,
you're most likely to succeed.
Number seven: best of skydiving 2019, skyvlog number one.
So this was one of my first compilation of 2019
of the jumps that I made last year.
It was pretty well-received with about 8000 views.
So skydiving compilations, I know, as skydivers,
we all love them because it makes us dream about jumping.
So let's see a small clip.
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Number six.
So that's a video that I've posted
at the beginning of the year
and it's about overcoming the fear of jumping as a skydiver.
With more than 8500 views,
this video is number seven and I think it's very relevant,
especially for new skydivers.
At some point we all fear actually jumping at the beginning
and we always have this fear inside
when it's time to exit the plane or during the ride up.
But once we are in the sky,
we forgot everything and will live seconds by seconds
and actually like they say,
it's the only sport that makes you live
every moment in the present.
You won't experience that in any other sport.
That is actually why most of us do jump.
This video was about how to overcome fear
and here is a small clip.
Let me tell you after six years in the skydiving sport,
I can say that it takes time
to get accustom to the experience.
You need to consider your nervousness as a good thing.
This is actually why you're jumping,
know you want to live this thrill,
this emotion of overcoming fear.
So nervousness is totally normal.
Whether you're starting out or even later on.
'Cause it keeps you aware and ready for anything
that can happen during the jump.
The nervousness will change from being negative
to positive as you grow your experience and jump more.
But it will never really go away.
And of course it's a good thing
because that's why we jump.
And it helps to keep us alive, so embrace it.
Number five: canopy piloting again, how to use your toggles.
So I shared different ways
you can actually use your toggles
and you guys did add some ways in the comments.
I love when you guys do that.
But canopy piloting, it's the most under mastered skill
amongst skydivers, I think.
Especially when we start,
we just care about the free fall part.
We are briefing and debriefing the free fall,
but never spend enough time on the canopy piloting
and that's what makes you actually
a fully pledged skydiver,
if you can master your canopy.
So that video was made simply to open your eyes
on what you can actually do with your toggles,
and to remind yourself to use them at the right time.
Here's a clip.
As we use flaring to land softly,
you can reuse the same technique,
but up in the sky,
and that's what we call stalling your canopy.
And that's an exercise you should do
to get to know your canopy better.
So it's simply that you're gonna do a full flare
in the sky above 2500 feet of course to be safe.
So we're doing it, a full flare, and you stay there
fully extended until your canopy stalls.
And what will happen is that your canopy will
most likely fold in half
and you're gonna lose all the pressure in it,
and so you're gonna feel yourself go backward.
And this is explained by the fact
that your canopy is not supporting you anymore,
so you're getting back into free fall a little bit.
You wanna make sure to release your toggles slowly
even though you're stressed and your heart squeezes
for your canopy to regain its pressure and speed.
If you're releasing your toggle too fast,
you might end up with line twists
and put yourself in a situation
that you don't necessarily want.
Number four: now this video did impressed me a lot.
It's actually at the fourth place,
but it should be number one, why?
Because the top 10 that I'm doing
is over the full year,
so the video that got posted in January
of course have more chance to have more views,
but that video was posted not that long ago,
a couple of months ago,
and it reached 11000 views in a matter of
maybe four weeks.
And even after the first week we
reached an amazing number of views,
so it did impressed me a lot.
That told me that that subject is not talked about much.
And it's spotting.
So in that video I did share five things to remember
whenever it's time for you to spot
and/or not to forget to actually spot your exiting point.
So that was a very great video
and I'm planning to do more on that subject
or around that subject to help you,
but here's the clip.
The next element I wanted to share is pretty surprising.
A green light does not necessarily mean
that you need to jump right away.
That's surprising
because most of the planes that we're jumping out of
we have a red or a yellow light
and then the green light.
Which is usually the pilot telling you
that hey you can jump.
Well, in fact the green light is simply the pilot
telling you that his responsibilities are done.
That means that the necessary adjustments have been done
on the speed and trim for a safe exit,
and that the air traffic control knows
that sky divers are about to jump out of an airplane.
But that's it.
So the next thing is for you
as a responsible skydiver
to make sure to look down and make sure
that it's a safe exit point for you.
Number three: skydiving licenses,
six things to know before starting.
So what I notice is that on this channel
there's a lot of newcomers in the sport of skydiving.
Whether you guys are waiting
to see if you should take your skydiver's course,
or you did take it, but you're brand new in the sport.
So having content around skydiving licenses
where they give you access to
or what to expect from those sky diving licenses
or how to succeed in passing those different levels,
I think that's content that you guys like,
but here's a clip of that video,
skydiving licenses, six things to know before starting.
That leads us to of course my recommendation
of leaning toward a program that offers you tunnel time
in the AFF course,
but also personally I remember I did some tunnel time
for my A license as well,
so you wanna take a look at that,
I highly recommend it.
This is how you'll be more confident in the sky
because you'll work on your stability
before jumping out of the plane,
so this way you can become more confident
and work on that in the tunnel,
and when you get for your first jump,
you're only thinking about your plane exit,
which is also an important part of the skydive.
Number two, the video on the Cookie G4
is in the second place.
So, of course, that's a brand new skydiving helmet
from Cookie Composites,
and it's particular because it is an impact rated helmet.
So you guys did love this video
and I did shoot the different segment
of me handling the Cookie G4 at the PIA Symposium in Texas
at the beginning of the year,
and I went over the specification characteristics,
and actually I'm trying to get my hand on one of those
so that I can try it
and give you a more person review on it.
So Cookie, if you're listening,
maybe in the short future.
That being said, let's watch a clip from that video
about the Cookie G4.
Also call their G4, a quiet helmet.
Due to its new mechanism to close the visor,
which was also built from the ground up,
so you'll notice that you'll have to pull the visor
a lot more forward before rotating it.
And it's made so because the visor
is actually getting in the helmet a little bit
to make sure there is not possible snag hazard.
Also helps with the noise,
due to the rubbers that you'll find on the helmet
where the visor closes.
The new mechanism is not using rubbers
as for the G3, so it's meant to now last
the lifespan of the full helmet.
And for that it now uses stainless steel spring.
Number one: the video that was posted in 2019
and got the most view during all the year is
Five tips to improve your parachute landings.
And that should not be a surprise to you or to me.
Landings is one of the trickiest part
for a new skydivers.
I'm pretty sure it's the trickiest.
Because there's always that fear of collision
and having the right timing.
And you got to evaluate your height and your speed
and there's a lot of variables
that you need to understand
before doing this amazing flare at the right time
and land softly.
Let's watch a clip of that number one video of 2019:
five tips to improve your parachute landings.
Let's go.
If you're flaring too high, too soon,
my trick that helped me,
well they tell you to flare
when you're at one system from landing,
but one system, or 12 feet,
what does that mean at that point?
I had a hard time figuring out
when am I at 12 feet precisely?
So what I started to do
and the trick that someone gave me.
So whenever I feel it's time for me to flare,
I tell myself "wait, wait, wait, okay now."
Three times.
It can be called also the oh sh, oh sh, oh sh method.
Where your gut tells you to flare,
but you know you're flaring always too high.
So at that point try to hold on
and your heart will squeeze, I tell you,
but try to hold on and tell yourself "wait" three times
before flaring.
This helped me a lot.
Now be careful, don't wait too long either,
but you get what I mean.
All right so that was a recap of the 10 most popular videos
of Skydive Vibes in 2019
that were posted in 2019 and gained the views
along the year.
So thanks a lot to you guys
for watching the Skydive Vibes content
and stay tuned because there's more coming up.
And let me know below, always,
and below any videos if you have a video idea.
I'm watching all the comment,
I'm trying to respond to every one of you,
but post your video ideas below
so that I can create the content for you
and/or invite an expert to talk about it.
That being said, of course, keep jumping.
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Stay safe and I'll see you in the next one.
Blue skies.
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