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5 jump chump3/4/2023 ![]() I was also lucky, because some have not been so fortunate (thinking of the Navy SEAL this past weekend). ![]() But the training takes over and you take care of business. We retrieved the main canopy and it was not significantly damaged.īy then, I was already a USPA licensed advanced parachutist and a rated jump master and instructor, so I immediately chuted up again, took up three students, put them out and jumped again! I had an uneventful ride down, and landed on the DZ. I pulled, and the pilot chute just lay there, as the spring was old (and not springy)! I screamed SXXT, pushed the pilot chute off my stomach and it caught air and the reserve deployed. Since the canopy releases are on your front shoulders, you begin to fall backwards (inverted) and the reserve was on my chest. I cutaway from the main and went back into free fall. It was totally my fault, as civilian jumpers pack their own main parachutes. Your rate of descent increases dramatically. They can be dangerous, because with a descending round canopy, much of the area designed to catch air is gone. I checked my canopy and had a Mae West (see photo). I had performed a routine 30 second delay from 7500', separated from the other jumpers, and then pulled. Unlike Army practice which is to retain the main canopy and deploy the reserve (at least when I jumped), generally civilian skydiving practice is to breakaway (cutaway) from the main, return to free fall and pull the reserve. However, as a civilian skydiver, I did have a malfunction that required a breakaway from my main, return to free fall, and then I pulled my chest reserve. 4/10.CPT Aaron Kletzing, I NEVER had to dump my reserve, EVER, on a military jump. If there was one aspect that was consistently good throughout the series, it was the music. Doug Goodwin's, composer regular for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises' output, music score fits well, is colourful and has a nice character. Crazylegs' final line raises the cartoon's biggest laugh. The cartoon does pick up towards the end, which is easily the best part and has finally the energy that was so lacking elsewhere. Mann sounds as if he had just gotten out of bed still yawning. Tom Holland and Don Diamond voice too broadly with badly stereotypical accents, as ever, and Larry D. Their conflict is neither entertaining or suspenseful. 'Two Jumps and a Chump' does very little with Crazylegs, who here is bland and is too much of a dimwit. Their behaviour is not much different to what was seen before in their previous cartoons. ![]() El Toro and Pancho are both annoying and neither have interesting or appealing personalities. The animation is really not good, with a flat and unfinished look that takes simplicity to extremes. Most of the material is thin on the ground and bland, very little is remotely amusing here with all the too few existing gags being very unimaginative and little more than repetitive recycling. There is just far too little to it and it takes too long to get to the point. ![]() The story is hardly there, with too much of a rehashed feel, a very dull pace from a lack of energy and tension and a paper thin structure. To me, while not quite one of the worst cartoons in the series 'Two Jumps and a Chump' is one of their weaker collaborations with all the usual flaws and the previous two Crazylegs appearances handled him better. 'Two Jumps and a Chump' is the ninth cartoon and the third outing with Crazylegs Crane as El Toro and Pancho's opponent. Their 70s work however is less good, and while there were even worse theatrical series of theirs the Tijuana Toads series was really not them at their best. It was not as if everything DePatie-Freleng Enterprises did were mediocre or worse, they were responsible for The Pink Panther, The Inspector and the Ant and the Ant and the Aardvark and at their best those series are great. None of the previous Tijuana Toads cartoons are particularly good in my humble opinion, the best being 'Go For Croak' and 'Snakes for the Gracias' (the only two to rise above mediocre) but for reasons other than the toads.
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