# Then, Years of Training Kicked In

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-years-of-training-kicked-in/445285>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 14, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-years-of-training-kicked-in/445285 "2008-04-14T13:40:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-years-of-training-kicked-in/445285/21 "2008-04-16T12:35:11Z")

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[QUOTE=Rilchiam]

But my shoes were dry, so I must have crossed the stones without ever putting a foot wrong, and **then** started shaking.  
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Ok,so your shoes were dry. What about your pants?

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-years-of-training-kicked-in/445285/22 "2008-04-16T12:41:29Z")

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Hee! No, they were fine.

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**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-years-of-training-kicked-in/445285/23 "2008-04-16T17:37:07Z")

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My college professor told how extended family was over for Thanksgiving or something. The lid on the pressure cooker wasn’t firmly clamped on, apparently, and hit the ceiling. The Vietnam vets in the room were crawling out the door before they caught themselves.

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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/then-years-of-training-kicked-in/445285/24 "2008-04-20T15:33:50Z")

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[QUOTE=ivylass]  
I was watching one of those Discovery documentaries about how the body works, and indeed, in moments of extreme stress, it does appear that time slows down for you. They had first-time bungee jumpers leap with a timer in their hand that digitally ticked off the seconds, normally too fast for the eye to read. All the bungee jumpers had no problem reading the seconds as they ticked off during the jump. It’s a trick your brain does, to give you “more” time to asses the situation and handle it.  
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Doing a night military parachute jump I got "Twists"the rigging lines (the stringy bits that go up to the canopy)were entangled around themselves so that the canopy wasn’t properly open which meant that I was descending rather rapidly but I felt that I had all the time in the world to sort the problem out.

Finally when I was just about to pull my reserve I span out.

I landed safely but jolly fast and jolly heavy.

And THEN unthinkingly pulled the red handle on my reserve popping it when I was picking my kit up.

One of the most embarrassing things in my life but I did’nt tell anyone for about three years that I’d pulled my reserve on the ground.

My mates said that they thought I’d left it a little late to pull watching me in the air ,they didn’t realise how late tee hee hee.

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