{"id":17656,"date":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skydivemag.com\/new\/?p=17656"},"modified":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","slug":"2017-03-13-lets-stop-lazy-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/2017-03-13-lets-stop-lazy-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Stop LAZY Exits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have noticed over the last couple of years that a lot of really great skydivers seem to have become lazy about exits. It is as if they have collectively decided: <\/strong>\u2018We\u2019re good enough to get there fast anyway – so we don\u2019t need to stress about the exit\u2019.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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They early divers know they can get to the formation pretty quickly. The medium divers are pretty fast – and they\u2019re not at the back of the plane anyway, so they won\u2019t be last. The last divers are smoking fast – and they love a good dive.<\/p>\n

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Missing the Point<\/h1>\n

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They\u2019re right in one way; They are great flyers, great divers, and the formations still build pretty quickly. I think they\u2019re missing the point though. Last year for example I went to a serious 3-plane sequential event. We made some great complex jumps – but a bunch of them were just a few seconds away from the third point. We all wanted those third points.<\/p>\n

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To get the third points, we need to find some more seconds. I picked a random jump to look at the timing.<\/p>\n

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