Prepare to land-Keep your eyes on the horizon
-Your fourth point of performance
Army Airborne School is often ridiculed as being one good week of training stuffed into three weeks. But it is a course designed to take personnel with vastly varying backgrounds from all branches of the service and often foreign countries and ensure that they can safely jump out of an aircraft in flight, which is not a natural thing to do.
During the course, the instructors harp on the five points of performance:
Proper exit, check body position, and count.
Check canopy and gain canopy control.
Keep a sharp lookout during descent and constantly compare your rate of descent with other jumpers.
Prepare to land. Keep your eyes on the horizon.
Land. Execute a PLF or Parachute Landing Fall by making an impact with the 5 points of contact: 1) balls of feet, 2) calf, 3) thigh, 4) buttocks, and 5) pull-up muscle.
When we prepare to land, we are getting ready for whatever is coming. If a jumper takes his eyes off the horizon and begins to look at the ground, he tends to anticipate the moment of impact, which is a great way to break a leg.
This is a great lesson for all of us.
Prepare and trust your preparation to deal with whatever challenges arise
Stop staring at the obstacles.
Keep your head out of your fourth point of contact, and keep your eyes on the horizon.
AIRBORNE!
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Great advice as always, John.