Pablo Signoret Instagram – Well, no short and intense video today, but a story to tell… I didn’t know if I was gonna post about it but here it is. Two weeks ago I crashed on landing. Impacted some huge rocks, multiple times, full speed. I wanted to fly by some friends standing on those rocks, went too close. The shock was extremely violent but I walked away and thought I had only a few scratches and sore feet. Went to do an X-ray 2 days later : no broken bones, except for one. I broke one vertebrae (L1), luckily just a little bit. Went to see a specialist, no surgery should be needed but I won’t be jumping for a little while…
If I choose to tell that story it’s mostly to share the lesson I learned. Social media can be a good place to write some thoughts sometimes. My point here is that my ego got the most damage in this accident. I could go on and on telling what technical aspects I fucked up but I would miss what this is really about. What happened is that I fell into the trap of overconfidence. I did some spicy jumps the past weeks and just before the crash as well. Some might think watching my videos that I ”just send it” but I actually put a lot of thinking into those jumps. But here I got tricked, the humble mood I try to get in when I do some sketchy stuff simply left my mind as I was under canopy, and thought the sketchy part was over. Felt like the job was done and I was so skilled I could do a sick fly by without being focused, because I was done with the sketchy part… well, I was not. I was cocky under my parachute without even realizing, and that is what caused it. I knew all that before and already had thought about it, but it still happened.
I feel extremely lucky to be alive, and that the price I have to pay for that mistake is only a few months without base. I’ll have some more time to think about the idiot I was for a moment.
This might seem logical for some of you reading and I wish you all to be smarter than I was at that moment. Never take anything, at anytime, for any reason, for granted.
I should take this opportunity to thank the two friends I was with that took care of me 🙏🏼
And to tell my friends and family that I love them ♥️
Be safe out there bitches ♥️🦘 | Posted on 26/Jan/2022 21:39:03
