Me, Backwards

I had a great day of skydiving out at Skydance on Saturday - I did four 8-way jumps with a good group of folks.  Unfortunately, my landings weren’t going so well and I couldn’t quite figure out why.  My depth perception was off, and for a while I thought it was solely due to the fact that for two of the first three jumps I was landing in grass that was 2-3 feet high and was choosing my flare point for the top of the grass. But finally, on the last jump, I realized that my new full-face helmet’s visor was causing just enough distortion to screw up my (already-not great) depth perception. (more…)