He killed his lanyard for sure!... and if you look closely you can see he had another similar cut where he was one handing near his boot, easily could have cut himself there too. Just before that lanyard nicking incident. While you may be impressed by his rigging and bombing capabilities, he certainly has some sloppy moves that could wind up getting him hurt or killed. It's a matter of odds.. if he keeps making sloppy cuyts every day, 5 days a week, 45 weeks a year, x 10, 20 or 30 years.. the odds are going to catch up to him. He's goinr to get complacent if he isn't already.. and if he doesn't take those small mishaps as God giving him a warning, he's going to mess up.. hopefully not too bad and he learns his lesson... In the mean time we all can learn a little something from that video... Apparently we have much different perspectives... That tree took him 2 days.. plenty of room to up his game!
PS.. I AM with you Gary.. "not as safe as it could be" is mighty polite!