Landing is every man for himself
I hurt a knee the last time I was out jumping, on a downwind landing. And it was all because of a combination of stupidity and lack of knowledge.
The first because I did something I shouldn’t: I trusted a fellow skydiver’s direction instead of the wind sleeve. Turns out his direction was perfect for his canopy’s rate of descent, which allowed him to make his final turn upwind.
The second cause for the crash was the lack of experience to deal with a downwind landing. Apparently one of the safest ways to do it is to land like a tandem: on your butt 
Lessons learned and hopefully my knee will heal fast so I can jump again soon and put all this behind me.
Blue skies
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Glad you didn't get a serious injury. My landings are still kind of rough. I'm just now getting back to skydiving, and I'm having to break some muscle memory from paragliding. I still try to fly (and land) the canopy like it's a paraglider wing.
Thanks. Yeah, i can imagine they are probably very different.
In my case, i have yet to make clear in my mind that a landing is never *ever* done until your feet are safely on the ground. That's part of what caused this crash as well. Have to work a little harder to visualize that i'm a glider and not a dude hanging on a big piece of cloth, falling down