{"id":384997,"date":"2026-07-03T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384997\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:22:12","slug":"video-captures-flag-carrying-skydiver-make-hard-landing-at-folsom-pro-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384997\/","title":{"rendered":"Video captures flag-carrying skydiver make hard landing at Folsom Pro Rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skydiver was seen making a hard landing during the Folsom Pro Rodeo on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Viewer video captured the moment just after 7 p.m. at the rodeo.<\/p>\n<p>The video appears to show a skydiver carrying an American flag coming in for a landing before making a sudden dip near the grandstands.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/11p-folsom-rodeo-crash-kmaxfttm.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"11p-folsom-rodeo-crash-kmaxfttm.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The skydiver appeared to make a sudden dip just above the grandstands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Krista Nicole Hefner\/Viewer video<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said that, despite how serious the landing looked, the skydiver got up, walked to the middle of the arena and waved to the crowd to show he was OK.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 65th year of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/gooddaysacramento\/video\/bella-is-checking-out-the-65th-annual-folsom-pro-rodeo\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Folsom Pro Rodeo<\/a>. Tickets for the rodeo are already sold out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A skydiver was seen making a hard landing during the Folsom Pro Rodeo on Thursday night. Viewer video&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3765,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-384997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-folsom-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}