The descent rate of a 24 foot diameter chute even with a 20 knot wind to drag you about beats an arrival at a 450 knots with the same approach angle. Any landing except directly downwind (facing upwind/drifting rearwards down wind)....that is...feet, butt, head...hospital....will usually allow for relatively minor injuries.
The dragging part can become tiresome....after about the third hedgerow and fifth barbed wire fence....it becomes tedious at best. The real thrill is to cross a motorway in that fashion....been there...done that. Some genius wanting to have a laugh put a half brick in the end of the windsock. For sure it felt a bit windy but the windsock was not at half straight, now was it?
Someone remember the second floor breaking and entering in the housing estate across from the Sunderland Airport years ago? Done on a windy day by a sport jumper. Jumper smashed through the second floor of the flat....stood up...rendered a Cheerio and was snatched back out of the window by the chute blowing over the rooftop....pulled him up and over the roof...broke his leg when he landed on the other side. The old dear in the flat had a heart attack due to all the commotion and sight of the alien creature that destroyed her windows. Ambulance arrived to pick up the casualty....took the jumper thinking he was the patient....left the heart attack victim upstairs unknowlingly. Second unit had to be dispatched to fetch grandma with the heart attack.