Team Crux in the USA

Team Crux in the USA

What a great idea lets leave Australia’s beautiful summer and go to a bitterly cold Arizona winter and spend thousands of dollars to fly in a wind tunnel. What compels us to do these things!

Who cares; its fucking fun !!!

Fly into LAX pick up the car and point it towards Arizona 8 boring hours later pull into the sky rider inn to crash out for a 4:30 am start.


For eight days straight we get up at 4:30-5:00am head over to the tunnel and relearn body position, block moves and re learn body position again and again until it sinks in to our thick heads. Thanks Joey Jones and Todd Hawkins for your persistance!

We spent two or three hours in the morning in the tunnel and the rest of the day creepering or jumping out of hot air balloons or high altitude jumps from 21000 feet. The guys at Skydive Arizona are awesome lots of cool people from all over the world come together at one drop zone to share skills and have fun.

Leaving Arizona was easy we had thrown all of our money at the tunnel and we were off to go base jumping In Idaho at the Perrine Bridge in twin falls. After stopping at a local base sight in Arizona to watch the crew from the drop zone got off a 400 ft rock in 15 knot winds we were pumped to get to the bridge and have some fun ourselvesYou drive over the bridge before you get into town so stopping to have a look over is a must. It doesn’t matter how safe people tell you it is you’re still shitting yourself just looking at it.





After meeting some of the locals we had to get used to the idea that you stroll out to the exit point take your time and go when you’re ready.

This was quite different to the base jumping we had experienced back home with Douggs running to the exit point of a 180 ft bridge quickly getting static lined three seconds of canopy flight then get in your car and get the fuck out of there.

I much prefer the Perrine Bridge.

We all got off about ten times each starting to have some fun with the 480ft bridge, back loops, side floaters and two way roll overs to name a few. Also a very cool experience jumping in the snow and watching a local pull a triple gainer and his canopy exploding before he dropped into the freezing cold water. He was fine once he was dried off and had some warm clothes on.

I have to say a special thanks to Ahren for showing us the ropes and taking us to some amazing places in Idaho including a beautiful hot spring up in the mountains covered in snow, very special.