DS suit vs Earth!

This photo was taken from the Facebook group "I like to impress girls with my dangerously low hook turns". The pic is of Erwin Vanlommel and has nothing to do with the following story - it just fits the story well! Have a look at this Facebook group - hilarious!

This pic was taken off the Facebook group "I like to impress girls with my dangerously low hook turns". This pic is of Erwin Vanlommel and has nothing to do with the following story - it just fits the story well! Check out this Facebook group - hilarious!

This is the reply we received when we asked a valued customer how his Deepseed jumpsuit was holding up after 6 months of jumping.......

I headed to the dropzone one very windy day... not many people were jumping, only tandems really going up, and 100 jump limit placed on all loads due to the wind. Having over 100 jumps I decided to chance it... first jump successful. I remember waiting for my next load and laughing at one guy landing backwards due to the strong wind. Second jump... outlanding.... and to cut a long story short I found myself heading very fast downwind towards a line of trees... amature object fixation at it best! I dont actually remember hitting the ground, but I remember landing short about a metre from being grated through the trees. I regained conciousness shortly before the paramedics arrived, and as they attended to my leg I remember one of them saying "We are going to have to cut your jumpsuit off to get to your leg". I sat up instantly cursing... "Don't touch my fukcing jumpsuit, I just paid 250 pounds for this jumpsuit" After a bit of arguing they agreed to pull it off... it was worth the pain :)

End result was broken right femur, which now has a big pin through it :( So it looks like a lot of physio & tunnel training ahead before I get back in the air...

So to answer your questions below:

Has your Freefly Suit performed as you would have hoped and do you feel we have lived up to your expectations? Yes, from what I remember it performed as I had hoped in the air... what I can commend you on is that it can take an extremelly high speed imapct really well... baring a few grass stains... barely a scratch on it!!

Were you pleased overall with the service you got from us? Yes, no complaints... job well done :) Keep up the good work.

If you have a crazy, funny or painful story about how your Deepseed suit held up to the rigors of freefall, hooking it in or efficient paramedics bent on saving your life, flick us an email: marketing@deepseed.com!

Skydivers Xmas Rock Concert - Hunter Valley - Australia

Just Jump Skydive @ the Hope Estate Skydiving all weekend - XL to 14,000ft every time NO holds! 12th - 13th December 2009 Jumping from 7 am Concert kick off 5 30 pm Concert Tickets $30, Weekend Rego (incl concert) $50. Kids meals $10. Book before Wednesday 9th December & dinner Saturday night is included. Load organisers, luscious turfed landing area, restaurant & cafe The Hope Estate is a licensed venue so NO alcohol may be brought on site.

NEW Karnage Krew @ Just Jump Skydive Gear Shop Opening the Xmas party weekend Awesome deals on new gear purchases* (cond apply) Free demo rig until yours arrives Free cookie helmet or Deepseed jumpsuit Heaps more - come and check it out

2010 Ookoonono Calendar

*Support your favourite Australian CF Team, Ookoonono!

*Know when and where all the cool boogies and skydiving events are on in 2010!

*Have a new awesome action skydiving photograph on your wall every month!

*All for only $25 + $2.50 postage to anywhere in Oz!

*Email Jules on juliamcconnel@yahoo.com

to order your calendar NOW!!!

*Great Christmas Gift!!!

Aussie skydiving team "Ookoonono" - with a Kiwi cameraman - have made an awesome 2010 Calendar filled with spectacular pictures of us doing what we love - jumping out of planes! We're raising funds for our journey to the World Parachuting Championships in Russia next year.

We've filled the calendar with all the great skydiving boogies and events for 2010, and - of course - pictures of us (each month is an A4 page opposite an A4 photo).
We've had great support from drop zones, equipment manufacturers and photographers to create the masterpiece - thanks to you all!

Calendars are now on sale for $AUS25 + postage (postage in Australia is $2.50). HURRY! There's a limited supply!

For those of you who have already got one - thanks for your support!

And thanks once again to all our sponsors and photographers to make this calendar happen - Skydive Oz, APF, Cookie Composites, Deepseed, Downward Trend, Phantm, Aerial Skydiving, Skydive Nagambie, Skydive Express, Skydive Maitland, Performance Designs, Parachutes Australia, ASM, Sydney Skydivers, Keith Macbeth, Steve Fitchett, Mike Paolin, Shane Price, Craig Bennett, Joe Hallin, Jill Grantham, Jenny Gordon and lastly Alex and Gav for your inspiration!

Have a great 2010!

Jules x

Southern Summer Jam - The Hayden Rowan Invitational

This exciting new event will take place in February 2010 at the New Zealand Skydiving School in South Canterbury, New Zealand.

Onsite will be NZ Skydiving’s Cessna Caravan along with visits from the helicopters from Mt Hutt Helicopters & balloons from Aoraki Balloon Safaris!

Also attending will be some internationally acclaimed skydiving coaches and an awesome range of prizes from sponsors including of course, Deepseed!

For more info contact Colin at info@southernsummerjam.co.nz.

Deepseed Gift Certificate for Christmas

Deepseed is offering gift certificates for the month of December! Excellent - just in time to give your friend/wife/husband/mum the perfect present for Christmas!

Gift certificates can be purchased for any value from NZ$10 up to NZ$1000 and can be used to pay for any purchases from Deepseed. The international postage price of Deepseed Gift Certificates is NZ$2.50 anywhere in the world. Postage within New Zealand is 50 cents. Fast Post is also available if you forget to buy that special someone a present! Get in quick so we can make sure that your prefect Christmas gift arrives in time.

Contact us at info@deepseed.com for more info and to purchase a gift certificate.

Deal of the Year!

During November '09 Deepseed and Karnage Krew will be bringing you the deal of the year!

Check out the link above for details of how you can get your FREE custom Deepseed suit!

For more info contact gary@karnagekrew.com or marketing@deepseed.com.

KL Tower International Jump 22nd – 25th October

The KLTIJ’09 proved to be an excellent event with 80 jumpers from around the world traveling to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to take part in the annual BASE jumping event from the Menara KL Tower.

This event has become one of the best legal BASE events to attend with the opportunity to jump the world’s 5^th tallest building. This year’s event was organised in conjunction with Capt Aziz and the CEO of Menara KL. Credit has to go to all the crew and jumpers, who helped make this wicked event safe, fun and enjoyable for everyone involved!

2009 NSW Canopy Piloting State Championships

Beginning October 5^th members of the Australian Canopy Piloting Team and many others met up at Sydney Skydivers for a week long training camp leading up to the NSW Canopy Piloting State Championships. The championships are the teams last chance to get some competition experience before heading for South Africa in December to compete in the Canopy Piloting World Cup. Australia’s best at the World Championships in 2008, Rob McMillan, was available during the week to coach and mentor the new guys in the team on what to expect at a big international competition.

Unfortunately the weather gods did not play ball at all, the winds were strong most of the week and kept everyone on the ground more often than not. But at least we were all in the same boat. There was actually way more action at the go-cart track than at the dz during the week.

Saturday morning and it was all action stations, 19 competitors, 13 in open and 6 in intermediate. One of the intermediate guys had not competed before and was not available to train mid-week and prove he was safe so all the inter competitors were offered the chance to do a practice jump first up. Then the comp began with round 1 of Speed. Not long afterwards the winds picked up from the east over the freeway making it turbulent and unsafe on the pond. The conditions stayed that way till the end of the day. Fully Sik was not shy about letting everyone know that he was hoping that the weather would continue to stay bad and the comp get called on 1 round due to him leading the intermediate competition and he was up for a Gold medal if that happened. Unfortunately for him he wasd to be bitterly disappointed.....

Sunday morning, partly cloudy, light northerly. Competitors waived the usual minimum turnaround times and the competition rounds continued smoothly. As the day progressed the winds picked up and one round of Inter Zone Accuracy all competitors got a rejump due to the wind limits being exceeded.

Rob McMillan was leading the Open competition until he verticalled in the 2^nd last round. Michael Vaughan took the lead and held on for the last round. Shane Price finished a very close 3^rd just 0.5 points (30cm) ahead of Darren Griggs, both in their first Open competition after competing in intermediate at the 2009 CP Nationals earlier this year.

Due to a few rejumps and wind holds the intermediate competition did not complete the full 9 rounds. The competition was very close with Conor King taking it out by just 9 points from Keven Walters followed by Clayton Werner in 3^rd.

Congratulations go to all the winners and also to Sofia Giussani for attaining her CP judges rating.

Open Overall

Gold - Michael Vaughan

Silver - Rob McMillan

Bronze - Shane Price

Intermediate Overall

Gold - Conor King

Silver - Keven Walters

Bronze - Clayton Werner

Thanks to all the competitors for a safe competition also many thanks to all the judges, volunteers, pilots, manifest and everyone else who made it happen.

Good luck Aussie CP Team for the World Cup in December.

Photos by Simon Martin

Top Glenn Farrel

Bottom Conor King

Nelson Skydive Club - NZ

On the weekend of 31 Oct/1Nov Nelson Skydive Club are planning a weekend at St Arnaud in Nelson Lakes National Park.

Deano will be flying the 172 and we will do a few jumps in the National Park. Walking/kayaking and other activities available for non-jumping family and friends. We are still finalising arrangements with the air strip and Gliding club, and if this falls thru, plan B is a weekend at Fox Glacier. Email Wayne if you are interested in the weekend wayne@nelsonskydiveclub.org or visit the link above for more info.

Skydive Waikato 2009

Skydive Waikato, under the new management of Jodi and Mark Horning, are hosting a launch party and boogie in Matamata on the weekend of the 26th/27th of September!

This will be an excellent weekend with heaps of sport skydivers coming from all over! The pink Cresco from Skydive Taupo will be up if the weather is good. And of course the Cessna will be there too! Accommodation is available at the airfield, for more info contact Mark or Jodi on +64 7 888 8763. Rego fee is $25 which includes the BBQ on Saturday night and jump tickets are $45 to 12,500.

The POP's and NZPF AGM will be held in Matamata this weekend as well, so make sure you are there to be able to vote and get your say in!

Good Vibes Boogie 09! 15th-23rd August

The 2009 Good Vibes Boogie at Skydive Abel Tasman in Motueka proved to be the biggest GV so far with people travelling from as far as Australia for this excellent week of jumping. As always this event ran smoothly with the team at SD Abel Tasman doing an amazing job.

The weather was typical Motueka weather with blue skies and no wind for most of the boogie. Close to 2000 jumps were performed over the entire 9 days with nearly 500 jumps on the last day! We were lucky enough to have a range of different aircrafts to jump from with the PAC and the Fletcher flying almost constantly during the event. A highlight was the Friday morning heli jumps (as well as the PAC stalling)! The leather seats in the chopper were a luxury that was well deserved and certainly enjoyed!

It is great to see so many sport jumpers in one place and loving the opportunity to jump together. There were numerous 16-ways, 20 ways, free flying and swooping. The last load on Saturday saw Ida do her 300^th jump and her first 16 way, lots of people earned there B license at the boogie and we saw a few lingerie jumps – thanks ladies!

Deepseed ran a great night on Thursday with two DJ’s, Miijaka and Minnie travelling up from Christchurch for a party at the local bar, Hot Mamas. Even with sore heads the DJ’s loved their 1^st tandem skydive early Friday morning!

The awards night was a hit at The Gothic with lots of laughs and Deepseed, Icarus and other sponsors donating heaps of prizes. The party at Hot Mamas was packed out with everyone enjoying a bar tab knowing that not too much jumping would be happening Sunday!

Thanks has to go to Lisa, Stu and the crew at Skydive Abel Tasman who rocked the boogie with their efficient and relaxed way of running the best sport skydiving event in New Zealand. If you didn’t make it this year, book it in for 2010 and we will see you all next year!

Dale Elliott in Taupo

You may remember that Dale Elliott was coming to NZ and catching up with Deepseed about the super tech designs for his new Deepseed suit, giving a talk for the locals and having a rad time…. Well he came, and hung out in Taupo for 5 days, and we had a wicked time!

After spending some time with the students at the Methven School and in Auckland at Icarus, Dale drove down on Thursday and met up with us at the wind tunnel in Rotorua. Taupo business owner of Skydive The Source and world class AFF Instructor Geoff Mundy came with us, to give Dale the benefit of his years of experience. The focus of the exercise was to evaluate and tweak Dale’s flying style so we can come up with the Deepseed suit that would best help Dale in his future skydiving exploits. It was a great session in the tunnel at Freefall Xtreme Rotorua, and Dale even chucked in a spot of back flying…

On the Thursday evening, it was talk time, at the Suncourt Motor Lodge in Taupo. A great night was had by all especially ‘cos Deepseed put on a tab for our NZ friends and we had some great support with guys travelling from Rotorua (cheers Paul and the boys from NZONE) and from Hawkes Bay (thanks Marty and the crew from Bridge Pa).

Friday was all about business with Dale at Deepseed HQ hanging out in the Think Tank! We set to work getting all the info that Dave will need to build the suit to meet all of Dales quite specific requirements. We still had time for a good laugh at the same time.

Saturday was a crap weather day, so Dale took some time out with to check out some of the local tourist attractions in Taupo including a couple of the higher class drinking establishments around the town!

On Sunday, the weather cleared, and it was off to Taupo Tandem Skydive to get Dale flying over Taupo. Unfortunately, the morning’s good weather didn’t last, and in the afternoon the winds were too light for Dale. It was an eye opener to see how much thought and prep goes into Dale’s jumping and to see how much of jumping we take for granted.

Then Monday came and a mission up to Auckland with one last check in with the guys from Icarus (cheers for the lunch Jyro!!) and Dale was off back to Aussie. Now the mission is on at Deepseed to build the suit of all suits for Dales next adventures in the sky! We will keep everyone informed of the progress with Dale’s suit, and of Dale’s exploits as he continues to push the envelope for paraplegic skydiving.

Who Is this Guy?????

IF You know who this guy is, please contact us and let us know. This made me Laugh heaps and I want to send this Guy a T-shirt!!

Redemption Boogie 2009

Last year, We were asked by Rob Conway, one of the event coordinators of the Redemption Boogie at Lincoln Sport Parachute Club if we would sponsor their event with some prizes. We liked what we heard about the Boogie and sent over some gear for them to use as prizes. Here is the lowdown on the Boogie from Chazi Blacksher

Lincoln Sport Parachute Club hosted their annual Redemption Boogie at the Plattsmouth Municipal Airport July 17-20, 2008. The boogie offered on-site vendors, a Skydive Arizona Twin Otter, plenty of RV power, great parties and some of the best boogie food you will ever have. "We enjoy life a lot and skydiving is not just about the adrenaline," say Forlini. This year's boogie was about celebrating life. A returning tandem student brought his father and 89-year old grandfather to make a three-generation skydive. Two women brought their grandfather's ashes and inquired about making a jump, LSPC organized tandems for them to release his ashes. Three skydivers, having made their first tandem at the 2007 boogie were in attendance as licensed jumpers.

Redemption Boogie offered different types of organizing and coaching to help develop and accentuate the talent of all skydivers. Jeremy Payne covered the vertical flyers while veteran organizer Sandy Grillet took care of the flat flying. Skyventure Colorado's Brad Cole and Jason Russell took on the fun task of one on one coaching as well as some larger dive organization. Everyone leaned a lot and walked away from Redemption Boogie a better skydiver. An unofficial Nebraska Women's State Record was made on Saturday under the direction of Chazi Blacksher and Linda Fette. The two were joined by Marcia Clark, Lisa Parks, Terri Risinger, Jen Schaben, Anna Schuster, Karry Schwartz and Andrea Wosel to successfully build a women's 9-way. "It was awesome to see so many Midwestern women in the sky," said Schwartz.

What do you do after a hard day's jumping? Relax with a bunch of fun!!! Friday night's theme party, Pirates versus Ninjas brought out the scallywags, while only a few ninjas were to be found. A giant twister board showed just how short Pirate skirts can be. Saturday night offered a Laid Back Luau where after a hard day of jumping everyone chilled out among a torch lit area eating some of the best BBQ ever served at a boogie.

Vendors were on-site: Sky Venture Colorado representatives promoted tunnel time during their coaching dives and offered excellent deals on time blocks. EG Sky Suits displayed and array of jump suits and set-up with a sewing machine to repair equipment. Performance Designs came back again to demo thier huge array of canopies. Firefly Suits also attended, taking measurements for new orders and selling stock suits. UPT-Vector kept spectators on edge during Skyhook demonstrations. Not all vendors could be on-site for the event. Many vendors contributed prizes for the Saturday night prize giveaway. One of the larger companies to donate was Deepseed, one of the newer and most promising jump suit companies in the world. Their array of "casual wear" from swetashirts, to hats, to t-shirts was very sought after during the prize giveaway. All attendees of the boogie were also given the opportunity to register on the Deepseed website to win a free Jumpsuit allocated for Redemption Boogie. Many thanks to Deepseed!



The boogie isn't only about skydiving, it's also about remembering and helping others. Throughout this decade, Lincoln Sport Parachute Club, mostly through Redemption Boogie has donated thousands of dollars to their designated charity - American Cancer Society. Boogiemeister Frank Forlini summed up the club's mission: "The club chose ACS because of the unfortunate fact that cancer has affected everyone somehow or some way in their lives. If we can make a few dollars by having fun and skydiving, it only befits us to give some back to the betterment of humanity." This year's donation was heart felt after losing a long time club member, Wayne Gau, to his battle with cancer late last year. LSPC donated a record amount to ACS helped by strong tandem numbers and donations by on-site vendors that went straight to ACS.

Redemption Boogie is about remembering, honoring and creating more memories. This well organized and smoothly run boogie will be back next year to celebrate LSPC's 50th year of learning and loving the sport. See everyone there!

We are sending another package over this year, so we hope to have more to show you from the event this time round. Have fun everyone that's going, and if you're not, and you are not a million miles away from the Guys, Go Check them out!!

TAG IT BRO!!

Thanks to Nick Hammond for sending us in this awesome Tag it Bro...Extreme operating!! Nice one Bro...can you top that??? Click here to find out why it is worth your while to try and send us a better shot than that!!

9LIVES BASE CHRISTMAS EXPEDITION

We have just returned from our first Aussie BASE expedition. This 9 day trip saw us embark on 2 days of hiking in and 2 days back out with 30 + kilos on our backs, 9 days on dehydrated food, 3 days of sitting in bad weather, some great company and 2 glorious Christmas jumps. Can’t wait for more!

Thanks again Deepseed!