Jan 15, 2011

Happy CRW Year at Skydive Surfside, Moruya NSW Australia

For the 3rd year in a row Michael Vaughan and Jules McConnel from the Aussie 2 Way Canopy Formation Team held a Canopy Relative Work (CRW) coaching camp at Skydive Surfside for 3 days over New Years. The event began on New Years Eve and continued through to the 2nd Jan.

When we are learning to skydive we get drilled into us to stay away from other parachutes for safety reasons. Then we see these crazy people who not only fly close to one another but also grab onto each others parachutes and lines. Not only do they come down smiling and laughing from their jumps but they also get a lot more bang for their buck! They get 10 minute skydives instead of 3 minute skydives. So the goal of these courses is to give participants an introduction to CRW. Get skydivers more comfortable flying close to other canopies, bumping end cells, touching other canopies and even docking building 2 stacks as pilot and pin. Then if time and skills permit, progress to 3 and 4 ways and even stairstep docks. Also throw in a few trash planes for a some laughs (especially from Michael!) and these courses are not only educational but are a whole lot of fun!

There are always 2 main requirements for participants wishing to attend this coaching camp:
1) Be keen to learn CRW
2) Be SO keen to learn CRW that you are willing to limit celebrations on New Years Eve in order to jump on New Years Day.
Tick - Bart, Tracey, Dave, Ryan, George, Adam, Sofia

The other main requirement is also obviously to have coaches who are willing to coach (Tick - Michael and Jules) on New Years Day and also a pilot who is willing to fly (Tick - Tim).

Skydive Surfside is at Moruya airport on the NSW South coast. The dropzone itself is on the 2nd storey of the aeroclub building. Downstairs there is a bunkhouse available although over New Years the entire property turned into a tent city housing well over 100 skydivers. The CRW dogs went to 10000 feet on most jumps in the dropzones regular 180 while the freefallers zoomed up to 14000 in the 10 seater cresco which was hired just for this non-boogie. Load organiser and new world record holder Cath Comyns kept the freeflyers in the air while Hayden Galvin kept the flockers happy.

The weather gods listened to our prayers and turned on perfect weather on New Years Eve. We jumped all day and each participant got in at least 2 one on ones with Jules or Michael and some lucky ones even got in a third. George and Dave had shown that they were ready for bigger ways and attempted their first 4 way at the end of the day with Crash on top and with Glenn #2.

After the festivities, fireworks and fun of New Years eve and a little sleep in we were at it again on New Years Day. George and Adam went up for a 3 way with Jules while Sofia started the year with a 1 on 1 with Michael. Jules 3 way landed miles from the dz due to some miscommunication with the pilot and perhaps also some not so clear heads. They were lucky to find some friendly locals who hydrated them then brought them back to the dz.

The temperature guage quickly hit 40 degrees and every load to height was pure relief. Lucky we were all doing hop and pops and getting to stay up there a lot longer than the meat bombs!. Just a couple of loads into the new year a strong north westerly wind picked up and stopped us from jumping for the rest of the day. Everyone headed in all directions for the day, spear fishing, surfing, swimming in the river or at the beach, finding somewhere cool in the shade to sleep or even heading for the local rodeo. Mid afternoon the southerly change came in and cooled things down to 25 degrees but also brought the clouds. Unfortunately the southerly and the clouds stayed and stopped us from jumping on the 2nd as well. To fill in the time Michael spent the time talking about big way CRW including the Aussie and World record and also a session on 2 Way CF and the 2010 World Championships. Perhaps some of the new CRW dogs will be inspired to follow in Michael and Jules footsteps. In fact some of them are already asking about the Aussie 50 way scheduled for late 2011.

Thanks to the APF and State council for providing funding to cover some of the costs and make the event more affordable for the participants. Thankyou to all the staff at Skydive Surfside for putting on an outstanding event. Thanks also to the participants for coming along and playing with my canopy, letting me play with theirs and for all the smiles afterwards. And biggest thanks to my awesome teammate and megastar Jules McConnel.

Oct 28, 2010

Canopy Course at Bridgewater, VIC, Australia

Location: Bridgewater Dropzone, Victoria, Australia
Time: 8:30am
Occasion: Canopy course coached by Michael Vaughan
Why are we still standing around: Ben and Anna are late!
Verdict: Lets start without them

A dozen skydivers ranging in experience from 15 jumps to 500 jumps all came to Bridgewater for the weekend to particpate in a canopy course hosted by Michael Vaughan. Most of the attendees were local Bridgewater jumpers although others were regulars from Skydive Nagambie and Commando Skydivers at Tooradin. The day began with a classroom session where everyone introduced themselves and put down their goals for the weekend. Goals ranged from "improve accuracy" to "learn more about my canopy" to "Can you teach me how to swoop?".

See www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGBe-Rh7o4U

Then it was time for jumping..... In amongst the many great landings on the weekend were:

Unstable cessna exits
3 way head down exit from 5 grand
Landing in the barley
Lock picking seminar
Some unplanned canopy relative work i.e. foot on pilot chute!
Landing a malfunction due to incorrectly stowed brakes on brand new gear, 2nd jump
As much meat as anyone can eat at the saturday night BBQ - thanks Ralph
Virgin pilots flying their first loads unassisted
Cartons for firsts
Go arounds to dodge the clouds
And the finale, a wingsuit swooper (or was that a low flying duck?) in the pond!!!

Also lots of watching and debriefing landing videos along with many classroom seminars.

What a fantastic fun weekend! Everyone had a great time, learnt heaps about their canopies and about how to fly and land them a little better. Not everyone improved on the weekend but now at least all participants have the knowledge to apply on their canopy flights over next few weeks/months to help them improve. All with the ultimate goal of improving the safety of our sport.

Thanks to Ralph and the staff at the dropzone for hosting the event. And also to the APF Sport Development fund for covering Michaels travel and the VPC for providing funding to reduce the registration costs for all.

Oct 12, 2010

2010 NSW Canopy Piloting State Meet


The NSW Canopy Piloting Championships were held at Sydney Skydivers on the weekend. A few keen competitors turned up a few days early to get some practice in before the competition began. By Friday afternoon there were 6-8 swoopers doing hop and pop loads and alternating with the tandem loads.

In all there were 14 competitors, 8 in open and 6 in intermediate. That is a pretty good turnout especially considering the cream of Aussie pilots have just returned from the World Meet in Russia and most were unavailable or could not afford to attend. 6 new competitors in intermediate who have never competed before is also very good to see.

The weather was not quite perfect on saturday with a blanket of cloud hanging around most of the day but it was still high enough for us to throw 1 or 2 competitors out per pass and get the competition flowing along. The cloud also kept the forecast easterlies at bay which helped keep things moving. When the winds come from the east it comes right over the freeway and becomes too turbulent and unsafe on the pond.

The competition began with the speed event. After 3 rounds almost every intermediate competitor was wet and only 2 had posted a score. The open event did not see any blistering runs but a number of competititors continued to post good scores.

After the 3 rounds of the distance event, 4 of the intermediate competitors had posted scores showing an improvement on the speed event. By competition end and 3 final rounds of Zone Accuracy ALL intermediate competitors had posted a score, a fantastic improvement during the day. Special mention should go to Kobi for scoring 1 point in 9 rounds by making the gate in Zone Accuracy, flying to zone 1 and not standing up. Nice one Kobi, not bad for your first competition. It is always good to see people giving it a go and challenging themselves. There were so many smiles around during the day, on the plane, in the pond, packing by the pond, a great atmosphere.

By sunset saturday 9 rounds had been completed and 14 hungry thirsty competitors headed for the free BBQ and bar.

Congrats to the 2010 NSW Champions:


Open Overall

Gold Michael Vaughan
Silver Tom Gilmartin
Bronze Keven Walters


Intermediate Overall

Gold Steve Cowan
Silver Simon Hayter
Bronze John Martin


Thanks to the Australian Parachute Federation and the NSW State Council for funding the sensors and reducing the entry fees for all competitors. Thanks also to Sydney SKydivers for hosting the event, to the judges and volunteers and to Chris Grime for getting in and out of the pond so often to change and fix the course. And finally thanks also to all the competitors for a fun, safe competition.

Bring on the Aussie Nationals in Feb 2011!!!!

Pond photo by Jim Smith

Jun 22, 2010

MORE COLOURS THAN EVER BEFORE

The awesome colour picker from Deepseed, just got a new batch of even MORE colour choice. Just added to our SPANDEX range is Orange, Silver, Purple, and Yellow. And in our 1000 Denier Cordura range, we now have White, Charocoal, Military, Orange and Kelly.

Go Check it out, and design up your dream suit, then send it through to us to get a quote.

THE LOVE SACK

So, every where we go, we usually always take our giant beanbags with us, and everyone loves them. Last time out, we were told that somone in Europe is making these things, and charging 100 Euro for them.....Bollocks to that we said....we can do a better deal that that, and what's more, we want to share the love.. The Bean Bag was re-branded as "The Love Sack" and now we are making it available at killer prices!!! That's NZD the New Zealand Peso!!.. Check it out on the website...EVERY home should have one!!

If you are in the market for a jumpsuit, or Freefly jacket and Pants, you can even get one absolutely FREE, when you buy your gear....Can't say fairer than that now can we???

May 19, 2010

Dale Elliot (Extreme Roller)


So, last year at the APF conference in Beautiful Brisbane, I had the good fortune to meet Dale Elliott. Safe to say we clicked, and we have been in regular contact ever since. Dale is sponsored by Deepseed, and is a bit of an inspiration to us all here. Anyway, the crazy man is at it again...never content to sit on his arse (mind you, he hasn't got much choice about that) Dale is once again out living life to the max and giving back with the enthusiasm that puts most able bodied people to shame!!....You can read all about Dale's latest adventure on his blog or by clicking on www.extremerolling.com. To help out in our own small way, we designed up a T-shirt for Dale and his mate Andreas to commemorate the event. We are selling this T-shirt, and all proceeds will be going to Dale and Andreas' cause, which is helping Kids with Clubfoot in Africa.

It only costs $200 to give a child with clubfoot the operation it needs to allow them to walk, and at $50 per T-shirt, you can get yourself a cool commemorative T, and Help be part of making a child walk...Times are tough, but when you stop and think about people like Dale, who can't walk, and the life that these kids in Africa have, then it makes missing out on 2 x chinese take-aways, suddenly not such a big deal!!!! seriously, it's only $50!!!

if you want to help and BUY A T-SHIRT...then just click on the link here and tell us how many and what size!! We will call you back for your CCard details!!

Feb 22, 2010

2010 Australian Canopy Piloting Champion - Rob McMillan

The 2010 Aussie CP Nationals are complete. 24 Aussies plus a Kiwi and a Swede competed in the open class. Rob McMillan duelled it out throughout the comp with 2007 Champion Cameron Rolfe with the lead changing 4 times in the 9 rounds. The final results saw Rob take out the title for the first time by less than 7 points.

The top 8 finishers now get to represent Australia at the World Championships in Russia in August including Deepseed sponsored pilots Cameron Rolfe and Michael Vaughan. They are:

Gold Rob McMillian
Silver Cameron Rolfe
Bronze Kaz Sheekey
4 Michael Vaughan
5 Gary Hamilton
6 Alex Nelson
7 Shane Price
8 Cameron Jarrett


In the intermediate class, Ben Lewis led the field of 9 competitors for 8 of the 9 rounds ultimately winning by a solid margin of 55 points from Dan Smith.

Gold Ben Lewis
Silver Daniel Smith
Bronze Alex Kaiserman


Go the Aussies at the World Championships.

Thanks go to the APF Sports DevelopmentFfunding for helping to bring Jay Moledzki to coach before the nationals.
Swoop photos by Grant Barnes. Keep an eye on his website for more action photos www.gbphotography.com.au

Dec 7, 2009

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!

Dec 2, 2009

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
Karnage Krew 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

Nov 26, 2009

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

Nov 25, 2009

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.

Nov 13, 2009

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.

Nov 11, 2009

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 5th 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!

Oct 15, 2009

2009 NSW Canopy Piloting State Championships


Beginning October 5th 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 2nd last round. Michael Vaughan took the lead and held on for the last round. Shane Price finished a very close 3rd 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 3rd.


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

Sep 30, 2009

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.

Sep 16, 2009

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!


Sep 14, 2009

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 300th 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 1st 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.

Aug 7, 2009

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!!