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2001 Flyboyz Film FestivalPosted Monday, March 4, 2002 By Rhonda Bailey The 2001 Flyboyz Film Festival was held November 7 - November 11 at Perris Valley Skydiving. The 2001 had to be rescheduled from the original dates of September 13-16 after the FAA grounded all flights following the September 11 terrorist attack. 82 skydivers registered to participate in four days of festivities, some traveling from as far away as Argentina. Some people even managed to travel to Perris a second time for the event. Registered participants received discounted skydives throughout the weekend, a 2001 Flyboyz Film Festival T-shirt, other give-aways provided by Flyboyz sponsors and, of course, the opportunity to participate in some hot skydives, including tube dives and smoke tracking dives.
In addition to all the great skydives, participants had the opportunity to compete in "fun" some competitions as well; a blind packing contest, won by Taz Cox; a contest that was given many names including, (Hit and Chug, Swoop and Chug and Swoop and Swallow) was won by Chris Quaintance with a time of 8.47; and a tracking race won by John Schoffner. Each winner received Pro-Tracks and Go Fast shirts.
Friday evening, participants had the opportunity to participate in a fire walk that was inspired by a experience at the Swedish Freefly boogie last summer while Eli Thompson was there. A company called The Firewalk Institute came out to Perris and after a seminar given by their instructors, about 30 people walked across the 1,100 degree fire that stretched across a six by eight foot pit. After the fire walk, everyone headed poolside to view films from previous festivals on the 12 x 15 foot screen.
Prior to the poolside party held Saturday night, festival participants and other spectators viewed this years film entries on the 12 x 15 foot screen. 14 films were entered this year in four categories: aerial visual, comedy, innovation, and the grand prize, the Daddy Phats. The quality of the films keeps getting better and better making it increasingly more difficult to judge, so this year, a new system was implemented. Before the premier, ballots were handed out to all registered participants. Each participant voted on their favorite film in each of the categories. The ballets were then tallied and the winners announced.
And the winners are... - Comedic: "The bastard" , John Shoffner and Skydive Lake Tahoe -- John follows the Bastard, Blake around Skydive Lake Tahoe as he wreaks havoc at the DZ steeling candy from babies, pulling people's reserve handles, and creating general chaos.
- Aerial Visual: "The Swiss Project", Team Extreme (Clint Clawson, Jim Slaton, JC Colclasure, Luigi Cani) -- A beautifully visual film featuring swoops at Eiger Mountain while trailing smoke.
- Innovation: "16F9", Stefano Morris -- A non skydiving related film that can only be described as mind boggling.
- The Daddy Phats: "Rigby Base", Tim Rigby -- A documentary about Base jumping in Norway with moving interviews and amazing visuals.
Each competitor won aluminum trophies featuring the Flyboyz logo, Pro-Tracks, t-shirts, and Pat Works videos and books. The Daddy Phats winner also received 50% off a Javelin harness and container system, 50% percent off a Birdman suit, and 35% off a PD Canopy.
Wrapping up this year's award ceremony, was the burning of our giant wooden freeflyer, "Burnie", inspired by the Burning Man Festival that takes place every year in the Nevada, Black Rock Desert. For those of you that attended the 2000 festival, this year's Burnie was twice as big, decked out in a yellow, white and black freefly suit, and loaded with pyrotechnics. It was quite a show.
As for the overall feeling of the Festival, as usual, I think everyone will agree that there was a real sense of fellowship, camaraderie and some of the best vibes to be found anywhere.
All films will be released on video sometime in March. There will be more information on www.flyboyz.com on the release date of the video as soon as it is available.
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- Accept The Skyventure Challange - Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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- Flyboyz Film Festival 2003 (X-FEST) - Sunday, October 5, 2003
- 100 Way Belgian Record Attempt - Tuesday, June 17, 2003
- Balloon Skydive Records set in the Netherlands - Wednesday, May 21, 2003
- Big Way Camp, Perris, California June 26-29th - Sunday, May 4, 2003
- Women's Freefly World Record Attempt - Sunday, April 13, 2003
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