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- 5th Annual Flyboyz Film Festival - by Rhonda Bailey
It's time once again for freeflyers from all over the world to converge on Perris Valley Skydiving for the 5th Annual Flyboyz Film Festival. This year's festival will be held September 13 - 16. The brainchild of the Flyboyz, the Film Festival was
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- CF Spektakel - Teuge, Holland - by Yvette
TEUGE, HOLLAND - 3 Swedish CReW jumpers (Yvette, Lars-Magnus, Björn, SF) went to Teuge, Holland to participate in the CF Spektakel camp 7-15th July. With many of the best european coaches such as Marc Calluy (Belgium), Eric Schimmel,
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- POPS Skydivers Break Illinois Record - by Marcelaine Wininger
OTTAWA, ILLINOIS - The POPS (Parachutists Over Phorty Society) grew up with Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones, and the Grateful Dead. They were the Bobby Sockers, Bee Boppers, Hippies, Flower Children, and the Yuppies. Now they've re-defined
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- Skydiving has gone to the Dogs - by Keith Laub
On Thursday June 21st from 7:48 AM to 7:35 PM, Dale Settle set a new Oklahoma Skydiving State Record of 64 skydives in 12 hours. The jumps were made at 2500 feet out of a single Cessna 182. All proceeds from this event went to the Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF).
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- Flyboyz Freefly Skills Camp - by Rhonda Bailey
World renowned freeflyers, the Flyboyz, are holding a Freefly skills camp at Perris Valley Skydiving on July 7 and 8, 2001. The objective is for participants to learn and hone skills with some of the world's top freefly coaches. The camp is open to all
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- Texas man jumps 500 times to break World Record
WISE COUNTY, Texas (CNN) -- - A Texas man jumped into the record book by jumping out of planes 500 times in less than 24-hours at a small airport northwest of Ft. Worth, Texas. Mike Zang, 31, started his parachute jumps Friday night and kept
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- Deaf World Record Attempts
I'm pleased to make the announcement that the Deaf World Record Attempts for the largest all-deaf freefall formation, will be held at Skydive San Marcos, Texas, on Labor Day weekend! The existing Deaf World Record is a 7 way by 6 Australians
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- POPS Record in Florida - by Kevin Keenan
Under the leadership of Joe Morgan and Carl Daugherty, a group of Florida members of Parachutists Over Phorty Society (POPS), set a new state record. The previous record of a 27-person formation was set at Palatka, FL on November 12,
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- Arizona Airspeed Training Camp Update - by Alan Metni
SLOTS FOR THE NEXT TUNNEL CAMP:
The March 29-31 camp is full, please email me if you want to join the waiting list. I do have two slots available for the April 1-3 camp. Please go to
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- CF Spektakel 2001
CF Spektakel stands for Europe's main event in Canopy Formation. It has been organised annually since 1997 and has been growing steadily. We regularly host 40-50 participants from several countries and continents. This summer it will be once
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- Large Formation Training Camp
Tony Domenico, a recognized big-way expert and Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld of Arizona Airspeed are teaming up to organize a Large Formation Training Camp at Skydive Arizona. The event will take place on May 17-20, 2001. The objective is for
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- 2001 Parachute Symposium the Largest Ever - by Dan Poynter
San Diego. Symposium 2001 broke all attendance records. More than 1,200 people from 44 countries took part in the classes and visited the exhibits; up from 1,100 and 33 nations two years earlier at the same location. Classroom attendees
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- 2nd German Freefly Festival - 2001 - by Marc Bachmann
The 2nd German Freefly Festival will be held in Gransee/Germany from August 23. to 26. 2001. Last year over 90 people came to the 1st Festival, which was a great success. All kind of Freefly Jumps were done (Track Dives, Tube Jumps, Indy 500,
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- Airspeed Events - 2001 - by Alan Metni
As you might have heard, Airspeed is going to represent the US at the 2001 World Meet in both 4 way and 8 way. We have a busy training year ahead of us but, as you might have guessed, we have made time for both work and play.
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- Kittinger to Open PIA International Parachute Symposium
The Parachute Industry Association is pleased to announce that Joe Kittinger will be the guest speaker at the opening ceremony for The 2001 International Parachute Symposium. On August 16th, 1960, then a Captain, Kittinger set three of his
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- First Annual Invitational Robben Island Flight of Freedom
Until very recently, when people skydived, the distance across the ground they would be able to cover in free-fall was limited. In the past two years, however, a specialised jumpsuit manufacturer has developed a jumpsuit with wings that creates
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- Airspeed Tunnel Camps for 2001 - by Alan Metni
Several of you have emailed me requesting a schedule for the Airspeed Tunnel Camps for 2001. As soon as we schedule our team training for 2001, we will schedule the tunnel camps and notify all of you. In the meantime, we have scheduled
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- US POPS Nationals 2000
The POPS Nationals are set for September 9-17th at Skydive Cross Keys in Williamstown, NJ. There will be 2 Otters and a Casa available for the week, in addition to 2 Cessnas for the Accuracy buffs. Roger Ponce and Derek Thomas will be
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- US Nationals 2000: The Big Picture, Part 2 - by Paige Macdonald
The overall tone of the US National Skydiving Championships 2000 changed overnight as Perris Valley continued to host its second week of competition. Smaller groups of competitors and a variety
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- US Nationals 2000: The Big Picture, Part 1
For two weeks in October, the Perris Valley corridors filled
with hundreds of competitors trying to leave their mark in the sky and on the scoreboards at the U.S. National Skydiving Championships 2000. For fourteen
days, it was the tag-team efficiency of the Perris staff that overcame the stubborn weather patterns that threatened to wrestle the meet to the ground. In the end,
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- Rumbleseat 2000 - by Lisa Briggs
A southern California tradition was reborn at Perris January 8th when the Rumbleseat meet was held at Perris.
The first 10-way competition, the Rumbleseat meet started as a bet between
(Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1 Viewed: 757 Posted: Tue Jan 11 2000)
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