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SkyVenture New Hampshire VFS Tunnel Competition

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Members of Dallas Rogue and SkyVenture New Hampshire will be hosting our first vertical formation skydiving tunnel competition on Sunday December 6, 2009. Our goal is to have a fun meet and give freeflyers something to hold them over until the snow melts – this meet will also be a great opportunity for folks interested in forming teams for next year to meet potential teammates and for people considering competing to learn what it's all about. There will not be any cash purses, but prizes will include tunnel time and donated prizes from manufacturers. There will also be a 4-way FS meet on Sautrday December 5th. More details about that meet can be found here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3716634;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread

Registration prices this year (for the Sunday VFS events) will be $75 per competitor regardless of her/his competition class. Price includes a pizza lunch, bottled water, a DVD of your team’s flights, your meet flights and warm up time, and if you register before the November 20 deadline, a free t-shirt for each team member.

Full rules and dive pool are attached and can also be found at http://www.gottunnel.com/NHTunnelMeet Below is a brief summary.

The competition will include three classes: Intermediate, Advanced and Pro. All classes will complete 6 competition rounds with rounds 1 and 2 being drawn from the belly/back dive pool. Everyone will have to fly on their belly and back for two rounds! For Intermediate, rounds 3-6 will be drawn from the head-up dive pool excluding grip front flip grip (HU-12). The Intermediate class will have 3-4 points drawn per round. Advanced will have rounds 3-6 drawn from the vertical dive pool excluding points marked as PRO. These points can have both people head-up or one person head-up and one person head-down. Only one person will ever have to be head-down for Advanced. The Advanced class will have 4-5 points drawn per round. Pro will have rounds 3-6 drawn from the entire vertical dive pool - both people head-up, one head-up on head-down, both people head-down. The Pro class will have 4-5 points drawn per round.

The registration fee will include the 2, 1 minute warm-up flights. These flights should be used to determine your wind speeds - one speed for belly/back points, one speed for vertical points. You can have a different wind speed for every round if you want, but you'll want a minumum of two wind speeds.

Everyone entering the VFS competition must be checked off with the IBA (http://www.tunnelflight.com) at the appropriate level. If you are not checked off, please due so before the meet or during the practice rounds otherwise you will not be elibile.

Each round has 35 seconds of working time. You will be given 60 seconds to have your wind speed set, enter the tunnel, complete your 35 seconds of working time and exit the chamber. Working time for Intermediate will begin from within the tunnel when both of either competitor's feet leave the net. You will be allowed to walk into the tunnel and set up on the net if you want to launch a formation. Advanced and Pro teams must do door entrances. Working time will begin when both of either competitor's feet leave the floor of the antechamber. You will be allowed to have one foot in the wind and be leaning into the chamber as long as one foot is in the antechamber.

To register for the meet, all you need to do is email Ari at NHTunnelMeetVFS"at"gmail"dot"com with the team name, the competition class you will be competing in, the full names of both team members, each team member's email address, and each team member's t-shirt size. All payments will be made on site at SkyVenture New Hampshire on the day of the meet. Remember, teams that register before November 20 get free t-shirts. If you want to compete but don't have a teammate, go to the following google spread sheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApFFDKFiX0PedHctZnRiUzRwVEtNLTR1cUJVYVB2bEE&hl=en

This spreadsheet was made for the 4-way FS meet, but we can still use it for VFS. Under "Preferred Class", make sure you write "VFS" and the class. Please be careful not to change or delete any fields besides your own as the changes will get saved automatically. REGISTRATION IS ALREADY FILLING QUICKLY - PLEASE CONTACT ME SOON TO RESERVE YOUR TEAM'S SLOT!

Registered teams will be able to purchase discounted training time from Friday November 27th through Friday December 4th at a rate of $360 per half hour or $660 for hour blocks. If you are flying practice time with your team, it would be good to have the tunnel driver note your airspeed and communicate it to me.

Lastly, discounted rates at the Radisson hotel are available for registered teams. Price is just $52 plus tax per night. To book a room you should contact SkyVenture New Hampshire at (888)SKY-VENTURE and leave a message for Laurie Greer with your check in date, your check out date, how many beds (double or king), your name and phone number, and your credit card number. She’ll book the room and call you back with a confirmation number. The Radisson has a pool, sauna, hot-tub, health club, free internet in the room / wifi in the lobby, full restaurant, bar and more.

We look forward to your participation! Please feel free to forward this on to folks (and DZ list serves) and contact me by email if you have any questions about the event. - NHTunnelMeetVFS"at"gmail"dot"com

Blues,
Ari
Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

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A couple updates:

The discounted tunnel time rates are November 30th - December 4th, they do not start November 27th.

I've had several people express concern about block HD-14 - Grip Front Flip Grip. There are people who want to compete head down, but are backloopers and don't do head down front flips. We're going to change that block so you can do either a front flip or a back flip.
Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

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There are discounted registration fees for people who want to do multiple events:

For VFS competiors:
$75 for the first VFS event
$60 for additional freefly class

For FS competitors:
$60 reg for the freefly (no extra shirt) if they want to participate in a VFS event, too
$40 if they want to do multiple FS events in one day (Rookie and Int. or Int and Open)


Only one t-shirt per competitor if they register for both disciplines


Check out the Google spreadsheet if you want to compete, but need a teammate: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApFFDKFiX0PedHctZnRiUzRwVEtNLTR1cUJVYVB2bEE&hl=en

I've also added a link to a dive generator at http://www.gottunnel.com/nhtunnelmeet/ so you can generate sample draws to practice. It will generate dives for FS and VFS.

Registration is picking up and there are only a few days left before the November 20th free t-shirt deadline.
Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

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Just a reminding that today is the last day to register and get a free t-shirt. If you are thinking of registering, please let me know and I'll hold a spot for your team.

It's going to be a great time up there :)

Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

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I don't think it's too late to register for the VFS stuff - in fact one slot opened up for an Int/Open 4-way FS team this weekend, too. I would send Ari an email if you are interested in participating. I think there are also some folks looking for teammates, so he might be able to hook you up.

Ben
Mass Defiance 4-wayFS website


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We were VERY excited about the prospect of a freefly competition at  
SVNH.  However, with less than a week until the event, I don't find it  
acceptable that there is still NO information available to competitors  
regarding when to show up, when the draw is, when the rounds are  
scheduled, how the blocks are arranged or any shedule info at all for  
that matter...just the date.
I recognize that you may still have teams registering, and understand  
that this will affect the overall schedule.  However I feel we should  
of at least had an arrival time, draw time, rough estimate on flight  
time or length of the day by now (are all rounds for one team flown in  
one session or spread through a couple sessions...will it take one  
hour for us to complete our rounds or six hours).

I called the tunnel tonight to inquire if they had any info and was  
told that you would get something out to the competetors within the  
next day or two.  
I'm sure that you are skilled at pulling things together last minute,  
however I can no longer convince myself to support this event.  I just sent you an email withdrawing my registration.

Even still, I hope everyone has a great time and wish that this event  
turns out to be successful.
Blue Ones,
~Erin Donovan 

Sent from my iPod

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Erin,

I just send you a personal email about this, but will post the information here as well.

First off, I apologize for not getting information out. I haven't received any requests for more information so I didn't realize anyone was this bothered. I wish someone had let me know people were getting worked up and wanted more information or had concerns.

I will be sending out an email to all registered competitors with more detailed information tomorrow including times, answers to common questions I have been asked and general tips.

The general schedule is:
We're going to meet at 9:30am for the briefing, practice flights will start around 10:15, final briefing and draw will be at 11:00. The meet will start at noon and end around 3:30 with the awards ceremony at 4:00 (or maybe later if the judges need more time.) We're going to have everyone go through round 1, then everyone go through 2, etc. instead of having each class go through all their rounds and then move on to the next class.

If anyone has any VFS specific questions, please contact me directly. If I don't personally receive your questions, chances are you will not receive an answer.

Again, I apologize for any confusion and hope everyone is still going to participate.
Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

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Registration is now closed with 15 teams!

Really important - I've made a lot of changes to the dive pool so please go to the website http://www.gottunnel.com/nhtunnelmeet/ and review them. Most of the changes are just wording intended to clarify things. If you practiced in 100% accordance with the old dive pool, you will not have to make any changes. This is just to settle a lot of confusion and questions I've been getting.

If you do see something that stands out as being different, let me know because it's probably my mistake.

I'm looking forward to a great meet this weekend!
Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

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First off, HUGE thanks to Rob and Laurie for hosting the meet and for doing so many big and little things to make the meet happen. The staff also did an amazing job of keeping everything running smoothly. Thanks to all the competitors for coming out to support each other and representing the North East!

Here are the basic results. I'll post detailed results and score sheets in the next few days.

Intermediate
1) Chasse/Perelman
2) McNaughton/LaWare
3) Bolotin/Lafond

Advanced
1) Antelocy/Tucker
2) LaWare/Rouillard
3) Sarkisyan/Gagne

Pro
1) Perelman/Shelton
2) Gagne/Fresia
Wind Tunnel and Skydiving Coach http://www.ariperelman.com

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Wow,,,,, It was an awesome event! A big thanks to Ben, Ari, Jim, Butch, Stacey and Sara for all of the help and support that they provided. Also thanks to my staff for working late nights. It was great to see so many people at the event. We will definately plan another one in the future. We are working on a video at the moment of the event and will put details out there when we finish it. I do have master copies of all of the rounds if someone needs one. Please feel free to contact me. We will also be posting photo's of the event and will give you details soon.
On a side note our youngest competitor was Josh Chasse at age 13 and he did a great job. He woke up that morning thinking that he didn't want to go due to nerves... but did and won first place in intermediate. So.. I would also like to thank all of the people that made Josh feel welcome. He is a shy guy and it helped him more than you will ever know.
So thanks again to all of you who came and we look forward to seeing you at the next one!
Blue Skies!

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