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Kirk Verner Arizona Airspeed founding member: 1994 - 2006 A founding member of Airspeed, Kirk has over 18,000 skydives and started jumping in 1980. He is a multiple world champion in 4- and 8-way and one of the world's best known and most accomplished competitors; his coaching experience spans decades. He is now managing the brand new SkyVenture wind tunnel in North Carolina, where he continues to use his extensive knowledge and skills to benefit skydivers there. Yep he knows nothing..........................

I think i will be able to make those dates....... Excellent. Also how many rounds are there and time per round?? Thanks Kim

www.skydiveu.com sells Basic body flight dvds educational materials you can actually buy them from most gear stores too.

Your clicky does not work you have a fullstop at the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I91DKubjv4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I91DKubjv4 ( i do not know how to make clicky) Edited by slotperfect to make the link clicky

www.skydiveu.com Learn to backfly dvd in the tunnel and the sky..... Great educational products on this site. This is the dvd by Skydive University and Joao Tambor..... here are some clips from the newest dvd we just released. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I91DKubjv4

4-way VRW is doable in a 12 foot recirculator, so there's no reason to leave that out. :) The higher windspeeds of the recirculators make them "feel" bigger when doing VRW so it shouldn't be a problem for most teams I think. You will probably want to take the diffusers out from under the doors in the colorado tunnel though if you want to have 4-way, because those things will definitely cause issues for competitors when near the doors. At this time 4 way VRW is definitly not doable in Orlando when topped out ........ 2 way HD static is hard enough however Orlando should be getting speeds of 155mph soon so we will keep you posted.... ITS NOT THE SIZE ITS THE SPEED.......

The Orlando tunnel cannot succesfully host any 4 way events but we had 87 registrants for the comp in september flying 2 ways and solo categories. Tunnel circuit would be great and i think that should include the "slow" tunnels having to adjust and fly in different speeds will only add more excitement to competition. Ray kubiak is a perfect example of someone who can do both very well. PS SVO just upgraded and should be topping out now at over 155mph!!!

Who is this joe Winters dude???

Just want to say that i was NOT the only organizer of this competition. YUKI TSUJI ROB LAIDLAW MIKE BOWEN RICK (SVO MANAGER) All played a huge role in making this happen. Thanks guys

Thankyou to everybody that showed up to compete and help and spectate, 87 registered competitors was a huge number for our competition. A massive thankyou to Skyventure Orlando and their amazing staff!!! You guys ROCK!!!!!!!!! Kirk i am putting something together for video and will post it soon. Here are the results for the Intermediate and advanced comps. Will just post top 3 from the comps for now full results and scores will be posted on the SDU website soon. Interediate solo freefly 1st Pali Rovnan 2nd Angela Hsu 3rd Lindsay Widdall Intermediate 2 way Freefly 1st Pali Rovnan + Chris Dixon 2nd Will Pesek + Eva Malikova 3rd Shannon Pilcher + Yuki Tsuji Advanced 2 way RW ( 17 teams ) 1st Shannon Pilcher + Yuki Tsuji 2nd Mick Nuttall + Will Pesek 3rd Chris Ash + Ari Perelman Solo advanced Freefly 1st Scott Palmer PLAMER 2nd Javier Serrano 3rd Randy Ashley 2 way Advanced Freefly 1st Mick Nuttall + Will Pesek 2nd Scott Palmer + Derek Cox 3rd Chris Ash + Ari Perelman Kirk you should have brought Trey we had a 4 yr old compete and she killed it!!! Her name is Haley Monahan and she got 1st place Special Acheivement award.

Skydive Deland VFS Skills Camp with Deland Hybrid XP Skydive Deland is hosting its first VFS training and skills camp. This event is geared toward learning all Hybrid has to know about Vertical Formation Skydiving. This is a great opportunity to come and get acquainted with Skydive Deland’s newest skydiving team and also learn more about the newest discipline in skydiving. Whether you’re a beginner skydiver, an old school belly flyer, or an advanced freeflyer, this will be a great event for you to broaden your knowledge of vertical flying. The camp will start off with a seminar about the VFS dive pool, dirt diving, and how to plan and execute the whole dive pool. There will be a strong focus on basics and it will be a friendly open forum in which you can ask questions, take notes or even video tape how Hybrid trains and plans their jumps. This Seminar will take place at Skydive Deland on September 27th at 9:00 am. The seminar is free to attend and will be going on till about 12:00. Starting at 1:00 pm all Hybrid team members will be available to do 1 on 1 coach jumps. Jumps will include video, with video debrief. This will be a first come first serve basis so be sure to register with Skydive University early. On Sunday September 28th Hybrid will put together groups (up to four) to start applying the information gathered from the Seminar. It is highly recommended to attend the free seminar the day before! Each group will make six jumps your group will be with a minimum of one Hybrid member and also have video. The cost of this part of the event is $300. If there is interest in doing larger sequential afterwards Hybrid will be organizing for that as well for the cost of a jump ticket. VFS is in it 2nd year as an official event at US Nationals scheduled to commence in October of this year. It is catching on all over the world. In fact following US Nationals is the first FAI sanctioned World Cup of Vertical Formation Skydiving. Teams from several countries are already scheduled to attend this event and compete. Deland Hybrid XP will be one of those teams.

Skydive Deland VFS Skills Camp with Deland Hybrid XP Skydive Deland is hosting its first VFS training and skills camp. This event is geared toward learning all Hybrid has to know about Vertical Formation Skydiving. This is a great opportunity to come and get acquainted with Skydive Deland’s newest skydiving team and also learn more about the newest discipline in skydiving. Whether you’re a beginner skydiver, an old school belly flyer, or an advanced freeflyer, this will be a great event for you to broaden your knowledge of vertical flying. The camp will start off with a seminar about the VFS dive pool, dirt diving, and how to plan and execute the whole dive pool. There will be a strong focus on basics and it will be a friendly open forum in which you can ask questions, take notes or even video tape how Hybrid trains and plans their jumps. This Seminar will take place at Skydive Deland on September 27th at 9:00 am. The seminar is free to attend and will be going on till about 12:00. Starting at 1:00 pm all Hybrid team members will be available to do 1 on 1 coach jumps. Jumps will include video, with video debrief. This will be a first come first serve basis so be sure to register with Skydive University early. On Sunday September 28th Hybrid will put together groups (up to four) to start applying the information gathered from the Seminar. It is highly recommended to attend the free seminar the day before! Each group will make six jumps your group will be with a minimum of one Hybrid member and also have video. The cost of this part of the event is $300. If there is interest in doing larger sequential afterwards Hybrid will be organizing for that as well for the cost of a jump ticket. VFS is in it 2nd year as an official event at US Nationals scheduled to commence in October of this year. It is catching on all over the world. In fact following US Nationals is the first FAI sanctioned World Cup of Vertical Formation Skydiving. Teams from several countries are already scheduled to attend this event and compete. Deland Hybrid XP will be one of those teams.

We have over 60 people registered for this event... I will post scores later next week. Thanks

Educational dvd for all transitions The new dvd from Skydive University has been released and should be available at your nearest gear store, If not you can simply go to our website and purchase your copy. www. skydiveu. com The transitions dvd is followed by the extremely successful Backfly and Sitfly editions. Transitions was filmed in Paraclete XP the worlds most humungous wind tunnel. Check it out this is the best dvd yet.

There is a tunnel planned for Sydney not sure of its progress......

Skydive DeLand with the Pd factory team or Mike Oliviera newly appointed flight 1 instructor by the pd team. He will do classroom and break it up with jumps same as the Scott Miller course which originated here in DeLand. All these guys do a Scott type course. DeLand # 386 738 3539 Mike there most days as he is test jumper for PD just ask them to page him. ( I dont know his cell #)

I was also frowned upon for not taking my Freefall pass out girl up on her continuation jumps by the Dzo, However being one of the more experienced Instructors at the Dz most of the other instructors agreed with me and the matter did not get too out of hand. AS AN INSTRUCTOR YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY NO!!! SOME PEOPLE SHOULD JUST NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE PROGRAM AT ALL!! My arguement was "What if she had a Mal whilst being unconsciess??? And rides in a spinner or a total!!!!! AGAIN NOT WORTH $35 for me..... To live with the fact i enabled her to get injured or explain to her family why she is dead when i KNEW THIS HAD HAPPENED TO HER BEFORE. I have almost 3000 Aff jumps and unless i was teaching the groundschool would not ask about medical problems... Now i ask all my students, especially if they have given blood within 24hrs which can make you queasy at altitude.

I have seen a student who also passed out due to his leg straps being too tight. I have also had a student on Aff level 5 loose consciessness in freefall around 9000ft, Happened about 2yrs ago, I had done all of her previous jumps with no incident, On the jump where she passed out it seemed to me like she might be having an epileptic fit or heart attack or dying!!!! Pretty scarey stuff.... eyes rolled back and foam from the mouth, she started to spin hard i went in stopped her and pulled her out not knowing if she was dead or alive, consciess or not, i spiralled down whilst talking on the radio!! She had regained consciessness at she says 3000ft and landed uneventfully however cannot remember the skydive and she was very lethargic and slow mentally once i got her into the classroom to talk. I grounded her till she recieved a full medical, her doctor even called me..( He was a complete tool BTW) Very rude. Anyway he cleared her to jump again, However i refused as it just wasnt worth the $35 to make that jump knowing she could be in danger and i had already witnessed it before. I also urged other Instructors not to jump with her as it could be a liabilty issue should it happen again.. Moral of the story Dont get complacent as an istructor every jump is different and you always need to be ready to take action..

TUNNEL COMPETITION AT SKYVENTURE ORLANDO SEPTEMBER 7TH 2008. mmmmm Orlando is slow!!!! WHATEVER BRING IT!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE CONTACT [email protected] to Register. $100 registration fee required prior to event. Due to popular demand we are limited on numbers . SEE BELOW THE COMPETITION CATEGORIES 2 WAY BASIC RELATIVE WORK Rules for this are simple. You will be paired with an SDU Coach or a member of DeLand Hybrid Xp who are now on board as Skydive University coaches for the event. A random draw only, will be picked 30 minutes prior to competition. (There will be separate tunnel time to fly and warm up.) Fee: $350.00/person Includes 15 minutes coaching and 5 minutes competition with coach as partner. Prizes for first place 5 Rounds at 1 minute per round. Round 1 2 randoms picked and as many points as you can get in 1 min from when the clock starts. Round 2 3 randoms picked and again most points in 1 min from when the clock starts. Round 3 4 randoms picked Round 4 5 randoms picked Round 5 6 randoms picked 2 WAY ADVANCED RELATIVE WORK 5 rounds as above at 1 minute per round from when the clock starts. This section is for the more experienced flyers and will consist of the same rules as the Basic but will include randoms and blocks. Fee: $200.00/person Includes 10 minutes warm-up and 5 minutes competition Cash prize for first place (IF YOU DO NOT WANT 10 MINS WARM UP THE ENTRY COST IS ONLY $100 PER PERSON FOR JUST THE COMPETITION) BASIC 2 WAY FREEFLY Rules for this are simple. You will be paired with an SDU Coach for the event. See specific round descriptions for competition requirements. This will be for anybody not flying head down……. No transitions allowed in this section or flips only backfly and sitfly competitors. (There will be separate tunnel time to fly and warm up.) 5 rounds 3 rounds of compulsaries 2 free round judged on difficulty and artistic approach. Fee: $350.00/person Includes 15 minutes coaching and 5 minutes competition with coach as partner. Prizes for first place INTERMEDIATE 2 WAY FREEFLY Rules for this are simple. See specific round descriptions for competition requirements. This will be for anybody not flying head down……. No transitions allowed which include flips, only backfly-sitfly competitors. 5 rounds 3 rounds of compulsaries 2 free round judged on difficulty and artistic approach. Fee: $100.00/person Includes 5 minutes competition Cash prize for first place ADVANCED 2 WAY FREEFLY For teams that can fly head down without the use of a spotter and can transition, The rounds will include combinations that require headdown flying skills. 5 rounds 3 rounds of compulsarys 2 free round judged on difficulty and artistic approach. Fee: $100.00/person Includes 5 minutes competition Cash prize for first place INTERMEDIATE SOLO FREEFLY 5 rounds ---------- Both 1 minute rounds will be based purely on artistic flying difficulty and combinations and crowd entertainment at 1 minute per round. Backfly, belly and sitfly only NO transitions ,flips or headdown in this section. Fee: $100.00/person Includes 5 minutes competition Cash prize for first place ADVANCED SOLO FREEFLY 5 rounds ---------- Both 1 minute rounds will be based purely on artistic flying difficulty and combinations and crowd entertainment at 1 minute per round. Advanced flyers anything goes. Fee: $100.00/person Includes 5 minutes competition Cash prize for first place message me if you need more info.

yes pretty much what Ari said is cool however i have included another option for you. You could just do Wind tunnel AFF with Skydive University at DeLand that way we can take care of your jumping and tunnel using the same Instructors for both. Skydive university are the only company with an AFF program specifically designed around wind tunnel training, and in less jumps than a regular Aff program. Check out our web site or pm me if you have any questions. All of our prices are on there. www.skydiveu.com

If you read the post you will see it says that DeLand hybrid are a 4 way Fs team and a 4way VFS team.........just sayin........

The freefly scene is returning to DeLand in a big way!!!!! August 1st DeLand Hybrid formely Hybrid XP will be the full time freefly vfs team at Skydive DeLand. Hybrid are also a 4 way fs team which make them unique. They will compete in both disciplines.Stay tuned for a calendar of events. Team members are Will Pesek Mickey nuttall Scott palmer (plamer) Derek Cox

The freefly scene is returning to DeLand in a big way!!!!! Coaching available thru Skydive university at Skyventure Orlando August 1st DeLand Hybrid formely Hybrid XP will be the full time freefly vfs team at Skydive DeLand. Hybrid are also a 4 way fs team which make them unique. They will compete in both disciplines.Stay tuned for a calendar of events. Team members are Will Pesek Mickey nuttall Scott palmer (plamer) Derek Cox

DeLand Hybrid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W0GQr83Cp8