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Just posted pics from the Try Outs at brianbuckland.com just enter the password 'sdctryouts' in the Clients section. ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Very good question. I actually have been chatting with one of the admins about making a VRW / VFS section in DZ.com They didn't like the idea of adding a section because of administrative purposes, but agreed that we should do something. One idea they had was to simply change the title of this section from "Freeflying" to "Freeflying / VRW" Thoughts? ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Hello VRW Fliers! It's been a while since our last update so here are the highlights for this go around: * IPC holds Web Challenge. Deadline July 31. * USPA Nationals set for October at Spaceland. * Australia holds Nationals as 3 teams battle it out. * Skydive Elsinore holds a comp in 2 weeks, are you going? * The World Record 100 Try Outs next weekend. * Is your team heading to the Czech Republic for the World Cup? * Where will the 2010 World Parachuting Championships be? * New Media, Blue Skies Magazine, do you have a copy? IPC holds online competition with prizes The competition will run from May 1st 2009 until July 31st 2009. This is a web based, 3 round challenge. With any new discipline it is difficult for teams to gain competitive experience, and also to learn 'how to' from more experienced teams in other parts of the world. The idea of the Web Challenge is to give an opportunity to address both issues, without undue expense or travel requirements. Three rounds of competition will be posted on the FAI web site. Teams can enter as many times as they like by submitting the visual evidence of their jump onto the Challenge Web Site. Each entry will be viewed by the panel of FAI Judges, using a 'virtual' judging method co-ordinated between them, so that they replicate as closely as possible normal judging conditions. The Winning Team will receive 5 Optimas with prizes for second and third place as well. To download the 3 round draw click here. Register your team now! 2009 USPA Nationals are a go at Spaceland Everyone please take notice! The dates have been set and the format from last years Nationals has changed. VFS will be after 8-way FS and before Artistic Events. That's right, check the schedule and updates here. Registration is October 14th with the comp October 15th - 18th. Online registration should be coming shortly! Vertical Relative Work registration fees are $170 per team member. Jumps will be from 12,500 feet and are $20 each. See you there! Australian Nationals holds successful VFS competition 3 teams battle it out at the Australian Nationals. Earth Leakage takes the gold in the 6 round comp averaging 7.33 points per round! Check out the teams and scores here. Also in Australian news, members of AZ Arsenal assisted with a new Australian Vertical Record of 25 skydivers linked together headdown last month, breaking the previous record of 17 set nearly 4 years prior. Skydive Elsinore to host June VFS comp Elsinore Echelon will host the VFS competition at Skydive Elsinore on June 20th - 21st. If you have your team together, aiming at going to Nationals this year, take this opportunity to come out and get competition experience BEFORE the big meet in October. Come check it out and learn from the top VFS competitors in the area...... World Record 100 way Try Outs at Skydive Chicago Sure you can do a 4 way, but can you do a 100 way? With the World Record attempts set for Summerfest at Skydive Chicago, you can get your slot at the Try Outs June 13th - 14th being hosted by VFS team SDC Standard at Skydive Chicago. At the tryouts last month in Arizona hosted by AZ Arsenal, 74 people showed up to fight for 25 slots up for grabs. This time another 25 slots are open and will be handed out. This will be the last of the tryouts being held in the United States. Participant Registration Form to be completed by Friday June 12th at 5:00pm. Meeting in the main hanger at 8:00 am on June 13th. The goal is to do 7 jumps per day. The cost of the tryouts will be the cost of jumps plus $50. More details here. 2009 World Cup will be held at Letecka 1 in the Czech Republic The 2nd VFS World Cup will be held in Europe in the Czech Republic August 30th - Sept 6, 2009. This will be an 8 round competition. The registration will be 820€, in US Dollars that is roughly $1,150 per person. This includes all registraion fees, all competition jumps, including re-jumps and tie-breakers, 7 nights accommodation, 3 meals a day, local transport from hotel to DZ, farewell banquet and 1 training jump. So in reality, this is quite a good deal! This information and much more can be found in Bulletin 1 here. The 2010 FAI World Parachute Championships will be held in Russia It has been decided that the 2010 FAI World Parachute Championships will be held in Menzelinsk, Tatarstan, Russia from July 31st to August 6th, 2010. For more information check out the FAI website as updates occur. Announcing the latest skydiving magazine, Blue Skies Mag That's right, a new player is in town rolling out their first issue in July 2009. Made up from industry experts with their fingers on the pulse, they are an independent air sports magazine covering BASE, skydiving, ground launching, speed flying, paragliding, hang gliding and any other human-powered air sport around the globe - but mostly skydiving in the U.S. to start. Lend them a hand, add to the collection on your coffee table, keep up to date on the latest and greatest skydiving news. Subscribe now! That's it for now folks. Please send any an all contributions, events, training camps, comps to vrwteam (AT) vrw4way.com and feel free to subscribe / unsubscribe at http://www.vrw4way.com Get out there and train! -VRW Team ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Just posted pics from the Big Way Try Outs in AZ at brianbuckland.com - Enter password 'azbigways09' in the clients section and enjoy! -Brian ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Hey Everyone! Just got an update from Teams AZ Arsenal and AZ Drive. They have taken the new proposed dive pool and have flown it in the tunnel. Here is a link to the video. Also, if you'd like to voice your opinion in any manner, please feel free to reply back to vrwteam (AT) vrw4way.com and we'll be sure to pass them on when we submit the suggested formations to the IPC on Monday. Thanks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82QDZq16GF4 -The VRW 4-Way Team ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Hey guys, Looks like we had some late arrivals. I've just added 12 more formations to the choices, reset your ability to vote and changed it so you can select 4 of each! Please revote if you already did so. http://www.vrw4way.com/littlepicpoll/2009pool/blocks/keepcount.asp Thanks and enjoy! -Brian ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Dive Pool Changes for 2009 Season, if you have ideas, now is your chance! You heard it right, the dive pool is going to be changed and expanded to help clarify some points, get rid of some other points that are hard to judge and add some new points in order to expand the dive pool. This will enable us to make competitions with 8 rounds instead of just 6 without repeaters. And this is where the IPC and the USPA wants YOUR help. That's right....YOU! If you have had an idea for a new block or random, now is your time to share with us your thoughts. Submissions can be made to: vrwteam (AT) vrw4way.com or via Fax at +1.320.451.3999. Include your e-mail address and we will let you know that it has been received. Once we have a selection to choose from, we will send out short newsletter and have the community vote on the results. The deadline for submissions will be Dec 8, 2008 with voting soon to follow. So draw them out, take a picture, fax them in, whatever you have to do in order to get them to us and we will include them in the voting process. For more details and submission guidelines click here. Again, the deadline is a week away, so please put your ideas down on paper and submit them as soon as possible! ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

VFS World Cup Scores: http://www.vrw4way.com/index.asp Since omniskore is down right now.... ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Hey All, Just posted pics from Summerfest: brianbuckland.com Just use the password "summerfest08" under the Clients Section. Enjoy! -Brian ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Take a peak at VRW4Way.com for the results... http://www.vrw4way.com/comp11.html Also, check out the next comps that are coming up: http://www.vrw4way.com/competitions.php ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

So you all have them...here is a note from Mike Swanson.... Thanks everyone for coming out!! Check out Norman's pic's at http://normankent.com/event_galleries.htm Check out Brian's pic's at http://www.brianbuckland.com Check out Jason's at http://aboveallphotography.com/ Jason's and Brian's should be up in a few days, Norman's should be up tomorrow. see you all soon alchemy ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Looks like we're going to have a fax meet after all! Just waiting to hear back from a few teams their results and we'll be posting them over on vrw4way.com first thing tomorrow. I know we have AT LEAST 3 teams.....hoping we hear from the 4th! I'll post a link to the scores once they are up. -Brian ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

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You know....I was a bit bummed. I let them get to the point where they sent me the fedex and got the fraudulant checks. Then I called FedEx to have them put a hold on the account. Turns out the account was opened online just a few days prior with a phone # that didn't work and most likely will just be closed once the bill isn't paid. I was hoping to at LEAST cost them $10 in fedex charges.....but no, they screw FedEx too......oh well...lesson learned. Great last name btw..... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jessyca Gadzooks To: Brian Buckland Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:36 AM Subject: Payment ........................ Plz Today Hello Brian, sorry for gettin to you lately,i just confirmed that payment would be delievered to you today by fedex here is the tracking number ''791043343810'',pls,it is all line with my present predicament, but very importantly i will appreciate if you could CASH THE MONEY FOR ME TODAY in your BANK,i have an urgent matter arising. I just lost my sister in far away hong kong yesterday due to fibroid,leaving behind two kids,husband died couples of years back in ONTARIO and i really have to fly down to pick the kids asap .right now i'm really in a state of shock i am really disturbed now Pls i would appreciate it if you could let me have my MONEY first today as soon as you cash the check. So i want you to go and cash the check today,when you do that ,i would like for you to go to any western union point nearest to you and send me the MONEY ,after you must have deducted all the neccessary charges. I want you to send the money with this instrcution after you have cash the check. you will have to send my money to me so i can travel down to hong kong asap make first western union transaction payable to my traveling agency AT RECIEVER'S NAME ; OLAYINKA JOHNSON ADDRESS;45 GLOVER ROAD ,LAGOS NIGERIA 23401 AMOUNT$2900 And the remaining balance to my shipping company at.................... RECIEVER'S NAME :OLUWASEYI SOMOYE ADDRESS; 75,CLEGGS STREET,LAGOS NIGERIA 2340 BR>After you must have sent the money i would require for you to send me the following information that you must have gathered at WESTERN UNION ,they are NAME AND ADDRESS OF SENDER THE TEST QUESTION AND ANSWER AND THE MTCN# TO BE PROVIDED TO YOU ON THE RECEIPT AFTER TRANSFER. I was made to understand that you are to pay some charges at WESTERN UNION ,pls you can deduct the fees from my balance. deduct all cost of wiring at the WESTERN UNION from the fund. Please if there is anyother information that you require,pls do not hesitate to let me know.I would be hoping that you get this mail on time today so that you would probably help me to send the funds today. Regards, Jessyca. ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

I'm thrilled to see a VRW update in the RW forum. It fits. Thanks, that's why I posted this here. After all, what we are doing is Relative Work. I wanted to make sure that the traditional RW world knows that the majority of the freefly community has been itching for more structure and more "black and white" judging. As the US Artistic Events team manager for '04 and '06, the biggest complaint I got was judging and how things would change from one jump to the next. VRW makes is simple. Were all of the grips on video, yes/no, next point. And yes, we are also NOT trying to re-invent the wheel, lots of RW coaches should be VERY excited about this as your potential customer base has just been drastically increased. Learn the VRW dive pool and you can get a LOT more business....... Just my $0.02.... ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Here is the latest VRW 4-Way update..... Hello VRW 4-Way fliers!!! Highlights for this edition of VRW News: Competition updates, past & future.... VRW @ the US Nationals....is it on? The NSL adopts VRW Additional "Fax Meet" has been added in September Training camps in June / July Competition updates Hello everyone and thanks for reading. To start with we had another exciting finish out in Perris Valley on April 15th where the top two teams ended only 1 point apart. This time around Team Elsinore Eclipse took gold with Team Mandrin close behind followed up by Team Skydrivers and Team No Name. The Meet Organizer, Eli Thompson put on a good show and awarded the top three teams a cash prize of $350, $150 & $50 respectively. Judges for the event were Mary Beth Koolhaas & Sarah Thompson. Thank you guys for a great time!!! Check out the results VRW @ the US Nationals The VRW buzz is that there will be a test event at the USPA Nationals at Skydive Arizona. Currently, schedules are being sorted out and we should have an idea when the VRW 4-Way comp will take place within the next month, but we can tell you that VRW 4-Way is officially a test event at the 2006 Nationals! Also, please don't forget about Skydive Chicago's Money Meet being held August 19th & 20th where up to $10,000 is up for grabs! The NSL adopts VRW Did you know that VRW 4-Way has now been integrated into the NSL network? Check for the update here:http://www.skyleague.com/pages/news/showArticles.php?story=390 FAX Meets VRW's next competition is ONLINE!!! The only plane tickets you will need are jump tickets at your home dropzone. That's right, on June 24th - 25th weekend, teams from all over the world will be competing against each other in an unprecedented "Online Fax Meet". Make sure to sign up on www.vrw4way.com a week or two before the competition begins. Click Here for more information about the Online Fax Meet. http://www.vrw4way.com/faxmeet.php What's that? You're team is already committed else where that weekend in June? It's all good... we've just added a second Online Fax Meet to take place in September on the 23rd & 24th weekend. We've gotten such a great response that we felt that adding another one now would help promote it around the world. Get Connected Are you talking to friends at other DZ's that haven't heard the VRW updates? Please forward them this e-mail and let them know that by clicking the link at the bottom they can subscribe and be kept up to date on the latest VRW news!!!! Have you created a VRW 4-Way team website? Do you want to be listed on VRW4Way.com? Send us the link and we will post it up! VRW 4-Way Training Camps http://www.vrw4way.com/camps.php Basic 4 Way VRW Beginner Camp: 1 Coach / 3 Players / 1 Video Guy Per Dive 4 Jump Per Day Commitment Required Dive Pool Review / Dirt Diving and Engineering / Jumps / Video debriefs June 10th & 11th @ Jumptown Dave Brown - Coach Brian Buckland - Videographer Paul Jackson - Assistant Slots are very limited so contact Diane Pond at [email protected] or 978-544-5321 as early as possible to reserve yours. July 8th & 9th @ Tecumseh Kyle Starck - Coach Eric Deren - Coach Sporto - Videographer Again, slots are limited so please contact Sporto at [email protected] That's all for now. Hope to see you soon! In the meantime... Get out and train!!! -The VRW 4-Way team Subscribe / unsubscribe to the VRW 4-Way mailing list. ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Here is the latest VRW 4-Way update..... Hello VRW 4-Way fliers!!! Highlights for this edition of VRW News: Competition updates, past & future.... VRW @ the US Nationals....is it on? The NSL adopts VRW Additional "Fax Meet" has been added in September Training camps in June / July Competition updates Hello everyone and thanks for reading. To start with we had another exciting finish out in Perris Valley on April 15th where the top two teams ended only 1 point apart. This time around Team Elsinore Eclipse took gold with Team Mandrin close behind followed up by Team Skydrivers and Team No Name. The Meet Organizer, Eli Thompson put on a good show and awarded the top three teams a cash prize of $350, $150 & $50 respectively. Judges for the event were Mary Beth Koolhaas & Sarah Thompson. Thank you guys for a great time!!! Check out the results VRW @ the US Nationals The VRW buzz is that there will be a test event at the USPA Nationals at Skydive Arizona. Currently, schedules are being sorted out and we should have an idea when the VRW 4-Way comp will take place within the next month, but we can tell you that VRW 4-Way is officially a test event at the 2006 Nationals! Also, please don't forget about Skydive Chicago's Money Meet being held August 19th & 20th where up to $10,000 is up for grabs! The NSL adopts VRW Did you know that VRW 4-Way has now been integrated into the NSL network? Check for the update here:http://www.skyleague.com/pages/news/showArticles.php?story=390 FAX Meets VRW's next competition is ONLINE!!! The only plane tickets you will need are jump tickets at your home dropzone. That's right, on June 24th - 25th weekend, teams from all over the world will be competing against each other in an unprecedented "Online Fax Meet". Make sure to sign up on www.vrw4way.com a week or two before the competition begins. Click Here for more information about the Online Fax Meet. http://www.vrw4way.com/faxmeet.php What's that? You're team is already committed else where that weekend in June? It's all good... we've just added a second Online Fax Meet to take place in September on the 23rd & 24th weekend. We've gotten such a great response that we felt that adding another one now would help promote it around the world. Get Connected Are you talking to friends at other DZ's that haven't heard the VRW updates? Please forward them this e-mail and let them know that by clicking the link at the bottom they can subscribe and be kept up to date on the latest VRW news!!!! Have you created a VRW 4-Way team website? Do you want to be listed on VRW4Way.com? Send us the link and we will post it up! VRW 4-Way Training Camps http://www.vrw4way.com/camps.php Basic 4 Way VRW Beginner Camp: 1 Coach / 3 Players / 1 Video Guy Per Dive 4 Jump Per Day Commitment Required Dive Pool Review / Dirt Diving and Engineering / Jumps / Video debriefs June 10th & 11th @ Jumptown Dave Brown - Coach Brian Buckland - Videographer Paul Jackson - Assistant Slots are very limited so contact Diane Pond at [email protected] or 978-544-5321 as early as possible to reserve yours. July 8th & 9th @ Tecumseh Kyle Starck - Coach Eric Deren - Coach Sporto - Videographer Again, slots are limited so please contact Sporto at [email protected] That's all for now. Hope to see you soon! In the meantime... Get out and train!!! -The VRW 4-Way team Subscribe / unsubscribe to the VRW 4-Way mailing list. ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Yup.....VRW / VFS is following suit. The best way to be adopted by the IPC and the USPA for that matter is to make this follow the same track as RW / FS. As for a difference, relative work is the same as formation skydiving. But do you say that you are going up and doing a FS jump with your friends? No....you say you are going up and doing an RW jump. However in competition, relative work is classified as formation skydiving....FS. So VRW will still most likely be the term used in common place while VFS will be the technical term for it in competition.... Make sense? Ok, now if you get it could you explain it to me -b ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Posting this for the VRW4WAY crew.... ******************************** Just over a week ago the Georgia Skydiving League welcomed the new discipline of VRW 4-Way at the Roaming DZ's annual Dublin boogie. 3 VRW teams entered and competed out of a Grand Caravan. This regional event resulted in 5 rounds of competition where medals were the prize. All of the dives were generated automatically the night before using the vrw4way.com's dive generator. If you'd like to see who competed along with the results please check them out @ http://www.vrw4way.com Get your team ready and come on out to the Perris Valley comp being held April 15-16. Registration is $135.00 per person and includes 5 rounds of jumps. The competition will be on the 15th with the 16th as the rain date. If you can't make it all the way to California, then be sure not to miss the Online Fax Meet being held June 24th & 25th. You will be able to compete against teams half way around the world all from your home DZ while using your block jumps! Still working on your VRW skills? Good news, so far 2 VRW skills camps have been added to the calendar. June 9-11 @ Jumptown in Orange, MA featuring Dave Brown and Brian Buckland and the second is July 8-9 @ Skydive Tecumseh in Michigan featuring Sporto, Eric Deren and Kyle Starck. Again, check the website for details. If you are excited about VRW but don't have a team put together come on out to work on your skills as well as network to help build a team. Hope to see you soon on the '06 VRW competition circuit... -The VRW 4-way team ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Just an FYI.....someone is just using that name to send spam....a common practice. Just to prove it. Notice the X-Originatin-IP addres: 195.29.140.237 However if you ping the site: C:\>ping www.freeflytrainingcenter.com Pinging freeflytrainingcenter.com [24.62.17.236] with 32 bytes of data: A different address.....this is the same server that their MX record is pointing to.....I should know, I manage the domain. Just something to note, probably 90% of spam & viruses today come from an addresses that is not the true originating address..... -Brian ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Ohhh yeah......what was that I just heard? I think it was Chris bitch slappin your ass.....yeah, I think that's what it was... See ya this weekend.. ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

I wonder if anyone noticed that this thread is almost 3 years old.....hmmmm ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

MSNBC Week in Pictures anyone???? Click on the very first picture.... ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Got another 5 way of Team Mandrin in front of the C-130....it's rough over here.... ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com

Woops.....that's cause I'm a jackass.....It's working now. ___________________________ www.brianbuckland.com