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Shocking and very sad news. My thoughts and best wishes go out to team mates, family and friends at this difficult time. I'm not a friend as such, just felt compelled to pass on my condolences on the loss of a fellow skydiver in such a sudden and unexpected fashion. www.southparc.co.uk

I'm doing a presentation on 4-way for a group of jumpers new to the sport and when talking about the dive pool a random thought occured. Where the formation names come from? Obvious ones like 'Star' 'Caterpillar' and 'Donut' are probably generic and fairly easy to understand, but someone somewhere came up with the less obvious Marquis, Ritz and Photon! ..just a bit of fun really www.southparc.co.uk

What's interesting in the UK FS scene right now is the level of female involvement. It kind of makes you think about the much debated all-female class when you look down the list of top AAA UK teams. Out of 8 AAA teams doing the nationals, only one has an all-male line-up! In other categories, ladies are well represented and as equally talented as their male counterparts. If this was 100 metre sprinting, I could understand the reason for segregation. But as for 4-way, the likes of Elan and Storm, plus of course the talents of Eliana from Airspeed and current world Champion Natasha Montgomery makes you realise gender is as relevant to skydiving skill as colour of your eyes! www.southparc.co.uk

The Bodyflight world Challenge on 8/9th April is taking palce at the Bedford tunnel. Currently there are only TWO teams in the Amateur category. C'mon guys... Get a scratch team together, go with other FS buddies... anything... Just enter and you're in with a good chance of getting a gong, not to mention a great weekend with the unique chance to watch, close up and live, the best 4-way flyers in the world doing what they do best! Not to mention a huge Party too! Let's show the world how good grass-roots skydiving and have a laugh doing it! Chris (Contact the tunnel for details) www.southparc.co.uk

Best of luck to team Elan this season! Am completely biased now of course!!! ;) In other news.. Katie is a quality flyer and a really cool chick - be really interesting to see Hayabusa with her on board. Great bunch of guys. www.southparc.co.uk

Brilliant! Not sure who's side is hurting more... Nige's or mine's from Laughing Gold medal freeflyer, don't y'know.... Nice one Nige Keep 'em coming! www.southparc.co.uk

Anyone heard about Tarn Hollis (Bodyflight Rage - 3rd AAA at 2006 nats) teaming up with fellow Bodyflight instructor Katie Woods? -Positively NO advertising in this forum.....Chuck www.southparc.co.uk

Yeah - just to back up all that Dru said really! Great meet - and what an awesome operation Hib is once the clouds part - 96 lifts in 9 and a bit hours - that is truely a skydiving monster machine in operation. congrats to all medallists. Special shout out to Bodyflight Rage managing a great meet with a last minute alternate. Hell of a way to have to compete at Nationals following a huge commitment of nearly 10 months hard training and a collosal training bill, so well done guys! Oh - and Escondido Rock! (Nice jump off guys - shame to be pipped, but it made great TV!!) www.southparc.co.uk

What a meet! Despite the weather doing it's best to ruin things for everyone! Special congratulations to Pete Allum for working so hard with Sinapsi and getting a well-overdue world meet medal. One of the most well-respected and talented skydivers the UK has ever produced, I'm very pleased for him right now. Airkix did a great job with Dan BC at the helm too. Surely only a matter of time that the whole male/female divide becomes irrelevent in the eyes of the FAI. Natasha, Eliana and the like proving convincingly that gender is not an issue in our sport! www.southparc.co.uk

...what Gordo said!! Nice work Emma! You guys keep working the plan. Dives looking very very sweet! Good Job! xxx www.southparc.co.uk

Anyone care to rotate with my group? Booking is Fri night. If you are interested in flying between 9 - 10pm please get in touch chris at southparc dot co cot uk thanks www.southparc.co.uk

Not sure if this is the right forum, but I'd just like to say a massive thanks to Craig Girard and all of Airspeed for the challenge. This is a big-way weekend with Airspeed as coaches. This year we built a rather tricky 105 way with over 50% outfacing slots. The dive was not the easiest to build, but with some expert help and a lot of grit and determination from those lucky enough to be at Eloy, we managed to complete the formation on the last dive of the day. I'm hoping someone will post a photo soon somewhere - but in the mean time, thank you Airspeed for a great weekend! chris hollis www.southparc.co.uk

Wow! love that 3-way pool -Just the thing for walk up dives or drills when your one guy down off your 4-way! Koala to Sidebody anybody!? www.southparc.co.uk

Anyone here going to the challenge in Eloy, end of May? If anyone is looking for digs and not wanting to bunkhouse/motel it, I'm renting a house with a room (for 1 or 2 people - house is 1 twin - 1 double) spare - will split the rent between us (Currently $50 a night - 15 mins from DZ) Looking forward to what Craig has thought up!! Cheers All Chris www.southparc.co.uk

deliberate mistake!!! Please use URL for tunnel map!! http://www.geocities.com/choll15/MAP.jpg Ta muchly!!! www.southparc.co.uk