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Just wondering... having jumped at almost every dropzone in Texas... which do you consider the best, and why.... It's awesome to have sooooo many choices. Blues skies... be safe.

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I am super duper excited to attend the 8th Annual St. Patty's Day Boogie in Fritz.... Fun, fun, fun.

I'm waiting ... Yeah...me too. I concur... you're gonna have to elaborate.

I don't know of many dz's that don't have free beer, whether it is on tap or in the beer fridge. Skydive San Marcos has free Dos XX on tap, does free beer make a DZ? I hope it's their safety recornd and the quality of skydivers that make up their funjumper population. No one parties harder than me, ask anyone... I'm not sure that free haircuts and free beer make any dz a good dz... just my opinion, of course. I agree that there are some really good people at SDT, skydivers are cool people in general. I jump all over and have yet to meet many that I just didn't like.

Skydive San Marcos is an excellent facility. They have nice turbine planes that are fast and well maintained. The staff is professional and the pilot has actually worked there for many years. I highly recommend them for their tandem services, AFF training program and fun jumper opportunities. The prices are comparable to all of the dz's in the area and they only charge $99 for the video and stills of your jumps wihich is not the case of all dz's. Some charge more for less. Anyway, you can get more info at www.skydivesanmarcos.com ! You can reach me at [email protected] if you want any skydiving info... Good luck and blue skies... Christie

Terry Goode, the S&TA at Skydve San Marcos has some medical problems and is losing his vision... obviously, he has had to retire. If you would like to send him well wishes please email them to me at: [email protected] and I will forward them to him in a format that he can read. If you would like to make a contribution to his "earlier than planned retirement fund / medical leave" please call Skydive San Marcos at 512-488-2214, tell them you want to contribute to his fund and they will take your info and then get the funds to Terry.

The staff at Skydive 35 was amazing and friendly... the DZO or an AFF instructor actually made sure everyone, on every load had a jump partner and a planned skydive (who needs load organizers... the DZO, Ivan is a bad ass freeflyer too!)... No skygod's or cliques here, just an awesome dropzone with amazing people. They have a fast Grand Caravan through the winter and a King Air full time in the Spring...Skydive 35 offers a great landing area, nice bunkhouse and very, very clean facilities. I could go on and on but really, you should just go try it yourself..

It will definately be in Fitzgerald, GA... for St. Patricks Day.... what info would you like? I am so definately there....

I need a tube for a tube jam.... any suggestions on where to find one in a hurry? Also... any ideas of fun jumps and games to play at the tube jam?

once you get on the plane you just spent your jump ticket...

Skydive San Marcos would like to congratulate Jon MacHarg, Colby Mischefsky, Jim Burk and JT Gallinaro for successfully completing the USPA Coach's Rating Course last week! Great Job, we're sure that our funjumpers look forward to some awesome coach jumps with you guys. Coach's Ratings are an important and a great way for skydiver's to give back to the sport...

Skydive San Marcos held the "Is This Really NECESSARY?" Freefly Invasion this weekend and had Aaron Necessary and Carrie Dawson out as freefly load organizers and they also offered free coach jumps. It is amazing to see how professional and knowledgeable they both are, yet they made the event fun too. Between the two coaches they made 18 coach jumps over the course of two days with skydivers that ranged from only had 40 jumps to those with hundreds... the emphasis was always on safety! Aaron & Carrie also led a safe tracking dive, a few hybrids and a couple of four way freefly jumps. Everyone had so much fun this past weekend because they learned from some really bad ass freeflyers and safety was the number one priority! Thanks so much for coming out guys and thanks to Skydive San Marcos for hosting the event!

It's Wednesday... I am so very excited about the Freefly Invasion this weekend at my fav DZ... I hope there are lots of fun jumpers to make some amazing jumps with... I have been working on my sit so it will be cool to feel like maybe I know what I am doing... haha

Good luck to you guys at Nationals this year... You've been training hard and I know the practice will pay off... Bones... we are really looking forward to seeing you at my fav DZ... Skydive San Marcos on Labor Day to organize some amazing freefly jumps for everyone!

I love SDD... I live in Houston and drive there to jump as often as possible... all of the freeflyer's that I have met are amazing, friendly skydivers... I love you SDD...

Is This Really Necessary? Freefly Invasion at Skydive San Marcos in Fentress, Texas, August 14th & 15th! Aaron Necessary is coming out as a guest freefly load organizing and offering free freefly coach jumps... Its gonna be a great weekend... Hope to see ya there.

I've made many a jump from the Cessna 182 at Skydive Temple in Salado, Texas.... 25 - 30 min ride to 10K... kind of a novelty at first... now I am a turbine whore... 13.5K feet from the Otter at Skydive San Marcos in only 12 minutes is much more enjoyable.... What I don't understand is why it costs a dollar more to jump from the cessna than the otter...

In my opinion... this is a question for your AFF instructor... if you want more than one opinion then ask other AFF Instructors. One never knows whom you are getting advice from on dropzone.com... you want to take these questions to experienced AFF instructors and a mentor at your DZ that you trust... not some potentioal 100 jump wonder on DZ.com.... (not meant to offend anyone, afterall I begani by saying this was just my opinion)

Hmmm... I am gonna think about this one...

Scooter... Text me when you get to town... I'll meet ya at the DZ of choice... 281-309-8474. Houston has two dz's, both turnbine dz's... Skydive Houston has the best skydiver nightlife around, an inground pool, a goat for a mascot and some of the coolest skydiver's around. Its a turbine dropzone with the vibe of a cessna dz. Skydive Spaceland has a fleet of planes (including the skyvan, otters, caravans) and they are always flying. Not hard to get on a load here, one of the premire dropzones in our sport... the facilities are amazing... after the last load though everyone goes home. Its just what you are looking for... we are fortunate to have such great dropzones in our back yard.

Yes, and its easier to fly under the radar of the "dropzone drama" when you are not always in the same place... Makes it harder for those HATERS to keep up with what I am up to... haha

Skydive Dallas is amazing... I went there a couple of weeks ago and while on the plane a young man saw I was jumping by myself. He asked me what I was doing, I told him I was just gonna work on my sitfly, he offered to jump with me... OMG... I told him I wasn't very good but he said that was ok. We planned something out and it was one of the funnest fun jumps I have ever made... thanks Bill Dawson and Skydive Dallas for being so wonderful!

Haha... thanks for the compliment... it might be a little easeir for women...

I really enjoy being a dropzone gypsy... In Texas we have almost as many dropzones as we have Walmart stores... from small Cessna DZ's like Skydive Groundrush in Kountze, Texas and Skydive Aggieland in Bryan, Texas to large turbine DZ's like Skydive Spaceland, Skyidve Houston, Skydive San Marcos and Skydive Dallas... Each offers skydivers something different... some have more aircraft, some better facilities, some better parties...All offer me something different in this awesome sport of skydiving. I encourage skydivers to check out all of the DZ's in their state and surrounding areas... Don't avoid a dz because someone says it is a "tandem factory" or the people are rude. Go find out for yourself what each dz has to offer you and make your own decision! I'm not sure which DZ to call my "home DZ" till I figure it out I'm just gonna be happy as a DZ Gypsy.