Rambling On ⭐️ Drop Zone Action e-News #570 (24-30 July 2023)

Achievements

⭐️ Neil – 100th jump
⭐️ Laura – 300th jump
⭐️ Liam – 600th jump
⭐️ Nellie – 1100th jump

Congratulations! 

It was a very quiet start to the week. There were no loads on Monday 24th of July. On Tuesday there were 2 fun jumpers here. On Wednesday there were no loads.

Six fun jumpers arrived on Thursday and Philip did a Tandem with Oli M.

Things picked up on Friday. 13 fun jumpers arrived and got stuck into it. 4 loads went up.

On Saturday 76 fun jumpers arrived!! That made up for the quiet week! 17 loads were done with both Caravans needed for the sunset rush. Our Tandem today was Alessandra. AFF students Ryan did TAFF Stage 1, and Sacha did Stage 6 of his AFF Course.  Nicolas, Kyle, Monica, Federico, Renee, Ken, Tom and Anna all did B-Rel Coach jumps till sunset. Plus it was Belly Bash in full swing doing a “competition event” simultaneously with UK drop zone Langer. What a day!

Belly BAshes – Australia vs UK!!! – Load Organising with Dawn & Chris

“On Saturday, Belly Bash went global with our first ever intercontinental competition!! Skydive Ramblers went head-to-head with Skydive Langar in the UK for “The Belly BAshes”, to coincide with the final test of the Ashes series!

Four jumps were planned, with Australia starting the comp on Sat morning and the UK following-on 9-hours later on their Sat morning. Both DZs did the same 4 rounds in the same order, and the best jump from each round was submitted for scoring. The scores were revealed on our Sunday morning! The UK got off to a strong start, beating Australia 4-3 in the first round, but the Ramblers crew dug deep to win the next three rounds, taking the Belly BAshes trophy in a nail-biting finale!

The weather could not have been more spectacular, and we had such an awesome day of jumping!! Thanks so much to all the Ramblers jumpers who joined to help us reach victory, and huge shout out to all the Skydive Langar crew and participants for such an amazing competition!!

As ever, huge thanks to our sponsors – Skydive Ramblers, SQPC, TSC, APF and Mee Loft for making these events possible, and to our talented camera fliers Michael Young and Anna Van Der Vlugt for capturing the magic!”

Participants:

Chris Dodds & Dawn Adams, Guy G., Stephen B., Jamie J., Doug M., Tim R., Holly A., Ben D., Adrian B., Laura J., Farrell Mc., Hamish B., Greg C., Paul B., Sandor M., Greg M. , and Wayne G.

Photos by Michael Young and Anna Van Der Vlugt

On Sunday there were still 54 fun jumpers here and again 11 loads went up.  Our Tandems today were John, Kathryn, and Robert, as well and Sarah and Jairus.  Nicolas did 2 B-Rel Coach jumps with Reece. Lots of fun jumping happened. It was a beaut weekend of Skydiving.