Toogs DZ e-News #334 (11-17 June 2018)

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Achievements

Jason Munster – Certificate A
Ryan Hastings – Certificate A
Harold Davies – Certificate A
Phil Comyn – Head Up Freefly Crest
Kristina Hicks – Cert D + Cert B Coach rating

Monday – Mossy was here taking Matt, Adrian, Dave, Potter and Luke through their Instructor B course. The 4 Korean jumpers kept the plane in the air all day with 7 loads. Yay!

Tuesday – More fun jumpers arrived and we managed to get 8 loads in the air. Nate continued with his currency jump and Cassandra was back in the air after having an 8 month break from the sport. James, Chris and Dan worked on their freeflying skills. Our resident packer Alex managed to get a fun jump too.

Wednesday – The Koreas were at it again, jumping hard for their last day in OZ, they also had a quick trip to the indoor pistol shooting range. The Dropzone farewelled the boys with dinner and drinks at our local pub.

Thanks for visiting our DZ to Sukil Choi, Jaeson Park, Yong Soo Park
Shangchul You, Jeong Unju, Dae Ryuk Hicks, Jongha Kim, and Dou Kim. See you again soon!

Jaeson 3 way with Sukil Choi – Photo by Sara

Jaeson, Macca and Sukil Choi tracking – Photos by Sara

Thursday – All the staff gathered together for Equinox 2018 planning. Things are looking awesome for this event scheduled for October 20th-28th, 2018. We got one load away early morning but then the westerly winds put an end to our jumping day.

Friday – Two Tandems for the day were Michael Cotton and Riley Lourigan. Congratulations to both of you for taking the ‘Leap’ with us.

Jackson with Riley and Doyley for Riley’s tandem

Student Jason Munster completed Stages 2, 3 & 4 of his B-Rel jumps.

Everyone started turning up for the weekend, a lot of new and old faces were seen at the Dropzone today

Saturday – Alisha celebrated her 18th B’day in style with a skydive, she also had 7 friends and family jump too Jessica Chaplin, Zoe Cray-Graham, Emma Lennon, Kelly McNamara, Alisha Grieve, Charyn Chaplin & Kate Fisher. Family and friends stayed in our camping grounds and enjoyed there night. Other Tandems for that day were Kyal McAuliffe and Malachi Plum. Zehua Bai completed his Stage1. Student Oliver Morris did his first jump of his Addiction Package.

Malachi’s tandem with Sara – Photo Anthony

Zoe and Charyn after landing – Photos by Robbie

Mossy held his canopy course with everyone learning new skills under canopy and landing.

We had 8 teams register for the ‘4 Ways 4 Everyone’ competition, hosted by the South East Queensland Skydivers Club. First Place was Team 2 – Alex Cattaneo, Kerry Hook, Jason Schloss, Blake Dickson and Archie, congratulations!