Toogs DZ e-News #350 (1-7 October 2018)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Skye Marsh – Completed AFF
Cody Richardson – Certificate B
Chris “Byrnesy” Byrnes – World Speed Record – in China.

Australian Record – 45-way 2 Point Sequential Skydive (click for video & photos):

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It’s Newsletter time again from Monday 1st October, and what a week it was with the Aussie BigWays crew here plus international teams here training for the World Parachute Championships. We fitted in a few loads between the above mentioned. Timur Kapea, Dhana Stokes, Tamika Jane Holstan, Leonardo Vasquez and Iraman Gonzalez all did a Tandem jump with us. And Andrew Petrusma did Stage 5 of his AFF Course.

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On Tuesday we had some more Tandems. Debbie McCarthy and Jake Howes got their jumps in. It was a busy day again.

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Wednesday was spectacular.  We had a New Australian “BigWay” Record – a 45-way 2 Point Sequential skydive above us which the participants succeeded in completing it back-to-back three times.

Click here to read the full article including video by David Brown and photos by Steve Fitchett!

Video by David Brown

Fitchimages Photography

Group 1

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Group 2

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Group 3

For more Fitchimages of the Aussie Bigways Premier event with Larry Henderson, visit Steve Fitch’s Facebook page. Or check out David Brown’s Facebook page. Or go to the Aussie Bigways Sports Team Facebook page. 

For all the info about Aussie records, articles, upcoming events, skills development, pro tips, and resources, visit the www.aussiebigways.com website:

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The one Tandem Thursday was Suzanne Pritchard.  She had a ball! Suzanne found us as she was cycling along the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail at Toogoolawah – she decided to take a look and “wella” into the Sky she jumped.

The internationals were wandering off to the WPC site but the Aussie BigWays were still hard at it.

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By Friday weather wasn’t looking to great, low clouds and drizzle. A few loads were still done but then the BigWays camp started packing up  and it was all over, back to normal!

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Saturday 6th. Weather is looking better today, 3 Tandems joined us for a skydive. Congrats to Elijah Unterburger, Brian O’Brien and Chris Judson for taking the leap with us.  Skye Marsh did Stage 9 of her AFF, congratulations!

The BigWays crew arrived overhead above the clouds for their WPC Opening Ceremony practice jump out of the C17. A 45-way appeared through the cloud, spectacular! Then things started slowing with the weather getting worse.

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Sunday started cloudy but then cleared up. We only got two loads in before it turned bad again. We had two Tandems and three observers.  The observers were Chris Judson, Wendy Bush and Leeanne Mitchell and the Tandem passengers were Chris Judson (again) and Leeanne Mitchell.

Statistics for the week

• Slots/Jumps – 2908
• Jumpers – 223
• Loads – 193
• Malfunctions – 8
• Cartons – 110
• Fun Times – 100%

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See ya!
Macca & Team Ramblers.