Toogs DZ e-News #354 (29 Oct. – 4 Nov. 2018)

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Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th October were weathered out. Lucky! We needed a break after the Equinox Boogie.

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Back to normal on Wednesday. Steven Zanow & Gordon Price did Stage 1 AFF.  Tom Roberts did jumps towards his A Licence and Ben Glover & Michael Cnops did refresher jumps.

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On Thursday 1st November Steven Zanow did Stages 2 & 3, Gordon Price did Stages 2, 3 & 4, Ben Glover did Stages 4, 5 & 6; and Tom Roberts did Stage 9 – completing his AFF! What a day.

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On Friday only 1 hop and pop load went up. Just one of those days. We had a beaut little Sausage Sizzle. People started arriving for the weekend.

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Saturday arrived. So did a few Tandems. Marilee Hubert, Lyndon Bull, Gary Jackson, Taylor Muggleton & Edward Atkins all made the big leap.

Andre Sandros was here for his First Jump Course. Ian Baker did AFF 2 and 3. And David Purdie did 3, 4 & 5. And Thiago Giraldi & Simon did refreshers.

There were loads of skydivers here and we did quite a few loads. Martin and Kristina did lots of successful RW, Star crests and B-Rels. Great stuff.

Star Crest Saturday

“We had a great day with 8 or 9 jumpers in each group, sunny with good winds and not too hot.

Four crestlings attempted the ASC on the day – Cody Richardson, Michael Binnie and Ash Robinson (three jumps each) and Nellie Moody (one). Cody smashed it and nailed all his jumps, and is a certified legend. Michael and Ash did well and have one and two ASC jumps completed respectively, and have learned a lot about what PFS (personal flying skills) are needed. Nellie joined us for the last jump and did well also, and has learned a lot about the reason some of us wear weights – fantastic powers of recovery from going low though.

Congratulations Cody and well done to all. Special thanks also to the ASC holders who jumped with us on the day, Macca and Darren for supporting star crest jumps as always, Jenny and all the manifest staff for putting up with my unreasonable requests and Rangry for excellent camera work.

Another ASC weekend up soon, details to come.”
Martin

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Sunday was a bit slower, but not much! Tandems were Steven Freeman, Bailey Forrest, Rupert Brocx, Lee-Anne Harvey, Jason Bobeldyk, Alex Harvey, Nathan Harvey & Zachary Harvey.

Andre Santos got stuck into it and did Stages 2, 3 & 4 of his AFF Course. Cory Cassell did Stage 7, & David Purdie did Stages 6, 7 & 8. Thiago got his Stage 6 successfully completed.

It was hot weather but it didn’t stop the keen ones! And Karen McEvoy Aslett jumped her brand new Javelin & Safire 3 – ding ding!

Qld Blast 4-way Skills Camp with Kristina and Alex

Thanks to Kristina Hicks and Alex Cattaneo for running this event.

Video by David Brown

You are invited to participate in the first BLAST E-LEAGUE COMPETITION 2018 across QLD dropzones. Jump out of your preferred aircraft at your preferred DZ. We officially have 15 teams registered within QLD and NT. Competition faces on, get jumping, practice those rounds and submit your best jumps before 31st of December! There will be Medal Awards & prizes! 1st prize is a Gold Medal and $1000 worth of jump tickets!!! For more info, join the QLD Blast e-League 2018 Facebook page.

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See ya!
Macca & Team Ramblers.