Toogs DZ e-News #362 (24-30 Dec. 2018)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Giovanni Pitzalis – Completed AFF
Chris Blinks – Completed AFF
Andrew Cook – Completed AFF
Adam Frankel – Completed AFF
Mathew Lee – Certificate A
Bryan Cale Conerly – Certificate B

Angus Robertson – Head Up Freefly Crest
Mick T – I’m back
Dave Girvin – Didn’t manifest AFF jump!
Alvaro (Venezuela) – First tandem video
Oli Morris – 200th Jump

Monday 24th December, our last Newsletter for 2018. It was a fairly quiet Christmas Eve jump day however Suzie Berryman, Bailey Parsonage and Steven Mejias were here a pre Christmas Tandems. Other “orphan” skydivers were here for the Big Day and got a few jumps in.

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Tuesday 25th Christmas Day we rested and ate too much! 🎄

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On Wednesday, Boxing Day, it was business as usual. Tandems were Ben Hester, Cloie Harris, Quintin Carey-Ross and Mark Bryant..  New students Chris Blinks and Max Palonen did Stage 1 AFF. Fun jumpers rolled up for the Christmas break.

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Thursday was busy. Lots of loads and lots of jumpers had a great day. Tandems were Thomas & Camille Vasseur, Chou-Chi Chin, Jeremy & Aurelie Priem and Kristina Kolekova. Chris Blinks did his AFF Stage 2 and Giovanni Pitzalis did Stages 6, 7 & 8.

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Friday was even busier. More Tandems were here for their big jump. David Hendersen, Luke Moller & Kylan Petit-Jean all took to the skies. Dylan Jones arrived for a refresher. New students Claudio Manganiello, Taine Davidson, Benjamin Lowe, Joel Kindred, Matt Ranken and Sian Almond all did Stage 1 of their AFF Courses.  Byron Birch did Stages 2 & 3 of his. Marc Dunlop did Stage 4, Chris Blinks did Stages 4 & 5. Adam Frankel, Andrew Cook, and Adrienne Murray all did Stages 6 & 7 and Giovanni Pitzalis did Stage 9 – completing his AFF, congratulations.

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Saturday was big.  Our Tandems today were Aleisha Bearcroft, Paula Mortimore and Ana Maria Paiva.  Sian Almond did Stages 2 & 3 of her AFF Course, Jhock Corong did Stage 3. Matt Ranken and Taine Davidson did Stages 2, 3 & 4. Claudio Manganiello did Stages 3 & 4, Byron Birch did Stages 4, 5 & 6, and Chris Blinks did Stages 6, 7 & 8. It was a big day of student activity plus a big day of jumping in general.

 

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Then it was Sunday and it was just as busy as Saturday. We had students everywhere! Plus lots of fun jumpers. Plus some new Tandem jumpers who were Carla Barbereau and Nicholas Piovesana. Visiting French skydiver Amine Badry did a couple of leaps. AFF students Sian Almond did Stages 4 & 5, Matt Ranken did Stages 5 & 6, Claudio Manganiello & Taine Davidson did Stages 5, 6 & 7.  Byron Birch did Stages 7 & 8, Adrienne Murray, Adam Frankel & Andrew Cook did Stages 8 & 9, & Chris Blinks did Stage 9 – completing their AFF, again Congratulations! What a day, what a week and what a good pub night.

See ya! And Happy New Year from all of us here at the Drop Zone.

Macca & Team Ramblers.

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