Toogs DZ e-Newsletter #347 (10-16 Sept. 2018)

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

ACHIEVEMENTS

Robert Lehman – A Licence
Paul Stokan – A Licence
Tim Allonby – D Licence & Head-Up Freefly Crest
Kerry Hook – D & E Licence
Olli Dixon – E Licence

Kevin Young – Star Crest
Andrew Fraser-Scott – 100 Jumps
Darren Hoenhe – 100 Jumps
Laura Fitzpatrick – 200 Jumps
Kristina Hicks – 1st Wingsuit Jump

On Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th Rob Lehmann and Matteo came back for more B-Rels.

Tandems Wednesday 12th were John Creighton, Grant Ronnie & Cameron Gerrard. Student David Thomas did Stages 4, 5 & 6 of his AFF Course.

Darren and Cameron about to exit – Photos by Sara

Cameron, John and Grant after their jump – Photo Karen

Rob B-Rel 5 with Shelby – Photos by Olli

The Tandem Thursday 13th was Jordan Natt, and student David Thomas did Stages 7 & 8 of his AFF Course.

Jordan with his certificate and Natt – Photo Karen

Friday 14th was pretty quiet.

Olli Head Down jump with Jessie – Photo Jessie

The Tandem Saturday 15th was Travis Michel. Student Georgina Johnson did Stages 4, 5 & 6 of her AFF Course and Matthew Etherington did a Refresher jump after not jumping for 20yrs, welcome back.

Georgie AFF Stage 5 – deploying – Photos by Jessie

Matt 20 year refresher jump – Photo Sara

Head Up for Days with Smithy, Flossy and Tim – Photo Adrian

John’s Invitationals – 15th September

Good days jumping on Saturday, weather was great, we did our usual 4 jumps and welcomed Karen McEvoy back into the rel workers fold. Check out the vid’s and photo’s. Was a bit of a blast for me as Karen was one of my instructors back in the day and so has witnessed me being a turkey on multiple occasions so I was amused to see her suffering a bit of performance anxiety, did well though, maybe a couple of grip changes but I won’t tell anybody. Big smiles from everybody and that’s what it’s all about.

Dave did his usual great job on video even though Frank tried to take him out on one of the jumps. Next jump for me will be the C17, have 14 confirmed names on the list so if you want to play please let me know so we can plan the event.
Hope you all have fun in the upcoming boogies, don’t forget I’ll be sitting in the back yard watching chanting “chop chop chop” as I watch you all open.

Stay safe
John