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May 05

Coach course May 4-5 ,2013

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This weekend just Carla Brey from Palatka in class. We should be done by Sunday evening. I like an all woman’s course

Apr 29

AFF Instructor course April 27 – May 2, 2013

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This weeks course started of nicely with a weekend with beautiful weather. Derek Thomas is helping us this week with the air and ground evaluations.Taking the course are Scott Jawidzik from Orange Virginia and Romulo Antunes from Brazil. Thomas Dahl tried out some practice jumps during the weekend. We almost completed the pre-course. Scott and …

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Apr 29

Strong Tandem rating course April 24-26

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We had a real nice course starting April 24 with John Rogers and Jeff Plisko from Tradewinds Skysports in North Carolina and Jordan Ermer from Skydive Wissota in Wisconsin. Great group, lots of learning and a little bit of fun here and there as well. John and Jeff just got their Phase I jumps done …

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Apr 20

Sigma Tandem rating course April 20-22, 2013

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Today is the start of a new Sigma Instructor course with Angela from Tennessee and Matt from Pennsylvania are with us to become Tandem Instructors. David Helton is teaching today for the most part. Hopefully the weather will hold up. It has been cloudy with several layers but good enough for jumping so we’re keeping …

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Apr 19

AFF course April 13-18, 2013

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Last weeks AFF course was a great group with 7 skydivers . Joey Allen and Lawrence Maulsby from Canada, Benoit Foulon from France/Canada and Derek Slade, Kyle Salvato, Matt O Gwynn, Allen Heitz from different areas of our own country. Thanks for coming to us and let us know how you like doing real AFF!

Mar 13

AFF course March 9-13, 2013

Matt OGwynn was with us for a few days to make practice jumps and Jarod, Waylon and Jan Kruger from Germany were here to take the AFF pre-course and Instructor course. We are almost done with the course and are hoping to finish the last evaluations today                   

Feb 20

Coach course February 19-20, 2013

Chris from England, Bob from Canada and Adam from Missouri are in the Coach rating course this time. Class is done and most of the jumps as well. working on ground evaluations at the moment               

Feb 18

Sigma tandem instructor course February 18-20

Today is another tandem instructor course with 3 new candidates. Jerry Borek ,already a Tandem Instructor from Skydive Chicago came down to refresh on the class material. Here are some images:                          

Jan 28

Coach course January 26-28, 2013

8 people showed up on Saturday morning to take our Coach rating course.A real nice group with some of our local Skydive City skydivers and also skydivers from other DZ’s as far as Kansas. Here are some images             

Jan 20

Sigma Tandem instructor rating course January 19-21

Nick and Ken arrived Friday afternoon to be ready for the Tandem course to begin on Saturday morning. Almost a full day of class and we’re up to jumping as I speak.            

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