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Latest News - January 2007

Skydive Spain is a successful skydiving centre. We are proud of all our students as they pass through our courses and want to give testimonials of their experiences with us.

We also have many experienced jumpers coming over to visit. Some are here for team training, some for holidays and some want to take part in seasonal boogies.

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23rd January 2007 - Christmas Boogie DVD released

If you want to get your copy of the new DVD from the Christmas Boogie, please send the dropzone an email or make a telephone call. David Pratt has spent many hours producing this and there are 61 minutes of quality footage.

Boogie Stats

We completed 640 loads during the boogie, resulting in a massive 7951 skydives..!!!
We had 12 different Nationalities attend.
Thank you to all who came and especially to the video and camera men: Dave Pratt, Andy Ford, Mike Carpenter, Blair Stent, Rob Simpson, Jim Harris.

Boogie Achievements:
CF1 Simon Cathrine, Patrick Browne, Sam Bemment, Will Cooke, Tony Keightley
CH2 Corinna Yap
FS1 Bill Schaeffer, Mike Ly, Chris Dockrill, Nick Lord, Sean Booth, Allan Eastwood, Liz Moor, Terry Purcell, Doug Keenan, Greg Simmonds
FF1 Craig Baines, Karen Bain, Adrian Wild, Tom Corcoran, John Ly
FF2 Carl Baines, Bev Tidman
2000 jumps - Tony Keightley
4000 jumps - Jim Harris

Big Way attempts for "2007" jump organised by Simon Cathrine

2007 in the sky

2007 skydiving
Photo by Blair Stent

Simon Cathrine gathered 23 experienced skydivers for an attempt to make a "2007" in the sky.

3 attempts we made at making this shaped and finally they got there on the last go. The "2" was proving somewhat difficult and the donuts were turning a lot.

On the first jump we did manage a 007 jump though..!!!

Thanks to Simon for thinking of this, and also to Lesley and Herman for their input to the briefs and de-briefs, it was a fantastic jump for 31 Dec 2006, before the New Year's Eve party.

Freeflying

Dev Tidman FF2
Photo by Andy Ford

Bev Tidman can be seen to the left after doing a load of freefly jumps. She also achieved her FF2 whilst on her trip.

The level of Freeflyers present at the boogie was extremely high, there were many high level head down jumps, hybrid jumps and tracking dives.

Hybrids and Tony Keightley's 2000th Jump

Tony Keightley 2000th jump

Tony Keightley 2000th jump - underneath

One of the excellent Hybrid jumps that has taken place was one for our Instructor and long time Staff member, Tony Keightley.

He wanted something special for his 2000th jump so the Outbreak boys decided to organise a hybrid for him.

The 2 pairs split up and completed a full 360 turn each before re-docking.

Excellent jump.....nice one Tony.

Wingsuit training and jumping

Craig exiting G92
Photo by Andy Ford

Wingsuit
Photo by Andy Ford

Andy Ford did some wingsuit jumping whilst he was over in Seville. Craig is pictured to the left exiting the G92.

Andy trained up Susan Farquhar, Blair Stent, Jarik and jumped with Robert, Craig, Dave Pratt ....

Andy Ford and Craig after landing

Boogie write up

RAPS course
Tony K and his RAPS Students

RAPS after landing
Happy RAPS students after a jump

The boogie started in full flow with Uni students coming over on the 15th Dec for AFF and RAPS. The RAPS progression was fantastic, and the AFF students completed all their levels.

We managed to cover all disciplines during the boogie: FS, FF, big ways, hybrids, CREW, wingsuits, canopy schooling, coaching of all types, AFF, RAPS...

Statistics will be available after tomorrow (the last boogie day) of load numbers, number of descents etc.

There will also be many more photos available to see.

There is a Boogie DVD available for 20 euros, please contact us.

The team at Skydive Spain would like to thank all those who attended the boogie and we hope to see you all very soon.