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Latest News -
June 2007 |
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Skydive Spain
entertains several
teams this
month in training for
Formation Skydiving - FS
Team Elan
(current British and World 4-way Champions), Havoc,
Boogie Pimps, and Phobia all underwent intense
training camps, with world class coaching from Gary
Beyer and Chris.
And
Freefly -FF
competitions.
Freeflyers Team Outbreak (British
Champions), Airtrix (including 2006 Open Gold
Medalist Andy Lovemore) and the Norwegian Skywalkers
were all training hard, getting on back-to-back
loads.
In the last 7 days, in
excess of 336 team jumps have been completed -
Skydive Spain has private video debriefing rooms,
mock-up aircraft, creeper area for dirt diving and
twin turbine aircraft. |
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Courses available at
Skydive Spain this month include
Accelerated Freefall (AFF),
FS Coaching, FF Coaching
and Tandem jumps.
Sports Massage and
Chartered Physiotherapist Pete Huskins MCSP, shall
be on site full time from June 10th -
offering Sports Massage, Injury Treatment &
prevention advice, acupuncture, taping / strapping,
exercise programs.
We are perfectly
located in southern Spain for you to enjoy other
activities, a 20minute drive takes you to the
beautiful city of Seville or you can be at the beach
resort of Cádiz within an hour.
See our Other News section.
Visit other
news.
More photos will be added shortly to this June
newsletter. |
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June
2007 - Team Training, Experienced Skydives, Tandems
and more... |
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Team Elan and Boogie
Pimps - two week training camp at Skydive Spain |
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Team Elan - current World and UK Champions - AAA
Havoc - FS Team training over Sevilla
Boogie Pimps FS Category AAA - photo by Andy Cliff
Julie Woodrow canopy decent - photo by Andy Cliff |
An 8-way FS training camp, coaching by Manolo
Spanish 8way formation skydivers at boarding point
A 5-way FS Group ready for take-off |
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Tandem group celebrate 6 tandem jumps
Rob & Dan await the call to board for fun jump in Spain |
Ana on her 15,000ft tandem with Instructor Jonno &
Alf
CCI gives Jump Order to Freefly group
Rob & Tim set for a Birdman jump
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Skydive Spain has a
full time rigging workshop, a qualified BPA rigger -
for further information
please see our Rigging page. |
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Kit is available for hire, here
are our AFF kits |
Kit store, stocking various canopy sizes 240 to 135 |
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June
2007 - Other News |
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During
June, a group of Skydive Spain staff and regular jumpers took a
trip to the nearby city of Arcos, a short drive from the world
famous Jerez motorcycle race track.
See
the pictures below, we enjoyed the great Spanish weather, wake
boarding, a BBQ
followed by some clay pigeon shooting. |
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Arcos de la Frontera - in the province of Andalucia |
Freefly Mikey - Celebrates a direct hit |
Éder the Pilot, reloading the
rifle. |
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We find out what Pete really has under his shirt!
Pete is the resident Physiotherapist at Skydive
Spain. |
We also visited the
wake boarding centre in Arcos, a perfect day out in
a very picturesque part of Spain. With the friendly
staff from the wake boarding centre who quickly take
you from novice to riding the waves.
Rob rides the waves at Wake boarding school
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A trip was
organised to see the Spanish spectacle that
is bull fighting, with origins dating back
to 711 A.D. Here are a selection of photos
from the event. |
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The Arena
where the bull fighting takes place
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Horses are
used in the bull fighting |
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Picador and
bull in a stand-off
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Bull charges
at Matador with bright yellow & magenta cape |
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Many matadors,
and a picador dancing with the bull |
Local crowds
flock to see this Spanish tradition |
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