Saturday at Perris Valley Big Way Camps with P3

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Another great day. The weather here was made for skydiving. Perris Valley Skydiving ROCKS!

Today the P3 organizers took participants to the next level. A full day of 30-ways out of three airplanes making sure all jumpers tested and honed their big way skills. The three plane, two pass loads provided a timely and comfortable pace for everyone.

And again, by days end the formations began to complete and ended with a DZ full of happy jumpers.

I am loving the formations loads. It's not often one gets to do these and especially this many in one weekend. Multiple cameramen on one loads really gets the team work going and raises the challenge for all.

Tomorrow we are going even bigger and will be using O2 at over 17,000 ft. Can't wait. Yahoo! Stay tuned, more to come.

Tonight is the big banquet, so I will make this one short. Enjoy the pics.

Big Way RW Camps

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Day two of the camp starts on time at 8am sharp. Organizers took what they learned from participants the day before and reorganized groups. Formation loads started taking some of the groups straight to the next level.

Aerodyne made it. Yep, Cookie and Les are here. Gotta love those guys. Always a ton of demos. I traded in my quicky canopy for a bigger PILOT. Brand new, been jumping it all day, soft openings, soft landings, even in the dirt clods of the dersert. Definitely an asset at any event. Check out their events page and find out where they will be or contact them to see if they can come to your event.

From the start it was obvious participants were having a great time, learning a lot and pushing their boundaries. I was lucky enough to be filming Larry Henderson's group. Every jump new slots were assigned testing and teaching new skills. Our plane load kept getting better and better and our full 20 way began completing it's dives by the middle of the day. We made six jumps, as did the other groups. I am talking about non stop turn arounds for ALL the planes.

There are a lot of people here and I've noticed a lot of smiles and high fives. This is the place to be if you are interested in taking your RW skills to the next level of big ways and the P3 group are the organizers to make it happen. Jumpers with under 500 jumps are getting the chance to get serious coaching from some of the best in the world. I've met old friends and am making new ones and many are coming in from other disciplines, including free fly, wingsuit and even a BASE jumper or two.

Blue skies and light winds created some landing direction problems in the morning and by mid afternoon the winds picked up with some overcast. Only two jumps through about 1000 feet of ice. Being from Florida, I notice those things.

Great day. Tommorow the loads should get bigger and even more challenging. Stay tuned.

Perris Valley Big Way Camps with P3

The Harry is back.

Just landed in Perris Valley California after a five day drive from Florida making California my home for the summer. More to tell in an upcoming post.

This weekend I have the honor of working with some of the best Skydiving Cinematographers organized by Craig O'Brien and RW organizers at Perris Valley Skydiving. This Thursday morning kicks off a four day jumping intensive weekend with "Perris Performance Plus" P3 Big Way Camp aimed at all experience levels.

The 8am call started the day with a complete meet and greet before breaking into smaller 20-way groups. There is nothing but smiles and good weather to kick off the event. Everyone knows if they do well this weekend they can move on to 100-ways this coming weekend May 7-10th. And of course many are striving to the get a slot on the coveted "World Team."

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The P3 team of Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, Kate Cooper-Jensen, Tony Domenico, Larry Henderson, Doug Forth and Tom Jenkins will lead jumpers through a four-day camp structured to enhance and improve big way skills. Jumpers will learn and apply techniques of diving, floating and base work in this 4-day 18-jump camp.

Many jumpers are repeat attendees and almost a 1/4 of the jumpers have under 500 jumps. This camp is designed to give everyone the needed info and skills training for 100-way and bigger formations. The proven model the P3 organizers use allows smaller formations, 20 - 40 ways, to duplicate all the jobs, visuals, and responsibilities of a 100+ way form.

The leaders include Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, Manager of Skydive Perris, founder of Airspeed, multiple gold medal winner in four and eight way at the World level and organizer of the GO FAST 300-way World Record. Joining Dan are Kate Cooper-Jensen and Tony Domenico, both of whom have been involved with most World Record large formation skydives. This includes organizing the last three Jump for the Cause Women's World Records, including the upcoming JFTC 2009, and the current 400-way World Record WT '06. Larry Henderson, a WT '02, 04 and '06 captain, TSR captain, and a familiar face from ESA boogies and many other events worldwide, joins the team once again. Also returning are World Team member, veteran competitor, and formation skydiving coach Doug Forth, and Tom Jenkins, World Team member, TSR and large formation organizer.

For more info on how to get the best big way coaching, check out Perris Valley Skydiving web page for upcoming events.

3.5.09 Shuttle CReW Video at Skydive Sebastian

Hello everyone! Thank you very much for your patience.
Here it is, the shuttle video you've been asking for.
Please leave a comment at the bottom of this post if you would. This was a great jump and did we luck out. Great weather and a delayed shuttle launch that finally took off on schedule after many scrubs.
Coupled with an awesome line up of pilots the formation built quickly and the view was incredible.

Thanks to everyone for making this happen

Enjoy!

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March Madness Casino Night

Another great party at Skydive Sebastian, Florida.
Weather kept most out of the skies for the better part of the weekend, but everyone stayed for this yearly Casino themed event.
Lyle Presse from SkydiveTshirts.com hosted an organized RW weekend with Carolina Flock jumpers. Many only jumped Friday during the event and wisdom and experience kept them on the ground Saturday as winds gusted over 30MPH.
Some pics are below.
Still, Lyle kept the group busy with trips to the local watering holes and boat rides to the islands.
The prizes during the party were top notch totaling over $5000! Including a FREE Javelin Rig and blocks of tickets.
Great to see old friends and meet some new ones.
Our last big boogie for the season. Looking forward to a Rockn' summer.
Check out the slide show below.
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Shuttle Jump At Sebastian

Last minute rush to pack, attach a flash, climb in the plane and WOW. Sunset couldn't have been more celebrated then with close friends on a skydive together watching the last night launch of the space shuttle.
This launch has been delayed several times and the one time we get in the plane, it's a go.
Barely enough time to make altitude we jumped three minutes prior to liftoff giving enough time for the formation to build and set up for the show.
Sorry for the rush, but I have to catch a plane to the West Coast, be back in a week.
Enjoy the pics!

Flexvision Dirty Dozen

Hey Gang! Thanks for a great day of jumping.
Lyle Presse is now shaking up the organizing with a more lax approach and allowing more jumpers to attend. This weekend saw some pretty cool 12-way turning multiple points to incredible Florida winter weather.
I really enjoyed filming a larger group then eight and am looking forward to larger groups in the near future. Do hope you all enjoyed yourselves, I sure did. Thanks
Just FYI, Lyle and Kyle will be launching a whole new site with a scheduled release on March 15th. Check out www.SkydiveShirts.com often as the changes are coming and so are some of the newest coolest designs and printing available from someone you know!
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