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."

Check back often for pics and updates as the weekend progresses. To see the full gallery of pictures check out my GALLERY, which is updated daily. You can also tag yourself on my facebook profile.

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!

Check out the Shuttle Pics

If you wanna print go to MY GALLERY

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.
If you wanna nab yourself a pic, check out Harry's Gallery for all the pics during the party.
If you are looking for Skydiving Pics, visit my Facebook Pic Album.

HP

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!
Check out the slide show.
More pics on Facebook

Harry Sighting Working

Yes, it's true. A co-worker, Mikey, took this snapshot of me actually working on a very big job site. Another coworker fell ill so I was called out from behind the computer to help pull a few 1000 feet of fiber and set up installation for security and surveillance on a nearby city infrastructure project.
Digging ditches was fun. The weather was excellent and I even managed to get some sun.
Next week I will begin the fiber connection process hooking up over 20 cameras and perimeter beams that will virtually lock down this installation against unwanted threats.
It's all high tech and the new fiber that is being installed and used everywhere can handle TONS of data leaving the actual network the weakest link in relation to speed. The system can be monitored from anywhere using a computer hooked to the Internet. Some cool James Bond Stuff.
To check out some of the stuff we utilize at my Unkle Jon's, world famous canopy relative worker, go to Diamond Quest and look over the videos.
Hope you are enjoying the weather!

Jackson Hole 2009

Wow. The mountain is BIG. And STEEP.
Just getting back from a trip to Jackson Hole with the Philly Crew. They've been doing a yearly ski trip for over 20 years now and this is my second trip with them. Great bunch of people and a challenge to keep up with on the mountain. They've been all over and are in the process of checking off a list of resorts they all want to ski over the years.
We stayed in a sweet condo that was for sale for 1.8 million dollars. Fire place, big kitchen, big rooms, the works, three stories.
This year didn't see the BIG POW everyone was looking for, but we did get some nice blue bird days and even close to six inches in the middle of the trip to soften things up.
The mountain is HUGE and the new tram holds a 100 people and gains 4,000 ft+ of altitude in just a few minutes.
We got the chance to cover most of the mountain except for the incredibly steep and notorious lines Jackson Hole is known for and saved those for the Mangy Moose video Screen Après-ski.
Four full days of skiing with one of those a full day of X-Country Skiing. Can I tell you how much I am from Florida now? I love the cold and snow, don't get me wrong, but my legs have since divorced and left me in the cold. OW.
Hot tip, don't ever follow the skiers no matter how "good" they tell you the snow is. Bumpity Bumpity bump ruined me the very first day. But the groomers and some of the trees were heavenly. Nothing the community condo hot tub and a micro brew couldn't take care of though.
Thanks guys, looking forward to next year!

Full Gallery, check it out HERE.
Slide show HERE.
The show can also be found on facebook HERE.