Ramblers DZ Round-up

DROP ZONE ROUND-UP, NEWSLETTER 6
From Wednesday 20th July 2011...

It was a fairly quiet rest of week, although Adam Martin Stage 7 and Drew Morrison Stage 1 kept the 182 in the air and on Friday Andrew Morrison was back for Stages 2,3. Pete Agnew brought a couple of Harvey Bay graduates down for a visit – hi  Katheryn Roberts and Marcus Curry – (that’s Ray and Grace Curry’s kid!).

The weekend was a beauty, great weather, great crowd and great jumps. Brody Johnston was back from the States with over 100 tandems and 90 fun jumps. He put a carton on for his first tandem at Toogs.

Brody's Back! 
Brody takes Michael Williams for the 18th birthday of his life

We took 12 newcomers for tandems Saturday and another 6 on Sunday. They all had a ball! The group from Saturday stayed at the local pub Saturday night had a party – all with their ramblers T-shirts on. Special congrats to Jayana Wyatt, 21st

Janaya with Kimbo - 21st Birthday jump

and Michael Williams, 18th.

Michael with Brody - 18th Birthday Jump

Dave King, (who had his first mal –line-over/line twists/packing!), Liam Cunningham and Alan Wills were all working on their A licence doing accuracy jumps, packing lessons and exams, AND Julie Wills did her Stage 9

Julie Wills Stage 9

and it was a beauty! Thanks for the Free Beer Julie.

P5 (089 Hubby Alan urges Julie on)

Who would have thought! Alan and Julie kept it up Sunday 

Julie practices

as did Cameron Faust, Joe Rutter and David Schmuttermaier. Josh Mair (Joorj’s brother) did his first jump. He’ll be back too!

It was a good weekend for the licensed jumpers too. Justin Khoo was back after 18 months, with a new rig.

Justin Khoo and Greg White - sit exit

Kyle was into a bit of everything. There was Lynton Hart, Greg White, Gavin McKinnon,

Gavin and friends - Exit funnel

Chris Searle, Chris Bain and Josh Costa. Adam Mongan brought a friend for a look-see. Suzanne Burke  had a group of flatties – Andy, Mac Parker (told you he’d end up a local), Nick Chameron, Michel “Frenchy” Cona and Andrew Ellard. Peter Farley, Keith Gough, Brendon Fritz, Adam Harrington, Wes Kennedy, Zeno Sharp, Dan Rogers, Ben Fuller, Des Parks and Chris Rose all did jumps Saturday. Just about everybody stayed the night and did some more Sunday. Frenchy’s friend Dana Shirazi did her first tandem. Alex Miller and Jenny Thorton rocked up. Tim Daley and Darren Kellett did a few wingsuit jumps. Owen Roberts was into a bit of birdman-ing too.

Owen - Birdman. Photo by Louis

Dave Bleakley did his first CRW with Belgy. Wade Davey brought 3 mates along for tandems. Pete Sakrzwaski,

Peter Sakrzwaski - exit

Peter Farley and Pasi Havana all did jumps. Naiomes was back as was Warwick Thorn and Mat Blakelock. PLUS Crikey and Georgia did a few. 

Crikey & Georgie - exit

The last load Sunday was a beauty, an 8-way Atmo with me in the lead, Crikey and Brody on their back under me (actually Crikey was all over me!) with Georgia, Louie, Mat Blakelock and Dave Bleakley all grouped up around me. Fantastic!

And then it was Sunday night pub night. Nothing happened here Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. It was a good time to catch up. Belgy got the firewood for the coming weekend.  Thursday we were back in the air and I was back on the tools (hurry back Wade!) Margaret Young, daughter Nicola and son Chris from Scotland all did a tandem.

Margaret and Motzi. Photo by Belgy

Chris with Macca, and Belgy. Photos by Louis

Chris and Macca. Photos by Belgy

Nicola and Brody. Photo by Louis

And then it was back to getting the dz ready for the weekend.

And what a weekend it was! The TSC held another “Roving Pairs” 4-way comp on Saturday and about 20+ people entered. It was a great, successful day. On ya! John McMahon, Jenny and crew, and Maureen’s kitchen for the Christmas in July theme.  I videoed all day and only forgot to turn my camera on once. Actually I turned it off after I turned it on, I couldn’t remember whether I had.....if you know what I mean? Anyhow check out my shots in the Overflow page and look out for a full report of the comp from John soon.

It was a great weekend again for our students. Aman Singh, Chris Bellisia and Phil Markey did their first jumps, Aman and Chris continued on Sunday for Stages 2&3.

Aman ready for Stage 2. Photo by Louis

Josh Mair – Joorj’s brother did Stage 2 

Josh Mair - Stage 2. Photo by Belgy

(told you he’d be back!) Jimmy Farrungia started his 3 day campaign and did Stage 5. Greg Callaghan had a good Stage 6 and 7. Rhyley Heron

Rhyley Herron

did two more static line decent table jumps from 8 thousand. He did back loops on his second jump and had the first one (of 3) done sub-terminal – about 5 seconds out the door. Brett Thompson, Jack Elford, David Schmuttermaier, Brian Stephenson, Brett Thompson, David King and Cameron Faust all did continuation training Saturday. Jimmy F kept going Sunday and on Monday completed his Stage 9 AFF Course.

Jimmy Farrugia. Photo by Belgy

Jimmy under Canopy. Photo by Belgy

Last load Saturday was another beauty, a 16-way 2- pointer right on sunset. I could see the bar as I was tracking off!!

16-way building on sunset

It was also a great weekend for our tandems. 18 did their first skydive. We had father and son,

David Brandon. Photo by Louis

John Brandon, Photo by Belgy

husband and wife, brothers and sisters, everybody had fun and big grins. The Big A words are still winning... ”Awesome!” ..”Amazing!”..

On Sunday I did a couple of tandems with Suzanne and Lauren

Lauren Reuter, Photo by Belgy

and then headed off with Doug and the River 949 flag for a demo at the drag races at Willowbank. We got a good cheer from the crowd. Ali was on the PA for ages and gave Ramblers heaps of plugs. I can’t believe the noise the drag cars make!

Drag Races, Photo by Ali

Drag Parachute Macca. Photo by Ali

We got back a bit late for the last load but they had a ball. John “Funky” Funk did his 500th jump during the day. Peter Barnett was CRWing it with Dave Bleakley, Cruisey brought back Flip for a few jumps with Brian Crighton, Stewie McNee was here for the weekend and business as usual for regulars Reece Wallace, Marty Bowd, Aaron Radford, Martin McKenzie, Wayne Gannon, Josh Costa, Mat Coles and Bubba.

And then it was Monday. Jimmy did Stages 7, 8 and 9 and I did a tandem with Melanie Aalders,

Melanie Aalders, Photo by Louis

.....and that’s the end of this Round-Up.

See Ya,

Macca.

Photo Parapenalia

Adam Mongan

Belgie with Mat Price - Belgy tandem exit

Nicola's Tandem

Nicola and Brody. Photos by Louis

Janaya's Tandem
 

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