Ramblers Drop Zone Action ⭐️ e-News #500 (24-30 Jan. 2022)

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

James Svensen – 200 jumps

Newsletter number 500!!!! Woohoo! And what a week had!

Monday the 24th of January 2022. It was busy at the DZ again for the start of the week! Glen and Jessica Eland came out to do a Tandem jump and so did Samantha Viset.

Savannah and her dad Dominic were back to continue their AFF Course. And Jo was back as well do his Stage 4 and 5!

Adrian with Savannah AFF4 – photo by Kristina

Savannah AFF5 first time flying by herself – photo by adrian

Savannah AFF6 freestyle exit – photo by adrian

Jo AFF 5 flying by himself for the first time – photo by Robin

On Tuesday Nik Kozlov came back to do more jumps of his Christian and Matthew joined us to do a Tandem jump AFF Course and he brought his mates Matt and Christian with him to do a Tandem.
Tamblyn and Jo did the next stages of their course and Luke Munroe did his Stage 8 AFF.

Tamblyn AFF 3 doing some turns – photo by Adrian

Jo AFF6 being Alti aware – photo by Robin

Nik AFF5 first time flying by himself – photos by Adrian

Wednesday, Australia Day, the weather gods weren´t on our side and unfortunately it wasn´t good enough for students to get a jump in. We did manage to get one load in though with our more experienced fun-jumpers.

Thursday and Friday the sky wasn´t really clear again but at least the clouds were high enough to do hop n pops. Adrian was running a canopy course and our fun-jumpers Charmaine, James, Alan, Vera and Travis did all up 10 hop n pop loads and worked on their canopy skills!
We also did get an opening on Thursday afternoon to get Josh Zanatta up in the sky for his TAFF1 as he started his AFF Course today.

Josh TAF1 checking his alti – photo by Adrian

The forecast for Saturday wasn´t looking too promising but as how it happens often the weather was alright and Homer did over 10 loads, you can´t jump if you´re not here ;).

Matt Smith was running Smithyfest 2022 and was offering some free freefly coaching focusing mostly on beginner and intermediate vertical jumps and there were plenty of new freefliers who took advantage of that.

Our Tandem for the day were Brandon Green, Bobbi and Jordan Ryan, Alissa Saraceno and Damien Williams.

We welcomed our new skydivers Asher, Michael Eschbank, Scott Rivera, Wayne Uroda and Kauley at the DZ who started their skydiving journey and managed to get stage one of their course in on the first day. Josh Zanatta did stages 3 and 4 while Billy Reynolds did stage 8 and 9 to finish his AFF Course, congratulations!!!

Alissa tandem freefall – photo by Adrian

After having a bit of cloud around in the morning, Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day! Our students from Saturday, Michael, Kauley, Asher and Scott stayed to do their first few stages of their AFF Course. Students Rosie and Chris Jesse were back to do more jumps!

Daniel Eder and John Lewis came out to do a Tandem.
Meanwhile Smithyfest was still in full swing and our fun-jumpers were getting in some freefly jumps.