Ramblers Drop Zone Action ⭐️ e-News #516 (20-26 June 2022)

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Luke S – Completed AFF
Matthew K – Completed AFF
Olivia M – Completed AFF
Dylan MacC – Completed AFF
Jesse McJ – Completed AFF

Thomas C – 100 Jumps
Brandon G – 100 Jumps
Charlie M – 100th Nude

Monday 20th June – and we were off to a good start. 13 jumpers here and we did a couple of loads. Our Tandem today was Jonathan G. Our new students today were Luke S and Michael R who both did AFF Stage 1. Benjamin L & Matt S both did B-Rel Coach jumps.

Jonathan tandem freefall – photos by Adrian

On Tuesday Michael R did AFF Stage 2 and Luke S did Stages 2, 3 & 4. Wade Y-T arrived and did AFF Stage 5. And Savannah N did a B-Rel Coach jump. 4 loads were done and 16 jumpers did them.

Wednesday was a bit quieter. 11 jumpers got stuck into it. 3 loads were done. Luke S did his AFF Stage 5. 2 B-Rel Coach jumps were also completed. Weather was good.

On Thursday Watane W did AFF Stages 4 & 5. Luke S and Jay T did Stages 6 & 7. 4 loads were done and 15 jumpers did them including a Coach jump by Yelsson Y and a B-Rel by Luke B.

Watane AFF Stage 5 – flying by himself for the first time

Jay doing some turns on AFF Stage 6 – photos by Adrian

Jay AFF Stage 7 fistpump high fives – photos by Agwa

Luke AFF Stage 7 – tracking – photos by Agwa

Friday got busy. There were 21 jumpers here and 5 loads were done. Tandems today were Elizabeth M and Caityn B.

Hopeha W (Hoops) did Stage 6 and Luke S did Stages 8 & 9 – completing his AFF Course, another Congratulations! Lee J, Iggy McG and Luke I all B-Rel Coach jumps.

Caitlyn tandem freefall – hi-five – photo Adrian

Luke AFF Stage 8 – photo Skydive Ramblers

Saturday got even busier! Mossy had about 12 people for a Canopy Handling Course. 17 loads were done by the 78 jumpers here. Jye M, Sid L and Ivan W were busy doing B-Rel Coach jumps.

Our new students got stuck into it. Christy W, Tallow H & Nikki T all did Stage 1. Dylan MacC did Stages 4, 5 & 6, Jesse McJ did Stages 6, 7 & 8 and Sitjian L (Sid) did Stages 7 & 8. Olivia M did Stages 8 & 9 and Matthew K did Stage 9 – both completing the AFF Courses. Congratulations!

Chris and Dawn launched their first Belly Bash RW training program. The Toogoolawah Skydivers Club had its AGM. The bonfire lit up and the party started.

Mossy briefs his canopy course – photo by Skydive Ramblers

Mossy’s Canopy Course – photo courtesy of Luke Morley

Dylan awesome exit – AFF Stage 6 – photos by Skydive Ramblers

Sid AFF Stage 6 – doing great – photo Sara

Belly Bash – Load Organising with Dawn & Chris

“Ramblers first Belly Bash event was held on Saturday, kindly sponsored by Ramblers, Toogoolawah Skydivers Club and South Queensland Parachute Club. We were blessed with spectacular sunshine and zero winds!

Belly Bash is a load organising event which aims to bring together flat fliers of all abilities to have fun and improve skills! We had a great turnout, with jumpers with experience ranging from 100 to 1000 jumps!

We plan to run the event every month so watch the website and Facebook page for updates!”

Chris Dodds

Belly Bash – Ben shows Sam his fight face – photo by Samuel Gorham

Belly Bash – Building an arrowhead – Photo by Charmaine Nielsen

Belly Bash – Busting some shapes – photo by Michael Young

Belly Bash – Lara wins the geeking competition – photo by Michael Young

Belly Bash – Turning Spiders – photo by Michael Young

Sunday was just about as busy as Saturday! We did 16 loads altogether with 75 jumpers here. Our Tandems today were Isobella & Brodie W, Joel D and Madelynne C.

Caleb H did AFF Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4. Nikki T did Stages 2 & 3, Christy W and Tallow H did Stages 2, 3, & 4 and Jayden E did Stages 4 & 5. Yash K did Stage 8. Dylan MacC did Stages 7, 8 & 9 and Jesse McJ did Stage 9 – both completing their AFF Courses. More Congratulations!

All sorts of Fun Jumping was going on; Mossy’s Canopy Course continued. Flatties, Angles and Freefliers were all going flat out until sunset. It was a terrific weekend.