Rambling On ⭐️ Drop Zone Action e-News #573 (14-20 August 2023)

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Achievements

⭐️ Ben – Completed AFF
⭐️ Ryan – Completed AFF
⭐️ Skye – First CRW Dock!

Congratulations! 


PHOTOS MISSED FROM LAST WEEK
Tandem Group: Ben, Jasper, Danielle, Liezel, Chris, Charles, Carib, Bartosz, Ian, and Ryley with Ramblers staff – photo by Sara
Dan AFF Stage 2 – photo by Sara
Justin happy after AFF Stage 9 – photo by Sara

Monday 14th of August There were 18 fun jumpers on 3 loads on at the start of a very windy week. Our Tandems today were Mandy and Leon.  Kody and Laurens did B-Rel Coach jumps with Toddy.

Mandy tandem – photo by Robin
Leon tandem – photo by OliM

Tuesday There were 7 fun jumpers here for 2 loads. New AFF student Ben W. did Stages 1 & 2.

Ben AFF Stage 2 – photo Robin

On Wednesday there were 15 fun jumpers here for 5 loads. Ben W. did AFF Stages 3, 4, 5 & 6.  Varun did a B-Rel Coach jump with Toddy.

Ben W. AFF Stage 3 – photo by OliM
Ben W. AFF Stage 4 – photo by OliM
Ben W. AFF Stage 5 – photo by OliM
Ben W. AFF Stage 6 – photo by Robin
Varun B-Rel 2 – photo by Toddy

13 fun jumpers arrived on Thursday, with 10 of them doing CRW jumps.


Friday and Saturday were blown away.


On Sunday there were still 82 fun jumpers here and again 19 loads went up.  Our Tandems today were Jenny and Brayden.

AFF students Brad did TAFF Stage 1, and Ben D. did Stages 1, 2 & 3, Ben P. & Ashlii did Stages 3 & 4,  Ben W. did AFF Stages 8 & 9, and Ryan did Stage 9 – completing their AFF Courses.  Congratulations!

MattBen C., Rebekah, and Bonnie all did B-Rel Coach jumps and Chris ran the Belly Bash event.

Jenny tandem – photo by Adrian
Ben D. TAFF Stage 1 – photo by Adrian
Ben D. AFF Stage 3 – photo Shelby
Ben P. AFF Stage 3 – photo by Weaver
Ben P. AFF Stage 4 – photo by Weaver
Ash AFF Stage 4 – photo by Shelby
Ben W. AFF Stage 9 – photo by Shelby
Matt B-Rel 6.1 – photo by Reece
Matt B-Rel 6.2 – photo by Reece
Matt B-Rel 6.3 – photo by Reece
Ben Canavan Refresher – photo by Adrian
Rebekah B-Rel 5 – photo by Toddy
Bonnie B-Rel 4 – photo by Toddy
James exit – photo by Reece
3 way canopy CRW – photo by Sara
4 way canopy CRW – photo by Sara

Belly Bash with Chris Dodds

Thanks for everyone who came out on Sunday for the August BellyBash! The jumps were challenging, the weather was perfect, and we managed to get 4 epic jumps in across the day! We were joined by 3 BellyBash newcomers – Kyiel, Jase and Sam – you guys smashed it!!

Huge thanks to Anna Van Der Vlugt for the awesome camera work, and for our amazing sponsors – Ramblers, TSC, SQPC, APF and Mee Loft!!

There will be no September BellyBash as we will be overseas, but join us for the next one on the 28th of October!!

Attendees: Chris Dodds & Dawn Adams, Anna Van Der Vlugt, Jase C., Adrian B., Aaron R., Tim R., Cherie B., Blaino, Kyiel C., Sam M., and Aaron B..

Belly Bash – Photo by Chris Dodds
Belly Bash – Photo by Chris Dodds
Belly Bash – Photo by Chris Dodds

See ya,

Macca and Team Ramblers.


Reviews & Visitor Book Comments

🌟 Leon: “Awesome!!  Oli is a legend.”


🌟 Mandy: “Amazing! Robin was great!.”

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