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Vector Festival Empuria 2009
Created to celebrate skydiving for the Europeans, The Vector Festival was open to all, whether you jumped a VECTOR rig or not. Load organising and entertainment was provided by VECTOR and all were invited to join in. The opportunity to have had all the Vector sponsored legends in the same place at once and for you to use and abusethem as much as possible was ALLOWED
Whether you want some point-turning-big-ways or get some serious freeflying going down, it was all there at the tips of a mainifest sheet!
Everybody loves statistics, here are some of the event.
Location: Skydive Empuriabrava Spain
Planes: 2 Twin otters: 1 Beech 99
Numbers: 348 participants registered.
Excluding organiser jumps, a total of
8.358 jumps over the week .
No weather holds.
No major incidents.
Load organisers: Babylon, Aria, Philippe Valaud, Patrick Passe, Pete Allum, Stephane Zunino.
Entertainment: Regan Tetlow party fun and DJ all evenings including tombola with major prizes, games and lots of giveaways as well as music from Dirty Jobs blues band , Anna Howerski and others, AND the daily video action contributed by all and edited by Will Penny & Vania Da Rui - view online at youtube on the Vector Festival channel
A small taster perhaps?
SO HOW WAS IT THEN?
After several years as a regular feature on the skydiving calendar, the Festival was formally hosted in France - this year VECTOR decided it was time to make a change of location and moved it to SKYDIVE Empuriabrava, Spain - Europe's premier skydiving centre was the obvious choice.
UPT's decision to move meant some changes in set up and scheduling, and a new venue for a well established event presented scope for new direction & fresh challenges for both sponsors and event hosts.
Run over a ten day period the multi-fly-style boogie attracted a large mix of nationalities and discipline of skydivers. ALL the sponsored established names, new stars and a few true legends were there, INVITED BY VECTOR TO BE AT YOUR SERVANTS FOR LOAD ORGANSING all for FREE...
Of course VECTOR sponsored team and Skydive Empuriabrava's own home grown world champions, the one and only BABYLON FREEFLY school acted as a FOCUS FOR FREEFLY alongside the extraordinary Philippe VALAUD, as well as the pride of Italy IPPO FABBI and his ARIA team. PATRICK PASSE'S big-way group was at the hub of the formation activity for much of the time flying 40-60 ways. world class RW with INNER RHYTHM'S Pete ALLUM, PD'S Brian Vacher was on hand offering advice and swoop and FLY YOUR BODY'S Stephane Zunino, coordinating wingsuit formations.
THE WEATHER WAS HERE AND THE YOU WERE GREAT ...
Pretty damn good - over all the ten days there were NO weather holds! An amazing hot sunny boogie meant that most people were happy and making LOTS OF SKYDIVES.
Comments straight from the UPT VECTOR PR DEPARTMENT :
"The Vector Festival still stands as Europe's biggest dedicated skydiving
event. All of us here at Vector WERE excited to bring you all the newest
developments in skydiving equipment and flying techniques for expo & scrutiny at the Festival. Many of you will know we work hard every day for you, if there is anything you would like to see at next year's event please feel free to CONTACT US and we can make your ideas happen :) " -UPT
BABYLON'S COMMENTS:
" Babylon enjoyed a fantastic summer season including, breaking the European Record at the very successful Babylon record event and attending the World Record, winning gold in the World Games in Taiwan and finishing up with the fantastic Vector Festival where the 350 participants made a total of 8358 jumps over a week - THANKS TO ALL for coming and making it so great, see you next year for more VECTOR FEST freeflying! "
CYPRES POINT OF VIEW...
AIRTEC'S big pink CYPRES 2 tent was a thing to behold. ROB and myself manned the gorgeous dome throughout the main days of the event. We were the envy of the skydiving trade community...
Using this fly fest both as an OPPORTUNITY for an AIRTEC trade show with tons of visitors eager to watch
the "CYPRES SAVES" video with ROB, CYPRES was also there to support their sponsored teams (BABYLON and others) during the week.
There was also the chance to modestly introduce the new - CYPRES APPAREL brand OF SKYDIVING CLOTHING - Whats that i hear you say?? CYPRES clothing ...yes ... here's the deal: AIRTEC AND OUTFACING ANNOUNCE THEIR NEW COLLABORATION ON THIS EXCITING CYPRES PROJECT! More on this coming soon on the all new CYPRES website www.CYPRES.cc
All in all it was a great week and thanks to the effort, energy and contribution made by all, we can safely state that for all involved it was a success indeed.
Over and out from Benigale * For more general skydiving blog, news & info; register at the CYPRES facebook site or go to the CYPRES website.