Last Friday, July 23rd, we did the new Russian Headdown record 26 way! Congratulations to all participants! The event took place at my home dz “Aerograd Kolomna”.

Every year we have more and more good flyers, so next year we hope to go bigger. Lets try to beat 30!

Olga.

A Two Group Invitational Formation Skydiving Event at CPI

Saturday, July 31, 2010 (7AM to 7PM) - 5 Jumps - $150

On July 31, 2010, CYPRES Sponsored Ben Liston will be organizing a two group dueling 16-way event (32 participants plus video flyers) at Connecticut Parachutists, Inc.

The goal is to draw the best formation skydivers from the North East for a day of challenging sequential skydives and tons of fun. This will be a quasi invitational event, meaning that participants will have to fill out a short form to register to ensure the quality of the event. The event will have 5 structured jumps for the day, with optional additional jumps if there is time and interest. Each of the two groups will be led by two or more “team captains,” all of whom have won multiple medals at the US Nationals as members of the Golden Knights or Arizona Airspeed 16-way teams.
There will be a planned progression of dives that will grow in complexity/difficulty over the course of the day. Some will be national style sequential dives, others will require more intricate and delicate builds, and some with be challenging FS “tasks” you’ve never seen or heard of before. The kind of skills folks should have is at least a basic background in 4/8 way training and/or solid experience in 16-40 way events.  This will be a one day event, running from 7AM to 7PM. However, if the weather looks bad for Saturday and good for Sunday, I will make the call to run the event on Sunday, August 1st instead - this decision would happen on Friday, July 30. Therefore, all participants need to be available to come out on Sunday in case we have to change the event date for better weather. For folks that need it, you’ll have one weekend day free. Anyone interested in participating should send me a  completed registration form (email me: methodicalrigging@gmail.com) by May 30th. Rosters will be finalized by June 15th, and a non-refundable deposit of $75 will be due by July 1st. If weather prevents all or some of the jumps, a refund of $26 per jump will be issued. Food and T-shirts will be on site regardless of weather. The registration cost will include an event t-shirt, a Subway catered lunch, your five jumps, all the organization, a raffle ticket, and video. Still pictures will be available for purchase directly from the photographers and an edited video of all the jumps (both groups) will be available for free (via download) shortly after the event.

Event sponsors include: SkyVenture New Hampshire, Airtec GmbH (CYPRES2), United Parachute Technologies, Performance Designs, and Connecticut Parachutists, Inc.

Thanks for your interest. Email methodicalrigging@gmail.com if you have questions.

Blues,
Ben Liston

CYPRES Sponsored Team Arizona Arsenal, U.S. Vertical Formation Skydiving team, is conducting a fundraiser, with the help of their sponsors to raise funds to help go to the 2010 World Championships in Russia.

Arsenal is selling raffle tickets for a complete skydiving system.  The winner of this raffle will be outfitted from head to toe in skydiving equipment, jumps and tunnel time.  The prizes for this incredible raffle include:

• Choice of container from Rigging Innovations or Infinity

• Main canopy from Precision Aerodynamics

• Choice of  reserve canopy from Precision Aerodynamics or Icarus Canopies

• Choice of CYPRES 2 Expert or Speed

• Choice of helmet from Cookie Composites

• Choice of suit from Ouragan Suits

• Viso II and Optima II from L&B

• Sony CX110 HD Video Camera and Hypeye D Pro from Get Hypoxic

• 1 hour of tunnel time from SkyVenture Arizona

• 3 full days of unlimited jumping from Skydive Arizona

• 1 pair of skate shoes in your size

• Multipack of socks and underwear in your size

Arsenal is only selling a limited amount of these tickets.  150 tickets will be for sale for $100 each.  If you would like the chance to win this total skydiving package and in the process support Arsenal please contact Sara Curtis at sara@azarenal.com, or see any Arsenal member in person at Skydive Arizona.

The winner will be drawn at the 2010 USPA Nationals. You do not have to be present to win.

Check out the team website for more info here

Blog entry brought to you by CYPRES sponsored Cameron Rolfe

The Australian Canopy Piloting Nationals 2010 are now complete. This year the competition was made up of twenty six competitors in the open class and nine in the intermediate category. This year was the closest ever result for first place overall with a mere 7 points separating first and second place. In the end Robbie McMillan came out on top to win his first CP Nationals in Australia.

Cameron Rolfe from Team Horizon finished in second place overall with Kaz Sheekey from Slipstream Airsports coming in third.

Airtec Sponsored Pilots Cameron Rolfe and Michael Vaughan bought home 4 of the 12 medals on offer.
Now that the competition is over we are now setting our sights for Russia and representing Airtec at the 2010 World Championships in Canopy Piloting to be held this August.

Overall Results:

Rob McMillian-Gold
Cameron Rolfe-Silver
Kaz Sheekey-Bronze
4 Michael Vaughan
5 Gary Hamilton
6 Alex Nelson
7 Shane Price
8 Cameron Jarrett

Open Zone Accuracy:

Gary Hamilton-Gold
Kaz Sheekey-Silver
Cameron Rolfe-Bronze

Open Distance:

Kaz Sheekey-Gold
Rob McMillian-Siver
Gary Hamilton-Bronze

Open Speed:

Cameron Rolfe-Gold
Rob McMillian-Silver
Michael Vaughan-Bronze

Intermediate Overall:

Ben Lewis-Gold
Daniel Smith-Silver
Alex Kaiserman-Bronze

Congratulations to all those who competed!

Check out what Mikey Carpenter, Adam Mattacola and Alberto Fuertes of team Volare have been getting up to this year. Action from Summerfest, Boogieman Fever and the Funshine Boogie, as well as the Lodi Sequentials and the Euro Record. The World Games in Taiwan, the World Cup in Czech Republic and the 108 way Freefly World Record.

For more info check out volareproflight dot com

This just in………Fly like brick hit us with their latest wingsuit video…… Enjoy!

CYPRES sponsored team Volare beat all to take Gold at the World cup in Czech Republic

Well done Guys!!

Photo Credit: Daniel Parker

CYPRES sponsored 4 way RW team Hayabusa win first place at the CISM ( Conseil International du Sport Militaire).

And AGAIN setting a Army world record Average of 33 points!!

Picture credit: Danny Jacobs

Jarno from Team fly like brick just sent in the team’s latest video.

Enjoy!