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Here you'll be able to look at some news on different topics, including news about sports. IPC
Dive Pools 2005
Changes
to the IPC / FAI Formation Skydiving Rules for 2005 (Explanatory Notes)
Competition
Rules for Formation Skydiving in 2005 - IPC
/ FAI (effective from May 01, 2005)
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Source: Skydiving - Parachuting's Newsmagazine, August 2004
On 29 January the Government of the Republic of Slovenia held the 59. regular session. It was confirmed that the project Air theatre-Municipality of Bovec will be one of the main events in the Republic of Slovenia due to accessing Slovenia into EU.
Official Bulletin Nr. 2 (Feb 13, 2004) Until now there are still open slots for the following 9 countries: Austria, Cyprus, France, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain. The slots for the remaining 16 countries are already filled. All those interested in participating at this event, knowing more about it or place any additional question, please contact Jaka Benedik through any of the following: E-Mail:
skydiving@airtheatre.com Changes to the IPC / FAI Formation Skydiving Rules for 2004 (Explanatory Notes) Competition Rules for Formation Skydiving in 2004 - IPC / FAI (effective from May 01, 2004 and valid until Apr 30, 2005) FAI Sporting Code - Section 5 (Regulations for Sport Parachuting) (2003 Edition - effective since May 01, 2003) On February 08, 2003, the 4-Way Formation Skydiving Team "Matrix FS", ceased all its activity. To read the Communication issued by the Team, about the ending of its activity on that date, click here.
Thursday December 12 - Day 6(...) Jump 3: WE DID IT!!!! Held for 7.02 seconds. Place: Skydive Arizona at Eloy, Arizona - E.U.A. Local Time: 04:30 pm. On the 13th jump of the event (4th jump with this roster)!!! To have access to the 300-Way Record skydive participants by alphabetical order, slot assignment and jumpsuit color, click here.
300-Way overview To see the formation in a larger size, including the name of each skydiver, click on the above picture (picture author: Jason Peters); after the new web page opens, to see each skydiver's name in the formation, just slide your mouse pointer over each of them.
300-Way overview (photo by Jason Peters)
300-Way seen from below (Norman Kent courtesy)
Click here to watch the Video (RTP-1 courtesy) It's absolutely
true that institutions survive through time, people pass by and only death
is final...
Due to radical changes in some of the conditions that have lead to the creation of the 4-Way Formation Skydiving Team "Matrix FS" on December 05, 2001, which have made impossible its continuity with the original line-up, the Team has ceased all its activity on September 13, 2002, a truly "Friday 13"... Institutions survive through time, people pass by and only death is final... Because I've been involved a lot on this Team's creation, putting the best of my knowledge on its project building and giving so much of my will and both mental and time availability during the 283 days that have last for, I'm truly sad on this feeling of watching the fading away of a dream consisting on the belief that the best way to learn and improve Formation Skydiving skills is through the best tool known for this purpose: a Formation Skydiving Team... At this point, it's hardly emotional having to admit the failure, mainly when this is related with something that we love so much and where we've put so much commitment in order to ensure the goals achievement... It's unavoidable the question about what may have failed... All of us have failed, because all of us were in the project and this has been interrupted... May be we have failed as well because we have tried to implement and apply working methods that, although are references for so many teams that were successful on applying them and from them getting excellent results in terms of their performance evolution, for some of our mentalities probably have not been the more adequate... However, I still believe that those are valid methods... The problem has been within ourselves, on the people, on the mentalities, on the impossibility of forgetting the own for the Team, on being unsuccessful about practicing some basic principles, as those shown at articles like Forming a Team, Goals, PEDL - Planning, Execution, Debriefing, Learning, Team Communication, Team Dynamics, Understanding Your Slot, just to mention some... The end of this project as it has lasted until now, has resulted from the perception that is better to admit a mistake than keep insisting on it... Believing that the methods were good and adequate and admitting as well that all of us have contributed for this time "Matrix FS" project failure, it's obvious the conclusion that what didn't work properly was the people combination within the Team, as it has failed the conclusion of the goals initially planned... It could have worked fine if together we had put a stronger effort for its success... as that didn't happen, we'll never know the truly Team's potential... The work done and organized won't, for sure, be destroyed and, who knows, might be used and even improved in the future, working as a reference for some of those who have participated in this Team's project and to all of those who have some type of interest about 4-Way FS, in Portugal and all over the World... See you around, forever! New video of the portuguese "BASE Jumper" Mário Pardo, regarding his journey to the Switzerland mountains, last August 2002. "Arizona Airspeed Mind Maps 2003" (Recently released)
Another outstanding tool available to 4-Way Formation Skydiving Teams, based on the Arizona Airspeed Continuity Plan and on the 4-Way Formation Skydiving IPC Dive Pool 2002! It's an Interactive CD-ROM which allows instant access to LIVE-ACTION VIDEO of every exit and block transition, and among other features, uses a VIRTUAL VIDEOGRAPHER to fly around the formations and see the dive pool from every angle, uses a Mário Pardo achieved last Saturday, July 13, 2002, around 10:00 AM, the legitimate right to be known as the first portuguese B.A.S.E. jumper, when he succeeded to get his "A" remaining letter. The letters of the word B.A.S.E. stand for Building, Antenna, Span and Earth. The B.A.S.E. jump here noticed, has been executed from the Rádio Renascença retransmitting Antenna, located at Muge (between Almeirim and Benavente, in the district of Santarém). This antenna is the highest antenna in Europe (being 265 meters high), only superseded, in terms of metallic structure, by the Eiffel Tower with its 324 meters. This B.A.S.E. jump, classified by the own Mário Pardo as his consecration jump, has had a delay time of about 5.60 seconds (since the exit from the top of the antenna until the moment of the pull-out), including a 360ş forward looping manoeuver, during the freefall phase. If you'd like more information about the jump, please look at the Press Release. You'll be able to watch at the video (with a duration of 2m27s) of this jump, by clicking on the following hyperlink: Mário Pardo BASE Jump - Antenna of Muge (13Jul02) The video is in Windows Media Player format (*.wmv). Just in case you don't have such software, you can get it at:
Turn
on your speakers, to listen to the video Remark: For an Internet connection through a 55.6 Kbps Modem, the estimated time for the video download is of, approximately,12 minutes (the first time). Once it has been watched (or downloaded) completely, the next accesses will be immediate. New World Record in 4-Way Formation Skydiving - Last Sunday, July 7, 2002, during one of the Meets for the French Cup 2002 in 4-Way Formation Skydiving, held at Pujaut (France), "France Maubeuge NPC" Skydiving Team established a new World Record, scoring 42 points within 35 seconds of working time. The achievement occurred during round 8, with the following draw: B-F-L-A-N (Stairstep Diamond-Open Accordian-Adder-Unipod-Crank). Team Members are as follows (to send an e-mail, click on the photo or on the respective name):
You'll be able to consult the Team's web site at http://www.4france.net/. The performance is currently being reviewed by the FAI and will become official once that process is complete. The previous record is officially held by Arizona Airspeed (U.S.A.), with 39 points for the page M-O-H-B-P (Bundy-Satellite-Opal-Stairstep Diamond-Sidebody), as previously mentioned at the FAI web site:
G-2-C : Formation Skydiving, longest sequence (4-Way) : 39
formations
From left to right: Mark KIRKBY (tail), Jack H. JEFFERIES (point), Steve NOWAK (cameraflyer), Kirk S. VERNER (outside center) and Daniel BRODSKY-CHENFELD (inside center). Aérokart - New vertical wind tunnel in France, nearby Paris, with the official opening to the public on May 23, 2002. This will be one of the privileged training places for the French National Formation Skydiving Teams, aiming at the 15th World Parachuting Championship in Formation Skydiving, which will be held at Gap-Tallard (France) from September 07 until 14, 2003. SkyVenture acquires Tunnelcamp.com - Within SkyVenture firm's expansion plans throughout several U.S.A. states (including Arizona) and abroad, budgeted as $ 7.65 Million USD, Alan Metni becomes its new CEO (Chief Executive Officer). La mia esperienza del “tubo” - Excelent article (in italian) of my friend Igor Galvan, revealing his thoughts and emotions about a dream which came true: the possibility of "flying" with the Formation Skydiving world champions (Arizona Airspeed), "feeling" himself as one of them, during the Airspeed Tunnel Camps he has attended at SkyVenture, Orlando (Florida - U.S.A.). Airspeed 300 Mission: from December 07th up to the 21st, 2002, a big way record attempt will be held at Maceio - Brazil. The organization of the 300-Way is a task of Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, Jack Jefferies and George Jicha. For more informations click on both the photo below and 300-Way.com (World Record 300-Way Official Site).
Skydive Portugal DZ will be closed for the following periods: from May 24, 2002 (Fri) up to June 06, 2002 (Thu) and from June 24, 2002 (Mon) up to September 05, 2002 (Thu). 2002 World Cup of Formation Skydiving - BJ Worth, IPC President, announced (on March 18th, 2002) the choice of the hosting nation for the 2002 World Cup of Formation Skydiving. Following the recent withdrawal of Portugal to organize this event, 5 nations have submitted their bids: Austria, Italy, Spain, Russia and U.S.A.. The choice wasn't an easy one, as all the bids have included many positive attributes, but by majority vote of the IPC Bureau, Spain was chosen to host this event. Being so, the 2002 World Cup of Formation Skydiving will be simultaneously the 2002 Open European Championship in Formation Skydiving, from October 04-10, 2002, at the Centre de Paracaigudisme Costa Brava, Empuriabrava, Girona (Spain). The aircraft for the event will be the Twin Otter. Craig Girard's words after the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2002 Meeting, in Formation Skydiving, held at DeLand, Florida (U.S.A.), on March 16 and 17, 2002: "We came here and performed as good as never before in our team history. There is no reason to be disappointed if this is not good enough to win. Somebody must have been incredibly good to beat us." Meeting Results for the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2002, on Formation Skydiving - DeLand, Florida (U.S.A.) - March 16 and 17, 2002.
DeLand Majik and Airspeed Vertical after round 10 (Standing up, from left to right: John Eagle, Gary Smith, Neal Houston, Solly Williams, Marc Steinbaugh, Craig Girard and Doug Park; down, from left to right: Mark Kirkby and Joey Jones) FS-4 Team "DeLand Majik", comprising Solly Williams, Gary Smith, Joey Jones and Doug Park, took 1st place at the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2002 Meeting, during the weekend of March 16 and 17, 2002, beating the current World Champions, the 4-Way Team "Airspeed Vertical", with an outstanding average of 22.6 points in 10 rounds, which became a new world record. The draw was as follows: 1st jump: 12-H-2; 2nd jump: J-L-G-D-P; 3rd jump: 6-Q-C-B; 4th jump: K-N-7-16; 5th jump: F-A-14-M; 6th jump: 5-13-15; 7th jump: 18-3-10; 8th jump: 9-19-8; 9th jump: 17-4-22; 10th jump: 11-O-21. "Airspeed Vertical" 4-Way Team placed 2nd, with a nearly as amazing average of 22.3 points, which would be as well, without the exceptional "DeLand Majik" performance, a new world maximum itself for a 10 round competition. It was a competition weekend at the highest quality level of the FS-4 performed all around the world! "Best of Airspeed Video" - An awesome video production, where nothing was forgotten or hidden. Structured to be one of the best 4-Way Formation Skydiving Team's training tools I've ever had access, this videotape shows us, once again, the Airspeed at their best level: training and competing hard, but having fun! It's the confirmation of both their trademark and their philosophy (The Airspeed "Open Book"), in a constant attitude of sharing their lives and experiences as world-class competition athletes with the 4-Way Formation Skydiving lovers all around the World. For sure, you won't regret the U.S. Dollars spent to buy this videotape... "Visualizing": New Article posted on Mar 06th, 2002 at Articles on FS. New Perris-Maubeuge's Web Site. 2003 Goals for the French 4-Way FS Team "France Perris-Maubeuge". 2002 Valentine's Money Meet Results - Eloy, Arizona (U.S.A.) - Feb 16 and 17, 2002. FS-4 Schedule of Competitions for 2002, in Portugal. FAI Sporting Code - General Section FAI Sporting Code - Section 5 (Regulations for Sport Parachuting) Competition Rules for Formation Skydiving 2002 - IPC / FAI.
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On
1 May 2004,
one of the most important turning points in the history of Slovenia, i.e.
the accession to the European Union, the Municipality of Bovec and Bovec
Airport under the protection of Mayor Danijel Krivec,
will host an event beyond comparison to symbolically celebrate this great
moment. By the Idea of Mr. Marijan Mlekuž up there in
the sky, 4.000 m high above on a thousand year old crossing of the
Germans, Romans and Slavs a parachuting theatre will take place to express
in a variety of ways the symbolism of the merger between the European
Union and the ten associated member states.
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