Skt. Hans Display: Fire, skydiving and free jumps this is not getting any better.

Tuesday we made another display this time in front of 500 people or more.  A RW site was arranging the local Skt. Hans fire with parachute and gymnastic display.

 

The display was also a raffle  the landing area was divided into squares with numbers so the spectators could buy tickets and where ever we landed the lucky spectators would win a cash money price.

We let off 2 jumpers with slow canopies in 3500 ft while they were flying down, Basse and me climbed to 8000 ft and made a hop’n pop.  After that we flew formation and made a nice spiral down over the landing area.

And just to show how PERFECT the Comp Velocity opens  look at this opening.

Perfect opening on a Comp velo 90

 

in 3000 ft Basse went on brakes and I went in for my setup and made a very nice 450 turn and a 90 carve into the landing area and the comments from the spectators was priceless. Lots of nice comments and applause.

Bo Landing

After me Basse was ready to land and he also made a nice turn but didn’t calculate with the slight downwind and only stopped ½ a meter in front of the crowd so the canopy landed among the spectators.. I guess he owns beer for that one.

Basse Landing

After we all landed we all packed the canopies and answered all the questions from the exited spectators. Especially 4 of the spectators was happy they all won 1000 Dkr. As usual there was a beer and some goodies for us after the display. Just after we landed the gymnastic display went on and of cause the bonfire was lid after the last display. Its just so much more fun to make a demo in this perfect conditions, and ending the day with a cold beer and a big fire.. Over and out……. :0)

Display jumping in Randers “RUN for Life” arranged by The Danish Cancer association.

We just made a display jump in the middle  of Randers city today. We were supposed to be 5 jumpers but because of the high wind, the 2 jumpers in Para foil choose to stay on the ground. The wind was 16 knots gusting 22. There was no obstacles in the landing direction so there was  no turbulence.

The landing area is the green area with the little white dot.

There was a lot of people and a orchestra playing in the background. The jump it self went pretty good I jumped first and after opening i flew a little together with Kim ”Turbo” Jensen i broke off first and was also the first to land. Marianne was the last to land and got a big applause from the audience.

Here is my landing recorded on a mobile phone..

Lots of AFF jumping and Tandems ;-)

The last  few weeks i have been jumping a lot of  Tandems and AFF to date i have 34 AFF jumps since i got my License and this weekend i graduated my first 2 students at level 1 to 7.

Sine Lysdahl

         

       

 

Jannie Houmann

They both did really well but i don’t know why they both got so surprised flying alone on level 4 that they forgot to do there 90 degree turns. but one thing is for sure they were very good at smiling, so i let them pass the level…  There have also been some students that wasn't that skilled tumbling on the back and generally just not being this nice. But the good training in Perris with Peter and Kim was very good so i can handle almost everything now .

I brought home a GoPro cam from Perris. This is a great invention a small camera in 5 mega pixel that comes standard with a 54 degree wide angle lens. I am using it for tandem stills and it is making some incredible good pictures.

Here is a link to my Facebook tandem album

GoPro tandem pictures