Its been a while

A lot have happen since I wrote last. I arranged the Danish  swoop nationals and I got 2. place in accuracy and 6. overall because I missed 2 gates in distance. Shit happens.

I also attended the EST in Bussloo Holland it was my first real comp and I was there to learn finished 16 out of 23 made 3 zeros so it was no where near my normal standards. again shit happens.

In between all this Jesper and Maria got married and it was a great wedding actually I have newer seen so meany skydivers dressed up so nicely at one time.

Next week I am going to Swartberg for the last European swoop comp the weather here in Denmark haven't been swoop friendly so there haven't been much training for this event but we will show up on Friday morning and hope to get some jumps in.

But when its not swoop weather its usually Weather for something else and Tandems I one of them so I have been jumping tandems every weekend the last 3 weeks making some bucks and making a lot of people happy that's the best part of  jumping tandems you take a person with you up the plane that's a little nervous and when we land they are completely changed and happy.

   

Wingsuiting I just got my new Xwing from Birdman a prototype wingsuit with big wings really big wings the first flight the leg wing was flapping like crazy so I went to my sewing machine and started modifying the suit and now the suit is flying pretty well i still would like to have more air pressure in the arm wings but i think its fine by now.

The Upcoming event in Elsinore is the next goal after Swartberg we are going to try to build a 71 way wingsuit formation. so I will be going to Perris 1 of November to do a week of swoop training after this i am headed for Elsinore with Benny and Mette for the record attempt. As soon as the attempt is over I am flying directly to south Africa for the World championships in swooping. I will have a few days training there before the comp and I guess that's needed because the elevation of the DZ is 4000 feet above sea level. So it will take a little adapting to get used to the higher altitude.  But I am so looking forward for this trip 26 days with no work just swooping and wingsuiting that cant be much better... World championships

Ohh almost forgot i also made 8 belly jumps this year that makes it 15 totally the last 4 years. But I was invited to join the Danish 60 way record attempt organized by Kate cooper I was at my spot every time but that didn't help the record that ended up as a 58 way with 2 out as the best.  Must say Kate is a very impressive organizer. She sees everything it was actually quiet fun attending  in the big way and seeing all the poor trackers we have here in Denmark or maybe I am just good Muahahhhaaaaa.

Skyswoopers Wingsuit week day 4

After 3 days of fine flying both from experienced flyers and the  2 new Birds Alex (Mr Tunnel rat himself) And Webber. We had a lot of wind today. We only made 4 lift but it was the ultimate test for Bjørn who was on he's first 5 way flock with Big success.

Thinking of 5 wingsuiters Exiting a Cessna 182 where only 3 can be on the wing and still getting a nice flock together is pretty ok.

We finished the day going to the beach for a few hours and after that SUSHI SUSHI, how perfect can a day be even the wind is too high.

As a side note I can say that Alex just made a bet with Benny that he can fly controlled on he's back after just 10 training jumps. I volunteered to be he's personal coach. More about that later.

Here is 2 frame grabs from Bjørns 5 way today Fifth is the camera man.

In the pic is Benny Bjørn Mette And Bo video is Kim

Skyswoopers wingsuit week Day 1.

Today we had the first day of the Skyswoopers wingsuit week.

Benny had a First flight course with Webber who did 2 very good jumps with Benny and one mighty fine 4 way.   Bjørn Barfoed  Had 3 jumps with Bo and Mette  getting the flight style fine tuned.

Due to clouds we had to stop doing high jumps and started swooping on the pond that we have fine tuned with distance lane and new wind blades, All set for the upcoming Swoop nationals.

Training week for the Danish Nationals in Swooping

Team Dark side of the Pond  is hosting a training week with Skyswoopers. We are having a week of fun mostly Wingsuiting on every level from beginners to advanced 3D flying, come and do what ever you like.

The accuracy lane will be set up all week and for distance just swoop your ass off.  We will  film all landings and there will be debriefing of all landings while packing. There will be a free beer to all that is landing IN the pond.

For registration pl's send a mail to bo@njfk.dk. There is also a Event on Facebook that you can use for registration as you like.

Swoop is up

Karup Airshow

This weekend I attended Karup Airshow as a part of the opening of the biggest Danish Airshow. We jumped out of the tail of the new Danish military/rescue Helicopter a Merlin EH101 its a DAMM cool chopper but the tail is so steep its not a good idea exiting it with slippery wingsuit booties and a lid smoke grenade. But I managed to get out the HELI unstable and since its a rescue helicopter they are able to transmit live to the ground. So guess what they filmed me tumbling for about 4-5 sec before I started flying against the landing area...

While I was flying I noticed that I was pretty far away from the landing area and passed both the tandem 2 solo jumpers and the 8 way that just exited before me and I still had a hard time getting home . I actually was among the only 4 people landing in front of the audience  so I guess that's  Danish military precision when its best....

But anyway it was a perfect jump and I did what I did what I was hired to do so I am happy.

 

I also made a exhibition for my work 2 weeks ago landing in my Velo 103 with smoke and all the kids was astonished about us landing in just some fabric...

And the winner is.......MEEE...

At the DFU open competition held at Maribo this weekend I attended the second speed precision competition this year. And this time I waited with my show off landings till the end of the competition where I couldn't loose no matter what I did. But I scored pretty fine anyway and had a total of 160 cm and almost 27 meters to the second place. so I guess the competition wasn't that hard there was only 4 other competitors in that class but any way....I WON wheeeee

Besides the competition I don't know why but I ended up packing for 2 video guys for the FS competition and 2 of the jumpers while I still had to pack and jump my own Canopy. So I was pretty busted at the end of the day. Maybe that's also the reason I had a hard time standing straight and talk right at the end of the night. Or maybe it was something else?????

While packing I also made a new packer. Tina Ellingsgaard packed here student canopy all day long for 3 days and is now allowed to pack here own canopy. "Don't tell the video guy DW that Tina packed he's Velocity 84 2 times" But I heard no complaints so I guess they was approved.

Not exactly what we had expected but we had a great time in SPA

The Competition is almost over we have done all our rounds. and we finished last;o(

The main reason for the bad result is us not  being able to train together for the last 2 month Mette just lost 10 Kg and I gained 5 so on the first 3 jumps I fucked up the video. When I finally ate my pride and borrowed a Phoenix fly STEALTH wingsuit that had wing area to keep me up with Benny and Mette they were not able to perform in the 2 last rounds.

Tony suit and Phoenix fly were supreme in this competition and won over the rest with a BIG distance to fly like brick that came in Third. But I think that the difference between the 2 teams and the rest of us is that they were skydiving (falling RW style) for there points. And all the other teams have been flying for there points witch look a lot nicer but takes more time.

Tomorrow I will fly some more in the STEALTH suit and experience how the suit is flown when I don't need to focus on the competition. BUT one thing is for sure the suit SUCKS at pull time