This page contains Freefall University News from Lillofor June 2005. It is updated every three days.
1.06.05
Derrick Oliver from London has joined us for an AFF course and is training with Luci Boella. He has completed his first four levels.
We have just recieved a batch of parachute equipment ordered through ourselves for various students who trained with the Freefall University. You can tell Barry had a hand in Richard O Neills order from the colours of the rig.
James Piddington who trained with the Freefall University was back in Lillofor some mid week jumping.
Congratulations to Alba Ferro from the UK who completed his AFF course and started to jump solo. Alba did a number of static line jumps before deciding he wanted to qualify in a short space of time.
Welcome also to Nick Smith who works in IT and lives in London. Nick never jumped before but knew that it was something he wanted to do. He is training with Steven.
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02.06.05
Also back with us for a second skydiving holiday having trained last November is Malcom O´Neill. ( Richards Dad ) .
Malcolm has also collected a set of equipment from us and is now the proud owner of an Aerodyne System.
Nadia Bentoulia from Bournemouth has joined us to take an introduction to skydiving. She is pictured here training with Luci Boella. Having enjoyed her introduction ( AFF level one ) she will be back next weekend to continue the course. Nadia is currently teaching english in Madrid and will learn with us over the coming weekends.
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Malcolm and Richard O Neill attended this weekends packing seminar and have now packed their own parachutes and jumped those packjobs...trusting your own work in this vital department is a milestone. Both reported soft on heading openings on their new Pilots from Aerodyne.
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03.06.05
David Lloyd joined us for a weeks jumping. He was our very first student and has reached 400 jumps in total. David skydives only in sunny climates and has been working most recently on his freefall photography.
Another graduate back for a weeks jumping with us was Brian Hughes who was here for another weeks jumping. Brian qualified to skydive solo with us in April.
Congratulations to Nick Smith who today passed his AFF course and begun jumping solo.
Also back with us for a weeks holiday is Shane Parkinson who trained with us in early 2004. Shane jumps in the Irish Parachute club.
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06.06.05
Ok theres lots going on at the Freefall University this week..
Pictured here is Neil Munro from the UK who is learning to skydive with us. Neil is training with Luci Boella captain of our formation skydiving team.
Derrick Olivier has completed his AFF course in only two days of jumping. He completed his ten solo or consolidation jumps in two days and has now started his formation skydiving course with Mike Worthington. This brings him to twenty five jumps overall in five days.
This is a nice moment for the Freefall University also as Mike Worthington is one of our graduates from last year and is the first of our students to get a skydiving job in our school ( having qualified as a British Parachute Association - BPA FS coach ) . Congratulations to both Mike and Derrick.
Simon Glover who completed his beginner aff course with us last month is back already to do his formation skydiving course.
Ronan Kellegher from Cork , Ireland who is here to learn to skydive has completed his AFF level one.
Ian Higgins from Scotland has also completed his first jump today. He is here to learn to skydive with his Brother David pictured below.
09.06.05
Congratulations to David Higgins who has completed his AFF in two days. David now begins to jump solo. He is pictured here a split second after a " tuck " exit on his graduation dive. The aim of this exit is to demonstrate ´ recovery ´ from a non stable orientation.
Congratulations to Derrick Oliver who has completed 40 skydives in 8 days. Here is a picture from his qualification dive for his BPA FS1 qualification. He completed a four way with Mike Worthington, Pablo Hernandez and Martin Kristensen . Derrick eight days ago didnt know how to skydive...
Derrick is on the bottom right of the picture.
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10.06.05
Congratulations to Joan Madsen from Denmark who completed her AFF course with us after three days of jumping. Joan originally did 3 static line ( RAPS )jumps but became frustrated with the weather and contacted us about an AFF course.
Welcome to Capt. Andrew Shinnick who has joined us to get " current " again after a two year break.
Andrews ambition for himself was to " jump the sh*t out of it " ! ( Translated this means getting as many jumps as possible...
If you have had a long break , we can get you back in the air after some refresh training.
Also joining us for a skydiving holiday is Liam Guy who is from the UK and has about 70 jumps. Initially Liam has being doing some formation skydiving. Dennis.. hes having a ball.
Congratulations also to David O´Regan from Ireland who graduated our AFF course to jump Solo.
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12.06.05
Welcome to Anil Patel from the UK who is here to learn to skydive. Anil joins us with no previous experience and is training with Luci Boella.
Also joining us having done a number of static line jumps in Skydive Strathalan in Scotland is Graeme Reid. Greame did three jumps before deciding to come to us for continuation training.
Also Welcome To Joel Gluth who is hear to learn to skydive solo with us. Joel did some of course a few years ago in Australia. He originally researched AFF in the UK and decided on the Freefall University as he could com bine his course with a holiday.
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