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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Yes I'm still alive, with a blog post to prove it
Laura and I at emerald pools
laura show's everyone whats up jumping the 50footer and side flooping:) she was a trooper about it.
I have enrolled back in university; so I'm back in school. I'm very excited about that. Nearly all of it is online so I can still got hard for the next year or two after that I might have to take it easy for a bit. I'll have work extra hard to find time to do my school work and stay diligent about getting it all done. But I'm confident I'll be able to manage it.
This season at home in Reno was epic to say that least. For several reasons, the main reason was a two new friends, Jeff Galvin and Graham Johns moved here from the Outer banks(Along with their girl friends witch most of you know Lauren and Dana) chasing the dream of big flying and skiing. We all clicked in right away and became close friends. The 3 of us had some epic trips flying, climbing, cliff jumping, partying. surely a summer I'll never forget. Jeff ended up working for me and being a major part of my success helping me do a record number of tandem flights! Thanks bro. On a side note his is working on his tandem rating(should be getting his T1/T2 any day now) and will be in the SB area this winter Hopefully doing tandem flights! He's a super cool guy with a great attitude and very willing to learn and always wanting to progress. He's also a great pilot very talented. He also has his sights set on the comp scene so everyone will be hearing more about him soon I'm sure.
"The Flock" Graham-me-Jeff
My business was booming this season; as I said I did a record number of flights I haven't counted yet to get a official number but its near 100. We flew tandems every flyable day we had! I was Really happy to see my hard work start paying off. We ran super smooth and appeared very professional both of us wore "uniforms" consisting of Polo Thermal Sky Sports shirts with "flight instructor" on the back :-). I was amazed how just one small change of shirts made a difference on how people viewed us. I learned tons working with curt warren(www.warrenwindsports.com.au)last and was able to apply it to my business.
Again I was also working Valet at the local casino in the evenings and at night. mostly for fun to keep me busy. But it made things pretty manic, often flying tandems all day then driving right from the LZ into work.
Graham atop Crystal Peak at Indian valley
It wasn't all work and no play, I have flown a few comps since last time you heard from me.
When I left AU I flew to brazil and did the andadras comps. This was my first comp in BR last year we got rained out nearly everyday. But this year was a different story we had great conditions everyday of the comp.
Then off to Florida where I meet up with Curt, Lou, Wiley. A few other fridley ozzy's were there Dave May aka sugar bear, fireman, beefcake.. most recently known as gerbil 1 and also Kathern.
I ended up only flying the Rob Kells comp. On the first day of that my vario died as I was starting on the last start. So the comps was over for me before it even started. But I still had a great time.
I ended up driving for Gerbil 1 and James Stinnit for the rally. We had lots of laughs and more fun than we knew what to do with.
Texas was a roller coaster of events. I had a few good days followed by equally as bad days. but it was still great flying with good friends that I haden't seen in a long time. I was teamed up with Glenn Volk, Dangerous Dave Gibson and Joe Bostik with Jeff driving for us. It was lots of fun.
Now I'm about to leave for AZ for the santa cruz flats comp then to florida to visit family then Australia for another great season with the crew!
Me-Ninja-Jeff
Jeff bring up the tail
a few of my favorite tandem shots from this year
This guy was committed to running all the way off the hill :-)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Cupping
Cupping has been dated back to around 1,550 BC in Egypt, China, and Greece, I hadn't heard of it till I saw karate Kid(the new one with Will Smith's son) but any ways seems as it's not just Jackie Chan that does it.
Yesterday Curt and I went over and got some work done. Greg did a few things 1 was some electric shock therapy then a short message and finished with putting the cups on. What it does is pulls the blood out of the mussel thus creating blood flow to the mussel. I was pretty sore after but it was a good soar. This morning I woke up and felt great, it really made the difference!
They can leave some pretty wicked bruises! :-)
Monday, April 11, 2011
Last week we had a day off from flying tandems and teaching students so Jonas, Curt and I blitzed up to Canberra for our last "crew flight" of this season. As usual Canberra served up some good flying. I ended up pinching a nerve first glide out of takeoff so I turned around and landed in the Main LZ but the rest of the guys got a nice flight in.
Stanwell served up an epic day, After tandems Steve asked me to test fly the new litesport 5 so I took it out for a session down the coast to Bulli.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
vertical circles
A few weeks ago after a day of tandem flying the boys and and I went out to blow off some steam on the litespeeds. I have had a nose boom mount sitting around so I decided to put it on and go get loose. I was a bit nervous as I didn't counter wait the boom; but I figured it wasn't a big deal as I only had a HD gopro out on the end. I ened up getting some pretty sweet shoots.
I was pretty scatched on the first loop because I wasn't sure how the glider would fell with a 5ft boom hanging out the front but it was all good. All I noticed was I had a little less pitch feed back.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
John Montagu
John Montagu was the 4th Earl of Sandwich He was born 3 November 1718.
Not only was John Montagu and drop dead sexy man but he also had the the smarts to back it up. He's known and beloved by all wether you know it or not. If you like food between two slices of bread aka sandwich you can thank John! Now this is not confirmed but it's said that he has invented the sandwich of bread and meat while at the gambling table:-/...
He also had a quite successful political career as Secretary of state for the northern department, Lord of admiralty, and Postmaster General.
ve to say he was a salty salty dog, he had an affair with a very accomplished Opera singer Martha Ray. He also fathered as many as 9 children but 5 are irradicable. One of whom was a very talented philanthropist!
I believe this photo is what got him caught (photo taken from google)
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