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 :-)
