We were pleased to conduct another USPA Coach Rating course during June 29-30, 2011 at Skydive Lillo in Spain. The participant Ricardo Noval from Spain achieved his goal and managed to passed the course with flying colours! Congratulations to you and welcome to the world of USPA Coaches! Have fun in working with your future fellow skydivers!

Yet again we congratulate our Team Member Julian Barthel for a round number! He did his Jump number 500 as Camera flyer for his Brother`s first Tandem Jump! Congratulations to the two of them!

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One of the requirements for the USPA B-license is the life water training which can be underestimated at times.  If you like to jump close to the beach or even participate in beach jumps, the water training is definitely a must. During our stay at GFFC (Greek Freefall Club) we gathered a group of 7 skydivers together who were interested in getting their B-license achievement. All skydivers passed the training and besides the fact that they learned a lot, we also had a lot of fun! Thanks guys for participating!

Check out also the video made by John Vlachiotis following the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ViaXIp_Eyw – Thank you John for that as well!

While in Skydive Lillo, we also conducted a Tandem Rating course and we are pleased to announce that all candidates passed the course. We give a special congratulation to Cornelia Mihaifor being the very first Romanian female Tandem Instructor! Our dearest congratulations to all the new USPA Tadem Instructors:

– Cornelia Mihai (Romania)
– Demos Marifoglou (Greece)
– Hervé Manigas (France)
– Roberto Elena (Spain) (conversion)

Congrats to all of you and good luck with your future tandem  students/passengers! We thank Skydive Lillo for their great hospitality during the course and we thank and appreciate the assistance of our own Joachim Groneberg and Julian Barthel during the course.

We were back in Skydive Lillo, Spain for a Coach Course and are happy to announce that both candidates were well prepared and delivered an outstanding performance. Hats off and thumbs up to the new USPA Coaches:

– Roberto Elena (Spain) 
– Hervé Manigas (France)

Congratulations for the great performance and good luck with your future Students!

Another celebration deserves broadcasting: our team member Julian Barthel is on the run and just exceeded the 400 jump-hurdle. Julian, you have been busy in the sky over the last weeks! Well done and congratulations from us all! Happy 400!!

It has been done!! Congratulations to Gary Johnson (UK) for his AFF course completition! Well done! Now, welcome to the skydiving world and let the real fun begin! 🙂

We are pleased to go “back to the roots” and to conduct another USPA Coach Rating Course at Skydive Jumpzone in Kührstedt, Germany. The three candidates were looking forward to this opportunity and to get started in the skydiving instructional area. We are happy to be a part of it and congratulate:

– Rudy Manente
– Rainer Schrief
– Olaf Duden

Thank you for your participation and good luck with your rating. Also, we thank Skydive Jumpzone and especially Toni and Peter for their hospitality!

During our stay at Skydive Fano, we were also pleased to conduct a USPA AFF Instructor Course during May 12-17, 2011. We did not manage to get 100% success rate but we will retry in the near future for those candidates who did not achieve their goal. In the meantime we thank you all for participation and congratulate the following new USPA AFF Instructors:

– Andrea Cardinali
– Enrico Scalini (conv)
– Roberto Saddi (conv)

Once more THANK YOU to Sebsatiano and Livio for the assistance and the hosting of this course. It was a pleasure training with you and we really enjoyed our stay! See you again soon at the beautiful Skydive Fano!