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Andy, I would love to say count me in but we will be at the Nationals in Eloy. Bummer. I will have to catch up with you guys next season. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Guano(Peter Galli, Chris Salcone, Scott Meeker) /Elsinore Eclipse (Andy Malchiodi), Craig Amrine(Camera) will be showing up for the show. I have a feeling Mandarine will be there. That Arizona Arenal gang from the last meet looks like they will be there. They looked pretty good posting the highest average to date. I've heard of a lot of other teams and hope they can make it to to support the event. It's what we would like to compete in instead of artistic. Its a lot of fun and easier at some many levels for competition reasons. Hope to see a ton of teams for the event. Ciao, www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

When: Saturday July 22nd Where: SkyDance SkyDiving, Davis, CA Guano Freefly is heading to the World Championship August 6th-10th in Gera Germany to represent the United States for Freefly. Last October Guano placed 3rd at the FAI World Cup in one of the closest competitions in freefly history. Now we have our rematch. Guano Freefly is fresh off a Silver medal finish at the 2005 U.S. Nationals, Bronze at 2005 FAI World Cup, Eloyand we have your support to thank for it. Thank you to all who have watched us train hard all weekend when we would have liked to jump with you. Thank you to everyone who donated money, packjobs, and lunch to keep us training hard. And thank you for all of the encouragement and motivation throughout our past seven years. We have come a long way but our sights are set higher. We are the sole team to represent the U.S. for freefly at the World Championship.. This is our chance to show the best teams in the world what we are made of and a chance to represent NorCal in a big way. Saturday, July 22nd, we are planning a day of giving back by jumping HARD all day with everyone who can attend. We are talking some full tilt freeflying from load one to sunset with organized dives in typical Guano fashion. After the last load the big screen debut of the newest Guano freefly video along with a barbecue and bonfire. We will have a prize raffle and will have new team shirts and hooded sweatshirts for sale as a way to raise money for our team to get to the World Championship. Fundraiser aside, we hope you can attend so we can thank you in person for your years of support and get in the air with you. There is no registration fee. One-on-one coaching will also be free except for our slot. The dinner will be $20 and raffell tickets $10 that include prizes for free Guano coaching, prizes from Performance Designs, Rigging Innovations, Flite Suit, SkyDance, Action Air Parachutes, Preyor Pins and Larsen & Brusgaard. More info: http://www.GUANOFREEFLY.COM/gft/gft.html We sincerely hope you can make it! Guano Freefly Team Chris Salcone, Scott Meeker, Peter Galli http://www.worldmeet2006.com http://www.GUANOFREEFLY.COM WC-INFO@GUANOFREEFLY.COM www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Amy, doing me a favor, smack meeker in his ass. On the ground is, fine. During a dirt dive better. But the best would be while he getting to his slot. Do what ya can. Have fun and good luck to all. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Jason, very impressed. I was surprised to see your name at the end and then went back to see who posted in. Very nice. Maybe I need you to follow Guano around for a day. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Canopy selection had nothing to do with this hard opening. Is is an important consideration for camera flyers, but so is packing the parachute properly. One of the most important part of a good opening is a properly quartered slider that is not collasped and slider grommets are against the canopy slider stops. This should be maintained throughout the pack job until you stow the lines. THe slider has a tendency to slide down while the canopy is ont he ground. Any canopy will open hard if the slider is collasped. The slider is designed to retard the opening of the canopy. That's its job. If its collasped it makes it hard for the slider to do its job. I'm glad you are ok and make you spend a few extra mins packing. A buddy just made a good point: It is best to uncollaspe the slider after you land. That habit is good to make sure the slider is open. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

And most of the time they are a moving target. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Thank you very much Betsy. It was a great meet and we always have a good time when we come to Eloy. You and the Eloy crew (Bryan Burke, Tom the tram driver, Lea the video dubber, Annabel for the neck massage and everyone else) have done a GREAT job so we can come and compete, concentrate on our jumps and have an all around good time. Also, Mary Lou Laughlin, thank you for your work as head of the US delgation making sure we had all updates and anything else we needed. We have a lot of other teams representing the US Bryce Witcher / Jason Peters Freestyle Ashley Lombardo / Chris Fiala Wms Freestyle Deguello 8way, TX Frayed Knot, CRW from Eloy Redline, CRW From Lodi, CA Airspeed 8way, 4way Perris Syncrhronicity WMS 4way Fastrax Select wms 4way Deland Fire 4way Fastrax 4way(Niklas Hemlin my old 4way tunnel coach, come on boys ) A special thanks to Norcal (Phil and Shannon Kidd for their inspirational email here)and all the people who we have jumped with around the world and over the years. All our sponsors which you can visit at http://www.guanofreefly.com Supporting us, in the thick and thin of it. The season is over so now some fun jumps. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Forgot to pointout, we are hosting this at our home DZ, SkyDance SkyDiving, Davis, CA. Got some more prizes in today for the Raffle so there is a good chance everyone will walk away with a prize. I'll have the whole prize list Wed. Hope to see a lot of people there. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Guano Freefly team is fresh off a Silver medal finish at this year's U.S. Nationals and we have your support to thank for it. Thank you to all who have watched us train hard all weekend when we would have liked to jump with you. Thank you to everyone who donated money, packjobs, and lunch to keep us training hard. And thank you for all of the encouragement and motivation throughout our past six (yes SIX!) seasons competing. We have come a long way but our sites are set higher. We have qualified to represent the U.S. at the World Cup of Skydiving Oct. 24th-28th in Eloy, AZ. This is our chance to show the best teams in the world what we are made of and a chance to represent NorCal in a big way. This Saturday, October 15th, we are planning a day of giving back by jumping HARD all day with everyone who can attend. We are talking some full tilt freeflying from load one to sunset with organized dives in typical Guano fashion. After the last load there will be a big screen debut of the newest Guano freefly video along with a barbecue and bonfire. We will have a prize raffle and will have new team shirts and hooded sweatshirts for sale as a way to raise money for our team to get to the World Cup. Fundraiser aside, we hope you can attend so we can thank you in person for your years of support and get in the air with you. There is no registration fee. One-on-one coaching will also be free except for our slot. The barbecue dinner will be $15 and raffell tickets $10 that include prizes for free Guano coaching, prizes from Performance Designs, Rigging Innovations, Flite Suit, SkyDance, Action Air Parachutes, Preyor Pins. We sincerely hope you can make it! Guano Freefly Team Chris Salcone Scott Meeker Peter Galli www.guanofreefly.com info@guanofreefly.com www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

I've never had the problem with audio. What is your source audio file, mp3, wav, from cd or from the camera? www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

beer! www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Jim, looked like a tight race. What was the format. All Speed? All routine? A compination of the 2? Good job Anomaly. See you guys at the Nationals. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Douva, You can't end the debate of the topics when YOU brought the points up in the first place. I'm not trying to pick a fight either. But when you make inferences that AE is at a disadvantage, I disagree with you. You think AE events are at a disadvantage to others. There are fulltime coaches for freefly. A few freefly teams that are fully sponsored. Isn't that the same as 4way. Are you positive this is the reason? Are there any other reasons? And what are the better established events? Read what you posted. You are speaking for a lot of people. I know, I'm the one saying that the AE competitors deserve more credit than you are giving them. Then they would make the proper sacrafice. We all deal with our persoanl and athletic goals. Its about balance and what you value in determining your goal. Now I'm an "instigator", no, simply debating. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Yes, I would agree skydiving events and brazil don't mix. Good choice Greg. But also the group that made the event still happen, bravo for doing what it takes to still make the event happen. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Douva, I think you missed the heart of my message. If you love what you do you will make the sacrafice to make it happend. You act like skysurfing has it harder, and you in particular have it harder. Every team needs to train, every team needs to show up to the meet and compete. Thats a given. Douva In response, one I do 4way, have been on a 4way team or 2, but currently competing in freefly. According to you a fringe event? In regard to commintment. I expect the same commitment and discipline from my teammates as I would from a 4way team or from any team. Please don't speak for the fringe events, "artistic events" since freefly, freestyle and sky surf are all grouped together for judging, please don't even infer we don't have the same level of commitment or disipline. That is your own personal opinon, view and experience In regard to the pissing match and sponsorship. 1. You missed the point. Reread. 2. You should have never brought it up in the argument. It has nothing to do with saving skysurf as an event at the nationals. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Douva, you are at times very outspoken and very passionate about what you do. I can respect that. But, your quote below about the "fully sponsored teams" dosen't just effect you. It sounds like a statment of a martyer Guano freefly recived a call from Brian Buckland last year letting us know a slot opened up for the world meet in Brazil. We were unable to make it by our decision. We could have put our lives on hold and go, we wanted to go, but did not see as a good decision to the 2004 goals on such a short notice. It was our decision. We are not a fully sponsored team. Maybe if we market ourselves more we might come to agreement and get some good contracts. We do the best with what we have and make every jump count. Do you think you deserve a sponsorship? What have you done to deserve it? I think the sponsorship angle is null and void. If we wanted to goto Brazil, we would have found the money. I know of the crw team from Lodi placed first at the world air games. They made it happen on there dime. The South African 4way team (sorry can't remeber the year) competed and placed third and were mostly if not all DZ instructors. Little training jumps and support. They made it happend and 2 went on to be World Champions. There are many teams that are "self funded". They compete well and some in the past have competed well against the fully funded teams. Skysurfing is not alone. Freefly, crw and some canopy fliers are paying there way. The more you debate this the more I don't see your point. Stick to the facts of getting people involved to keep the event. Tell me what has been done to improve turn outs. Not what can be done when its easy. I could turn just a few $$$ into a lot of good jumps. anyone can. I respect your drive to keep skysurfing, but do not drag in the point of we (skysurfers)aren't supported. THERE ARE A LOT OF TEAMS BUSTING THEIR ASSES TO DO THEIR BEST. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Favorite from this year. If you want more hit the 2 sites below. Nice to see everyones work. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

line stretch, I think it your response was a bit harsh, Vphoto, where do you jump? does your dz have a decent tandem business? I think for the average tanem master: -they can not guarntee a good video if the student is a handful -the camera can be a saftey hazerd -the student/customer does not get as good of a product -the student/customer loses the visual of the camera flyer in front of them -The dropzone loses money, since tandems is business they lose a slot on the plane and getting the customer a quality video of their first jump experience. my 2 bits www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Lunch Break.... Here's another. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Sorry for the late update, but with great weather, we are jumping and little time to post updates. Yesterday 6 jumps. Today is bigger ways, formation loads and more cool jumps. 2 down 6 more to go. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Update: Project Horizon Stage IV March 26th: Day 1. We started with some nice skydives, some more successful than others. Several nice completions in the 8 to 10 way range. Some really nice upright flying and nice work with pieces. Everyone trying hard today to perform well and stay on the more challenging dives. Here are a few pics from the day. Dave Donnely More Photos from soon to come. Having problems updating the site but will work on a fix. Jumping thru Tuesday. http://www.projecthorizon.com www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

Fuzzy, I had the same problem. Add info about this to the site. But has everything else worked with the wiring? www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

http://www.petergallistudios.com I don't have a cart for my site yet, but email me the size and photo ###, and I'll send a PayPal payment form thru, BTW, American Boogie 2005 video is completed and on sale. I'll post another thread tommorrow about it. Don't want to bandito the thread, wait I think i just did. www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com

I have a tutorial up at www.petergallistudios.com in the tips section good luck www.canopyflightcenter.com www.skydivesac.com www.guanofreefly.com