Perky77 0 #1 June 23, 2003 Well, I just put SunnyDee and MsDeva on their planes..got to have a nice Papasito's in the airport dinner with them before they left, security clearance has its privledges, like gettin to hang out with two kick ass Skychicks for an extra 1 1/2 hrs. Let me know if yall got home safe. Did my 100th, an attempted raft dive...which the raft actually ripped apart, but hey, how many people can say they docked with Catfish on his belly. and AggieDave and Cabana Boy (POP) got "The perfect Pieing" after I had taken a shower and was all clean. did a 7 way Hybrid, got my SCS on a 11 way SCR dive for QTPI, PilotMike, Austin, Atif, and if SunnyDee wouldn't have sunk on us she too would have gotten a good Texas Pooring. Started learning to sit fly now that I have my new rig, Thanks FreeflyGoat for the coaching jump amd Dave for going on a couple with me, this shit is so cool. I could go on forever, I met tons of DZ.commers, SunnyDee, MsDeva, Fozchek damn you give good hugs, FreeflyGoat thanks for the coach dive and the 7 way hybrid, Pippy, Snowflake and Brains thanks for going on my 100th, and so many others I cant remember. THIS WEEKEND ROCKED!! Too all that missed out, there is always the AOT Boogie in September. If there is anything I love more than skydiving, it is the Skydivers.......You people are so cool. Perky "Sacrifice is a part of life. It is supposed to be. It's not something you regret . It's something to aspire to." Mitch Albom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manifestbitch 0 #2 June 23, 2003 Perky, I could not agree with you more! I had a great time this weekend. Many thanks to everyone that came out. There was just a great vibe all weekend, I can't say enough about how awsome everyone was! I'm so glad that everyone had a good time and everyone was safe!!!! thanks for a kick ass weekend guys, hope to have all of you back soon. cieux bleus, amanda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pop 0 #3 June 23, 2003 This was definitly a kick ass weekend. I met tons of great people, inlcuding SunnyDee, MsDeva, Fozchek, Freefly Goat, Amy from SugaGliderz and I am sure I am leaving out so many more. Thank you for the skydives Sunny Dee. Hope you enjoyed your down plane and FIRST Cesna jump! Speaking of which I did my first comparassed two stack, biplane and downplane. That fucking ROCKED!!!! This weekend was full of great skydives and tons of alcoholic beverages. Debauchery at its finest. This was also my last weekend working for Skydive Aggieland as I am moving on to California. I will miss the hell out of that DZ and everyone who works and jumps there. Bad ass DZO and a great group of people! I love this sport!7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #4 June 23, 2003 It most definately did kick ass! I only did something like 15 jumps this weekend, but I'm fucking exhausted! From Thursday till now I was going full throttle and trying to stay hydrated/cool in the Texas heat, BUT the only downside to the weekend was the heat (too bad we can't control that...) SunnyDee, Deva, Brains, TenFootSwoops...god there were so many other cool DZ.commers that I got to meet that I can't remember right now (sorry yall), it was great! To say this weekend kicked ass would be an understatement! CabanaBoy, you will be missed at the DZ, but our paths will cross again! For yall that missed this weekend, it was definately a warm up for the AOT boogie Sept 19-21, only a small taste of the craziness!--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunnydee123 0 #5 June 23, 2003 Yes it did........despite the heat - it was a SUPER DUPER weekend. I responded to Queen B's post under Events and Gatherings so don't want to repeat myself but I can't begin to thank everyone for making this a GREAT FIRST TRIP away from home. People were great, vibe was great and I think fun was had by all - even those working on record attempts and training camps. I met so many new people, spent some time with some current pals (hugs Fozchek), saw some familiar faces and actually got to meet and greet them (Derek aka "Goat", Amy from Sugar Gliderz)...I could go on. It was a good time! Can't say that I am disappointed about "falling out" on the SCS, SCR...whatever the hell those initials were....after I saw the "ceremony". You Texan folks are crazy but I might try and get that ritual started here in FL, we'll see. I am all smiles despite being back at work. I'm sure we'll all talk soon......Miss all you guys already. Talk to you soon....hugs and smooches until then! Dreams become reality, one choice at a time... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #6 June 23, 2003 Quote Can't say that I am disappointed about "falling out" on the SCS, SCR...whatever the hell those initials were....after I saw the "ceremony". You Texan folks are crazy but I might try and get that ritual started here in FL, we'll see. Sunny check out the link below for more info on the SCR http://www.scr-awards.com/ Amazon D-4888 SCR-5993 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #7 June 23, 2003 You are so right Perky - All I can say is "Wow" Pop - you will be missed - but you know you can't stay away to long - There are no Taco Cabanas in Cali!! I don't want to start naming names - There are to many to mention - You know who you are - Thank you for the time of my life - And it can only get better from here.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pablito 0 #8 June 23, 2003 Just wanted to thank everyone. It was a bad arse weekend, Lots of freeflying, some hybreds, a little bit of belly stuff, good fun everywhere!!! Thanks to the Travelers to come here to be part of this event. Thanks to load organizers, thanks to all the Staff of skydive aggieland and for all the good vibes, all the learning and for being safe Thanks again!!! AOT MB V4 is coming don't forget to join us for more fun!!! Pop have a safe juorney "If you don't overcome your fears they will overcome you first" Shady Monkey/6Segundos Rodriguez/AKA Pablito Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airann 1 #9 June 23, 2003 Ahhhh.... Texas is like a whole nuther country... Missed it- thought about it all weekend- but if you ever met myself or FleaFlyer (Rat dog, if you are Levin) you would know I cant leave him when he is sick. I have to say this and let you know a little behind the action, action. Aggie Dave put forth a giant amount of assistance on this boogie as well as so many others. My thanks goes out to everyone at the dz, and you know who you are. Levin Jackson worked his very little butt off on this thing. He lived, breathed and sweated this Jam for every second, hour, days, weeks and months. He had it all going on. How many people can organize an entire boogie? Would you sleep at all wondering how it would turn out? How about those huge ass decisions? Otter anyone? switch DZ's? Make all those cell phone calls to all those people, get persons to get people from airports, get packers lined up, get awesome people to be there for unusual jumps, get coaches, ask for and get helping hands, insuring safety & getting together rules on jumps, working with DZO's, drivin all over hell's half acre speaking to persons in person, offering to help people with anything anyone needed in addition to the regular affairs he already had ... And I am damn certain/sure I am leaving out 120% of what he actually did. Not to mention a guy with very few words, ordinarily, writing copious long huge posts in the Freeflying Forum on every single tiny detail. I know for a fact he had little sleep leading up to this event. I know we had some late night calls. If this guy slept at all (not including the 3am party) but over the preparations then I am a 's Unkle. I saw first hand Levin thinking and thinking and wheels just a spinnin over a billion things long before the actual event. I would have caved on the first stressful glitch this little fella had to overcome. I bet Dad and brothers are SO proud of him as I sure am. He wont take any credit, so I am just saying.. I would like for everyone to know Levin has a heart even bigger - than the fine State of Texas. Quote YOU ROCK LEVIN ~AirAnn~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QueenBee 0 #10 June 23, 2003 QuoteAhhhh.... Texas is like a whole nuther country... Missed it- thought about it all weekend- but if you ever met myself or FleaFlyer (Rat dog, if you are Levin) you would know I cant leave him when he is sick. I would like for everyone to know Levin has a heart even bigger - than the fine State of Texas. Quote YOU ROCK LEVIN I agree with you, AirAnn, and I want to thank Levin again for asking Skydive Aggieland to host Summer Jam 2003. I know we weren't your first choice, maybe not even second or third, but I hope that you don't regret ending up with us. We loved having you and you know we'd love to do it again! Blue Skies!Queen "B" ----------------------------------------------- Skydive Aggieland, Inc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites airann 1 #11 June 23, 2003 Quoteon the SCS, SCR...whatever the hell those initials were....after I saw the "ceremony". You Texan folks are crazy but I might try and get that ritual started here in FL, we'll see. LOL, you just cant get it like we have here. "Face the Alamo!!!!" Those traditional ceremonies in and of themselves are outstanding. Definatly something to see and worth the trip to have done unto YOU! So come back soon. On mine, in the winter, Scotty Carbone on one side and Tami Carbone on the other. The only way to keep a freak flyer in the damn thing. At the end of the congradulations it was really cold. I think the cold was kinda noticed on me alot more than the 4 guys I was with. Yikes! ~AirAnn~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites msdeva 0 #12 June 24, 2003 I'm home OK! Unfortunately - would have rather stayed in Texas!!!PMS #24 RDP #1 RDP #2 To fly, we have to have resistance. - Maya Lin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Levin 0 #13 June 24, 2003 QuoteI agree with you, AirAnn, and I want to thank Levin again for asking Skydive Aggieland to host Summer Jam 2003. I know we weren't your first choice, maybe not even second or third, but I hope that you don't regret ending up with us. We loved having you and you know we'd love to do it again! QueenBee you made it sound like I settled for Aggieland. I think on the contrary this event was meant from the start for Aggieland this year. I'm replying to you and Ann at same time with a fairly quick writing of copious long huge post.[;0)] Here's a quick condensed version of the story. This is a link to my first announcement post of the event dated July 31, 2002. (don't know how to make clicky Underneath the State Record Attempt announcement you will notice a paragraph where Bryan, Ramon and I started going to Skydive Houston to coach and load organize and help the place out. My first trip to Skydive Houston was Labor Day Boogie 1999. Back then and thru year 2000 this Dropzone Rocked!! The Orbit Punks hosted a freefly bigway boogie in July 2000 called Summer Jam 2000. Thomas McDowell organized the record attempt dives to build an 11-way round to beat the 10-way world record hd round (3 pt 10-way) set by Olav just previously at Skydive America. Jim Slaton organized an informal 2-day swoop contest. Since 2001 management has had the DZ swirling down the toilet. Andre was trying hard to turn the DZ around, but after the video room got broken into he took it personal for whatever reason and had pretty much had enough and for the most part gave up. So next came the owner’s non-skydiving business buddy to take over and get it all back on track. Problem was this guy had a full time career job and family plus no clue of skydiving business operations, the wrong attitude and tendency to make wrong decisions. Some of the stuff this manager did was so ignorant it was un-believable. (ask and I may part with an example or two A quick side note about Waller now. That guy either got fired or quite or something a couple weeks after that. The new manager, Virgil, has been in charge for about 6 weeks and has been doing a good job. And unlike his predecessor he seems to genuinely car about the DZ and it’s jumpers. I think he’s going to be a good manager. Ann is right in that I spent time and energy and $$ putting it together (mostly time) and it was all very well spent. Putting this event together really wasn’t a burden or any trouble. I started planning it and asking around to see who all might come 11 months ago. The real bad part about it was nagging and constantly feeling like a little kid pulling on somebody’s shirtsleeve reminding them when and where. Some as often as once or twice a month. I spent some time during those 11 months helping people that I thought might could be ready for it when the time came. But there is no way I can take all the credit for making that event happen like it did. I would say more like 49% me, and 51% everyone else. I thought it was nice everybody thanking me for putting it together but I really feel it is I that owe all of yall a great big thanks. So I would like to start with a great big thanks to Todd and Kathy for hosting this event and accepting it exactly how it was organized. They got into this knowing they weren’t going to make a huge profit. And I did what I could to make sure they didn’t take a loss (they didn’t). Todd and Kathy accommodated most all of the coaches and organizers and ladies in the training camp. They cooked a huge supper Thursday night. AggieDave kept the Otter fumigated all weekend with red beans and rice. There was no registration fee. Freefly load organizing was available for any experience level and $40 freefly coach jumps included both slots and free CRW coaching was available. I also like to thank the airport management for allowing us to turn the glider strip into a swoop course. Thanks to Spaceland for the Otter and waiving the ferry fee after the 30th load, and for the two airblades that were used for entry gates. I think manifest did a pretty good job of adjusting from smaller crowd and 2 Cessna’s to 70 jumpers and an Otter. Thanks to the volunteers from Spaceland, Waller and Aggieland that provided transportation to and from IAH (2 hours from Aggieland) for every woman on the training camp that flew in. It seemed like everybody tried to do anything they could to help make the event even better. It was all the effort and co-operation of everybody that made everything fall into place so naturally that all I felt I did was waive a red and yellow flag that said “OVER HEAR!!” Even though a new state headdown record was not completed, a 9-way HD built on a 10-way attempt, a 12-way hybrid vSCR attempt dive built to an 11-way which resulted in 9 new vSCR recipients and 1 or 2 vSCS recipients. An SCR dive resulted in 4 new SCR recipients. Close to 20 swoopers regularly swooped the 220’ swoop course set up on the glider strip. 2 jumpers made their hundredth jump on a raft dive attempt. Goat organized several hybrid dives. The teams from Spaceland and Dallas organized a couple of large tracking dives. Catfish took 9 jumpers on their first CRW jump. Denise was the first and my Dad was the last. My dad made his first jump here in 1967 or 69; so this was his first jump back in 34 or 36 yrs. Much longer than I am old. Some guy jumped naked. Denise did first Cessna jump. About 9 or 10 girls worked together in pairs and small groups to prepare for a Women’s World Record scheduled for later this year. 70 jumpers flew 30 Otter loads and the day ended with about a 15-way hop-n-pop from 14k, over a Cessna DZ. Too all of the people from out of state, it was really nice meeting yall and to all the distant locals, good seeing yall again. Special Thanks to everyone that came out and made this event everything it was. Levin vSCR#17 BTW, check out the new website. Cyberskydive has been working on it for a while. He’s talented web designer as you can see. Pretty much almost done. I’m dedicated the site to freeflying in Texas. http://www.freeflyers.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites QueenBee 0 #14 June 24, 2003 Thanks, Levin, and I must say that I had a great time working with you pulling the Summer Jam together! BTW, Summer Jam 2003 t-shirts will be available for purchase through the Single Helix website very soon! 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airann 1 #11 June 23, 2003 Quoteon the SCS, SCR...whatever the hell those initials were....after I saw the "ceremony". You Texan folks are crazy but I might try and get that ritual started here in FL, we'll see. LOL, you just cant get it like we have here. "Face the Alamo!!!!" Those traditional ceremonies in and of themselves are outstanding. Definatly something to see and worth the trip to have done unto YOU! So come back soon. On mine, in the winter, Scotty Carbone on one side and Tami Carbone on the other. The only way to keep a freak flyer in the damn thing. At the end of the congradulations it was really cold. I think the cold was kinda noticed on me alot more than the 4 guys I was with. Yikes! ~AirAnn~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msdeva 0 #12 June 24, 2003 I'm home OK! Unfortunately - would have rather stayed in Texas!!!PMS #24 RDP #1 RDP #2 To fly, we have to have resistance. - Maya Lin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Levin 0 #13 June 24, 2003 QuoteI agree with you, AirAnn, and I want to thank Levin again for asking Skydive Aggieland to host Summer Jam 2003. I know we weren't your first choice, maybe not even second or third, but I hope that you don't regret ending up with us. We loved having you and you know we'd love to do it again! QueenBee you made it sound like I settled for Aggieland. I think on the contrary this event was meant from the start for Aggieland this year. I'm replying to you and Ann at same time with a fairly quick writing of copious long huge post.[;0)] Here's a quick condensed version of the story. This is a link to my first announcement post of the event dated July 31, 2002. (don't know how to make clicky Underneath the State Record Attempt announcement you will notice a paragraph where Bryan, Ramon and I started going to Skydive Houston to coach and load organize and help the place out. My first trip to Skydive Houston was Labor Day Boogie 1999. Back then and thru year 2000 this Dropzone Rocked!! The Orbit Punks hosted a freefly bigway boogie in July 2000 called Summer Jam 2000. Thomas McDowell organized the record attempt dives to build an 11-way round to beat the 10-way world record hd round (3 pt 10-way) set by Olav just previously at Skydive America. Jim Slaton organized an informal 2-day swoop contest. Since 2001 management has had the DZ swirling down the toilet. Andre was trying hard to turn the DZ around, but after the video room got broken into he took it personal for whatever reason and had pretty much had enough and for the most part gave up. So next came the owner’s non-skydiving business buddy to take over and get it all back on track. Problem was this guy had a full time career job and family plus no clue of skydiving business operations, the wrong attitude and tendency to make wrong decisions. Some of the stuff this manager did was so ignorant it was un-believable. (ask and I may part with an example or two A quick side note about Waller now. That guy either got fired or quite or something a couple weeks after that. The new manager, Virgil, has been in charge for about 6 weeks and has been doing a good job. And unlike his predecessor he seems to genuinely car about the DZ and it’s jumpers. I think he’s going to be a good manager. Ann is right in that I spent time and energy and $$ putting it together (mostly time) and it was all very well spent. Putting this event together really wasn’t a burden or any trouble. I started planning it and asking around to see who all might come 11 months ago. The real bad part about it was nagging and constantly feeling like a little kid pulling on somebody’s shirtsleeve reminding them when and where. Some as often as once or twice a month. I spent some time during those 11 months helping people that I thought might could be ready for it when the time came. But there is no way I can take all the credit for making that event happen like it did. I would say more like 49% me, and 51% everyone else. I thought it was nice everybody thanking me for putting it together but I really feel it is I that owe all of yall a great big thanks. So I would like to start with a great big thanks to Todd and Kathy for hosting this event and accepting it exactly how it was organized. They got into this knowing they weren’t going to make a huge profit. And I did what I could to make sure they didn’t take a loss (they didn’t). Todd and Kathy accommodated most all of the coaches and organizers and ladies in the training camp. They cooked a huge supper Thursday night. AggieDave kept the Otter fumigated all weekend with red beans and rice. There was no registration fee. Freefly load organizing was available for any experience level and $40 freefly coach jumps included both slots and free CRW coaching was available. I also like to thank the airport management for allowing us to turn the glider strip into a swoop course. Thanks to Spaceland for the Otter and waiving the ferry fee after the 30th load, and for the two airblades that were used for entry gates. I think manifest did a pretty good job of adjusting from smaller crowd and 2 Cessna’s to 70 jumpers and an Otter. Thanks to the volunteers from Spaceland, Waller and Aggieland that provided transportation to and from IAH (2 hours from Aggieland) for every woman on the training camp that flew in. It seemed like everybody tried to do anything they could to help make the event even better. It was all the effort and co-operation of everybody that made everything fall into place so naturally that all I felt I did was waive a red and yellow flag that said “OVER HEAR!!” Even though a new state headdown record was not completed, a 9-way HD built on a 10-way attempt, a 12-way hybrid vSCR attempt dive built to an 11-way which resulted in 9 new vSCR recipients and 1 or 2 vSCS recipients. An SCR dive resulted in 4 new SCR recipients. Close to 20 swoopers regularly swooped the 220’ swoop course set up on the glider strip. 2 jumpers made their hundredth jump on a raft dive attempt. Goat organized several hybrid dives. The teams from Spaceland and Dallas organized a couple of large tracking dives. Catfish took 9 jumpers on their first CRW jump. Denise was the first and my Dad was the last. My dad made his first jump here in 1967 or 69; so this was his first jump back in 34 or 36 yrs. Much longer than I am old. Some guy jumped naked. Denise did first Cessna jump. About 9 or 10 girls worked together in pairs and small groups to prepare for a Women’s World Record scheduled for later this year. 70 jumpers flew 30 Otter loads and the day ended with about a 15-way hop-n-pop from 14k, over a Cessna DZ. Too all of the people from out of state, it was really nice meeting yall and to all the distant locals, good seeing yall again. Special Thanks to everyone that came out and made this event everything it was. Levin vSCR#17 BTW, check out the new website. Cyberskydive has been working on it for a while. He’s talented web designer as you can see. Pretty much almost done. I’m dedicated the site to freeflying in Texas. http://www.freeflyers.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QueenBee 0 #14 June 24, 2003 Thanks, Levin, and I must say that I had a great time working with you pulling the Summer Jam together! BTW, Summer Jam 2003 t-shirts will be available for purchase through the Single Helix website very soon! And yes, I am still working on uploading pics to my ShutterFly.com site. (Takes a while to upload 1700 pics...)Queen "B" ----------------------------------------------- Skydive Aggieland, Inc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
