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We got a couple of slaps on the hand as well. We got the proper approval for places like the student union and all of the dorms; however, for many of the academic buildings there was little or no enforcement on flyers being hung, and that's if there was a policy on it at all! We used our better judgement, and got nothing more than a "Don't do that again." I don't know the UGA policies, but sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

A buddy of mine and I started a club about 3 years ago at THE USC, go COCKS. At the first meetings of every semester we were able to have atleast 100 people show up and sit on the floor and look in from the hallway pretty consistently. However, even with our discounted prices from our home DZ, once they learned of the cost associated with the sport, alot of the poor college students thinned out. That's the nature of the sport, we just drew them into the meeting, told them how great it was, got them pumped with a video, and then told them it was $169 for a tandem and $265 for the FJC. Now, how did we get them there? I used to do work for a Marketing agency that employed students at Universities across the country to hang and hand out flyers. The trick is to not only put the flyers EVERYWHERE, but to also make them noticeable. How many times have you walked by a single 8.5X11 flyer sitting on the wall around campus without giving it any notice? When I was hanging flyers for my job they had us hang 4 to 6 of them stacked together side by side. Now try and walk by 6 fliers taking up half a wall and not notice them! All in all we spent about $80 on printing 1000 8.5*11 flyers, we made that $80 back with 4 new members paying semester dues, so it was definitely worth it. We took the campus by storm at the BEGINNING of every semester, and had no mercy on any wall. We even paid campus housing to hang 2 flyers on every floor of every dorm. Just get a large group together the day before classes, give them some flyers, tape, stapler, and assign everybody specific buildings, preferably buildings they are familiar with, and tell them to go nuts. On our fliers we kept it pretty simple. Definitely expel the preconceived notions people have of skydiving. Mention discounts and safety to tackle the thought that skydiving is expensive and dangerous. Also, have a goal for your flier. If you want them to come to the first meeting, have a time and place. If you can't schedule a time and place for your first meeting that early in the semester, a problem we had, then send them to your website, facebook page, or both, and then you can keep them in the loop of when and where meetings will be. We also, handed out smaller flyers at the University organization fair that was held the second or third week of every semester, and we tried to make our first meeting the day of or day after, while it was fresh in everybody's minds. Hope that helps, and let me know if you need any more help starting your club up. We're all close enough that we could start hosting each other at each other's home DZ's

All of the staff were very friendly and cautious. I recently got off AFF at a different dropzone and wanted to jump while I was in the area. They made sure I was prepared by going over everything I needed to know about the particulars of the dropzone and jumping their student canopy. I would recommend this dropzone to anybody. Thanks Roy, Anne, John, and Scott