South Australian Sport Parachute Club

    Rain, hail or shine we are out to jump in SA. Another smashing BAM! Fun Day event, organised by Tessa Cameron went off like a frog in a (occasionally soggy) sock, with 11 x 2-way teams smashing out RW points and everyone watching with gritted teeth as jumpers scored points for style and accuracy landings. It was incredible to see over 30 jumpers out to compete or just offer support through judging, beer and camera. Jumpers skills ranged from apparent novices (humph Jed Smith) to tunnel sluts (hummpth Pete Anderson), all of them getting out in the weather and having fun.
    Rain may have had us on weather hold part of the day, but 2 rounds of competition had teams points soon climbing, especially with the addition of bonus points awarded and subtracted for skill, stupidity, costumes and character. I can’t say well done enough to all the novice jumpers out there on the day, several of whom are fresh out of A and B licences who pulled off points. You all know who you are. MAD STUFF!
    The final jump of the day was a hop’n pop’n accuracy landing’n chug race, scored with an interesting new judging method titled ‘gay’ by Jason Ellul. With people cutting away and cheating to the bottom of the bottle, the day ended with Tommaso Liccioli receiving top ‘Not Gay’ for a perfectly executed accuracy chug race in 15.8 s.
   A huge success with no injurys or incidents but more importantly everyone had a great time and learnt lots. Huge thanks need to be given to all the fun jumpers that came out for the weekends celebration. Without you guys these day’s can’t continue. Big thanks to the SASPC, State Council, Miff and Miffland, the Camera Jumpers, Judges and hard at work pilots. BAM! Fun Days are here to stay. Next event: BAM! Freefly Day. Free tutor slots. August 7-8 at Lowerlight DZ. Getcha head down and your bum up for all sorts of fun. Lookout for the Swoop Comp. & party at Langhorne Creek, first weekend of September. Celebrate 1 year of the pond! Contact Tess 0413436000 for more information.

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