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His name is also Kevin. He didn’t even tell me until the end of the phone call. I had to ask.
“Behind the Lens” Colored pencil and felt-tip pen
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It’s safe to say that nothing about 2020 has proceeded according to anyone’s plans. Whatever was planned in January was tossed out the window by March.
As of August 14, USPA’s board of directors has committed to holding its scheduled meeting of September 18-20 in Nashville, Tennessee.
USPA is still determining whether a 2020 USPA Nationals can be conducted safely and if so, how. USPA is exploring options while trying to ensure competitors in all disciplines/events have an opportunity to compete.
The results are in for the special election to fill the vacancy for the Pacific Regional Director seat on the USPA Board of Directors.
The USPA Board of Directors is seeking a USPA member to fill an upcoming board vacancy that will be created when Albert Berchtold resigns his national director seat this fall to assume the executive director position at USPA Headquarters.
Visualization is the ability to create clear, detailed and accurate images in your mind of something that you want to reproduce as physical reality. In essence, quality visualization is much like a very well-trained imagination.
We’re in an unforgiving sport. We’re made aware of this each time we sign a liability waiver, every time we read an incident report.
The camaraderie, the spirit of competition and the drama keep jumpers returning to Nationals year after year, but it’s also more than that. The reasons people attend Nationals are as varied as the disciplines showcased at the event.
Members of the various freefly teams who competed in the TeXas Speedway freefly vs. bellyfly event at Skydive Spaceland-Houston in Rosharon, Texas, get together after the competition for an angle dive.
Jamie Miller follows Ryan Uldrich out the door as he leads an angle jump at Skydive Cross Keys.
Jumpers participate in the Virginia state sequential formation skydiving record attempts—which nearly completed before one of the planes experienced mechanical trouble and ended the attempts—at Skydive Suffolk.
For more than a year now, USPA has been on a crusade to increase incident reporting, not only by instructors, but also by the everyday jumper.
After opening their main canopies, jumpers tend to spread out and keep a respectful distance from one another until they all head for the same landing area.
A good incident report gives a thorough account of what happened without glossing over unsavory information or leaving out crucial facts.
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