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Last weekend I did what I wanted to do for a long while – to actually skydive in the UK. I’ve been putting it off for a long time, lately mostly due to the weather we have been having. Last weekend the weather was OK, no flu lingering in the background and no lameness in [...]

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In Autumn 2005 my skydiving buddies started to organize a skydiving expedition to Florida that would take place in February and March of the next year. As I was a bit unexperienced and without my own equipment I could trust I had to say no. The next year the organized it again and I, again, [...]

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After a one year sebaticle I finally got the chance to do some skydiving again. The best thing about it, besides, of course, skydiving, was that I could do it at my old home drop zone Prečna in Novo mesto in the southern part of Slovenia. The other good part was that I could jump [...]

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I have added 11 new pictures I had stored on my Nokia N95 that has a photo camera included. It was a great day probably more suitable for outdoor skydiving than indoor skydiving. I set of from home early Saturday morning and arrived at Bedford five and a half hours later after stupidly ignoring my [...]

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I called the Swansea DZ yesterday. I have had this plan to continue skydiving in the UK but didn’t have the nerve to do it. I finally got into contact with the DZ’s managers who told me, that the DZ was closed due to a dispute with the Swansea airport management. More about this: http://www.ukskydiver.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=5590

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I have just read on the Paranoia website, that their skydiving school in Ljubljana will soon be continuing classes, just as soon Aleš, the school’s instructor, will come back from a skydiving trip to the US. Aleš has been away for a few weeks now and am sure there were a lot of anticipating skydiving [...]

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In recent weeks many of the Slovene skydivers have descended on a dropzone in a town called Titusville. Before that there were many Croats skydiving there as well. Today, the number of Slovenes will increase with the arrival of our friends from the Maribor (Skoke) DZ. Beside that a great many are currently occupying the [...]

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I was so glad to have finally got it. There was a bit of a delay but it is in my hands now The company that manufactured it is based in Tampa, Florida. What I am talking about here is my brand new skydiving rig, also called a harness, container… It is made by Aerodyne [...]

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This was the third Slovene annual Skydiving Film Festival and it also coincided with the first freefall Skydive Photo Festival. It took place yesterday, December 8th 2006 at the KMŠ (Klub Mariborskih Študentov). I had the pleasure attending last year’s festival and this year it proved to be even better. The ambient was great and [...]

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Some of the Slovene skydivers who are planning to go skydiving in the US next year had a meeting at the Paranoia school for skydivers. I attended due to my curiosity to see what is being planned but I won’t be able to go There were two possible locations: California (“Parachute center” near Acampo, close [...]

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Besides getting a job offer from Oracle this morning I had another great thing happened to me, I finally got the chance to order my skydiving parachute from Atair Ltd. in Skofja Loka. It will be a 7-cell canopy called Dragon 170. Already set the colours and everything. It will hopefully be finished in January [...]

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