The weather forecast for this weekend calls for sunny skies and 60-70 degrees. Perfect conditions for skydiving. If you’d like to jump, let me know what kind of jump you want to do, your phone number, and if you have a car. It’s Halloween, so come and do something really scary. Jump out of a plane!
We had great weather last weekend for skydiving. We had Kathryn Homann, Matt Hofner, Dave Twarog, Alex Wagner, Sarah Laborde, Ben Vandentorren, Jeremy Attali, Jae-Hee Hong and Fumi Sugiguchi make their first tandem skydives, and David Medellin took the static-line first jump course. Laura Thompson, Justin Tobin, and Carlos Bohorquez graduated from static-line and did their first solo freefall jumps. Way to go, guys!
Jeremy Attali and Sarah Laborde
Jeremy Attali, Sarah Laborde, and Ben Vandentorren
Kathryn Homann
Alex Wagner, Dave Twarog, and Matt Hofner
We’re going to be jumping this weekend, both on Saturday and Sunday. If you’d like to go, email me your name, phone number, if you have a car, and what type of jump you’d like to do. The weather looks fantastic considering how late it is in the year, so I suggest everyone take advantage of it.
Also, our very own Nick Zombolas has put together a news segment on the Falling Illini for UI Channel 7 News. So everyone tune to channel 7 at 5:30pm on Thursday to see what we’ve been up to. Thanks Nick.
We’ve had a bunch of new jumpers come out with us over the past two weekends. I’d like to congratulate Inna Yao, Kristijan Krajnc, Ali Abu Yousef, Brian Shea, Natalie Perillo, and Jenny Holliday who made tandem jumps, and Fi Ferrer who did the static-line first jump course. Also, I want to give a hand to the U of I Law School who came out in force with 11 law students and the dean of the law school and did tandems. So congratulations to Stacy Weber, Ho-Jung Jun, Dan Rock, Chi-Hung Hsu, Vysali Soundararajan, Lauren Gallagher, Mike Sirlag, Arata Matsui, Eric Sirota, Yi-Cheng Su, Dean Heidi Hurd, and to Ho-Sung Chung (video) for convincing his fellow future lawyers to take a flying leap.
Video of Ho-Sung Chung making a tandem skydive
The weather looks good for this weekend, though maybe a little colder than last, so if you want to jump let me know. Send me an email with your name, phone, jump type, and if you have a car.
The weather for this weekend looks beautiful on both Saturday and Sunday. I’ve already had people express interest in both days, so I bet there will be plenty of jumping the whole weekend. Paul Ahn is doing the organizing this weekend, so if you’d like to go, send him an email at paulahn@uiuc.edu.
We had a fantastic weekend on Saturday and Sunday. All together we had 35 Falling Illini make around 50 total jumps. Making their first jumps in the Static-Line Course were Sara Daleiden, Jim Daleiden, Doug Sahm, Eric Ranz, Sara Kerkemeyer, Kunal Shah, Allyson Troutman, Katy Hoover, Jenny Snapp, Martin Leitgab, Vadim Albert, Lothar Ratschbacher, Madeline Keleher, Michael Maur, Grace Maloney, Saori Nakagawa, Amanda Larson and Liz Brabeck. Making tandem jumps we had Melissa Levin-Cohen, Zachary Wynveen, Brooke Damery, Joe Keefe, Sesean Bridges, and Rachel Nielsen. We also had Rachel Hillmer and Daniel Bedford complete their Static-Line jumps and make their first solo freefall jumps. Who will be the first Falling Illini to get their A-license this semester?
Sesean Bridges jumping tandem.
Rachel Nielsen after her skydive.
Grace Maloney and Madeline Keleher.
Joe Keefe and Brooke Damery.
Lothar Ratschbacher.
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