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Hey everyone! Sorry for the extremely late email, we are experiencing some technical difficulties. Archway Skydiving Center, our home dropzone was supposed to have a Twin Otter this weekend. However they do not. So if you want to do a tandem jump please sign up for Sunday as we will be going to Hinckley. If you want to do a static line we will be going to Illinois Skydiving Center on Saturday. Let me know if you want to come out! Thanks for all your patience!  

 Blue skies!

Daniel 

We had a successful weekend despite the bad weather. Congratulations to Dane Menger, Yin Su, and Dain Christensen for coming out and making their first staic-line jumps! Also congratulations to Pragnesh Podar, Heather Rafferty, Matt Zohn, Larry Milstein, Graham Costaner, Jon Horwitz, Ho Bing Kun, Goh Soo Shuen, Jordan Shevell, Nick Parilo, Catie Crosby, and Will Bendix for coming out and making their first tandem jumps! My apologies for forgetting my camera. Big thank you to Chicagoland Skydiving Center for taking us on Sunday!

Liz Mengyan, Heather Rafferty, Matt Zohn, Larry Milstein, Graham Costaner, Jon Horwitz

                               Nick Parilo and Pragnesh Podar

                                Nick Parilo and Jordan Shevell

The April Showers competition has 3 weekends left! Here’s a count for people’s jumps thus far:

Mike Murphy 4

Derek Runge 2

Jake 4

Liz Mengyan 2

Brad Topol 1

Chris Reed 3

Dain Menger 1

Daniel Bedford 6

I’m not seriously competeting but you all need to pick up the pace! $100, come on!

Hey everyone,

Just a reminder that we will be passing out bar crawl shirts today and tomorrow on the Quad from 11am to 2pm. The barcrawl is on Thursday and starts at Firehaus at 9pm. Please come regardless if you got a shirt or have made jumps this year.

Also, I mentioned this at the last meeting but forgot to put it on the website. We will be having an April Showers jump contest. Since the last few weekends have been really crappy and I forgot to put it up, we will be extending the competition. The person who jumps the most in April and the first two weekends in May will win $100!

As always if you want to jump this weekend, email me and I’ll get you set up.

Here are some pics from Safety Day which my girlfriend took.

                                   Abdul enjoying Safety Day.

                        Nick Shaver and Bill checking out the C-182.

                               Recurrency training with Papke.

                                  Derek, Liz, and Joe listen in.

                              Probably the coolest person you know.

                            Melissa Mazur after her jump.

                                     Hanna getting ready to face the cold.

                                   Mike Murphy sums up the cold.

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to le tyou know that on Wednesday and Thursday we will be passing out barcrawl shirts from 11am to 2pm on the Quad. So if you ordered one come pick it up. We’ll be out in front of the Union with the WindBlade flying hopefully. See you then!

Hey jumpers, it’s time to get jumping again.  Archway has a Super Otter there this weekend and it looks really nice so if you want to get skydiving send me an email with your name, what jump you want to do, what day you want to go, your phone number, and if you can drive.  Saturday is full for tandems, and we need more drivers.  Hope to see you up there.

Another announcements: If you want a barcrawl shirt you need to order them now!

 Falling Illini Barcrawl is Thursday April 17th.  The shirt will cost $15 and the design can be seen on the website.  I need the orders in to me by April 9th so that I can place the order. (the ordering link is in the attachment to this email)

Have a good week!
Laura
Buy Your Shirt Below and Vote for our last bar stop securely using paypal!

Hey all,

So it’s time to start collecting your money. Daniel sent out an email earlier containing the designs and you can view them again on the club website. The price of the shirts is $15. Even if you can’t make it out with us, everyone needs another tshirt, especially one with skydiving pigs on it. This semester we will be taking orders and money through paypal. This way you’ll be able to make the purchase without even leaving the comfort of your rooms and the computer will keep a nice log of names and sizes for me.

PLEASE PLACE YOUR ORDERS BY WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 (4/9) so I can place the final order. Along with placing your order you can vote for the location of the last bar. The link to purchase shirts is in the attached file. REMEMBER: Barcrawl is THURSDAY APRIL 17TH.

See you all soon Laura

Hey skydivers! This Saturday looks really nice for skydiving, it’s warming up.  If you want to jump out of a plane this weekend email me your name, number, which day you want to go, what jump you want to do, and if you can drive. Hope to see you this weekend.

Blue skies! - Daniel

Hey everyone!!

The barcrawl is in just over 2 weeks! Thursday April 17th. Here’s the shirt design so all of you can get a look.  I’m waiting on a price quote before I can start collecting orders and tell you how much it is.  

                                  Front                                                                 Back

Just a reminder that the barcrawl line up is:

9 Firehaus

10 Brother’s

11 Murphy’s

12 Legend’s

1 TBD

See you all there,

Laura

This was a good weekend for the Falling Illini! Congratulations to Jesse Tyler and Alexx Poston for completing the static line course and making their first jumps! Congratulations to Sylvia Vadakara for making her first tandem jump! And congrats to Rich Wlodarski for coming out again and making some jumps! We’ve got the experienced following but we want to see the rest of you out here!

                      Alexx Poston, Jesse Tyler, and Rich Wlodarski

                                              Sylvia Vadakara

                                                  Jesse Tyler

                                              Alexx Poston

                    Mike Murphy looking like a professional packer

                  How many Falling Illini does it take to pack a rig?

                                              Alexx Poston

                                            Rich Wlodarski

                                                Jesse Tyler