Growing Pains
As Chicagoland Skydiving Center makes its transition from it’s longtime home in Hinckley Illinois over to Rochelle, It’s become terribly obvious to many of us jumpers that this real work crap is tough!
The amount of construction going in to the Rochelle’s Kortz field is staggering. With Bull dozers and construction workers everywhere, there’s no doubt that CSC will be around for some time to come. The road, parking lot, trailer spaces and groundwork for the new hangar are underway, yet bookings and jumping haven’t slowed down one bit.
When Mother Nature decides to cut us, and the rest of the country a little bit of slack, there’s no doubt that they’ll be a shit load of jumping going on!
You are hereby cordially invited not only by “The Fuckin’ Pilot”, but all the rest of the CSC family to come out and play, as we all fully intend to play as hard as possible thru our “growing pains”!
Carolina Ends 2010 with a Kaboom!
Skydive Carolina had their annual awards party Saturday night, and made this tribute video for their home teams. Enjoy!
Lost Prairie: Summer Camp 2010
By the awesome K-Dub:
Besties!
And worsties, of course. Here it is, the first Blue Skies Mag “Best Of” poll! It’s an all-write-in poll, so everyone has an equal chance of winning.
Call us elitist, but we do ask that you vote only if you’ve made more than one jump at one drop zone. We know, the place you did that one jump was the best of the best of the best, but …
Photo by brainsonfire.Vector Festival
Vector Festival is coming to Skydive Empuriabrava in a few short days; one big highlight will be the film festival, with a €1000 prize for first place. Yowza. For the Yanks, that’s about $1,200. Yeah, yowza.
Winners will be chosen based on
- Originality of Idea
- Creativity of Content
- Best Story
- YouTube Views
- YouTube Rating
For your Friday viewing pleasure, here are all the entries (in alphabetical order). If you particularly like any of them, click through to the YouTube page and give it a thumbs up!
Congratulations, TreeGirl!
We’d like to welcome our newest subscriber, Crystal Prom, better known as “That Girl Who Landed In the Tree at CarolinaFest 2010,” or “TreeGirl” for short.
Where nicknames are born. Yes, there is a girl dangling under that canopy. Photo by Trunk/Hypoxic.
TreeGirl handled a scary situation like a pro, going up for a second jump later that day. For that kind of spunk, bravery and badassedness, we had to give her a complimentary subscription to Blue Skies Mag. She also got 50% off a Mirage rig from a slightly inebriated Ward Hessig (pictures on the far left) later that night. (Helpful boogie tip: if you want any Mirage shwag, give Ward liquor.)
Congrats, TreeGirl, now you’re really a skydiver!
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