Loaded in Dubai
The 3rd Dubai International Parachuting Championships and Gulf Cup is only a few short days away – starting up on November 29th and running through December 10th at Skydive Dubai.
Some of the best teams and athletes of the skydiving world will travel to Dubai to battle it out above the exotic beaches.
The organizers website expects 55 or more nations to attend. Events are Canopy Piloting, 4-way Formation Skydiving, 4-way Canopy Formation and Accuracy.
The games are held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai.
This event has traditionally been exceptionally generous with price money, and on November 14th, the organizers announced that the price purse had been doubled. A total of $775k will be distributed amongst the winners in the different events, although in Team and Individual accuracy only competitors from the Gulf Region and it’s affiliated partner-nations are eligible.
Breakdown of the price money can be viewed here.
With that kind of money on the line, we can expect to see some rocking competition.
Urban Swooping
Jeffro. Dubai. Big buildings. Woah. (Click the “Read More” for the video. You won’t regret it.)
Weather is Here, Wish You Were Lovely
Original photo by Jonathan Tagle, who is competing in Dubai at the Dubai Parachuting Championships and Gulf Cup 2010. Good luck to JT and everyone playing in the sand!
World’s Highest BASE Jump: Check
Lots of news covering this jump by Omar Al Hegelan and Nasser Al Neyadi, but this one is my favorite: Man Falls from Burj Dubai – Worlds Tallest Building. Like, whoops, I fell!
Enjoy the video—and particularly MSNBC’s spectacular journalistic reporting of the building’s height as 27,017′ (the smarties at MSNBC changed out the video on us and they’re correct now! – it’s 2,717′):
Some more links to fill up what remains of your Friday workday:
BBC
CBC
Daily Mail

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